User talk:Farmergb

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:33, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Nice start on your draft. Some things you could improve going forward

The first section in the article, the lead, needs to summarize the main points of the article. It should start with a statement of that the topic is.
You need to make sure that every statement in the article can be connected directly with the supporting source. Right now, there's a lot that's unsourced.
Talk about the legislative history. Right now, I don't know if this is something that passed or not.

Have a look at some good articles about bills like the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and some of the others listed here. You don't need to go into anything like that amount of detail, but you can see some helpful models of what sorts of things you could cover. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:06, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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My concerns are that I am not really sure what should be cited as the entire "provisions" section comes from congresses website where the actual bill is housed.

Farmergb (talk) 20:17, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Surely there's some media coverage of the bill that highlights its main points and puts it in context? That may help. Huon (talk) 21:25, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]