Kyralewiss
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:29, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Profanity, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. It can sometimes be difficult to address court cases in the encyclopedia, because they contain so much analysis one would think they could speak for themselves. But they can't; Wikipedia has a policy explaining primary versus secondary sources and the reason an encyclopedia must rely on secondary sources. In this case, law review articles and treatises are the secondary sources you need.
Also, for future reference, court case titles are always italicized, and must be referred to with citations indicating which court issued them. www.bluebook.com is helpful for interpreting citations to figure this out. Even most people who go to law school don't arrive there realizing how many different courts there are in the U.S.; there are federal and state courts, and different states have different appeals court structures, and cases are reported under a system that is independent of the courts. By a "citation," I mean the weird alphanumeric thing after the case name: "123 U.S. 345 (1829)" means that it was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1829 and it's reported in volume 123 of U.S. Reports (which only reports SCOTUS cases) on page 345. "123 F.3d 234 (1995)" means that it was a case decided by a federal court of appeals (like the Fourth Circuit, headquartered in Richmond and covering Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and I forget about W.Va. or S.C. since I haven't lived back there in 20 years) in 1995, and you need to look at the caption of the opinion to know which circuit. "123 F. Supp. 2d 324 (1995)" means it was in a federal district court, which is the lowest level of federal courts (that actually conduct jury trials), and could be from anywhere in the country. It's kind of meaningless to give a case name without specifying the court, because, say, if I'm a lawyer in Nevada, a case from a federal trial court for the Eastern District of North Carolina in 1993 is likely not to have any real effect on my reasoning... unless it does. (Confused yet? It's confusing!) If it's a North Carolina state case (in which the citation would be something like "123 A.3d 234", from the Atlantic Reports, which covers state courts from the mid-Atlantic), then it's probably REALLY irrelevant.
Good luck! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:55, 20 October 2020 (UTC)