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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Law. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Law: edit · history · watch · refresh
  • Factual verification needed
    • Cinema of Japan#Copyright status of Japanese films - factual verification needed (necessary for wikipedia image screenshots from Japanese films), official Japanese references would be great
    • Florida v. J.L. - the article is being heavily edited by a generally unconstructive (and possibly though unlikely WP:COI) editor. An editor who knows the facts of the case may want to make sure that nothing inappropriate is being done to the article. Chicken Wing (talk) 21:51, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Current law articles on peer review

Contents

[edit] Title

WikiProject on Law

[edit] Scope

This Wikiproject is aimed at creating a greater consistency among the law related articles. Key areas of concern include consistency in defining concepts across multiple jurisdictions and proper categorization of articles.

[edit] The common law

As a foundation for this effort, it is vital that we create a comprehensive explanation of the common law, which is shared by most English-speaking countries. The common law is clearly divisible into a number of key areas, each of which should be tackled and developed in turn. These areas are:

Each of these areas contains a wide array of long-established but nuanced doctrines, and each has a complex and ultimately fascinating history - making this a particularly worthy project for Wikipedia to conquer!

[edit] The Philosophy of law

A joint effort that can be undertaken between this project and Wikiproject Philosophy is to improve the quality of articles concerned with the philosophical questions about law itself. Key components of the philosophy of law include:

[edit] Missing/requested law-related articles

  1. Requested law articles

[edit] Participants

  • This list is in alphabetical order for ease of reference. If you are no longer active, please move your sig to the Resting section.

[edit] Active

  1. 28USC1344 05:20, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
  2. Aboutmovies 02:16, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
  3. Anthøny 19:27, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
  4. Alex756 21:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
  5. --Allen B. (talk) 17:11, 6 May 2008 (UTC) (wills, trusts and property law)
  6. Amazanne 05:46, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
  7. Ambi
  8. Andy123(talk) 03:25, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
  9. AnnaAniston
  10. Assawyer 13:21, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
  11. Bamkin 14:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
  12. BballJones 22:53, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
  13. bd2412 talk (civil procedure, First Amendment, intellectual property, especially trademark)
  14. Bearian 17:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
  15. Ben stephenson 03:07, 9 November 2007 (UTC) = Land Law, Equity & Trusts, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Administrative Law, Tort Law, European Community Law (current LLB. student, Newcastle University)
  16. Bencherlite 15:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
  17. BenWilson (talk)
  18. Bjsiders 21:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
  19. BramleyBarn 13:36, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  20. Cdogsimmons 02:47, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  21. CharacterZero | Speak 17:35, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
  22. Charles8854 (???) 12 October 2006 (???)
  23. Chart123 (talk)
  24. Chaser T
  25. Cheapestcostavoider (talk)
  26. Chicken Wing - I've created several law-related pages and keep them on my watchlist.
  27. Chris nelson
  28. Chunky Rice17:02, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
  29. ClauLeo (talk) 21:45, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
  30. CloudNine (talk) 11:28, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
  31. colobikeguy - Patent Law, Bankruptcy Law, Federal Civil Procedure Law, New York Civil Procedure Law, International Criminal Law, Shrimp Law, Shrimp Soup, Shrimp Martini...
  32. Cool Hand Luke 15:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
  33. CoulterTM (UTC)
  34. Crzrussian 20:23, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
  35. CyclePat 02:54, 31 December 2006 (UTC) : "Does the probative value outweight its prejudicial impact" - David Paciocco
  36. Dana Powers
  37. Davodd 21:52, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
  38. Doug. 06:56, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
  39. Diego Buonvino
  40. dr.ef.tymac 21:24, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
  41. Dustingc 21:29, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
  42. Eastlaw 09:28, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  43. EECavazos 04:56, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
  44. Elliotreed 17:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
  45. Erechtheus 01:53, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
  46. FitzColinGerald - Anything related to arbitration and collective bargaining interests me greatly.
  47. Francis Davey
  48. Gilgamesh79 02:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
  49. GregAsche (talk)
  50. Hacienda 23:48, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
  51. InMyHumbleOpinion (talk) 07:04, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  52. InvisibleDiplomat666 09:28, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
  53. Izehar
  54. JackLee – mostly Singapore law.
  55. JCO312 16:33, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
  56. Jersyko·talk
  57. Jet123 17:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
  58. Jawesq talk 18:52, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
  59. Jlofgren
  60. Jpe|ob 14:18, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
  61. J.R. Getsinger —Jrgetsin 02:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)—
  62. kawaputratorque 05:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
  63. Legis 10:56, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
  64. Lemonsawdust 09:37, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
  65. Liverpool Scouse
  66. Lquilter - copyright, intellectual property, freedom of expression articles; categorization
  67. Luis1972 14:32, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  68. Markdsgraham 11:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC) - Hoping to take a go at the merger guidelines, and then at Canadian Supreme Court cases as they are released.
  69. Matthew Proctor
  70. Mhs5392
  71. Miranda
  72. Mmmbeer
  73. Mrees1997
  74. Mr Senseless - Law firm articles, article maintenance and technical issues
  75. Must_WIN 23:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
  76. Necessaryx
  77. Neo-Jay 03:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
  78. NewYork1956
  79. Newyorkbrad 21:27, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
  80. ozoneliar T 18:08 Friday, 2006-07-14 T (UTC)
  81. PhishRCool Talk Contribs 22:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
  82. User:Piotrnikitin
  83. Politics rule 15:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
  84. PullUpYourSocks
  85. Realist2
  86. Redkern
  87. User:Regicollis
  88. reppin the bay15:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
  89. RidG 23:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
  90. Russ (talk)
  91. Rodhullandemu - UK Criminal Law & Procedure
  92. Ronels talk 13:55, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
  93. FactsOnly 12:10, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
  94. Ryan Luck
  95. Sebisthlm (talk) 11:05, 17 February 2008 (UTC), Swedish & EC law
  96. Scienter 18:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  97. Sumple (Talk) 09:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
  98. ⇒ SWATJester Ready Aim Fire!
  99. TheronJ 20:44, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  100. THF 22:01, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
  101. ukexpat talk --ukexpat 14:23, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
  102. Justin 03:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC) — anti-discrimination, limitation of speech & press, undue burden; esp. abortion, same-sex
  103. Vicjm 00:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
  104. Vlad fedorov 09:23, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
  105. Walshga 09:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
  106. Wikidea 08:46, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
  107. Wikidemo 07:47, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  108. Whilding87 18:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
  109. Willrgby 23.44, 6 June 2008 (GMT)
  110. Willstansfield 22:02, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
  111. xDanielx T/C 05:33, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
  112. Yu Ninjie 21:43, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  113. Zilonis 20:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  114. Zoticogrillo (talk) 21:59, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
  115. Souli~ 18:41, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
  116. Juice07 12:53, 3 December 2007 (GMT)
  117. --TommyBoy (talk) 04:20, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
  118. Mediterraneo (talk) 20:35, 6 April 2008 (UTC): law firm history, e.g. Davis Polk & Wardwell, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, Salans, Watson, Farley & Williams

[edit] Resting

  1. Non Curat Lex - Resting since November 2006
  2. Tarun Jain - Resting since April 2008

[edit] Resources

[edit] Easy to find new bill lookup

statesurge id also put these in new pages Rankun (talk) 01:04, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] Userbox

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*Participants are encouraged to add this box to their User Page using {{User WikiProject Law}} or by adding WikiProject Law to their Babel code.

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Additionally, a general "Law and Legal systems" template can be added to the bottom of any law-related site. It currently needs categories added, especially with regard to non-U.S. legal systems:

  • {{Law}} (Law and Legal Systems) - (preview)

[edit] Useful categories

[edit] Parentage

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

Proposal for additional descendant projects moved to the talk page.

[edit] By jurisdiction

[edit] By topic

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Similar WikiProjects


[edit] Structure

Discuss the format for each article based on the WikiProject. Include various categories applicable to the topic.

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.


[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

[edit] Todo

[edit] Template

I have created a template to allow us to categorise legal articles by quality and by importance. By typing {{WikiProject Law}} on the talk page, you get:

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Law Portal
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Law, an attempt at providing a comprehensive, standardised, pan-jurisdictional and up-to-date resource for the legal field and the subjects encompassed by it.
??? This article has not yet received a quality rating on the assessment scale.
??? This article has not yet received an importance assessment on the assessment scale.

[edit] Assessment

Legal
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 6 4 4 4 18
A 2 2 3 4 11
Good article GA 1 1 8 6 1 17
B 40 45 61 42 23 211
Start 44 125 336 373 212 1090
Stub 14 104 379 592 188 1277
List 2 1 1 115 53 172
Assessed 109 282 792 1136 477 2796
Unassessed 30 24 28 23 2675 2780
Total 139 306 820 1159 3152 5576