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    Featured articleRonald Reagan is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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    Current consensus

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    01. There is a consensus to call Ronald Reagan an American politician instead of an American statesman, in the first sentence of the lead section. (RfC December 2016)

    02. Obsolete
    There is a consensus against adding the proposed text to the Honoring German war dead at Bitburg, Germany section: In fact, some of Waffen-SS soldiers buried at Bitburg had been members of the 2nd SS Panzer Division, nicknamed "Das Reich," which had committed war crimes, although it has been estimated that none of the individual soldiers buried at Bitburg personally participated. (RfC April 2018) Since July 2020, the section no longer appears in the article.

    03. There is a consensus to exclude Reagan's successful push for the United States Senate ratification of the Genocide Convention. (RfC July 2018)

    04. There is a consensus to include in the Iran-Contra affair section, a very brief mention of the aspect of drug trafficking on the part of some Nicaraguan Contras. (RfC September 2019)

    05. There is a consensus to add a subsection about Reagan addressing apartheid and a general consensus on the subsection's wording. (October 2019)

    06. Superseded by #10
    There is no consensus to include in the lead section, a clause in the sentence on Reagan's first term stating that during the said term, he largely ignored the burgeoning AIDS crisis. (RfC April 2020)

    07. There is no consensus to include in the lead section, a sentence, immediately preceding the ones on the Soviet Union, stating Reagan resisting calls for stringent sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa and vetoed a sanctions bill but was overridden by Congress. (RfC April 2020)

    08. Disputed
    Beginning in July 2019, there was a discussion about the integration of Reagan's remarks in a 1971 audio recording with Richard Nixon in the narrative of the body, but the closure and outcome is disputed. A similar discussion beginning in June 2020 was archived without closure or a clear consensus. Furthermore, there was not enough discussion on specific wordings or placements for a consensus to emerge on those matters. (February 2020, RfC June 2020)

    09. There is a consensus that File:Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg should remain as the lead image. (RfC May 2021)

    010. Supersedes #6. There is a consensus to include in the lead section, a clause about Reagan's response to the AIDS epidemic. There is no consensus to include a full sentence there, including Reagan also headed a delayed governmental response to the AIDS epidemic during his tenure. (RfC May 2023)

    Lede Image for Ronald Reagan

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    Which of the following images should serve as the lede?

    Emiya1980 (talk) 03:42, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Rjensen, Drdpw, Neveselbert, Jaydenwithay, SNUGGUMS, GoodDay, GuardianH, Dimadick, Marginataen, and SPECIFICO: In light of the significant extent of your contributions to the "Ronald Reagan" page (as well as relatively recent evidence of your continued interest in said article), you are invited to participate in a discussion regarding the title of the article. Should you feel so inclined, please share your thoughts below. Emiya1980 (talk) 04:07, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The current consensus (see above) is for "A".Rja13ww33 (talk) 03:47, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Both A and B have an odd red tone, which others noted here and here. Last year, I uploaded a retouched photograph, File:Ronald Reagan 1981 presidential portrait.jpg, which I believe has a more realistic skin tone. I also believe that the backdrop is supposed to be blue as opposed to green based on this and this. I added the retouch to Reagan article on the other languages and it has held up very well there. --Wow (talk) 03:59, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I do not have a problem with the current image per se. That being said, I think there is a significant amount of empty space in the left side of the image that could be cropped out to provide a more centered view of the subject. Hence my support for B. Emiya1980 (talk) 04:15, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't see any meaningful difference between the two images. Pretty much the same details and the same coloration. Dimadick (talk) 07:46, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I prefer A. Why retouch and crop an official portrait? SPECIFICO talk 08:59, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Didn’t retouch original image. Just cropped it. Emiya1980 (talk) 09:08, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Not seeing much difference aside from cropping, but I'd opt for B when it has a closer focus on Ronald's face. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 11:51, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I've uploaded a new version File:Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981 NARA (edited).jpg which comes from https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75856593. I cropped it and adjusted the levels. Frecsh (talk) 04:36, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected edit request on 13 November 2024

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    Weasel Word in Ronald Reagan § 1980 election, on the fourth paragraph, it says " Joseph Crespino argues that the visit was designed to reach out to Wallace-inclined voters,[183] and some also saw these actions as an extension of the Southern strategy to garner white support for Republican candidates." Please add a weasel word alert on that word to alert any reader of that article that it is a weasel word M.VIPSANIUS.AGRIPPA (talk) 02:15, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I don't know how else to put it....as we go on (with RS) to document that some/others disagree with that view.Rja13ww33 (talk) 04:58, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @M.VIPSANIUS.AGRIPPA I added a [who?] tag, which I think is the best way to temporarily resolve this. CWenger (^@) 05:24, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]