Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Government/Archive 1

where to start
Hi there. I came across this project because I was looking for a template that dealt with the U.S. Government and decided that I could help out. I'm been involved with the government working at Congress and also the executive branch working on policy. So I thought I would start there, but I have no problems working on other articles. Do we have a template yet to put on articles? Thanks --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 23:43, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * We do have a template (at the bottom). It needs to be added, to a) expand and b) find new members. I've added the talk-templates to a few of the articles on the To do list, but they are still unaddressed (quality/importance). Leonard(Bloom) 06:36, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Great. Good additions to the to do list. I was the one that created the template and I can add in some more stuff if you need me to. I'll also sort out the categories so we can start getting details like this Cheers --Patrick (talk) 06:45, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

New Articles
I added what I thought would be two articles that fall under your project to the main project page. If they are not supposed to be there, I apologize in advance, and maybe someone here knows a better project for them. I plan on continuning to work on the Defense Technical Information Center article until it reaches Good, if not Featured, status (which will probably be through August) and I would appreciate any help your project could offer on it. Thanks. ThomasOwens (talk) 13:42, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Interesting articles. You can also place WikiProject United States Government on the article's talk page to notify the project. I don't know much about the topics but let me know if you need any help. --Patrick (talk) 14:45, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter?
Should we start a newsletter? A monthly one would be good. ĈőмρǖтέŗĠύʎ890100 (t ↔ Ĕ ↔ ώ) 21:35, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Maybe we should tie in content in the newsletter with the Portal:Government of the United States. Cheers --Patrick (talk) 21:39, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Will anyone be able to write it?  My bot can deliver.  «  Diligent Terrier    [talk]   17:26, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I could write...but what do you want me to write about? ...(and where, and how-I'm not good with HTML. =]) Cheers,  the_ed 17  18:42, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I drafted one at WikiProject United States Government/Outreach/Newsletter. I basically used the same template as Military history Newsletter. Here are some newsletters where we can take some ideas from. --Patrick (talk) 19:31, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I added some content to it...help me out. =)  the_ed 17  02:42, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I added a bit, but I can't think of anything else. --Patrick (talk) 03:14, 12 August 2008 (UTC)


 * What article should be created? ('Newsletter Challenge')  the_ed 17  03:16, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Userbox
Just a heads up i created a userbox.


 *  Here  Ford 22:00, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

'Official'?
There is a dispute in Illegal immigration to the United States regarding whether the definitions for 'alien', 'immigrant', etc. used by the government can be called 'Official' or 'Legal'. Some editors believe that the term 'official' implies 'official with regards to Wikipedia' rather than 'official with regards to the U.S. Government - the organization with the power to make and enforce immigration laws'. I'd like to get some people from the outside to weigh in on this issue.-198.97.67.57 (talk) 13:46, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * "Official" implying "official with regards to Wikipedia" generally does not make sense in the article namespace, any more than "official" implying "official with regards to Encyclopædia Britannica" makes sense if printed in an Encyclopædia Britannica article, except in an article about the encyclopaedia itself. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 06:41, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Project merger
There is talk at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Government Agencies about merging that project into this one. Opinions are welcome. « Diligent Terrier    (talk)   21:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

A TfD discussion that will affect articles within this project's scope
Please see Templates for deletion/Log/2008 August 6 for a TfD discussion that will affect articles within this project's scope. « Diligent Terrier    (talk)   22:08, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for United States Government
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

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request for article improvement
I would like there to be a topic coordination and/or a task force:


 * 1) to improve the article on natural-born citizenship in the United States, and then
 * 2) to get the Wikipedia page for each article of the Constitution of the United States (except those that are already Featured) to Good Article status.

Please reply at WT:LAW. &mdash;69.140.152.55 (talk) (cross-posted from WT:LAW)  03:03, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

FAR notice
Government of Maryland 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. Cirt (talk) 18:06, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

How does USBill work - could use help formatting a wiki article
The article Akaka Bill needs your help working with the USBill code. I just need someone to wikify this section by using the USBill format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaka_Bill#Previous_version_of_the_Akaka_Bill. I don't know the ins and outs of this coding template. Feel free to write to my talk page if you know where I would look for help. Thanks, Guroadrunner (talk) 23:25, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Job Corps needs your help
The rather pitiful DOL Job Corps article has been in dire need of some TLC for over a year and a half. I'll do my bit when I get time, but would anyone else like to help out? MrZaius talk  07:23, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I've done quite a bit of work on the Job Corps article (see here). It should be much better now (it did indeed need quite a bit of TLC). I've corrected unsourced information, deleted irrelevant or incorrect information, added citations, wikified, copyedited, and added templates and tags where appropriate. It's only my second major edit here on Wikipedia, so any feedback is very welcome! =) Getmoreatp (talk) 04:45, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Obama task force or WikiProject?
Would people here be interested in establishing a WP:task force for Obama-related articles? The task force could be a shared subgroup of WP:WikiProject U.S. Presidents, WP:WikiProject Politics, and "inactive" tagged WP:WikiProject United States Government. A simple prototype is at User:Mike Serfas/Obama, which would be moved to a WikiProject, preferably WikiProject U.S. Presidents.

Alternatively, J JMesserly proposed a WikiProject for the Obama administration, focusing mostly on the Obama technological agenda at User:J JMesserly/WikiProject Obama administration which has attracted some support. Mike Serfas (talk) 07:36, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States
nominated List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks, where editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dabomb87 (talk) 12:56, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 06:53, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Hey there! If I'm in the wrong place, or there's a better way to get some eyes on this, please tell me. I've been asked to update the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy article. (The details are at my user page if you're curious.) The current EERE article doesn't have any sources and is out of date, so I've been working on a brand new draft of the article in my userspace. You can see it here:  Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

In order to avoid COI issues, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested to help out on the draft and help bring it up to Wikipedia's standards. When it looks good enough, I'd like to ask someone to help copy it to EERE, but I'm not going to trouble anyone until I know it's an acceptable article. And if I've made any mistakes, I'd be glad to hear what I could do better. Thanks! Elispen (talk) 21:49, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

New member
Hello, I am a new member. I just added a criticism section to ATSDR. I am interested in science. Right now there's an inactive tag but who is still around and what do they edit on? Thanks! -Wervo (talk) 04:38, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I removed the inactive tag, since there seems to be enough activity here and on the project page. There are plenty of opportunities to edit. I am working on independent agencies, such as the Federal Election Commission, and adding or updating the articles on members of the commissions. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:37, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. -Wervo (talk) 14:12, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Standardizing the cabinet-level department head pages
There is a discussion about how to handle "acting" department heads in lists of past and current department heads. The consensus (of three or four editors) seems to be that the acting heads do not belong in the same list. This conversation started at United States Attorney General, but I'd like to see some standard treatment applied to all of the department head articles. Is this the right group in which to reach a broader consensus, or is there another WP which would be more appropriate? Celestra (talk) 15:47, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I replied, others elsewhere may be useful. -Wervo (talk) 04:21, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Customs and Border Protection, Office of International Trade
There are no entries for this branch of a major government organization within the Office of Homeland Security. I don't know why that is, but I'd like to help in getting some discussion started that would lead to a Wikipedia entry for CBP's Office of International Trade.67.35.101.76 (talk) 01:59, 18 November 2009 (UTC)knitknee1969
 * Here's a guideline. -Wervo (talk) 03:00, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Any interest in Washington gunman, Asa Seeley?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Asa_Seeley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Defying_an_AFD_decision

If you are interested in writing more about Asa Seeley, just mention it somewhere. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 01:45, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

State government question
There doesn't seem to be a specific venue for state government questions, but this will do and it may apply to federal as well.

Can an uninteresting federal agency be "notable" just by existing? Does it have to be "interesting" or "noteworthy", beyond doing its job, to have an article? I am talking about a government agency BTW, it doesn't break down any further up the line than this agency. So it's not the Department of Thumbtacks! :) Student7 (talk) 13:42, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Uninteresting federal agencies are generally regarded as "notable" by being "national" in scope. See WP:CLUB. Wervo (talk) 23:23, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. That section seems clear. Student7 (talk) 03:00, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

769 dead links to US State Department web sites
Hi, an editor posting at EAR has reported that the State Department has changed its web address from {http://usinfo.state.gov} to {http://www.america.gov/} without the sort of redirection would normally be expected. As a result a lot of WP:ELs are broken, also references. Just thought that I would let you guys know. Jezhotwells (talk) 23:40, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Wervo (talk) 20:27, 24 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Just for the record, six months later any interest in fixing this problem remains near zero. See (archived) 769 dead links to the US State Department.  --CliffC (talk) 21:26, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 04:06, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Article for Deletion
The following AfD may be of interest to editors here: Articles for deletion/Sessions of the United States Supreme Court -Rrius (talk) 01:56, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Diane Wood
At Diane Wood, of interest to participants here, a discussion is occurring as to the of necessity of including 13 references in the lead for the proposition that a person has been mentioned as a potential nominee for the Supreme Court. -Rrius (talk) 01:07, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Teacher Corps
I came across National Teachers Corps, and I've just started trying to redo it (I was a Teacher Corps intern, so while the topic is obscure, it's less so for me). On the article's talk page, I've suggested renaming it "Teacher Corps." Section 511 of PL 89-329 uses the phrase "National Teacher Corps" (singular) twice, then calls in "the Teacher Corps" thereafter. All the references I've found use "Teacher Corps" (without "National"). When I get my revision into better shape (I have a draft userpage for it right now), I plan to create a "Teacher Corps" page and redirect both "National Teacher Corps" and "National Teachers Corps" there. --- OtherDave (talk) 12:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Social Security Card
I just was curious... I see no information on or about the information on the back of the card. Specifically the account number on the back.

Zoe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.235.35.201 (talk) 20:03, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status
Please, rate this article that should be part of this project. Just as any other President's Task Force.

President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status--Seablade (talk) 22:18, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Dr. Donald Berwick
Please tell me where this nominatiomn of Dr. Berwick for head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid is now? kgeneo@aol.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.62.244.227 (talk) 02:49, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Parent of Federal Reserve WikiProject
I am just seeing if there would be any interest in this project serving as a parent project to a proposal I have for the Federal Reserve to gain "Project Status". See WikiProject Council/Proposals/Federal Reserve for more info. Feedback welcome. Frank0051 (talk) 17:06, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm also interested in getting feedback about a taskforce within this group as opposed to a WPFrank0051 (talk) 17:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

update
An update is needed to Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. See the respective talk page. Griffinofwales (talk) Come and join theSimple English Wikipedia 11:55, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Portal updated
Hi all. I updated the U.S. Government Portal. One section I could use some advice on is current legislation. I don't know that much is going through Congress right now, and that's always been an odd one to update. Any suggestions on either legislation to go in that box or a new topic to go in that space in the portal? Any ides would be appreciated.--Chaser (talk) 00:18, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Relevant AFD discussion page - The Most Hated Family in America
There is an AFD for The Most Hated Family in America, which is a television documentary film that was written and presented by the BBC's Louis Theroux about the family at the core of the Westboro Baptist Church (info from lede of article). Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 18:20, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * AFD is located at: Articles for deletion/The Most Hated Family in America.

United States Government articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the United States Government articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:46, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Merge three noticeboards
I have started a proposal to merge three United States related Noticeboards into one due to all three having no, or extremely limited activity, in the last year. I believe this will invigorate the noticeboard if we keep any of them at all. I propose merging: into
 * U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board
 * U.S. Northern wikipedians' notice board
 * U.S. Wikipedians' notice board.

Please provide comments here (including support or oppose). Comments are necessary to ensure that this does not intefere with ongoing efforts. If no comments are received in 7 days I will assume there is no problem and proceed with the merger. --Kumioko (talk) 19:39, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

United States related Tag and Assess proposal
There is a proposal on WikiProject United States to task Xenobot with tagging and assessment of articles that fall into the scope of WikiProject United States. Please take a few moments to provide your comments about this proposal.

If you are interested in joining WikiProject United States please add your name under the applicable section here. --Kumioko (talk) 17:08, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 15:36, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Your attention is requested
If you are so inclined, you may want to comment at Templates_for_discussion, a nomination for deletion of a navbox template that could potentially be used in all President of the United States biographies. Cheers! —Kevin Myers 14:55, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates
I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into WikiProject United States. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 20:29, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Updates to Inter-American Foundation Article
I've been asked to update the Inter-American Foundation's article, which is out-of-date and doesn't have good citations. I am currently employed at this agency and would like to avoid COI. I have read Wikipedia's COI section and it seems to me that the best way to avoid COI would be to: a) disclose my affiliation and b) work with an editor.

I would appreciate any comments or advise on how to proceed. Efrias iaf (talk) 19:05, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Suggested policy change to the tagging of non article items
I have submitted a proposal at the Village pump regarding tagging non article items in Wikipedia. Please take a moment and let me know what you think. --Kumioko (talk) 02:12, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Request for help resolving a "separation of church and state" question
Hi. I've been locked in an unproductive back-and-forth with another editor on the article Separation of Church and State in the United States. A request for comment a few weeks ago drew no useful responses. I'm looking for a way to get some additional voices to weigh in here. The issue is about the first sentence of the article, which currently reads "The phrase 'separation of church and state' (sometimes "wall of separation between church and state") describes a legal and political principle embedded in the Constitution of the United States." Editor North8000 insists that the sentence as written is false and unsupportable; "separation...", in his or her view, does not describe a constitutional principal. He or she has repeatedly modified the sentence to read "...describes a legal and political principle, elements of which are embedded in the Constitution...", or words to that effect. Any help (including suggestions of a better spot to post this note) will be most welcome. -- BTfromLA (talk) 21:16, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * A good faith attempt at summarizing my point, but it missed it. "Separation of Church and State" is broader that what is in theh constitution.  And so a statement that it (in it's entirety) is embedded in the Constitution is inaccurate not supportable. I had it tagged as cite needed (I.E. a cite which supports that specific statement, and, per talk floated (and later put in) the "elements of which" qualifier which made the statement accurate, and the tag removable.   BTfrom LA tagged my qualifier for a cite.  My response was "The cite tag which you put on there is misplaced because it is a qualifier which makes the actual statement of the sentence more supportable. But I think that it will lead to ending up with a good first sentence." I anticipate doing (or that this would cause doing) the research for a expert RS source which address this specific issue and evolving a solidified good lead sentence from it. North8000 23:11, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Update of request
We created a condensed summary of the issue and our arguments:

Talk:Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States

This is the lead sentence on what we feel is an important article. Input is requested. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 17:45, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Flags in Government Office Navboxes
I am wondering if this would be good to do. What do you all think? BLUE DOG TN 00:53, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Example:

Articles on U.S. departments, etc., very short on institutional history
As a user of Wikipedia, rather than in my role as an editor, I'm finding that the articles on U.S. departments, agencies, etc., are very short on institutional history, to the point of not even mentioning locations of past departmental headquarters. See for example United States Department of State. Where was it located before Foggy Bottom? When did it shed its domestic responsibilities? What is the history of its relative influence compared to the War Department or, now, Defense (not to mention NSA, CIA, etc.). Etc. From what I can see, these lacunae are typical of similar articles. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 03:16, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * All good points. Im not sure how active this project is but Ill add some of that to my todo list for WikiProject United States and see if we can work on that over the next few months. --Kumioko (talk) 03:29, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks! - Jmabel &#124; Talk 06:21, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.

The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 23:30, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Collaboration for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Greetings, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution has been chosen as the U.S. Wikipedians Collaboration of the Month for February 2011. As a project who has identified this article to be in your scope we encourage you to edit this article and help to build it up to better explain the subject and to get it promoted. --Kumioko (talk) 20:49, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Featured portal candidate: United States
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF (talk) 14:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Adding "Popular pages" to U.S.-related projects
A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.

I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.

Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages

Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.

If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.

Regards, RichardF (talk) 02:11, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Question about the status of this project
After speaking with a few of the members of WikiProject United States Government that are still active I wanted to ask a question. It appears that this project is mostly inactive aside from what the members might be doing independently and individually. I would like to suggest that this project be pulled in under WikiProject United States and wanted to solicit comments before doing so. As with other projects like Washington DC and Superfunds the project would maintain its own independence but I believe this would benefit both projects. Does anyone have any comments or concerns about this? --Kumioko (talk) 20:40, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

The next step for the project collabration with WikiProject United States
Due to the limited activity of this project I have contacted each of the remaining active members of the project about joining the family of projects supported by WikiProject United States. This project represents a crucial United States topic and it greatly benefit both projects if it is supported by the larger more active project. After contacting all of the remaining active members only one opposed with all other members stating that this action would be a good idea so I would like to start moving forward.

Below are the things that have already been done (neither directly affects this project):
 * All articles covered by this project have been added to WikiProject United States as well as the United States Government portal, templates and categories.
 * I have added WikiProject Government to WikiProject United States/sandbox

Here are the things that still need to be done.
 * 1) Add WikiProject Government to the list of projects supported on the main page of WPUS. - Done
 * 2) Apply all members of the project to the WPUS members page (this will allow them to get the newsletter, etc.) - Done
 * 3) make the sandbox version of the WPUS template update live Done
 * 4) Update the documentation for WikiProject United States to include US government Done
 * 5) Associate the US government topic to WPUS Done
 * 6) Remove the WikiProject United States Government template from all pages
 * 7) add the USGov parameter to all articles currently containing the WikiProject United States Government template
 * 8) Delete or redirect the WikiProject United States Government template so it won't be used accidentally.
 * 9) add in all the articles relating to US government that are not currently tagged. There are literally thousands of articles that should or could relate to this topic and this would probably be best and quickest as a bot task, a few categories at a time.

Benefits of this:
 * Potentially helps WikiProject US Government become more active.
 * Allows WikiProject United States the use of the US government topic with less duplication.
 * Allows WikiProject US Government to take advantage of the bots in use by WikiProject US
 * Allows WikiProject US Government to take advantage of the newsletter in use by WikiProject US
 * Allows WikiProject US Government to focus on the articles with less project overhead. WPUS already has an active newsletter, portal and collaboration as well as many bots and active editors to assist.
 * etc.

I am going to start by implementing 1 and 2 from the list of things that need to be done now. This will allow the members of this project to start getting the newsletter and start advertising the project. I am also going to discuss it in the newsletter that will go out in the next few days. As long as we continue to maintain consensus and there are no major objections I should be done in less than a week with the rest. If there are any last minute concerns please comment here. --Kumioko (talk) 02:27, 3 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Number 10 could be to edit the pages of WikiProject United States Government that deal with adding the template and its various redirects. Maybe we should officially obsolete Template: WikiProject United States Government. For what its worth I've started migrating pages to the new format. 100+ down 1000-1500 to go :) Awg1010 (talk) 18:17, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * If you mean to edit is to build them up, add infoboxes, etc then your absolutely right about number 10. The list was mostly just the things needed to transition them to the WPUS template but editing the articles themselves is the end state. I also agree that deprecating the template is a good idea but in my experience recommendations to delete these templates don't get consensus. Usually they just get redirected. I periodically go back through templates that are redirected to WikiProject United States. Thanks for starting that. I'm just wrapping up a couple of other tasks and I was going to do that one next but I'm glad your working on it.--Kumioko (talk) 18:51, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually I just meant that pages like WikiProject United States Government/Assessment which states "The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the USGOV talk page project banner;" should instead point editors to WikiProject United States

May 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
.--Kumioko (talk) 02:41, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

United States Bill of Rights has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for June 2011
The United States Bill of Rights, an article within the scope of this project, has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for June 2011. The goal this month is to get this article to Good Article standards by July 4th, 2011. All editors interested in improving this article are encouraged to participate. You can also vote for next months article of the Month here. --Kumioko (talk) 16:01, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Request for comment - Santorum (neologism)
Request for Comment discussion started, please see Talk:Santorum_(neologism).
 * Santorum (neologism)
 * Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 14:33, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Daily post about a "representative" Congress
I found a The Daily post about the demographic makeup of a hypothetical Congress representing the overall U.S. demographics... WhisperToMe (talk) 16:58, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * "This Is Not My Beautiful House." The Daily. June 5, 2011.

Portal:Supreme Court of the United States at peer review
A new portal Portal:Supreme Court of the United States is now up for portal peer review, the review page is at Portal peer review/Supreme Court of the United States/archive1. I put a bit of effort into this and feedback would be appreciated prior to featured portal candidacy. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 17:50, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for July 2011
United States dollar, a page within the scope of this project, has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for July 2011. All editors interested in improving this article are encouraged to participate. You can also vote for next months article of the Month here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:01, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

July 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:28, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Portal:Supreme Court of the United States at Featured Portal candidates
Portal:Supreme Court of the United States is a candidate for Featured Portal, with discussion at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Supreme Court of the United States. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:03, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Portal:Supreme Court of the United States

Chaplain of the Untied States Senate
I took the article labeled as a "list" -- Chaplain of the United States Senate -- and have made it into what I think is a pretty good article. (I say, modestly.) Could someone take a look and change the rating from "list" to something else? Thanks! NearTheZoo (talk) 19:09, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Answered on Users talk page. --Kumioko (talk) 19:18, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Reform section - need opinions
An editor added a short section to the above article. I reverted the addition. Afterwards, I started a discussion on the article Talk page. Unfortunately, the only two editors discussing the issues are the other editor and me. No one else has joined in. It would be appreciated if editors would comment either here or on the article Talk page. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:42, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 03:22, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Related Class in the United States Education Program that would like your help
Hello,

I am Chris, the Campus Ambassador for a class (American Political Systems) within the US Education program, that needs to get a online Ambassador (or two) and was wondering if any more active member of this group would like to participate? If you are interested please feel free to message me, or go here for more information.

Thanks, Epistemophiliac (talk) 18:27, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

New discussion of navboxes and succession boxes at the Village pump
Please see Village pump (policy). A discussion is going on to look at the use of succession boxes vs. navboxes. The outcome may drive changes to how things like Offices, committee chairmanships, etc. appear on articles. Please chime in if you have an interest on either side of the issue. Rikster2 (talk) 04:00, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

US Senator list templates
U.S. Senator row, Start U.S. Senator , End U.S. Senator , have been nominated for deletion. These are currently unused, however, it appears that lists of US senators by state table articles use plain wikitable code instead of templatized rows. So, is it preferable to use a template or plain wikicode? 70.24.251.158 (talk) 05:12, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

99 Percent Declaration
I recently created the 99 Percent Declaration article, and now it's been nominated for deletion and rescue. I have lots of possible sources on the talk page, but I would feel more comfortable if there were other editors. Would you please help improve it? Or at least chime in on the deletion discussion or respond to the questions on the talk page? Thank you. Dualus (talk) 19:31, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Infoboxes of President pro tempores
In the coming days, I'm planning on adding these to all Prez-pro-temp bio articles (where needed). Anyways, I noticed some of them have the US President in the infobox content. Would it be more correct to add the US Vice President to these infoboxes? as the veep is President of Senate. GoodDay (talk) 15:12, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Nomination as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate
One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:51, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 01:50, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Capitalization question
Is Vice President a common (lowercased) or proper (uppercased) noun in George Clinton (vice president)? Marcus  Qwertyus   22:58, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:16, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Polling order
In Talk:United_States_Senate_election_in_Massachusetts,_2012, we are having a dispute concerning whether polls should be listed in chronological or reverse-chronological order. I would appreciate any outside input from the broader group of editors who contribute to these articles. Thanks! johnpseudo 16:13, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

More opportunities for editors to access free research databases!
The quest for getting Wikipedia editors the sources they need for articles related to United States Government and other subjects is gaining momentum. Here's what's happening and what you can sign up for right now: In addition to these great partnerships, you might be interested in the next-generation idea to create a central Wikipedia Library where approved editors would have access to all participating resource donors. It's still in the preliminary stages, but if you like the idea, add your feedback to the Community Fellowship proposal to start developing the project. Drop by the talk page of User:Ocaasi, who is overseeing these projects, if you have any questions.--JayJasper (talk) 17:43, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of nearly 1200 published reference works from more than 70 publishers in every major subject, including general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias. There are 125 full Credo 350 accounts available, with access even to 100 more references works than in Credo's original donation.  All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits.  Sign up here.
 * HighBeam Research has access to over 80 million articles from 6,500 publications including newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias. Thousands of new articles are added daily, and archives date back over 25 years covering a wide range of subjects and industries.  There are 250 full access 1-year accounts available.  All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits.  Sign up here.
 * Questia is an online research library for books and journal articles focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Questia has curated titles from over 300 trusted publishers including 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, as well as encyclopedia entries.  There will soon be 1000 full access 1-year accounts available.  All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits.  Sign up here.

Proposal for United States A-Class review process
There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:18, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Not sure if this is the right place, but the NOAA article is classified as a low importance article! I would say that the NOAA is extremely important to the U.S.! How would you get this changed? - Letsbefiends (talk) 12:12, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

1989 Jamba Hercules crash
How many people died on this crash? Which is correct? Also asking WikiProject Aviation/Aviation accident task force. Thanks, Marasama (talk) 21:54, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 1989 Jamba Hercules crash = states 13 people (7 passengers + 6 crew)
 * CIA_Memorial_Wall = states 15 people (6 CIA operatives + 11 UNITA members)

Alben W. Barkley
An RFC on whether this article is too long and contains too many references has been opened. You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Alben W. Barkley. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 13:39, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

FBI Anti-Piracy Warning Seal wanted
...for this article. It may be downloaded here although I would advise first converting to SVG. 68.173.113.106 (talk) 19:56, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Patrick Murphy RfC
Input is encouraged at Talk:Patrick Murphy (Florida politician). Instaurare (talk) 19:13, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Cabinet nominees
Should cabinet nominees be presented in bios infoboxes? GoodDay (talk) 02:59, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Help avoiding an edit war at Bill Clinton
Can someone come comment at Talk:Bill_Clinton or edit the page directly.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 06:20, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

New U.S. legislative data project
Greetings! User:PeteForsyth and User:JimHarperDC have organized a Legislative Data Workshop to find out how we can use data about legislation passed by the U.S. Congress to enhance Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. We've set up a provisional WikiProject at WikiProject United States Federal Government Legislative Data (WP:LEGDATA), and would love to get others involved. Please join us there, share your thoughts, and we can help you find a task if you'd like to help! WWB (talk) 18:08, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

American diplomat stubs: help request!
Hi. I've been looking at Category:American diplomat stubs and I've found many mature articles that need moving out of the stub class. I wonder if anyone would be willing to help in this task? There are still 359 articles there. I think about half of them need destubbing. Thanks. -- Klein zach  00:11, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

"How the FBI Helps Terrorists Succeed" by Heather Maher:
I found this source but not sure where it goes: WhisperToMe (talk) 03:06, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Maher, Heather. "How the FBI Helps Terrorists Succeed." The Atlantic. February 26, 2013.

About foreign influence in security clearance screening
WhisperToMe (talk) 21:29, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * http://www.dss.mil/multimedia/shorts/13-adjudicative-guidelines/ForeignInfluence/jpas_lesson1.xml
 * http://www.webcitation.org/6HtTxr5JS

Debate over a section of the NSA article about polygraphs
Hi! Please see Talk:National_Security_Agency to read a debate regarding the inclusion of a section about polygraphs as they are used in the National Security Agency. WhisperToMe (talk) 03:11, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Ga.legis
Template:Ga.legis has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 16:53, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template
Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:51, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Lest there is any confusion for people who don't speak the same language, the words "logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories" refer to the feature that was supposed to allow this WikiProject's template to "inherit" class and importance ratings from other WikiProjects. Kumioko says that there are no longer any bots performing the function that formerly copied those ratings. --Orlady (talk) 23:34, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Please contribute to a discussion on amending MOS language with respect to date formats
Hello - there is currently a discussion underway at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers to come to a final resolution the way dates for sports club tenure in infoboxs are displayed (e.g. - with a club from 2001–2007 or 2001–07). In looking at many articles that this project oversees, I notice that date ranges are also used to present things such as service is a presidential cabinet (eg - Template:Truman cabinet) and I thought that I would make you aware that this discussion is underway since the wording could impact these articles/templates as well. There are thousands of articles (touched by thousands of editors) that use date ranges, so there is clearly an advantage to settling it in a clear manner so all can comply. Thanks! Rikster2 (talk) 19:03, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Is this article in use? ("Exclusive: Private letter from CIA chief undercuts claim torture was key to killing Bin Laden")
Does anyone know if any article is using this source? WhisperToMe (talk) 07:41, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Sargent, Greg. "Exclusive: Private letter from CIA chief undercuts claim torture was key to killing Bin Laden." Washington Post. March 3, 2013.

NSA does not deny spying on members of US Congress
WhisperToMe (talk) 06:54, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Fung, Brian. "The NSA refuses to deny spying on members of Congress." The Washington Post. January 4, 2014.

Invitation to help craft a proposal
Surveillance awareness day is a proposal for the English Wikipedia to take special steps to promote awareness of global surveillance on February 11, 2014. That date is chosen to coincide with similar actions being taken by organizations such as Mozilla, Reddit, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Feedback from members of this Wikiproject would be greatly appreciated. Please come join us as we brainstorm, polish, and present this proposal to the Wikipedia Community. --HectorMoffet (talk) 11:18, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission
Could any of you have a look at this submission? Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 16:24, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Sunlight Foundation data
I am organizing an event with the Sunlight Foundation in Washington, DC, focused on using their API data to improve Wikipedia articles. We are currently brainstorming ideas on how their (objective, reliable) data can be used to improve Wikipedia articles, and any ideas and insights you have would be useful. One idea we have is to develop a bot that would be used to keep infobox data up to date, so that whenever there's an update with their API, the corresponding Wikipedia article gets an update. Please let me know what you think of this idea, and feel free to recommend other ones. Here are the different APIs—bear in mind that not all of them are necessarily useful for Wikipedia's purposes. Please also let me know if there is anyone in particular I should reach out to. Harej (talk) 21:03, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency
I've created a new article about the Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:11, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Seeking comments to improve Voting Rights Act of 1965
Greetings. I am looking for suggestions on how to improve the article Voting Rights Act of 1965, and I would be highly appreciative if folks from WikiProject United States Government could leave some comments about it on the peer review I requested at Peer review/Voting Rights Act of 1965/archive1. The article was recently promoted to GA status, and it'd be fantastic to get it up to FA status. Thanks! –Prototime (talk · contribs) 03:26, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

I would like to join the project ...
My interest in program and project management in Federal infrastructure projects. ... thanks ... Risk Engineer (talk) 21:47, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Seeking feedback on FAC Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which is ranked by WikiProject U.S. Government as an article of "Top-importance", is currently a Featured Article Candidate (FAC). Feedback on the article's candidacy would be greatly appreciated! Please post feedback on the candidacy page at Featured article candidates/Voting Rights Act of 1965/archive1. Please note that FAC reviewers are not required to review or offer feedback on every aspect of an article. Thank you! –Prototime (talk · contribs) 17:08, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

2012 Benghazi attack
A discussion has begun in order to gain a consensus on whether to include or exclude material involving the CIA and weapons smuggling in the article. Please weigh in on the discussion at the talk page. This may also be a good time to reassess the rating on the article. Thank you.--Maleko Mela (talk) 22:05, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Counter-Terrorism Act of 1995
Has anyone thought of starting Counter-Terrorism Act of 1995?

I found some resources here: "Counter-Terrorism Act of 1995" (Archive) - Center for Democracy and Technology - Updated August 5, 1996 WhisperToMe (talk) 16:35, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Cody Shearer
Does anybody know any sources about Cody Shearer (brother of Derek Shearer and Brooke Shearer, son of Lloyd Shearer) which are not so gossipy and which give more information? All I know are these sources: WhisperToMe (talk) 07:56, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Scott, A.O. "Cody Shearer." Slate. May 22, 1999.
 * Tapper, Jake. "Buchanan's brother threatens Clinton associate." Salon. Friday May 21, 1999.

Year in the United States articles
Seeking input at 2014 in the United States, concerning all Year in United States articles. Should we include lists of Governors & Lieutenant Governors. If so? may we hat those lists? GoodDay (talk) 01:02, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

United States R US
I'm proposing the above as preferred terms of reference as a friend from the UK and based on the following:
 * 1) Enemies of the United States typically refer to the nation as America.
 * 2) The United States only constitutes one of many countries in the Americas and only about one third of the total population.
 * 3) Amerigo Vespucci was and explorer of South America and the West Indies.
 * 4) Hawaii is arguably better defined as constituting a part of the United States rather than as representing a part of America.
 * 5) The primary reference to the country and is the United States. This is fairly well represented through many of the categories and articles connected to Category:Government in the United States and I would personally propose that this reference may be beneficially applied in other topics as per support from WP:UCRN.
 * 6) The term "United States" conveys a message of unity in specific ownership of a single nation while 50 countries across two continents share the roots of "American" terminologies.

Gregkaye ✍ ♪  12:47, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:United States Government articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 16:54, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Article alerts
This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here.

If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the  parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.

Message sent by User:Addbot to all active wiki projects per request, Comments on the message and bot are welcome here.

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Bot run to auto assess some of the Unassessed articles
There is a discussion here for a Bot to do an assessment run through the 2000+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. Please post any comments or concerns you might have there. --Kumioko (talk)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Overhauling the CIA article
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to make this notice, but to me, the CIA page needs a lot of work. So I'm going to be working on it in the near future. I'd appreciate any help or guidance. ThanksTeeTylerToe (talk) 17:09, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Conformity within the Presidential infoboxes
On going discussion on conformity of President biographies. Please add your thoughts. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:29, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Conformity with Presidential & Vice Presidential article intros
Lack of capitalization at John Adams, is going against the grain. It's the only article with president & vice president in the content, rather the President & Vice President, like all the other bio articles. GoodDay (talk) 12:44, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

INSC
What happened to the International Nuclear Safety Center? Why is their website down? Is this center non-existent now? And why are there so many other organizations named INSC? --Ysangkok (talk) 11:05, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject United States Government to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject United States Government/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the Tool Labs tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 03:47, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

For translation purposes: Bilingual glossaries of terms related to US History and Government
Dear Wikipedians,

If you want to translate material about the US government and history into: Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish: I found some glossaries: http://www.p12.nysed.gov/biling/bilinged/bilingual_glossaries.htm - I hope they may be useful in your efforts to translate WhisperToMe (talk) 16:34, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

TfD of Template:Mayors of the largest 50 US cities
This WikiProject may be interested in the TfD discussion ongoing here. Please feel free to participate if you'd like. ~ RobTalk 02:11, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Kevin McCarthy (California politician)
Above link leads to discussion as to whether Kevin McCarthy (California politician) should become the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC at the Kevin McCarthy disambiguation page. &mdash;Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 05:35, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

MFD of old invitation page
There is an ongoing discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Vanished user 342562/Sandbox/WikiProject United States Government invitations about an old (inactive since 2008 it seems) invitation for this project (probably when it started). Is there interest in keeping it? If so, it should probably be moved to the project. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:53, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * This page was preserved and can be found here now: WikiProject United States Government/Invitations. Any project participants should feel free to edit and use as desired. —  xaosflux  Talk 00:35, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Assessment of Foreign relations of the United States
I saw that this article is listed as being of low importance to this project. While I can see it being of low importance to WikiProject United States, I was kind of feel that this should be mid importance here. Does anybody have any thoughts on this matter, or any idea why it's assessed like this? –Compassionate727 (T·C) 21:35, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Curious. Not sure why it was rated Low-importance. I wouldn't oppose it being upgraded to Mid-importance, or higher. It's a pretty comprehensive overview of the U.S. government's bilateral relations worldwide. GabeIglesia (talk) 22:02, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Here, let's continue this at Talk:Foreign relations of the United States for centralization. –Compassionate727 (T·C) 23:46, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:32, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Scott Walker (disambiguation)
A discussion and vote as to whether Scott Walker should remain as the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC or be returned to Scott Walker (politician) is ongoing at the above link. &mdash;Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 22:55, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject United States - The 50,000 Challenge
--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:18, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Requested move notice
Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:United States Presidents and control of Congress, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, JudgeRM   (talk to me)  20:04, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
Greetings Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:


 * Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

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January, 2017 Presidential inauguration
In case anyone has input on whether the upcoming inauguration should be mentioned on the main page: Wikipedia talk:In the news/Recurring items. - Brianhe (talk) 19:57, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Can anyone help expanding my article?
I am currently creating an article entitled "List of Meet the Press episodes." There are over thousands of episodes that feature a variety of famous guests from U.S. Presidents to professional athletes. Can anyone help me with my darft Here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:List_of_Meet_The_Press_episodes

PoliticalBuff (talk) 00:27, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Legislation wishlist
There are a number of notable bills being introduced that should have articles. I'll add them here as I come up with them. If they are created I will be happy to provide a Did You Know nomination if you ping me. Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 20:04, 25 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Patient Freedom Act of 2017
 * Three bills mentioned in :
 * Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2017
 * Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2017
 * Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017

New infobox for presidential documents
Discussion at Executive Order 13769 has thrown into light that there is currently a gap when it comes to infoboxes for Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents. I have started work at User:Sasuke Sarutobi/Template:Infobox U.S. Presidential Document, so will be grateful for any and all feedback. Thank you — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 12:24, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Links to Whitehouse.gov broken with new administration's website
Links to http://whitehouse.gov were broken en masse when the new administration changed the main web site. I could not figure out how to fill in links to the official web sites even for major nonpartisan offices OMB, OSTP, and OIRA. Google, Bing, and Wikipedias all have broken links. In the near run we can make do with by replacing these with links to a public archive of the earlier site. The content remains almost completely accurate since these agencies are defined by law and have hundreds of staff who remain. Therefore I think this is the thing to do, for the moment, and we'll link to the latest stuff when it becomes clear where it is. I'd welcome further advice and correction. -- econterms (talk) 21:04, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I can't find a tool specifically for finding pages with dead links to a particular website, but Special:LinkSearch or Hay's External URL stats might be helpful if there are patterns to the dead urls (e.g., everything in or below a given directory). I suspect much information removed by the new administration is gone permanently, so it's probably a safe bet to use the usual dead link fixes (i.e., the Wayback Machine) or the Obama White House Archive. If there's good reason to believe a page will eventually return, mark the referenced statement using with Source removed during 2017 presidential transition; this may be temporary. or a similar explanation.  —Shelley V. Adams ‹blame credit › 00:16, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Notice about adminship to participants at this project
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Discussion at Files for discussion/2017 March 18
You are invited to join the discussion at. Marchjuly (talk) 00:03, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Help with Amb. Robert A. Mandell?
Hello! Editors interested in articles on the United States government, and United States ambassadors in particular, might be interested in reviewing this edit request on Robert A. Mandell, the former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. You'll see the current article on Mr. Mandell is fairly short and a bit haphazard. My draft, I believe, is a better Wikipedia article as it expands on Mr. Mandell's life, career and ambassadorship while cleaning up existing content. I'm here asking for another editor to review and consider implementing it is because I am working on behalf of Mr. Mandell, as I've disclosed on the article's discussion page. Please let me know if you have any questions at all. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 16:47, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

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Edit request
I'm looking for someone to do some easy updates to basic biographical information on John Howard (public health administrator). The edit request is at Talk:John Howard (public health administrator). Thanks! John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 20:18, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory updates
Hey there! I also left another request at the Energy project, but I thought I'd drop a note here, too. I've put together some detailed edits to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory article (one of the U.S. national laboratories), which you can read about on the NREL talk page. But I have a conflict of interest (I'm an employee), so I'm not going to make the edits myself--instead, I'm looking for someone knowledgeable who can look through the suggested changes and decide which ones should be moved to the live article. Unfortunately, my draft goes through pretty much the entire article, so it's a lot of content to review. Could anyone help with this? I'm glad to answer any questions. Es2017 (talk) 13:38, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

RfC on Political appointments of Donald Trump article
There is an ongoing RfC at Political appointments by Donald Trump that might be of interest to editors here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Political_appointments_by_Donald_Trump#RfC:_Should_we_include_career_diplomats.3F --1990&#39;sguy (talk) 19:58, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Merge proposal
A merge proposal was started from a consensus on the article talk page of Alt-left, which is an article within the scope of this WikiProject.--Mark Miller (talk) 20:56, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Moving "Presidential Directive" to "National Security Directive"
I'd like some more eyes on a move discussion at Talk:Presidential directive. The article has confused two different concepts. The article describes National Security Directives while using sources for Presidential Directives, ending up saying completely false things. A presidential directive is said to be an executive order (obviously false) which are classified (...) and carry the "full force and effect of law" (arguably false, if we're talking about national security directives. According to a GAO report from 1992, national security directives "do not appear to be issued under statutory authority conferred by Congress and thus do not have the force and effect of law" (see https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/gao-nsiad-92-72.pdf). However, I doubt the distinction is of practical significance.)

The main source used is a Congressional Research Service report from 2008, which is quite good, and describes many different forms of presidential directives: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/98-611.pdf. I have written a completely new article in the spirit of that report, dealing with many different forms of directives, and the legal basis for them, which is currently in my sandbox: User:Uglemat/sandbox.

I think this subject is under-appreciated, given the importance of Presidential Directives to the workings of the American government and the confusion surrounding it. Uglemat (talk) 14:05, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

White House Press Corps
I'd like to get some more input on a discussion we are having at Talk:White_House_press_corps/Archive 0. The issue is which people should be included in the list within the article.--Rusf10 (talk) 03:40, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Cole Memorandum
Project members are invited to help expand and improve the newly-created Cole Memorandum article. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 01:33, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

RfC on splitting Federal Correctional Institution, Coleman
I have started an RfC on splitting Federal Correctional Institution, Coleman at Talk:Federal Correctional Institution, Coleman. Safiel (talk) 18:49, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:21, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 23:14, 9 April 2018 (UTC)