User:RidG

'''This is my user page. There are many like it, but this one is mine.'''

My name is Dmitriy, and I go by RidG on Wikipedia. I joined Wikipedia under a different name in 2002, but did not become active under my current name until 2004-2005.

I contribute mainly to United States Supreme Court cases. I am a member of Wikipedia SCOTUS Cases project, which is always looking for new members. On any given day, I typically try to participate in cleaning up Wikipedia, primarily via copyediting and voting in the VfD category. I subscribe to the notion that Wikipedia is somewhat bloated as it currently stands (a necessary evil of its open nature), and thus tend to vote in a reductionist manner (really, a euphemism for "delete everything"). Below is a list of my stubs and articles that I have either created or participated heavily in. I am a big fan of peer review and peer editing, so feel free to mercilessly tear my articles apart. Cheers.

My shortcuts

 * Watchlist
 * WikiCleanup
 * Wikipedia Peer Review
 * Today's VfD
 * Requests for Arbitration
 * SCOTUS Cases Project
 * Maintenance Templates
 * Recent Changes
 * Missing Encyclopedic Articles
 * Missing Legal Terms
 * Good Articles - Nominations


 * Project Collaboration Article
 * Requested Articles - Law

My articles

 * The Hollow Hope
 * Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois - Expanded from a stub.
 * Bradwell v. Illinois
 * Oyama v. California - Nominated for the March, 2005 International writing contest. Neat.
 * Wolf v. Colorado
 * Weeks v. United States
 * Moore v. Dempsey
 * Stromberg v. California
 * Olmstead v. United States
 * Moral luck
 * Nebbia v. New York - expanded from a stub.

My stubs etc.

 * Gerald Rosenberg
 * Holt v. Sarver
 * Herostratus
 * Garcetti v. Ceballos - added Souter's, Stevens', and Breyer's dissents.
 * Clinton v. City of New York - "Critical Response," "Subsequent History" sections.
 * Inducement rule
 * Worcester v. Georgia - New content, background, cites.

Articles I want to write at some point
These are some (IMO) interesting Supreme Court cases, mostly relating to free speech and the incorporation of the Bill of Rights, that I want to write about at some point. If you have a specific case in mind that you think should be added as an article to Wikipedia, please feel free to suggest it on my talk page.


 * 1) Stromberg v. California (1931)
 * 2) Gitlow v. People (1925)
 * 3) Prize Cases (1863)
 * 4) Boyd v. United States (1886)
 * 5) Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten (1917)
 * 6) Gilbert V. Minnesota (1920)
 * 7) Prudential Insurance Co. v. Cheek (1923)
 * 8) Olmstead v. United States (1928)
 * 9) United States v. One Book Called "Ulysses" (1933)

Tasks to consider
zh:Template:用于维护与合作的资源

Talk/Contributions