Talk:United States

"Only Indians lived there before it was discovered by Europeans." Please don't write something like this. It's not very polite to say "only" those guys.

"this usage is often offensive", "on the assumption", "utterly genocidal", "superior economic and political system", "constantly interfered" - this is simple English? Also this article is heavily anti-American. User:Adam Carr

No it's not simple, and yes it is biased. Please please edit this page!. Angela 14:50, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I did a little bit of improvement here, mostly in grammar, but I guess I'm not sure how this is supposed to work. I would have assumed that Simple English should try to simplify language. Instead, it seems to me that people have tried to simplify history and ideas.

I don't usually work in the Simple English Wikipedia, so please reply to me on my English-language talk page, Jmabel 1 Jan 2004

What's this obsession with simple English? If the people can't read well they should learn not have people cater to their limited vocabularies.

That comment was from a user who did not leave his/her name

Look at the front page Aims section

Aims

To make pages easy to read by people who speak English poorly
To make pages that are easy to translate, first the simplest sections, but which are still complete encyclopedia articles.

I guess most of the users speak other languages. The simple Wikipedia is so that all users can understand the many articles which can't be written in other languages.

I also guess there are some people who can not use good English because they just aren't good at it. I hope they will use this site and maybe it will help them slowly learn harder words.

SimonMayer 01:29, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Unfortunately, that was me who said that (but my IP address changed since then). In the past year, I learned the purpose of the Simple English Wikipedia through Meta-Wikimedia pages. --Wikiacc 22:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fact Checking[edit]

In 2009 there were 435 representatives? The English colonized America in 1500? Someone needs to go over this. 67.163.245.35 16:48, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Numbers[edit]

I am deleting some of the numbers, because some of them are contradictory. Maurreen 16:02, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Politics change[edit]

A change was made in the politics section about the 2006 midterm elections stating that the democrats had enough votes to decide policy. This is not true. Prior to the mid terms, Republicans controlled both Congress and the presidency so they did have the means to dictate policy. With a split (Congress:Dem, President:Rep) neither side can totally control unless the democrats have enough votes to override a presidential veto which with only 51% of the senate and 54% of the house they do not have enough.

As this is the case, I changed it to "neither party has enough votes" -- Creol 22:12, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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