Talk:Weddings in the United States and Canada

Draft review
(1) History section (and most other sections) have no references. Inline references are required - each section should have an inline citation, see WP:CITE.

(2) Further, the entire history section is a direct copy&paste of, this is a WP:COPYVIO and little different from WP:PLAGIARISM. As such, the entire section should be rewritten immediately.

(3) Your text needs hyperlinks, see Linking

(4) There are sections with little or no content. They need to be expanded. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 02:58, 15 July 2009 (UTC)


 * It is high time to move this article into the mainspace, as discussed above. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:17, 20 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I have moved the article for you (in this case an admin was needed to do it, so don't worry about not doing it yourself). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:36, 25 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Also, it's high time to nominate your article for GA (but do address the issues I raised above first!). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:42, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Further suggestions
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:48, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.
 * Consider adding more links to the article; per Manual of Style (links) and Build the web, create links to relevant articles.
 * This article has few images. You can search for relevant images on Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, browse through commons:Category:Marriage or other categories and gallery pages you think may be of use. Please see if there are any free use images that fall under the Image use policy and fit under one of the Image copyright tags that can be uploaded. To upload images on Wikipedia, go to Special:Upload; to upload non-fair use images on the Wikimedia Commons, go to commons:special:upload.
 * Watch for redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's redundancy exercises.)
 * Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “ All pigs are pink, so we thought of a number of ways to turn them green.”
 * As done in WP:FOOTNOTE, footnotes usually are located right after a punctuation mark (as recommended by the CMS, but not mandatory), such that there is no space in between. For example, the sun is larger than the moon [2]. is usually written as the sun is larger than the moon.[2]

Secular weddings?
I know judges can marry people in a courthouse in some way in at least some parts of the US and several TV shows have featured weddings in hospital officiated by friends, for example. This isn't mentioned here — what's involved, under what circumstances is it possible, who may officiate such a marriage, what requirements are made by states on such weddings? — OwenBlacker (talk) 14:44, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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