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Religion in Info Box

I find it completely inappropriate to list a politician's religion in the info box. It looks to me like religious affiliation is given equal prominence with political party or job history for these public figures. Is it American POV to say that there should be no religious test for public office? Is there another discussion thread on this? 173.8.220.209 (talk) 20:38, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speculative POV

Found this in the article and removed it. One of the more shameless examples of POV I've seen. My emphasis added: Sources at the Israeli Prime Minister's Office at the time said that, "Pelosi took part of the things that were said in the meeting, and used what suited her".[29] She has continued this practice without reservation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KVND (talk • contribs) 16:16, 14 June 2009 (UTC) KVND 16:36, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Husband

It says she was born in 1940 AND married in 1940. —Preceding unsigned comment added by [[]] • —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.186.184.126 (talk) 03:26, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Controversies?

How about starting a controversies section? It seems to be a popular trend on Wikipedia for a variety of public figures. Surely the House Speaker (whomever he or she is at any given time) has been involved in controversial issues, whether self-started or having become embroiled. 96.234.182.35 (talk) 00:03, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, in fact the standard is to specifically not have a controversy or criticism section, but rather weave any controversies into the body of the article (as has been done here). While I'm sure there are a number of less-traveled articles that do not adhere to this, great effort has been made across the project to dismantle controversy sections (as they always become nothing more than coatracks for people with strong opinions against the politician. --Loonymonkey (talk) 18:21, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This should be in the article somewhere. The Marine Corps veteran in the video says: "The Nazis were were the national socialist party. They were leftists. They took over the finance. They took over the car industry. They took over health care in their country. If Nancy Pelosi wants to find a swastika, maybe the first place she should look is the sleeve of her own arm." Grundle2600 (talk) 19:18, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That has nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi's biography and that guy could clearly benefit from a freshman level Poly-Sci course. --Loonymonkey (talk) 22:00, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This isnt pelosi's bio, its an encyclopedic entry about her. Its important to mention that she feels that around half of americans are nazi's, and considering she is the 3rd most important person in the country, people should know. you guys always try to weasle your way out of saying anything negative about prominent democrats, and its annoying and obvious. and fyi, the nazi party stood for national socialist german workers party, so loonymonkey should take a history class for apparently not knowing that obvious fact. 136.160.191.18 (talk) 16:04, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, can you all stop acting like controversy pages are so against wiki policy, when rush limbaugh has a page thats longer than pelosi's normal one? you arent fooling anyone, and it make you guys seem a lot more credible if the same rules applied to people you like and dislike —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.160.191.18 (talk) 16:06, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request

{{Editprotected}} I'm a staff member at On Point (NPR) - Hoping to add external links of times when she was featured on our show. Pdrosso (talk) 16:07, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Pdrosso. Please give a complete and specific description of the change you want made to the article. Administrators are not mind-readers :) If you want the page unprotected so that you can edit it yourself, consult WP:RFPP. Regards, Skomorokh 18:10, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, without having seen the proposed additions, it sounds like they might not be appropriate for the biography article, per WP:EL. But please post them here, and we can discuss it. Thanks! --Loonymonkey (talk) 22:26, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Under the heading of "Waterboarding and CIA controversy" there is a link on "Office of Legislative Counsel" that redirects to "Office of Legal Counsel". I thought they were different in that Office of LEGISLATIVE Counsel was part of the Office of the Clerk and not part of the Department of Justice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.198.151 (talk) 02:17, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Health Care?

It seems like there should be a lot more information regarding her fight for a public health care option. This deserves its own section if you ask me. Deepfryer99 (talk) 18:01, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, with the caveat that we have to be careful about recentism and WP:NOTNEWS issues. It's worth expanding, though. --Loonymonkey (talk) 18:47, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A messed up statement

Someone should fix the following text from the article:

she expressed concern "that the new (Hamas-Fatah) Palestinian government, some of the people in the government, continue to remain committed to the existence of Israel".

As you see, it does not make any sense Wlod (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:41, 27 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Really, no criticism?

What is it with wiki nowadays? You guys are afraid to make a criticism/controversy page for obama and pelosi, and i cant understand why. there are certainly more than enough incidents... you guys have no problem going after republicans, how bout being a little fair? 136.160.191.18 (talk) 15:59, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CRITICISM. WP:NOCRIT. Andrewlp1991 (talk) 20:24, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update needed

This is terribly in the past, it looks like it hasn't gotten a good update since 2007. All it says about health care is that she supports Medicaid? Really? It's a terrible information source for one of the most powerful people in the world. US2010 (talk) 04:09, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Is her name actually "Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi"? Congressional Biographical Directory doesn't mention "Patricia" at all and just notes "D'Alesandro" as her maiden name. Nor does her website mention either her middle name or say her maiden name is part of her name currently. If "D'Alesandro" isn't in her name currently, then we should say "Nancy [Patricia] Pelosi, née D'Alesandro", not "Nancy [Patricia] D'Alesandro Pelosi". We should also find decent evidence for "Patricia", which seems to be lacking. john k (talk) 16:25, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

New info

Should we mention that she is a lying communist? Truth always hurts.

Rush Is Right —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.205.137.140 (talk) 18:25, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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+I find it completely inappropriate to list a politician's religion in the info box.  It looks to me like religious affiliation is given equal prominence with political party or job history for these public figures.  Is it American POV to say that there should be no religious test for public office? Is there another discussion thread on this? [[Special:Contributions/173.8.220.209|173.8.220.209]] ([[User talk:173.8.220.209|talk]]) 20:38, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
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