Template talk:SCOTUS horizontal

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The entry Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume (listed as 'cases by volume' as a subsection of United States Reports) was removed because the page Lists of United States Supreme Court cases already exists on the template. These are two different pages. The latter is divided by court eras, subjects, etc., while the removed page pertains to volumes of the official Supreme Court record. Since each are stand-alone pages, even though the second features a link to the volume list, including both seems reasonable. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:35, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Template organization and language

Hi Drdpw. Your recent revert doesn't make clear what changes you find objectionable.

This navigation template is kind of messy and confusing currently. It's strange for a template that's exclusively dedicated to the Supreme Court of the United States to have a "The Court" section, particularly when "The Court" is typically used to mean the current members or the current members in the majority. For example, when we write "in X v. Y case, the Court held..." we aren't referring to the Supreme Court Building, so labeling it as such is pretty odd.

The "Related" section is somewhat goofy and seems to point to underlying issues with organization generally. It's not clear to me that we want to have a grab bag section, tho it may be unavoidable at this time.

Some of the section names are needlessly repetitive. For example, I think a reader can reasonably assume that the "Functionaries" section of the template are court functionaries since the template is exclusively about the Supreme Court of the United States.

And the article List of burial places of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States seems to fit pretty neatly alongside all of the other lists of justices.

I'd like to better understand your concerns before beginning to reinstate these changes. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:49, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

As you suggested, I have changed "Court functionaries" to "Functionaries" and moved "Burial places" to "Lists of Justices and nominees". I have also changed "Former locations" to "Seat" and moved "Supreme Court building" there, and merged "List of law clerks" into "Functionaries". Moving the remaining titles from/eliminating the "The Court" section should probably wait until others have had a chance to chime in with their thoughts on general reorganization (including what I have done today). Cheers. Drdpw (talk) 23:57, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Sweet, thank you. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 16:32, 16 May 2022 (UTC)