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Latest comment: 2 days ago by Footnote Pete in topic Proposed "Abortion rights" section additions

GOCE copyedit request

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Latest comment: 6 years ago21 comments2 people in discussion
  • It exists to [...] and They support the gathering [...] The Project is first referred to in the third-person singular before being referred to in the third-person plural. In most of the article "they" is used, so it's easier to swap out any current instances of "it" with "they". As this is written in (presumably) American English, "they" is not as commonly used as "it" when referring to organisations in formal writing, so it would probably make more sense to use "it" instead for this article. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • The Project has sought to raise state minimum wages, both through stepped annual increases and through elimination of the tip credit exemption. Emphasis added. Is that not its goal anymore? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • Concerns have arisen about the lack of transparency of non-state organizations like the Fairness Project pushing local decisions. How much of an impact is the Project alleged to have on local decisions? Blatant, or more inconspicuous? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • This provided a geographical mix and a mix of difficulties [...] "Mix" appears to be used here with two different meanings. What is meant by "mix of difficulties"? I might be able to find a new word for "mix" there. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • The proposed motions in Washington and California were fairly similar: they sought to implement an immediate small increase with additional annual graduated increases, leading to $15 by 2020 or 2021, respectively. Is this sentence trying to say that the the aim was to increase minimum wage to $15 by 2020 in Washington, and $15 by 2021 in California? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • [...] as a result, the proposals were withdrawn, the goals having been satisfied. I think everything past the second comma here can be deleted. Alternatively, it could be restructured to with the goals having been satisfied, the proposals were withdrawn. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • This support was focused in Missouri, where, together with the National Employment Law Center, a combined $537,500 was donated by advocacy groups; as well as Arkansas. This sentence is really confusing. I'm taking it to mean "The Project's support was focused on Missouri, where it donated $537,500 in collaboration with the National Employment Law Center, other advocacy groups, and the government of Arkansas." Is that what it is going for? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • There were repeated accusations that this decision was made in order to enable easier future amendments, as ballot-proposed law would require a three-quarters super-majority of each house to overrule. Looking at the cited source, I'm assuming this only applies to Michigan? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • The Fairness Project donated $100,000, functionally all on the signature-gathering stage. I'm not sure what this sentence is trying to convey. Could you please clarify? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • The first campaign in 2017 offered support by the Project was in Maine where there was strong support to expand Medicaid. The Fairness Project donated $375,000 to aid both the campaigns to have the proposal meet signature requirements and then campaign for its passing. I think it is trying to say that the first 2017 campaign of the Fairness Project was to aid the two state campaigns? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • The proposal met the requirements to be added to the ballot and passed with 59% voting in favor. Already edited. Non-copyedit issue, but I couldn't find any mention of "59%" in the cited source.[1] —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • Support in Idaho was both reduced in size and proportion [...] Was support in Idaho actively reduced in size and proportion over time or was it comparatively less than Nebraska? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • [...] with expenditure slightly over half a million dollars, making up 50% of proposal expenditure. To clarify, half of Idaho's campaign expenditures came from the Fairness Project while the other half came from other sources? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • Funding shares remained fairly even – with the most controversial remaining the near-90% share of the Nebraska campaign budget. To confirm, this sentence is saying that other than providing almost 90% of Nebraska's campaign budget, funding from the Fairness Project was proportionally even to other sources of funding in other campaigns? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • As well as significant funding from the Project and other like-minded donors in favour, the tobacco industry spent $17,000,000 campaigning in opposition. Wasn't the Fairness Project supporting the Montana ballot, the latter of which was fighting against the tobacco industry? Is the implication that the tobacco industry was superior to the ballot in terms of financial power? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • The proposal is set to be voted on 30 June. Not a copyedit issue, but this might want to be updated as the date has passed. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
  • 6% of voters' signatures must also have 6% of registered voters' signatures in at least 18 of the 35 state legislative districts. I'm not sure if I'm parsing this correctly: for the ballot to be considered valid, 6% of the ballot's votes must come from 6% of registered voters in the state, which must be gathered from over half of the state? Do the votes of people eligible but not registered to vote count if this requirement is passed? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Looking forward to your responses! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 18:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

References

@Nosebagbear: I've gone ahead and made some changes. If there's anything else you want to discuss about the article, just ping me back on here. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:01, 6 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Fairness Project versus Project Fairness

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Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Looks like two group https://www.thefairnessproject.org/ and https://projectfairness.org/. Should they be differentiated? Tom Ruen (talk) 05:31, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Tomruen:, if the latter was notable then I'd obviously hat note it, but I'd have thought the lead made it sufficiently clear what this one was about, so even those who knew about both shouldn't be too confused. Nosebagbear (talk) 12:03, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I figured. And there's one more https://project-fairness.com, saw ads on Youtube, my original query, while I missed URL first time I saw it. The survey looks pretty horrible. Anyway, I guess this is generally a terrible name to pick. Tom Ruen (talk) 10:45, 13 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Proposed "Abortion rights" section additions

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Latest comment: 2 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi there! I'm proposing changes to this page on behalf of my work with the Fairness Project. My goal in this request is to try and keep the article to the Good Article standard that Nosebagbear worked so hard to meet for the page, but to also bring the page up to date. I've put a version that has all four sections I'm going to request here (updated in November 2026 with the oldid), but I'm submitting these requests one at a time for ease of review (unless someone would prefer to tackle them all at once instead). This request covers only the updated Abortion rights ballots that are missing from the current page.

  • Reason for the change: The current abortion rights section ends at 2022, but the Fairness Project has been very active in that space recently. These additions would keep the article up to date with the results from recent ballots.
  • References: All sources are shown in the proposed version below. This is a new sub-section for the "Abortion rights" section, so I have not included a visual diff as it's all brand new content.

Please let me know if you have any questions on this, happy to make tweaks! Footnote Pete (talk) 21:00, 14 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Done Baberoothless (talk) 21:08, 29 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hi, I realized I didn't leave a note here back in September: I just wanted to say, I really appreciated you doing all of these at once. Thanks so much for the thorough review, I know there's a lot of these always in the backlog! Footnote Pete (talk) 17:35, 9 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

Police oversight and other misc. fixes

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Hi there! This is my second set of changes on behalf of my work at Footnote Fixer for my client, the Fairness Project. These full changes are all listed at this userpage draft here for ease of implementation, and I am submitting it below section by section for ease of review as well.

This request is two very different parts: one adds a paragraph on local police oversight ballot measures to the end of the "Other issues" section (sub-titled "1. Other issues section"), while the other three are different very minor fixes found elsewhere in the article (sub-titled 2. to 4.).

Reason for the change:

  • The organization's role in local police oversight measures in Cleveland, Austin, and LA is documented in independent coverage, but the article doesn't mention it right now. The new paragraph sits after the payday lending paragraph, which is the article's existing home for the organization's smaller, one-off campaigns.
  • Each claim in the new paragraph is tied to an independent source and I avoided using any primary sources for this piece.
  • For the corrections: the Texas paragraph calls the organization the "Freedom Project" instead of "Fairness Project." The 2018 minimum wage paragraph says "National Employment Law Center" (the organization is the National Employment Law Project). The 2022 abortion paragraph has a malformed wikilink, Florida, Missouri, which points to a village article in error instead (it's supposed to be a state list).

References: The updated references can be found in the new paragraph in the first request below. The other requests have no new references needed.

1. Other issues section: new paragraph after the payday lending paragraph

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In a significant variation, the Project gave a small amount of funding to help a Colorado ballot place firm restrictions on payday lending. The ballot sought to reduce the maximum interest rate to 36% from 200%, in an effort to reduce the rate of loan default from 25%. Compared to most campaigns, the Project's support was minor, with under $7000 contributed out of over $2 million, mostly donated by the like-minded PAC [[Sixteen Thirty Fund]]. The proposal received clear support, with 77.25% of voters in favor.
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In a significant variation, the Project gave a small amount of funding to help a Colorado ballot place firm restrictions on payday lending. The ballot sought to reduce the maximum interest rate to 36% from 200%, in an effort to reduce the rate of loan default from 25%. Compared to most campaigns, the Project's support was minor, with under $7000 contributed out of over $2 million, mostly donated by the like-minded PAC [[Sixteen Thirty Fund]]. The proposal received clear support, with 77.25% of voters in favor. The Fairness Project has also funded local police oversight and accountability measures. In November 2021, much of the petition funding for Cleveland's Issue 24, which created a community police commission with authority over officer discipline and policies, came from the Fairness Project. The measure passed with about 59% of the vote. The organization contributed $200,000 to the campaign that defeated an Austin proposition which would have made the city hire around two police officers for every 1,000 residents. In 2022, it contributed to the campaign for Los Angeles County's Measure A, which authorized the county Board of Supervisors to remove an elected sheriff for cause and passed with about 72% of the vote.

2. Other issues, Texas paragraph: name correction only

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Campaigns in Texas to implement paid leave have demonstrated increased complexity compared to other "normal" ballot proposals, as the Texan attorney general asserted that a state law preventing such a requirement overrides any city-level legislation that might occur, even if generated via ballot. No statewide proposal has been offered; instead, various cities and areas have had local ballot proposals created, most notably in [[Dallas]] and [[San Antonio]]. This has been driven by the decision of state capital [[Austin (Texas)|Austin]] to legislate paid leave in February 2018. The Freedom Project provided a loan of $383,813.
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Campaigns in Texas to implement paid leave have demonstrated increased complexity compared to other "normal" ballot proposals, as the Texan attorney general asserted that a state law preventing such a requirement overrides any city-level legislation that might occur, even if generated via ballot. No statewide proposal has been offered; instead, various cities and areas have had local ballot proposals created, most notably in [[Dallas]] and [[San Antonio]]. This has been driven by the decision of state capital [[Austin (Texas)|Austin]] to legislate paid leave in February 2018. The Fairness Project provided a loan of $383,813.

3. Minimum wage increases, 2018 ballots, first paragraph: name correction only

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In 2018, the Project made additional efforts to support local groups advocating minimum wage ballots. This support was focused in Missouri, where, together with the National Employment Law Center, a combined $537,500 was donated by advocacy groups; as well as Arkansas. Financial assistance was also granted in Michigan, where the proposal only narrowly satisfied the requirements one day before the deadline.
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In 2018, the Project made additional efforts to support local groups advocating minimum wage ballots. This support was focused in Missouri, where, together with the National Employment Law Project, a combined $537,500 was donated by advocacy groups; as well as Arkansas. Financial assistance was also granted in Michigan, where the proposal only narrowly satisfied the requirements one day before the deadline.
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The Fairness Project contributed to the passage of [[2022 Michigan Proposal 3|Michigan's Reproductive Freedom amendment]] and [[2022 Vermont elections#Ballot measures|Vermont's Reproductive Liberty amendment]]. Both amendments secured the [[United States abortion-rights movement|right to an abortion]] in each state's [[State constitution (United States)|constitution]]. The project has supported similar initiatives in the states of Arizona, Arkansas, [[Florida, Missouri]], Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, and South Dakota for the 2024 election cycle.
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The Fairness Project contributed to the passage of [[2022 Michigan Proposal 3|Michigan's Reproductive Freedom amendment]] and [[2022 Vermont elections#Ballot measures|Vermont's Reproductive Liberty amendment]]. Both amendments secured the [[United States abortion-rights movement|right to an abortion]] in each state's [[State constitution (United States)|constitution]]. The project has supported similar initiatives in the states of Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, and South Dakota for the 2024 election cycle.

References

  1. ↑ Brian Eason (21 February 2018). "Payday loans have average interest rates of 129% in Colorado. A ballot measure proposes capping them". Denver Post. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "Colorado Election results". 6 December 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Cleveland voters divided on police reform amendment". Spectrum News 1. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2026.
  4. ↑ Lewis, Ricardo (5 October 2021). "Large contributions made to Austin campaign opposing Prop A". CBS Austin. Retrieved 9 November 2026.
  5. ↑ "2022 California election: Los Angeles sheriff money tracker". Los Angeles Times. 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2026.
  6. ↑ Brian Eason (21 February 2018). "Payday loans have average interest rates of 129% in Colorado. A ballot measure proposes capping them". Denver Post. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  7. ↑ "Colorado Election results". 6 December 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 M, Evans & C, Connelly (11 June 2018). "Group Says It Has Enough Signatures To Put Paid Sick Leave In Dallas On Ballot This Fall". KERA News. Retrieved 16 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. 1 2 Mark Lisheron (11 October 2018). "National advocacy groups are backing the sick-leave effort in Texas". Texas Monitor. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  10. 1 2 Jason Rosenbaum (13 November 2017). "Bid to raise Missouri's minimum wage gets funding from politically active nonprofits". KCUR. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  11. 1 2 Lindsay VanHulle (31 May 2018). "Michigan ballot efforts to raise minimum wage beat deadline". Bridge Magazine. Archived from the original on 17 July 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  12. ↑ "Ballot Measure Campaigns". The Fairness Project. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
  13. ↑ Edelman, Adam (December 23, 2022). "Abortion rights groups look to build on their victories with new ballot measures". NBC News. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
  14. ↑ "Ballot Measure Campaigns". The Fairness Project. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
  15. ↑ Edelman, Adam (December 23, 2022). "Abortion rights groups look to build on their victories with new ballot measures". NBC News. Retrieved December 29, 2022.

Thanks as always for considering this request: I know it looks like a lot, but the minor changes in particular should hopefully be easy to make. Please let me know if you have any questions, and thanks as always for all you do! Footnote Pete (talk) 17:33, 9 November 2026 (UTC)Reply

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