Talk:Identity documents in the United States

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• (cur) (last) 23:18, 5 March 2006 Coolcaesar (Editing out WAY TOO MUCH INFORMATION (most readers are NOT INTERESTED in a treatise on every type of American identity document))
• I'm curious where your evidence for 'most readers' comes from since this discussion page was blank, I'm curious when 'most readers are not interested' became a reason for someone pruning an article with most readers being intelligent enough to skip over things for themselves if they're not interested, and finally, since the article is precisely about American identity documents, surely this is *precisely* the place for detailed information. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to organise the page so the first paragraph of each section has a lucid summary and the 'too much information' is towards the end of each section or in an annexe, or even move it all here, where its relevance can be discussed? Just wiping stuff out seems a bit casual. SleekWeasel 09:41, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree, that information about which documents American has is useless because it does not have anything to do with the absence of a national ID. I as a German do have a national ID card but I have most of the mentioned documents with me as well. --84.142.162.92 09:24, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

The whole point is that U.S. citizens don't have a national I.D. card, and it says that in the first paragraph. In the absence of a national I.D. card, many identity documents serve that purpose. The primary ones of birth certificate, driver's license, social security card, and passport are focused on. --Pesco 23:15, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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The Library of Congress issues Reader Identification Cards prior to allowing access to their reading rooms. This seems worth noting as an example of Federally issued Id. --69.12.141.102 03:11, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't seem like that kind of card would be used for law enforcement to prove identity. --Pesco 23:15, 12 May 2007 (UTC)