Talk:Congressional Debate

message: Because there are so many different venues for Congressional Debate, there are a lot of options for terms synonymous with "debaters" in this article:
*debaters
*senators
*representatives
*participants
*students
Also, where I'm from, we don't call speeches Proponency and Opponency, but just old "pro" and "con" or "in affirmation"/"in negation."
Wouldn't it be more encyclopedic to pick one of these terms and use it throughout most of the article? If so, which one?
--Alex S 01:06, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried using Congresspeople while editing, but it's kind of a mouthful, and a lot to type. I vote we use "debaters" instead, simply because it's shorter, but still has the same clarity as Congresspeople Catgirl the Crazy (talk) 22:13, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Word choice 

message: each state has it's own parliamentary procedure as laid out by their forensics association constitution, and then theirs the national forensics league constitution.  shouldnt there be a mention of them?  Rockinbuddy 20:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  no mention of the constitutions? 

message: Since each state seems to have its own system of Student Congress [such as in MN most of it is just debating the bills, vs in ND most of it is knowing Robert's Rules of Order in Parliamentary Procedure] I think one thing the article could do would be to add in a state-by-state area for student congress being as it varies so much  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.207.203.184 (talk) 21:42, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be an example of content forking. It makes more sense to just add in separate sections for states with significantly different rules. Catgirl the Crazy (talk) 21:55, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  more input from different states 

message: In the article's intro, it's got a bullet point list with reasons why kids enjoy Student Congress, followed by what "Critics" say about it. Given that that statement will be nearly impossible to source, I vote that we cut it. Thoughts? Catgirl the Crazy (talk) 21:55, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Opinions in Intro

message: Current Section 2 (Procedure) should be significantly pared down, and current Section 3 (Frequently Used Parliamentary Motions) should be eliminated to better conform to WP:NOTHOWTO (Wikipedia is not a how-to, guide, or manual).  This page should be about Congressional Debate, not about how to do Congressional Debate.  Even after I made recent edits to Section 3 for the sake of accuracy, it still doesn't do the how-to part very well. Liffer (talk) 23:18, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Too Much How-To

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