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He's not an African American president racial-wise

He's actually the first mixed race president. Are we going with his racial identity instead if his actual races here? If so, state racial identity-wise he's the first black American president, but he's racially the first mixed race president (that is, significantly mixed and not like 1/20 black like a few other presidents may be). If not, hop off of the bandwagon and stop calling his race just black. Black people don't have a white parent and it's disrespectful to his white family to call him black. Obama identifying as black is like disowning in his mother and her side of his family. If you're calling him black based on his phenotype, however, I'd say yes; he looks more black than white, so it should be stated that he is phenotypically black and racial-identity wise black, but ancestry-wise and racially, he's mixed race.

I expect better of Wikipedia. We must stick to the facts and not popular opinion.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.80.39.57 (talk) 22:03, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know that I will comment on this with my own view, but it might be worth reading Q2 of the above FAQ. Dustin (talk) 22:08, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting topic proposed in this section, but in my humble opinion, although Blacks often say they are "African-American," doesn't a mother from America and a father from Africa make one African-American in its proper and literal sense? If that is the case, I believe the term is, in fact, best described for the current U.S. President. Conspirasee1 (talk) 02:44, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This has been discussed at great length, and is explained above in FAQ #2. Tvoz/talk 03:41, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Clarification

Barak Obama is not the first African-American president. African-American denotes a group of people who are the ancestors of African slaves brought to the USA as slave laborers. Barak Obama is the first Black American president. He is not African-American, he is Kenyan-American. This needs to be corrected as it is historically incorrect and culturally offensive to the different nationalities that comprise the Black community in America. Yomij (talk) 23:58, 12 July 2015 (UTC)yomij[reply]

Obama is universally regarded as African American in the United States. You can open up the FAQ at the top of this page and take a look at Q2 regarding this issue. - Wikidemon (talk) 00:02, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Iran Nuclear talks

I have substantially reworded the section on the Iran nuclear talks. Noting recentism, much of the previous content was, I felt, information that would not be particularly relevant in 10 years time. I tried to write it in a style that would make more sense in 10 years taking into account the unfolding events. I would like to acknowledge that contributions of the editors that I deleted. Thank you. Mozzie (talk) 15:58, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have added three references, but these are breaking news pieces. I hope they are replaced at some stage by more thorough analysis with will surely be carried out in the near future Mozzie (talk) 16:19, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

First president to visit prison

Not a legitimate request, trolling from a Hungarian open proxy. Tarc (talk) 12:51, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

I think that it is an important and remarkable fact. My suggestion for the main article: Obama is the first sitting president in a prison. Ref. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/us/obama-el-reno-oklahoma-prison.html?_r=0 Probably add also a picture from NYT: http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/07/17/us/17OBAMAWEBSUB/17OBAMAWEBSUB-superJumbo-v3.jpg .91.83.4.106 (talk) 23:13, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The source does not say he was the first president in prison. It says he is the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. -- GB fan 00:25, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccurate timeline

The article says "Nine months after his election, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate". This is not accurate. Obama was elected president November 4, 2008. The winner of the Nobel peace price 2009 was announced October 9, 2009. This is eleven months after the election, not nine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivarw~enwiki (talk • contribs) 10:33, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed "election" to "inauguration". -- Scjessey (talk) 12:37, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request: "Barack"

Barack now redirects here, so the hatnote needs to indicate this, therefore, the template should be changed from {{redirect}} to {{redirect2}}

Change: 

{{redirect|Obama|his father|Barack Obama, Sr.|other uses|Barack (disambiguation)|and|Obama (disambiguation)}}
"Obama" redirects here. For his father, see Barack Obama, Sr. For other uses, see Barack (disambiguation) and Obama (disambiguation).

To: 

{{redirect2|Barack|Obama|his father|Barack Obama, Sr.|other uses of "Barack"|Barack (disambiguation)|other uses of "Obama"|Obama (disambiguation)}}
"Barack" and "Obama" redirect here. For his father, see Barack Obama, Sr. For other uses of "Barack", see Barack (disambiguation). For other uses of "Obama", see Obama (disambiguation).

Which also clarifies why "Barack (disambiguation)" is indicated on the hatnote -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 04:42, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Done - Arjayay (talk) 08:38, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How tall is Barack Obama?

I saw a picture of him standing besides the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and it seemed that Barack Obama was smaller than him?! Unfortunately it could not be seen if or if not Erdogan was standing on a pedestal. --217.224.217.98 (talk) 10:00, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm interested that you would find that surprising. Biographical articles don't usually give their subject's heights unless it's relevant, as for a sportsperson. FWIW there doesn't seem to be a lot in it when they are seen walking side by side here. William Avery (talk) 11:17, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Obama is 6'1 according to Heights of presidents and presidential candidates of the United States.--BobfromtheBeltway (talk) 15:21, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This isn't exactly a research desk, but FYI, you if you do a google search of a famous person, like "barack obama height",[4] google will tell you. It's kind of cool. I don't know how to check google's sources, but they do agree here, 6'1" - Wikidemon (talk) 20:14, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 5 August 2015

Please change age from 53 to 54 because his birthday (August 4) just passed. 24.103.221.66 (talk) 04:02, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 24. The age will (and has) change automatically. You should see 54 in the current version of the article. --NeilN talk to me 04:08, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Barry Nickname

There should be some mention that he had the nickname Barry. I mention this because I read this somewhere and wanted to check wiki to see if it was true because I never heard this. I ended up having to use another reference. So if I was using wiki to confirm this then others might.

Also it is interesting information.

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