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Welcome to WikiProject United States Constitution on the English Wikipedia! We are a project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the United States Constitution, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States Constitution related articles and help maintain the United States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States Constitution related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States Constitution related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check out WikiProject guidelines.
This article is part of a series on the |
Constitution of the United States |
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Preamble and Articles |
Amendments to the Constitution |
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Scope
editThis Wikiproject is aimed at creating stronger coverage of this topic, and a greater quality and consistency among these articles. Key areas of concern include consistency in the type and style of information presented on documents and court cases related to the Constitution of the United States.
Guidelines
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Open tasks
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Add WikiProject templates to articles related to the United States Constitution. This includes the amendments, the framers, court cases related to the United States constitution, and events related to the United States constitution.
Article talk pages to add banner to: (If you have added it, please add the {{done}} template)
- United States Constitution Done
- Preamble to the United States Constitution Done
- Article One of the United States Constitution Done
- Article Two of the United States Constitution Done
- Article Three of the United States Constitution Done
- Article Four of the United States Constitution Done
- Article Five of the United States Constitution Done
- Article Six of the United States Constitution Done
- Article Seven of the United States Constitution Done
- Timeline of drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution Done
- List of amendments to the United States Constitution Done
- United States Bill of Rights Done
- First Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Second Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Third Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution Done
- Congressional Apportionment Amendment Done
- Titles of Nobility Amendment Done
- Corwin Amendment Done
- Child Labor Amendment Done
- Equal Rights Amendment Done
- District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment Done
- Constitutional Convention (United States) Done
- Articles of Confederation Done
- Virginia Plan Done
- New Jersey Plan Done
- Connecticut Compromise Done
- Signing of the United States Constitution Done
- Founding Fathers of the United States Done
- Enumerated powers Done
Delegates of the United States Constitutional Convention
- James Madison Done
- Alexander Hamilton Done
- George Washington Done
- Oliver Ellsworth* Done
- William Samuel Johnson Done
- Roger Sherman Done
- Richard Bassett Done
- Gunning Bedford, Jr.
- Jacob Broom
- John Dickinson
- George Read
- Abraham Baldwin
- William Few
- William Houstoun*
- William Pierce*
- Daniel Carroll
- Luther Martin*
- James McHenry
- John Francis Mercer*
- Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
- Elbridge Gerry*
- Nathaniel Gorham
- Rufus King
- Caleb Strong*
- Nicholas Gilman
- John Langdon
- David Brearley
- Jonathan Dayton Done
- William Houston*
- William Livingston Done
- William Paterson Done
- John Lansing, Jr.* Done
- Robert Yates* Done
- William Blount
- William Richardson Davie*
- Alexander Martin*
- Richard Dobbs Spaight
- Hugh Williamson
- George Clymer
- Thomas Fitzsimons
- Benjamin Franklin Done
- Jared Ingersoll
- Thomas Mifflin
- Gouverneur Morris Done
- Robert Morris
- James Wilson
- Pierce Butler
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Done
- Charles Pinckney
- John Rutledge
- John Blair Done
- James Madison Done
- George Mason* Done
- James McClurg* Done
- Edmund Randolph* Done
- George Washington Done
- George Wythe* Done
(*) Did not sign the final draft of the U.S. Constitution. Randolph, Mason, and Gerry were the only three present in Philadelphia at the time who refused to sign.
Participants
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This section lists Wikipedia editors who have chosen to participate in WikiProject United States Constitution. Newcomers, please add your name to the list! Oldtimers, don't forget to welcome the newcomers to the fold. Remember, anyone can invite somebody. To stay updated on the project, put this page on your watchlist.
To add yourself to the list: if you're logged in, edit the list and put the following text at the end of the list for the current year: "* ~~~~" (leave the "quote marks" out) When you click "Save page," it'll fill in your user name & the time automatically.
Members on the active list may receive Collaboration of the Week and Meetup notices.
Users with by their names are administrators on the English Wikipedia
Joined
edit- CookieMonster755 (talk) 04:58, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
- GregJackP Boomer! 00:52, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
- bd2412 T 01:07, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
- Winner 42 Talk to me! 01:10, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
- –Prototime (talk · contribs) 04:37, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
- — Cirt (talk) 21:18, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
- TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 10:16, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
- Coemgenus (talk) 13:53, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
- Vibrantmatter (talk) 07:25, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
- CsikosLo (talk) 13:45, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
- Seraphimsystem (talk) 23:49, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
- Firstclass306 (talk) 22:01, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
- ―Matthew J. Long -Talk-☖ 23:32, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
- Jamesharrison2014 (talk) 08:35, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
- Libertybison (talk) 22:55, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
- OfficerCow (talk) 21:53, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
Articles
editFeatured content
editCandidates
editGood articles
edit- First Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Third Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Alexander Hamilton
- Constitutional Convention (United States)
- George Washington
- United States Bill of Rights
New articles
editPlease feel free to list your new United States Constitution-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
Review and assessment
editAssessment
editAn article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject United States Constitution}} project banner on its talk page (see the template page for more details on the exact syntax):
- {{WikiProject United States Constitution | class=??? | importance=??? }}
The following values for the class parameter may be used:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class United States Constitution articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as featured articles)
- FL (adds articles to Category:FL-Class United States Constitution articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as featured lists)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class United States Constitution articles; should only be used for articles that have made considerable progress upon the GA version, an article that is undergoing FA review would be A-class)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class United States Constitution articles; should only be used for articles that are currently listed as good articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class United States Constitution articles)
- C (adds articles to Category:C-Class United States Constitution articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class United States Constitution articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class United States Constitution articles)
- List (for articles which consist primarily of a list; adds pages to Category:List-Class United States Constitution articles)
- Dab (adds pages which are disambiguation pages to Category:Disambig-Class United States Constitution articles)
These classes no longer need to be explicitly specified to the template. They are deduced by the namespace of the page the template is placed upon.
- Category (categories in Category:Category-Class United States Constitution articles)
- Image or File (media in Category:File-Class United States Constitution articles)
The following values for the importance parameter may be used:
- Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance United States Constitution articles)
- High (adds articles to Category:High-importance United States Constitution articles)
- Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance United States Constitution articles)
- Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance United States Constitution articles)
- NA (for none articles, do not need importance rating for non-articles)
Articles for which a class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed United States Constitution articles and articles for which an importance is not provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance United States Constitution articles. The class and importance should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
Quality scale
editThe quality "class" an article receives should follow Wikipedia's regular guidelines for quality found below.
- Articles which have not been formerly evaluated, or which have failed a good article review, should not be assigned a quality rating higher than B class. Above that an article needs to go through a formal review process.
- See Wikipedia:Good article candidates
- See Wikipedia:Featured article review
- See Category:Wikipedia editorial validation
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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FA | The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:
A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
FL | The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
A | The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history). |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
GA | The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
A good article is:
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Discovery of the neutron (as of April 2019) |
B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | Psychology (as of January 2024) |
C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. | Wing (as of June 2018) |
Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
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Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. | Ball (as of September 2014) |
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014) |
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of literary movements |
Importance scale
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Top | Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field. | Kindergarten |
High | Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent. | Factory Acts |
Mid | Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area. | 0.999... |
Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article. | G cell |
NA | Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc. | Category:Palms |
??? | Subject importance has not yet been assessed. |
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