Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States courts and judges/United States federal judges

There are a few basic scenarios that complicate this process. Here are the possibilities that we have to deal with: I think we should concentrate on clearing out the hardest problems first, which will leave a clear field of red links to be populated by bot. Can someone generate a list for me of: Cheers! bd2412 T 21:01, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) An article exists at the correct name (or exists elsewhere with a redirect leading there), and it is already fine.
 * 2) An article exists at the correct name (or with a redirect leading there), and it needs material from the FJC cite, a succession box, and/or an  link added.
 * 3) An article exists on the right person, but at the wrong name and with no redirect leading there (I think I have uncovered most of these in the past few days).
 * 4) An article exists on the right person but makes scant mention of their judgeship (this happens with people who were also governors or senators or the like; the article may be on the right person but make no mention of a brief period as a federal judge, and not categorize them accordingly).
 * 5) A different article exists at the name of the judge, and we need to disambiguate. There are a few weird cases where two judges have almost the same name (but for a middle initial, or something like that).
 * 6) A disambiguation page exists at the name of the judge, with a link to an article on the judge.
 * 7) A disambiguation page exists at the name of the judge, without a link to an article on the judge (which may or may not exist).
 * 8) No article exists at all.
 * 1) all articles which currently sit at the name of a judge on the list, but do not indicate that the subject is/was a judge;
 * 2) all disambiguation pages which currently sit at the name of a judge on the list (R'n'B has this information generally in his User:R'n'B/Federal judge project);
 * 3) all instances where multiple judges have the same first and last name.

Territorial federal courts
Does anyone know a good source for listings of the "Article I" judges who have sat in federal courts in the territories?

I have been able to assemble the list of these judges for the pre-Article III period in the District of Puerto Rico, and have included them in that article and created/expanded bio pages for those judges. At the moment, I don't have that information for other territorial courts, though I will try to assemble it over time if no one can think of a ready source where it is already in one place. In particular, right now it would be useful to me (for some off-wiki research of mine for an article) if there were a listing of all the judges who served in the District of the Canal Zone.

My thanks to anyone who can help. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 16:32, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I doubt a single list exists, except that one might have been compiled in a law review article for a given territory. Wikipedia will like have to pioneer that creation - those judges would have been approved by the Senate, right? bd2412  T 19:57, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * If no one here has any specific ideas, I will go ahead and compile the information over time, as I did for Puerto Rico. It won't be this week, however, as I will be on jury duty during the days and therefore covering what would normally be my day job in the evenings. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 20:09, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I doubt anyone else is watching this page. I am certain you'd have better luck posting at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States courts and judges. Cheers! bd2412  T 21:12, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Samuel Alito
Can someone with this group please review recent edits in the article on Samuel Alito, especially regarding his relationships with billionaire businessman Paul Singer (businessman) that have come out recently due to the ProPublica investigation and Alito's preemptive denial, which The Wall Street Journal chose to publish before ProPublica published anything about it?

I perceive that User:GuardianH has been engaged in biased editing, especially removing comments that seem reasonably well sourced but call attention to Singer and some particular cases he has had before the Supreme Court.

So far, I've raised questions on the associated Talk page. The net impact may have been positive in forcing me to reword some of the comments to more accurately reflect what has been documented -- restoring references that User:GuardianH deleted and adding others.

However, I'm not a lawyer, and this article could benefit from a review by a competent legal scholar. Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 03:27, 1 July 2023 (UTC)


 * If you want to discuss my edits, I already responded to your message on the talk page some hours ago. We've barely even had a discussion yet. GuardianH (talk) 05:54, 1 July 2023 (UTC)