Talk:John Quincy Adams

comments

I can't get the g-d damn external link to MOA to work right. it any one would be kind engouh to some how add it properly, I would appreciate it.--Dudeman5685 00:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Were any laws made under the presidenticy(sorry for my infamously poor spelling) of John Quincy Adams ruled unconstitutional?

religion

Im fairly certain John Quincy Adams was a puritan, but it says Unitarian in his mini biography.

== No, No he was a Congregationalist.

68.32.73.22 14:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

The "Puritan" religion was called Congregationalist after about 1700. After 1800 it split into two wings and JQA joined the "Unitarian" wing, but was not especially active in church issues. Rjensen 14:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism?

While working on a school project, a friend of mine pointed out the presence of obscene comments regarding John Adams and George Washington. While this has been deleted, I believe it is neccessary to temporarily lock the page, to prevent further defacing of the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Molinogi (talk • contribs) 15:08, 1 February 2007 (UTC).

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Laicie and Bridget were his number one presidential supporters.

Who are these people? Is this vandalism? --Michael K. Smith 02:59, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

He has descendants in Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas of the last name Fryer.

I've removed this line from the Trivia section as being totally irrelevant. There are a great many people in all states with a wide variety of surnames who are descended from the Adamses. They were a prolific family. --Michael K. Smith 03:08, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Quotation needs source

The following sentence:

• It has been called "the greatest diplomatic victory ever won by a single individual in the history of the United States."^{(citation needed)}

has been under consideration for a source and none has been provided. I don't think the quotation is necessary for the article but if the editor who included it can give us a source I would be glad to endorse its inclusion as it is factual. I just don't have the source available at the moment. Any comments on this? --Northmeister 00:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

It's a good thing you posted that note. I did a quick Google search to look for the source and found that large parts of the article were copied[1] from a Grolier's encyclopedia article. [2][3] I've reverted that material, but I'm still checking for other plagiarized material. -Will Beback · † · 01:14, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree and support your reversion of material. --Northmeister 01:21, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

GA fail

I am failing the article for the following reasons:

• The lead should be a three to four paragraph summary of the entire article per WP:LEAD.
• The article needs to have inline citations per WP:ATT.
• The article is not broadly comprehensive:

• What about Adams' childhood, early life and education?
• There must be more information that could be included the "Domestic policy" section; right now, it is primarily about internal politics of the government rather than policies.
• Adams is regarded as one of the greatest diplomats in American history and during his tenure as Secretary of State he was one of the designers of the Monroe Doctrine. But during his term as president, Adams achieved little of consequence in foreign affairs. A reason for this was the opposition he faced in Congress, where his rivals prevented him from succeeding. - So why don't you discuss what he did as Secretary of State anywhere in the article, if that is where his real diplomatic achievements lay?

In the end, Adams lost the elections in a landslide. - Why? What were the issues of the campaign, beyond the personal ones? Awadewit ^Talk 08:49, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

More suggestions

In general, the page needs to explain its claims in more detail:

• Ex: He was the first President not to be able to claim his politics dated back to the Revolutionary period. - What are the consequences of this? Explain further.

• The "Bibliography" is difficult to read - please separate the descriptions from the entries in some way.
• Check WP:MOS:

• Heading capitalization - WP:HEAD
• Please link more relevant concepts and names, e.g. "Patrick Henry" and "U.S. Constitution" per WP:MOS-L
• Usually tables and lists are not placed in the middle of articles - could these be moved to the end or turned into prose? WP:EMBED
• You can probably cut down on the external links per WP:LINKS. Awadewit ^Talk 08:49, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

• I believe that "Quincy" in his name, like the town in Massachusetts, is properly pronounced /kwinzee/ not /kwinsee/. If true, perhaps some mention should be made of that in the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.6.115.128 (talk) 19:12, August 22, 2007 (UTC)

hi  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.236.218.104 (talk) 14:39, 22 October 2007 (UTC) 

Jackson's wife

Andrew Jackson's wife could not be accused of bigamy (even if newspapers at the time used that term). She was a polyandrist/ accused of polyandry - having more than one husband. I tried to fix the article, but seem to be unable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.83.160 (talk) 01:25, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Numerous unsourced statements

The section on Adams' Presidency, in particular, is full of unsupported and potentially controversial statements. Rather than slap a "citation needed" tag on virtually every sentence, I decided to mention the matter here. I lack the historical expertise to edit the section, but hopefully somebody skillful can rewrite it.