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Contents 1 Article alerts 2 POV b.s. on Commission for Environmental Cooperation 3 Individual articles for each Article of US Constitution 4 Virginia for FAC 5 MOH recipients 6 Seniority lists for early Congresses 7 Article: National Economic Council 8 Household income in the United States GAR notice 9 Pennsylvania GAR notification 10 Relevant AfD 11 Revolutionary War 12 Marijuana Reform Party 13 NOTDIRECTORY 14 Merge proposal 15 ArbCom election reminder: voting closes 14 December

[edit] Article alerts

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[edit] POV b.s. on Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Please see Talk:Commission_for_Environmental_Cooperation#Bullshit.2FPOV_nonsense.Skookum1 (talk) 14:24, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Individual articles for each Article of US Constitution

Why is the need for that? (Is there an urgency?, considering each article reflects the original text?) Does it promote American "self-centrism"? I mean, how about other countries' constitution? Why this needs to be in separate articles? Why not merge them into the whole US Constitution article? Why does they have their own article, especially that they are repeating on every mother articles, or why is there a need to explain each section, each article of the US Constitution?--JL 09^{Talk to me!} 09:24, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Virginia for FAC

Hello all. I'm posting this because I'd like to put Virginia back up for Featured Article Candidate, and hope that the third time's the charm. I'm looking for any suggestions editors here might have with the article before I do that. Also, since its been a while since I navigated the FAC, any suggestions from someone whose done it more recently, as it keeps getting more difficult. I am aiming for the end of next week, so please let me know before then if there's anything. Thanks guys!-- Patrick {_oѺ^∞} 19:18, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

I realize I should add the link to the FAC page: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Virginia/archive3. It's been up for a while, and has garnered some support and good reviews, but more always help if you guys have the time!-- Patrick {_oѺ^∞} 16:29, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] MOH recipients

Does this Project have an SOP dictating Medal of Honor recipients' biographical articles fall under it and should be of "High" importance? — pd_THOR ^{| =/\=} | 20:35, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Seniority lists for early Congresses

The following discussion may be of interest to project members: Talk:List of United States Senators in the 18th Congress by seniority#disputed. -Rrius (talk) 05:26, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Article: National Economic Council

The present article covers only the National Economic Council in the U.S. White House. However, there was another National Economic Council that existed in the mid-20th Century as an advocate for libertarian thought. Can someone who knows the history of the earlier National Economic Council write up something on it as disambiguation? I know that Rose Wilder Lane wrote book reviews for the National Economic Council in the 1950s.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RDCushing (talk • contribs) 21:07, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Household income in the United States GAR notice

Household income in the United States has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:31, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Pennsylvania GAR notification

Pennsylvania has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:41, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Relevant AfD

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/101 People Who Are Really Screwing America. Cirt (talk) 06:38, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Revolutionary War

I am disenchanted with the current overall outline of the Revolutionary War. It may have served well originally to chronicle this like all other wars: Napoleonic or Civil War or whatever, by outlining a series of battles, won or lost, etc. etc.

But the American Revolutionary War was more like a guerrilla war. It was necessary for Washington to learn to husband his resources, fighting only when he was absolutely sure he could win. This was serious problem with no money, horrible soldiers, lousy training, etc. etc. That is the story of the war, plus maybe Lexington, Bunker Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Saratoga, Monmouth, and Yorktown; with Trenton and Ticonderoga thrown in for comic relief (okay cannons from Ticonderoga). But the rest should be outlined with emphasis on getting the troops through the winter, always a major problem, getting them trained, finding capable officers, etc. etc. The story is one less of battles won, then morale, logistics and politics. Right now there is "no room" in the outline for such "trivialities." No room for barely managing to preserve the army's integrity at Morristown in 1779-1780. The battles were "all over with" in the north, and the outline is therefore complete. End of story. The outline and emphasis needs serious restructuring at the highest level from someone who can grasp the entire war. The articles are already written. So it's "just" a matter of re-writing the highest level articles to reflect reality and not some bureaucratic focus on battles, mostly lost by Americans, not untypical during a guerrilla conflict.

And, oh, the templates reflect that emphasis also. Don't know how to "correct" this. "All" Wikipedia wars have battle templates, almost meaningless here, along with battles generally in the Revolution, the ones mentioned above excepted. Student7 (talk) 23:25, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Marijuana Reform Party

WikiProject United States members are invited to help improve the Marijuana Reform Party article, which needs much attention. Along with WP Cannabis, members of WP Political Parties and WP New York are welcome to improve the article in any way possible. Hopefully we can all work together to upgrade the article status within the next 2 weeks. Feel free to use the article's talk page to discuss how the article can be improved. Thanks! --Another Believer _(Talk) 00:34, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] NOTDIRECTORY

I came across this article at the end of the NPP backlog: Historical U.S. Census Totals for Penobscot County, Maine. I think it falls foul of WP:NOTDIRECTORY as it lists census statistics: it isn't an encyclopedia article about a notable topic. There's a whole series of these articles for Maine. Opinions? Fences&Windows 20:05, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

I get the impression that they are universal for the US. See Historical_U.S._Census_Totals_for_Orleans_County,_Vermont. Just a place for official figures that they couldn't conveniently place anywhere else. I don't think they violate any policy. If a general place can be found for them outside of these articles, I'm sure editors and readers would appreciate the new organization. But these are important historical information, we don't want to lose them. Student7 (talk) 19:06, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposal

Redheylin (talk · contribs) has proposed a possible merge of articles North Carolina v. Alford (1970 Supreme Court of the United States case), with the form of guilty plea it spawned, Alford plea. Discussion is at Talk:North_Carolina_v._Alford#Contradiction_tag. Thank you for your time, Cirt (talk) 14:54, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Please also see Wikipedia:Content_noticeboard#Tags_at_Alford_articles. Cirt (talk) 05:15, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] ArbCom election reminder: voting closes 14 December

Dear colleagues

This is a reminder that voting is open until 23:59 UTC next Monday 14 December to elect new members of the Arbitration Committee. It is an opportunity for all editors with at least 150 mainspace edits on or before 1 November 2009 to shape the composition of the peak judicial body on the English Wikipedia.

On behalf of the election coordinators. Tony (talk) 09:40, 8 December 2009 (UTC)