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[edit] Wikithings To Do

The work just keeps right on rolling along.

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Law

Under the banner of Wikipedia:WikiProject Law, we will make Wikipedia the world's most comprehensive internet source of free legal information.

1. Populate Courts of the United States.
2. /Tax protesters - the role of courts.
3. Wikify biographies from List of Judges of the United States Tax Court.
4. Write nice, fat articles on Tobacco litigation and Peer-to-peer litigation, that explains how the lawsuits in these industries have developed over time.
5. Make sure that all court cases have citations, and that all of the unlinked case citations from United States Supreme Court cases link to Case citation (and eventually do the same for all court cases), so non-lawyers can learn what all the numbers and abbreviations mean.
6. Fill in Postdlf's court case infoboxes for all of my court cases (and then for everyone elses).
7. Add Category:United States Court of Appeals cases to all U.S. Court of Appeals cases.
8. Fix errant links to Supreme court.
9. Case articles to do:
10. Fix up United States v. Curtiss-Wright.
    1. from Clarence Thomas:
       1. McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 514 U.S. 334 (1995).
       2. United States v. Fordice, 505 U.S. 717 (1992)
       3. United States v. Hubbell, 530 U.S. 27 (2000)
    2. from Sovereign immunity
       1. Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982)
    3. from Conflict of laws in the United States
       1. Home Insurance Co. v. Dick, 281 U.S. 397 (1930)
       2. Pacific Employers Insurance Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission, 306 U.S. 493 (1939)
       3. Watson v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp., 348 U.S. 66 (1954)
       4. Clay v. Sun Insurance Office, Ltd., 377 U.S. 179 (1964)
       5. Allstate Insurance Co. v. Hague, 449 U.S. 302 (1981)
       6. Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts,, 472 U.S. 797 (1985)
       7. Sun Oil Co. v. Wortman, 486 U.S. 717 (1988)

[edit] Ongoing labors

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1. Populate List of continents, countries, and political subdivisions by total area
2. Populate List of authors whose works are in the public domain.
3. Category:Copy to Wikiquote.
4. Chip away at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links:
   1. Single runs to make: British
   2. Long term disambig projects (need articles written): Capacity, Ward, Evidence
   3. Finished disambig projects for maintenance:
      1. Orlando (awarded to BorgHunter)
      2. Oscar (awarded to Prodego)
      3. Champagne (awarded to Can't sleep, clown will eat me)
      4. Phoenix (awarded jointly to Evilphoenix and Deathphoenix
      5. Others: Ainu, Battery, Crest, Dean, Gujarati, Hart, Hui, Mohawk, Pantheon, Sam, Vulcan, WB.
      6. Non-disambig pages with frequent erroneous links: ; Hebrew (no longer a disambig page, awarded to TShilo12).
5. Update the death toll.
6. Keep tabs on the various Active Wiki Fixup Projects.
7. Change "US" to "U.S." in articles using the former to refer to the United States (as U.S. is an initialism, not an acronym).
8. Keep an eye on new anonymous edits
9. Condemn spamvertisers to Wiki-Hell.
10. Keep an eye on this and various things from the list and the guide.

[edit] Other specific tasks

1. Provide articles for the following persons from Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1919 Bartlett's Quotations:
   • /Joseph Henshaw
   • /Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis
   • /Johann Martin Usteri
   • /John Banister Tabb
   • /Theodore Chickering Williams
2. /Szczecin-Bukowe
3. Provide articles for red links on the following pages:
   1. Most wanted law articles
   2. Notable terms at Wikipedia:Requested articles/list of missing legal terms (merge or redirect the rest to more appropriate places); I hammered through much of it in June and July, while studying for the Bar exam.
   3. List of United States Supreme Court cases
   4. List of United States federal legislation
   5. List of state supreme courts
   6. List of U.S. District Courts
   7. List of law schools in the United States
   8. List of honor societies
   9. List of Florida state parks
4. Rewrite hot pot!
5. Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Harithi al-Baghdadi al-Mufid
6. Articles on superstar photographers James Baes and Matti Klatt.[2]
7. Sandbox stubs.

[edit] Principles to live by

1. When using Google to test for importance or existence, bear in mind that this will be biased in favor of modern subjects of interest to people from developed countries with Internet access, so it should be used with some judgment.
2. Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy. Its primary method of finding consensus is discussion, not voting. That is, majority opinion does not necessarily rule in Wikipedia. Various votes are regularly conducted, but their numerical results are usually only one of several means of making a decision. The discussions that accompany the voting processes are crucial means of reaching consensus.
3. Wikipedia is not the edge of the world. There are always alternatives.

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