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Created article. Either a great many people will want to know who she is over the next few days, and a journalistic micro-industry will produce multiple profiles about her; or - if someone else is nominated - it will be appropriate to redirect her name and the sources to the "personal life" section on the Mike Pence page. Note, however, that during the course of this year's campaign, pages were created and kept for all of the wives of major candidates. Note also that WP:INHERIT explicitly states: "Individuals in close, personal relationships with famous people (including politicians) can have an independent article even if they are known solely for such a relationship, but only if they pass WP:GNG." It does not take a particularly accurate CRYSTAL BALL to know that, as with Todd Palin, sources sufficient to pass WP:GNG will follow a VP nomination; or, if there is no nomination, we can redirect. And do note that the article is based on RS that already exist. Users, however, will want the info on this page if there is a nomination.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:44, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
User:E.M.Gregory your assumption is not always true. Many spouses of losing major party Vice Presidential candidates do not have their own pages. For recent examples look for the spouses of Paul Ryan, Jack Kemp, and Lloyd Bentsen. Of course winning spouses have become Second Lady and all of them have articles. 2600:1001:B12D:4697:6175:88AC:53FD:451F (talk) 23:27, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note, however, that I did not assert that all spouses of candidates for V.P. necessarily have articles, but, rather that sources will exist to create such an article because "a journalistic micro-industry will produce multiple profiles" that will carry her past the notability guidelines.E.M.Gregory (talk) 01:32, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Although I don't really have an opinion regarding this article, I think the question of whether the spouses of vice presidential nominees are notable enough to have their article depends on whether they would have been considered notable prior to their spouse's selection as a vice presidential nominee. For example, I originally created the article on Anne Holton, the wife of the 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine back in December, 2007 in part due to Holton's career independent of her husband, and the fact the she is one of only a few people to be the spouse of one governor, and the child of another governor.--TommyBoy (talk) 21:56, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Perfectly reasonable assumption, but WP:INHERIT makes it clear that an article can exist "even if they are known solely for such a relationship". This covers individuals like Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio where she has no career except being a politician's wife, and Michael Haley (South Carolina), who has a job about which there would be no coverage if his wife wasn't Governor. The standard for keeping is GNG. The point is having a guideline is that when a spouse accumulates enough profiles, interviews, coverage to pass GNG, s/he passes, even though they have no notability if the marriage (this also applies to others, relatives and even, say, a nanny, provided multiple reliable publications publish in-depth coverage.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:25, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The section titled "Legal Actions" that appears on this page as of 7/19/16 seems completely irrelevant to the subject of the article. I am not an experienced Wikipedia editor, so I hesitate to delete it. Is there a way to tag it for review?
Edit: After reading some documentation, I've added a cleanup tag to the top of the page.
Where did the listed birthdate come from? There's nothing about November 18, 1958 in the IndyStar article used to source it. The DOB listed is not anywhere to be found in said article, which says that she was turning 58 on January 1, 2014. If that's correct, then her date of birth was January 1, 1956. I've seen some conflicting info in public records databases, but nothing to suggest November 18, 1958 is correct at all. --Bix (talk) 14:25, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
There's this as well, but probably still not sufficient. Perhaps it'll be picked up in some mainstream sources in the near future as it looks to be credible. Connormah (talk) 01:11, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I saw that and my conclusion was that this source is not sufficient. That's why I used the expression "reliable mainstream sources". Death and Taxes is probably a reliable source for some content, but probably not a good source for any kind of contentious material in biographies. This piece was actually cited in International Business Times, but it doesn't look like they've done any independent research. We should wait for more coverage. I'm wondering why there aren't more sources already when this story has been out for two months. Politrukki (talk) 13:32, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: as you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. I have also removed your e-mail address which you should not have entered - and which is not a means of verification - Arjayay (talk) 21:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Her birthday is January 1, 1957 (NOT November). This is confirmed. You can contact anyone who knows her or that works for the campaign for confirmation. Thank you. 65.152.141.197 (talk) 15:54, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Please remove the November birth date and replace with the correct date of January 1, 1957. You can also find this date on her verified Twiiter account. Also, please add to her professional career that she worked 12 years as an elementary art teacher at Immanuel Christian School in Northern Virginia. 73.134.110.19 (talk) 01:16, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Karen Pence's birthday is listed as "January 1, 1957" in this archived Trump transition web page. A wagpolitics.com page, while not the most reliable of sources, also lists "January 1957" as her birth month. In addition, the Pences' 1985 marriage certificate shows Karen's age as 28. With a January 1957 birthday, she'd have been 28 at the certificate's June 1985 filing; if born in November 1958, she wouldn't be 28 for another year and five months.
Support change – The Transition website is far more reliable than the current source we have used in the article. The current reference in the article almost looks like they received their information from Wikipedia. Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 18:09, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I made an extremely minor but helpful edit to this article and the articles of the First and Second Ladies of the United States. It happens to mention which particular Second Lady that woman was. For example, I mentioned that Karen Pence was the 38th First Lady of the United States.
It is valuable information that Martha Washington was the first "First Lady" of the United States. GoodDay mass reverted my edits and then messaged me on my talk page to let me know. I do not see anything wrong with mentioning the order of the First and Second ladies of the United States, and I believe that it is useful information to know.
IMHO it's not useful information & can be potentially confusing. 38th Second Lady married to 48th Vice President, could confuse some & cause potentially edit wars. GoodDay (talk) 02:02, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]