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Mayor of Wasilla

I added the fact that Palin is the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska to her initial introduction in this article. It is of note that she is running for governor, but if that were not true then she would still be notable as a politician as the former Wasilla mayor. Michaelh2001 07:10, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

NOT Governor yet

Pallin hasn't taken office yet. She shouldn't be listed as the 11th Governor. GoodDay 16:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Alaska governors take office on the first Monday in December of the year they are elected. Gov. Palin took office yesterday in Fairbanks (readers please note the datestamps of these comments). This was the first time since statehood an Alaska gubernatorial inauguration was held outside of Juneau, the state's capital. McGehee 17:45, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Needs editing?

Governor Murkowski did appoint Palin to serve as a commissioner on the state's Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which she served on during 2003-2004, but later resigned, in protest over her perceived "lack of ethics" by fellow Alaskan Republican leaders. This included the state party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich, a fellow commissioner, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time and providing a sensitive email to a lobbyist. She filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former state Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who was eventuallly found not guilty.

• Why did Republican leaders think SHE was unethical. The wikipedia article seems to say that Randy Ruedrich was unethical, not Gov. Palin.HumanThing 00:01, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Can someone put a picture of this girl up? SHES SMOKIN!

picture

can someone please put up a picture of her?-Bentley4

Well, we now have a picture of her playing high school basketball, so I suppose a normal picture isn't necessary.</sarcasm> Misplaced Pages in recent months has become probably the worst place on the internet to find pictures of living individuals. It's really completely ridiculous. john k 06:45, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Relevant links

Here's a place to record links that might be useful in this article.

• "The Most Popular Governor: Alaska's Sarah Palin is the GOP's newest star", by Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard, 16 July 2007
  (“Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state's proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, ‘may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history.’”) CWC 11:04, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
• "The GOP's North Star" by Patrick Ruffini (a GOP activist/columnist/blogger, so not a WP:RS), Townhall.com, 29 September 2007
  (“In a small state that generally votes Republican, the divide between Alaska's Republican elected officials could not be more clear. Palin was elected as a whistleblower, and routinely rails against the state's transactional Republican establishment.”) CWC 11:04, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Problems with bare links for references

I have thoroughly fixed and updated the links used as references for this article because they had quite a few faults. The essential problem is the use of bare links; i.e., a URL with no other identifying information. These frequently break, and without data like news article titles or website page titles, it is often impossible even to know where to look for a replacement source. (Archive sites like the Wayback Machine or Google sometimes help, but often do not.)

As an example, here are three problems I couldn't easily fix:

1. "Palin canceled an eleven-mile gravel road…"
   • http://ktva.com/alaska/ci_4847783 — broken link; no article title to search for; prose has no clear set of search terms with which I was able to find pertinent information
   • http://www.alaskareport.com/z45013.htm — although this is used correctly elsewhere in the article, this source says nothing clearly connected to the written prose
2. "…used her veto power to make the second largest cuts of the construction budget…"
   • http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/07_OMB/budget/index.htm — this is an index of information, not a specific source for the statements made in the article text
3. " has denied rumors of running against incumbent senator Ted Stevens in next year's Republican primary."
   • Republican vs Republican in Alaska, AOL News — a opinion blog that does not mention any words from Palin, only citing her earlier election in passing
   • Conservative lawmaker’s call for GOP resignations gets mixed response, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner — the article referenced by the blog; it also only mentions Palin in passing and says nothing of her plans

Sources must provide the exact basis on which the article text is written. A document or webpage that is merely a starting point, requiring further research to find the claim made in the article, is not a source. Therefore, I have replaced these links where necessary with {{fact}} tags. If I weren't just cleaning up citations, I'd probably replace the various blog citations with fact tags as well. Blogs are almost never reliable sources.

The main point to remember is that bare links should be never be used as sources for Misplaced Pages articles. One doesn't necessarily have to create a fully filled-out citation, but should at least include basic title and/or descriptive information (e.g., date, author) with the reference. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:29, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Sarah cancelled the road outside of Juneau...

... here is an article that gives a fairly decent explanation. However I have no clue how to do the edit thing on Misplaced Pages so maybe someone else can go to the article, verify the information and them post it as the citation?

http://www.seakayakermag.com/2007/Oct07/Environment01.htm

Thanks. 64.4.228.13 (talk) 02:23, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Related AfD Duscussion

I have nominated the article on Sarah Palin's husband, Todd Palin for deletion. --TommyBoy (talk) 06:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

That article was deleted and redirected to the Sarah Palin on March 15.--JayJasper (talk) 21:25, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Alaska Gas Inducement Act Section

The entire section's wording seems to be strongly biased against the act. The neutrality is questionable - the section reads like a diatribe against the act, not an informational article about the act. The "references" link to blog or personal websites, not to reputable sources.

Consequently, I have deleted the entire section. TRosenbaum (talk) 14:08, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

"Gay friends?"

She opposes same-sex marriage, but has gay friends and has otherwise been receptive to gay and lesbian concerns about discrimination.

What does it matter if she "has gay friends?" How is this relevant to her polices toward homosexuals? I deleted the phrase while leaving in her alleged receptivenss to concerns regarding homophobic discrimination, only to find this quickly reverted. Can anyone explain to me how having "gay friends" can affect one's decisions as a leader? I strongly believe that this little phrase lends a POV to the article.Shabeki (talk) 10:00, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello Shabeli, perhaps I can explain and put this into perspective for you. Governor Palin supported amending Alaska's constitution to ban gay marriage, and was/is willing to support allowing the people (not the legislature) to decide if medical benefits should be denied to same sex couples. However, she vetoed legislation that would have denied medical benefits to gay state employees and their partners, since she feels the citizens of Alaska ultimately should make that decision. That being said, Gov. Palin choose to campaign as someone who had gay and lesbian friends and respected homosexuals (see the cited source for more information) and this was newsworthy in her run against Gov Murkowski in the republican primary. This is not a "point of view" statement, it was a legitimate issue in the campaign, as Alaska has a large number of gay and lesbian residents. Again, feel free to read the cited source to gain more information.

I hope this answers your concerns. If not, feel free to tell me what your concern is and hopefully I can help you gain perspective. Best Wishes.

PanzaM22 (talk) 18:37, 27 April 2008 (UTC) Mike

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