User talk:Ballpointzen

Law Schools of the Southeast

I noticed you limited the Southeast to only Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. I think Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama should also be added. What do you think? NorwalkJames (talk) 21:58, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

States in this geographical region, the South have indefinite sub-regions. From my own anecdotal experience Alabamans consider themselves first and foremost part of the Deep South, and people from North Carolina and Tennessee generally consider themselves Southern, perhaps part of the Upland South.

Another way to go about this is to risk being overinclusive with the regional grouping and just include these three states. I was just "playing it safe" since a 'Bama law student might not consider themselves in the "Southeast".

Although the Southeast article lists several variations on definitions of the Southeast, the North Carolina article unequivocally places North Carolina in this region. So it may be a candidate.

So, the question is, overinclusive or potentially underinclusive? Perhaps it would in fact be better to go with the former. I suppose it should all hinge on what is significant to people researching law schools from a regional standpoint. This might center on certain legal markets served by law schools, such as the Atlanta area. Since the article on the Southeast says that "Metropolitan Atlanta is the main population center of the Southeast" perhaps regions that serve the Atlanta should be included. ballpointzen (talk) 22:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to try out adding Alabama and Tennessee schools because they do often serve the Atlanta market, and see if I get more feedback. North Carolina law schools (Duke, UNC, etc.) I don't believe serve Atlanta as often.ballpointzen (talk) 23:07, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Scratch that, going to include North Carolina if the other two are included. It would certainly be easier to group schools in the "Southern" united states. But that might defeat the purpose of creating this specific regional list.ballpointzen (talk) 00:46, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there was no getting around it. In order to expand this organization of law schools to the rest of the States, I decided the best thing to do would be to follow the nine Census Bureau Divisions. A definite way to classify the schools, and should be helpful anyway.ballpointzen (talk) 04:41, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Employed by law schools

I do not understand why you reverted the carefully sourced changes to the New England School of Law page. That page was FLAGGED as needing a more honest page. "This page reads like an advertisement" Your reversion, to be honest, makes me think you are not acting as an honest wikipedian, but that you are employed by some law schools. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Latenightpizza (talk • contribs) 03:02, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Change to the New England School of Law page? I'm sorry what are you talking about? I only added the template below. I am certainly not employed by law schools, and I will be honest and open about the fact that I am a rising second-year law student. I am honestly not sure what you are talking about. I made no changes to that page. ballpointzen (talk) 16:27, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't worry about it, Ballpointzen. Latenightpizza has no right to say such things and risks being blocked if this behavior continues. --King of the Arverni (talk) 04:40, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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