Talk:Nina Easton

Biography assessment rating comment

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 13:38, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Summary

I couldn't help noticing that the current paragraph opening looks identical to a bio on the Charlie Rose site. The Rose page says contents are copyrighted to them, which suggests it didn't originate on wikipedia, but may have been copy/pasted here. Scandalous... Then again, maybe it's fair use (?) and more likely no one cares, but I figured I'd point it out in case anyone wants to address it. ---Replysixty (talk) 03:09, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Bibliography

The bibliography states "Gang of Five" was published in 2002. Yet I just watched a C-Span Booknotes archive of Ms. Easton promoting the book, dated September 2000. Eelb53 (talk) 22:57, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposing a new draft

During the last couple of months, I have been working with and on behalf of Nina Easton to write a new draft of this article. Despite Ms. Easton's high profile and standing as a journalist, the current article is very sparse and lacks key information about her career and publications. The new draft I propose aims to provide a more thorough and detailed account of her career with new sourced information, as well as providing citations for the information currently in the article.

Given my COI, I would appreciate it if other editors could look at this proposed draft and use this to replace the current live article, if it looks ok. Here's the link to the draft in my user space: User:16912_Rhiannon/Nina_Easton

This draft presents a some changes to the structure of the article. The content in my draft is broken down as follows:

• An infobox notes key facts about Ms. Easton
• The Career section now appears first, under which there are two subsections for Journalism and Recognition and Harvard fellowships
  • Journalism provides a summary of her roles as a journalist since her career began, including mentions of major interviews and achievements, as well as detailing all of the publications that she has worked for and her television appearances as a pundit
  • Recognition and Harvard fellowships notes her recognition by the British American Project and her fellowships at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center and Institute of Politics in 2012
• Publications provides details about the books that she has authored or co-authored, including summarized detail of their focus
• Personal life provides background of her education and personal life
• Bibliography has few changes from the current version, but updates the publisher's details for Reagan's Ruling Class

There aren't currently any external links that are appropriate (but not already used as citations), so I've removed that section. I've also removed the redlinks that currently appear in the article, since I don't think they're needed, and it doesn't look like articles for The American Banker etc will be created any time soon. I'd also like to note, a photographer has sent an email to the permissions desk regarding a new photo for this article, and I'd like to add the image once everything is in order regarding copyright.

I'd appreciate any productive feedback on the draft, please let me know if you have any thoughts or questions. This page is on my watchlist, if you reply here I'll respond as soon as I can. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 18:53, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

FWIW, your draft looks good to me. Thanks for your hard work on this. Khazar2 (talk) 13:54, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much, Khazar2. I'll see if any other editors are able to take a look at this, too. If you think this looks good, and there are no changes requested by other editors, do you think you could replace the live article with my draft? Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 16:58, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

I've moved the draft over per your request. Thanks for your work, Khazar2 (talk) 02:44, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Khazar2, thank you so much for your help. The article looks great! I'm still waiting to hear back from the permissions desk about the new photo, I'll be back here with a small request to move it into the article once I've been able to upload. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 13:09, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

A new photo for this article

Hi, I have another request for this article: this time to update the photo in the infobox. I mentioned in my request above that a photographer was providing his permission for a photograph of Nina Easton to be used in this article. The photo has now been uploaded, with permission received by OTRS. Here's the link to the photo on Commons: File:Nina_Easton_MPW.png

I believe this photo is higher quality, a better image of Ms. Easton and is also more recent, since it was taken at this year's Fortune "Most Powerful Women" summit. If other editors agree, I'd really appreciate if it could be added into the article. If you have any questions, this page is on my watchlist and I'll reply as soon as I can to any responses here. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 19:15, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

 Done — Dianna (talk) 15:00, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Dianna! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 16:15, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Books

We now credit her with "several books", cover three in prose and list the same three. LC catalogs only those three.

• Nina Easton at LC Authorities — with 5 catalog records

Sections 2 Publications and 4 Books carry an unusual pair of headings that are normally alternatives for a list of works (sec 4) and they are unusually separated by 3 Personal life, which contains classic material for section 1.

--P64 (talk) 21:55, 4 October 2013 (UTC)