Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Jean Schmidt (old)

Jean Schmidt

Self nom. Profile of the Republican nominee for Congress in the Second District of Ohio, running to replace Rob Portman, who resigned in April. Photos, notes, and a pretty complete bio, I hope. PedanticallySpeaking 14:12, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

• Comment, this article could use some variation in the alignment of the pictures. File:PhoenixSuns 100.pngPhoenix2File:Teamflag1.png 21:46, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I put a couple pictures to the left. PedanticallySpeaking June 29, 2005 16:36 (UTC)

• Comment. The number of external links is absolutely overwhelming. Some are unecessary (links to her hometown's website, and the websites of the local clubs and comittees she is in) and at the very least should be moved out of the text into an External Links section. Some external links on the other hand act as pointers to the source for specific statements: these should be made into footnotes. Otherwise a solid article, although the subject is not really spectacular (no I won't object on grounds that it isn't "spectacular" :D). Phils 08:45, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Since we do not have a Miami Township article, I wanted people to be able to go to its site, especially as Schmidt is proud of having lived there her whole life. Second, the organizations are unlikely to have articles written about them here and I wanted people to be able to go to them. I didn't know what the 20/20 Committee was until I looked at the site. Why go through the duplicitative effort of creating footnotes? Everything's already in the bibliography. PedanticallySpeaking June 29, 2005 16:36 (UTC)

Footnotes detailling where the info came from makes it possible to track back the source even after the document pointed to by the URL is modified/goes down, and are useful in case the article is printed out. I feel at least our FAs should be print-ready. Phils 29 June 2005 19:48 (UTC)

• Support; at least on a cursory glance, this looks quite good. Everyking 22:14, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Object. All the photographs in the article are claimed as "copyrighted fair use". Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia, it is a free content encyclopedia, so images that are not under a free-content license should be avoided if at all possible. (Note that I'll be out of town until Tuesday, and probably won't be able to access Wikipedia until then) --Carnildo 1 July 2005 05:54 (UTC)
  • Might I suggest emailing her -- Jean (at) JeanSchmidt.com -- and asking her to give us a GFDL'd picture? →Raul654 July 3, 2005 02:00 (UTC)