Talk:Dan Quayle 2000 presidential campaign

DYK nomination of Dan Quayle 2000 presidential campaign

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 06:38, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that when Dan Quayle announced his 2000 presidential campaign, Larry King congratulated him by telling him "you're not a joke like you once were"? The New York Times

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carl Freedman (writer)

Created by JJonahJackalope (talk). Self-nominated at 01:29, 5 October 2021 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article could use some minor copyediting; in the Iowa Straw poll section, for example, it says "Quayle, however, downplayed the importance of the poll and compared it to a political machine, where if you have money, you will perform well.[51][57]" This ought to be a quote from him, not "if you have money, you will perform well" in Wikivoice. On the whole, however, I think this is quite a good article, and look forward to seeing it at WP:GAN. jp×g 04:26, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Dan Quayle 2000 presidential campaign/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

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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Reviewer: Kavyansh.Singh (talk · contribs) 02:07, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
Nominator:JJonahJackalope (talk · contribs) at 01:15, 5 October 2021 (UTC) I have contributed to some presidential campaign articles. (2 currently at GAN) Would be more than happy to review this. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 02:07, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

GA criteria

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Comments

The article is in a good state overall. Just a few minor comments. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 11:00, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

• Replace the png logo with this svg file (File:Quayle 2000 campaign logo.svg)
  • Done.
• "The 2000 presidential campaign of Dan Quayle, former Vice President of the United States" – lowercase Vice President
  • Done.
• More than half of the lead section completely deals with Quayle's background. Please summarize that to 2-3 lines, and add more details about his campaign events. The lead should be summary of the whole article; try to include the most important point from each section in the lead.
  • Reorganized lead, brought down the background to three sentences.
• "his candidacy as a longshot," – needs to be rephrased.
  • Rephrased this part of the lead.
• "United States House of Representatives", "United States Senate", "1988 United States presidential election", "Vice President of the United States" – Avoid repetition of "United States" from each of these instances.
  • Removed repetitive use of "United States".
• "Bush and Quayle lost reelection" – Just a suggestion that this can be linked to George H. W. Bush 1992 presidential campaign. Also worth noting that various Republicans including former President Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon (source). For transparency, I should note that I created the page "George H. W. Bush 1992 presidential campaign".
• " with a 1999 article in The Washington Post stating that he "was never the darling of the party core"" – this should be split from the previous sentence.
  • Done.
• " such as in the Virginia's gubernatorial election and in New Mexico's 3rd congressional district special election" – For whom did Quayle campaign in these elections? What makes these particular elections notable enough for mentioning.
  • The source I cited there does not mention the specific candidates he campaigned for, but includes these two elections as examples of his nationwide campaigning.
• "other potential candidates such as" → "other potential candidates including"
  • Done.
• I would unlink "General", as it seems like overlinking.
  • Done.
• "supporter of Quayle for president" → "supporter of Quayle"
  • Done.
• "The day after he announced his candidacy, " – he didn't announce his candidacy, he just expressed his intention to do so. He formally announced on April 14.
  • Edited section to reflect this.
• Cab we link "liberal Republicans" to Rockefeller Republican (if it's correct in this context)
  • Linked, I believe in this context it would be correct.
• "$20 million" – Use Template:Inflation
  • Done.
• "name brand recognition" should better be linked to Name recognition
  • Done.
• Reference to poem September 1, 1939 was completely unexpected. Great!
  • Thanks! It was definitely an odd thing to find.
• "championed family values" – 'championed' is not a neutral point of view
  • Changed phrasing.
• "continuing candidacy.[37][52][53][54][55]" – can we merge these 5 citations?
  • Done.
• "where if you have money, you will perform well" – Is it a quote? We shouldn't be saying it as a factual statement.
  • Rephrased sentence.
• "drop out of the race.[69][5][70][71][71]" – Ref order, and merge the citations.
  • Done.
• Do we know what George H. W. Bush thought of Quayle-2000?
  • I've found several mentions in the sources of George H. W. Bush supporting his son, but little on what he thought of Quayle's candidacy.
    • @JJonahJackalope – This is something I feel should be important to mention. See if you can incorporate something (even a sentence) from this source. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 15:22, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
      • Added information from that article.
• There's little aftermath here. We should mention that Quayle was speculated as a candidate in the 2002 Arizona gubernatorial election. What was the effect of this campaign on his later life.
  • Added more on the aftermath of the election.
    • Looks good. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 15:19, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

— Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 11:00, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Kavyansh.Singh, just pinging to let you know I have made edits to the article addressing your comments here. Thank you again for starting this review, and if you have any further comments, questions, or concerns, please reach out. -JJonahJackalope (talk) 14:59, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Close to passing this article, just a single suggestion left for Bush Sr's thought of Quayle-2000. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 15:19, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Kavyansh.Singh, just pinging to say I added some information from the article you provided about George H. W. Bush's support of his son in the campaign. -JJonahJackalope (talk) 15:42, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Passing! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 15:51, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

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.