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Edits to Rapanos v. United States
First and foremost, I want to thank you for your efforts to improve the article for Rapanos v. United States! There are many SCOTUS articles that are in desperate need of creation and expansion, and we need editors like you to help with content creation! This is especially relevant for landmark cases like Rapanos, which is considered one of the seminal CWA cases of the last two decades. However, I wanted to write to you to call your attention to a few things about writing content for SCOTUS articles. I went ahead and edited the Rapanos article to resolve the aforementioned issues. However, I want to emphasize that I am very excited about the possibility of having another contributor to SCOTUS articles here at Wikipedia. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can be of any help, and I look forward to working with you in the future! Best, -- Notecardforfree (talk) 00:37, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
 * First, it is important to write summaries of opinions in the past tense (i.e. "Justice Marshall argued" instead of "Justice Marshall argues"). The Justices are not currently in the process of announcing their opinions, and Wikipedia summaries of opinions have always been written in the past tense (see also the SCOTUS style guide for general advice about structuring SCOTUS articles).
 * Second, if you use the Bluebook citation method, it is important to use it correctly. I noticed, for example, you did not use a short case name for short cites, you did not use smallcaps for titles (see the template), and you did not use explanatory parentheticals per rule 10.6.2.
 * Third, you should refer to Justices as "Justice Powell" or "Justice Blackmun", rather than just "Powell" or "Blackmun". See this recent discussion, in which a consensus of editors agreed we should use the honorific "Justice" before a Justice's last name.
 * Fourth, it is important to describe opinions as neutrally as possible so that we do not give the impression that we favor one outcome over another. Therefore, it is important to avoid phrases like "[h]e then complains ..." or "Stevens takes care ...", which carry subjective connotations about the nature and quality of a Justice's opinion.


 * Thanks for cleaning up my citations! I think it’s great somebody is paying attention to this.  Rule 10.9(a)(i) in my outdated Bluebook permitted omitting the case name in short cites if the reader will have no doubt about the case referred to, just like an idem.


 * Use of the honorific is news to me. I’ll be sure to abide by the consensus from here on out.


 * Impartial tone is, of course, an essential part of NPOV. Still, use of emotive language is an important tool in communicating the dispute between justices to non-legal readers.  You are right to remove any language that reads as tonally favoring one outcome over another.  However, please do not remove emotive language simply for being emotive. Lord Monboddo (talk) 11:04, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

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Well done, I'm impressed! Since I also edit in the legal space I've always been impressed with your legal knowledge and contributions. One quibble though: Wikipedia generally doesn't conform to Bluebook, which is more intended for a legal readership rather than a lay readership. (E.g. how many non-lawyers know what "Harv. L. Rev." stands for?) Better to use the cite court and cite journal templates, which allow for consistency across the encyclopedia. Cheers and keep up the good work. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 17:32, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Timely article expansion
Thanks for your much needed expansion of Adult Use of Marijuana Act. - Brianhe (talk) 01:07, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

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Question for Lord Monboddo
Dear Lord Monboddo,

I see that you upload a lot of sources from the Harvard Law Review. I was wondering if you have any affiliation with the journal. Please get in touch at kkeller@jd19.law.harvard.edu. I'd love to talk!

Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2D80:5104:D200:F9E9:7796:81C:E8FA (talk) 23:50, 26 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Nope, sorry, I have no past or present Harvard affiliations. I’ve taken a wholesale approach to the HLR because it is the last of the major law reviews that still consistently reviews legal cases. The argumentative essays on doctrine or legal theory that preoccupy most law reviews today are of very little use to an encyclopedic editor. While newspapers unfailingly cover cases involving celebrities or the culture war, it is far too hard to find openly available secondary sources commenting on jurisprudentially significant decisions of particular judges in particular cases. The HLR students' Recent Cases are, then, a needful source for anyone hoping to shine a little sunlight on the federal bench.


 * Users across WP:LAW unfortunately often take a very sloppy approach to WP:PSTS. Articles on individual judges or officials compound this problem, where it is not unusual to see copy of questionable accuracy or WP:NOTE included with citation to no more than the case's text itself, even on a WP:BLP. Nobody comes to Wikipedia to read a random student's own WP:OR interpreting a primary legal text they only just encountered. Editors of tertiary sources like Wikipedia must rely upon reliable secondary sources like the HLR to expound on primary legal authorities. We here can always use more capable editors ready to pay close attention to sourcing, and I would encourage you to create an account, start editing, and be bold. — Lord Monboddo (talk) 03:23, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

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