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- Of course I'll take a look. I'm at work right now though, just jotting this while my boss has his head turned so to speak. I won't be free until later. Please tell me the name of the page you have created, so I can look it over. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:29, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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That's just it, it's not an essay or a blog. I'm writing an entry about Constitutional Congress. It's a very pertinant matter as people know what a congress is, but there are many things in the constitution that regulate what congress can and can't do. Many people don't know what a constitutional congress is. Hence the article, it's no where near completion and needs a lot done to it yet. It's not opinion, but based on facts and laws. Constitutional congress (talk) 23:40, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- I think most people aren't getting that you're trying to write an article, and not just have information on your user page. Have you had a look at this: United_States_Congress#Powers? Because that article already contains most of what you're trying to say. Skiguy330 (talk) 00:03, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
It basically has Article 1 Section 8 listed, but it doesn't specify between congress and constitutional congress. That is what I'm trying to do. For instance, it is not the United States congress, which would be a constitutional congress, who makes laws governing the people of the united states and makes laws over the citizens of the US. That power is not granted to them. Such as the making polygamy against federal law, that power is not granted to them, it's not listed in article 1 section 8 that they may make laws over the citizens, they may make laws over the government to control government. Anyhow, my article is to point out What a constitutional congress is and what makes them a constitutional congress. I'm hitting many roadblock as thing appear on my page that I don't know how to fix(blue squares, no contents box, etc) The article you referred me to is fine and dandy, but it doesn't go into more indepth detail or point out that Amendment 10 of the Bill of rights states that congress can not do anything other then what is listed, that all other decisions are left up to the individual states. I suppose I need to save my typing for my article, but everyone things it's a blog and keep referring me to start a blog. But this is an educational article. Perhaps it's in the wrong place for being an article, i don't know, people keep referring to it being on my user page, i don't know where else to put it. Constitutional congress (talk) 00:33, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
- I'm sorry to disagree with you, but your article reads like an essay, and not like an encyclopedic article.
- It's filled with opinion statements. "Many people think our government can do anything they want." What research can you cite to support this statement? I certainly don't believe this is true and I've never met anyone who does. "We should only adhere to our Consititutional Congress." What if someone doesn't like our system of government? Couldn't they just as easily say that we shouldn't adhere to our constitutional congress?
- Wikipedia articles must be written from a neutral point of view. This means it should sound like it was written by someone who couldn't care less if we were governed by a constitutional congress or by a dictatorship. Remember that people who aren't from America also read these articles. Would they agree with your assertions that we should only adhere to a constitutional congress?
- Finally, every fact in your article can be found elsewhere on Wikipedia. If someone wants to know about Article 1, Section 8, they can find it in the article I already linked you to. If someone wants to know about Amendment 10, they can visit, Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. To avoid pushing any sort of point of view, these articles stand alone.
Hi Skiguy330. I noticed that you commented in favor of a tabular format on Talk:Public holidays in the United States. I've taken a preliminary stab at making some tables here. If you have time, I'd really appreciate any ideas you have to make the tables more usable or attractive, or what more you think they would need in order to be an improvement over the current version of the article. I am asking for input from all the editors who've expressed interest in a tabular format, so if you do have any comments, please leave them on the Talk:Public holidays in the United States page to centralize discussion. Thanks! FCSundae ∨☃ (talk) 10:31, 12 December 2011 (UTC)