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A news item involving Ed Lee was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 13 December 2017. |
Wow, has there ever been less information available online about the mayor of a major city? I realize the circumstances of his appointment are unusual, but I'm amazed that not even his birthdate or wife's full name are findable with all the tricks of Google I know. At any rate, his wife's first name is Anita, but I have no idea if her last name is also Lee or not. With that lack of knowledge, I'm not going to add only her first name. Please, anyone who can find a reliable link, add his wife's full name when it is available (I assume more lengthy bio pages on the mayoral site and in the media are forthcoming), as well as Edwin Lee's full and confirmed birthdate. Moncrief ( talk) 19:44, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
I removed the reference to Oakland's Jean Quan being the first Asian-American mayor of a major American city, as Norman Mineta actually holds that title, having been mayor of San Jose from 1971–1975.
I also considered removing the sentence following; I'm not sure if being the first Asian-American mayor of a top ten city in terms of population density is notable enough for the lead paragraph. I also noticed that the use of top ten cities by GDP is misleading, as the referenced page uses metropolitan areas as its criteria, and so the #10 ranking is actually for the San Francisco-Oakland MSA. Dtcomposer ( talk) 06:01, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
I removed the reference to top 10 cities by GDP. San Francisco is not in the top 10 cities by GDP. The San Francisco bay area is in the top 10 metropolitan areas, but Ed Lee is not a mayor of the metropolitan area, just San Francisco. We should also remove the reference to top 10 cities by population density, because that's not a valuable statistic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mariotanev ( talk • contribs) 18:03, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Can no one find his date of birth (not just the year) anywhere? I'm amazed that despite all kinds of searching, this information just isn't out there!
Moncrief (
talk) 21:00, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Just after I posted that I found a cite, finally! Put into article with ref link: May 5, 1952.
Moncrief (
talk) 21:18, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
This article devotes about 4,000 words to a perjury accusation and bomb threat that occurred during the Ross Mirkarimi trial. The perjury accusation came to nothing and was floated by Mirkarimi's lawyers to help their client. The bomb threat was handled according to procedure. I would like to remove these sections. They have undue weight and were written during the heat of the Mirkarimi drama. Any objections? Chisme ( talk) 15:35, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
You're only interested in the first Asian mayor of San Francisco insofar as he opposed the founder of the California Green Party in his wife-beating case. Chisme ( talk) 03:37, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
This stuff is just manufactured mud from Lee's opponents. None of it ended up sticking to Lee. If he is convicted of something, or admits to something, we can put it in. Otherwise it is just unsuccessful and thus unimportant political jockeying. Binksternet ( talk) 15:26, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
It looks like all of the allegations are now summarized into one section. I would recommend cuts rather than blanket removal. Each one has news articles which are relevant. If one feels nothing has come of them they can add a statements about that. GreenIn2010 ( talk) 15:23, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
I'd like to point out that works of the California state government, which includes municipalities, are in the public domain. Therefore any official portrait of Ed Lee as mayor would be in the public domain, and no explicit release is necessary. Antony–22 ( talk⁄ contribs) 22:56, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
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It does need more balance. It slants too positive, without considering the criticism he's received for gentrification and being too cozy to tech, while not doing enough to help low-income residents. This article is a good one to incorporate. – Muboshgu ( talk) 17:14, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
( edit conflict) The "Mayorality" section is emphatically pro-Lee in terms of its tone. I don't know anything about SanFran politics but I'm guessing its also pro-Lee in terms of what it has chosen to include. -- LukeSurl t c 17:34, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
I thought I heard he died this morning. Any truth to that rumor? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.205.169.178 ( talk) 20:08, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
https://48hills.org/2015/08/ed-lee-and-the-fbi-corruption-charges/
The result of the move request was: moved ( non-admin closure) ~SS49~ {talk} 01:12, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
– I think the former mayor of San Francisco is probably the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC here. He still takes in 99% of the pageviews years after his death, and the others do not have any amount of long-term significance, unless you have an encyclopedic knowledge of NHL players who only played 2 games. Nohomersryan ( talk) 00:48, 6 May 2020 (UTC)