Talk:United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

message: The contents of this article are essentially a list of judges, yet the article is not titled "List of..." Article needs actual details about this district court: history, jurisdiction, interactions, important cases, cases appealed, etc. A list of individual judges, while important, should be secondary to the nominal function of the article.
I am reintroducing text and section about this court not being a true US district court which User:Seablade had reverted. The information I had contributed was properly cited information, and the citation came from a reliable source, thus fulfilled all WP editing requirements. If this is a "constitutional Article III Court. U.S. Congress expressly extended the Article III to Puerto Rico" as the reverting editor is arguing, then that information too should also be part of the article. My name is Mercy11 (talk) 11:45, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Nature of the article and reintroduction of text

message: Why is it that Puerto Rico's courts are artice III courts and not article I courts like the other territories? --Jfruh (talk) 18:21, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A special statute was passed in 1966 granting life tenure to the judges of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.  This was deemed appropriate in light of the court's caseload and the conferral of Commonwealth status on Puerto Rico.  No similar statute has been passed for the three insular territories that still have Article I status, though there have been calls from time to time that these judges also deserve the protection of life tenure. Newyorkbrad 00:10, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Puerto Rico article III

message: Due to agreements between PRDoJ and USDoj, all crimes involving an illegal firearm in Puerto Rico are being prosecuted in Federal court, dramatically increasing the caseload and the prominence of Federal magistrate judges in this District.  Their names are part of the encyclopedic info that should be referenced here.  I suggest reconsidering the edit to remove the list. Pr4ever (talk) 04:59, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I should explain first that my edit removing lists of Magistrate Judges from this article was part of a series of edits removing lists of Magistrates from all United States District Court articles. While it would be appropriate to mention the agreement between the PRDoj and the USDoj and the increasing case load of the court, it is not necessary nor desirable to include lists of Magistrate Judges, as they are not considered notable. Now there are some Magistrates who have achieved notability due to notable decisions they have made, but in the case here, none of these Magistrates appear to be in any way notable on their own. If a Magistrate is notable, listing him in the main article would be appropriate, but that is very rare for Magistrates. Safiel (talk) 05:27, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Although individual Magistrate Judges may not ordinarily be notable (in terms of warranting their own articles) by Wikipedia standards, I can still see value to including a list of the Magistrate Judges in a given district. This is encyclopedic information, does not give rise to any collateral concerns such as BLP violations, and can readily be verified at any given moment through the reliable source of the court's own website. A list of the current Magistrate Judges in a given district is certainly not as important as information on the District Judges, but I don't see it as problematic to leave such a list in if it complete, current, and accurate. The best argument in favor of deleting lists of Magistrate Judges would be if experience has shown that the editors on the District Court articles are not keeping the lists up-to-date or if they are diverting editing resources from more important matters. I'd be interested in whether that is the case, on the District Court articles generally, or on the article on this court in particular. Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:25, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Magistrate Judges