Talk:Mortgage Specialists, Inc. v. Implode-Explode Heavy Industries, Inc.

Global Comments

• Add a “Significance” section: why this case is important with cites to authorities (the Harvard law article talks about this)
• Add a “Further reading” section (checklist #7)
• “What links here” – need to find relevant articles and link to your article, e.g. Shield Law, First Amendment, anonymity (checklist #5)
• Need to add categories (checklist #10)
• Add holding and judges names to Infobox (checklist #14)
• Need to add “education assignment” to talk page (checklist #15)

Writing Style

• Watch out for verb tense, e.g. “Implode was a website that reports on…” (checklist #9)
• Language can be more concise. (checklist #8) Replace passive sentences with active tense. E.g. you can rewrite “From the court proceedings, it was determined that Implode…” to “The Court decided that Implode…”
• Try to avoid writing long sentences. (checklist #8) Break it into short sentences. E.g. you can replace “In addition to the loan figures, an anonymous poster acting under the pseudonym Brianbattersby posted two comments about Mortgage Specialists, which Mortgage Specialists alleged were defamatory in nature” with “An anonymous poster posted two comments about Mortgage Specialists. The poster made the alleged defamatory comments under the pseudonym Brianbattersby.”

"Summary" section

• Should state that it is a decision by New Hampshire Supreme Court
• Can be more specific when you say “legal rights of online media,” e.g. “First amendment rights of online publishers.” In general, I would like to see more discussions on First amendment rights

"Background" section

• Should describe what happened at the trial court and appellate court.

"Court Findings" section

• Provide wiki link to “shield law” in this section

Newsgathering Privileges for Online Publishers

• You may want to add the reason why the Court holds that Implode is a reporter, e.g. “Implode’s website serves an informative function and contributes to the flow of information to the public.”
• Also, the Harvard article nicely puts this holding in prospective, it said, “legal protection should be linked to the function of journalism, not to any particular medium.”
• Add wiki links to “freedom of press”

Defamation and Anonymous Speech

• Add wiki links to “pseudonym,” “defamation,” “first amendment”

"References" section

• Reference 3 is broken.
• Reference 2 and 3 need proper formatting. (Checklist #13)
• Add other authorities that have discussed the case, e.g. Harvard Cyberlaw (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/cmlp_clinic_nh_supreme_court)

Impact of recent student edits

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Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment

This article is the subject of an educational assignment at University of California, Berkeley supported by WikiProject Cyberlaw and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2012 Q1 term. Further details are available on the course page.

The above message was substituted from {{WAP assignment}} by PrimeBOT (talk) on 16:51, 2 January 2023 (UTC)