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Good articlePolitical positions of Paul Ryan has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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April 12, 2017Guild of Copy EditorsCopyedited
June 28, 2017Good article nomineeNot listed
July 10, 2017Good article nomineeListed
Current status: Good article

Views[edit]

More on his views here: As Ryan Looks to Focus on Economy, Spotlight Shines on His Other Views BartlebytheScrivener (talk) 18:02, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

 Done this NYTimes profile is indeed a key source for this article, thank you 13.54.152.171 (talk) 00:24, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Premature / should merge to main[edit]

While I imagine eventually this separate article might be needed, at this point we should be expanding on his political positions in the main article which gets the most readership, and then if it were to become unwieldy have a summary in the main article and a daughter article that goes into more detail. Right now we have almost nothing in the main article, so this daughter is unnecessary. Tvoz/talk 18:49, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, should be merged. Cwobeel (talk) 20:05, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Also Agree, merge them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.103.150.95 (talk) 20:06, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Also agree, belongs in main article, due to shortness. If length there (eventually) becomes too long, should then be spun off as daughter article. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:04, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This was an extremely short-sighted merge. All politician's of Ryan's (newfound) prominence generate enough material for a separate "positions" article. Destroying the structure here, only to re-create it within the next week, is marching the King's men up the hill and marching them back down again. JamesMLane t c 02:00, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirected[edit]

I've restored the article and redirected it to Paul Ryan#Voting record and political positions as it seems likely that there will be justification for recreating the article before too long, and as we do have "Political positions of..." articles, it also seems likely that people will look for this one. I've kept this talk page here (rather than also redirecting it) as the discussion above seems relevant to the current state of these pages, so it seems worth keeping current - at least for now. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:34, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Some info in gun control section is irrelevant[edit]

In the "gun control" section, it mentions that he supports a constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning, and that he voted to withdraw taxpayer funding of NPR. I think that those positions are relevant to the article, but they definitely don't belong in the section about gun control. Where should we move them to? PiratePablo (talk) 21:24, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 Done NPR and flag burning positions move to "other" section, thank you 13.54.152.171 (talk) 00:20, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Inadequate summarization in parent[edit]

This article is inadequately summarized in parent Paul Ryan. Please see WP:SUMMARY. This article is 73,766 bytes long and has 4 sections and 11 subsections. Almost all of this article is not summarized in the parent; the Political positions section of parent article mentions just one area of public policy, social security. The Political positions section of article Paul Ryan might be better headed "Political philosophy"; it is almost exclusively devoted to the relationship between the topics of Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand, which is a noteworthy relationship but not to the exclusion of noteworthy political positions; this article makes no mention of Ayn Rand. 52.56.144.40 (talk) 17:45, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Inadequate summarization in lead[edit]

Further, this article is inadequately summarized in its own lead. The lead of this article reads like the lead of parent article Paul Ryan. Most of this article is not summarized in its lead. The lead of this article makes no mention of any public policy area. This article is 73,000 bytes long and has 4 sections and 11 subsections and 142 citations, none of which contribute content to the lead. Suggested approach one sentence from each section and subsection as per WP:CREATELEAD. Please help bring this article into conformance with MOS:LEAD. Thanks. 52.56.146.5 (talk) 14:57, 9 February 2017 (UTC)  Done 52.56.146.5 (talk) 22:29, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Reviewer: Yellow Evan (talk · contribs) 06:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]


Will do. YE Pacific Hurricane 06:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to leave this on hold, but given the nominator hasn't edited in five weeks, I don't think the work needed is likely to be complete within a reasonable amount of time. Sorry. Regards. YE Pacific Hurricane 07:34, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Reviewer: TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contribs) 23:27, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • "which authorized the Treasury to purchase toxic assets from banks and other financial institutions, and the auto industry bailout" - Link auto industry bailout to Automotive industry crisis of 2008–10?
 Done 13.54.152.171 (talk) 18:33, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Ryan supports the privatization of social security and Medicare and block granting Medicaid to the states." - Wikilink Medicare on its first usage here. Otherwise, this sentence doesn't read right to me.
 Done add WikiLink, reworded for clarity 13.54.152.171 (talk) 18:44, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Ryan supported the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, and opposes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as "Obamacare." - No comma necessary after benefit.
 Done 13.54.152.171 (talk) 18:45, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Ryan said "The last thing I want to see happen is another Democrat in the White House". - Period inside quotations.
 Done 13.54.152.171 (talk) 18:46, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • "He denied the characterization of his position by interviewer Chuck Todd as "party over country". - Same here (and check throughout the rest of the article).
 Done 13.54.152.171 (talk) 18:50, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • "In 1995, as the top legislative aide for freshman representative Sam Brownback of Kansas, Ryan helped lead the policy team for a group of conservative freshman representatives who called themselves the New Federalists and advocated shrinking the federal government by eliminating federal government departments, spending cuts, and restructuring entitlement spending." - Can we split this sentence?
 Done 13.54.152.171 (talk) 18:50, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • "His positions on fiscal policy have included tax cuts, freezes on discretionary spending, cuts to entitlement programs, privatization of social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and education, deregulation, and the elimination of inflation increases in calculating budget baselines." - Same here.
Reworded for clarity; this sentence is a rather long series because it serves as topic sentence to introduce the longest section of the article, fiscal policies, which follows. Thank you. 13.54.152.171 (talk) 19:35, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The three budget reform bills were not approved by either the House or Senate and died.[citation needed]" - Tackle this.
 Done 13.54.152.171 (talk) 19:33, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • "NARAL Pro-Choice America has noted that Ryan has "cast 59 votes" (including procedural motions and amendments which did not have co-sponsors[136]) "on reproductive rights while in Congress and not one has been pro-choice"." - This may be true now, but given that Ryan is an active member of Congress and will conduct more votes, its probably best to put a "through 2017" identifier somewhere.
 Done 13.54.152.171 (talk) 18:55, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reference 89 is dead.
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Otherwise a decent and well-sourced article. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk · contributions) 23:27, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for a very careful close read and helpful notes. 13.54.152.171 (talk) 19:36, 6 July 2017 (UTC) @TropicalAnalystwx13: Thank you again. 13.54.152.171 (talk) 15:48, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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