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The LNP editorial board (May 7, 2019). "Public employees shouldn't be tasked with writing glowing entries for elected officials' Wikipedia pages [opinion]". LNP (newspaper). Retrieved May 8, 2019. Staff members for Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, Auditor General Eugene DePasquale and Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa — all Democrats — and Republican Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman have, among their other duties, the task of editing their bosses' entries on Wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia. Salaries of these staff members are paid for by taxpayers, LNP staff writers Junior Gonzalez and Carter Walker reported Monday.
Carter Walker, Junior Gonzalez (May 7, 2019). "Wikipedia flags Pa. Attorney General Josh Shapiro over glowing, staff-written bio". LNP (newspaper). Retrieved May 8, 2019. On Tuesday the Wikipedia community first flagged a glowing bio of the Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, saying it may "rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject" and could have been written in return for payment, both of which violate its terms of use. In Shapiro's case, edits were made by a communications staffer.

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Section size for Eugene DePasquale (16 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,340	3,340
Early life and education	1,487	1,487
Early career	1,093	1,093
Political career	22	17,527
Pennsylvania House of Representatives	2,293	2,293
Pennsylvania Auditor General	35	10,511
Elections	18	3,658
2012	3,116	3,116
2016	524	524
Tenure	6,818	6,818
2020 congressional campaign	2,121	2,121
2024 Attorney General campaign	2,580	2,580
Personal life	322	322
Electoral history	6,416	6,416
References	28	28
External links	2,176	2,176
Total	32,389	32,389

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COI/UDP templates

After reading this article [1] (requires a subscription or viewing in incognito mode), I have added COI and UDP templates to the article pending some sort of cleanup. SamHolt6 (talk) 18:51, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

So I've reviewed the content here, added a cite, and I don't see any content that conflicts with NPOV and more importantly checked the edit history and can't find any specific edits with remaining content that I would call COI'd or otherwise questionable. SamHolt6, among others, did some work on the same date as the above comment, and the group seems to have cleaned it up considerably. So per the maintenance template removal guidelines, I am removing the COI and UDP templates as they no longer apply. Denzera (talk) 06:10, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Eugene DePasquale

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Eugene DePasquale's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "PrimaryNight":

From 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania: Boockvar, Kathy. "Pennsylvania Elections – Office Results | Representative in Congress". electionreturns.pa.gov. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
From 2020 Pennsylvania Auditor General election: Boockvar, Kathy. "Pennsylvania Elections - Office Results | Auditor General". electionreturns.pa.gov. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2 June 2020.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 17:23, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]