I have both created and edited articles related to the topic of restraining orders. Following is an article on this topic I created:
Domestic Abuse Restraining Order -- this article is about domestic abuse and other restraining orders in Wisconsin. It should be expanded in scope to include other jurisdictions, as many other states and countries have similar laws on the books, sometimes with some legal variations.
I have also edited a number of other articles that are related to restraining orders. These include:
Ex parte -- this article is about legal decisions that can be made with only one party having a chance to be heard. Restraining orders are sometimes made on this basis.
Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban -- this article is about a US federal law banning some individuals, including some subject to restraining orders, from possessing firearms.
Violence Against Women Act -- this article is about a US federal law that extends restraining order enforceability, normally a state matter, to out of state orders.
I became a Wikipedian shortly after getting my green card as a legal immigrant to the United States, although I had lived in the US on temporary visas for many years prior to that. Several of the articles I initially created are related to immigration. Although these articles are still active, most of my edits in this area were many years ago, well before the first Trump administration, so do not address recent political and legal disputes related to US immigration status and enforcement. My initial edits were mainly about the details of navigating the legal immigration process, and unrelated to the current political debate as to the status of those who may be in the USA and documented or not. Articles I initially created include:
K-1 visa -- this is the visa that fiancés or fiancées of Americans use to enter the country to marry their American partner.
TN status -- this is the status and visa that Canadians and Mexicans use to enter the US for employment authorized under USMCA.
E-3 visa -- this is the visa used by Australians for US employment to avoid H-1B quotas applicable to other nationalities.
Priority date -- this article is about the concept in immigration law establishing position in line for certain types of visa.
Dual intent -- this article is about the concept in immigration law allowing a few, but not all, visas to be used as stepping stones to green cards.
Labor certification -- this article is about the process for establishing there are no qualified Americans for a job being offered to a prospective immigrant.
Other immigration-related articles I have edited include:
Alien of extraordinary ability -- article about the path I myself took to a green card and US citizenship. As with other immigration articles, this topic has grown more acrimonious in recent years with several controversial public figures having been said to have used this as a path to citizenship.
List of denaturalized former citizens of the United States -- this is an interesting list because it seems to show that, despite the controversy surrounding immigration, the vast majority of US denaturalizations have involved either accusations of concealing Nazi-era involvement, serious crimes committed before naturalization, or both.
A number of articles I have created touch on the difficult and sensitive topic of sexual assault in some way. Such articles include:
Hermesmann v. Seyer -- this article addresses the often controversial topic of rape of boys and men. The article concerns a boy whose babysitter was accused of statutory rape, and the complex legal case that arose when she became pregnant.
MyEx.com -- this article is about a now defunct website. It is about a former revenge porn website often considered to be a form of online sexual assault, and the attempts to criminalize such behavior that led to the site being taken down.
Ask for Angela -- this article is about a codeword used in some nightclubs by patrons to indicate to staff that they believe themselves to be in danger of sexual assault.
1998 Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa attack -- this article is about an attack, which included robbery, rape, and other forms of sexual assault, on a group of American students in Guatemala in 1998.
Madeline Anello-Kitzmiller -- this article is about a woman who was assaulted at a music festival in New Zealand whose attack went viral after a video was released showing her retaliating against her attacker.
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