Talk:Roberta McCain

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What a mess

Will need major cleanup, especially if her son wins the GOP nomination. Moncrief (talk) 18:41, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LMFAO tom green is her husband? yeah right —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.77.52.145 (talk) 07:15, 7 March 2009 (UTC) Even more garbage in this article. Need to flag it as abusive —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghbrown60640 (talk • contribs) 03:36, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Archibald Wright

Archibald Wright (1876–1971) in this article , but http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=125186721 (family grave: Rowena Wright (twin sister 1912-2011) and her parents) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.141.229.59 (talk) 21:02, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wife/widow

Active edit war without discussion:

Is Roberta McCain the wife or widow of John S. McCain, Jr?

I contend that she "was" the wife. Since she is now deceased we use past tense. A widow is a woman who outlives her husband. I think a strong connotation of "widow" is "living" since that is part of the definition. It is not incorrect to say that she "was" the widow, but it is more accurate and kinder, after all, to call her the wife, because that is true and correct. Elizium23 (talk) 20:51, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. See also Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for example. Don't understand what the IP's obsession is. Ivar the Boneful (talk) 23:47, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The speed with which they're reverting makes me think this is probably a logged-out user who has this article on their watchlist. Ivar the Boneful (talk) 23:49, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ivar the Boneful, the speed at which they are reverting is a direct correlation to the speed at which they are reverted. Since this is a content dispute, we do not have any exemption from the WP:3RR and may be blocked for edit-warring. I would advise opening a sockpuppet investigation instead. Elizium23 (talk) 23:54, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with ELizium23's logic. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 00:36, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The IP editor is now blocked one year per WP:AN3. EdJohnston (talk) 00:38, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]