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Proposed WikiProject Iowa
Hi, Tim, nice to meet you! I did add my name to the list of people interested in a WikiProject Iowa. Lini 04:33, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
AWB Approval
Regretfully, I've denied your AWB approval, as you do not have 500 article space edits. Sorry. alphaChimp(talk) 04:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
American Independant Party
I may be wrong but there is a national American Independant Party even if it is real small and I do believe the the Nevada affliate is a part of it. It has the same name. I know that it is a part of the Constitution party that is why I put it that way. Im just trying to make it correct and support the parties but I also heard that they left the constitution party along with some other states but I will leave that alone. If you want a good template for the constitution party click on this link. User:John R G/User Constitution Party John R G 06:56, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Note the Independent American Party and American Independant Party are two seperate parties. What I did was make the correction on the Independent American Party. Which the Nevada affiliate has the same name. That is confusing but I am just trying to make things correct. Check out this link [www.usiap.org] John R G 07:07, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
I think you are right. Where I got mixed up is that the nevada affiliate has the same name as the Independant American Party but that does not mean that they are the same party so you are correct. Here is a link about the Nevada affiliate leaving the Constitution party. Now I do not know if it is official or not so I wont debate you on that I just wanted to show you. [1]. You will have to press refresh to read it. John R G 07:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
I see you made the correction. Can you fix the second paragraph because it is not the American Independant party it is Independent American Party which is alot smaller if you look at their website at the bottom of the page. I will keep in touch and you can add the template that I told you about to your page. If you want to see it look at my home page. I will be back tommorrow. John R G 07:32, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Floyd Abrams - Speaking Freely
Hi, thanks for the message. I'm summarizing the entirety of this book. I am open to suggestions as to how to do that. Floyd Abrams argued each of these cases before their courts. I had a link to the the main article about the case because I will be a "See also" section in each that gives a perspective on the case, and history. But Mr. Abrams's. Each one I create will be relatively lengthy. I want law students and lawyers to find the discussion of strategy interesting, adding value. Besides, Mr. Abrams is a legal god in any sense, and has shaped almost any notion you have of the First Amendment, so I think he warrants the pages. I'm open to suggestions, though. It's an on-going project I hope to have in decent shape within a week. Thanks. --DavidShankBone 11:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Do you think a better title instead of Speaking Freely would be "Floyd Abrams on New York Times...."? Does that sound better? --DavidShankBone 11:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
You're right "See Also" would be much better. I see your point now. But I still think SCOTUS should stay in. --DavidShankBone 11:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
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- An argument that I should call them "Floyd Abrams on..." and then the case is it makes them more likely to be edited. If I keep the Speaking Freely, people may think they need to have read the book to edit the article. But I want people, if they happen across something about Floyd Abrams and the case he discusses, to feel free to add and change. Maybe a new law review article comes out analyzing an aspect of the case, etc. Or what other people said about his performance on the case. So it might make more sense to do the "Floyd Abrams on..." instead. Do you think? --DavidShankBone 11:56, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
The book itself is a memoir, so it's impossible to separate Floyd Abrams from the book. Look at the opening paragraph of the Floyd Abrams page and you'll see that he is also inextricably linked with these cases as well. In his review of the book, Lee Levine wrote "that the modern history of the freedom of the press in this country is intimately associated with the career and work of Floyd Abrams." That work is those cases. "Intimately associated" - so see, it's difficult to categorize the pages for that reason. What I envision for it, is Abrams word is very weighty and is worthy, by itself, to be Cliff Noted for people to get a sense of some of the inner workings of the Supreme Court and our system. It's a place to see technique, thoughts, musings, etc. But it can also be a discussion of Mr. Abrams himself in each of those cases, because his presence on a case is news in and of itself, and he has many critics out there, including those who consider him a traitor for the Pentagon Papers case. So these pages can be really cool things; more organic than one-dimensional. The subject merits that. --DavidShankBone 12:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
SCOTUS
Please don't remove the SCOTUS info template from the page, because it is relevant. After all, it was Abrams and Bickel's language the Supreme Court adopted in the very opinion and rule of law represented in that box. It acts more like the "Watergate Infobox" as a common tie between certain pages. The problem is that each page will be lengthy in itself, and I'd rather set the design of each. I work pretty quickly to get them to not be an embarassment, and each page has a lot of value already. But I like the SCOTUS infobox as a common thread between pages about the same case. You don't agree? --DavidShankBone 11:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Pentagon Papers Photo
You can take it out if you want; I had planned on making it relevant. I had to finish Evan Wolfson's bio first before turning more attention to working the counsel into the arguments. By the way, how do I get the SCOTUS infobox to carry the name of the counsel who argued? They are just as important to the case as the justices. --DavidShankBone 12:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Are you in law school?
Do you know anything about law, and how lawyers and law students use Wikipedia? Because I do, because I recently finished my second year. Why don't you give me some time to finish what I'm doing. I thought I made it clear to you above that I planned to have it finished in a week. You're jumping the gun here. --DavidShankBone 12:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Biography Newsletter September 2006
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Parties and state party affiliates
I see what you mean I will leave it alone. John R G 06:34, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
America First Party (2002)
Hello I have an idea but I do not know how to do it. There is a template at the bottom of the Constitution party page with a list of parties. I think it would be great to add the America First Party as a smaller party. They are basically like the Constitution Party. I would appreciate your imput. John R G 19:00, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
By the way I did some clean up on America First Party (2002). I hope it meets your standards. John R G 06:57, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject United States politicans
Just wanted to let you know that your project is listed in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. And one other problem. For a project page to remain a project page, it has to have had activity in the last three months (this one does) and have listed members. Right now, this one has no listed members. You might want to add a section for members and put yourself in. Keep up the great work. Badbilltucker 17:37, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Categories on Descartes Meditations
I removed the categories from the article on your user page to stop an article in draft appearing in the main list Dbuckner 11:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Image:S Pederson 02 04 075.jpg
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Honorable
Tim4Christ17
I basically rewrote the section o the American usage for "honorable." It probably needs Wikifying. I did cite multiple sources and tried to show the differences, especially in the local government level.
If you could, please look at it and improve it.
--J. J. in PA 01:50, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
