User talk:Mrees1997

Welcome[edit]

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Whosyourjudas (talk) 23:55, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Criminal procedure[edit]

Greetings. I think, actually, that Criminal procedure should have its own template. Indeed, I've been planning to make one, which is exactly why I've added none of it to the Crim law template. Cheers! BD2412 T 23:41, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Here: Template:CrimPro
- I believe that there is enough stuff unique to crim pro to fill a template nicely (remember also that we're an international encyclopedia, so the template will eventually contain both common law and civil law concepts). By the way, welcome! Please feel welcome to add your name at Wikipedia:WikiProject Law, and put yourself in Category:Lawyer Wikipedians. BD2412 T 23:57, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  - I've added Rights of the accused, Presumption of innocence, and Right to silence. Right now the template looks like something of a hodgepodge, but they often start like that. Let me know if you have any thoughts on how it should be ordered - maybe pre-arrest, arrest-to-conviction, and post conviction - (and of course, feel free to edit it). I have to step away for a bit, but will be back later. BD2412 T 00:05, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Have a look at the template now - it's growing well, I think. BD2412 T 19:40, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Tag status.[edit]

Good day,

About a year ago, you placed a merge tag on the Jury trial article. The document has since been overhauled, and may have made your merge proposal — for all intents and purposes — OBE.

Users who may be opposed to the merge effort have expressed their opinions on the talk page for the aformentioned article. You are invited to do likewise. Please submit all comments by March 10 2006.

Regards, Folajimi 19:58, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On the contrary, my merge notice was from 20 Dec. 2005. There was another, unrelated merge notice about a year ago. Nothing has happened about my merge notice. No comments, no editing. Mrees1997 18:07, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pardon me. It turns out that I conflated two separate issues:

First, I managed to miss the removal of the unrelated merge notice (initially placed by David.Monniaux) to the Jury Trial article. That user had tagged multiple articles for extended periods of time without checking up on them. When I did contact him about the matter, his response was one of indifference.
Second, the tag of concern was attached to the "Jury" article, as opposed to the Jury trial article, which you had tagged about two months ago. Although I had contacted the editor who attached the tag to the non-trial article, Martg76, somehow, I ended up sending you a notice for the same issue.

Please accept my apologies for the oversight. I accidentally confused your username for one used by another editor — both of which happen to begin with the capital letter 'M', and end with numerical values. The merge requests — submitted against three different, but related articles — made it difficult to properly sort out who edited which article, and when they did so.

At any rate, thank you for taking the time to reply to my notice. Cheers. Folajimi 20:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Garbasail[edit]

I saw your comment at Talk:Garbasail, and wanted to let you know that I've nominated it for deletion. The discussion is here, if you want to contribute to the discussion. Joyous | Talk 23:33, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Law selections[edit]

Greetings, fellow WikiProject Law member! One of our tasks on this WikiProject is the upkeep of Portal:Law, where we have set up a four week cycle wherein each week one of four key features - the selected article, biography, case, or image - is rotated out. Previous selections can be found at Portal:Law/former selections. Please contribute your thoughts at Portal talk:Law as to likely candidates for future rotations in each of these categories. Cheers! BD2412 T 05:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anchoring Deletion[edit]

I'm not sure why you are deleting Manson Anchor references from an Anchor Page.

The Manson Supreme was a completely Original Anchor, no matter what other manufacturers might write about it. It has it's own legal copyrights and patents and I am confused as to why you would deleter references to the Manson products.

I would be interested to hear your comments on the above, especially your background in anchors and anchoring.

Thanks and regards Manson Representative.

Anchor Amendment[edit]

I have edited the references to be of a non commerical informative type as per the other anchor desciptions. I believe that the Lloyds reference to be of an informative type, any product that is the first to achieve such recognition should be regarded as informative.

Let me know if there are any other references you need amended or if this is fine.

Just so there is no misrepresentation here, Badmonkey is actually a salesman for Rocna anchors, Craig Smith.

Thanks and warm regards Manson Anchors Representative.

I think we need to have sales people just lay off of editing articles on their stock in trade. See Talk:Anchor#Sales_people_should_not_be_editing_this.21. Mrees1997 04:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thistle photo[edit]

You uploaded a (rather nice) photo of a Thistle running under spinnaker, and claimed that it was CC 2.5 licensed, but I can't find any evidence on the original site that that's the case. Can you clarify? Susan Davis 07:00, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I talked to the photographer, Paul Nelson, personally. Mrees1997 04:26, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK[edit]

On 24 November, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gordon K. (Sandy) Douglass, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--WjBscribe 03:48, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Thistleclass.png[edit]

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Future plans for Cruising (Maritime)??[edit]

Mrees, having read your note about welcoming more writers/editors for the Cruising topic, I took the liberty of suggesting to the folks in the [Seas Cruising Association Discussion Board] that they join Wikipedia and help out. It seems to me that this article, while a good basis, could use some more hands to expand as you have suggested, adding related pages to expand subtopics. For example, I think there is room for separate pages regarding offshore cruising, day cruising, etc., and I think a Cruising Destinations page could provide some useful information in addition to the specific pages for Vanuatu, for example. One might almost say that Cruising could use a category of its own, to pull together all the pieces/pages that comprise the reference material that is relevant.

In any case, my assumption was that you and the others involved in this topic would welcome some assistance, so I hope that is the case. The members of SSCS's discussion boards tend to be easy to get along with, in general - unlike some other sailing forums I can think of! So I believe that if any of them participate as I hope they will, it will be all to the good. Here is the [posting], in the Education section of that board.(Gar37bic (talk) 20:27, 19 December 2008 (UTC))[reply]

WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum[edit]

Hi Mrees1997,

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 20:01, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]