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Gerald Zahorchak was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
June 6, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
August 12, 2025	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 7, 2010.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that throughout his career, Pennsylvania Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak has also been an elementary teacher, principal, high school football coach, superintendent, deputy mayor and city council member?

Current status: Delisted good article

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GA Review

Latest comment: 13 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

This review is transcluded from Talk:Gerald Zahorchak/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 02:54, 6 June 2010 (UTC) Overall this is a good article, though I do have the following concerns:Reply

Any early life/personal info on him? It's probably sparse given his type of position but asking nonetheless.
- Not that I've been able to find, except for a short bit that I've now added under a "Personal life" section. — Hun ter Ka hn 13:57, 6 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
"and was the Johnstown city council" do you mean city councilman?
- Yup, that's my mistake. I fixed it. — Hun ter Ka hn 13:57, 6 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

I made some other tweaks, but I found no other major errors, so as a result I'm passing this article. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 15:06, 6 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Rrbeatty (talk) 15:37, 14 January 2013 (UTC)Reply
This article contains two photographs, neither of which are of the subject of this biographical article and thus seem gratuitous. Please consider removing them. The photos depict (1) a statue of Penn State's Nittany Lion and (2) an ex-governor.

Article review

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

It has been a while since this article has been reviewed, so I took a look and noticed the following:

There are some uncited statements, including entire paragraphs.
Many sections are quite long, and should be broken up with additional headings.
I saw that the article's history stops at 2011. I did a quick Google search and saw that there was controversy in the Allentown School District that he was superintendent at, and that he is now a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown. I think there is post-2011 information that needs to be added to the article.

Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 22:52, 28 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

GA Reassessment

Latest comment: 11 months ago5 comments3 people in discussion

Gerald Zahorchak

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 10:23, 12 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

The article's history stops at 2011. I did a quick Internet search and saw that there was controversy in the Allentown School District that he was superintendent at, and that he is now a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown. I think there is post-2011 information that needs to be added to the article. There are also some uncited statements, including entire paragraphs, and many sections are quite long and should be broken up with additional headings. Z1720 (talk) 15:49, 5 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello! I was the primary author on the original email. I'm not as active on Wikipedia these days, but I'd be happy to add post-2011 information to this article and fix some of the issues that have been identified here in this GAR. I think I can find some time to do this either this weekend or early next week, and will share updates here either way... — Hunter Kahn 17:06, 11 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hunter Kahn, do you still intend to improve this article? No worries if not. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:29, 7 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

AirshipJungleman29 I'd like to, but have had trouble finding the time. Obviously I have no objections with it getting delisted, and if I can improve it later, maybe I can nominate it for GA again. Thanks! — Hunter Kahn 19:17, 1 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.