How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

• Kill CitationNew parameter
  • Change citation auto-linking to no longer auto-link with newer volumes (past 540)
• Templates outline
• History --> subtemplates --> #switch
• With advice + consent of the WikiProject...
• More test cases
• More discussion --> kill it entirely and use decide date
• Chiefs list / compare with SCOTUS list
• Redirect talk pages of /Reports, /Plan, etc.
• Clean up WP:SCOTUS and talk page (archive)
• Write /Plan
• Style guide... foolish consistency is the hobgobblin...
  • Guide, not the Truth; it's a goal
• Old plan banished to page history
• Intro paragraphs
• 2013 expand start?
• Start an article wizard from case indices
  • Thank you for volunteering to ...
• Generate reports to monitor and check articles
• Meta-work
  • Alphabetize members list
• Infobox template work
• Slip opinion
• Supreme Court Reporter (S. Ct., S.Ct.)

General work

• Create redirects (write tool to do this?)
• Improve categorization (by volume, by Court, by area of law, etc.)
• Cross-reference lead cite with infobox cite
• INFOBOX PARSING
  • Look for anomalies
  • All cases should have FullName, etc.
  • Standardize parameter input
  • Build private database for this...
• Typos, etc.
• Clean up indices
• Standard article titles
• Standardize article headers
• Standardize external links
• Add infobox to all articles
  • Kill cat! --> now on all articles
• Move volume lists to better titles?
• Link to Wikisource for case law...
• Implement a feature similar to how we treat ISBN links
  • This will need a bug in Bugzilla
  • Magic linking is discouraged/deprecated these days, but a ((#case citation:)) parser function could be employed
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:MZMcBride&oldid=528514667#.22Standardizing.22_article_ledes
• Create two lists of all SCOTUS-related categories somewhere (mark talk pages?)
  • Article-related categories (Fifth Amendment, by Court, etc.)
  • Maintainence-related (A Class, Top importance, without an infobox, flagged, etc.)

Writing

• Bolster arguments for inherent notability of all SCOTUS cases
  • Document these arguments somewhere

Please help keep this list up-to-date by adding, moving, and removing items as appropriate!

Requested review:

• Schmerber v. California --Notecardforfree (talk) 09:06, 29 June 2015 (UTC) Just passed a GA review -- Notecardforfree (talk) 22:46, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Giglio v. United States; I rewrote this from a stub a year or so ago. I'd like to have it reviewed and see any suggestions for improvements. Please also see my query on the talk page about an apparent inconsistency in the opinion (and in the article). TJRC (talk) 22:00, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Assessed as C/low, I don't see any way to reconcile the inconsistencies since they apparently are in the primary sources. GregJackP Boomer! 19:02, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• National Equipment Rental, Ltd. v. Szukhent (First SCOTUS article I've created. I plan to do more, and would appreciate feedback so that I can use best practices now instead of re-learning later) Manumitany (talk) 00:22, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.
• Girouard v. United States
• Bilski v. Kappos (Stub; Needs Impact, copyediting, etc to resemble quality of lower court decision discussion in In re Bilski) [as of 04:23, 4 July 2010]
• 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island (Substantially added to previous stub. Mlschafer)
• Draft:Luna Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools (Needs copyediting and moved out of the draft, I created the article and only had the source documents from the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals a newer editor placed in drafts and it is stuck in the loop. Could uses some help getting out. Thank you) jsgoodrich)

Organization

• List of case articles which have not yet been added to one of the appropriate Lists of United States Supreme Court cases

Assessment:

• Category:Unassessed U.S. Supreme Court articles
• Tucker v. Texas It has been significantly revised. Please reassess.

Infobox issues:

• Need to mark articles without an infobox with *Category:United States Supreme Court case articles without infoboxes.
• Swap out ((SCOTUSCase)) templates on non-SCOTUS cases from volume 1 and volume 2; maybe make extra templates: see Talk#A question on USR.

Need work:

• Indiana State Police Pension Trust v. Chrysler Needs attention to issues identified in AFD underway
• Cohen v. California - flagged with ((Expert-subject)) since March 2011

Since this project is obviously a large task, it will be ongoing. The main source used to find the articles involved is the Lists of United States Supreme Court cases. These lists are used and dealt with by the project.

Project phases

The phases or "waves" of the project are easier to accomplish in a certain order, but there are no set rules; any Wikipedian can work on any phase at any time.

• Infoboxes All Supreme Court cases should have infoboxes created using ((Infobox SCOTUS case)) (instructions for its use at the same link). This infobox template is included in the template for creating a new article see our article creation guide.
  • You can use ((SCOTUS-Case)) to create a new article with a basic infobox from scratch. If you only want to add an infobox to an article, you can use it on your Sandbox and copy the result from there.
  • A general guide to creating infoboxes for cases is here.
  • Infoboxes effectively replace a defunct "The bench" section. (Example here.)
• Case citations: If we don't have an article about a case, we'd still like to direct readers to useful information. For any references to cases without Wikipedia articles, create case citations as follows:

Proper format- ''[[Name v. Name]]'', ((tlx|ussc|VVV|PPP|year))) See case citation for more information. Googling the case name is usually enough to find its citation. Check the result to be sure the link functions—URLs for recent cases must be added manually instead.

• External link to text: Every article should have an external link section with at least one link to the full text of the decision. The easiest and probably most reliable place to link to is Justia. Opinions can be found by searching at http://supreme.justia.com/index.html. A link to Justia can be created by using: ((ussc|VVV|PPP|year)).
• Section headers: As articles expand, it is a good idea to add section headers to organize the information. A suggested outline for articles is listed below.
• Categorize: Every article should be put into the category of United States Supreme Court cases, but also can be put into proper categories regarding the type of case law.

Example: Category:United States copyright case law

• Copyedit: Make sure everything that should be linked is linked. Proofread for grammar, style, etc.
• Lists: Finally, every case should be listed on the appropriate list by Chief Justice at Lists of United States Supreme Court cases page. Sort the case by its citation and copy the formatting for other entries.

Wikisource

• Wikisource: If you're so inclined, please help with the importation of cases on our sister project, Wikisource. A bot is currently in the process of importing every Supreme Court decision from bulk.resource.org's collection of the United States Reports. The project is in need of people to assist in proofreading, editing, and disambiguating decisions added by the bot. WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases on Wikisource has information about formatting and other guidelines, as well as a to do list.