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List of proposed amendments to the United States Constitution

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I have listed this article for peer review because I am looking for new ways to improve it and to see how well it conforms to Wikipedia:Featured list criteria. Specifically; any uncited statements that need support, any point that need a longer introduction, and any information that is Not Notable/Completely Unsupported and may need to be removed in order to meet the criteria I mentioned above.

Cheers!, Outback the koala (talk) 06:43, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: Interesting article, but it needs a lot more references and some other work before it will have a good chance of passing at WP:FLC. Here are some suggestions for improvement.

• Featured lists no longer start with "This is a list of ..."
• A model article is useful for ideas and examples to follow - there are several FLs in the law and politics sections. List of defense of marriage amendments to U.S. state constitutions by type seems like it might be a good possible model list here.
• Biggest problem I see here is a lack of references - most of the items in the article have no ref, but will need one to a WP:RS in order to pass FLC. My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref. Here every amendment will need at least one ref too.
• There are some direct external links in the body of the article (Jesse Jackson Jr's amendments, for exmaple). These need to be converted to inline references and cited like everything else.
• Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
• I also worry about how the amendments were chosen to be included here - it seems very odd that there are no proposed amendments older than 1861, and only three from before 1900, but at the same time there are six from 2009 alone. This is a problem - see WP:WEIGHT and WP:RECENT
• The dab finder tool (top right) finds one disambiguation link
• Seems odd that there are no images here - the Capitol? Picture of the Constitution? Images of some of the congressmen and women mentioned?
• I think the article also has to do a better job providing context for the reader - background on some of the amendments
• Any reason why this is not in table form?
• Per WP:MOS quotation marks should be " (double quotes) and not ' (single quotes)

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:14, 25 January 2010 (UTC)