This is my user page. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My name is Dmitriy, and I go by RidG on Wikipedia. I joined Wikipedia under a different name in 2002, but did not become active under my current name until 2004-2005.

I contribute mainly to United States Supreme Court cases. I am a member of Wikipedia SCOTUS Cases project, which is always looking for new members. On any given day, I typically try to participate in cleaning up Wikipedia, primarily via copyediting and voting in the VfD category. I subscribe to the notion that Wikipedia is somewhat bloated as it currently stands (a necessary evil of its open nature), and thus tend to vote in a reductionist manner (really, a euphemism for "delete everything"). Below is a list of my stubs and articles that I have either created or participated heavily in. I am a big fan of peer review and peer editing, so feel free to mercilessly tear my articles apart. Cheers.

• Watchlist
• WikiCleanup
• Wikipedia Peer Review
  • Today's VfD
• Requests for Arbitration
• SCOTUS Cases Project
• Maintenance Templates
• Recent Changes
• Missing Encyclopedic Articles
• Missing Legal Terms
• Good Articles - Nominations

• Project Collaboration Article
• Requested Articles - Law

• The Hollow Hope
• Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois - Expanded from a stub.
• Bradwell v. Illinois
• Oyama v. California - Nominated for the March, 2005 International writing contest. Neat.
• Wolf v. Colorado
• Weeks v. United States
• Moore v. Dempsey
• Stromberg v. California
• Olmstead v. United States
• Moral luck
• Nebbia v. New York - expanded from a stub.

• Gerald Rosenberg
• Holt v. Sarver
• Herostratus
• Garcetti v. Ceballos - added Souter's, Stevens', and Breyer's dissents.
• Clinton v. City of New York - "Critical Response," "Subsequent History" sections.
• Inducement rule
• Worcester v. Georgia - New content, background, cites.

These are some (IMO) interesting Supreme Court cases, mostly relating to free speech and the incorporation of the Bill of Rights, that I want to write about at some point. If you have a specific case in mind that you think should be added as an article to Wikipedia, please feel free to suggest it on my talk page.

1. Stromberg v. California (1931)
2. Gitlow v. People (1925)
3. Prize Cases (1863)
4. Boyd v. United States (1886)
5. Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten (1917)
6. Gilbert V. Minnesota (1920)
7. Prudential Insurance Co. v. Cheek (1923)
8. Olmstead v. United States (1928)
9. United States v. One Book Called "Ulysses" (1933)

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