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When you create new categories, please take the time to create them completely, including adding the appropriate parent categories. Creating orphaned categories makes it extremely difficult to find works (just like creating an orphaned work).

Category:2018 court decisions should have been a child of Category:Case law by year and Category:2018 works. Similarly, Category:Arkansas case law is problematic because we tend to categorize by court, not by state -- see the children of Category:United States case law by court as an example. Frankly, it would make more sense to create a Portal:Arkansas case law, similar to Portal:New Jersey case law, rather than to use it as a category.

Thanks, Mukkakukaku (talk) 05:53, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestions. I should have looked to see how the existing state case law portals were organized. I will start drafting a new portal and category. Thank you Apt-ark (talk) 04:47, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Separating pages by authors

With your added court case, the first version is preferable as it allows the separation of content by the author, and thus allows for a better representation by linking, and by cross-ref to and from Wikidata. If the template needs amending, then we either fix it, or do something that will work. I would think that we would be better to return to the separated version. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:27, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

You make good points. I will try to figure out the template issue. Thanks for the help. Apt-ark (talk) 04:45, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

We can all play with the template if needed, numbers of us have had practice. Do sandbox it. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:27, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District

The subpages you've marked for Speedy Deletion have some talk pages with comments. Have the Comments also been merged into the primary talk page? --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:30, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

No, I didn't merge the subpages' talk pages. It looks like they've already been deleted. But I'll check for that the next time it comes up. Thank you Apt-ark (talk) 04:37, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Page numbers..

McKittrick v. Arkansas Central Railway Company , Have you read WS:STYLE ? It was my understanding that page numbers were not inlined as you've apparently done so here.

An alternative approach would be to retain them as invisible anchors {{anchor|p<pagenum>}} at the relevant location, if you were wanting to allow referencing to appropriate pages.

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:56, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases decided to use the inline [p45] style. Apt-ark (talk) 03:07, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

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Midland Asphalt Corp. v. United States/Opinion of the Court

Hi Apt-ark,

First, thanks for your work on court cases here. It's an area badly in need of cleanup and where there are clearly too few contributors.

But I noticed that you pasted the entire text of Midland Asphalt Corp. v. United States/Opinion of the Court from somewhere and used the edit summary "Proofed against U.S. Reports version". Why not actually use the Proofreading system and proofread this against a scan of the relevant volume of the US Reports? See Help:Adding texts and Help:Proofread. Xover (talk) 07:28, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

No particular reason; I've done it the proper way with some Ark. Sup. Ct. cases, but for the U.S. Sup. Ct. cases I'm doing now, I'm just adding the cases on an ad hoc basis. Mostly it's just cases I want to see added/formatted properly. Apt-ark (talk) 05:38, 17 January 2024 (UTC)