wex authoring help

To alter or change by adding, subtracting, or substituting. One can amend a statute, a contract, or a written pleading filed in a law suit. The change is usually called an amendment.

At the outset we considered simply adding to the law entries in Wikipedia, but we decided against it, temporarily, for several reasons:

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what are the categories?

Wex currently employs two systems for categorizing entries:

We've made it easy to link Wex articles to a rich collection of legal resources outside of Wex itself. Here are instructions for a number of commonly-used outside collections and resources. If you know of other, stable collections of legal information on the Web that you think Wex authors might be interested in, please let us know.

This is a series of stylistic tips:

Various types of editing help are available:

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Deciding what to write

You can find some thoughts about this in the page on getting started as an author

The mechanics

Mechanically, starting a new article is easy:

For the time being, the ability to make and edit contributions is loosely limited to a pool of invited author/editors, which you may join (mailto:join-wex@liicornell.org)].