Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Politics and government

Bill Cassidy

Somebody made an edit to his full name as well as is his name in the righthand box to say his name is "William 'GinrichFace' Cassidy" and "Bill 'GinrichFace' Cassidy" respectively. It might be good to keep an eye on his page and Mary Landrieu's page with the runoff election for the U.S. Senate race just a few days away.

C. D. Howe

This article is at FAC. Please review it and comment or vote here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/C. D. Howe/archive1. Cheers! -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:59, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Stub type

Greetings! A stub template or category which you created has been nominated for renaming or deletion at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. The stub type most likely doesn't meet Wikipedia requirements for a stub type, through failure to meet standards relating to the name, scope, current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals! This message is boilerplate, left here as a courtesy, and should not be considered personal in nature.

Nominating {{SouthAm-politician-stub}} and {{CentralAm-politician-stub}} for deletion. Associated national level categories already exist. Dawynn (talk) 19:54, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Benjamin Harrison dispute

There is a discussion going on at Talk:Benjamin Harrison that might benefit from the opinions of members of this project. --Coemgenus 12:29, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Photographs of Canadian politicians

I am looking for data regarding how many articles about Canadian politicians are missing profile photos. It is my understanding that profile photos are not available because the Queen's Printer in Canada and the respective provincial jurisdictions holds copyright on these photographs that are taken after an election. As a project of Wiki Canada we are hoping to persuade the Canadian government to change this policy. Any help in quantifying the need or assisting with this effort would be appreciated. Alan.ca (talk) 06:35, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

BLP noticeboard discussion

I have started a discussion at the BLP noticeboard about Rick Santorum, santorum, and santorum (sexual neologism) that editors here may wish to join. Mike Christie (talk – library) 10:04, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Tony Blair

Editors here may be interested in assisting with the Good Article nomination of Tony Blair. The review can be found at Talk:Tony Blair/GA1. GA is reachable, but it will require hard work. Any assistance would be appreciated. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:01, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Daniel Coughlin

I just did some work on the page for Daniel Coughlin, which is listed as a stub in this project area. Could someone please reassess the stub category? Thanks! NearTheZoo (talk) 19:28, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

List it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment#Requesting an assessment. Hekerui (talk) 07:56, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Appropriateness of "Political Positions"

Perhaps someone here can help me. Not surprisingly, some work is being done on Gary E. Johnson. In the opinion of some, the article has NPOV problems. There seems to be an on-going good-faith effort to correct these. My question relates to the appropriateness of the "political positions" section in the article Gary E. Johnson#Political positions. It seems to me inappropriate to list a few positions of a presidential candidate, and that trying to list them all is impossible, and that the section shouldn't be here. Is there some guidance on this somewhere? TheNgeveld 20:55, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Notice

The Starhawk article was moved/renamed today to Starhawk (author) without discussion by a proponent of the new video game of the same name. Now Starhawk (and all 100 Wikilinks to her name) redirects to a disambiguation page. Please note my Requested Move discussion about moving it back to the original article title. If inspired to vote, please note Wiki policies that support this, such as WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, etc. Softlavender (talk) 12:17, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Request for NPOV review

• Recently an editor has raised concerns regarding NPOV with some articles I had worked on prior to an extended wikibreak.
• I have committed to no longer edit or watch these pages.
• However, I would appreciate it if others could look them over with NPOV in mind, and discuss on their talk pages and make appropriate changes if need be.

Here are the articles:

1. Joel Anderson
2. Jose Peralta
3. Hiram Monserrate

I will not object to any changes proposed, discussed, or implemented.

Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 20:53, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Help needed at Talk:Prescott Bush

There's currently a lengthy discussion at Talk:Prescott Bush regarding our coverage of Bush's involvement with UBC, a bank that was seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act. The dispute is mainly about whether secondary sources or primary sources should be emphasized, and whether some of the sources are tainted by the involvement of a conspiracy theorist who may have had ulterior motives. Input would be greatly appreciated. Huon (talk) 18:11, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Help requested by inexperienced biographer

I'm looking for some help from an expert WP:BIO member (or multiple). I've made some great strides on Kirsten Gillibrand, but need some help finishing it up. For one, there doesn't seem to be a set format for how US Senator articles should look (and those that are at FA level now are not helpful since they are Senate leaders, former presidential candidates, and so on, therefore exceptions to the way the articles should be written for the rest of the group). Also, finding sources that sum up a senator's and representative's service during each term would be helpful (i.e. the milestones). Writing about the campaigns is easy; covering the terms isn't so much. Lastly, covering 'political views' sections can be cumbersome because the list could become endless. An outside viewpoint on what could be added or trimmed would be great. Your help would be much appreciated. upstateNYer 01:55, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs - the final surge

Since early in 2010, many editors have assisted in the referencing or removal of over 90% of the Unreferenced Biographies of Living People, bringing the total down from over 50,000 to the current 4,862 (as of 16:28, 1 June 2011 (UTC)). Thank you for all of the work you've done to date, but we are now asking for your help in finishing this task. There are two main projects which are devoted to removing UBLPs from en.Wikipedia:

• WP:URBLP has set up a large number of topic based lists, which are updated each day by a WP:BOT. Your project's list is located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Politics and government/Unreferenced BLPs and currently contains 353 articles.
• WP:URBLPR is focusing on clearing out the backlog based on the month in which each article was tagged as being unreferenced. The current task is Category:Unreferenced BLPs from September 2009, and it is the last month remaining from 2009.
• You can also reference a random article or make your own lists using one of the catscan tools, such as this search for Canadian politicians.

All you have to do is pick your articles and then add suitable references from reliable sources and remove the {{BLP unsourced}} template. There is no need to log your changes, register or remove the articles from the list. If you need any help, or have any comments, please ask at WP:URBLPR or WT:URBLP.

Thank you for any assistance you can provide. The-Pope (talk) 16:28, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Jim DeMint

For a U.S. Senator, Jim DeMint has a very poor article. It reqires a lot of expansion, and the section about his career as a U.S. Rep, for which he served for SIX years prior to becoming Senotr (1999-2005) is empty. For a potential Presidential candidate in 2012, this is very bad. SOXROX (talk) 22:47, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Request for comment - Santorum (neologism)

• Santorum (neologism)

Request for Comment discussion started, please see Talk:Santorum_(neologism)#Proposal_to_rename.2C_redirect.2C_and_merge_content.

Thank you for your time, --JN466 16:25, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Good article review of Tim Pawlenty

I have done a good article review of Governor Tim Pawlenty and am informing wikiprojects associated with the article so that improvements can be made to the article. Ryan Vesey Review me! 23:30, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Ferdinand Marcos and TfD:Template:The Marcoses

Is there anyone here with an interest in the Philippines? If so, please come and have a look at TfD:Template:The Marcoses. There is a discussion there which is relevant to this project. In the course of considering a proposal to delete Template:The Marcoses I discovered that links to articles about many opponents of - and some collaborators with - Ferdinand Marcos are not linked to the text in his article, merely to this badly named and concealed navbox, which is now proposed for deletion. These include Insurgency in the Philippines, New People's Army, Moro National Liberation Front, Assassination of Ninoy Aquino, NAMFREL and People Power Revolution. Also, Constitution of the Philippines is a link hidden underneath alternative text, and Rolex 12 only appears without elaboration under "See also". Some of these are in danger of being orphaned. I sincerely hope that someone here will take an interest in rectifying the situation. Thanks. Rubywine . talk 22:26, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Template:The Marcoses

I have opened a discussion topic Template name and contents at Template_talk:The_Marcoses. Rubywine . talk 10:23, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

WP:COI issues with Scott Smith (mayor)

I would like a third party to take a look at. I have tried to edit it, but I am getting reverted by a possible WP:SPA named Mayor Smith (talk · contribs) that I feel is having some WP:COI issues.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:46, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Tom Kahn good article nominee

Tom Kahn was a democracy activist, first with the Socialist Party of America, then in the civil rights movement (with Bayard Rustin and Rachelle Horowitz), and the AFL–CIO International Affairs Department (where he worked to support Solidarity (Polish trade union).

The article Tom Kahn has been nominated as a WP:Good article. Writing a review is a chance to earn good karma!

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 Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:31, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Berezovsky article

Editors are removing reliably sourced information from the Boris Berezovsky article, and on the talk page seem to indicate that it is a WP:BLP violation. Can uninvolved editors take a look at Talk:Boris_Berezovsky_(businessman)#Use_of_libel_tourism.2Fterrorism and opine over there. There appears to be gaming going on to keep relevant information out of an article. Appreciate any input on the talk page. Thanks, Russavia ^{Let's dialogue} 20:21, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Portal:History

Is up for FPOC. This is one of the highest (if not the highest) visibility portal on Wikipedia, I recommend commenting on it! Cheers, ResMar 23:28, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

AfD

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pratt–Romney family. BigJim707 (talk) 18:31, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Leon Panetta as a United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month candidate

Greetings, as a WikiProject that relates to this article, this notice was sent to let you know that the article, Leon Panetta, has been nominated to be a future Collaboration of the Month article. All editors interested in voting for or improving these article are encouraged to participate. You can cast your vote here. --Kumioko (talk) 16:40, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Luke Ravenstahl/GA2

GA article up for review at Talk:Luke Ravenstahl/GA2.--GrapedApe (talk) 04:04, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Barack Obama FAR

There is a discussion ongoing at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Barack Obama/archive9Lihaas (talk) 16:26, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Project scope

Is this project just intended for politician and government officials or does it also include political atavists (NGOs etc.) and social workers and community leaders who do not hold government office positions?--Traveler100 (talk) 07:17, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Nabeel Rajab GAN

The article Nabeel Rajab has been nominated for Good article status. Interested editor can start review process by clicking here. Mohamed CJ (talk) 00:44, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Kerry Bentivolio NPOV review request

Can someone please look over the Kerry Bentivolio article? I tried to make it a little better, but I don't want to go too far in the opposite direction, probably be better to have someone who doesn't care about US politics at all do the final review/edit. Chadnibal (talk) 15:15, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Help with a Featured Article candidacy

I'd like to ask anyone who has any interest in military history to review Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre. So far Malleus Fatuorum and Dank have reviewed (and given their support) it. However, an extra pair of eyes would be really, really welcomed. The candidacy page is here. Thank you very much, --Lecen (talk) 16:00, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Alben W. Barkley

An RFC on whether this article is too long and contains too many references has been opened. You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Alben W. Barkley#RFC. Acdixon ^{(talk · contribs)} 13:36, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

U.S. Election editnotice

I've created {{U.S. Election notice}} as an editnotice template for use on articles affected by the U.S. general election. Since the election is in early November and many of those elected don't take office until mid-to-late January, we tend to have a lot of jump-the-gun updating. This editnotice is intended to prevent some of that editing by reminding editors that there is a difference between editing and inauguration. I'm not mass-implementing it generally, but if you see that an article is drawing a lot of good faith errors, this is available. --Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 20:56, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Patrick Murphy RfC

Input is encouraged at Talk:Patrick Murphy (Florida politician)#Request for comment. Instaurare (talk) 19:15, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Arthur Schultz

I've requested a good article reassessment of Arthur Schultz. See: [1] -- Mesconsing (talk) 18:53, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 12:56, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

GA review

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Elizabeth_Warren/GA2#GA_Reassessment - Youreallycan 21:39, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

TAFI

Hello, Please note that George M. Dallas, which is within this project's scope, has been selected to become a Today's Article for Improvement. The article is currently in the TAFI Holding Area, where comments are welcome about ideas to improve it. After the article is moved from the holding area to the TAFI schedule, it will appear on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Today's Article for Improvement" section for one week. Everyone is invited to participate in the discussion and encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thank you, TheOriginalSoni (talk) 11:27, 26 January 2013 (UTC) (From the TAFI team)

RfC for Juan Manuel de Rosas: please help!

A Request for Comment has been made regarding Juan Manuel de Rosas, who governed the Argentine Confederation from 1829 until 1852. The discussion is on this link. Please take your time to comment. --Lecen (talk) 00:57, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

I need help to avoid an edit war at Bill Clinton

Please comment at Talk:Bill_Clinton#WP:OVERLINK_.3F or just step in and edit as you see fit.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 06:49, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case#Blanking of content verified by multiple reliable sources. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:07, 27 February 2013 (UTC)Template:Z48

COI at Govind Singh?

It might be worth keeping some eyeballs on Indian politician Govind Singh, I suspect User:GOVIND SINGH MEHRAT has something to tell us...Le Deluge (talk) 01:31, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

RFC on Nautrality at Narendra Modi

Asking about whether the article on the prominent and controversial Indian Hindu nationalist politican Narendra is currently neutral.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 21:42, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

RfC: Should the section title for Academic freedom controversy be changed?

There is an RfC here Talk:Hans-Hermann_Hoppe#RfC:_Should_the_section_title_for_Academic_freedom_controversy_be_changed.3F concerning the article on Hans-Hermann Hoppe. There is extensive background discussion elsewhere on the talk page there. SPECIFICO talk 02:21, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Note: I have revised the section heading here to reflect what the RfC title is and modified the link to create a Wikilink. – S. Rich (talk) 14:26, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Help reviewing draft article for Alex Castellanos

Hi, I'm looking for anyone who might be willing to review a new draft I have prepared for Alex Castellanos's article. While he is not a politician, he is a high-profile political consultant. Currently, his article could use some improvement, so I've written a new draft to propose as a replacement. As I've written this draft on behalf of Purple Strategies—Castellanos' communications firm—I have a conflict of interest and am looking for other editors to review this draft for me, rather than making edits to the live article myself. The new draft and issues with the current article are explained in more detail on the article's talk page and my proposed draft is in my user space here: User:16912_Rhiannon/Alex_Castellanos

It would be great to have editors from this WikiProject take a look. Feel free to make any small changes in the user space draft and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 13:26, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi again, I'm still looking for help with this article, if anyone here has some time to take a look. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 00:57, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

 Done This has now been reviewed. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 21:25, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

RfC on title of Sarah Brown (wife of Gordon Brown)

Hi, there is an RM/RfC here that may be of interest to this project. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 00:04, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Help with Jim DeMint article

Hi there. I'm an employee of The Heritage Foundation and I'm looking for editors to review a section I would like to add to the Jim DeMint article. DeMint is a former U.S. congressman, and the current president of The Heritage Foundation, which is why I don't want to make the change without other editors looking at what I've written.

I have written a new version of the U.S. Representative section, which is actually currently blank. I've left a more detailed request on the talk page, so please look there if you'd like to help improve this article. Thanks! Thurmant (talk) 15:36, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Help on section of Anthony G. Brown article

Could someone (preferably someone not from Maryland) take a look at the entire Lieutenant Governor section of Anthony G. Brown, it appears to need paring down (and references from Press releases suck).Naraht (talk) 03:23, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

RfC on Talk:Barack Obama

There is an RfC at Talk:Barack Obama#RfC: Should "the first African American to hold the office" have a footnote in the lead?. Please comment there. Wilhelm Meis (☎ Diskuss | ✍ Beiträge) 21:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to join a discussion

Through this way, I inform there is a discussion at WT:Disambiguation about partially disambiguated titles, known as "PDABs". This subguide of WP:D affects articles in this WikiProject, some examples listed at WP:NC-GAL. There you can give ideas or thoughts about what to do with this guideline. Note this discussion is not to modify any aspect of NC-GAL. Thanks. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 01:10, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

RfC relating to articles on Canadian governors general

An RfC about the use of images in infoboxes on biography articles about Canada's governors general has been started at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons#RfC on infobox images. Please give your opinion on the matter there to help resolve a dispute. Thanks. --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 15:44, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Help with stalled discussion on Jim DeMint's article

Hello again. As I explained above on June 14th, I'm an employee of The Heritage Foundation and I'm now looking for editors to review another section I've written for the Jim DeMint article. DeMint is a former U.S. congressman, and the current president of The Heritage Foundation, which is why I am asking for help here.

This time I have written a revision for the Reception, policies, and politics section which needs updating to meet Wikipedia standards. If you look at the section now you'll see that there are two different tags pointing out problems.

Since I originally posted this request on the article's talk page a couple of editors have been involved in the discussion, however the focus shifted towards COI editing and the heading for the section. If there are any editors here who are willing to review the content of the revision and let me know if they think it is an appropriate replacement I would be very thankful.

The full discussion and my draft can be seen on the talk page. Please take a look at that if you want to help. Thanks! Thurmant (talk) 17:58, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Factually correct? Maybe, but there's still a [ citation needed ] ... (right?)

Please see Talk:Lewis_F._Powell,_Jr.#Citation_needed.3F_It_says_his_.22Political_party.22_was:_.22Democratic_Party.22

PS: Sorry if I have posted this in the wrong place. Any comments / advice would be appreciated. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 01:32, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Ban Ki-moon FAR

I have nominated Ban Ki-moon for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. -- Khazar2 (talk) 17:02, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

GAR

Winston Churchill, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Dana boomer (talk) 01:06, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Human height

Just seeking a wider range of input from informed persons at Template_talk:Height#rfc_97AACED.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 01:22, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

POV issues on David Stupich

I just noted this addition and formatted the cite, which is a well-known book on BC's history of political scandal by a certain partisan MSM newspaper editor. There's a lot of tub-thumping about certain scandals, even after the protagonists are dead, and a lot of petty speculations kicking about; the cite is to a googlebooks preview which doesn't show that page, whether it says what this says I can't be sure of, but it does impugn guilt against two other people and presumes/speculates in hyperbolic language - "public outrage" is Rayner's own hype, IMO. Because of the Adrian Dix matter I keep my hands off patrolling POV additions to British Columbia politician pages, but figured I'd better report this for review by more experienced BLP editors; Stupich isn't BLP, as he's dead, but the other people are alive. And as often in BC, accusation and imputation are treated as proof/evidence - Rayner himself in his years as editor of The Province was not innocent of this himself. POV sources produce POV content IMO....Skookum1 (talk) 04:31, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Hillary Rodham Clinton move request

Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton#Requested move 8 to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:54, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

List of LGBT elected British politicians

I think this recent article may need some attention - there are multiple issues - I have left some comments on its talk page.--Smerus (talk) 12:22, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Peer review request

Would anybody be willing to peer review Theodore Roosevelt? It got demoted from FA back in June 2008, and I have been actively working with @Hoppyh: and @Rjensen: to try to at least bring it back up to GA. Beforehand, a peer review would be much appreciated. Please click here to review. XXSNUGGUMSXX (talk) 21:21, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Move request at Talk:Sarah Jane Brown

There is currently a move request at Talk:Sarah Jane Brown in which some project members might be interested. 131.111.185.66 (talk) 20:11, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

RfC on Angela Merkel

...regarding the inclusion of a photograph of her grandfather in the article [2]. Participation welcome.Volunteer Marek (talk) 02:19, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

RfC on Ian Gow

Please direct your attention to Talk:Ian_Gow#The_fully-protected_car_.28or_its_absence.29, where the question is whether the make of Ian Gow's car (the one he got blown up in) is relevant enough to warrant inclusion in the article. There's an ongoing dispute, going on for over three years, and an RfC (that is, you) might could help settle that. Thanks in advance, Drmies (talk) 14:47, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Presidency of Shimon Peres

The article Presidency of Shimon Peres needs a lot of work. As this term is now in the past, it's a good time to work on it. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 03:47, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Michelle Obama/archive3

Please come comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Michelle Obama/archive3.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:53, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Help with Tucker Eskew biography

Hi, I've prepared some new material for political consultant Tucker Eskew's article and I'm looking for some editors to review it. I'm working on behalf of Eskew's company, Vianovo, so I will not make direct edits to the page myself due to my conflict of interest. Would someone here be able to take a look? The drafts and more information about the requested changes are on the Talk page here. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 21:05, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Just to note: this has been done. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:01, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Expert attention

This is a notice about Category:Biography/Politics and government articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 21:08, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Ilse Koch - importance and expert attention

This is a request to upgrade the importance of the Ilse Koch page and suggest locating an expert. Ms. Koch was a major figure in post-WWII war crimes prosecutions, and plays a large role in several histories about the period, a number of books, and even spawned a B-movie. She also appears to be, from what we have here and what's on google, utterly fascinating, way beyond the material on her page.

I'd love to try to do this myself, but I think WWII history is such a complex and contentious subject that it should be handled by people with experience and expertise.

Djcheburashka (talk) 05:43, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

TFAR notification

I've nominated an article relevant to this project for WP:TFAR consideration, discussion at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/George B. McClellan. — Cirt (talk) 20:15, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Geoffrey (archbishop of York) nomination for Today's Featured Article

I've nominated the article Geoffrey (archbishop of York) to be considered for Today's Featured Article, nomination discussion is at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Geoffrey (archbishop of York). — Cirt (talk) 01:43, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Help on Reince Priebus

Hi all, I'm looking for some assistance with the article for Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus. Since his article falls under this WikiProject, I hope that members here might be able to help.

In brief, the article is in need of a bit of updating to add in details about his career, particularly his political career prior to becoming chair of the RNC, and to cover details of his tenure as chair. One key example: there's currently no mention of his previous role as chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party in the article.

On the article's Talk page, I've proposed a few updates and corrections. While some have been made in the article, editors who assisted have not returned to look at the suggestions for the Career section. In the interests of being fully transparent, I'm working as a consultant to the RNC and due to that financial conflict of interest I won't make any direct edits to the article. This is why I'm instead proposing updates for editors to review and make the changes as appropriate. Would anyone from this WikiProject be interested in helping? Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 22:46, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't currently have the time to help with this, but would suggest cross-posting this to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wisconsin. – Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 03:07, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Philosopher, I'll try there. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 19:07, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Pinging to note that although the details about Priebus's previous political roles have now been added, there are some remaining edits I'm asking about for the Career section of the article. I have also just added some new suggestions for the RNC chairman section. If you're able to take a look, let me know if you have any questions. Thanks in advance. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 22:20, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

adding every possible poll to a political BLP?

As we enter 2016 <g> it appears some editors are adding every poll they can find to every BLP of a person mentioned in any poll, even where no one is a declared candidate for an office. At Marco Rubio I demurred on adding multiple polls this early into the 2016 campaign season, and actually asked at WP:BLP/N where a number of others agreed that Wikipedia is not a newspaper listing every poll as we go on.

Unfortunately, one editor said that the BLP/N noticeboard is of no value as to what can go into a BLP :), so I thought asking here might get more eyes on the issue as being focused on political biographies. Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive215#Marco_Rubio_et_al Thanks. Collect (talk) 19:48, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Primary School invitation

Hi everybody. On behalf of the teams behind the Wikipedia Primary School research project, I would like to announce that the articles Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo , of interest to this wikiproject, were selected a while ago to be reviewed by external experts. We'd now like to ask interested editors to join our efforts and improve the articles before March 15, 2015 (any timezone) as they see fit; a revision will be then sent to the designated experts for review (for details, please see each articles' talk page). Any notes and remarks written by the external experts will be made available on the articles' talk pages under a CC-BY-SA license as soon as possible, so that you can read them, discuss them and then decide if and how to use them. Please sign up here to let us know you're collaborating. Thanks a lot for your support! Elitre (WPS) (talk) 17:36, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Hillary Rodham Clinton

Project members are welcome to join WikiProject Hillary Rodham Clinton, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia articles related to Hillary Rodham Clinton. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:09, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request

Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request‎ to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Martin O'Malley GAR

Martin O'Malley, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.

Wiki Loves Pride!

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

• What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
• When? June 2015
• How can you help?

  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

  2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)

  3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa

Edits from parliament

The Telegraph found that several articles here about politicians running for election were edited by folks within the offices of parliament. Full details at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11574217/Expenses-and-sex-scandal-deleted-from-MPs-Wikipedia-pages-by-computers-inside-Parliament.html 1bandsaw (talk) 19:02, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Help reviewing FAC

I ask you all for help with Juan Manuel de Rosas. The article is in need of reviews for its FAC. The page is here. The problem is that Rosas as well as Argentine history (with the exception of the Falklands War) as gathered little interest in here so far. If you can, take your time to review the article, please. --Lecen (talk) 19:57, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

N. Patrick Crooks

Did some expansion of this article -- could someone consider checking it to see if it's at B-class or C-class level? Thanks much. 74.127.175.164 (talk) 02:38, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Copyright Violation Detection - EranBot Project

A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These possible copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest (if such a copyvio is present).--Lucas559 (talk) 20:09, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Chris Osborne

I'm not sure Chris Osborne passes Wikipedia:Notability (people). Moreover I suspect COI issues since the article was enterely written by Jarama52 and the same user claimed File:Chris Osborne Federal Election Poster 1977.jpg as "own work". I'm not used to blp patrol on en.wiki, so what do you think about it? -- Basilicofresco (msg) 05:49, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

RfC

An RfC, Should this biography include commentary or reactions from politicians?, has been posted at the talk page for Kim Davis (county clerk). Interested editors are invited to comment. - MrX 17:05, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to add draft, file and redirect classes for WP Biography

I started a proposal to add draft, file and redirect classes for all WP Biography here. This would first help split out the 280 or so articles at Category:NA-Class biography (politics and government) articles so we can identify the draft articles more easily. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:36, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Infoboxes vs succession boxes

See article Barbara Snelling. The info box officeholder nearly duplicates the info in the succession boxes. The bio is short and the article looks a bit silly as a result. IMO, the duplicate material in the info box should be rm. Student7 (talk) 15:25, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Seeking input about the inclusion of a high school in a political biography article

An editor and I are having a disagreement on the article Ted Deutch about whether the article subject's high school should be included. I've added a half-sentence reference to the "Early life and education" section, as well as a category identifying him as Liberty High School alumni, but the editor has repeatedly reverted it ([3] [4] [5] [6]). In the talk page, he says that it's "silly trivia of no importance" and "not important enough to include in his article", with which I obviously disagree. I'd like to gather more input to determine a WP:CONSENSUS as to whether this information should be included, so any feedback at Talk:Ted Deutch#Inclusion of high school would be appreciated. Please keep the conversation there, not here on this talk page, so it's all in one place. Thanks! — Hunter Kahn 15:34, 24 November 2015 (UTC)