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Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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I recently struck a number of block quotes from the CFAA article that caused the article to lack cohesion and introduced a fair bit of jargon and astandard syntax (especially the introduction of USC markers that are generally better dealt with as novice-friendly prose) that, more importantly, lacked any sort of clear markers of where the quotes ended and and any analysis that may have been present began. You may find our Wikipedia:Manual of Style's section on introducing clear quotations to be of interest and you may find a related essay on Wikipedia:Quotations to be of particular value in trying to restore some of the deleted sections in a more reader-friendly manner.

Please note that I also attempted to fix a number of preexisting issues by simplifying and standardizing the syntax in the sections above the section you introduced with a title ending 1030(a)(1) in this edit, so please take care not to simply undo the edit that removed those sections. Happy editing, MrZaiustalk 16:06, 23 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

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Hi Nshamila,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

  • Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
  • It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
  • Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.
  • I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.
2. If you're a law student,
(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)
3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook 21:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC)Reply