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Good articleSonia Sotomayor has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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September 28, 2009Good article nomineeListed
In the newsA news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on August 6, 2009.
On this day...A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on June 25, 2018.

woman of colour

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I removed her being a woman or colour as she is quite clearly a white woman, Hispanic/Latino is not a race and woman of colour refers to a non white person or someone of European descent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Famaja (talkcontribs) 23:52, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. Why is she considered a person of color and the 1st Latino appointed to the Supreme Court? Wouldn’t that be Benjamin Cardozo who had Portuguese ancestry? According to Wikipedia he would fall into the category as Hispanic/Latino. Hispanic and Latino (ethnic categories)#:~:text=Since the 2000 Census, the,in their definition of Hispanic. What is this criteria for falling into a “person of color” category? 217.180.214.91 (talk) 22:00, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
As far as Cardozo goes, the article goes into details about it in Footnote a. Did you read it? The edit in question was reverted almost immediately without controversy. Are there reliable sources that identify her as "white"? Magidin (talk) 22:23, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Footnotes need fixing

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Currently, footnotes [a] and [b] are identical; I'm not sure how to tag footnotes so that they can be cited in two different places in the text, and don't really have the time to find out. If someone knows how to it, could they fix it to avoid the unnecessary repetition? The second instance is properly cited, so that should go to the lede and just a repeated reference to that footnote later on. Magidin (talk) 22:28, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done; you can tag efn footnotes with the "name" parameter as described in Template:Efn. Ligaturama (talk) 16:28, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

sandwich

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Propose right-aligning the first stacked two pics in Early life. Reason: MOS:SANDWICH, it partially overlaps with the Liberalism in the United States template. 211.43.120.242 (talk) 14:58, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Partly done: I've moved the liberalism box to the footers so this is now less of a problem. There's still some overlap but not much. I previewed it on the right and thought it looked weird, the pictures would still extend into the next section but they clearly belong under Early Life, so I've kept them left-aligned. Ligaturama (talk) 16:23, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good to me, thanks! 211.43.120.242 (talk) 16:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Presidential immunity: dissent

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Greetings Wikipedians! I'm surprised there's no mention of her dissenting opinion in Donald Trump vs. USA (July 1, 2024). It's a landmark case, according to Wikipedia. I'll volunteer to draft some text on this, Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 12:45, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are you still working on this? I noticed today there's no mention either, a strange oversight in my opinion. 162.222.63.62 (talk) 11:20, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of Duplicate Information

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I understand how a lead section of an article has to have its summary. But, adding the entire early life section in the lead, is something to look into. I would propose removing the early life details from the lead. Mentioning that she was born in New York, three times, does not sit well and reduces the quality of the article.

WikiProCreate (talk) 18:08, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The entire early life section is not in the lead, and in an article that long, mentioning her birthplace three times (lead, early life, infobox) is nowhere near excessive. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:16, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]