Talk:George Washington

ratified
the article refers to "the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted and ratified the Constitution." this sounds wrong, unless ratify has a meaning other than the one I'm familiar with. it was, of course, events in the several states that ratified the constitution. Obugov (talk) 02:00, 2 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Corrected – The convention did not ratify the Constitution, neither did it establish the U.S. federal government. Drdpw (talk) 02:18, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

FYI: Change in URL for the Washington Papers held at UVA
FYI to anyone editing any George Washington connected articles. Shearonink (talk) 13:58, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The  old  URL was http://gwpapers.virginia.edu.
 * URL has been changed, the  NEW  URL is https://washingtonpapers.org/.

Birth date
I'd just point out the Anton Chekhov biography gives both old style and new style dates. Wis2fan (talk) 03:49, 15 July 2024 (UTC)


 * The most recent substantial discussion of the Julian/Gregorian issue in this talk page can be found at Talk:George Washington/Archive 38. That discussion links to several older discussions, so I guess people have been tweaking this for a long time.  However, that discussion isn't the last word; I think that people have been tweaking the dates without checking or modifying that discussion.
 * Right now, the first sentence does not mention the Julian date, but the infobox does. I think that this is backwards: the article should mention the Julian date (in a Note), but the infobox, which is supposed to be an ultra-lean summary of summaries, should not.  That is the way it is done in Anton Chekhov.  But that's just off the top of my head.  I haven't yet looked at those old discussions from this talk page to check if I am missing something. Bruce leverett (talk) 01:20, 16 July 2024 (UTC)