Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Past Political Scandals and Controversies

message: As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I'm specifically going over all of the "World History-Americas" articles and just reviewed Burr-Hamilton duel. I am leaving this message on this project's page, along with the other editors to the article, since the banner for this project is included on the talk page on the article and I figured you might be interested in helping to improve the article further. I believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues considering sourcing that should be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. The article needs just a few more inline citations and some minor cleanup, and if fixed, I'll pass the article. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 21:32, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Burr-Hamilton duel]] GA Sweeps Review: On Hold

message: Create - Wikipedia:WikiProject Past Political Scandals and Controversies
; Description : A project dedicated to accurately describing past and current political scandals and controversies so that readers will have an accurate account of the facts and sources
; Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below)
# — dkatten 16:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough, I'll change it and start it. Remember 04:05, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't have time to do this now so someone else please take charge. Remember 15:31, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *In my opinion there are probably more "controversy" articles than we really need (at least in certain high-profile areas, like American politics), and I hope that this project could narrow these down and improve their quality, rather than see a proliferation of new "controversy" articles.--Pharos 19:42, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: * I think that it is a very good idea, if the main focus is on addressing POV and source issues, but it depending on how it runs it could be quite vulnerable in the ways User:Blaxthos mentioned.  I do however think it's worth the attempt.  baby_ifritah 00:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Done. Remember 04:06, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Past Political Scandals and Controversies from [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals]]

message: As a perpetually neglected project with a broken template, I intend to de-link the articles currently transcluding the template.  Thanks.  /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 22:18, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough.  It's a shame it never got off the ground. Remember (talk) 02:47, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intent to remove 

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replies: text: Although only one article was "automatically" selected, you can nominate additional articles using Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:59, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Past Political Scandals and Controversies 

message: Gentlemen, would you please observe  this and offer an opinion.--Dixie Hag2 (talk) 15:37, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Remember|Remember]] and [[User:ukulele|ukulele]] 

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thread_title:  Past Political Scandals and Controversies articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release 

message: I will be working on this project with my students in the Fall. We'd appreciate any help that the members of this project can give us with regards to editing, suggesting articles that need creation/work and such. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Jtodsen (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 20:40, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reviving Scandals Project 

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message: :Category:People associated with the Watergate scandal, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 12:31, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Category:People associated with the Watergate scandal

message: Members of this project may be interested in this discussion. Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:18, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion of interest

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