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Conflict of Interest...[edit]

I appreciate that Delegate Radewagen would like to see the page to be as complete as possible, but from the standpoint of Wikipedia, having you be an editor on the page about her is viewed the same way as having the North Korean embassy write the bio for Kim Jong Un. 1/2 :) I appreciate that you have declared your information about your relationship with Delegate Radewagen on your User Page. Please read WP:OWN and WP:COI and they should give you a more complete feeling of Wikipedia policy. Some of the things that you added from https://gop.com/leaders/national-committeewoman-amata-radewagen-as could appropriate, but represented a copyright violation. The easiest way to deal with that is to rewrite it in your words, the other option is donating the copyright.. (Yes, I know you may have written those words yourself, but that's the way copyright works). Additionally important is references. I know that most of that information is referencable to newspapers and such and those can be provided. The easiest way to handle this give your conflict of interest is to add all of this stuff on the talk page for the article and then get someone who doesn't have a conflict of interest but does work on political articles (like @1990'sguy:) to add it.Naraht (talk) 02:29, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Major biographical edit[edit]

AMATA COLEMAN RADEWAGEN (Aumua Amata) AMATA COLEMAN RADEWAGEN (AUMUA AMATA), Republican, was elected as American Samoa’s third Member of Congress on November 4, 2014 by defeating 13-term incumbent Delegate Eni F. H. Faleomavaega (D) 42.0% to 30.8% with former governor Togiola T.A. Tulafono finishing third at 11.0% in a nine-way contest. She is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from American Samoa, will be the first Republican woman of Samoan descent in Congress when sworn into office in January and upon taking office also will become her party’s highest ranking Asian Pacific elected federal officeholder in the nation. She has been the most senior member of the Republican National Committee since 2012 and holds the orator (talking chief) title of Aumua from the village of Pago Pago in American Samoa, where she is a registered voter. Amata has been a community activist from American Samoa who volunteers with the hospital Women's Auxiliary, is a member of Business and Professional Women and is on the board of Goodwill Industries. A 24-year cancer survivor, Amata has served as spokesperson for the Samoan Women's Health Project to promote cancer awareness and bring mammography to the territory, and has been liaison to the National Breast Cancer Coalition since 1993. She also is a member of the board of Field House 100 American Samoa, a non-profit organization devoted to finding athletic scholarship opportunities in the states for talented high school athletes in American Samoa. Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001 as a White House Commissioner for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), where she chaired the Community Security Committee, Amata was the only Pacific Islander on the 15-member commission, which advised the President on AAPI issues and issued a landmark report on the health care needs of America's AAPI communities. Amata has been the featured speaker over the years at numerous Asian Pacific American Heritage observances, including those at numerous military bases in CONUS and Europe. Amata also has been very involved in helping build democratic institutions abroad. As a trainer since 1992, she has participated in missions to Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan and Morocco for the International Republican Institute and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems. In 2007 she conducted training in Washington for Iraqi and Uyghur women leaders. Other international work has included participation in several Pacific regional conferences. Amata was a member of the 1986 American Council of Young Political Leaders study tour of Australia and was elected a member of the ACYPL Alumni Council in 1987. She was a member of the advance team for the historic 1990 Honolulu summit between President George H.W. Bush and Pacific Island leaders and assisted the president's delegation in the meeting; she also was Washington advance liaison for the vice president's 1989 visit to Pago Pago. A member of the U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leadership Staff for eight years, Amata was Conference scheduling director and also supervised the database created to reach out to Asian Pacific and other minority aspirants for congressional staff positions. She also served as scheduling director to U.S. Rep. Philip Crane (R-IL), the dean of the House Republican Conference at the time of his retirement. Earlier in her career, she served at the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. She also was the first executive assistant to the first delegate-at-large to Washington from American Samoa. On the Republican National Committee (RNC), she has served on the Chairman’s Executive Council, the Committee on Arrangements for six national conventions and the Standing Committee on Rules. She has attended eight Republican National Conventions, twice has been an Officer of the Convention and has been a member of the Convention Committee on Rules six times. In 2013 she was appointed to the Chairman’s Commission on Convention Planning and, in recognition of her leadership in Pacific Islander communities nationally, received the RNC’s inaugural Trailblazer Award named for Mary Louise Smith, the first woman ever to serve as RNC chairman. In 2001, the Hill Zoo online newspaper chose Amata as one of its 52 "Staffers of the Week" from among more than 20,000 Capitol Hill staffers. In 2003 she became the first and only Pacific Islander ever chosen as "Outstanding Woman of the Year" by the National Association of Professional Asian American Women (NAPAW). In 2008, she received the International Leadership Foundation’s Visionary Award and in 2013 was presented the “Inspirational Speaker” Award at the Ninth Annual Samoan Athletes Heart of Champions Ceremony in La Mesa, California. A life member of the Capitol Hill Club and a founding member of the American Samoa Society, other affiliations over the years have included the Guam Society of America and the Hawaii State Society as well as the Women's Foreign Policy Group in Washington and the Independent Women's Forum. She also belongs to the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association. Amata’s biography appears in Who's Who in Politics, Who's Who in the South and Southwest and on the United States list of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community’s Register of Skilled Women in the Pacific. She also was one of the 100 women profiled in The Women of American Samoa 1900-2000: A hundred years of development and achievements, a book prepared in conjunction with the centennial observances of American Samoa as a U.S. territory. Amata has a bachelor's degree from the University of Guam, with additional studies at Loyola-Marymount and George Mason Universities. One of 13 children of the late Governor and Mrs. Peter Tali Coleman, she is married to Fred Radewagen. Together they have three grown children and one grandchild. Lvpapa (talk) 18:43, 13 April 2015 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:1990%27sguy Please review and post if possible[reply]

This is a direct copy of https://radewagen.house.gov/about/full-biography , correct?Naraht (talk) 19:50, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are only minor differences in the first paragraph in regards to the election, who she beat and by how much.Lvpapa (talk) 21:04, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy to help, but are there any specific edits that you request of me to make? Also, it might be beneficial to use the article talk page to post your proposed improvements rather than you personal talk page. Thanks! --1990'sguy (talk) 21:31, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also concerned about Copyright violation (WP:COPYVIO. I think this would have to be rewritten, but there are pieces of it that are so dry (but correct for the subject matter), they can probably be copied directly.Naraht (talk) 21:54, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I very much appreciate your help with this post. I think I posted this to the Amata Coleman Radewagen talk page. What I posted there is exactly what we would like to see the Amata Coleman Radewagen page. There is no need to worry about copyright because I am the only author of the three places you can see this bio or almost exactly the same as this bio. If there is a process whereby I surrender copyright, please advise and I will do that. Dry is good...lol. Lvpapa (talk) 22:19, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I think I have added everything that I could from Radewagen's official bio to her article. If there is anything else that you would like from me, just ask. --1990'sguy (talk) 20:53, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent. I did make a few very minor edits. I added her mother's name, changed 'attended' to 'graduated from' and deleted an extra word. I'll watch and see what the robot does to those edits. Now I would like to add her children's names: Erika, Mark and Kirsten. Finally, she is not on the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access. Rather she is Chair of Subcommittee on Health and Technology http://smallbusiness.house.gov/about/hctech.htm . Thank you very much for your assistance.

I fixed most of the changes that you requested. I am not opposed to adding the names of Radawagen's children, but do you have a source that says their names? Thanks! --1990'sguy (talk) 22:06, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

sorry this thing is so complicated. this link shows the entire family: http://records.ancestry.com/amata_catherine_coleman_records.ashx?pid=187322779 However, you might stumble over the fact that Amata Coleman Radewagen is shown as Amata Catherine Coleman, that being her birth name. A closer look will show her grandmother's name to be Amata Aumua, which you can find under her fathers information. The tie-in to her father Peter and her grandmother Amata Amua should help to put this question to rest.Lvpapa (talk) 18:34, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done! I fixed Radewagen's birth name and added the names of her children with the source. --1990'sguy (talk) 01:23, 24 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]