Talk:Candice Bergen (politician)

Background

The information on Ms.Bergen's background, prior to becoming an MP, is a little thin. Is there any more information of Ms. Bergen's prior profession, education, and other volunteer experience? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.112.95.28 (talk) 18:41, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Question

Is she related to Jake Hoeppner? I haven't been able to find a source which answers that yet. Bearcat (talk) 21:00, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

• The page on opposition house leader lists the opposition leader in the house of commons of Canada as Andrew Scheer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.59.137 (talk) 22:49, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
• Bergen's ex-husband was David Hoeppner, so if there is any relation between her and Jake Hoeppner (a former MP from this riding) it would presumably be through her ex-husband's family. I wondered that too, but maybe the similar names are just a coincidence. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 10:01, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Name Change

http://www.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/ProfileMP.aspx?Key=170637&Language=E Nickjbor (talk) 18:17, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

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The result of the proposal was procedural close. --BDD (talk) 23:44, 17 September 2012 (UTC) (non-admin closure)

Candice Hoeppner → Candice Bergen (Canaidan Politician) – She's changed her name back to her maiden name. Nickjbor (talk) 18:26, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

• Comment' someone already move the article to Candice Bergen (politician), and the proposed name uses the wrong caps (should be Candice Bergen (Canadian politician). I don't think any more disambiguation is necessary with just "politician" being good enough. -- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 21:18, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
• Since a move has already occurred which addresses the proposer's main concern, I'm giving this request a procedural close. If the editor feels that the article title should be further disambiguated, he's free to make that request, although it seems unnecessary. --BDD (talk) 23:44, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

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Personal history?

There is nil personal/family life information in the article and consequently the reader is left wondering how her name came to be altered from its birth designation in the first place. Orthotox (talk) 00:24, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

We can't include her personal or family life details without reliable sources for that information. Nevertheless, I don't think the reader is "left wondering" how her name "came to be altered" — I don't think very many Wikipedia readers have difficulty understanding the concept that a woman changing away from her birth surname was because she took her husband's surname at marriage. The reader might certainly wonder what Mr. Hoeppner's first name was or is, and they might certainly wonder whether Candice switching back to her birth surname in 2012 was because they divorced, or because they're still married but she decided to do the more "feminist" approach to married names instead — but media asked her at the time which of those it was, and her office declined to clarify. So without reliable sources to verify those things, we can't include them here. Bearcat (talk) 15:10, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Candice Bergan spouse

Michael J. Harris - on Facebook 70.65.112.244 (talk) 05:41, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

We need a more authoritative and reliable and independent source than that. Facebook is essentially never a useful source for anything on Wikipedia ever. Bearcat (talk) 00:50, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Is the source from her verified Facebook page? --PerpetuityGrat (talk) 00:54, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

That's not really relevant at all. Names of spouses and children aren't mandatory information that a politician's article has to include; they're details that can be included in a biography if there's a reason why it's important information for the reader to know, but not if it just amounts to biographical trivia. So the only legitimate reason to ever include the name of a politician's spouse in their article would be if media coverage had identified a reason why the spouse's name was relevant, and the spouse's name being extractable from social media posts isn't sufficient. Bearcat (talk) 16:50, 30 January 2023 (UTC)