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There is another Jane Garvey who is a presenter on BBC Radio 5. How would I go about making a page to reflect this?

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Someone seems to have taken care of the link to the BBC's Jane Garvey.

I moved the note about her undergrad college closing in-line. I have no reference for the assertion that the "Mount Saint Mary's College" she attended was the dead one in NH, but it seems plausible. (There was one link from an on-line biography to "Mount St. Mary's College" in CA, but no reason to trust it.)

Article greatly expanded; issues & explanations

The article has been greatly expanded over the lsst few days, and is probably no longer "start class."

It contains numerous items that may, in themselves, seem trivial, but are explanatory or prefatory to other important items that are arguably not clearly understood without the "trivial" background.

It also contains some significant details on such things as the 9/11 aircraft grounding order -- one of the most extreme orders ever issued by a U.S. civilian official -- very commonly (but very incorrectly) attributed to Garvey. Garvey is given "credit" for having "echoed" support for the order -- which was decided upon, and initiated, by her subordinate: air traffic control manager Ben Siler, as noted in the cited references, including the offical report of the 9/11 Commission.

Some of Garvey's expressions of opinion are cited to validate or provide crucial background for other facts, such as her description of multiple employers as "male-dominated" -- a plausibly explanatory factor in her subsequent decisions (summarized in the article) on how to resolve the high-profile sexual harrassment issues at the FAA.

Her own description of her rise from teacher to state public works associate commissioner as a "quantum leap" is also noted, to verify in her own words the unusualness of such a career leap for a person with no apparent background in -- nor ties to -- the field in which she was suddenly becoming a government official.

I have found partisan sources implying an explanation for that and other strange "leaps": an undocumented claim that she was a major political fundraiser -- especially for President Clinton before her appointment to the FAA. These claims are from partisan sources, and thus obviously suspect. I will not quote them in the article, of course, but would encourage any editor who can find solid Wikipedia-approved references reporting this to incorporate it into the narrative as appropriate.

It would give some signficant context to an otherwise very strange career, for a person whose only known prior training and experience was as an English-and-history teacher (before becoming a state public works official), and who was (at the time) the only non-aviation person in history to be given the nation's preeminent aviation job: FAA Administrator.

This "fundraiser" theory is further supported by online research through notable (and, I believe, reputable) non-partisan watchdog sites -- and the Federal Election Commission (for instance, this years' history) -- which appear to show her recent history as a heavy political donor, and possibly as an agent of other entities, perhaps as a lobbyist.

It is not clear to me whether, how and when to use these sources, and fellow editors are invited to make suggestions. (The principal newspapers of record that Wikipedians commonly cite -- the New York Times and the Washington Post -- are not known for being whistleblowers on Democrat contributors, and apparently no other newspaper available online gives any account, nor record, of her donor history.)

~ Penlite (talk) 13:35, 17 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Maiden name - when last used?

A challenge in resarching, online, Garvey's history, is that it is not clear when she switched from using her maiden name (Famiano) to her married name (Garvey). If anyone can provide an appopriately documented marriage date (in the "Personal life" section), that would help. ~ Penlite (talk) 14:02, 17 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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