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'''Gil Stratton Jr.''' ([[2 June]] [[1922]] - [[11 October]] [[2008]]) was an actor and sportscaster who was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]].<ref name=LATimes /> He most recently resided in [[Toluca Lake]], [[California]] with his wife, Dee Arlen, until his passing due to [[congestive heart failure]].


==Early Life==
== Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics ==
Gil Stratton Jr. was born June 2, 1922, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He attended Poly Prep in Brooklyn. He later attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., where he eventually graduated with a bachelor's degree.<ref name=LATimes>{{cite web | url=http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-stratton13-2008oct13,0,2934388.story | title=Gil Stratton Dies; Longtime Sportscaster was also an Actor | last=Thurber | first=Jon | date=2008-10-13 | publisher=Los Angeles Times Online }}</ref>


==Stage Career==
This project's subject has a page in the set of [[Lists of basic topics]].


He first debuted on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] at the age of 19 as Bud Hooper of the musical "[[Best Foot Forward]]."
See the proposal at the [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to rename the pages called List of basic x topics to Topic outline of x|Village pump]] to change the names of all those pages.


==Film Career==
'''''[[User talk:The Transhumanist|<font color="#880088">Th</font><font color="#0000FF">e Tr</font><font color="#449900">ans</font><font color="#DD9922">hu</font><font color="#DD4400">man</font><font color="#BB0000">ist</font> &nbsp;&nbsp;]]''''' 10:38, 4 July 2008 (UTC)


==Sportscasting Career==
==Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme==


He spent 16 years on KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Southern California on the show "The Big News" during the 1960's. This was the first hour-long news program for the region. While there, he coined the signature phrase "Time to call 'em as I see 'em."<ref name=LATimes /> Stratton and his co-anchors Jerry Dunphy and Bill Keene enjoyed top ratings for that time slot for a decade, and the show was the standard that other local TV stations across the country copied.<ref name=CBS2>{{cite web | url=http://cbs2.com/local/Gil.Stratton.sportscaster.2.838640.html | title=Iconic Sportscaster Gil Stratton Dead At 86 | publisher=CBS2.com}}</ref>
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In 1960, he covered the Summer Olympics from Rome. He spent several years hosting the featured horse race every Saturday, from Santa Anita, Hollywood Park and Del Mar. He also spent some time as an announcer for the L.A. Rams.<ref name=LATimes />
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==References==
== Map on [[Developed country]] ==
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==External links==
I'm having a discussion on [[Talk:Developed country]] over the prominent placement of a seemingly arbitrary map in the article lead. I'm debating it with just one other person, the user who created and placed the image, and who I am starting to feel isn't receptive to my concerns. I am not asking for a troop of cronies, just some community consensus in regards to the image since it is a hotly disputed topic with many definitions and open to much contention. Thanks. +[[User:Hexagon1|Hexagon1]] <sup>([[User talk:Hexagon1|t]])</sup> 10:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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== {{tl|electiontable}} versus {{tl|election table}} ==

Erm... ...which are we supposed to use? Almost identical, except for some syntax. {{tl|election table}} was created in December 2007; {{tl|electiontable}} was created in February 2006. Why the duplication??? [[User:Kelvinc|Kelvinc]] ([[User talk:Kelvinc|talk]]) 02:13, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

== Two questions ==

Hello everyone. I have two questions for you. First, at the top of this page it says that the project is in an "extended hibernation" – what does this mean? Second, would anyone object to changing the 'Nationality' heading in the list of participants to either 'Location' or 'Country'? Nationality is not an unambiguous term, and I think that a group that focuses on politics ought to strive for neutrality. Let me know what you think. – [[User:SJL| SJL]] 02:49, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

::Since no one has objected, I'll go ahead and change 'Nationality' to 'Location'. – [[User:SJL| SJL]] 04:15, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

== [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Libertarianism|WikiProject Libertarianism]] ==

Should [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Libertarianism|WikiProject Libertarianism]] become a subproject of this one? The only reason I haven't done so is that libertarianism is also a philosophy. [[User:EVCM|EVCM]] ([[User talk:EVCM|talk]]) 18:58, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

:This project originally was created by a sock puppet of a banned user, who now has an IP block. However, a few people have joined and re-created it according to legit editors' needs. I know that philosophy didn't want libertarianism in their template, so I think that this would be the best place to add it as a project - but not sure where projects are listed, unless it is under "related projects." If so, then it doesn't seem necessary - or does it? Carol Moore 19:07, 29 September 2008 (UTC)'''[[User:Carolmooredc|Carolmooredc]]'''

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== [[Harvey Milk]] ==

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==[[Palinism]]==

I've requested at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Social sciences that a stub be created for
[[Palinism]] - nominally, the philosophy of candidate [[Sarah Palin]]. Term gets 7,000+ Google hits on 25 Sept 2008, so passes at least the preliminary test for notability. (The first response of somebody reading this is that we should just redirect to [[Sarah Palin]] - '''let's do that if it's a good idea, and not do that if it's not a good idea.''') -- [[Special:Contributions/201.53.7.16|201.53.7.16]] ([[User talk:201.53.7.16|talk]]) 02:53, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Okay -- IMHO '''''should''''' redirect to [[Political positions of Sarah Palin]]. Comments? -- [[Special:Contributions/201.53.7.16|201.53.7.16]] ([[User talk:201.53.7.16|talk]]) 02:57, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

:On 26 September I added a request to [[Wikipedia:Requested articles/Social sciences]] for [[Palinism]] -- the term had 7,000+ Google hits on 25 Sept 2008, has 9,000+ ghits today, 3 October.
:On 28 September 2008 [[User:Horologium]] deleted this with the comment "Removed salted topic."
:If you click on [[Palinism]] you see the note/rationale "deleted "Palinism" (G10: Attack page or negative unsourced BLP: Neologism).
:Perhaps some existing article [[Palinism]] had problems, but IMHO that's not justification for salting it -- just fix it.
:I suggested above that [[Palinism]] should just redirect to the existing, non-salted article [[Political positions of Sarah Palin]]. This seems perfectly reasonable to me.
:Comments? -- [[Special:Contributions/201.53.7.16|201.53.7.16]] ([[User talk:201.53.7.16|talk]]) 06:44, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

<small>''(Cross-posted from my talk page; this discussion has been forum-shopped to several different locations.)''</small><br/>
The problem was not so much with your suggestion, but rather what was there when I speedy deleted it; it was not a discussion of Palin's beliefs, but rather an attack on Palin's speaking style, with a link to [[Bushism]], and similar text. I discovered your link in the requested articles section hours later, and removed it because the term had been salted. I salted it because anything other than a protected redirect is likely to turn into another version of the article I deleted, and because there is no currency for the term outside of blogs and other opinion sites. A Google news search a moment ago returned 28 hits, most of which were op/ed columns or blogs. Someone who is interested in Sarah Palin's political views will more likely search [[Sarah Palin]] (which has a handy link to the political views page) than [[Palinism]]. "Palinism" is likely to remain confined to bloggers, which are not reliable sources and cannot be used to establish notability or substantiate statements made in Wikipedia articles. [[WP:SOAP|Wikipedia is not a soapbox]], and that includes using it to support or oppose a candidate for office. '''[[User:Horologium|<font color="DarkSlateGray">Horologium</font>]]''' <small>[[User talk:Horologium|(talk)]]</small> 12:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

: I agree with [[User:201.53.7.16|201.53.7.16]] that it should redirect: to [[political positions of Sarah Palin]] if the usage of the word "Palinism" refers to these positions, or to [[Sarah Palin]] if it refers to something else. [[Special:Contributions/69.140.152.55|69.140.152.55]] ([[User talk:69.140.152.55|talk]]) 18:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

== New article related to politics, please review ==

I've just created [[Global Strategy Group]], a very influential Democratic political consulting firm based in New York City (especially influential in New York state). The company has clients not only in the U.S. but in other countries (although I don't yet have much information in the article about that). Anyone with an interest is invited to look it over for improvements and possibly adding it to this WikiProject. I think several of the partners are probably notable enough for their own articles as well. -- [[User:Noroton|Noroton]] ([[User talk:Noroton|talk]]) 15:36, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

== 2008/9 Wikipedia for Schools ==
The 2008/9 Schools Wikipedia is now available for browsing and feedback is welcome. Downloads start in two weeks so final improvements are possible; this is a big project with millions of users so it is worth doing well. The list of politics topics included is [[SchoolsWP:index:subject.Citizenship.Politics_and_government|here]]. Feedback welcome at [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection]]. Historical versions of articles were hand picked by volunteers, choice of topic was manual mainly from the version 1.0 selectionbot output. There is a significant UK selection bias of course. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 10:42, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

:Is this schools that teach politics or what? Thanks. Carol Moore 13:46, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[[User:Carolmooredc|Carolmooredc]]

::The DVD is aimed at all schools which broadly follow a UK education curriculum (which includes a lot of English speaking Africa etc.). Politics sits in the UK curriculum subject of "citizenship" and the DVD is aimed at ages 8-18 roughly. The DVD generally gets put on school intranets where either there is no internet available (much of the developing world) or where internet access is limited for other reasons. --[[User:BozMo|BozMo]] [[user talk:BozMo|talk]] 15:58, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

== some help ==

please help update and add info to the article [[Frank T. Johns]] an infobox and appropriate categorizing would help to. - -[[User:LukeTheSpook|The Spooky One]] ([[User talk:LukeTheSpook|talk to me]]) 21:41, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

== [[Jouke de Vries]] ==

Can you guys place this Dutch politician article stub under your scope and will you perhaps try to improve it furthermore?It is a DYK-candidate and can make it to the main page if only a few improvements are made. Help is needed urgently for if we wait to long it'll expire and no longer can become DYK article. [[User:-The Bold Guy-|-The Bold Guy-]] ([[User talk:-The Bold Guy-|talk]]) 13:17, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

== FLC ==

[[List of Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka]] is currently a [[WP:FLC|Featured List Candidate]]. All editors are invited to participate [[Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka|here]]. Any comments and suggestions will be welcome. [[User:Chamal_N|<span style="color:#000080">'''C'''</span><span style="color:#0000CD">'''h'''</span><span style="color:#0000FF">'''a'''</span><span style="color:#4169E1">'''m'''</span><span style="color:#1E90FF">'''a'''</span><span style="color:#87CEEB">'''l'''</span>]] <small>[[User talk:Chamal_N|<span style="color:#693"><sup>Talk</sup></span>]]</small> [[Special:Contributions/Chamal_N|<span style="color:#C6C">±</span>]] 03:48, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

== United States statewide political official templates ==

Within [[:Category:United States statewide political official templates]] {{user|Sardanaphalus}} and I are attempting to format templates for United States statewide elected political officials. We are having an issue with the fact that about half the [[State Supreme Court]]s are elected and half are appointed. Thus, templates like {{tl|Current Illinois statewide political officials}} include the judicial branch of government and templates like {{tl|Current California statewide political officials}} do not. Do you think it is better to only include elected officials for consistency or should we add the jurists to all templates with a comment underneath that they were appointed (which looked like [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Current_California_statewide_political_officials&oldid=244752594 this])?--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|t]]/[[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|c]]/[[User:TonyTheTiger/Antonio Vernon|bio]]/[[WP:CHICAGO]]/[[WP:LOTM]]) </small> 13:54, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

:Why not just say "statewide political officials" and avoid the question of whether or not they were elected? --''[[User:Philosopher|Philosopher]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Philosopher|Let us reason together.]]</sup> 22:11, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

:''The judges of a state's highest court should be included in the template. If those judges are appointed, make a note of that in the template. [[User:SMP0328.|SMP0328.]] ([[User talk:SMP0328.|talk]]) 22:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)'' -- from [[User talk:Sardanaphalus]].

:* Either of these not much hassle to implement as the templates previously included the judges with the label "...(elected)" or "...(appointed)". [[User:Sardanaphalus|Sardanaphalus]] ([[User talk:Sardanaphalus|talk]]) 01:12, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

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Gil Stratton
Born(1922-07-02)July 2, 1922
Brooklyn, New York, USA
DiedOctober 11, 2008(2008-10-11) (aged 86)
Toluca Lake, California, USA
Cause of deathCongestive Heart Failure
NationalityUSA
Alma materSt. Lawrence University
Occupation(s)Actor
Sportscaster
Known forActor
Sportscaster
SpouseDee Arlen
WebsiteGilStratton.com
Gil Stratton on IMDB

Gil Stratton Jr. (2 June 1922 - 11 October 2008) was an actor and sportscaster who was born in Brooklyn, New York.[1] He most recently resided in Toluca Lake, California with his wife, Dee Arlen, until his passing due to congestive heart failure.

Early Life

Gil Stratton Jr. was born June 2, 1922, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He attended Poly Prep in Brooklyn. He later attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., where he eventually graduated with a bachelor's degree.[1]

Stage Career

He first debuted on Broadway at the age of 19 as Bud Hooper of the musical "Best Foot Forward."

Film Career

Sportscasting Career

He spent 16 years on KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Southern California on the show "The Big News" during the 1960's. This was the first hour-long news program for the region. While there, he coined the signature phrase "Time to call 'em as I see 'em."[1] Stratton and his co-anchors Jerry Dunphy and Bill Keene enjoyed top ratings for that time slot for a decade, and the show was the standard that other local TV stations across the country copied.[2]

In 1960, he covered the Summer Olympics from Rome. He spent several years hosting the featured horse race every Saturday, from Santa Anita, Hollywood Park and Del Mar. He also spent some time as an announcer for the L.A. Rams.[1]


References

  1. ^ a b c d Thurber, Jon (2008-10-13). "Gil Stratton Dies; Longtime Sportscaster was also an Actor". Los Angeles Times Online.
  2. ^ "Iconic Sportscaster Gil Stratton Dead At 86". CBS2.com.

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