Robbie CDN
Welcome to my page. I am a skeptic of Wikipedia, though I find this project very interesting.
As to your concerns - I'll be here. I can't speak for anyone else, but I suspect that the number of people who want this project to succeed as a source of accurate information will always outweigh those who wish to add nonsense or introduce inaccuracy. The beauty of Wikipedia is that it draws people like me, who are borderline-obsessive about one narrow topic (well, a few - for me it's the common law, and United States federal law), and who have both the interest to watch and the knowledge to correct errors in their area of expertise. By the way, when you post a comment to a talk page, finish it off with four tildes (~~~~), which adds your "signature" - your username and a link to your page. Cheers! BD2412 T 02:56, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
WP:Hornbook -- a new law-related task force for the J.D. curriculum
editHi Robbie CDN,
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 02:30, 31 July 2009 (UTC)