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Strange sections on main project page

This edit seems to have transcluded {{WP:CBTF}} into various WikiProjects, including this one. I'm not quite sure if the original editor meant to use {{WP:CBTF}} but there's some weird stuff about communities and adopting abandoned babies in New Zealand as a result. I suggest removing everything below the section titled "Members". —Viriditas | Talk 05:07, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Abraham Lincoln assassination GA Sweeps Review: On Hold

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I have left this message at this WikiProjects's talk page since the article falls under its scope and so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. I'm specifically going over all of the "World History-Americas" articles. I have reviewed Abraham Lincoln assassination and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix. I left messages for the other WikiProjects/task forces and the main contributors to the article so that the workload can be shared. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 21:31, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Peer review request

Dear all. A peer review has been requested for the article Allegations of state terrorism committed by the United States. Your comments on how best to improve it would be appreciated. John Smith's (talk) 19:19, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

History task force

What would you guys say to an American history task force of WP:HIST? We don't currently have many people interested in this, so we'd like this project to provide some editors.--Phoenix-wiki 20:27, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

It's a good idea. We've been talking about this on WP:HAWAII. Even if this project won't support it, you could just start the task force and just ask the descendent projects to join. If you do start it, let us know so we can change the template and start tagging American history articles relevant to the history of Hawaii. —Viriditas | Talk 12:05, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Treaty of Tripoli

The Treaty of Tripoli page has gone through some major revisions as of late. Could people weigh in on the issue if the controversy section should be expanded (I say no, because it will just create feuding about "POV balance") and re-examine the page. Also, if there is anything that can be added in regards to U.S. history, Adams, Jefferson, etc, that would help. Thanks. Ottava Rima (talk) 06:19, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Square Deal

Can someone take a look at Square Deal? There seems to have been significant vandalism and deletion this month, I think the last good copy is from Jan.10, but I'm not sure. 70.55.85.35 (talk) 05:01, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Reflists in US City articles

I randomly came across Lone Elm, Kansas and noticed that the footnotes were unclickable. I added a reflist template and they showed up OK. I checked the rest of Anderson County, Kansas and all but one of the seven "cities" had no reference section. I fixed those, then looked around a bit.

I see that Danville, Iowa also has unclickable footnotes. It looks as though maybe there could be a very large number of these situations and not easily fixable by hand. Presumably a lot of information was created/added by a bot and this aspect was missed.

If this is indeed a problem, it looks like this will be best handled by a bot. I'm not gonna check every city, town and village in the US, so I thought I'd just pass this along. Cheers! Franamax (talk) 05:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

This is the result of a recent conversion (since the beginning of the month) of the various versions of the {{GR}} templates, used in every municipality and CDP article nationwide. A bot has already been requested, and I expect that we should see work beginning pretty soon. Nyttend (talk) 14:14, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Indiana is up for Featured portal candidate discussion

Portal:Indiana is up for Featured portal candidate discussion. Your comments would be appreciated, at Misplaced Pages:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Indiana. Cirt (talk) 11:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Update

Actually, at this point in time all of the Featured portal candidates up for discussion are relevant to this WikiProject. Your comments would be appreciated at all of those discussions. Cirt (talk) 11:07, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Peer review for Virginia

After not getting any suggestions the first time I nominated Virginia for peer review last month, I put it up a second time here. Still without a review, I'm asking where I can for editors to help give suggestions on our article. Thanks!--Patrick Ѻ 02:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

American Revolution GA Sweeps Review: On Hold

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "World History-Americas" articles. I have reviewed American Revolution and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article along with other task forces/WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 01:48, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Requests

Isn't there a requested articles page for the US somewhere? Richard001 (talk) 10:06, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Date of formation of the United States?

The editors of the United States article have settled on 1776 as being the foundation of the state (I note with concern though that this date lacks any external referencing, per official Misplaced Pages policy WP:VERIFY).

But this article - List of countries by formation dates - claims that the 'Date of statehood' of the United States was actually 1787 (again, completely unreferenced). Both articles cannot be correct, so which is it? Please come to the party armed with some proper external refs, per official Misplaced Pages policy WP:VERIFY. --Mais oui! (talk) 11:55, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

The question really is: Which United States of America are we talking about. The Confederation that existed under the Article of Confederation certainly dates from 1776, but the Federal Union that exists today under the US Constitution only dates from 1789. The States - as organized governments - date in most cases from 1776, although some have organizational histories that predate that year. For example, New York had an organized government since its Dutch Days as New Netherlands which continued to function right up to the date when it declared its independence from Britain. SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 20:52, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

EARLY US HISTORY

It has occurred to me that you guys are starting this project too far forward in time. You need to go back and show how the arrival of the various European powers started the ball rolling that eventuated in the US coelescing the way it did. For example, the various Anglo-Dutch wars that resulted in Britain trading Curacao for New Netherlands, and the Dutch and British adjusting the border between Connecticut and New Netherlands, and even the Dutch and the British establishing a border partitioning Long Island. Those are just examples, but you get the idea. We all have looked at American History as a pre-packaged history where we opened a box, and the USA jumped out fully formed. Of course, that is not true, but that is the impression that you've arrived at. SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 20:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

FAR notice for the Bill of Rights (please discuss here)

United States Bill of Rights has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 09:03, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Main page nomination for Manzanar

With the 39th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage coming up on April 26, I have nominated Manzanar to be on Misplaced Pages's main page on that date. Please add your support for that at Today's featured article requests. Thank you! -- Gmatsuda (talk) 21:13, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Blackstone Hotel

Can someone tell me if Blackstone Hotel belongs in this project. Drop a note on my talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 21:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Andrew Jackson and Hitler

This is being posted at this project page based on the recommendations of Misplaced Pages:Dispute resolution#Turn to others for help. There is an ongoing discussion at Talk:Andrew Jackson#Search for Consensus -- Jackson and the "Final Solution.

The issue is whether an article in a Swedish language newspaper quoting a professor of comparative religion constitutes a reliable source justifying linking Jackson’s Indian Removal policy with Hitler’s Final Solution attempt to exterminate the Jewish race. There is a wealth of credible, academic material available to offer valid and harsh criticisms of Jackson’s policy without resorting to the extremes of comparisons with Hitler.

In any event, I would appreciate anybody with an opinion on the subject to weigh in at the Jackson link above. As the matter stands, there is only one editor supporting retaining the language, but I am not sure that a consensus for removing it currently exists (many in opposition are IPs or infrequent editors). Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 16:15, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

2008 Major League Soccer season standings

For those of you who cares about American soccer, there is a discussion about the standings format here and there is a vote of consensus here. The topic is about whether to use Wins-Losses-Ties or to use Wins-Draws-Losses. Kingjeff (talk) 16:00, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Request for Peer Review

I have requested a peer review of the CIA main article, in order to gain some new perspective on the page. I invite anyone interested to please contribute their thoughts. Please find the peer review page for it here. Thanks! (Morethan3words (talk) 10:14, 15 May 2008 (UTC))

CfD nomination of Category:United States ghettos

The related Category:United States ghettos has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for Discussion page.

Merge proposal

There's been a merge suggestion on Talk:Celebrations_of_the_September_11,_2001_attacks#Merge.3F. Jaakobou 19:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Article requests

Perhaps this project should have its own article requests page, separate from the larger list I have linked to recently on the project page (Misplaced Pages:Requested articles/Other categorization schemes#United States)? Richard001 (talk) 05:55, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

American mutilation of Japanese war dead

Hi, there has been an ongoing discussion of the balance of this article over the last few months, and any comments from members of this project would be very welcome. Nick Dowling (talk) 08:02, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Some sources on the topic are.

• Simon Harrison "Skull Trophies of the Pacific War: transgressive objects of remembrance" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (free download)

• James J. Weingartner "Trophies of War: U.S. Troops and the Mutilation of Japanese War Dead, 1941-1945" Pacific Historical Review (available from JSTOR)

• The May 22, 1944. Life Magazine "picture of the week" (Image)

• American troops 'murdered Japanese PoWs' The telegraph article.

• War against subhumans: comparisons between the German War against the Soviet Union and the American war against Japan, 1941-1945 The Historian 3/22/1996, Weingartner, James

• Racism in Japanese in U.S. wartime propaganda The Historian 6/22/1994 Brcak, Nancy; Pavia, John R.

--Stor stark7 13:12, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Ribbon

Hello Ive created a ribbon for The WikiProject United States Barnstar of National Merit. Hope you like it. . ElectricalExperiment 14:23, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Signifying

Would any of you be able to clarify this bewildering article? -- Earle Martin 05:56, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

American middle class GA Sweeps Review: On Hold

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed American middle class and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are a few issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 16:55, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I have also reviewed Pornography in the United States and it has several issues that need to be addressed as well. If you have any questions, please let me know on my talk page. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 03:20, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Social class in the United States is also on hold. Please let me know if you have any questions. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 05:30, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 822 of the articles assigned to this project, or 36.2%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subsribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:32, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics

This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist    10:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Misplaced Pages 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

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That's outrageous!

I've heard religious toleration guaranteed to Quebec after La Conquête called one of the "outrageous acts" leading to the Revolution. If anybody can source it, would you include it at La Conquête? Thanks. TREKphiler 14:31, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

2 articles from this Wikiproject are up for deletion

They are Timeline of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike and Reaction by actors to the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike, just to let you know. Dalejenkins | 13:46, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Census phrasing

While the people distributing the census did a great job, I do have one small comment. The phraseology used "population is spread out" seems clunky to me. I would suggest "population is distributed by age" a better, if imperfect, substitution. Also, went I went to change this, an admin altered my wording back to the clunky phrase. Where is it written in stone that this phrase must be used? Student7 (talk) 12:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

New US environment articles

I have created Environmental issues in the United States and Climate change in the United Statesas overview articles. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 21:54, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

And now Pesticide use in the United States. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 02:33, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

=Listed on Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion

• Category:Fictional Americans
• Category:Micronations in the United States

Bush Doctrine background

We need to reach a consensus in a discussion and some input is needed on Talk:Bush Doctrine#Bush Doctrine background. Please include your Wikipedian views. Thanks. Scierguy (talk) 17:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages 0.7 articles have been selected for United States

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Please contribute your opinions on proposals at Talk:Weatherman (organization)/Terrorism RfC

An RfC has started on whether the word "terrorism" can be mentioned and discussed at Weatherman (organization) (already tagged as part of the scope of this project) and in WP articles on Bill Ayers, his wife Bernardine Dohrn (then the group's leader) and Obama-Ayers controversy. Recently new information was added at the top and bottom of the discussion page and several proposals for language have been added. Editors are discussing whether we can come to a consensus. Please take a look and participate. -- Noroton (talk) 18:05, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

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