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User:BDAbramson

User:BDAbramson (talk · contribs) is officially a Wikipediholic, suffering from a serious case of editcountitis, and was recently promoted to administrator.

Biographical highlights

I am B. D. Abramson, Esq., (born in Miami Beach, Florida, 1972), a budding intellectual property attorney working for an IP law firm in Coral Gables, Florida. I completed work towards a Juris Doctor in May of 2005, graduating summa cum laude in the inaugural class of the Florida International University College of Law. While in law school, I focused on intellectual property, antitrust, and the First Amendment - thus developing a fascination with wikis in general - and served as an editor on the FIU Law Review. In my second summer, I did a summer clerkship for a federal judge. Upon graduation, I was promptly elected President of the FIU College of Law Alumni Association. I had previously earned an MA in Sociology from Florida International University, preceded by BAs in Sociology and Philosophy.

From February of 1999 to November of 2000, I was also a member of the AmeriCorps Florida State Parks program; and sometime around then I was branded a visionary artist by the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, when they accepted my Scotch tape sculptures into their collection.

Naturally, I work on law, sociology, and philosophy articles, and have fastidiously worked to make the FIU article the most complete in the State University System of Florida. I have a soft spot for articles nominated for deletion because they were poorly written, and have worked to rehab several through intense research and drastic rewrites.

Wikipedia history

Although I officially signed up on on February 20, 2005, with this "official" inaugural edit, I had edited sporadically before that, beginning with this edit on July 16, 2004, part of this first cluster of edits. I've actually managed to hunt down other "uncredited" edits from the list of articles that I started, including Florida International University College of Law [1], Manny Diaz and Carlos Alvarez [2], Law review [3], Prelinger Archives [4], April March [5], Minimum contacts [6], and Donald in Mathmagic Land [7]. I suppose there are many more lurking out there (like these, and this group done under "Bdabramson"). About a third of my edits are to user pages, talk pages, and pages in the Wikipedia namespace. Several thousand of the edits I have made to articles, images, and categories have been simple disambiguation link repairs.

Contributions

Law * General * Rehab

Wikithings To Do

BDAbramson (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Law

1. Under the banner of Wikipedia:WikiProject Law, we will make Wikipedia the world's most comprehensive internet source of free legal information.
2. Tie together (possibly merge) Incorporation (municipal government) and Municipal corporation.

1. Write a nice, fat articles on Tobacco litigation and Peer-to-peer litigation, that explains how the lawsuits in these industries have developed over time.
2. Make sure that all court cases have citations, and that all of the unlinked case citations from United States Supreme Court cases link to Court citation (and eventually do the same for all court cases), so non-lawyers can learn what all the numbers and abbreviations mean.
3. Fill in Postdlf's court case infoboxes for all of my court cases (and then for everyone elses).
4. Add Category:United States Court of Appeals cases to all U.S. Court of Appeals cases.
5. Fix errant links to Supreme court.
6. Case articles to do:
   1. from Clarence Thomas:
      1. McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 514 U.S. 334 (1995).
      2. United States v. Fordice, 505 U.S. 717 (1992)
      3. United States v. Hubbell, 530 U.S. 27 (2000)
      4. United States v. Bajakajian, 524 U.S. 321 (1998)
      5. City of Indianapolis v. Edmond, 531 US 32 (2000)
   2. from Public domain:
      1. Stewart v. Abend, 495 U.S. 207 (1990)
   3. from Sovereign immunity
      1. Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. 706 (1999)
      2. Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982)
   4. from Conflict of laws in the United States
      1. Home Insurance Co. v. Dick, 281 U.S. 397 (1930)
      2. Pacific Employers Insurance Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission, 306 U.S. 493 (1939)
      3. Watson v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp., 348 U.S. 66 (1954)
      4. Clay v. Sun Insurance Office, Ltd., 377 U.S. 179 (1964)
      5. Allstate Insurance Co. v. Hague, 449 U.S. 302 (1981)
      6. Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts,, 472 U.S. 797 (1985)
      7. Sun Oil Co. v. Wortman, 486 U.S. 717 (1988)

Ongoing labors

1. Keep tabs on the various Active Wiki Fixup Projects.
2. Chip away at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links:
   1. Long term disambig projects (need articles written): Capacity, Ward, Evidence
   2. Keep an eye on those already finished:
      1. Frequent additions (check daily): Hebrew, Orlando, Oscar
      2. Occasional additions (check weekly): Ainu, Battery, Champagne, Crest, Dean, Gujarati, Hart, Hui, Mohawk, Pantheon, Sam, Vulcan, WB.
3. Make a weekly run at Wikipedia:Most wanted articles.
4. Change "US" to "U.S." in articles using the former to refer to the United States (as U.S. is an initialism, not an acronym).
5. Keep an eye on new anonymous edits
6. Help close AfD votes, to the extent that this is appropriate.
7. Fix my signature.
8. Condemn spamvertisers to Wiki-Hell.
9. Various other things from the list and the guide.

Other specific tasks

1. Provide articles for red links on the following pages:
   1. Most wanted law articles
   2. Notable terms at Wikipedia:Requested articles/list of missing legal terms (merge or redirect the rest to more appropriate places); I hammered through much of it in June and July, while studying for the Bar exam.
   3. List of United States Supreme Court cases
   4. List of United States federal legislation
   5. List of state supreme courts
   6. List of U.S. District Courts
   7. List of law schools in the United States
   8. List of honor societies
   9. List of Florida state parks
2. Rewrite hot pot!
3. Post relevant information from Cristorly's Theognosis, and finish transcribing Dr. Ramon Mendoza's handout discussing Pantheism and Pandeism, so that information can be put into the appropriate articles.[8]

Principles to live by

1. When using Google to test for importance or existence, bear in mind that this will be biased in favor of modern subjects of interest to people from developed countries with Internet access, so it should be used with some judgment.
2. Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy. Its primary method of finding consensus is discussion, not voting. That is, majority opinion does not necessarily rule in Wikipedia. Various votes are regularly conducted, but their numerical results are usually only one of several means of making a decision. The discussions that accompany the voting processes are crucial means of reaching consensus.
3. Wikipedia is not the edge of the world. There are always alternatives.

Barnstars and other gifts

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Your barnstars just must have gotten lost Prodego ^talk 17:19, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

My first Barnstar, from KeithD, 19:17, 1 September 2005 (UTC):

For services to the world of fruit fetishism.

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My second Barnstar, from Molotov 20:52, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
For extensive work on the VfD.

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Your pre-administrator wiki-life was EATEN BY A BEAR!

I, Orane hereby give BDAbramson this Barnstar of diligence for being an extraordinary Wiki-citizen. You are a valuable asset to the community.Oran e (t) (c) (e-mail) 02:06, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

BDAbramson is hereby awarded the Vandal Whacking Stick for blocking and reverting vandals (and often beating me to it). !מזל טוב from Izehar

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Vandalism

This page has been vandalised seven times. :) <--Ye gads!!! Vandalism!!!

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