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CASEBOOK subpages

This list seeks to group casebooks into the recognizable categories of course title & year. Please propose potentially confusing changes at the talk page.

I think we might eventually settle for broader categories, e.g. "corporate classes," "1L classes," "constitutional classes", "intellectual property," "international law," "litigation," etc.

Column-generating template families

The templates listed here are not interchangeable. For example, using {{col-float}} with {{col-end}} instead of {{col-float-end}} would leave a <div>...</div> open, potentially harming any subsequent formatting.

Column templates

Type	Family	Handles wiki table code?†	Responsive/ mobile suited	Start template	Column divider	End template
Float	"col-float"	Yes	Yes	{{col-float}}	{{col-float-break}}	{{col-float-end}}
	"columns-start"	Yes	Yes	{{columns-start}}	{{column}}	{{columns-end}}
Columns	"div col"	Yes	Yes	{{div col}}	–	{{div col end}}
	"columns-list"	No	Yes	{{columns-list}} (wraps div col)	–	–
Flexbox	"flex columns"	No	Yes	{{flex columns}}	–	–
Table	"col"	Yes	No	{{col-begin}}, {{col-begin-fixed}} or {{col-begin-small}}	{{col-break}} or {{col-2}} .. {{col-5}}	{{col-end}}

^† Can template handle the basic wiki markup {| | || |- |} used to create tables? If not, special templates that produce these elements (such as {{(!}}, {{!}}, {{!!}}, {{!-}}, {{!)}})—or HTML tags (<table>...</table>, <tr>...</tr>, etc.)—need to be used instead.

Resources

Professional briefs. Paraphrase from "High Court Case Summaries," "Casenote Legal Briefs", "Lexis Headnotes," etc.	Student outlines and casebriefs. http://www.clssenate.org (contact webmaster Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook with questions.) http://www.4lawschool.com/casebrief.htm
Analysis. "Shepardize" individual cases on Lexis Nexis, for heavily-footnoted treatises and law review articles. Paraphrase, don't infringe.

Young caselaw articles should, at bare minimum, consist of case briefs. WP:SCOTUS employs the following article outline, and we should not diverge from it without their consensus. (In the long run, WP:LAW should have a "manual of style task force"/"Wikibluebook task force", whose members determine the standards for article layout, citation usage, template usage, etc. for all law-related content.)

Participants

1. Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 18:30, 28 July 2009 (UTC) (founder)
2. Elliott Ash ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 23:55, 01 August 2009 (UTC) (co-founder)
3. Bearian (talk) 12:24, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
4. Pharos (talk) 03:46, 31 July 2009 (UTC) Not a law student, but I'd be glad to help from Wikimedia New York City and reaching out to the Students for Free Culture chapter at Columbia.
5. Lawyer2b (talk) 05:03, 31 July 2009 (UTC) Will do what I can with limited time available. Love the project!
6. DAFMM (talk), very interesting. 31st July 2009.
7. Cdogsimmons (talk) 14:22, 31 July 2009 (UTC) I look forward to participating.
8. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 23:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC) 3L at American University, focus on IP law.
9. Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 23:21, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
10. Riotrocket8676 ^{You gotta problem with that?} 17:21, 1 August 2009 (UTC) Am a High School student, but want to be a lawyer!
11. Ute in DC (talk) 06:26, 2 August 2009 (UTC) Focus on criminal law.
12. Eastlaw ^talk ⁄ _contribs 06:58, 2 August 2009 (UTC) I will try to accomplish something here. I am not sure how much time I will have in the near-term future though.
13. DizFreak ^{talk Contributions} 21:20, 2 August 2009 (UTC) Will focus on copy editing and vandalism as time allows.
14. FireEscape (talk) 01:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC) Law student and new Wikipedian -- recruited by Andrew.

Other stuff

Templates

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Stub templates

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Featured/Good content

Since few of our articles are of broad public interest, I currently feel (July 28 2009) that we should be aiming to bring articles up to "Good Article" status. Once we establish a consensus on the discussion page, we'll revise this text to be more objective.