Talk:Barbara Bush

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Vandalism

There is clearly repeated vandalism by a bot continually editing Early Life, which has been reverted multiple times. How does Wikipedia generally avoid spam by bots? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.12.172.145 (talk) 05:21, 6 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Brother's mention

Mentioning her brother in the first paragraph comes across as a political attack. She is famous for being First Lady, not for being the sister of this person. If appropriate to include in the article, it should at least be later.

I can't imagine how that could be a political attack, but it's definitely irrelevant; I took it out. The fellow isn't notable for anything. BarrettBrown

Blood descendancy in relation to Franklin Pierce?

Barbara Bush is NOT a blood descendant of Franklin Pierce, but she is a member of the same 'Pierce' family.

Pictures talk

Perhaps we should increase the size of the article to accommodate all of the pictures in the article? I like multiple pictures, no matter how relevant to the actual "history" of the person as it shows a more complete picture of how this person looked. The "Nixon" and "Family" pics show how deep she is in the political circle, and Bush's political dynasty. WhisperToMe 00:24, 26 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

The family pic was relevant, but she was off to the edge and I had to spend some 20 or so seconds looking for her. There should be a better pic. -Unknown

The Nixon pic is hardly relevant. So she attended a public function...that's hardly explained in the article. Maybe this is better. Don't think about adding irrelevant pics until there's enough room for them. They make the article look worse through whitespace and/or think columns of text, not better. --Jia ng 00:31, 26 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect vandalism

Someone redirected the article to Barbara Pierce Bush. That is not her common name and I have reverted the change. Mike H 03:24, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

Derogatory vandalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bush#Marriage_and_family

Is she a time traveler?

On the first page or so: She was born in 1925, met Bush when she was 25, and married him in 1945. I'll leave it to a real historian to fix this, if it needs fixing. -Unknown

Censorship

Please try to keep a balanced view not by suppressing opinions you do not agree with, but by adding passages that stress the positive side of Barbara Bush. It is easy to delete some other person's work, but more difficult to write about a subject of considerable interest. If you do that, your time will not be wasted. David Cruise 18:15, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is no doubt some place on Wikipedia for a discussion of Gulf War propaganda issues, but the Barbara Bush article is hardly it! She had zilch to do with it. The fact that she alluded to some of the perhaps-propaganda claims in her memoirs is worth at most a very small mention, which is what I edited it to. Wasted Time R 18:19, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi R. I agree with some of your concerns and I relegated bulk of the material on this issue to the footnotes. I would like this Wikipedia entry on B.B. be as informative as possible. There is a blank space in the subheading First Lady of the United States that should be filled by her role as the first lady in discussions with the foreign leaders, etc. David Cruise 19:53, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you move your material to Gulf_War#Invasion_of_Kuwait, or History_of_Iraq#Rule_Under_Sadd.C4.81m, or George H. W. Bush, where it would be much more appropriate? All that you're establishing here is that Barbara Bush believed the U.S. justifications for the Gulf War, which is hardly a revelation. Your user page says you were a professor who published a lot; I hope your academic papers didn't veer off-topic as badly as this contribution does. Wasted Time R 20:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

French talk

Il y a plus d'un âne à la foire qui s'appelle Martin. David Cruise 21:01, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Super Mario Super Show and Mario Bros. Comic

Since she and president Bush make a guest appearance in the old Super Mario Bros 3 show, and a parody of her, Barbara the Bush is mentioned in the comic, I was wondering if anyone would mind if I made a reference to this in the articles. I'm sure there are parodies of most major figures, so having a section would be nice, and it would encourage people to bring more to light. Charicatures provide cool information about public comedic views of the characters. Tyciol 16:43, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was move to Talk:Barbara Bush. Joelito (talk) 04:41, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Barbara Bush (First Lady) → Talk:Barbara Bush … Rationale: Article & Talk got separated during prior moves … —Dhartung | Talk 07:01, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Survey

Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~

Support as nominator. --Dhartung | Talk 07:06, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Pretty clear move to me. --Usgnus 17:54, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Matches the article title; seems uncontroversial. --ChrisWinter 15:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Add any additional comments

I assume this is uncontroversial, but I don't want to skip any steps after complaining elsewhere. ;-) --Dhartung | Talk 07:06, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Notable fact shared with Abigail Adams

Barbara Bush may be the second woman -- after Abigail Adams -- to see two U.S. presidents naked.

Anna Harrison may have been the second, making Barbara Bush the third, hmmm. A list page must be created. Joking, of course Jjmillerhistorian 14:52, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

disambiguation

What exactly is the logic behind having this "Barbara Pierce Bush" at Barbara Bush, and having her granddaughter, also "Barbara Pierce Bush," at Barbara Pierce Bush? This seems like madness. john k 23:50, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First Lady of the United States

Barbara Bush is famous for being First Lady, yet there's nothing written in the First Lady section. I'll try to expand it, but does anyone want to help? Happyme22 02:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's pretty funny the way it is. — Sandover 02:26, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV dispute

The article is simply not neutral. Undue weight is placed on events that represent Mrs. Bush's bad side.