Biography B‑class

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 B This article has been rated as B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

What the hell is he doing in this page???- Y2A

Can't say as I know. I axed him. Stancollins 15:14, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The events mentioned in the article need to be ordered chronologically, i.e., what Kudlow did first, comes first in the article. The years in which he was in specific jobs need to be specified.

The events need to be explained more accurately, with more details and facts.

The individual facts must be checked.

1 - Honestly, this article needs some cleanup. Also, since a great majority of the edits were made by only one person, it may not conform with the "neutral point of view" thing, or whatever it's called.

2 - Someone who knows more about supply-side economics should expand the article and put it in some context and explain what Kudlow did on his jobs and give dates and numbers. The separate facts need to be interwoven and need to be put in some context. This article looks like a skeleton with no flesh. The relationship between Kudlow and supply-side economics has to be explained in a way that is easy to undertand for readers who don't know much about the topic.

3 - Also, it should be explained why and how and when Kudlow began taking drugs, and how he recovered, and what it has to do with his personal and professional and religious life. For example, did he start taking cocaine or drinking too much because he felt too much pressure while working or because of personal problems, or both?

4 - Nothing is told about his youth nor his first two marriages.

5 - What conflicts has Kudlow had in politics? Who has criticized him, how and why? Who has supported him? What about his relationship to James Cramer who supports the Democratic Party, or Kudlow's frequent debates with Paul Krugman? Why do certain people appear on his TV programs and not others?

6 - Where did he learn about supply-side economics? What exactly did he do at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York? What is his legacy from his time at the Office of Management and Budget? What did he do at Bear Stearns?

7 - Also, the article needs some serious linguistic, orthographic and grammatical cleanup.

8 - The different facts in the article have to be connected somehow, and not just stand loose. The paragraphs need to be expanded with more details. 2004-12-29T22:45Z 16:43, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

If you don't mind, I put paragraph numbers on your comments, so that they can each be better addressed. I'll try to take another look at the article to see what I can do (which is far from everything that needs to be done). Stancollins 15:18, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I think I can start it off. I must admit my first reaction on seeing this page was that somebody must have added as many tags as they could think of just for their own sake ;-). On reading it and starting to edit it, most of them were justified, and some still are.

However, pending other discussion on point 1, I suggest removal of the neutrality tag. The virtue of this fact-based presentation (acknowledging its faults) is that there's not much here that you can claim unduly editorializes on Kudlow in either direction.

On paragraph 2, I think I will eliminate the 'too technical' tag. I've added one supply-side detail in the Laffer and open market operations sections, and other than that, I don't think technical jargon or theory is the primary problem--in fact, adding too much more could hurt it from that point of view. The technical terms are linked, so anyone who wants to look them up can. I do agree that the article is a lot of bare-bones facts and no real story, though, so I will leave the other 'expert' tag.

3 through 6 I know nothing about, so I can't help.

The edits on 7 and 8 are ongoing, and while I think it's been improved, I wouldn't suggest removing the cleanup tag yet.

Also, somewhere between the cleanup, expansion, expert, and technical edit, there was a good bit of redundancy. I got rid of the expansion tag, as it was the least specific of them all.

Stancollins 15:44, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

From Peter Johnson [22:22, 21 November 2005 (UTC)]: I removed the NPOV tag, as no such concerns are expressed on the Talk page, and I did not detect the NPOV myself.

A photo was added to the article in June, but Image:kudlow.bmp does not exist. I've commented out the image in the article and added a "reqphoto" tag at the top of the talk page. Cheers, CWC(talk) 10:14, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

His lack of a degree in economics should get one mention and not three. patsw 02:50, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Now it is not mentioned at all. I will put one mention of it back into the text.