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18F Content Guide
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Citizen #15

Closed awfrancisco closed 9 years ago

awfrancisco commented 9 years ago

Add guidance around using the word "citizen" as a generic term for people who live inside the U.S. Many government services serve non-citizens and individuals with various immigrations/visa statuses.

Could go in Conscious style section?

awfrancisco commented 9 years ago

Add exception for citizen-only services.

emileighoutlaw commented 9 years ago

+1,000 to this. In newspaper, we always said "Iowa City residents" to be inclusive, but I think the term "resident" has specific legal meaning. Any ideas on what broad term we might use?

awfrancisco commented 9 years ago

Public? Americans?

kategarklavs commented 9 years ago

@emileighoutlaw Some projects use "public" (especially when it's not known whether the reading audience will include only citizens).

emileighoutlaw commented 9 years ago

+1 to public!

melodykramer commented 9 years ago

https://github.com/18F/content-guide/pull/36 addresses this.