Talk:Administration of federal assistance in the United States
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Administration of federal assistance in the United States was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: March 2, 2007 |
I've done alot of research to produce this article, but it could use alot more info. - Mtmelendez 00:35, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dollar figure
The following sentence fragment:
The assistance, which can reach to over $400 billion dollars annually...
does not appear to be supported by the link given, unless I'm misunderstanding something. The audit given reports that number as the total amount of grants to non-federal entities, a pretty general-sounding category to me, and reading through the documents there, it is clear that they are not all somehow related to public assistance. I'm changing it until someone can give a better reference. Xezlec 19:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
- OK, never mind, I might have misunderstood the subject of this article, though I'm not entirely sure. I'll hold off for now. Xezlec 19:12, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed merger with Federal grant
The Federal assistance article covers federal grants and other areas, whereas the Federal grant article is relatively limited and small to be left as a separate article. -Mtmelendez 13:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
I think it's a good article. Regarding the merge, I got to this page because I was searching for an obvious internal link to information on scientific grants, such as those from the National Institute of Mental Health. If there is a merge, a distinction between the various types of federal grants (such as scientific grants to researcher vs. assistance grants to individuals, etc.) would be helpful. john williams 16:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't think it should be merged - federal grants can apply to other countries. If you merge this article, then another will be started as a global government grant topic.
Yes, but the problem isFederal grant is only US related. I now agree that they shouldn't be merged, but the federal grant article should be diversified to include other grants in other countries. - Mtmelendez 17:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] GA Failure
Unfortunately I've failed this as a WP:GA for reasons I can't see being easy to fix within a week. It is though well written and well referenced. I hope to see this at Good article candidates again soon.
- Criteria 1b - per WP:LEAD the lead is too short and does not adequately summarise the article.
- 2a - references - there are large sections that are unreferenced, particularly the Pass-through entities and sub-recipients and Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance sections.
- 3a - comprehensive - this is what first caught my attention. The article does not mention anything about either the history of federal assistance, it's constitutional basis or the congressional powers involved.
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance is far too listy as a section. I'm not sure it's necessary to spell out the code letters of different types of grants.
- Needs a copy edit, headings like Financial type assistance and some of the wording should be reworked.
