Ballotpedia:Appellate Courts project
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Wikiproject
The goals of this project are twofold:
- To standardize and update State Supreme Court (SSC) pages across the wiki.
- To standardize and update SSC justice pages across the wiki.
Project goals
In some ways, this project will always be ongoing, since new judges are appointed and elected regularly across the nation.
The goals of this project are similar whether a judge is newly appointed/elected or already serving in office.
Components for court pages
Infobox
Supreme Courts:
Intermediate appellate courts:
- Template:IAC infobox
- See Kentucky Court of Appeals for example
Table
SSC:
- Template:State Supreme Court judges DPL
- See any SSC page for example
IAC:
- Template:IAC judges DPL
- See Kentucky Court of Appeals for example
Templates
Each court page should have THREE templates.
SSC:
- (State) - i.e. {{Alabama}}
- (State) Supreme Court - i.e. {{Alabama Supreme Court}}
- {{State supreme courts}}
IAC:
- (State) - i.e. {{Colorado}}
- Judges of the (State) Court of Appeals - i.e. {{Judges of the Colorado Court of Appeals}}
- {{State intermediate appellate courts}}
Categories
Each page should have TWO categories.
SSC:
- (State) supreme court - i.e. category:Alabama supreme court
- State supreme courts - i.e. category:State supreme courts
IAC:
- (State) intermediate appellate court - i.e. category:Colorado intermediate appellate courts
- State intermediate appellate courts - i.e. category:State intermediate appellate courts
Next stage components
- See: California Supreme Court for example.
- Caseload table
- Salaries section
- History of the court section
- Notable firsts section
- Notable rulings section
Components for justices/judge pages
- See next tab for details.
- Add infobox template
- Add appropriate categories
- Standardize the language of the sections to all pages
- Add images as we get permissions
- Add election history
- Add notable rulings section
Project Template
- Type {{Wappellate}} to insert the correct WikiProject template on the discussion page of articles in this project.
Justice/judge page components
Infobox Template
This infobox will appear in the top left hand portion of each judge's page on the wiki. It allows a user to quickly and easily access critical information.
This template will fill in all information that is included and exclude any categories of information that are not included. The only required categories are Name and Court. Information included in capital letters indicates the format for the information to be included on the page. Linking tags and image tags are deliberately excluded on many items because they have already been included in the template format. The entire template above should be copied and pasted into every judge page so that future additions can be made with ease. A completed example of this template can be seen by clicking on the "Example page" tab above.
Categories
All judge pages should include a number of categories. Those are:
- The classification category, which includes the state and court served on. Examples are:
NOTE: In the summer of 2012, judges on IAC courts with multiple divisions will need to have their categories updated before adding the judges' table to the court pages. Those states are:
- California
- Florida
- Illinois
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Ohio
- Texas
- Wisconsin
- The term expiration category, which includes the year and state. This category helps alert contributors to when a judge is eligible for re-election. Examples are:
- If a judge was appointed by a governor, include the governor appointment category and the appointed judges category. Examples are:
- If a judge has served as on any other courts, include the category for service on that/those court(s).
- category:Former Kansas intermediate appellate court judges
- category:Former Florida circuit court judges
and
- If a judge has announced his or her retirement, include the retiring judges category. Examples are:
Images
We are attempting to assemble photos for all judges on each SSC. For information on the status of a specific state, refer to Judgepedia:Image permissions.
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