User talk:Kamccoy1

Welcome!

Hello, Kamccoy1! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Notecardforfree (talk) 19:58, 20 November 2015 (UTC) Getting Started Contributing to Wikipedia The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community (The Signpost) Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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Editing SCOTUS articles

Hi Kamccoy1! First and foremost, I want to welcome you to Wikipedia -- it is always exciting to see college professors integrate Wikipedia into their curricula. I also want to touch base with you about writing articles for United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) cases because I noticed that two of the students in your HIS 475 class have been assigned Wikipedia articles for SCOTUS cases. I encourage your students to become familiar with MOS:LAW and WP:SCOTUS/SG, which provide style guidelines for SCOTUS articles. Per MOS:LAW#Citations and referencing, editors are encouraged to use the Bluebook citation style, which is now considered (for better or worse) the de facto lingua franca of American legal citations. Editors are also encouraged to provide inline citations after every sentence that makes an assertion about the holding of a case; these citations should reference the page(s) of the United States Reports on which that holding appears (see also WP:CITEDENSE). Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions, and I look forward to seeing your class' contributions! Best, -- Notecardforfree (talk) 20:28, 20 November 2015 (UTC)