Talk:Charles Yost

Cleanup>

A lot of work has gone into this article. Unfortunately, the anon editors involved produce long lists rather than encyclopedic text; there's not a single sentence to be found. Apparently, they have no clue about the MoS, either. That wouldn't be all that bad if they didn't insist on blowing away the few lines we once had that could have provided context and intro. I marked the page with {{cleanup}}, maybe someone else can fix this. Rl 15:40, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

I reinstated the {{cleanup|December 2005}} tag, and will begin working on cleanup. Though, I'm also fine with merging this article. --Aude 04:36, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey, I want to help clean this up but, I'm not sure exactly what I should do. Any suggestions?Naruto Tron 00:07, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Timeline

Is the timeline information already present in the career information, or is it in the process of being merged, or what's going on? A list is quite unnecessary. superman 18:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

The timeline can be removed, though if there are important details to merge into the text, that's fine. Also, the references and links are excessive, and need formatting. -Aude (talk | contribs) 20:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

The references and links seem to just be a collection of all the materials in the world that mention Yost's name--I don't think any of it is actually relevant to the article. I think it should all be removed, frankly. Thoughts? superman 01:55, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I entirely agree with you on this point. Since there have been no objections to your proposal, I am going to drastically reduce the number of links and references included in the article. I figured that a contemplation time of over 2 weeks has been enough for everyone to bring up possible objections. Since none were voiced, I will proceed. --Vargher 21:47, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Note: I have checked the search engines in order to find websites which might offer a biography and the main ideology of Yost. I have found none which would be actually relevant to the article. That is why I simply removed ALL links and the external references, which, as has been mentioned multiple times in the discussion, have been of little value as well. --Vargher 21:59, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Many years later, I have removed the list. I think it is the list his daughter compiled while working on the book. The list was full of red flag re. original research. Rublamb (talk) 12:29, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

External links

I noticed this article at the top of a list of articles needing external link cleanup at Wikipedia:WikiProject External links. At 90 links, it was by far the most heavily-linked article on the list, and although these links were pared down at one point, they have made a comeback. The last edit on January 8, 2007 added 70 external links, most of them without descriptive text. I suggest that someone familiar with the subject of the article go through and select only the most essential links to keep, so that readers will be directed to the ones that are most likely to be interesting and rewarding. Wikipedia is not a link repository, and excessive linking distracts from the article and makes external links less useful/meaningful. - AdelaMae ^{(t - c - wpn)} 06:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I removed the external link cleanup notice. They are now gone. Rublamb (talk) 12:25, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Testimony before Congress

I am removing this section from the article, but am relocating its content here for future reference. As it stands, it does not really provide useful information as this was mostly part of his job with the state department (There were no inline citations to transfer over with the content).

• 1958: Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Historical Series), Vol. X, Eighty-Fifth Congress, Second Session- Statement and questioning of Yost to be Ambassador to Morocco
• 1961 - February 7: Executive Session, Tuesday- Nomination of Yost to be Deputy U.S. Representative, Security Council, United Nations
• 1963 - October 29: Amendment to the United Nations Participation Act of 1945
• 1967 - October: United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Submission of the Vietnam Conflict to the United Nations
• 1969 - January 21: United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Nomination of Yost to be U.S. Representative to the UN
• 1969 - January 21: Security Council Resolution on the Establishment of UN Peacekeeping Force
• 1970 - March 9: Expansion of UN Headquarters and Privileges and Immunities of UN
• 1970 - April 24: Senate Foreign Relations ad hoc Special Subcommittee on the Genocide Convention
• 1970: Policy Toward Africa for the Seventies
• 1971 - April 23: House Committee - Expansion of United Nations Headquarters
• 1971 - May 26: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Fulbright Hearings - Statement on Southeast Asia
• 1972 - May 18: Committee on Foreign Relations-Subcommittee on the Near East
• 1973 - February 22: Statement to Foreign Affairs Committee-Rhodesian situation
• 1973 - May 11: Senate Foreign Relations Committee-International Court of Justice
• 1973, December 5: Foreign Affairs Committee-United Nations Peacekeeping
• 1975, May 7: Senate Foreign Affairs Committee-U.S. Role in the United Nations
• 1975 - October 6: Foreign Affairs Committee-Further Consideration of Sinai Agreements
• 1979: Senate Hearings on International Human Rights Treaties
• 1979 - September 6: Senate Committee on Foreign Relations-SALT II treaty
• 1979 - November 14: Human Rights Treaties

Rublamb (talk) 04:12, 16 October 2022 (UTC)