Talk:Paul Ryan/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: SNUGGUMS (talk · contribs) 17:41, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

I'll review. Comments should be up within a week. Snuggums (talk / edits) 17:41, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Fixed as many dead links as I could and one citation needed tag.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 14:35, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for doing so. I'm drafting the review and hope to have it up July 1st or sooner. Snuggums (talk / edits) 16:22, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

As a preliminary note to the nominator (1990'sguy), the article has a number of cleanup tags (citation needed, clarification needed) that ought to be remedied. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 19:51, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

I only see one "citation needed" tag in this article, Jo-Jo. Not sure what else you found or where. Snuggums (talk / edits) 20:41, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Um, yeah. Misremembered it from before I repaired the other one. Sorry. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 20:47, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Infobox

• No need for his twitter page to be linked here
• I'd add the year Ryan married Janna Little
• His religion isn't really a defining trait and therefore not needed to include here

Lead

• The opening sentence is quite a mouthful. Try splitting it into something like "Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party. He has served as the United States Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district since 1999 and as Chairman of the House Budget Committee since 2011."

Early life and education

• It would help to include his siblings' names
• "A fifth-generation Wisconsinite" is unnecessary detail and not supported by the given source
• "his father was of Irish ancestry and his mother is of German and English ancestry" is not supported by the given source
• "One of Ryan's paternal ancestors settled in Wisconsin prior to the Civil War" is not necessary or even supported by the given source
• I'm not sure "His great-grandfather, Patrick William Ryan (1858–1917), founded an earthmoving company in 1884, which later became P. W. Ryan and Sons and is now known as Ryan Incorporated Central" is necessary
• If known, I'd give the name of the grandfather President Coolidge appointed as U.S. Attorney, and which grandmother stayed with Ryan after his father died
• "prom king", work at McDonald's, and work at Oscar Mayer are completely trivial
• "After his father's death" should have a comma at the end
• Is his fraternity really necessary?

Early career

• "In his early years working on Capitol Hill, Ryan supplemented his income by working as a waiter, as a fitness trainer, and at other jobs" is unnecessary

U.S. House of Representatives

• Really short paragraphs, sections, and subsections should be avoided per MOS:PARAGRAPHS
• The "Committee assignments" subsection is entirely unsourced, and I'm not sure if it should be in list form. I suggest merging this and "Caucus memberships" (which is missing citations for everything except for "Caucus of House Conservatives Republican Study Committee") and containing them within prose.

Political positions

• More MOS:PARAGRAPHS issues
• "Ryan, who owns a rifle and a shotgun, is an NRA member, has received an 'A' rating from the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action and has been endorsed by the organization every cycle he has been in Congress" needs a citation

2012 vice presidential campaign

• "Ryan attended the second inauguration of Barack Obama out of what he said was "obligation", where he was booed by a group led by a lawyer with the Voting Section of the Department of Justice" is unnecessary
• "In 2014, he published The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea" is unreferenced

Personal life

• "A Roman Catholic, Ryan is a member of St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Janesville, and was an altar boy" should be in "early life and education"
• It might be best to merge the family details within a previous section of the article, and would benefit to include his children's birth years.
• The marathon claims are trivial, same for his hobbies and sports/music interests

Awards and honors

• This should probably be in prose

Electoral history

• Not sure if this section is needed. If so, I'm on the fence as to whether it needs sources since it seems to be a rehash of previously stated material.

References

• Some dead links still need to be fixed, though it's not as bad as it was before thanks to Jo-Jo Eumerus
• References need authors, names of works, titles, and accessdates whenever available
• "hughhewitt.com" should read "The Hugh Hewitt Show"
• "The Huffington Post", Fox News, Daily Mail, and New York Post aren't really reliable, and Twitter is discouraged when high-quality secondary sources are available
• Are "Mashable", "The Daily Beast", "OpenSecrets.org", or "The Hill" reliable sources?

Overall

• Well-written?

• Prose quality: Could be better
• Manual of Style compliance: Needs work

• Verifiable?

• Reference layout: Almost
• Reliable sources: Some need replacing
• No original research: Not everything is properly attributed, and dead links make content harder to verify

• Broad in coverage?

• Major aspects: Missing a couple bits
• Focused: Unnecessary detail needs to be removed

• Neutral?: No bias detected

• Stable?: Seems OK

• Illustrated, if possible, by images?

• Appropriate licensing: No copyright violations
• Relevance and captioning: All good

• Pass or Fail?: Sorry, but I'm failing this and am not going to place this on hold as there's too many concerns with layout and trivia. Snuggums (talk / edits) 07:58, 1 July 2015 (UTC)