User talk:Proximodiz
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I'll let Jay answer your question in full, but since you seem to be online right now and he is not — I'll point you to Portal:Case law and Portal:Scientology :) Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:Nostradamus. 20:19, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- We do have a lot of court documents, as only opinions of federal courts are in the public domain, but there are a few in Category:Case documents. We do want more, if we can obtain the necessary copyright clearances, however one unwritten policy is that if a document unduly focuses a living person, we want verification of the document by way of pagescans (i.e. a PDF or series of images), and there needs to be a clear rationale for the document being more accessible. e.g. someone added a document about a medical malpractice suit, without pagescans, so there was a community discussion and we deleted it. See here
- That said, we do not have a "notability" requirement - we only require that it is real (published,) and of interest to someone. See "What we include" - I recommend you start by working on documents which clearly fit within our inclusion policy, and work on more obscure documents once you have a better feel for the project. If you have questions, ask Sherurcij or I, or raise them on our community discussion board.
- Cheers, John Vandenberg (chat) 22:26, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you! Documents I can provide usually have to be scanned in and would be provided as PDF. I don't know how much time I can put in OCRing them but that would be a later step. Proximodiz (talk) 04:36, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- We have tools to do the OCR and, if they are interesting documents, people will do the OCR/transcription/cleanup for you. I'm looking forward to see what you can bring. John Vandenberg (chat) 06:37, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you! Documents I can provide usually have to be scanned in and would be provided as PDF. I don't know how much time I can put in OCRing them but that would be a later step. Proximodiz (talk) 04:36, 9 December 2008 (UTC)