Talk:John Kerry

List of legislation sponsored by John Kerry was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 12 January 2019 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into John Kerry. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the John Kerry article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

John Kerry is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 25, 2004	Peer review	Reviewed
May 16, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted

A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on February 22, 2004.

Current status: Former featured article candidate

The subject of this article is controversial and content may be in dispute. When updating the article, be bold, but not reckless. Feel free to try to improve the article, but don't take it personally if your changes are reversed; instead, come here to the talk page to discuss them. Content must be written from a neutral point of view. Include citations when adding content and consider tagging or removing unsourced information.

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

This article has not yet been rated on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to multiple WikiProjects.

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Biography: Military / Politics and Government C‑class

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
	This article is supported by the military biography work group (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group (assessed as Mid-importance).

Military history: Biography / Maritime / North America / United States / Cold War C‑class

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles

C

This article has been rated as C-class on the project's quality scale.

This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: criterion met Structure: criterion met Grammar and style: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met

Associated task forces:
/
	Military biography task force
	Maritime warfare task force
	North American military history task force
	United States military history task force
	Cold War task force (c. 1945 – c. 1989)

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Vietnam C‑class Low‑importance

	Vietnam portal This article is part of WikiProject Vietnam, an attempt to create a comprehensive, neutral, and accurate representation of Vietnam on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page.VietnamWikipedia:WikiProject VietnamTemplate:WikiProject VietnamVietnam articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

U.S. Congress C‑class High‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject U.S. Congress, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United States Congress on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.U.S. CongressWikipedia:WikiProject U.S. CongressTemplate:WikiProject U.S. CongressU.S. Congress articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is about one (or many) person(s).

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

International relations C‑class Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject International relations, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of International relations on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.International relationsWikipedia:WikiProject International relationsTemplate:WikiProject International relationsInternational relations articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

United States: Colorado / Massachusetts / Military history / Presidential elections / Government C‑class Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Colorado portal This article is supported by WikiProject Colorado, our collaboration to create, improve, and update Wikipedia articles about the U.S. State of Colorado. To comment about this article, select the Add topic tab above. For questions about, or to make suggestions for Colorado articles, go to our project's talk page. We invite you to join us!
	Massachusetts portal This article is supported by WikiProject Massachusetts (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by WikiProject Military history - U.S. military history task force.
	This article is supported by WikiProject U.S. presidential elections (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by WikiProject U.S. Government (assessed as High-importance).

Template:WikiProject Joe Biden

Template:Vital article

This article has been mentioned by a media organization:

"News reports, public record contradict 'Willie Horton' ad by right-wing 'move on' group". OpEdNews. September 6, 2004.

Archives

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

This page has archives. Sections older than 90 days may be automatically archived by when more than 5 sections are present.

Missing education detail:

Secretary Kerry did not just graduate from any boarding school, he graduated from St. Paul’s school in NH. It says “boarding school” I think this should be fixed Nikhil.vootkur (talk) 14:51, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 23 October 2018

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Though the text is not provided an entry before Syria with the Egypt heading detailing Kerry's support of the Egyption coup d'état which brought an end to that democracy. His words "restored democracy" with regards to the coup.

Kerry's involvement in the Egyption coup d'état that took place on the 3 of July 2013 by army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is important because it destroyed the egyptian democracy. We only need to look at Egypt today conducting mass trials with hundreds of defendants in cages getting death penalties en masse for protesting or the regemes killing of journalists. Kerry supported this destruction of a democracy. There were only 2 1/2 years left of Morsi's term in office and polls suggested he would not win reelection. Nothing Morsi did compares to the events that followed his removal. Another despotic chapter in US foreign policy that needs visibility. Why is it missing?

United States Secretary of State John Kerry said that Egypt's army had "restored democracy" by removing Morsi from power.[233][234] The annual $1.5 billion was never interrupted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Egyptian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/world/middleeast/egypt-warns-morsi-supporters-to-end-protests.html Commuted (talk) 09:04, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Spintendo 19:13, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Plastic smile listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Plastic smile. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 20:10, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The "automobile" engine shown in the side photo, is a heavy truck engine...

By: height, number of cylinders/length, and turbocharger, that is not an engine used in any Chinese passenger car of any era.

It is, rather, typical of mid to heavy duty trucks: eg competitors to Detroit/Caterpillar/Cummins in US, or producers such as Isuzu/Hino/Kubota in Japan.

In correctly captioned as it stands... it is showing poor knowledge and "pre digested" captioning by political campaign, or by unskilled reporter. This draws the readers attention if the fallibility of the entire article. 68.151.178.83 (talk) 04:44, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"John L. Kerry" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect John L. Kerry. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 13#John L. Kerry until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Paper Luigi ^{T • C} 16:00, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Institut Montana

The Institut Montana has never been an "elite" school in terms of teaching and learning performance. Rather it is an expensive boarding school for kids of rich (foreign and Swiss) families who do not make it to the real elite schools of Switzerland and Central Europe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1206:45BC:6F70:184E:C44F:CBB:E965 (talk) 07:39, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Opinionated History Again

As someone who voted for John Kerry for President in 2004, I find a significant amount of opinionated bias in this article such as “ it appeared to be” statements which is someone’s opinionated prospective and a lack of the detail about the claims of the Swift Boaters while giving extensive detail about the positive aspects of John Kerry’s Service. Deification Of Kerry appears to this contributor to be the common theme of this Wikipedia page.

 Too bad the page is locked to ensure that other opinions or prospectives are not given the same freedom of speech rights that the person or persons who where allowed to present their prospective on this page were given.

To bad we continue our rapid decline into a society of giving more rights of personal freedoms to some members then others.

As a person who always try to support Wikipedia when asked for financial support, I will discontinue that practice and allow those that Wikipedia grants “”Special” freedoms to express their opinions and prospectives as factual History to provide all the support that Wikipedia needs. Catmandu57 (talk) 20:16, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Catmandu57, "appeared to be" appears once in the article, sourced to this reliable source. which backs up the statements in the article. Nothing opinionated there. We don't give the claims of the swift boaters any weight because they were fallacious. If you have any other specific complaints beyond the bizarre claim of "deification", please bring them up with specifics, what specifically is wrong and what specifically should be changed about it. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:30, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Catmandu57, PS, your "freedom of speech" cannot be abridged by the government, but it absolutely can be by a private enterprise like Wikipedia. That's called free market capitalism. I thought conservatives liked that? – Muboshgu (talk) 20:32, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hombre, we don't do "Opinion" on Wikipedia. The "Swiftboat" complaints are a well documented fraud, and it *doesn't matter* if you have a different opinion, what matters is whats true, and we actually know those allegations are not true. So repeating them would violate multiple wikipedia rules on articles about living people, and worse, would be perpetrating things that aren't true. Duckmonster (talk) 11:48, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]