Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Louis H. Bean/archive1
Louis H. Bean was an American economic and political analyst. Born in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, Bean migrated to the United States with his family. In 1923, he became a member of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, working on estimates of farm income and price indices. Bean's charts were used in Congress in discussions about the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill. Bean was closely associated with Henry A. Wallace. He wrote articles for the journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics. During the late 1930s, Bean developed an interest in political analysis. After his successful and near-unique prediction of Harry S. Truman's victory in the 1948 presidential election, Life magazine referred to him as the "Lone Prophet" of Truman's victory. Bean wrote many books, notably Ballot Behavior and How to Predict Elections. He continued making electoral analyses and projections in the 1950s and 1960s, most of which were accurate. He died in 1994. (Full article...)
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Hi Kavyansh.Singh and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:08, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
- Perfect :) – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 04:23, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
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@Hog Farm: Starting this section on the talk page as this discussion is more or less not related to the article or its feature article candidacy, but a humble to understand the issue.
You feel that Bean's non-political career has not been given due weight. I disagree, but which FA criteria are you basing this concern upon? If I guess correctly, it'd be 1b: " comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context". If that is the case, I am not convinced that the examples you give are "major facts or details". I don't think what this seventy year old source says is a major fact. I'll back up my assertion with the fact that the most recent and comprehensive scholarly study about Bean, Rosenof 1999, also cites this Business Week source but does not incorporate many of the facts from the magazine about non-political forecasting. Bean's obituary in NYT and WaPo also don't focus much on this career. He is remembered as an economist who was really good in predicting elections, especially the Truman one. What makes you believe that the examples you give are major facts; is there something I am missing?
– Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 07:02, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
- It's 1b for me. I can understand the arguments for both sides, but I'm still a bit uneasy at leaving out some of the details there. I have no intentions on opposing over this, but at the moment I'm personally not at a support yet. I think RFK is looking much better, and will try to get back to it after Labor Day Hog Farm Talk 02:48, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Hog Farm, fine. Thank you for your review. As for RFK, I've tried to check all the sources, and fixed the issues. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 11:44, 5 September 2022 (UTC)