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This talk page is intended for evidence and discussion of WP:WEIGHT concerns relating to including various subjects and people in the Barack Obama article.

New Yorker article

Count of sentences devoted to various individuals (from Ryan Lizza (2008-07-21). "Making It:How Chicago shaped Obama". New Yorker.

Total length is about 14,700 words,

  1. Toni Preckwinkle – 33.75
  2. Will Burns 27.75
  3. Emil Jones 27.5
  4. Alice Palmer – 18.5
  5. Bobby Rush 16.5
  6. David Axelrod 14.75
  7. Abner Mikva 14.25
  8. Tony Rezko 11.5

Ricky Hendon 11 Bettylu Saltzman 10 Bill Clinton 10 Richard M. Daley 9.5 John Corrigan 9 Rod Blagojevich 8.5 Marty Nesbitt 7.75 Judson Miner 7.25 Harold Washington 6.75 Al Kindle 5.75 Christie Hefner 5.5 Don Rose 5 Penny Prtitzger 5 Ivory Mitchell 4.75 Jane Byrne 4.75 Marilyn Katz 4.5 Lois Friedberg-Dobry 4.25 Michelle Robinson 3.75 Jeremiah Wright 3.5 Alan Dobry 3.5 Richard J. Daley 3.5 E.J. Dionne, Jr. 3 Obama grandparents 3 Courtney Nottage 2.75 Carol Anne Harwell 2.5 Anita Ackerman 2.5 Carol Moseley Braun 2 Bill Ayers 2.0 Dan Shomon 2 Alvin Love 2 Rohm Emanuel 1.75 Craig Robinson 1.75 Adlai Stevenson 1.75 Bob Dole 1.5 Buzz Palmer 1.5 Michael Bilandic 1.5 Robert Starks 1.5 Jesse Jackson 1.5 Sam Ackerman 1.5 Valerie Jarrett 1.25 Paul Simon (senator) 1.25 Hillary Clinton 1.25 Saul Bellow 1 Saul Alinsky 1 David Wilhelm 1 John McCain 1 George W. Bush 1 David Mendell 1 William Daley 1 John Mearsheimer 1 Mel Reynolds – 1 Obama parents 1 Martin Luther King 1 Bernadette Dohrn 1 Jim Edgar 1 Peter Fitzgerald 1 James Andrews 0.75 Philip M. Klutznick 0.75 Tiger Woods 0.5 Paul Douglas 0.5 Huey Rich 0.5 Obama daughters 0.5 Norman Lear 0.5 Dan Hynes 0.5 Santita Jackson 0.25 Lyndon Johnson 0.25 Trent Lott 0.25 Michael Madigan 0.25 Mark Penn 0.25 Dick Morris 0.25 Daniel Patrick Moynihan 0.25 Anita Blanchard 0.25 Jesse Helms 0.25