Talk:Carl Gershman

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DYK Suggestions?[edit]

 Kiefer.Wolfowitz 16:55, 13 August 2011 (UTC): Maybe[reply]

* ... that Carl Gershman, who has been President of the National Endowment for Democracy since 1984, served with the "domestic Peace Corps"—Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)—in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during 1965–1967?  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 13:10, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK review needed[edit]

Please check/verify the DYK nomination for Carl Gershman:

Thanks!  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 11:35, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

253 views[edit]

When this article's DYK hook appeared on the main page, 253 persons viewed it.  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 22:45, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Biography of Living Persons: Wikipedia's core policy[edit]

Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons (WP:BLP) puts severe restrictions on statements about living persons.

To comply with this, I have prefaced every discussion of Gershman's social-democratic youthful politics with his 2006 statement "confessing" that he was a "social democrat of sorts".

I note that a 1993 discussion "Does the U.S. need a social democratic movement?", sponsored by Social Democrats, USA, had Gershman stating his preference for Jefferson, Madison, and Wilson over Karl Marx and company.

  • Gershman, Carl (1993), "The polity: Commentary", in Freedman, Rita (ed.), Does America need a social democratic movement?, Following commentary by Jim Chapin (pp. 86–89) on panel presentations by Seymour Martin Lipset (pp. 71–75), Will Marshall (pp. 76–81), and Fred Siegel ((pp. 81–86), chaired by Ronald Radosh (p. 85), Washington, DC: Social Democrats, USA, pp. 89–93, Gershman discusses American social democracy as a form of radical-democratic Americanism, which has been properly inspired more by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Woodrow Wilson than by Karl Marx and Eduard Bernstein. {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

He also seems not to have signed the related SDUSA statement "America needs a social-democratic movement". Given his statements since 1993, I think it obligatory not to state that he is currently a social democrat (or that he has been in the last 20 years) and to state some kind of disclaimer before discussing his politics through 1980.

Sincerely,  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:13, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nitpicking the article[edit]

Starting a compilation of several nitpicks/concerns (please feel free to reply before I get finished):

  • The article states "In 1975 Gershman published a monograph on the foreign policy of the AFL–CIO." The cited source names a monograph entitled "The Foreign Policy of American Labor" (in the source it is mistitled "The Foreign Policy of the American Labor") published in 1975. In online searches, I've found that it was published by SAGE Publications (or possibly by Rowman & Littlefield) for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, as Washington Papers, Vol III, No 29, ISBN 0803905726. I can't find any sourced indication that it was about the AFL-CIO, specifically, as distinct from the broader title "American Labor." Unless there's a source describing/characterizing the book's contents, or unless the book itself can be cited as a source by someone who has read it, the article probably can't do anything more than list its title and publication details. --Orlady (talk) 14:47, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'll check this. (I don't have JSTOR this week.)  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 15:10, 23 August 2011 (UTC) Here's a Wikified citation[reply]
  • Gershman, Carl (1975), The foreign policy of American labor, SAGE policy papers, vol. 3, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (Washington Papers 29), SAGE Publications, pp. 1–82, ISBN [[Special:BookSources/0803905726, ISBN 9780803905726|0803905726, '"`UNIQ--templatestyles-00000026-QINU`"'[[ISBN (identifier)|ISBN]] [[Special:BookSources/9780803905726 |9780803905726]]]] {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |isbn= at position 13 (help)
Google Books lists AFL-CIO as a keyword for it.  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 15:19, 23 August 2011 (UTC) Google Scholar lists 8 citations of it, none of which are accessible to me.[reply]
I changed "AFL–CIO" to "American Labor", per WP:Verifiability. Thanks for your great edits!  :)  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 11:05, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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