User talk:Jlofgren
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Meelar (talk) 01:41, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Wiki Law School Project
Hey, I'm a first year law student, and I think the case brief idea is great, plus it will greatly expand the cases for the Law Wikiproject. Let me know what your plans are and whatnot. I work a bit too, but I would definitely be down to contribute a few briefs in my free time, let me know.--Mason13a 05:35, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Law
Thanks for signing up with Wikipedia:WikiProject Law, where we plan to make Wikipedia the world's most comprehensive free internet source of legal information. It's been sleepy lately, while many of us have been taking the Bar exam and starting new jobs, but it looks like it's starting to kick up again! -- BD2412 talk 01:56, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
- Re: Posting case briefs. Sure thing - as you can see from my own collection, there are tons of case briefs-turned articles posted here. There's a basic format to follow, and in fact I have made a sort of model by which I put things up, which you can copy from any case I've done. Briefs should generally be limited to notable cases, which includes all U.S. Supreme Court cases, and a choice selection of Federal Circuit Court cases and State Supreme Court cases, which are probably sufficient to be deemed notable if they are reproduced in multiple textbooks from different publishers. When you post such a case, be sure to add an entry on the appropriate list (List of United States Supreme Court cases, List of notable United States Courts of Appeals cases, List of notable U.S. state supreme court cases). There are also many such cases for which short articles have been written, but which need much expansion and improvement by someone having a fresh look at them. Cheers! -- BD2412 talk 02:39, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
- Re: That's great, I will definitely be contributing this year. And, I plan to spread the word at my school and many others.Jlofgren
[edit] Incomplete articles.
Jlofgren,
Hi. You might want to consider creating articles in your namespace first, rather than making skeletons (e.g. Mapp v. ohio) in the main space.
brenneman(t)(c)
- RE: I am in the processing of editing it. It is my first wiki page, and I am trying to get a good format for all my briefs. I will hopefully get around to adding the text sometime tomorrow. But placing these in my namespace first would probably be a good idea. The question is how do I do that? Jlofgren
- If you type User:Jlofgren/Mapp v. ohio into the search bar, you'll get the "doesn't exist, create?" message. Then you can noodle away until it's complete, and no one will see it. (Well, probably. It's still public in the unlikely event someone goes looking.) Once it's ready, simple use the "move" tab to take it into mainspace. ^_^
- You can move it into your user space now just the same, if you'd like. Also, Wikipedia:Naming conventions has some things to say you should look over.
- Finally, some people will expect you to respond to comments on their talk page, not yours, and may not be aware of your responses otherwise. I'm not one of those, but just so you know.
brenneman(t)(c) 03:49, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
- Re: Sounds great. I'll start by creating the briefs there. But is there anyway to move Map v. Ohio back into my namespace from the mainspace? Jlofgren
- Done: User:Jlofgren/Mapp v. Ohio. I realised that you may not have the move button, there is an "age" function that disallows newer users from moving pages... do you have the button? - brenneman(t)(c) 15:47, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
Oh, it will be next to "watch/unwatch" when you edit a page.
- Done: User:Jlofgren/Mapp v. Ohio. I realised that you may not have the move button, there is an "age" function that disallows newer users from moving pages... do you have the button? - brenneman(t)(c) 15:47, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
- RE: Thanks. And, I do not yet have the power to move pages, since I am a brand new user Jlofgren
[edit] Portal:Law getting on the move!
Hi. Please join the discussion at Portal talk:Law - we're getting things off the ground for featured articles, pictures, cases, and a collaboration of the week! -- BD2412 talk 04:34, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Portal:Law selections
Greetings, fellow WikiProject Law member! One of our tasks on this WikiProject is the upkeep of Portal:Law, where we have set up a four week cycle wherein each week one of four key features - the selected article, biography, case, or image - is rotated out. Previous selections can be found at Portal:Law/former selections. Please contribute your thoughts at Portal talk:Law as to likely candidates for future rotations in each of these categories. Cheers! BD2412 T 05:02, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
