User:Eastlaw/main

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Feeling just a wee bit worried...

Background

• I'm a public defender from New Jersey.
  • I adhere strictly to NPOV (neutral point of view) to the greatest extent of my ability.

What people have said about me

Despite my best efforts, I have become rather divisive figure around here...People either love me or hate me.

• I've done a "massive number of fine law-oriented edits"
• I use "arbitrary standards" in my edits
• "the site could really benefit from more editors, and admins, like you"
• I would "easily pass an RFA" (that didn't happen)
• I'm "smug and divisive"
• I'm a self-important jackass
• Apparently, I have no knowledge about anything "beyond comic-books, tv trivia, blockbuster movies and artificial sports", even though I have never edited on any of those subjects.

Interests

• Law, particularly various areas of commercial law, property law, civil procedure, antitrust, etc.
• Earth sciences, especially geology
• Geography and geographic information systems
• History and Politics of the USA and other countries
• Economics and finance
• Heavy Metal music

Stuff I do on Wikipedia

This editor is a Veteran Editor IV and is entitled to display this Gold Editor Star.

• Creating articles, mostly on legal topics, but also on some other stuff. I think of myself more as a "gap-filler", trying to find missing topics and adding or expanding coverage of them where possible.
  • I've been focusing on legal topics mainly because when I first started here (in the spring of 2006), there was a real dearth of good legal articles on Wikipedia.
  • Additionally, I've been trying to expand Wikipedia's coverage of law firms and state governments (including state courts and secretaries of state/commonwealth).
  • I have also done some work on Heavy metal music.
• Creating categories where needed and adding them to articles.
• Creating redirects where necessary.
• Some copy editing, spelling/grammar/punctuation corrections, and adding needed formatting when necessary.
• The occasional new page patrol.
• Blah blah blah, etc.

Projects I'm involved with

• WikiProject Law
• WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases
• WikiProject United States courts and judges
• WikiProject Metal

My Sandboxes

• User:Eastlaw/sandbox
• User:Eastlaw/sandbox2
• User:Eastlaw/pagelist
• User:Eastlaw/template test area
• User:Eastlaw/NewCongressList
  • Special:PrefixIndex/User:Eastlaw -- List of all pages in my user space

To Do List (long-term)

• User:Eastlaw/todo
• User:Eastlaw/cases by subject
• Category:Law firm articles without infoboxes

Drafting space

• User:Eastlaw/draft

Nifty article-starter templates

• User:Eastlaw/SecStatetemplate
• User:Eastlaw/LawFirmtemplate

My pages on other Wikimedia sites

• My Wikisource page
• My Wikiquote page
• My Meta-wiki page

My Userboxes, Barnstars, etc.

• User:Eastlaw/UBX

Pages I'm working on right now

• Cleaning up articles on United States Congress members created by Polbot.
• Essay: User:Eastlaw/Don't get in over your head
• Essay: User:Eastlaw/Not all business articles are spam
• Category:Law firm articles without infoboxes

Articles I have started/created

• User:Eastlaw/contribs — full list of them

Articles I have rescued from deletion

• Deeds of Flesh (death metal band)
• Snell & Wilmer (law firm)
• Thompson Coburn (law firm)

Articles I have substantially modified or contributed to

• Adequate and independent state ground
• Amount in controversy
• Dechert (law firm)
• Intervention (law)
• Hollingsworth v. Virginia, 3 U.S. 378 (1798)
• Saenz v. Roe, 526 U.S. 489 (1999)
• The Death of Contract, Grant Gilmore's famous work

Pages I should clean up/modify

• Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 535 U.S. 302 (2002)
• Rogers v. Tennessee, 532 U.S. 451 (2001)
• Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc., 514 U.S. 211 (1995)
• Dolan v. City of Tigard, 512 U.S. 374 (1994)
• Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (1992)
• Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, 438 U.S. 104 (1978)
• Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250 (1952)
• Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, 260 U.S. 393 (1922)
• Shreveport Rate Cases, 234 U.S. 342 (1914)
• Head Money cases, 112 U.S. 580 (1884)
• Holy Trinity Church v. U.S., link from Justia
• Osborn v. Bank of the United States, 22 U.S. 738 (1824)
• List of notable United States state supreme court cases
• List of United States courts of appeals cases
• Contractual term

Barnstars

		The Society Barnstar
		In recognition of your efforts on Wikipedia and for your massive number of fine law oriented edits, I, Cdogsimmons, award you the Society Barnstar. Cdogsimmons 16:33, 5 September 2006

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Presented to Eastlaw for his consistent efforts to develop wiki-coverage of legal topics. Lamro (talk) 09:18, 31 August 2008 (UTC)