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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 Superseded by #10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)
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)
According to the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan served as its president a total of seven terms. In the Wikipedia article, it states he was only elected twice. This could cause some confusion for readers wanting to know his background in entertainment. Here's the link to the SAG description of his service: [1]Criddic (talk) 02:53, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The other day I attempted to streamline the first sentence of the lead to just "Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States..." instead of how it is right now mentioning his career as an actor and politician as well. I expected this to get reverted (which it did) per #Current consensus but interpreted that to discourage calling Reagan a stateman. This also follows the precedent of most of Reagan's predecessors who are most notable for being presidents (excluding Carter being a humanitarian and the Founding Fathers being the Founding Fathers) and is encouraged by MOS:FIRSTBIO. So I wanted to see thoughts on whether if the change should be made or not. Lazesusdasiru (talk) 19:22, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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