Talk:State funeral
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Wikipedia is not a newspaper. The Reagan text should be streamlined to discuss state funerals in the U.S. in general. It should not be a narrative of current events because this is an encyclopedia. Specific relevant text belongs at Ronald Reagan. --Jiang 11:55, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Text at http://199.231.147.241/general/index.html is public domain. --Jiang 11:59, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Current Events Disrupt Article
I agree, the repeated mentions of facts from Ronald Reagan's Presidency distrupt the flow of a discussion about US Presidential funeral practices. These points rightly belong in the Ronald_Reagan article. I'm willing to streamline them if needed, although I'd prefer the author to do so as I'm not an authority on this particular subject.
- Neither was the author - have your way with it --JimWae 22:16, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)
Open/Closed Casket
HAs any U.S. President ever laid in state with an open casket? That should be in this article, i.e. whether or not it has ever happened and to whom. -Husnock 6 Feb 05
- Answering your question, no -- User:SNIyer12 20 May 2005
UK Tradition
If the sailors-pulling-the-coffin tradition dates to Victoria's funeral, and is the only dinstinctive feature of a state funeral, how can those who died prior to Victoria (Nelson, Wellington, Gladstone) have had a state funeral?