Talk:2000 Illinois's 1st congressional district election

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Illinois's 1st congressional district election, 2000/GA2. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: 12george1 (talk · contribs) 23:39, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Holy crap, I cannot believe that you waited this long for a review in response to this GAN. With that said, I will now start the review, after 3 months and 22 days since its nomination. As I am reviewing, I will list the issues I have with the article usually with quotations, which you can search for if you press "Ctrl" and "F" simultaneously.--12george1 (talk) 23:39, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

• Is there a picture of Raymond Wardingley or Barack Obama (campaigning in 2000)?
  • I looked on Commons for a good picture of Obama and couldn't find one from 2000. Most images are post-2004, when he was a federal employee. These are the only pictures from 2004 and earlier. I almost went with this picture, which shows him during his tenure in the Illinois State Senate, but I thought there was too much noise.
  • As for Wardingley, not likely. He was a paper candidate, and I don't even think he bothered to campaign. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:31, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
  • Press on his primary victory calls Wardingly a "perennial candidate". He worked as a clown professionally, and his personal website is something to behold. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:43, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
• "Illinois's 1st congressional district is a minority-majority district and has a higher percentage of African American (65 percent) than any other congressional district in the nation. It is a working class district, and currently has a Cook PVI of D+35, making it one of the most Democratic districts in the country." - [Citation needed]
  • I rewrote this with information I could properly source (those PVI numbers are outdated and I can't find them anywhere). – Muboshgu (talk) 22:20, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
• "In mid-October, Rush’s son, Huey, was murdered, leading Obama to put his campaign on hold." - What year? 1999? 1823? 2011?
  • I thought it was implied that it was 1999, as it follows the campaign, and two paragraphs earlier it says "September 1999". Should I add the year there, or is it redundant? – Muboshgu (talk) 17:31, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
• "Obama lost the primary election, held on March 21, 2000, by a 2-to-1 margin." - Well, who won the nomination? You could re-word that like this to include the answer to that question: "In the primary election held on March 21, 2000, Obama lost by a 2-to-1 margin against Rush."
  • Changed to "Rush defeated Obama" – Muboshgu (talk) 17:31, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
• "In 2004, Obama was the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention. After his speech, political pundits speculated about his future as a possible presidential candidate. After being elected to the United States Senate that year, and amid much speculation in the media regarding his future plans, Obama announced that he would seek the 2008 democratic presidential nomination in February 2007 and went on to defeat Hillary Clinton in one of the closest presidential nomination races in American history. He then defeated fellow senator John McCain in the general election to become the first African American to be elected President of the United States." - [Citation needed]
  • Whole paragraph cited. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:20, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
• There is minor name inconsistency within the references. On reference #4, you have "Edward McClelland", but "Obama, Barack" on reference #7. Please fix it so it is either last name first or vice versa, but not both.
  • Fixed. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:31, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Whoops! So sorry I haven't started on this yet! I thought I had watchlisted this GA nom, or maybe I expected it to be a continuation of GA1, which I do have watchlisted. Anyway, what's another week on a nomination I made in March, eh? I'll start working on it today. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:23, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Okay, everything looks good. I will now pass this article for GA. Regards,--12george1 (talk) 01:29, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

just sayin

Can you even imagine the level of satisfaction Barack Obama must feel to walk into the House chamber to deliver his 8th state of the union and see Bobby Rush hanging out in the crowd -- knowing he had to wait there for hours to get that seat -- looking for a handshake and an autograph?