User talk:Mgigs12

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Thank you.

Thanks for your work keeping the United States federal judges current. You may want to sign up for Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges, which has the upkeep of such articles as its primary focus. Also, please consider adding something to your User page, so it doesn't show up as a red link. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:40, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from a new NSF-funded legal research project!

Hi there,

I hope this message finds you well! My name is Scott, and I work with a project called SCALES, out of Northwestern University (https://scales-okn.org). We recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to create a national resource for enabling access to court records and increasing the transparency of the justice system. Here's a paper we published recently in Science discussing the goals of our project, as well as an introductory video.

As you've contributed to the US courts and judges WikiProject, I wanted to reach out and inquire into how this SCALES corpus might be useful to you as an editor. We have a great deal of data and metadata about judges & lawyers in the federal court system that could improve lots of stubs and B-/C-class articles (something I'm personally excited about, since in my brief teenage Wikipedia-editing heyday I was often drawn to working with stubs and new articles). And in general, I think the SCALES platform will be a powerful tool for empowering citizens to understand the judiciary and its impact on the country, a priority I know many of us share in this topic space.

Let me know if you're interested in talking further and helping us understand how we can work with you. Thanks for your time!

All best,

Scott —Preceding undated comment added 18:21, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]