# Talk:Early life and career of Joe Biden

This Washington Post article (What a lifeguarding job on the black side of Wilmington taught Joe Biden about race) has a ton of great detail that can be incorporated into the page and used to sort out some details re: Biden's time in Wilmington and participation in the civil rights movement. Written by Robert Samuels in 2019. Ganesha811 (talk) 13:27, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:Early life and career of Joe Biden/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Kavyansh.Singh (talk · contribs) 13:54, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Nominator: Wasted Time R (talk · contribs) at 11:47, 4 July 2021
Co–Nominator: Ganesha811 (talk · contribs)

Thanks Kavyansh.Singh for the review and thanks especially Ganesha811 for handling all the responses – due to real life matters I've been unavailable for WP efforts lately.  Wasted Time R (talk) 00:27, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
Wasted Time R, congrats to you, since you wrote most of the article! Ganesha811 (talk) 00:55, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

I am going to make two changes.

There was an omission that the second year when the Biden family was in Delaware, they moved to Arden. While not widely covered, this is where a bit of local knowledge helps. I happened have trod some of the same paths as Biden, having gone to Holy Rosary & having lived in Claymont, & later about a mile upstream of Arden. IMHO, the village of Arden is easily the most progressive & artsy locality in Delaware. Do not take my word about it, but read the Arden, Delaware to understand why it may have made an impression on a thirteen-year old Biden. I am adding no WP:OR, just the fact they moved to Arden in the second year & the citations, including reusing the already existing Cramer 1992.
The other change will be to use the {{sfn}} template to link existing shortened footnotes to the full citations in the Cited bibliography section. Peaceray (talk) 17:33, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Peaceray, sounds good, as long as everything is all cited up, thanks for the improvements. Ganesha811 (talk) 19:58, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Pretty well known that Joe does not have a double major and a minor. He actually has a Combo major in English and Political Science, which means he likely did not complete the requirements for any major at all, since these are not commonly joined majors, as Political Science and Economics might be.

2603:3015:E06:7200:240C:3AF0:8277:8D54 (talk) 22:05, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. If it is "pretty well known", feel free to provide WP:RS that show this. Both the SFgate source cited there and the wapo source cited in the next sentence report a double political science and history major. Neither source actually mentions an english minor. Looking further at the main Joe Biden article, one more source is cited - See How They Run: Electing the President in an Age of Mediaocracy. I don't have access to the book but searching for "english" on google books only shows 3 hits in that book, none of which refers to an academic minor. Going to remove the english minor mention from this page and the main article. If someone finds a good source to support the minor, feel free to revert. Cannolis (talk) 00:34, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

It is an incorrect statement that the Bidens met on a blind date. Jill and her first husband both knew Joe and Nelia and helped campaign for him as he sought his first Senate seat. 
Additionally, you may want to research your claim that Jill and Joe were married in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church does not recognize divorce and wouldnt perform the Sacrament of Marriage between individuals when one of them are divorced. 
In the interest of being a serious and unbiased information source, Wikipedia should make corrections. Do your research to confirm my claim, and then please make changes. 2600:6C48:407F:1A72:DC53:1CF1:B2BB:D79C (talk) 00:56, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

On your latter point, if the Jill's first marriage did not occur in the Catholic Church, the marriage would not have been recognized, therefore the marriage of the Jill & Joe Biden could have taken place in the Catholic Church. Do you have a citation that indicates the marriage was not performed by a Catholic priest? Peaceray (talk) 01:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Noting that Biden himself claims they were married by a Catholic priest at the United Nations chapel in New York City in June 1977. Do you have any citations to the contrary? Peaceray (talk) 01:34, 3 September 2024 (UTC)