User talk:Kamccoy1

Editing SCOTUS articles
Hi Kamccoy1! First and foremost, I want to welcome you to Wikipedia -- it is always exciting to see college professors integrate Wikipedia into their curricula. I also want to touch base with you about writing articles for United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) cases because I noticed that two of the students in your HIS 475 class have been assigned Wikipedia articles for SCOTUS cases. I encourage your students to become familiar with MOS:LAW and WP:SCOTUS/SG, which provide style guidelines for SCOTUS articles. Per MOS:LAW, editors are encouraged to use the Bluebook citation style, which is now considered (for better or worse) the de facto lingua franca of American legal citations. Editors are also encouraged to provide inline citations after every sentence that makes an assertion about the holding of a case; these citations should reference the page(s) of the United States Reports on which that holding appears (see also WP:CITEDENSE). Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions, and I look forward to seeing your class' contributions! Best, -- Notecardforfree (talk) 20:28, 20 November 2015 (UTC)