Talk:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Criticisms of Ocasio-Cortez

I feel like this article is overly positive for someone who has encountered so much criticism. She's been accused of not being ready or knowledgable enough for office, as well as too sensational. She was very campaign focused, and struggled with what to do or how to make it even in between winning the election and taking office. She also has made her way onto a number of 'bad economics' forms, and has been criticized heavily for some of her policies. Lastly she is an extreme left (socialist) politician, and her article reads like she's very middle of the road. I came to this article to learn about her, and I feel like if someone just read this wikipedia article they'd have a very distorted picture of what she stands for and what types of opposition she's faced. I'm not sure if this would take the best form as a separate section about her or if it'd make more sense to add more accurate details throughout the article, I'd be interested to hear what you all have to say though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Haxonek (talk • contribs) 23:21, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

It seems to me like your point of view was already established before you came here. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:24, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Do you have any reliable sources that discuss criticisms of her, that can be added to the article and summarized neutrally? If so, post links. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 23:26, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

@Haxonek: It describes her as a socialist at the beginning of political positions. PeterTheFourth (talk) 23:32, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

I've explained to this new editor that socialism is not extreme left (by which I assume he means "far left". Doug Weller talk 12:13, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

"accused" and "criticized" by who exactly? Trump? Alex Jones? Fox News? and why? because she's not a plutocrat? provide source and we can review them. Acousmana (talk) 14:01, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

@Acousmana: I'm sorry if my initial talk came off too strong, I haven't used the talk pages/wikipedia edit much and I'm still getting used to it. Additionally I'm very liberal myself, however Cortez has come under fire a number of times for getting basic facts wrong. She claimed unemployment was low because everyone was working two jobs, she's accused the upper middle class of disappearing (when it's been growing considerably), and a number of other things from the defense budget to suggesting the US population was ~500 million people (here's the washington post criticizing her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2q4cHONB6I, politifact: https://www.politifact.com/personalities/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/statements/?list=speaker, etc). I'm not suggesting we bash her here, however the opposition to her cites her frequent misrepresentation of facts, and unlike most politician pages there is no criticism section for Cortez. Haxonek (talk) 06:17, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

(Comment) That WaPo video didn't present any substance to back their criticism, plus it's a Youtube video. Her politifact page, a primary source, only has four entries. Per WP:BLP, criticism can be included only if reliable secondary sources present them "responsibly, conservatively, and in a disinterested tone". All those accusations would fail these requirements. Inclusion of criticism would be disproportionate at this point, and a dedicated criticism section is actually not a good solution. "Bad economics" is subjective, socialism is nowhere near far left and conservative media painting her as a socialist demon or sth is already noted in article.

If we're going to write something, here is one from Jacobin: [1]. In case this is ever useful. Tsumikiria (T/C) 07:44, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

"Inclusion of criticism would be disproportionate at this point"! No criticisms allowed! 2604:2000:1580:440E:E961:51F9:B9BD:3714 (talk) 16:58, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Taking quotations out of context does not help your argument. Do you have a specific reliably-source substantive criticism of her published in a significant third-party site to add? JesseRafe (talk) 18:33, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

She was widely criticized for labeling Israel as an occupying force, and it should be mentioned. She was also criticized for her response when asked to clarify her statements. Regardless of the accuracy of her statements, they may have gotten enough attention to merit a mention. RadPaper (talk) 13:41, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Widely? The first link is an Op-Ed and the second one quotes two random people on Twitter. Don't judge articles' content by their headlines, they are often written by other people. JesseRafe (talk) 14:20, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

The consensus of editors here on the subject of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is very supportive of her and her political advocacy. Not that's there anything wrong with that, it's just a fact that her supporters are just more motivated than anyone to scrutinize anything added into or removed from the article. Expect that there's a lot of the thumbs on the scale to tip a critical edit out of the article for valid Wikipedia reasons at the the discretion of the editors' consensus, especially for "significance" and "reliability of sources" (i.e. "scrubbuing") by a Wikipedian examination of the motives that a secondary source cited is using. Likewise expect thumbs on the scale for inclusion of material that presents her in a best possible way (i.e. "buffing"). In the end, if everyone is editing according to the guidelines, critical material can get into this article, and the halo effect material doesn't. It just may exhaust you to try. patsw (talk) 17:54, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

References

Environment criticism

"but, according to Timothy Cama of The Hill, does not provide details about how the US would move away from non-renewable power sources"

Why do we report one commentator questioning the success of a policy that will come out of a committee she is only currently proposing to start? The tone is WP:CRYSTAL predicting the impossibility of success before it has begun. Trackinfo (talk) 01:33, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Not an educator

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations with a minor in economics. The line in her profile that states she is an educator is incorrect. She has no teaching certificate, taken no public education courses, is not qualified to teach in public education, and has never taught any classes what so ever. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomas WTN (talk • contribs) 00:17, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

The body of the article states "She worked as lead educational strategist at GAGEis, Inc. Ocasio-Cortez was also an educator at the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute, in which role she served as the Educational Director of the 2017 Northeast Collegiate World Series, where she participated in a panel on Latino leadership." The references verify that information. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 00:27, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Thomas - welcome to Wikipedia. I think by the level of POSITIVE input on this article, and seeing has Cortez has no flaws or failures WHATSOEVER - make your own judgment in the world of politics. ThePlane11 (talk) 14:21, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Certainly, not everyone who works for educational organizations is an "educator." The source does not indicate that her role or title was "educator" and that term should be removed, absent a reliable source. Is there one? John2510 (talk) 16:28, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

AOC has never (to my knowledge) claimed or implied that she is, or has ever been an educator. No editor in this page has provided a source that suggests she has ever served in this role. If the subject themself doesn't claim it, and the available source material doesn't demonstrate it, on what basis do we include this in an encyclopedia? Unless other editors are able to provide sources or offer justification for its inclusion, I move to remove this assertion from the article. 2601:18F:4101:4830:C0E4:400D:A473:BF56 (talk) 07:32, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

You may want to do some more effort, or a simple search query. Per this source:'“I’m an educator, an organizer, a working-class New Yorker,” she says in her campaign ad, “It’s time for one of us.”' And please read the input by Cullen328 just above. Tsumikiria (T/C) 09:41, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Tsumikiria, we don't do self-descriptions when it comes to jobs and positions. Drmies (talk) 21:36, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

User:Cullen328, User:JesseRafe, I am not convinced. Being a "educational director" doesn't make one an educator, it makes one an administrator. The other thing, the BU position, that's really similar: a "Lead Educational Strategist" is a strategist (again, that's administration, if it's a full-time position and if "GAGEis" is a college or school or school system--but who knows what it is?), not an educator. Drmies (talk) 21:46, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

NHI in their own publication specifically to her as an educator in two different articles, note this was before she took on the role of Educational Director at that org, and were published a year before the primary. JesseRafe (talk) 22:24, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

This tweet could be hyperbole or oversimplification, but seems more than what an admin would do in the role. Primary source and all that, though. JesseRafe (talk) 22:26, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

I am not arguing that "educator" is the best word for describing her in this article as I am unsure what the precise definition is for that word, or if it even has one. Perhaps someone can propose some alternate language that better describes what the sources say about her education related work. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 00:26, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Well, JesseRafe had a few more hits, but there's nothing specific about her as an educator in it, and they're way too primary, and I'm not even talking about the tweet. The text in the article is one thing, and I tweaked that some already, but to give that to her as a job description is not warranted. Drmies (talk) 05:13, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

I think the obvious situation here is that this is a politically-motivated attempt at delegitimizing her one chip at a time, this Wikipedia article included. For instance, I have never in my life heard that in order to be an "educator" one had to have a teaching license and decades in a class room which all these yahoos are claiming is the meaning of the word with their 7th ever (or "ever") edits to the encyclopedia. Being a teacher and an educator are different things, always have been. Probably a substantial reason why both this page and her own campaign have never called her a "teacher". Nonetheless she's called an educator in numerous other outlets:

• The New Yorker profile: "she previously worked as a community organizer and educator in the Bronx"
• Fortune 40 under 40: "Politician, educator, community activist"
• Vox profile: "after graduating from college and has since worked in community organizing and education."
• Our Revolution profile: Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez is a third-generation Bronxite, educator, and organizer"

So short of her CV listing a position into a single easily-digested noun, it seems to me any interpolation of these claims as something else would be synthesis, not a plain reporting of what the sources are calling her. JesseRafe (talk) 13:57, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

I'm going to chime in here on JesseRafe's comment about delegitimizing. I am not commenting on calling her an educator. There is an organized process of attacking American figures on the left that repeatedly focuses on wikipedia. Somewhere is a place on the internet that repeatedly sends out trolls (usually IPs) to insert a comment here, remove a phrase there. They will keep coming back, new IPs, new users insistent on the same point. We are going to get pounded by various new accounts trying to remove this phrase. It will go on for years, perhaps well after there is any relevance. I don't know who is sending out these marching orders, I can't identify the source, but as an experienced wikipedia editor with over a decade of service, I have seen it happen time and time again. Trackinfo (talk) 15:25, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@Paulmcdonald: Any thoughts on the above sources explicitly referring to her as an educator before you removed the word from the page? JesseRafe (talk) 20:25, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

No objection, the New Yorker source covers that nicely. I was only going off the source given in the article for that section.--Paul McDonald (talk) 21:34, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@Drmies: Further thoughts? It was pretty ecumenical in her early coverage as a description of her career to that point. JesseRafe (talk) 13:32, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 December 2018

Remove reference to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as an "educator" in the first section of her entry. She is not, nor has she ever held a position as a licensed instructor, teacher, professor or any other form of educational professional. 24.233.220.130 (talk) 19:50, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

 Not done. Please read the article or this talk page. She was an educator by profession and the fact she was not a "teacher" in the limited use is irrelevant. JesseRafe (talk) 19:56, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Israeli Palestinian conflict

Is this article just written to flatter her? She openly admitted she has no idea what she's talking about. INCLUDE THAT. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.167.61.12 (talk) 18:50, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

What sources, usable for a Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, do you have to offer? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:15, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

There is an editor named Tsumikiria, who has indicated that he has anti-Semitic bias, pouncing on top of and removing any legitimate mention of AOC's foreign policy flubs. See this page's edit history, including some very recent examples. Vcuttolo (talk) 18:48, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

You are surely aware that this isn't the best course of action immediately following your recent sanctions on the subject matter, yes? Either Arab-Israeli conflict or BLPs. Also, please investigate the actual term "Antisemitism" and how it's properly used. JesseRafe (talk) 19:04, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

I was referring to Tsumikiria's reason - HIS reason - for reverting my edit. It read in part, "we know Israeli media criticize anyone criticizing israel" (sic)

Make of it what you will. It doesn't sound good to me. At an absolute minimum, it is clearly inaccurate. In my most recent attempt at finding a way of including the relevant content in a way acceptable to all, I used "Ha'aretz" as a source. Ha'aretz has long-standing left-wing credentials, and is well-known as a Netanyahu foe. Vcuttolo (talk) 09:09, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

There is a generalized and concerted effort by the the Israeli gov't to attack anyone who criticizes Israel...even slightly...as being "antisemitic". AOC has never uttered a single word against Jews whatsoever. EVER. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.71.218.216 (talk) 15:34, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Position on ICE

In this article, which is used as a source for Ocasio-Cortez's position on immigration, the writer talks about "her support of the movement to dissolve Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as #AbolishICE shortly before she won. She said that she would stop short of fully disbanding the agency, and would rather create a pathway to citizenship for more immigrants through decriminalization."

I adjusted the text of the Wikipedia article to reflect this position. I'm not sure how anyone could misinterpret that, but it's created a conflict with at least one other editor. I invite more people to weigh in as to how that paragraph could be worded better to please everyone. Thank you. Ewen Douglas (talk) 00:51, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

I searched through relevant keywords and found no other articles mentioning this, and WP:RSN doesn't even have a discussion on this source. This source sounds sketchy and I would refrain from using this unless we have more source support. And I guess she can have her own interpretations on "abolishing" something, so that still doesn't count as explicitly denouncing her previous position. Tsumikiria (T/C) 01:16, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

"the source sounds sketchy" is not a valid reason for removing sourced info and even less a valid reason for inserting your own opinions into the paragraph, both of which you have done here. Unless you have a definitive Wikipedia policy that says that source isn't usable, your changes are completely invalid and you should seek a third opinion before attempting to add them again here. Ewen Douglas (talk) 03:26, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Please don't be this polemic, I followed WP:BLP in that any unsourced or poorly sourced material must be removed immediately. I wasn't even inserting my own opinion, but restoring content to a previous consensus. And I believe I told you before that we should seek consensus with other editors on this page before making or restoring a challengeable change. Multiple sources would help verify on a BLP, but we now have only one. I hope we can resolve this together with other editors, and make no edit until a consensus is reached. I'm sorry that my DS alerts was seen as a "subtle threat". It was a standard procedure suggesting that we all needs to be extra careful on related topics. Tsumikiria (T/C) 04:32, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

This article needs a serious rewrite for NPOV. It completely omits everything remotely controversial or not favorable to Ocasio-Cortez, and promotes that which supports her. Vermont (talk) 11:40, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Do you have a specific example of a sentence that needs to be rewritten or removed? I'd be happy to discuss it here with you, but "This article needs a serious rewrite for NPOV" doesn't really help anyone, or the article. Ewen Douglas (talk) 16:22, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

AOC, Israel, and turning Wikipedia into Hagiography

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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I have now made another attempt at including relevant information about Ocasio-Cortez. AOC made several comments that were seen as anti-Israel, and which called into question her basic knowledge of the Middle East. Various previous attempts by myself and others to include the aforementioned information have been immediately reverted, and for reasons that seem less than fair and open. Let us all strive for a better Wikipedia. No one is above criticism for a mistake, AOC included. Before reverting such information, please give a detailed and reasonable explanation as to why the information should not be included. Thank you. Vcuttolo (talk) 09:15, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments, unfortunately you ran into the reality of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is biased and there is no way around it. You can try to edit RS that is factual, but if the numbers on the other side don't like it, it won't end up in this article. This article, to me at least, certainly reads with a heavy tilt in favor of AOC as if it were written by her publicist. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 16:22, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Do you have any specific examples of text that you would like included or struck? I could discuss it here with you, but general statements like the one above don't really give us a place to start. Ewen Douglas (talk) 16:23, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

First of all, I would most certainly add about her threat to subpoena Trump Jr. and how that most likely violated ethics rules according to Congressional ethics groups. I would also add a section on her many gaffes/misstatements, but I won't go further because I'm not getting into the meat of the article because I've been here long enough to not get too involved in politics in Wikipedia on a superstar article, I'll wait for her to implode when she gets to Congress and realizes that her fans on Twitter won't get her anywhere when she suddenly needs to get things done once "inaugurated" and she can't "sign bills" into law. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 16:30, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

That sounds like a wise choice, as "I'll wait for her to implode" might suggest a certain bias in one direction on your part. Probably best to leave the article to more neutral editors. Ewen Douglas (talk) 16:32, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

No, it's just being pragmatic. You have the article all to yourself to make it all AOC for now, then once the party is over, the real encyclopedia can be written. Right now it reads as was pointed out like a press release or hagiography. You're not a neutral editor, why is only pro-AOC edits allowed? Sir Joseph ^(talk) 16:34, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

I take issue with the statement "You're not a neutral editor", as neutrality is what I'd like to see in every Wikipedia article. Again, as you've made your "anti-AOC" position clear, I think it's best you let neutral editors handle the page. Ewen Douglas (talk) 16:40, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia is open to anyone to edit. It's not up to you to decide who gets to edit, that is the whole point of the OP, that this page reeks of bias and POV. That you can't see it shows that you aren't a neutral editor. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 16:44, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

That you haven't pointed to anything specific suggests that you can't. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:08, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

I gave specifics further up. That I don't have to entertain you doesn't take away that this article is biased. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 17:32, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

@Sir Joseph: She did not threaten to subpoena Don Jr. She pointed out he's likely to be subpoenad. You have to provide proof she "most likely violated ethics rules." What "Congressional ethics groups"? Not the House Ethics Committee, the group that decides it. Gaffes and misstatements... all the garbage the right wing has to try to discredit her. Heaven forbid a politician ever misspeak in any way. You're not bringing any real suggestions. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:49, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

At the very least to be honest you would have admitted the gaffes and misstatements. That you don't even do that, just solidifies that you don't see a bias in this article. And the right wing doesn't have to do much to discredit her, she does it to herself. That I don't want to edit this article is because I've been around the block a few times and know that Wikipedia has a bias and I'm not in the mood for it at this time. That doesn't mean it's proper. I read the article and was surprised by the tone of the article and the extreme weight. I called it out, that does not mean I am required to edit it myself. There is much criticism of her out there but the editors here apparently from what I see won't allow it, which is a shame because balance is what I thought is what we should strive for. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 19:03, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

She has misspoken a couple of times and has quickly corrected herself. She's human, it happens. Why should this article include every time she has misspoken? Provide some good sourcing on the gaffes to suggest why they should be included, and it can be considered. And remember, Fox News, Infowars, and Breitbart are hot garbage. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:08, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

That you compare FoxNews, Infowars and Breitbart is proof you shouldn't be editing political articles. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 19:10, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

No, not really. Right wing bias comes in different forms of extremity. Fox News has been going hardcore to try to smear AOC, and are as unreliable as the other two. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:12, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

So we should only use left wing sources in this article? No wonder why this article is such crap. That is not how things work. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 19:14, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

I don't understand why the right conflates sites like the New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, etc. with left-wing sources like Daily Kos, Common Cause, etc. That's not how things work. We use neutral, mainstream sources. Lack of right wing bias does not mean left wing bias. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:18, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

That you don't consider CNN left wing reiterates my concern for you editing this article. Do you seriously expect me to believe that you think CNN is non-biased? Sir Joseph ^(talk) 19:20, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

(ec) CNN is opportunitist centrism and nowhere left wing. That is conservative bias on your part. Refuting a mere posulation of another editor's input and debasing the collaborative effort is nowhere helpful in the consensus building process. this revert is unhelpful either. We can discuss and add additional content right after that paragraph, not restating that paragraph again and append unreliable sources. Tsumikiria (T/C) 19:22, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

The first part of collaborative editing is admitting bias. Calling CNN non-biased is not something someone who edits a political article should be doing. And additonally, someone who calls CNN "opportunitist centrism" really misses the mark. You guys really need to get out of your bubbles. Regardless, I don't need to remind you that Foxnews is indeed a RS for inclusion, even if it reports negatively on your wonderful AOC, which I'm sure will continue once she gets into Congress and starts to screw up even more. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 19:26, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

You're really not doing a good job of arguing for neutrality, or yourself as a bastion thereof. You should tread lightly in how you characterize RSs and other editors. JesseRafe (talk) 19:29, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

I never said I'm neutral, I just said edits have to be neutral and the article has to be balanced. Aw, look, I offer an opinion and you threaten me because you don't like it? Sir Joseph ^(talk) 19:33, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

"Balance" does not mean neutral reporting and fringe lunacy in equal parts, it means neutral reporting. That's it. I don't give anything close to a fuck about your opinion, nor do I make threats -- but your constant whining about not including Fox News and calling CNN "left-wing" without having anything constructive to add is making my watchlist very boring. Get some new material, but this talk page is not a forum for it either. If you can't offer a substantive critique of the article's contents then you shouldn't be here wasting everyone's time. JesseRafe (talk) 19:46, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

You don't get to dictate who gets to be here, and that you don't consider CNN to be left wing is to most people cause for you to not be here wasting people's time. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 19:49, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

As I mentioned in an above section, the consensus of editors for this article is advocacy of Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez and her political philosophy. Consistent with what can be included in an article by Wikipedia policy, that means the article is "buffed" with information that presents the subject in the best possible light. Likewise, consistent with what can be excluded in an article by Wikipedia policy, that means the article is "scrubbed" to exclude information critical of the subject. An example of an "buff", that's easy here to point out that a quote of what she actually said was replaced with a paraphrase. Why do that? "I would support impeachment. I think that, you know, we have the grounds to do it." CNN transcript Her actual word choice looks tentative and shallow to me, but it's her words. A Wikipedia editor can come along and say "Hey, I'm copyediting, not adding bias." And I could go revert the editor's eloquent paraphrase to the actual quote, but I would never prevail. Why? Because both quote and paraphrase work within Wikipedia policy and the majority Cortez advocacy editing consensus would keep the paraphrase and lose the quote. That's simply how Wikipedia works. patsw (talk) 18:04, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

We usually paraphrase from banal quotes like that. Why should we include the exact quote? – Muboshgu (talk) 19:11, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

I am giving this as an example of a successful "buff": Why should we replace the former text with an actual exact quote with new text being an eloquent Wikipedian's paraphrase in the first place? I am not making the case for using the quote over the eloquent Wikipedian's paraphrase, merely demonstrating how the editing consensus operates in this article. patsw (talk) 19:53, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Seen in a fair light, this article is the definition of "buffed". You could look up George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Gandhi, or God himself - all of those folks have Wikipedia articles, and none of them are as one-sided as this one is. AOC has made numerous comments in public that deserve mention here, but which are immediately scrubbed by one of her ardent fans. Take her embarassing mis-statements regarding Israel: Comparing the violent Gaza protests to the peaceful West Virginia teachers' strike, and asking what people would think if 60 protesters had been killed in West Virginia, after 60 Gazans were killed on May 14 during the riot there. Nearly every Gazan killed was a Hamas member (as per Hamas), numerous Gazans were armed with guns and molotov cocktails, and Israel was repelling an attempted armed invasion of their country. In West Virginia, teachers walked around in a circle holding signs. No comparison, really. Or when AOC mentioned - in two different interviews! - "Israel-occupied Palestine", which is Hamas-speak as the justification for wiping out Israel. When one interviewer, Margaret Hoover, asked her what she meant by "Israel-occupied Palestine", AOC had a long pause before admitting she is "not the expert" on the Middle East.

On which planet is this not worth a mention? Yet when I added that, the redoubtable Tsumikiria was there to immediately revert it, using the remarkable claim that, and I quote,

 "we know Israeli media criticize anyone criticizing israel" (sic)  

He also accused me of "disruptive editing" for my "defamatory" comments, and threatened a block. (I notice that his Talk Page contains comments by numerous editors pointing out Tsumikiria's habit of threatening other editors like he did me.)

Suffice it to say, anyone who thinks that an opinion piece in the Independent that as its thesis supports as "truth" AOC's comments on the Israeli-Arab situation is RS, but that any Israeli newspaper's news story about the Israeli-Arab situation is not RS, has absolutely no idea what a reliable source is, or is biased to the point that he shouldn't be here. (Check up, for example, the WP articles on left-wing Ha'Aretz, centrist Jerusalem Post, or centrist Times of Israel, the latter of which has an Arab-language edition.)

As to AOC's comment at a private event - right into the camera - about being "inaugurated" on January 3, and "signing" legislation on Jan 4, if that is not worth a mention, then would we agree that Romney's "47%" comment isn't either? Show me where one person in the last 6 years removed the Romney gaffe from his page because 'hey, politicians make mistakes, who cares?' Or how about Cindy Hyde-Smith's comment at a private event about her dedication to the host to where she would go to a "lynching" if the host invited her? Let me know when that will be removed from her page. Cindy Hyde-Smith was not advocating lynching, obviously, yet the connection to Mississippi's past was made by, well, everyone. And there it is on her page. Yet when AOC uses the language of a terrorist group in Hamas, whether or not it was intended to be in sympathy with their position, and repeats the comment later, after comparing Hamas and their brutality (in a way) to West Virginia teachers - that information doesn't belong in the article?

It is situations like these that cause WP to get a reputation as having a noticeable leftward slant (as mentioned on WP's own WP page, under "criticism"). I could just give up, a la Sir Joseph, but I would still like to think that a fair - or at least fairer - Wikipedia is still a possibility.

Vcuttolo (talk) 20:23, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Wow. You really went full bore there. We treat AOC with more reverence than God? Anyway, trying to find substance in this rant, I'm struggling. AOC saying "inaugurated" instead of "sworn in" and suggesting legislation on Day 2 is somehow the equivalent of Mitt Romney's BS statement that 47% of Americans don't pay taxes? Or Cindy Hyde Smith's celebration of lynching and the Confederacy? In what universe? – Muboshgu (talk) 20:42, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

We're here to discuss content, not editors. Vermont (talk) 22:27, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Yes, our Lord Cthulhu Alex Cortez. If by ranting your idiosyncratic "repelling an attempted armed invasion" and "Hamas-speak as the justification for wiping out Israel" you still cannot understand why you cannot get your desired content onto the page, you need to pay more time reading our policies, especially regarding original research and novel synthesis. But I guess by continuously trying to characterize and hint her support or supposed ignorance for "violent Hamas terrorists", once, twice, warned, thrice, getting sanctioned, yet still doing it fourice and frice, and labeling her supporting organization "Anti-Israel", it doesn't appear to me that genuinely improving the article was your objective. Making this a personal vendetta and telling everyone that I'm an "antisemite" isn't helping your argument either. This isn't a platform for your personal justice, which could be seen as some finely grained libel. Tsumikiria (T/C) 02:09, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Addressing Muboshgu: Gaffes by candidates make news when they feed a narrative. When President George HW Bush somehow got the wrong date for Pearl Harbor, it came and went, because George HW Bush was a WWII war hero. Romney's "47% comment" (technically true but wildly misleading) became news becasue it aligned with a view held relatively widely, and especially among Democrats, that Romney was a very aloof rich guy. Cindy Hyde-Smith's comment was certainly less news-worthy than AOC's gaffes, because it was abundantly obvious that she was in no way referencing the racially problematic history of Mississippi. Yet the Democrats, and then the mainstream media, ran with it, because it aligned with the narrative being pushed that assumes all Republicans to be racists. (The picture of Hyde-Smith in the Confederate uniform only emerged later.) AOC had already become a butt of humor on the right because she has made a long list of comments that make her sound ignorant on the basic issues. So yes, her not knowing the difference between a representative and the POTUS is certainly worth a mention.

As to your continued slandering of me, Tsumikiria, all I did was quote YOU. If you think your own quote means I accused you of being an anti-Semite, that would be very telling, now wouldn't it?

Vcuttolo (talk) 09:44, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Let me add a couple of points I omitted. Muboshgu, yes, God gets more criticism on his Wikipedia page than AOC does on hers. Look it up. Your mischaracterization of AOC's comments about HER being inaugurated and HER signing legislation on Day 2 suggests you are addressing a comment you have neither read nor heard. Read it first, then comment. Again, Romney's "47%" comment was technically true, therefore not "BS", as you mislabeled it. Your comment about "Cindy Hyde-Smith's celebration of lynching" - now that's total BS. I would appreciate if you knew the facts before you commented on them. Furthermore, if Cindy Hyde-Smith's use of the term "lynching" in a context entirely unrelated to racial history is worth headlines everywhere and an obvious Wikipedia mention, then yes, AOC's in-context using the same terminology as Hamas, considering that she made false accusations against Israel, undoubtedly belongs on her Wikipedia page. As to your repeated and false attacks against me, it is clever of you to accuse me of doing to you what in fact you have been doing to me for some time, and which, based upon your own Talk Page, numerous others say you have been doing to them as well. But I am sticking to the facts, not making false, anti-Semitic claims.

Vcuttolo (talk) 10:03, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

As to Tsumikiria, yes, Israel "repelled an armed invasion", not by an organized military, but by organized Hamas members. If you don't know that, perhaos you should read centrist news sources, not just leftist ones. (How about starting with Wikipedia's own article 2018 Gaza border protests? Yes, "Israel-occupied Palestine" is standard Hamas-speak as they continue to call for the destruction of Israel. Again, you should know that, and certainly before you try to dismiss what I accurate wrote.

Whoops - sorry, Muboshgu, I somehow inserted part of the previous comment in the wrong place. The part that starts with "As to your repeated and false attacks against me", that was supposed to be at the bottom, part of the response to Tsumikiria, not to you. Vcuttolo (talk) 10:08, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Article talk pages are not discussion forums

Please read WP:FORUM which asks all editors to "bear in mind that article talk pages exist solely to discuss how to improve articles; they are not for general discussion about the subject of the article". This talk page is not for decrying someone's perception that a liberal cabal controls this article or to hash out precisely how bad Hamas is, or to discuss claims of bias against Netanyahu who is not the subject of this article. There are other places to discuss such things, but such conversations must be based on solid evidence not speculation. Discussions on this article talk page must be in the form of "I propose to add the following text to the article based on the following independent, reliable sources", or "I propose to remove the following content from the article because the cited sources do not verify that content". All arguments must be based on policies and guidelines. If people continue making forum style posts to this talk page, I will remove them. Thank you. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 10:25, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

"and said that many of her constituents, including Jewish Americans, had thanked her for taking that position"

Pinging Tsumikiria. I don't see why this statement should remain in the article. She did say it, but it has nothing to do with her views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and simply acts as a sentence that promotes her, as the tone of that section implies she is correct in her statement (which, being a primary source, is unreliable). If, for example, another politician said "many people from [insert minority here] thanked me for my stance on [issue].", it would not be included in the Wikipedia article. It's an NPOV issue. Vermont (talk) 10:27, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Known as AOC?

The article states that Ocasio-Cortez also goes by the name AOC with three refs. The first is a CNN opinion written by two guys that is supposedly a conversation between them (that's supposed to be funny, which it is not) and one of them says, "I have SO many questions about what AOC's win (and, yes, I'm referring to her as AOC occasionally because it's too long a name to write out over and over..." The second one, Daily Kos, does not include her name at all as far as I can see. The third ref, The Nation, uses her initials only in the heading and then uses her full last name throughout (more than 20 times). Please keep in mind that this is her bio and the least we can do is to get her name correct. Without rock-solid proof that she is often called AOC we should not say that she is. I will again remove that wording from the article. Gandydancer (talk) 21:38, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

I don’t believe it warrants mention. Vermont (talk) 21:46, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, it doesn't seem like she's known by initials any more often than anyone else (DJT, BHO, HRC...); in the absence of references showing otherwise, it doesn't seem to have reached the level of LBJ (whose article does mention the initials); the pointer at AOC seems sufficient for anyone sees the initials somewhere and looks them up on Wikipedia. -sche (talk) 23:23, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Agree with all, though I think she is a lot more known by her initials than DJT and BHO and probably a bit more than HRC, I think a lot of that is national media being offput by the "length" of her name and the less familiarity with how to spell/pronounce it, which would probably dissipate over time. JesseRafe (talk) 15:44, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

I placed that mention because of the commonality of the use of her initials to cover the otherwise triple name. If you are going to insist on stacking more references, I'll go ahead. Trackinfo (talk) 16:35, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

VOX, New York Times, Weekly Standard, plus critics and supporters all using the initials in reference to her. Quoting the Newsweek source

"AOC, as the New York politician is known to supporters,"

Trackinfo (talk) 16:49, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

@JesseRafe: Since you are going to introduce reverting sourced content; here are the sources I was previously quoting: [2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8], [9], [10]. There are plenty more. It constantly confounds me that some people develop source nearsightedness when they wish to achieve a result. Are you serious that experienced wikipedia editors couldn't find these on the first couple of pages of google? Trackinfo (talk) 17:37, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

I don't think anyone is doubting whether they were previously or currently sourced, but whether it needs be mentioned as anything more than an obvious abbreviation of her name, not a nickname or alternate billing, like say The Rock vs Dwayne Johnson, or to a level of initials being used almost more than their name themselves such as LBJ or JFK. JesseRafe (talk) 17:51, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Sure, keep littering everyone's watchlist by adding these one at a time. That's productive and an excellent policy-focused argument. JesseRafe (talk) 17:52, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

I happen to keep looking . . . And the major reason this is important is because AOC is a social media phenomenon, sourced in the article. Facebook, twitter, youtube etc are not reliable sources but THAT is where the AOC abbreviation is used almost exclusively and where wikipedia can serve the less knowledgeable public . . . remember, what we are here for. Trackinfo (talk) 18:01, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Could we make the "sometimes abbreviated to AOC" bit a footnote? Is that a decent compromise? We already have the pronunciation as a footnote. -sche (talk) 18:15, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

I do not understand the motivation to diminish or essentially, hide this piece of information from the public. Trackinfo (talk) 18:23, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Conversely, I don't see the need to prominently emphasize that she is not an exception to the general phenomenon than anyone's name can be abbreviated to initials. -sche (talk) 04:25, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

!vote to include/exclude her initials in lede

• Include AOC as the initials are used often enough in liberal and conservative reliable sources to establish it as notable. Also searching Twitter for her initials indicates that is commonly used as a substitute for her name in political discourse by both sides of the aisle. Political pundits are almost as likely now to say AOC rather than her full name. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 18:14, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
• Include AOC per the numerous, varying sources I have presented above. Trackinfo (talk) 18:21, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
• Include, probably as a footnote - This is an acronym. thoroughly used by the media, although factors such as reporters being unfamiliar with her long, Hispanic name should be noted. She has yet to earn a historic significance and become cemented by their initialism as someone like FDR so a more concise lead in the form of a footnote explaining the acro. would be a decent compromise. Tsumikiria (T/C) 03:58, 28 December 2018 (UTC)See my comment and update below Tsumikiria (T/C) 10:54, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
• Include, less prominently than FDR. This is a proxy question to listing her at AOC (disambiguation), and she should be listed because Vox, CNN and others have called her AOC. However, FDR is commonly referred to as FDR, while Ocasio-Cortez is not. wumbolo ^^^ 16:24, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
• Include as a footnote - agree with Tsumikiria's points. Ewen Douglas (talk) 16:34, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
• Exclude or include as a footnote per -sche's reasoning above. It's self-evident and the sourcing is tediously long. JesseRafe (talk) 17:20, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

The sourcing is only tediously long, meaning extensive, because some people, including YOU, made it an issue. Trackinfo (talk) 19:45, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

• Make it a footnote, per my comments above. -sche (talk) 22:47, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
• Include as per common use by media and pols. Grammarxxx ^{(What'd I do this time?)} 21:42, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
• (Comment) She just changed her Twitter handle to @AOC. This settles then. Inclusion in prose seems viable, if she recognized the acronym herself. Tsumikiria (T/C) 21:49, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
• Include AOC, settled per the source provided by Tsumikiria. Airbornemihir (talk) 03:57, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

It seems that we have a general consensus to include the acronym AOC in the lead, and my comment quoting AOC herself seems to have settled the argument, as three days have passed and we do not have any objection. Per request by Trackinfo, motion to close? We will have the acronym AOC directly in prose, and referenced directly by this AOC tweet, so as to avoid WP:CITEKILL clunkiness. Tsumikiria (T/C) 10:54, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Looks like while there's consensus to include, almost half the voters agree that it should be as a footnote. Ewen Douglas (talk) 16:07, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

I mean, I fear that my initial recommendation to make it a footnote may have swayed some people, and now that I changed my mind after seeing AOC herself embraces the acronym AOC, I guess it's possible for others to reconsider as well. So, ummm… People, shall we do this again? Tsumikiria (T/C) 17:22, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

@Wumbolo:,@-sche:,@JesseRafe:, @Grammarxxx: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trackinfo (talk • contribs)

• Include in the lead. It's her Twitter handle, and would have to be listed here prominently to keep it on AOC (disambiguation). – Muboshgu (talk) 15:16, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Is that a fact? Then someone should tell the people editing Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, which doesn't mention "AOC" even once on the entire page, despite being on AOC (disambiguation). Ewen Douglas (talk) 19:07, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Ewen Douglas, I can't speak to WP:OTHERSTUFF. If he goes by "AOC", then that page should include it. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:41, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I was merely pointing out, perhaps too subtly, that "It's her Twitter handle" and "would have to be listed here prominently to keep it on AOC (disambiguation)" are opinions, and not actually based on any Wikipedia policies that I'm aware of. Ewen Douglas (talk) 00:41, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

This is a particular case. I thought herself recognizing the initialism, on top of being sufficiently reported as AOC was enough for it to be included in prose. I'll re-add the bit just to reactivate this discussion. Any objections? Tsumikiria (T/C) 06:46, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Per MOS:DABACRONYM, AOC would need to be included somewhere in this article to be listed on the dab page. Galobtter (pingó mió) 05:10, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

• Include in lead. Frequent usage in RS.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:44, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
• Include in the lead -- commonly used. --K.e.coffman (talk) 04:33, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Political Party

Cortez is a self-described socialist-Democrat and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. To my knowledge, she is not a member of the Democratic party and yet according to Wikipedia - her political party is the Democrats which she is not a member of. This article is riddled with bias, propaganda and over-positive information. This has been addressed more than TWICE and yet it's deafening somehow. ThePlane11 (talk) 14:24, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

She's a registered Democrat. The first term is an ideology, the second one is membership in a group which is not a political party. Your OR for declaring she is not a Democrat can be taken only in as much good faith as if you had pointed out she is a self-described chocoholic and a member of the Girl Scouts of America. Irrelevant. JesseRafe (talk) 14:32, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Good point Jesse. The Democratic Socialists of America organization, which Cortez is a member of, is not a political party. Thank you for assisting me and clearing that up. I'm glad that it is now mentioned in the introduction. Bipartisanship. ThePlane11 (talk) 03:51, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Boston University Mashup video

As of January 2019, news media was been covering short snippets of a music video from Boston University in 2010. An WP:EL was added linking to the original publication from 2010^{Special:Diff/876773872}, thusly:

• Boston University Mashup. Boston University. 2010.

This was subsequently removed,^{Special:Diff/876790597, by JesseRafe} with the edit summary "uncyclopedic content, if a reader is already on this page then it's a good bet they have the internet". —Sladen (talk) 14:27, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

That's a plain declaration of fact. Is there a call to action about what could be done to improve the article embedded somewhere in there? Or do we need more YT links everywhere? JesseRafe (talk) 14:29, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

The BU dancing video that went viral on Twitter yesterday is insignificant in the grand scheme of her entire life biography. It's WP:RECENTISM to believe it belongs here. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:15, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Publishing Venture

I've modified the description of her publishing venture (Brook Avenue Press) in "Early career" to limit it to what the source actually states. While she had some vague involvement with the government-funded enterprise and reportedly "launched" Brook Avenue Press, there is no indication in the source that Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator provided financial funding to Brook Avenue Press, or that Brook Avenue Press ever actually published anything. An ISBN search turns up nothing for Brook Avenue Press. Especially given those circumstances, I think it's wise to stick with precisely the narrow description provided by the source and not impose any additional assumptions. John2510 (talk) 15:55, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

I question whether the references to Brook Avenue Press and GAGEis, Inc. should be included at all.

There seems to be virtually no documentation of what her involvement consisted of, and certainly no source to suggest that it constitutes any real part of her career. One solitary article[11] says that she "launched" Brook Avenue Press, but what did "launching" it consist of? Were there ever writers working on projects? I can find no source to support that. ISBN lists no publications for that entity. Does anyone know anything at all about this supposed entity? Apparently, it was an idea for a student project once upon a time (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pFAayEMqDM), but how did it materialize (if it did at all)?

GAGEis, Inc. is similarly shrouded in mystery. Her title indicating association with that entity (to the degree it actually is an entity) has one solitary source [12]. What is the company? When did she work there? Was she an employee, or volunteer? What did her work consist of?

I'm kind of shocked these questions didn't get explored when she was running for office. John2510 (talk) 18:10, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

These are one-sentence mentions, hardly things she hung her hat on or that this article pins as significant. She opened a printing company. It failed. Hardly news, but doesn't mean she did not "launch" it. It's also discussed on other pieces, such as Inc.com where there is a brief interview with someone else who was at the same incubator as Brook Avenue at the time. His venture also is no longer in business, because, gasp, some very number of startups fail. Big woop. The fact that there are no ISBNs for it is not a rationale to say she did not "do" it, but is holding an 18-word sentence to the N standard of being its own article, which I don't recall anyone trying to do. JesseRafe (talk) 18:56, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

"extremely remote" ancestry

@Hyjukilo: Regarding these three edits: the current "have ancestry" summary is an adequately weighted summary. It is quite a tautology to say an ancestry is "extremely remote", it is also a dubious summary that potentially undermines the subject, as extremely remote can refer to a range from a thousand to a quadrillion years. Yes she did say that it's generations ago, sth like 500 years, but we also observe guidelines like WP:UNDUE and WP:SYNTH here. Discuss here, and less reverts would be more helpful for the improvement of the article. Tsumikiria (T/C) 12:43, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Sephardic ancestry could for example be recent cultural or ethnical hertige from one or all four grandparents. In contrast, Alexandria has extremely remote Sephardic ancestry from 500 years ago. Politicans want to claim a belonging to different groups for different reasons. If there is room for the public to get a more nuanced picture, then that's always something positive to contribute with Hyjukilo (talk) 13:05, 5 January 2019 (UTC).

Depending on more detailed information 'extremely remote' could be arguably changed to just 'remote' ancestry, but not such information is at hand at the moment. Hyjukilo (talk) 13:09, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I concur. I would say that it's a matter of definition, but given that we have her assertion about her family trees, and furthermore given the history of Spain and Puerto Rico and the number of generations involved, I'm fine with extremely remote. (Elizabeth Warren probably has more indigenous ancestry, genomically speaking. Shorter time-frame.) kencf0618 (talk) 14:32, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I've always felt that this added information is trivia and does nothing to improve the article. I'd remove it. Gandydancer (talk) 14:39, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

• "Extremely remote" reads like editorializing to me (which is generally unencyclopedic.) --Aquillion (talk) 03:44, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

"Extremely remote" is both editorializing and unencyclopedic. It's ancestry, the plain meaning of the word means it's remote and "extremely" is OR. Neither word belongs in the sentence if the sentence is even to stay. JesseRafe (talk) 14:22, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

'Remote' is commonly used in geneaology to distinguish recent ancestry (a Jewish grandfather) from remote ancestry (a Jewish great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather). Hyjukilo (talk) 19:36, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Another way of phrasing it is that say the her Sephardic ancestry is not remote (even though it is), but miniscule or microscopic. Hyjukilo (talk) 19:44, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Trying to write off an ancestry as miniscule or microscopic is some interesting editorializing that would suggest a certain POV on your part. Consensus is not in your favor in this case. Of course you can escalate, but you might not get what you want. Tsumikiria (T/C) 20:13, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

In this case it is trivial. It is her word she made as a politician to score brownie points. It's certainly not noteworthy. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 20:19, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

It's important to uphold a neutral and objective point of view. Suggestion: We remove the sentence all together. Out of all people here on the talk page, 2/6 favor extremely remote, 1/6 favor removing the sentene, 2/6 question the sentence and 1/6 favor the current version. All opinions lack consesus, therefore, we should remove the sentence. Hyjukilo (talk) 20:20, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

The new edit is correct JesseRafe. Hyjukilo (talk) 21:10, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

@Hyjukilo: Your reading of consensus does not appear to be accurate. Could you name which editors you believe support what? PeterTheFourth (talk) 21:27, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

PeterTheFourth see above: 2/6 favor extremely remote (Hyj + Kencf), 1/6 favor removing the sentene (Gandy), 2/6 question the sentence (Aquill + Jesse) and 1/6 favor the current version (Tsumik). Now more people has entered the discussion, with Sir Joseph also arguing against Tsumikiria.

I support the current version, quotes are good. Hyjukilo (talk) 21:36, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

You've proved Peter's point by showing yourself incapable of reading other editors' comments accurately. I was one of many who said "extremely remote" does not belong in the encyclopedia -- a grouping you failed to even include. JesseRafe (talk) 21:42, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

(edit conflict) We usually paraphrase banal quotes like that, which is why we used ancestry to summarize it in the first place. Go make a RfC, instead of misreading intent of other editors to support your editorializing. Tsumikiria (T/C) 21:47, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Greetings to the public, happy to give you my input Hyjukilo (talk) 21:53, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

"Sandy"?

I noticed in the full 4'20" Boston U dance video, that Alexandra is listed as "Sandy Ocasio-Cortez". [13]. If she still uses that name informally, it should be in the WP article. Bellagio99 (talk) 18:49, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Bellagio99, "Sandy" is a hypocorism of "Alexandria", so we shouldn't include it in the first sentence per MOS:NICKNAME. Barack Obama used to go by "Barry", but there is significance behind this that makes it biogaphically relevant. If that's the case with AOC, we can mention "Sandy" in a similar way. If it's not, maybe we don't mention it. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:40, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Both for being a common hypocorism and neither being a name she uses or is referred to in the media, we don't need to include. Agree with the above, just without any "maybe". JesseRafe (talk) 14:24, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Washington Post Op-Ed

This should be in the article. Truthsort (talk) 20:30, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-very-bad-defense-her-falsehoods/?utm_term=.6dc848cabf1b

Well, maybe. That's quite a broad statement. In what context, phrasing, and location does it belong? ModerateMike729 (talk) 20:55, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

This is an opinion piece, is it not? Ergo, no.--Jorm (talk) 20:58, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

I've seen this user go to various talk pages of Democrats (specifically remembering Andrew Gillum before the election), drop a link to an article that casts the subject in a negative light, and say something along the lines of "this should be in the article" without providing any context. If it's an opinion piece (haven't clicked on it, don't want to waste my free WaPo views for the month on it), then hard pass. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:10, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Question, how does this not violate Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines? I changed the section heading, this is low threshhold trolling and should be removed. It's clear foruming, with barely the words needed to say it's a "suggestion" when it clear isn't and isn't intended to be. JesseRafe (talk) 21:13, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

This section should be removed on sight. The sole purpose for it was to attract the eyesight of any passerby of this talk page and disparage the subject or fellow editors. No entertaining value. Tsumikiria (T/C) 21:17, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

If the user is doing something in a systemic way so as to be intentionally disruptive, then take them to ANI or AN and sort it out. If you don't want to do so, then it's probably best to save blatant personal accusations and whole sale removal of threads in which multiple editors have already commented. GMG^talk 21:23, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

• The article is listed in the analysis section of WAPO. It is not an OP-ED. Truthsort (talk) 07:05, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

"Claims Jewish ancestry." NOT POV

There is nothing inherently POV about the use of the word "claims" here -- she is making a claim, one that, like any other claim, may or may not be backed up with evidence. The inclusion of what she said at the party without the context of why she is saying it is essentially a basic kind of poor writing -- the introduction of evidence without a sense of what claim tht evidence is meant to support. PaulCHebert (talk) 21:59, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

I trimmed it a bit, used paraphrase and made the quote inside the references. Hopefully this will settle everything. Tsumikiria (T/C) 22:26, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

The word "claim" is actually viewed as problematic on Wikipedia; it even has its own section link, WP:CLAIM. The issue is that it casts doubt on the veracity of the statement, as a claim is something that is not necessarily true. It's probably best to use that word only to precede statements are demonstrably false based on WP:RS. Wikieditor19920 (talk) 00:31, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Boyfriend

@The lorax: This guy is completely unnotable. This has been deleted before. We're WP:NOTPEOPLEMAGAZINE. Please establish a consensus here for is inclusion, or self-revert. I'm out of my revert ration of the day. Thanks. Tsumikiria (T/C) 03:07, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Dirt

@Lpouer4832xs: Wikipedia isn't about finding all the WP:DIRT or alleged evidences of hypocrisy on your disliked politicians. Doug Weller already warned you before. Please find something else to contribute, not breaching 1RR. Tsumikiria (T/C) 03:21, 10 January 2019 (UTC)