73.192.242.220

July 2020

Hello, I'm Synoman Barris. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Joyce Chiang, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 23:17, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

She was born less than twenty-five years before 1971, the year the last American law school began awarding the J.D. as its law degree.

Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. You made this unsourced change to many BLP pages. Please, if you want to change these articles to use the less-common term for a law degree, you first need to cite a reliable source for the change, then you should discuss it on the article's Talk page. — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 04:01, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

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Since 1971 (as the Wikipedia Juris Doctor article states), all American law schools have awarded the J.D. degree to their graduates rather than the LL.B. As a result, most BLPs use the terms J.D. or Juris Doctor rather than law degree. And so, for law school graduates since 1971, "law degree" is now itself "the less common term."

Outside of deepest academia, that's not true at all. Most BLPs do not carry this designation, and none should contain it without an explanation. More readers know what a "law degree" is than understand "J.D." or "Juris Doctor". Wikipedia is written to be understood by the majority of its readers, who may not have a large amount of arcane knowledge. If you're intent upon making these changes, first discuss them on the articles' Talk pages. Once you have consensus, make the change, but explain what you've done so the average reader can understand it. If writing about pain relievers, authors can say "acetylsalicylic acid", or they can write "aspirin"—the former is more technically correct, but the latter is, by far, more widely understood.

Also, please get in the habit of signing your Talk page posts. You can add four tildes ("~~~~") at the end and the system will insert a signature for you. — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 23:49, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi 73.192.242.220, I have just reverted your edit to Julie Salamon for the same reason as above. An international audience is more likely to understand "law degree" than "JD". Your edit was unsourced in any case. Tacyarg (talk) 23:31, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Have also reverted your change to Elizabeth L. Silver for the same reason, and because the source did not support it. Please do not mass-revert without discussion. Tacyarg (talk) 23:46, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

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August 2020

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons. You seem to be quite eager to change every mention of a law degree in Wikipedia to "J.D. degree". If you want to add this to the articles, you need to cite a reliable source for the assertions. You cannot just insert the information because you believe that's the degree the articles' subjects earned. — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 06:09, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

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When you're adding info about people who received a JD, could you do "JD" instead of "J.D."? Per MOS:POINTS, you shouldn't use periods in this case.  Bait30  ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 05:23, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

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