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I Find it Weird that his Page is Only Semi-Protected. It should Probably be Extended-Confirmed Protection. This is Because Some Troll User might Change his Birthplace to Kenya or something. 216.87.237.81 (talk) 22:00, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Page protection is not done as prevention, only in response to disruption. EvergreenFir(talk) 22:33, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Semi-protected edit request on 8 January 2024
38.81.150.88 (talk) 02:25, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
At the beginning of the page, the page reads:
"Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961), commonly known as Barack Obama is an American politician..."
I think that the part saying "commonly known as Barack Obama" should be removed because the page previously said at the start that his name is Barack Obama, but referred to him by his full name of "Barack Hussein Obama II."
Is it just me, or is the IPA audio very quiet. If anyone else says so I'll increase the volume. Coulomb1 (talk) 02:00, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is actually quieter than I think appropriate; I had to turn the volume up a bit to hear it properly. I support turning up the volume on it. OverzealousAutocorrect (talk) 00:01, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Spelling suggestion
The beginning of the article says: "A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president in U.S. history." I think instead it should read: "As a member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president in U.S. history." 91.136.184.190 (talk) 20:45, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The current sentence is better, IMO. O3000, Ret. (talk) 20:50, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, these are distinct clauses that are not related to each other in the way "as a" would imply. VQuakr (talk) 20:36, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. The current sentence is grammatically correct. No need to change it. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 00:45, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Historical Rankings of Barack Obama
Currently the article says that he has been placed in the middle to upper tier of presidents. Having looked at the rankings, it seems more accurate to simply say he has been generally ranked in the upper tier. Only two of the ten rankings place him outside the top third of American presidents and the word "generally" leaves room for exceptions of that degree. Alternatively, the article could be changed to say he has been placed in the first or second quartile of US presidents but this phrasing would be a bit less conventional. c.f. Lyndon B. Johnson who has received similar rankings and whose article simply states "historians and scholars rank Johnson in the upper tier".IRN-Dumas (talk) 18:07, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Birth Place
As per what I think would be consensus NO I'm not saying this is fact but for birth place their should be a note on something because some "not all" think that Obama is not born in usa for more info Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theoriesWatttyt (talk) 16:23, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The page preview of this article does not show the article details, but displays a slang term repeated multiple times. I am new to Wikipedia, so I don't know how to edit this. Also, this is a semi-protected page. Anoop.rvn (talk) 01:37, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I can still see it. Tried in different browsers after clearing cache. Am I trying anything wrong? Anoop.rvn (talk) 02:00, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No, the cache should have cleared, but I can verify that it's corrected on Wikipedia's end. Maybe your ISP has it cached in the vandalized version? Acroterion(talk) 02:09, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Semi-protected edit request on 21 April 2024
Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States—becoming the first African American to serve in that office—on January 20, 2009.
The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, where he met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992. Their two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha), were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996 and served there for eight years. In 2004, he was elected by a record majority to the US Senate from Illinois and, in February 2007, announced his candidacy for president. After winning a closely fought contest against New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, Obama handily defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee for president, in the general election.
When President Obama took office, he faced very significant challenges. The economy was officially in a recession, and the outgoing administration of George W. Bush had begun to implement a controversial "bail-out" package to try to help struggling financial institutions. In foreign affairs, the United States still had troops deployed in difficult conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
During the first two years of his first term, President Obama was able to work with the Democratic-controlled Congress to improve the economy, pass health-care reform legislation, and withdraw most US troops from Iraq. After the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives in 2010, the president spent significant time and political effort negotiating, for the most part unsuccessfully, with congressional Republicans about taxes, budgets, and the deficit. After winning reelection in 2012, Obama began his second term focused on securing legislation on immigration reform and gun control, neither of which he was able to achieve. When the Republicans won the Senate in 2014, Obama refocused on actions that he could take unilaterally, invoking his executive authority as president. In foreign policy, Obama concentrated during the second term on the Middle East and climate change.
Obama left the presidency, at age fifty-five, after his constitutionally limited two terms ended on January 20, 2017. He announced plans to remain in Washington, DC, until his younger daughter finished high school and, as a former president, to play a restrained but active role in public affairs. He also devoted energy to raising money and planning for the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Illinois. 64.190.226.43 (talk) 22:54, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Jamedeus (talk) 23:14, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]