Judgepedia:WikiProject Federal Judges - Archived
This project is from June 2009 and all six stages are considered complete. Individual project pages for each stage were combined into this archived project.
About this page
This page describes two tasks to be completed in the overall federal judiciary project. Once both tasks are completed, you can cross-out the task cross-out the task here as well as keeping track of progress below.
Presidential nominations
There are 44 articles on Judgepedia about presidential nominations to the federal bench, one for each president from George Washington to Barack Obama.
On each of these articles, certain tasks need to be accomplished.
Install WikiProject template
On each of the articles about presidential nominations, install the {{WikiProject federal judiciary}} template on the article's talk page.
Type of court
On each of the articles about presidential nominations, court appointments are segmented by year. They should also be segmented by the type of court to which particular judges were appointed. In addition, judges should be listed alphabetically (by last name) within both segments. An example of an article where that has been done is:
Nominating president carry-over
Each judge that is listed on a nominating president's page should reflect that president on the judge's personal page. For example, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated by Jimmy Carter to the DC Circuit court and by Bill Clinton to the Supreme Court. She is listed on each of those president's pages, and her personal page links back to those lists as well.
See also
- For the current project on the federal judiciary, see: Judgepedia:WikiProject Federal Judiciary.
- The archived companion project is Judgepedia:WikiProject Federal Judiciary - Archived.
About this page
This page describes a limited set of tasks that need to be one in the overall federal judiciary project. Once these tasks are completed, you should cross-out the task here and on this page.
Nominating president templates
Each of the 44 presidents nominated federal judges. For each president, there is an article about that president's federal judge nominations, such as Federal judges nominated by George Washington.
There should also be a horizontal navigational template for the judges nominated by each president, or a total of 44 such templates. Those templates are stored at:
About this page
This page describes a limited set of tasks that need to be one in the overall federal judiciary project. Once these tasks are completed, you should cross-out the task here and on this page.
Install project template on judge pages
- By court, review each article for a judge of that court.
- Determine whether each of those articles has the Template:WikiProject federal judiciary template installed on its talk/discussion page.
- If any article about a federal judge that you review does not have that template on its talk page, go ahead and install. You can simultaneously install the WikiProject template for the state of the judge. Template:WikiProject Pennsylvania is an example.
- Talk:Gene Pratter is an example where this has been done correctly.
On judge's pages
There are several dates of importance that should be highlighted on Judgepedia. These include (but are not limited to):
- date of nomination
- date when judicial commission was received
- date when service was terminated (due to death or retirement)
Each federal judge should have those important dates wiki-linked to the appropriate Calendar year and month. This is done by typing (using Harold Leventhal in 1965 as an example) this code:
[[C1965#March|March 1, 1965]]
Take a look at it live on the Harold Leventhal page.
On calendar pages
As important dates are wiki-linked on judge pages they should, in turn, be wiki-linked on the calendar pages. This is done by editing the appropriate month (again using Harold Leventhal in 1965 as an example) like this:
* '''March 1:''' [[Harold Leventhal]] was nominated to serve on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]].
Take a look at it live on the Judgepedia:Calendar 1965 page.
About this page
This page describes a limited set of tasks that need to be one in the overall federal judiciary project. Once these tasks are completed, you should cross-out the task here and on this page.
Categories
The job here is to standardize the categories for all federal judges. Many judge articles are categorized in different ways.
- Horizontal navigational templates/U.S. Circuit judge navigational templates
- Horizontal navigational templates/U.S. District judge navigational templates
According to the Categorization norms for federal judge articles, these standards should be followed:
Circuits
Indentations indicate the relationship of a subcategory to a parent category.
Districts
Indentations indicate the relationship of a subcategory to a parent category.
- Category:Federal district judges
- Category:Federal judge, Eastern District of New York (a sitting Article III judge who is not on senior status belongs in this category)
- Category:Federal magistrate judge
- Category:Magistrate judge, Eastern District of New York (this category also goes into the parent category Category:Federal judge, Eastern District of New York and the category for judges of the state in question.)
About this page
This page describes a task to be completed in the overall federal judiciary project. Once the task is completed, you can cross-out the task here as well as keeping track of progress below.
Articles that need expansion
Some Article III federal judge articles are very minimal stubs. These articles need to be identified and collected in one place so that they can systematically be expanded and improved.
The goal of this project is to:
- Quickly review each and every Article III federal judge article.
- Discern whether the article needs expansion.
- If it does, type Category:Federal judge articles needing expansion on the article.
- There is a shortcut you can use. Simply type {{fje}} at the end of the article. This will be shorter and easier to remove once the article has been expanded.
- It is best to do this systematically by reviewing all judge articles by circuit-by-circuit.
- That can be done using the list below.
- Once you have reviewed all Article III federal judge articles listed in a given template and added the "needs expansion" tag to those that need expansion, delete the relevant template from the list below.
- Note: Do not assess federal magistrate judge articles in this project. That will be done in a separate project. Also, if you are reviewing a federal judge article and it needs attention but not necessarily expansion add the Category:Federal judge articles needing attention as described below.
- Question: Why does this need to be done? Don't these articles already have the {{federal stub}} template on them?
- Answer: Some of them do. Some of them don't. Also, the {{federal stub}} template appears on articles that are not about Article III federal judges. For example, it is on many federal magistrate judge pages. The purpose of this exercise is to isolate only the Article III federal judge articles that need attention and expansion in one place so we can carefully work through all of them for quality improvement.
Articles that need attention
Some Article III federal judge articles need one or more of the following types of alteration/attention:
- They need the {{wfj}} template installed on their discussion page, along with the template for the state they judged in.
- They need the template for the judges of their district installed on the article.
As you review federal judge articles by district, if you see that the article needs one of the above two types of change, please make it.
However, if you see that the following more extensive change needs to be done, please tag the article and move on, without making the change:
- Judge articles with introductions that are too short. The article about Ashley Royal is a good example of an article with a too-short introduction. Introductions should consist of a minimum of two-three sentences. Also, readers should be able to find out in the first several sentences of an article which president nominated that judge to the bench. In articles like the Ashley Royal article, that information appears much later in the article, in the section entitled Federal judicial career. However, you don't need to make the change. You just need to tag the article so it goes into the right category where someone else can start making the appropriate changes.
To tag an Article III federal judge article as needing attention, simply type:
{{fja}} on it.
- Question: What if I run across an Article III federal judge article that in my view needs attention but not for the reason listed above? Can I still add it to the "needs attention" category?
- Answer: Yes, unless you want to fix it then and there.
This page is a chart of the United States district courts to indicate when there is an article on Judgepedia about all judges who ever served on the court.
Incomplete
| Court | # of Article III judges | Template? | Completed | Remaining |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Circuit | 31 | Yes | 17 | 14 |
| District of Delaware | 23 | Yes | 21 | 2 |
| Eastern District of Illinois* | 9 | Yes | 0 | 9 |
| Northern District of New York | 25 | Yes | 24 | 1 |
Complete
- The Eastern District of Illinois was in existence from 1905 till 1979 when the Eastern District of Illinois was re-organized into the current Central District of Illinois as part of legislation approved by Congress in 1978 [1].
