Wikipedia:Peer review/USA PATRIOT Act, Title II/archive3

USA PATRIOT Act, Title II

Note: This is my third time on peer review, probably the last: see also Wikipedia:Peer review/USA PATRIOT Act, Title II/archive1 and Wikipedia:Peer review/USA PATRIOT Act, Title II/archive2.

OK folks, so this is nearly done. I have literally got about 1/3rd of a section to go, and a small section on the ALA's response to Title II, which is important as they made such a big stink about it. I am totally aware that this is rapidly approaching about 160KB (!) I've never, ever done such an ambitious project as documenting all the titles of the Patriot Act, so forgive me that the article is so darn gigantic!

Once I've done the sections, I'm going to need some serious help in splitting the article. I will most likely firstly summarise the the sections on the Patriot Debates into a Patriot Debates article. Then I will need to start to split other topics. I don't want to split the summary, and I want to keep the individual sections. I know this makes things tricky, they are each very important. Can someone give me ideas on how to deal with the massive, monster of an article?

Please note that I'd like to request that I get those two sections out of the way and then have people help me split the article. I think this is fair, no?

Anyway, comment would be great :-) Ta bu shi da yu 13:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

This is just about the biggest article I've ever seen! Too big, almost. I think you could split the commentary section in two, putting a summary of the commentary in with the summary, and the rest (probably the more technical commentary) in with the discussion of the actual text of the legislation. It might be a good idea to consolidate some of the smaller, less controversial sections into one larger unit, which is not ideal because you're going for comprehensive coverage, but it's just too long with all that detail on relatively insignificant provisions.

On the other hand, it doesn't look like you've missed anything ;) --bainer (talk) 14:20, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I hope I haven't! I know it's kinda too big. I gotta start splitting :( sad, but true. And to think, all I was trying to do was to summarise each title. Sigh. - Ta bu shi da yu 14:48, 23 January 2006 (UTC)