Elliotreed

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Hello, Elliotreed, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Bush v. Gore

Hello, you re-added a sentence in Bush v. Gore after I had eliminated it. It reads:

Although it is customary for dissenting Justices to conclude their opinions with the sentence, "I respectfully dissent," Justice Ginsburg pointedly omitted the word "respectfully," writing "I dissent" instead.

The assertion that "I dissent" is significant is just untrue, as a perusal of most modern dissents will show. You cite no authority for the proposition that the omission of "respectfully" has some significance. Unless you can cite such authority, I really think it shouldn't be in the article. Respectfully, Hydriotaphia 19:36, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Let me know if my response to your query at Talk:Coase theorem is sufficent. Joel Kincaid 21:11, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Airbus A350 vs. Boeing 787 Orders

I've gone ahead an nominated it for AfD, so feel free to go to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Airbus A350 vs. Boeing 787 Orders and voice your opinion, and you might also want to do the same at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Airbus A380 vs. Boeing 747-8 Orders) but to answer your question about how to nominate an article, you can read about the process at WP:AFD, and in short, the process starts with you adding the template {{subst:afd1}} to the top of the article, save it, then follow the instructions in small print at the bottom of the box. The second step, per those instructions, can be done one of two ways, I prefer to click on the "preloaded debate" (because you're gonna need to come back to this first screen, it's best to right-click and go to the preloaded debate in a new window). In the edit window, first look for the line that says "cat=U" and substitute the "U" with the letter from the list at the top of the page that best describes the article. Then, look for the line "text=Reason" and replace "Reason" with the reason you think the article should be deleted. It's best to describe this reason in terms of how the article fails to meet Wikipedia standards in one way or another. Add "First deletion reason" in the edit summary box. Now, go back to the first screen, and look for (in the fine print) the line that stars with {{subst:afd3...}}, and highlight and copy everything within the double brackets (including the double brackets). Then click on "log" and go to the bottom of the edit screen, and paste the line you copied (it won't look like the other lines, don't worry, the system takes care of that). In the edit summary enter "add article" and save. You should be done! If you have any questions about the process, don't hesitate to drop me a line and ask. Akradecki 17:48, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks.Elliotreed 02:13, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Global perspectives task force

Hi Elliotreed! I came across your name on the World Bank talk page, which prompted me to take a look at some of your contributions on the site. Based on the work you have done, I thought you might be interested in the newly formed global perspectives task force, which is part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias. The basic idea of the task force is to try to ensure that key articles reflect a truly global perspective, especially in terms of the sources on which the articles rely. I might be off base, but this task force seemed up your alley, so I wanted to invite you to take a look at the project page and, if you're interested, add your name to the list of participants. It would be great to have you involved. Cheers! --Mackabean 22:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Hi Elliotreed,

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.

• Each casebook will have a subpage.

• 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,

• Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
• Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(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 20:24, 2 August 2009 (UTC)Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 04:40, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Research survey invitation

Greetings Elliotreed-

My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a doctoral student at the University of Oregon, studying digital media and online community. I am posting to invite you to participate in my research study exploring the work of Wikipedia editors who are members of WikiProject: Countering Systemic Bias. The online survey should take 20 to 25 minutes to complete and can be found here:

https://oregon.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cSHzuwaQovaZ6ss

Your responses will help online communication researchers like me to better understand the collaborations, challenges, and purposeful work of Wikipedia editors like you. In addition, at the end of the survey you will have the opportunity to express your interest in a follow-up online interview with the researcher.

This research project has been reviewed and approved by the Wikimedia Research Committee as well as the Office for Protection of Human Subjects at the University of Oregon. For a detailed description of the project, please visit its Meta page. This survey is voluntary, and your confidentiality will be protected. You will have the choice of using your Wikipedia User Name during the research or creating a unique pseudonym. You may skip any question you choose, and you may withdraw at any time. By completing the survey, you are providing consent to participate in the research.

If you have any questions about the study, please contact me via my Talk Page (UOJComm) or via email. My faculty advisor is Dr. Ryan Light. If you have any questions regarding your rights as a research participant, please contact the Office for Protection of Human Subjects at the University of Oregon.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Randall Livingstone School of Journalism & Communication University of Oregon UOJComm (talk) 03:54, 22 June 2011 (UTC)