Template:Did you know nominations/Tara Sweeney


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:15, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Tara Sweeney

 * ... that Tara Sweeney is the first Alaska Native to oversee the Bureau of Indian Affairs? Source: "Sweeney is the first Alaska Native to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Department of the Interior". KTUU. Also Snopes
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 * Reviewed: Gaspar Jimenez

Created by Iselilja (talk). Self-nominated at 23:47, 27 January 2019 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article is new enough, long enough, sourced enough, and neutrally written. No problems with copyvio. QPQ done. The image is a work of the U.S. federal government and therefore public domain. Good to go. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:46, 5 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment — This article is a little too derivative of the sources, which in turn are for the most part too derivative of various press releases from the U.S. government and not reflective enough of original reporting. The article is also obviously too dependent on cherry-picking sources related to her present job title.  As she has been on the radar in Alaska for quite some time, other reliable sources exist, some of which are of higher quality than these.  If Snopes is supposed to be such a legendary fact-checking site, you would suppose that they would have done a better job of fact checking and not misspelled her maiden name like they (and other sources) did.  It appears that the article has been cleaned up slightly, but I still see issues.  To start, it states that she grew up in Utqiagvik.  It wasn't called Utqiagvik when she grew up there.  From the first paragraphs of the article body, I spot many examples of selective wikilinking and obvious typos.  The paragraph describing her relationship with ASRC states "She has a birthright co-ownership in the company".  This may be fine in the context of laudatory jargon in a press release, but needs examining in a broader sense once removed from that context.  Neither the article nor the sources offer any clue as to how old she is, a facet of one's life which was considered commonplace to report upon not too terribly long ago.  ASRC is one of very few Alaska Native Corporations whose shareholders have decided to issue new stock to descendants of original shareholders.  If she was born before the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was enacted into law, then she would have received 100 shares from that original issue of stock.  If she was born after that time, then she was issued 100 shares of a different class of stock or she obtained shares from the original issue through inheritance.  This fact calls into question what exactly is meant by "birthright", especially since the best guess from the legislative website entry for her mother places her as being born in or near 1973.  From reading the sources, inclusion of that fact was in the context of her association with ASRC constituting a conflict of interest.  ASRC's rapid growth in recent years is mostly due to the close association that certain company officials have enjoyed with a certain member of Congress and his successor.  I'm being non-specific due to the tendency of Wikipedians to cry BLP foul over everything they can, but this story is well-known in Alaska and was brought up at BLPN some years back, so it's not a secret.  The article places far too much weight on her being a Republican when her previous claim to fame in Alaskan politics was as an independent candidate for state Senate in 2004.  There's also the idea that she's somehow more notable than either Eileen MacLean or Roy Ahmaogak, and that this notion is based solely on her present job title.  That's a rather nefarious POV which stinks to high heaven. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  02:39, 9 February 2019 (UTC)