Talk:Kathy Kraninger

Career section
The career section is currently written like a resume. It needs a complete overhaul, and of course, citations. Knope7 (talk) 03:00, 12 March 2019 (UTC)


 * - Hi Knope7, I took some time yesterday to try and revise the article to be a little less "resume-y". I think it still belongs to Start class in terms of quality but I have tried to find additional sources and restructure it to be a bit better than before. However, it is difficult to find two many sources about this person prior to her nomination to be CFPB director, and I am not sure how kosher it is to use stuff like her LinkedIn page or stuff that she wrote about herself as biographical material. Any thoughts on where better sourcing can be obtained? Thanks! Omanlured (talk) 13:45, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I can see the improvement! I did a quick search and found this article which recites some of her past work: https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2018/07/chagrin_falls_native_selected.html. I would avoid LinkedIn. My recommendation based on my past work on pages for cabinet secretaries is to look for more in depth recent profiles. What I have found in the past is that even if a high ranking government official was not written about extensively early in her career, it's still likely that some news outlet will do an in depth piece about that official once they are in office. I find that in addition to searching for the person's name and the past job title you are looking for, sometimes searching for articles about the person and her home town, college, parents names, or siblings names can also yield helpful results. Things like home town and family tend to come up a lot when a journalist does a deep dive into someone's history. Knope7 (talk) 03:47, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * thank you for your feedback! I will take a look at that article you provided and also check newspapers.com to see if she has some local coverage that doesn't come up regularly on Google. Omanlured (talk) 15:20, 19 December 2019 (UTC)