Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 18:41, 15 June 2011

IMPORTANT: If you have come here to ask me a legal question, please read Misplaced Pages's Legal Disclaimer first. No comment by me, on this page or anywhere else on this website, should be considered official legal advice; nor shall any communication between myself and any other person on this website constitute, or be held to create, a contractual or fiduciary relationship of any kind.

Archives

/Archive 1 (8 March 2006 - 18 August 2007) /Archive 2 (27 August 2007 - 19 August 2008) /Archive 3 (26 August 2008 - 9 March 2009) /Archive 4 (10 March 2009 - 6 February 2010)

This user is one of the 400 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

Userfied

It's at User:Eastlaw/Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott  :-) - Philippe 21:19, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Final discussion for Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:

1. Proposal to Close This RfC
2. Alternate proposal to close this RFC: we don't need a whole new layer of bureaucracy

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 02:16, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Category:United States Constitution Contract Clause case law

Sorry about the mess up on this. I saw it at speedy and decided to process it immediately since it resulted from one of my typos in an old nomination. Then it was placed in the queue, but I think somehow it got spelled wrong (again), and it wasn't processing because it was set to rename to itself, so I was doing it manually, and then got interrupted and forgot to create it after moving the articles. Thanks for creating it and it seems fine now. Good Ol’factory 09:12, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Proposed merging Category:Business process outsourcing companies to Category:Outsourcing companies

Hi, Eastlaw. There is a discussion concerning a proposed merging Category:Business process outsourcing companies to Category:Outsourcing companies. Beagel (talk) 08:39, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

CFD notice (category name too long for a title)

The related Category:Agricultural and natural resource economics; environmental and ecological economics has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page.

— Arthur Rubin (talk) 08:25, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Naming conventions for United States federal buildings

Greetings! I'm looking for additional input in this discussion - please comment if you have an opinion. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:45, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Togo

Hi! I applied PC1 protection to Togo, as I feel more comfortable applying longer-term protection (3 months) for PC1 than with semi. I'm not necessarily convinced this was the right approach, however. PC1 will still require you and other reviewers to revert vandalism, it simply won't get seen by the majority of readers.

I'd definitely consider 1 month's semi as an alternative, but with no recent history of protection I'd be reluctant to go beyond that. So... is PC1/3-months OK, or would semi/1-month be better? TFOWR 09:45, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Heavy metal instrumentals

Category:Heavy metal instrumentals, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:21, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Two judges per week.

Greetings! At Misplaced Pages:WikiProject United States courts and judges, we have bot-created thousands of articles on United States federal judges. Of those 1,272 currently still have their bot-made cleanup tag. If just a dozen editors will each commit to cleaning up just two of those articles every week, we will conquer the entire list within the year. Most of the articles are quick and easy to clean up, requiring only a few minor adjustments of bot-created awkward wording. Please consider joining this effort, and committing to cleaning up two judges per week for the year. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:17, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/JD Caselaw

Hi Eastlaw,

This is Andrew Gradman, editing from an IP because I've been using WikiBreak Enforcer to try to squeeze out a little scholastic productivity. Clearly that's failing. I'm here because I learned that I am currently the subject of a sockpuppetry investigation, over at Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/JD Caselaw.

There's no question that I own both accounts, nor are people questioning that I use this second account for the legitimate purpose of making edits that are not associated with my real-life name. However, the investigators rightly point out an occasion when I really did use the JD_Caselaw account to engage in sockpuppetry. It was in May 2009, during my first month on Misplaced Pages, and my response is that it was a long time ago and it was a mistake. And that's where the question stands: Given that I behaved pretty scurrilously, once a long time ago, can I be trusted now?

We've worked together in the past, so you have some relevant insight into that question. I'm just letting you know the page exists.

-user:Agradman, forced by WikiBreak Enforcer to edit as 128.59.179.250 (talk) 20:18, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

argumentum e contrario

Hi there. Since you are probably one of the most prolific law-related editors here, could you have a look at the mess I created at argumentum e contrario and fix it up with what you know about it? Regards SoWhy 19:09, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

the Public Policy Initiative Assessment Team wants You!

Hi Eastlaw,

I saw some of your contributions on an article that falls within the scope of Wikiproject: United States Public Policy, your expertise in law would be really valuable to the project, and I was hoping you would be interested in assessing articles with the Public Policy Initiative. There is more info about assessment on the 9/13/2010 Signpost. If you're interested or just curious you can sign up on the project page or just contact me. Thanks! ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 22:28, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

AfD

Please see Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Maps of American ancestries. It's an interesting article, but IMO not suitable for an encyclopedia. Feel free to disagree, or agree. Thanks. Jaque Hammer (talk) 00:33, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Bypassing template redirects

While I am a fan of doing this (by and large), it is probably not worth making separate edits to change these in general, certainly it is frowned on. Also "Main" is simpler to learn than catmore/catmain, there's no value to replacing this. Rich Farmbrough, 23:05, 21 September 2010 (UTC).

In addition, {{catmore}} itself is a redirect to {{cat main}}. 134.253.26.11 (talk) 22:41, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Category:History of the Internet in the United States

I went to Category:History of the Internet in the United States to reclassify items, since this category has been proposed for deletion. So I was surprised to see your addition there. This is just a heads-up that you might either want to reclassify items or weigh in on the deletion discussion. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 11:29, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Eastlaw/Archive 5! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Misplaced Pages, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 04:27, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Day Pitney

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

A tag has been placed on Day Pitney requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject of the article is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hang on}} at the top of the article, immediately below the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate), and providing your reasons for contesting on the article's talk page, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. You may freely add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Misplaced Pages guidelines.

You may want to read the guidelines for specific types of articles: biographies, websites, bands, or companies.  Velella    22:55, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Day Pitney for deletion

The article Day Pitney is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Day Pitney until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:43, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Public Policy Initiative Recruiting Assessors for Spring

Hi Eastlaw,

Your name popped up in the revision history on a bunch of articles that fall within the scope of Wikiproject: United States Public Policy, and I was hoping you would be interested in assessing articles with the Public Policy Initiative. There is more info about assessment on the 9/13/2010 Signpost. Your expertise in environmental law would be a real asset to the Initiative. If you're interested or just curious you can sign up on the project page or just contact me. Thanks! ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 00:56, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

hi Eastlaw,

If you can, we would LOVE your involvement. A new assessment round is posted. The assessment metric we are using is at WP:USPP/Assessment. This round is mostly starts and stubs, so evaluation should be really quick. WP:USPP Assessment 2.1

The Public Policy Initiative is super exciting this term. The topics are really interesting this term and the student's are producing some really good quality content. Recent numbers indicate that our project is actually contributing a significant amount of content to Misplaced Pages. There is a group of about 20 subject matter experts who are assessing, but the Wikipedians are so consistent, that I really need your scores to measure article quality.

On another note, are you going to Wikimania? I am looking for people to co-present with, so let me know if you are! Best, ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 20:44, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Encyclopedia Dramatica

As discussed at Talk:Encyclopedia Dramatica, we are not allowed to link to the .ch fork, as it violates the copyright of ED, which makes it fall under the rules of WP:ELNEVER, so it cannot be used as an external link. Silverseren 05:57, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

It's alright, you didn't know. Since you seemed to be an established editor, I felt it was better to let you know about this rather than going for, say, templates or something. I'm glad I did now. Silverseren 08:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

WP:USPP Spring Assessment 3

hi Eastlaw,

If you have time to assess a few articles it would be very appreciated. There is a new assessment posted here. There are 25 articles in both this assessment and the next/final assessment, and both sets have a few legal cases where your input would be valuable. There was a huge amount of content that got added this term, hopefully the randomly selected articles will show it to be high quality. Please, let me know if you have any comments or questions about research with the Public Policy Initiative. ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 19:52, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Last Public Policy Initiative Assessment

hi Eastlaw,

If you are interested, at least 5 of the articles in this round are recent legal cases. This is the last assessment request for the Public Policy Initiative! I was really impressed with the content the students developed this term, so if you get a chance check it out. The last set of articles is at Student Post 2.2. I will keep you updated on results and publications. Thanks ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 05:37, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Collaboration on US Supreme Court case article improvement

• Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart

Hi, Eastlaw, I noticed you had previously contributed to this article.

Wehwalt and myself will be collaborating together to improve the quality of this article. You are welcome to help out with research, writing, and copyediting. :) -- Cirt (talk) 18:41, 15 June 2011 (UTC)