Talk:George Washington's Presidency

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[edit] Copyedits

I have made a bunch of copyedits for a second time that are consistent with the Wikipedia Manual of Style. I made most of these some time ago, but I see they were reverted:

  1. Headings in Wikipedia follow sentence case, not title case, e.g., "Taking a global position", not "Taking a Global Position". See WP:MOSHEAD.
  2. In the first sentence, where possible, the title of the article should be repeated and place in bold text and there should not be wikilinks in the bold text, as a general rule. I have moved the link to the George Washington article slightly later in the first paragraph in order to be consistent with WP:MOS#Article_titles.
  3. Partial dates follow the format "Month Year" e.g., "January 1779", not "January of 1779" per WP:DATE.
  4. Plain English words should not be linked in general -- see WP:CONTEXT.
  5. Acronyms should be spelled out on first use, i.e., "North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)" instead of just "NATO" per WP:MOS#Acronyms_and_abbreviations.
  6. "initially" is spelled that way, and not "initally".
  7. In 1707, the Act of Union merged the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain, so it is more correct to talk about the "British monarch" at this time. "English monarch" is an anacronism in this era.

Ground Zero | t 18:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


User 70.21.44.236 added "Treaty of Paris" which ended the revolutionary war. However, this was signed in 1783, before Washington's presidency started. Should it be included? I suspect that Washington was not even involved with the treaty since he was a general at that time, not a politician. Fordsfords 23:30, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

good point so I deleted it. Rjensen 00:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merger

I think this page should not be merged with that of the biography of George Washington because many other US Presidents have seperate articles devoted only to their tenure as President.Rougher07 22:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, and adding an 18-page article into a 23-page one is a bad idea - let's keep them split. Biruitorul 06:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

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