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Did you know... that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
David Wood has called Heather Booth "one of the nation's most influential organizers for progressive causes"?
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I tagged the lead because it is not written per
WP:LEAD and violates
WP:NPOV and
WP:PEACOCK. We are not trying to promote Booth, just write an encyclopedic article about her. That overlong quote should be placed later in the article, probably under Progressive Politics. The lead should describe her succinctly – "a civil rights activist, feminist, and political strategist" – and then summarize any other pertinent details mentioned in the article. The paragraphs in the article are also overlong and difficult to follow; please provide paragraph breaks. It's not clear why the Family section is sandwiched between her Career and Political Opponents and Critics; it should probably be moved up to the Early Life and Education section.
Yoninah (
talk)
22:27, 9 August 2017 (UTC)reply
A fact from Heather Booth appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 August 2017 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
David Wood has called Heather Booth "one of the nation's most influential organizers for progressive causes"?
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I tagged the lead because it is not written per
WP:LEAD and violates
WP:NPOV and
WP:PEACOCK. We are not trying to promote Booth, just write an encyclopedic article about her. That overlong quote should be placed later in the article, probably under Progressive Politics. The lead should describe her succinctly – "a civil rights activist, feminist, and political strategist" – and then summarize any other pertinent details mentioned in the article. The paragraphs in the article are also overlong and difficult to follow; please provide paragraph breaks. It's not clear why the Family section is sandwiched between her Career and Political Opponents and Critics; it should probably be moved up to the Early Life and Education section.
Yoninah (
talk)
22:27, 9 August 2017 (UTC)reply