Talk:Draft lottery (1969)

message: This article seem very underexplanatory. There is no mention of the war which prompted the lottery. No mention of the politics surrounding this lottery. This may not be the appropriate article to explain these topics, but these topics are also absent from Vietnam War AND The United States and the Vietnam War.
I don't understand the significance of the scatterplot, this needs to be explained more clearly. As well, the overall article doesn't flow too well and smacks of something copied & pasted from somewhere else... 69.157.105.230 22:25, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevance to the Vietnam War 

message: bush-bashing at work. he may be an idiot but I'm sick of people defacing Vietnam articles in order to abuse him... I've reverted the article. the last couple edits have also changed what the first date drawn was... going to try and do some research and see if I can find the right date. Tmorrisey 23:33, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: conscription did indeed end in '73. 

message: I'm certain that people born on February 29 didn't know what to think of this. Had their number been drawn, it might have resulted in a serious population decrease for those with that birthday. Captain Jackson 04:51, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leap Year Birthdays 

message: If I come back here and see someone has changed it to "The days of the year, from 1 to 365, were written on slips of paper and the slips were placed in plastic capsules" I will have this article blocked from being edited by new & non-registered users. —06:15, 29 May 2006 Dexter111344
:Now I have signed the original and deleted the trash talk from this section. --P64 (talk) 17:17, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: It was 366 days

message: Would a chart of the results of the Draft be encyclopedic? There's one on this site http://www.sss.gov/lotter1.htm. I wouldn't be able to do it myself, but I'm sure someone could.--Richy 21:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Results

message: December 1969 may have been the first ever lottery conducted at the national level. But I contend that draft lotteries were in use to some extent in 1968 if not also 1967. One way I can see this happening is if local draft boards got the ball rolling and the process then went national with the signing of a bill making it a requirement. Apart from my own recollections, I've seen two other references to pre-1969 lottery activity. I will be doing some searches for corroboration on this. - Srobidoux (talk) 08:42, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lottery start date. 

message: The first two "bulleted" references under the subheading "References" are just references akin to "Further Reading" rather than a specific list of in-line references. In any event, the first one of these lists a reference with an editorial comment to the effect of "called by Starr the' best and most comprehensive' article on the topic". This is the first reference to the person, Starr, in the article. Which one? Ringo Starr? Not impossible, but certainly implausible.
In any event, it needs to be fixed. It needs to be cleaned up. The introduction of the last name of the person should always include a first name. After that you can refer to him by the last name. Anybody knows this. I assume that the reference is to one Norton Star. But I don't know for sure. So I did not just insert Norton. I inserted Ringo in the hopes that somebody, such as the owner of the article and the person who reverted my "correction," would correct this glaring error. As usual, I was disappointed by the response by the Wikipedia article owner. It can be hard to be a responsible Wikipedia contributor. Much easier to be a semi--responsible get things done quicker person.
So I will try the correct way with this "Talk" contribution. I expected it to go nowhere. Da5id403 (talk) 21:39, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I imagine it is Norton Starr author of ref #2.  But it is unnecessary and I deleted it.  Pinethicket (talk) 22:06, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who Is Starr? 

message: I had trouble finding this article. I searched for "Vietnam War Draft," and it did not come up as a suggested link. I looked at "draft dodgers," and a few other articles before I found this link in the footnotes to the Vietnam War article.
It needs to have a more visible presence, and "Vietnam" should probably be in the title.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.70.220.6 (talk) 21:31, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I have done this: Vietnam War draft.  Thanks for the suggestion. —Mark Dominus (talk) 04:02, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trouble finding the article 

message: I've removed "Additionally, the inclusion of a slip for February 29 made that date grossly over-represented, given that some of the birth years of prospective inductees were common years. However, the non-uniform lottery was allowed to stand."  I don't see it in source 3 or 4 and it doesn't make sense to me.  February 29 had a rank of 285, so they weren't overrepresented in the draft, I assume.  And the existence of a "full" slip for the date doesn't affect the rank of anyone else vs. anyone else.  So I think someone just didn't think through what they were saying here.  (note: I found this as a question at , but alas, they don't provide an answer for me to cite.  Wnt (talk) 20:47, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird leap year claim 

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