Talk:Paul Simon (politician)

Neutrality?
Someone has put up a NPOV tag, but I don't see any reason here. Wooyi 23:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Inline citations
This article did not have incline citations, I just added several, but still not enough. Anyone who is familiar with Simon please help! Thanks! Wooyi 21:55, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

GA Failed: Notes for fixes
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 * Criteria 1 (quality of writing): Needs some copyediting. In the lead, for example, there are to many "He was...." sentances.  Several sentances seem to beg for expansion, and there probably should be a reorganization to include a section on Personal Life.
 * Criteria 2 (accuracy and referencing): Uneven level of referencing. Some sections, for example, Rise to National Prominence, are VERY inadequately referenced.  This section makes many assertions of fact, but only has one inline reference.  Several parts of Early Political Years suffer from the same problems.  Also, each reference needs full bibliographical information.  Consider using citation templates found at WP:CITET to help organize this information.
 * Criteria 3 (broadness): Needs a personal life section.
 * Criteria 4 (NPOV): Looks fine here.
 * Criteria 5 (stability): Again, looks fine
 * Criteria 6 (images): all good!

Book
Didn't he write a book titled Tapped Out? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.215.27.182 (talk) 22:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Saturday Night Live
Am I the only one to remember the two Paul Simons coming to host SNL? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:302:D85:94D9:4C58:B0E6:19C8:27B5 (talk) 06:43, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

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Clarification
It reads "The Ogilvie-Simon ticket was the only one in Illinois history in which the elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor were from different political parties."

I don't think that "ticket" is correct: they were elected from separate lines on the ballot. After this, the Illinois constitution was amended to have the candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor listed as a team of running mates (only now a "ticket"), so that it would not happen again. It was an awkward situation, as the Lt. Gov. had the power to sign bills into law whenever the Governor was outside the state of Illinois, though Simon pledged not to do so. WHPratt (talk) 16:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)