Talk:United States

Please consider reading the frequently asked questions for this article before asking any questions on this talk page.

Current population (est.): 337,904,000 as of June 12, 2024

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the United States article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: Index, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112: 5 days

United States has been listed as one of the Geography and places good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
December 15, 2005	Good article nominee	Listed
May 7, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 8, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 18, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
July 3, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 21, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
June 19, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
July 9, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
Current status: Good article

United States A‑class Top‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
A	This article has been rated as A-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

Countries A‑class

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Countries, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of countries on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CountriesWikipedia:WikiProject CountriesTemplate:WikiProject Countriescountry articles

A

This article has been rated as A-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

WikiProject Countries to-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Check out the article alerts; see if anything catches your fancy.
Cleanup : clean-up listing for Countries
Stubs : de-stub articles in Category:Stubs by region.
Other : add {{WPCountries}} to talk pages of related articles, and assess.

Template:WP1.0

Template:FAOL

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on .

Template:Maintained Talk:United States/Archive Box

Demographics

The map concerning largest ancestry by county in the demographics section has at least one error. Lawrence County Pennsylvania in the Pittsburgh CSA has 27% Italian which is the largest ancestry in that county. The map marks German as having the largest, but Germans only make up about 22%.

baseball as nationally sport??

in sports section, it says baseball is considered the national sport (without a citation)... it certainly isnt the most played or viewed sport, and an incredible number of baseball players arent even american born. certainly i have heard baseball called 'americas pasttime' but have heard football called 'americas this and that' as well. i think this hsould be changed or a citation provided... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.54.191.28 (talk) 15:47, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

how is the united states ninth?

look at List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita. it shows the folowing ranks:

imf-11th
45,845

wb-10th
45,790

cia-12th
45,959

for 2007. someone help me if I'm missing something. I got reverted on my last attempt to at least draw attention to this matter, tho I may not have handled it correctly. thanks. Mob stability 19:27, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I took a look at that article, and se that it it currently ranks the U.S. as follows:

Country	Rank	IMF^[1]	Rank	WB^[2]	Rank	CIA^[3]
United States	11	45,845	10	45,790	12	45,959

^ Data refer to the year 2007. World Economic Outlook Database-April 2008, International Monetary Fund.
^ Data refer to the year 2007. Total GDP 2007 & Population 2007, World Development Indicators database, World Bank, July 1 2008. Note: Per capita values were obtained by dividing the Total GDP data by the Population data.
^ Data refer to the year 2007. GDP (official exchange rate), The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency. GDP data last updated on June 19 2008; Total Midyear Population-2007, U.S. Census Bureau, International Data Base, accessed on July 12 2008. Note: Per capita values were obtained by dividing the GDP (official exchange rate) data by the Population data.

I haven't bothered to verify the rankings in the cited supporting sources, but feel free to do so. Discussion regarding this is better carried out at Talk:List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capitathan here. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 22:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Counties

[4]

It really seems like the 2000 graph is more accurate....with no otherwise economic significance, how can the largest metropolitan area have a per capita income double the national gdp per capita, shouldn't it be more representative?, its just where majority of average population resides, most would consider such income on the high level. 99.242.25.121 (talk) 06:44, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note that three of the four sections use different methods - personal per capita, household income, etc. As for how can the largest area have the richest people, keep in mind that they tend to be concentrated. New York County only makes up 10% of the population of the New York Metropolitan Area. --Golbez (talk) 07:15, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Education

This sentence is obsolete. "Of Americans twenty-five and older, 84.6% graduated from high school, 52.6% attended some college, 27.2% earned a bachelor's degree, and 9.6% earned graduate degrees."

It needs to be updated for the 2007 Census. The new numbers should be, 85.7%, 54.1%, 28.7%, and 9.9% respectively. http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education/cps2007.html Rasmasyean (talk) 13:15, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Revolution

Wording in the third paragraph makes America seem like the bad guy during the revolutionary war. If somebody would change that, America would be very grateful.

Does it? I don't see how. Elaborate. What would you want it changed to? Also, you do not speak for America. --Golbez (talk) 16:10, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FAQ discussion

The FAQ said do not discuss on the FAQ page, rather here instead, so here it is. The FAQ says in discussion of why the page is United States and not United States of America "The guideline expresses a preference for the most commonly used name, and "United States" is the most commonly used name for the country in television programs (particularly news), newspapers, magazines, books, and legal documents, including the Constitution of the United States." This is not true for TV programs, newspapers, magazines, or books. The most common name in these media is America, not United States. I'm not saying to move the page, I just want to say this was not a good reason to give for not moving the page.76.226.116.94 (talk) 05:56, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]