Talk:Political positions of Paul Ryan

Views
More on his views here: As Ryan Looks to Focus on Economy, Spotlight Shines on His Other Views BartlebytheScrivener (talk) 18:02, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ this NYTimes profile is indeed a key source for this article, thank you 13.54.152.171 (talk) 00:24, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Premature / should merge to main
While I imagine eventually this separate article might be needed, at this point we should be expanding on his political positions in the main article which gets the most readership, and then if it were to become unwieldy have a  summary in the main article and a  daughter article that goes into more detail. Right now we have almost nothing in the main article, so this daughter is unnecessary. Tvoz / talk 18:49, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Agree, should be merged. Cwobeel (talk) 20:05, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Also Agree, merge them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.103.150.95 (talk) 20:06, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Also agree, belongs in main article, due to shortness. If length there (eventually) becomes too long, should then be spun off as daughter article. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:04, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * This was an extremely short-sighted merge. All politician's of Ryan's (newfound) prominence generate enough material for a separate "positions" article.  Destroying the structure here, only to re-create it within the next week, is marching the King's men up the hill and marching them back down again. JamesMLane t c 02:00, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Redirected
I've restored the article and redirected it to Paul Ryan as it seems likely that there will be justification for recreating the article before too long, and as we do have "Political positions of..." articles, it also seems likely that people will look for this one. I've kept this talk page here (rather than also redirecting it) as the discussion above seems relevant to the current state of these pages, so it seems worth keeping current - at least for now. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:34, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

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Some info in gun control section is irrelevant
In the "gun control" section, it mentions that he supports a constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning, and that he voted to withdraw taxpayer funding of NPR. I think that those positions are relevant to the article, but they definitely don't belong in the section about gun control. Where should we move them to? PiratePablo (talk) 21:24, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ NPR and flag burning positions move to "other" section, thank you 13.54.152.171 (talk) 00:20, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Inadequate summarization in parent
This article is inadequately summarized in parent Paul Ryan. Please see WP:SUMMARY. This article is 73,766 bytes long and has 4 sections and 11 subsections. Almost all of this article is not summarized in the parent; the Political positions section of parent article mentions just one area of public policy, social security. The Political positions section of article Paul Ryan might be better headed "Political philosophy"; it is almost exclusively devoted to the relationship between the topics of Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand, which is a noteworthy relationship but not to the exclusion of noteworthy political positions; this article makes no mention of Ayn Rand. 52.56.144.40 (talk) 17:45, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Inadequate summarization in lead
Further, this article is inadequately summarized in its own lead. The lead of this article reads like the lead of parent article Paul Ryan. Most of this article is not summarized in its lead. The lead of this article makes no mention of any public policy area. This article is 73,000 bytes long and has 4 sections and 11 subsections and 142 citations, none of which contribute content to the lead. Suggested approach one sentence from each section and subsection as per WP:CREATELEAD. Please help bring this article into conformance with MOS:LEAD. Thanks. 52.56.146.5 (talk) 14:57, 9 February 2017 (UTC) ✅ 52.56.146.5 (talk) 22:29, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

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