Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tennessee State Constitution/archive1
Tennessee State Constitution[edit]
This article is extremely detailed and addresses anything the reader would want to know. It covers all of its bases and conforms to all Wikipedia standards. It's chock-full of interesting and factual information, the exact reasons why someone would go to a professional written encyclopedia. RyanGerbil10 08:04, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Object. No references. Further, some judgments (The 1977 was the broadest call since the original writing of the constitution in 1870) need to be attributed. Mark1 08:50, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Object. Needs references. Additionally, more comparisons and contrasts between the TN constitution and both the constitutions of other states (see State constitution (United States) etc) and the federal constitution should be given. It's a very good article, just a bit short of FA worthiness. Jacob1207 00:45, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Object. A very good first draft, but not Featured Article quality. RyanGerbil10 is correct in saying it has a lot of useful information, but it has several deficiencies:
- It needs references. None of those interesting facts are backed up by documentation.
- Problems with judgments:
- It needs attribution for specific judgments, such as "The third document was largely written as a response to the requirement that [the southern states] . . . explicitly [ban] slavery".
- There are some non-NPOV problems. In particular, the last paragraph is rather hostile to the recent amendments; the paragraph needs to be more neutral.
- It needs copyediting. There are a number of run-on sentences, some typos, and several very confusing sentences.