Talk:Bluebook

message: There is no reference to removing periods from citations for Oregon court documents. Where did the comment come from? 
"and Oregon's rule that just about all periods are omitted (where the Bluebook would normally require them).[citation needed]"
See OREGON APPELLATE COURTS Style Manual 2002. http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/Style%20Manual%202002.pdf
The only peculiarity with the Oregon style manual is that the Oregon case citations do not have a period after "Or" for the court name. Bluebook says "Or." in section T.1. 
I recommend that the Oregon comment be removed. But I'm not an authority.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.134.139.70 (talk) 00:37, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Oregon Style Guide

message: Christine Hurt, Network Effects and Legal Citation: How Antitrust Theory Predicts Who Will Build a Better Bluebook Mousetrap in the Age of Electronic Mice, 87 Iowa L. Rev. 1257 (2002). 
It gives a brief history of the Bluebook and its competitors. --Tregonsee 22:44, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Interesting article on the subject

message: The article states that the 17th and 18th editions have an inconsistency between them in terms of omitting the jurisdiction when it is indicated by the reporter, but not the court abbreviation. The language quoted does not strike me as an inconsistency. It strikes me that the format that is proper in the 18th edition was the only proper format in the 17th edition, and the parenthetical insertion for the 18th edition serves to clarify this point. 65.42.16.135 22:34, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Inconsistencies between editions

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:The Bluebook 18th ed Cover.gif

message: Is it necessary to identify the title of each chapter?  We don't do that for any other book.  The Bluebook is a comprehensive guide for all legal citation.  Most of what's in the chapter titles is implied.--Lindsay 03:37, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur that we should not need to include the chapter structure here.  I've seen several Wikipedia editors doing weird stuff like that in a number of articles (like copying in sections of the FRE or FRCP wholesale rather than summarizing key aspects).  I think such editors are nonlawyers or first-year law students at mediocre schools!  --Coolcaesar 03:35, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not familiar with the Bluebook's chapters themselves, it appears to me to merely be a listing of the topics addressed, rather than simply a recitation of the table of contents. --ZimZalaBim talk 15:21, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Chapters

message: I reverted the removal of two external links per WP:ELYES, item 3. In these two cases, the links provide information that is not available in the article on the Bluebook style and both sites are maintained by law schools (Cornell Law and Suffolk Law School). GregJackP Boomer!  01:45, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: This needs to be distinguished from Bryan A. Garner's Redbook.  How do they complement each other? In what ways do they conflict? 24.23.163.55 (talk) 23:42, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it doesn't need to be distinguished. The Redbook is a writing guide, on how to write legal material. The Bluebook is a citation system, on how to reference material that you cite in your writing. They don't conflict at all. GregJackP Boomer!  03:41, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redbook 

message: The introduction has a long passage on variations that partly duplicates the section below it on Variations. The material in the introduction would more appropriately be moved to the section below it on Variations. PraeceptorIP (talk) 18:18, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication 

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