Talk:Kansas Republican Party

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Section headings
The Wikipedia Manual of Style is clear on these issues (see WP:HEAD): The unregistered editor who keeps inserting "Kansas Republican Party" into section headings and using incorrect capitalization should desist. Thank you. Ground Zero | t 21:15, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Headings should not explicitly refer to the subject of the article
 * The initial letter of a title is capitalized (except in rare cases, such as eBay). Otherwise, capital letters are used only where they would be used in a normal sentence (Funding of UNESCO projects, not Funding of UNESCO Projects).

Some of the recently added material is too similar to the original source
Some of the recently added material is taken with very few changes from the source. Here's the source for the first paragraph of the "Stance on issues" section:

"We uphold the right of individual Americans to own firearms, a right which antedated the Constitution and was solemnly confirmed by the Second Amendment. We applaud the Supreme Court’s decision in Heller affirming that right, and we assert the individual responsibility to safely use and store firearms. We call upon the President to appoint judges who will similarly respect the Constitution.  Gun ownership is responsible citizenship, enabling Americans to defend themselves, their property, and communities."

"We call for education in constitutional rights in schools, and we support the option of firearms training in federal programs serving senior citizens and women. We urge immediate action to review the automatic denial of gun ownership to returning members of the Armed Forces who have suffered trauma during service to their country. We condemn frivolous lawsuits against firearms manufacturers, which are transparent attempts to deprive citizens of their rights.  We oppose federal licensing of law-abiding gun owners and national gun registration as violations of the Second Amendment.  We recognize that gun control only affects and penalizes law-abiding citizens, and that such proposals are ineffective at reducing violent crime."

"We urge passage of the Kansas State Constitutional amendment that explicitly states that the right to bear arms is an individual, not a collective, right."

The bolded text is repeated exactly in the article; here's that text.

"The party upholds the rights of individual Americans to own firearms. It asserts the individual responsibility to safely use and store firearms. The party calls for education in constitutional rights in schools and supports the option of firearms training in federal programs serving senior citizens and women. The party opposes federal licensing of law-abiding gun owners and national gun registration as violations of the Second Amendment."

This isn't the right way to insert this material: it has to be rephrased so that it is not a copy of the text, but restates the positions of the party. In addition, it is written in positive, approving language, which is natural for a political platform but not neutral enough for an encyclopedia. I am not convinced we really need the platform in the article, since it is interesting only to the extent it differs from the national platform. I would suggest compressing most of the "Stance section" to a few lines, perhaps something like this:

"The party's platform is similar in most respects to the national party platform, including traditional Republican positions such as support for gun rights, opposition to same-sex marriage, and opposition to abortion. Points of difference include the support for the Fair Tax, which the state party supports but the national platform is silent on."

Note that I made up the difference! I haven't looked to see if the national party does support it; but a little research on the national platform and straightforward comparison should enable some such comparisons to be made. It has be fairly straightforwardly factual, though; just a description of differences, not an analysis of the meaning of those differences.

Also, more could clearly be added to the sentences I just wrote -- a couple more examples of correspondence with the national platform could be given (e.g. immigrant stance) and probably more differences too. The point is that if a reader wants to read the Kansas Republican Party platform, they'll go to the KRP website; if they want to read about the KRP, they come here, and they should read a neutral, informative and concise description of the platform.

I hope this helps. I'm afraid so much of what has just been added is very similar to the website that most of it will have to be removed as a copyright violation; I'll wait a day or so to delete it to give you a chance to edit it yourself. If you have any questions, please ask; I'd be glad to help with the rewriting process. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:51, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Possible source
A possible source for this article is: H. Edward Flentje & Joseph A. Aistrup, Kansas Politics and Government: The Clash of Political Cultures (2010). U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803269194.

I haven't looked through it much; I found it in a quick Google Books search. It looks like it has a lot of relevant historical material. I think this would be more valuable than the "current platform" material. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:57, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Kansas Republican Party
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Kansas Republican Party's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "ReferenceA": From Nelson Rockefeller: State of New York, Public Papers of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Fifty-third Governor of the State of New York, vol. 15, 1973 (Albany, NY: State of New York, 1973), p. 1385. From Alf Landon: G.O.P. Unity His Major Goal, Landon Asserts, Proquest From Warren G. Harding: Dean, pp. 95, 97, 99, 100. From Bobby Jindal: Sager, Mike (February 24, 2009), "Bobby Jindal, All American", Esquire From James A. Garfield: Doenecke (1981), pp. 47–53 From George H. W. Bush:  From History of the United States Republican Party: Kleppner 1979. From Gerald Ford: Greene, John Robert. The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. University Press of Kansas, 1995</li> </ul>

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Splitting List of Chairmen as its own Page?
I'm not really sure what the procedure for this is, but what I've noticed in my time editing is that the other state branches for political parties have their list of Chairmen or Presidents as a separate article that is then linked in the party's article. Should we be doing that here? Or should we leave the preexisting situation with the list being embedded in the party article. Thanks for clearing this up for me. Scu ba (talk) 05:06, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
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