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Hi. Thank you for all your help with U.S. Supreme Court cases! I was especially impressed to see that you are creating redirects such as 191 U.S. 267 with the appropriate categorization and sort keys. Very neat.
Are you using the reports? I see that you're a GitHub user. Maybe we could collaborate on these reports sometime; they're just simple Python and SQL. Or maybe you'll be the person to finally kill off that awful "SCOTUS" template parameter and its associated "Court composition key" section. That would be so nice. I just had to use it again for an edit (mentioned below) and boy is that composition key still terribly cumbersome.
Regarding Perris v. Hexamer, it looks like the year was wrong. I updated it in this edit. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:54, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
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and tried to spread its usage, but lots of people didn't really like the complexity of the markup or the linking behavior. They preferred just plaintext instead, so that's what we're now trying to standardize on, I think. The relevant discussion is here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._Supreme_Court_cases&oldid=833147838#Case_lead_sentences>.{{if between}}
, but then got distracted and bored and still haven't finished. At some point I was like "oh, I could just write a Python script to do this for me," and I started but never finished. If you're familiar with Scribunto/Lua modules, that would also be an option for storing and/or calculating this data.Yeah... I "solved" the latest court issue in this edit by doing what I want to do for all courts, but specific to the most recent court. It had the side effect of removing some of the rudimentary input validation and categorization in Category:Flagged U.S. Supreme Court articles, but oh well.
I can't remember any issues with the current reports. There are lots of inconsistencies and minor issues we could flag in U.S. Supreme Court wiki articles. For example, we could generate a report of articles where there are unitalicized links to cases. Or we could generate a report of articles where case names are never linked to. Usually at least the first reference should be linked.
We have an existing index of United States Reports volumes at Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume, but the volume pages themselves could probably use love. They're somewhat inconsistent. Plus all of them are technically somewhat mis-named and need to be moved at some point. There are also more front-end-y ideas we've had, such as making the tables at 2015 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States easier to view and/or edit.
A report about the number of red links on each of the volume pages would also be good to have. I think I may have already done some of this work. And then we need to make it easier to start new articles, since there are still thousands of fill out. For new and experienced wiki editors, there's still quite a bit of barrier to entry to create a new article. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:23, 2 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
OK, I think I have this sorted, then. Here's the gist with the markup and you can currently see it live on {{X20}} until that gets sandboxed. Thoughts? There aren't any error messages because I'm not sure how those work and I'm not sure they would ever be relevant. Someone would have to put in a date that's before the founding of the Court or in the future. lethargilistic (talk) 21:47, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
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and friends, but you're then battling the bots and other users. We can make a /courts sandbox subpage if needed for testing. I was just personally hoping to sample a few dozen cases and check that the output looks good before (Template:Infobox SCOTUS case) and after (Template:Infobox SCOTUS case/sandbox). Then we can update the main template code and rip out those horrible lists from Template:Infobox SCOTUS case/doc#Court composition key. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:35, 12 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
Very nice! I think relying on the argue date and year if the decide date and year are missing is fine.
Template:Infobox SCOTUS case/sandbox has a convenient "(diff)" link since "/sandbox" subpages are fairly standardized on this wiki. I made some minor edits to Template:Infobox SCOTUS case/sandbox and Template:Infobox SCOTUS case/courts/sandbox.
We'll still need to fix a few links, such as William Paterson --> William Paterson (jurist). I can do these updates if you'd like.
Skimming Template:Infobox SCOTUS case/testcases, everything looks just about ready to me. Are there any other changes to make (other than the link fixes) before we push this live? --MZMcBride (talk) 05:13, 17 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
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branch have any impact? Otherwise, I think we're ready to go live. --MZMcBride (talk) 07:25, 26 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
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was redundant. It was handling date errors before passing them into /courts. It was working fine until I swapped in helper functions to make the code clearer, but the helper functions didn't allow the text styling that made the error text noticeable. I removed it and relied on the error handling in /courts, which is more informative anyway. Here are examples. lethargilistic (talk) 07:39, 27 August 2018 (UTC)ReplyI also wanted to thank you for your work on Supreme Court cases. I'm glad I found this conversation - I didn't know about the WP:SCOTUSWORK reports. LegalSkeptic (talk) 01:59, 10 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
On your user page, DISPLAYTITLE should have a colon after it, not a vertical bar. I fixed it on this user talk page, where it also occurred. However, I don't think I am able to edit your user page. HotdogPi 15:01, 6 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
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DGG ( talk ) 08:36, 18 December 2019 (UTC)ReplyI saw that you undid a change I recently made to "Whenever You're Ready", which I had changed from your earlier revision. I understand why you've worded it the way you did, but I think it needs a little improvement. To me, saying "he waited for almost a thousand infinities" isn't ideal because it doesn't really align with the episode (the running joke being that a Bearimy is an unclear unit of time – maybe it's fixed, maybe it's not, who knows) and it doesn't present it from "a displaced, neutral frame of reference" (the wording introduces figurative language that may not convey the same message as the episode intended).
I don't want this to become a back-and-forth issue, so I'd like to find a solution for this. My original solution was deleting the phrase for the aforementioned reasons, but I can also understand why it's important to convey how long Jason was there. Do you have any other ideas for how we can word this? I think "he waited for a long time" is somewhat dry, but I also think it does a better job of keeping the wording neutral while still noting the time span. What do you think? RunningTiger123 (talk) 01:15, 29 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
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May I ask why? I'm sure you have a logical reason, but off the top of my head I can't see it. Over the next few years I will continue to redo these successive pages to the template I've been using, and am confused as to why certain categories are thought inappropriate. Friothaire (talk) 19:34, 3 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Hi, Lethargilistic. Thanks for assessing Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach (2013). It's the first non-stub non-list article I've created, and I plan to submit it for DYK once I've worked a bit on some of the other articles that would make sense to include in the hook, so I'm definitely eager for feedback. On that note, I was a bit surprised that you assessed it as start-class. I've never paid much attention to article assessments other than GA/FA, but I have a general sense of what start-class refers to, and I thought I'd cleared that. I'm not at all trying to challenge your assessment, but I was wondering if you could give me some feedback on what ways the article is currently lacking? I definitely still see room for improvement myself, but I'd appreciate your perspective. Thanks. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 22:29, 7 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
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