User:Eastlaw/main

Background

 * I'm a public defender from New Jersey.
 * I adhere strictly to NPOV (neutral point of view) to the greatest extent of my ability.

What people have said about me
Despite my best efforts, I have become rather divisive figure around here...People either love me or hate me.


 * I've done a "massive number of fine law-oriented edits"
 * I use "arbitrary standards" in my edits
 * "the site could really benefit from more editors, and admins, like you"
 * I would "easily pass an RFA" (that didn't happen)
 * I'm "smug and divisive"
 * I'm a self-important jackass
 * Apparently, I have no knowledge about anything "beyond comic-books, tv trivia, blockbuster movies and artificial sports", even though I have never edited on any of those subjects.

Interests

 * Law, particularly various areas of commercial law, property law, civil procedure, antitrust, etc.
 * Earth sciences, especially geology
 * Geography and geographic information systems
 * History and Politics of the USA and other countries
 * Economics and finance
 * Heavy Metal music

Stuff I do on Wikipedia

 * Creating articles, mostly on legal topics, but also on some other stuff. I think of myself more as a "gap-filler", trying to find missing topics and adding or expanding coverage of them where possible.
 * I've been focusing on legal topics mainly because when I first started here (in the spring of 2006), there was a real dearth of good legal articles on Wikipedia.
 * Additionally, I've been trying to expand Wikipedia's coverage of law firms and state governments (including state courts and secretaries of state/commonwealth).
 * I have also done some work on Heavy metal music.
 * Creating categories where needed and adding them to articles.
 * Creating redirects where necessary.
 * Some copy editing, spelling/grammar/punctuation corrections, and adding needed formatting when necessary.
 * The occasional new page patrol.
 * Blah blah blah, etc.

Projects I'm involved with

 * WikiProject Law
 * WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases
 * WikiProject United States courts and judges
 * WikiProject Metal

My Sandboxes

 * User:Eastlaw/sandbox
 * User:Eastlaw/sandbox2
 * User:Eastlaw/pagelist
 * User:Eastlaw/template test area
 * User:Eastlaw/NewCongressList
 * Special:PrefixIndex/User:Eastlaw -- List of all pages in my user space

To Do List (long-term)

 * User:Eastlaw/todo
 * User:Eastlaw/cases by subject
 * Category:Law firm articles without infoboxes

Drafting space

 * User:Eastlaw/draft

Nifty article-starter templates

 * User:Eastlaw/SecStatetemplate
 * User:Eastlaw/LawFirmtemplate

My pages on other Wikimedia sites

 * My Wikisource page
 * My Wikiquote page
 * My Meta-wiki page

My Userboxes, Barnstars, etc.

 * User:Eastlaw/UBX

Pages I'm working on right now

 * Cleaning up articles on United States Congress members created by Polbot.
 * Essay: User:Eastlaw/Don't get in over your head
 * Essay: User:Eastlaw/Not all business articles are spam
 * Category:Law firm articles without infoboxes

Articles I have started/created

 * User:Eastlaw/contribs — full list of them

Articles I have rescued from deletion

 * Deeds of Flesh (death metal band)
 * Snell & Wilmer (law firm)
 * Thompson Coburn (law firm)

Articles I have substantially modified or contributed to

 * Adequate and independent state ground
 * Amount in controversy
 * Dechert (law firm)
 * Intervention (law)
 * Hollingsworth v. Virginia,
 * Saenz v. Roe,
 * The Death of Contract, Grant Gilmore's famous work

Pages I should clean up/modify

 * Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency,
 * Rogers v. Tennessee,
 * Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc.,
 * Dolan v. City of Tigard,
 * Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council,
 * Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City,
 * Beauharnais v. Illinois,
 * Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon,
 * Shreveport Rate Cases,
 * Head Money cases,
 * Holy Trinity Church v. U.S., link from Justia
 * Osborn v. Bank of the United States,
 * List of notable United States state supreme court cases
 * List of United States courts of appeals cases
 * Contractual term