Talk:Mapp v. Ohio

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[edit] Tense and tone I think could use some tweaking

The story overall is well told, IMO, but the use of present tense in several places ("Justice Clark defends his decision ...") as well as the ambiguous word "says" (rather than "writes," "argues," etc, detracts from this entry. Awkward, too, that Mapp is called "Ms. Dorlee Mapp" only after being called "Dorlee Mapp" earlier in the article. If anything, I think the references besides the first should probably drop down to simply Mapp.

I've a few things, but not many, which unfortunately leaves the entry perhaps worse for inconsistency. I'll try to get back soon to do more ...

timbo 18:00, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reference

I added a good reference but another reference jumped into my new paragraph and is now in both the References and External Links sections, so if someone could mend that for me Id appreciate it. Mmcknight4 18:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Horribly Written

This article is...bad. Although it gets to the point of the story well, it gives almost NO information about the importance of the case, the rationale for overturning Wolf v. Colorado, it doesn't even mention the fourteenth ammendment except in the template side pane! There is nothing about the judge's rationale, the list goes on and one. About the only good thing about the practical content is the use of the term amicus curae! I try and clean it up later, and will be marking this as a bad article (or a slightly lesser offense) after I have created an account and figured out how. -HappyRecusant 07:18, 13 March 2007 (UTC)