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• Thomas Duff (businessman)
• Thomas H. Lee Partners
• Thomas J. Watson Library
• Thomas More Society
• Thymosin beta-4
• Timothy Ely
• Timothy W. Bickmore
• Toby Ann Stavisky
• Tom Courtney
• Tommy Sowers
• TourRadar
• Transaction Network Services
• Transparent wood composite
• UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School
• UNT Health Fort Worth
• USA Sports (2025–present)
• Ulf Mark Schneider
• Unite America
• Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

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Thermoelectric materials

Distributed transport properties

• What I think should be changed (include citations):

Include a subsection on distributed transport properties (DTP) to be inserted immediately after the existing "Functionally graded materials" subsection, within the same "Materials of Interest" section. Here is the proposed text:

Distributed transport properties

Distributed Transport Properties (DTP) is an approach in thermoelectric system design that extends the concept of functionally graded materials by spatially varying the Seebeck coefficient (S), electrical resistivity (ρ), and thermal conductivity (λ) continuously along the length of the thermoelectric element. The values of the transport properties are based on an analytic one-dimensional model that defines the optimum relationships among the properties along TE element length as a function of operating temperatures and material ZT. This spatial optimization is intended to enhance thermoelectric device performance in applications including cooling, heating, and power generation.

In conventional thermoelectric coolers, Joule heating is generated throughout each thermoelectric element, altering the internal temperature profile from the distribution that maximizes performance. This effect reduces both the maximum achievable temperature difference, ΔT_max and the coefficient of performance, COP. Distributed Transport Properties (DTP) is a thermoelectric design approach in which the transport properties of the thermoelectric element are spatially varied, typically increasing from the cold end toward the hot end. The resulting spatial variation in the Seebeck coefficient, S(x), produces a distributed Peltier effect that absorbs heat within the element according to q_C(x)=IT(x)dS(x)dx, where (I) is the electrical current and T(x) is the temperature at x. This distributed heat absorption partially offsets the internally generated Joule heating within the element, q_H(x)=I²r(x), where r(x) is the electrical resistance per unit length at position (x). By reducing the net internal heat generation, DTP seeks to maintain a temperature profile closer to the theoretical optimum, thereby improving thermoelectric cooling performance.

The theoretical framework for DTP was established by Bell (2019), who demonstrated through one dimension mathematical analysis that systems with optimally distributed transport properties can exceed the performance of uniform-material thermoelectric devices under equivalent boundary conditions.  Subsequent experimental and modeling work by Crane and Bell demonstrated that similar performance improvements can be achieved using as few as two or three discrete material layers per element, providing a pathway toward practical implementation. These results were validated through laboratory device fabrication and testing.

Published results indicate that DTP devices can achieve a maximum single-stage temperature differential of 86 K experimentally, with modeling suggesting the potential for 100 K with optimized property distributions. This exceeds the typical range of 70–75 K for conventional single-stage bismuth telluride devices. Reported improvements also include increases in COP exceeding a factor of two and enhancements in heat-pumping capacity of up to 200% at temperature differentials greater than 65°C.

The broader context of distributed and localized thermoelectric cooling strategies has been discussed by Snyder, Crane, and co-authors (2021).

Additive manufacturing has been investigated as a fabrication method for DTP elements, enabling continuous spatial gradients in material composition that are difficult to achieve using conventional layered manufacturing techniques.

• Why it should be changed: The existing subsection on functionally graded materials describes spatial variation of carrier concentration for power generation over large temperature spans. Another strategy to improve thermoelectric performance is DTP. DTP is a conceptually related but distinct approach that (a) varies all three transport properties, and (b) is specifically optimized for the near-ΔT = 0 cooling regime.

• References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button):

IoffeThomson (talk) 03:20, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

References

Thomas Duff (businessman)

Minor update proposals and additional sourcing (2025)

Hi, I’m posting here as a contributor with a declared conflict of interest. Frontier Strategies asked me to suggest a few factual updates and improved sourcing for this article.

Could an experienced and independent editor please review my proposed updates?

** Start of proposals **

Proposal (1)

Replace the last sentence of the lead section:

“With a net worth of $3.3 billion, the Duff brothers are the wealthiest individuals in Mississippi.”

with:

“With respective net worths of $4.1 billion each, the Duff brothers are the wealthiest individuals in Mississippi.”

Proposal (2)

Replace the penultimate sentence of the first paragraph of the “Career” section:

“By 2023, Southern Tire Mart's revenues had grown to exceed $3.5 billion, making it the nation's largest truck tire dealer and retread manufacturer.”

with:

“By 2025, Southern Tire Mart's revenues had grown to exceed $4 billion, making it the nation's largest truck tire dealer and retread manufacturer.”

Proposal (3)

Replace the first sentence of the second paragraph of the “Career” section:

“James and Thomas co-founded Duff Capital Investors, a holding company with revenues of $5.5 billion.”

with:

“Thomas Duff and his brother James co-founded Duff Capital Investors, a holding company with revenues of $6 billion.”

Proposal (4)

Replace the second-to-last sentence of the final paragraph of the “Career” section (in bold):

“Since 2009, the brothers have been the only members of the Forbes 400 list from Mississippi. However, the Duffs did not make the 2024 list, despite having a net worth of $3.3 billion. Together, they remain the wealthiest individuals in Mississippi.”

with:

Since 2009, the brothers have been the only members of the Forbes 400 list from Mississippi. After being absent from the 2024 Forbes list, the Duffs reappeared in 2025, ranking No. 362 in the U.S. and No. 980 globally. Together, they remain the wealthiest individuals in Mississippi.

Proposal (5)

Integrate the information contained in the third sentence of the “Politics” section:

“He supported Jeb Bush in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries.”

into the first paragraph of that same section, with the addition of new information:

“A major contributor to Republican campaigns in Mississippi, Duff has supported Republican figures such as Governor Tate Reeves, to whose campaigns he has contributed regularly since 2011, as well as Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential primaries, and Donald Trump in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections.”

** End of proposals **

Do these proposals seem like improvements? May I go ahead and implement them? Thank you for your time and consideration. Toometa (talk) 10:02, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Partly done: I've done all the changes, but I did reword or change the formatting of sentences. Kline • talk • contribs 17:03, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much ! This looks great. While I’m here, I wanted to mention that I made the exact same proposals as numbers 1, 2, and 3 (the simpler ones) about twenty days ago on the page for his brother, James Duff. Would you be willing to take a look at those as well? Alternatively, I can handle it myself with your approval, referring back to this discussion. Thanks in advance! Toometa (talk) 21:10, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Request regarding sourcing and wording in the Politics section (June 2026)

Hi, I’m posting here as a contributor with a declared conflict of interest. I previously submitted a separate request on this talk page that has already been reviewed.

I would like to request removal of the following three sentences from the Politics section (three last sentences):

Duff voted to hire a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) director at the University of Mississippi. During his tenure the University of Mississippi also established a clinic to provide gender-affirming care to LGBTQ minors. During the pandemic, Duff voted to require university employees receive the COVID vaccine before they were allowed to return to work.

My rationale is that the cited Mississippi Today article does not appear to support the factual assertions currently made by these sentences.

Specifically:

1. The article does not state that Duff "voted to hire a DEI director". Rather, it states that the University of Mississippi requested creation of a Division of Diversity and Community Engagement and that the Board approved it.
2. The article states that the UMMC LGBTQ clinic was created in 2019, but it also explicitly states that an IHL Board vote was not required for its creation.
3. Regarding COVID vaccination requirements, the article states that the Board initially voted against a system-wide mandate and later acted in response to federal contractor requirements following a Biden executive order.

My concern is therefore not with the reliability of the source itself, but with how the source has been summarized in the article.

For that reason, I respectfully request removal of the three sentences above unless additional sources can be provided that explicitly support the specific factual assertions currently made in the article.

Thank you for your time and consideration. Toometa (talk) 08:33, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Thomas H. Lee Partners

Notability tag

A lot of the article's sources come off as borderline WP:ROUTINE coverage, or else are press releases. It's not clear at this time that the article fully meets WP:NCORP. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 20:14, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Sorry if this is a misuse of this comment section, but I have been doing research on this matter and I was wondering if you had other sources. Viopac (talk) 10:22, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Thomas J. Watson Library

Wrong photo

The photo which is used for the article THOMAS J. WATSON LIBRARY is the main entrance of Metropolitan Museum, I believe the photo of the library should be used in the page. The current photo is fine for the page about the museum itself.--Malekfarugh (talk) 18:39, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

I agree, and have replaced it with a photo of the inside of the library, which gives a much better impression of the actual space. Reify-tech (talk) 13:50, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Thomas More Society

Add Mirabelli v. Bonta to litigation section

Disclosure: I am an employee of Thomas More Society and am disclosing this in accordance with Wikipedia's paid-contribution disclosure requirement. I am not editing the article directly; I am proposing this addition for review by an uninvolved editor.

Proposed addition: The article does not currently mention Mirabelli v. Bonta, a case in which Thomas More Society served as counsel and which reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2026. I propose adding the following paragraph to the section covering the firm's education-related litigation, after the existing paragraph on the Aztec and Ashe prayers settlement: In Mirabelli v. Bonta, Thomas More Society represented two California teachers and a group of parents challenging school district and state policies that limited disclosure to parents about students' gender identity at school. In December 2025, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez issued a class-wide permanent injunction against the policies. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stayed the injunction in January 2026. On March 2, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6–3 per curiam ruling on its emergency docket, vacated the Ninth Circuit's stay, holding that the parents were likely to succeed on Free Exercise Clause and Due Process Clause claims. Justice Barrett wrote a concurrence joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh; Justice Kagan wrote a dissent joined by Justice Jackson. On March 17, 2026, the Ninth Circuit denied California's request to narrow the Supreme Court's ruling. Sources: Mark Lieberman, "Supreme Court Backs Parents in School Gender Disclosure Fight," Education Week (March 3, 2026): https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/supreme-court-backs-parents-in-school-gender-disclosure-fight/2026/03 "Supreme Court ruling in gender identity case favors parents but could test schools," Chalkbeat (March 7, 2026): https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/03/07/supreme-court-gender-identity-ruling-favors-parents-but-challenges-schools/ Mirabelli v. Bonta, 607 U.S. ___ (2026), per curiam, available at https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/607/25a810/ SCOTUSblog case file, Mirabelli v. Bonta: https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/mirabelli-v-bonta/ Rationale: Mirabelli v. Bonta is a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in which Thomas More Society served as counsel of record on the emergency application. It received national coverage in independent education trade press, has a published opinion, and is tracked on SCOTUSblog. The article currently includes several cases of lesser national profile in which the firm participated, so omitting a Supreme Court matter the firm directly litigated leaves a notable gap. I have drawn the wording from independent sources rather than the firm's own materials and have used neutral terminology. Thank you for considering this request. KPWriter (talk) 14:56, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the disclosure. I have added a template above your request that will put it on a list of requested edits that will be seen by those not usually editing this page - they aren't likely to get to it quickly, and it's more likely that someone who regularly edits this page will take it on first, but that's a backstop measure to make sure it doesn't fall completely through the crakcs. I will note that while you suggested that this go in the "Education" section, it would be at least as good a fit in the "LGBT issues" section. I am not adding it at this point because, before addition as submitted based primarily on education-related sources, an editor should look for sources coming from other angles such as those concerned with LGBT issues regarding how the case is cast. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 15:37, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Thymosin beta-4

Edit request: TB-500 vs full thymosin beta-4 clarification (Doping in sports section)

COI disclosure: I have a conflict of interest as the founder of NextPep, a peptide research and comparison platform. I'm filing this Edit Request rather than editing directly. Full disclosure at User:Karl Vorwerg.

I made a related direct edit to this article on 2026-05-12, which was reverted by another editor following the COI notice SmartSE posted on my Talk page. I accept that revert as appropriate given my COI, and I'm refiling the substance of that change here through the proper channel so an uninvolved editor can evaluate the content on its merits.

Proposed addition

In the Doping in sports section, the first paragraph currently reads:

Thymosin beta-4 is considered a performance-enhancing substance and is banned in sports by the World Anti-Doping Agency due to its effect of aiding soft tissue recovery and enabling higher training loads. It was central to two controversies in Australia in the 2010s...

I propose inserting one sentence between the existing first and second sentence:

...higher training loads. The synthetic peptide marketed and detected as "TB-500" under WADA's monitoring program is a seven-amino-acid fragment (LKKTETQ; residues 17–23 of full Tβ4; molecular weight ~889 Da) corresponding to the minimal actin-binding motif of the parent 43-residue protein, although the term is commonly used interchangeably with full-length thymosin beta-4 in the research-peptide and doping-control literature. It was central to two controversies...

Why this improves the article

The article already cites Ho et al. 2012, whose title is literally "Doping control analysis of TB-500, a synthetic version of an active region of thymosin β4, in equine urine and plasma..." — the fragment distinction is in the citation title but not in the body text. A reader who doesn't click the reference doesn't learn that "TB-500" and "thymosin beta-4" refer to different molecules. The Doping section uses both terms interchangeably, which leaves the basic factual distinction inaccessible to a general reader.

Van Troys et al. 1996 (PMID 8670856) established that residues 17–23 of Tβ4 constitute the minimal actin-binding motif, which is exactly the sequence that synthetic "TB-500" replicates.

Sources

Both already available — no new sources are strictly required for the proposed sentence:

• Ho EN, Kwok WH, Lau MY, Wong AS, Wan TS, Lam KK, Schiff PJ, Stewart BD (November 2012). "Doping control analysis of TB-500, a synthetic version of an active region of thymosin β4, in equine urine and plasma by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry". Journal of Chromatography A. 1265: 57–69. doi:10.1016/j.chroma.2012.09.043. PMID 23084823. (already cited in the article as the third reference in the Doping in sports section)
• Van Troys M, Dewitte D, Goethals M, Carlier MF, Vandekerckhove J, Ampe C (1996). "The actin binding site of thymosin beta 4, mapped by mutational analysis". The EMBO Journal. 15 (2): 201–210. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00350.x. PMID 8670856.

Optional supplementary source

A secondary explainer synthesising the fragment-vs-protein distinction for general readers exists at https://nextpep.app/blog/tb-500-vs-thymosin-beta-4 . I authored this; I'm disclosing the COI here and noting that the proposed clarification stands on the two primary sources above without it. Whether to include the secondary source as an additional citation is entirely at the reviewing editor's discretion — either outcome is acceptable to me, and I will not contest the decision.

Thank you for the review.

Karl Vorwerg (talk) 12:37, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Timothy Ely

I am friends with Tim Ely but do not receive any financial benefit from helping this page improve. Have been attempting to improve it for almost a decade now but reverted all changes and posted them here — because that's what we're supposed to do. EXCEPT — nothing has happened since 2019 — there isn't enough activity for anyone to make changes.

I have added a significant number of references to Tim Ely's self-published blog which gives biographical background. Hoping this begins to alleviate the problems with the page. Dsgarnett (talk) 18:17, 29 April 2019 (UTC) dsgarnett

I have been in discussions with MrOllie about this page and his concerns about my involvement. My work is on behalf of the Timothy Ely — the subject of this BLP. My goal is simply to get accurate depth onto the page — including if anyone would like to add additional opinions about Mr. Ely's work.

For clarity, I help him with his Blog as well — but this is not "for fee" work. We are old friends and I bring help to him in this kind of work. That said, I am not being paid either directly or indirectly for assisting him with his Wikipedia page. (My income sources are elsewhere.)

Please let me know if you have concerns.

Dsgarnett (talk) 00:12, 21 February 2020 (UTC)dsgarnett

@Dsgarnett: talk page comments like this, on a low-traffic talk page, can go unseen for a very long time, as I think you're finding out. You should instead be making edit requests (click on that link to find out more), which go into a live queue and are likely to get a much faster response. There is also a wizard at WP:ERW which helps you post a request.

I'm taking down the admin help request flag, as this matter requires no administrative action.

Best, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:16, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

I recommend adding the following as it uses independent sources which discuss Mr. Ely's work to help the Wikipedia reader understand his unique imagery:

Timothy W. Bickmore

Edit request: Orphan, paid-contributions, and résumé tags

Conflict-of-interest disclosure: I am Timothy Bickmore, the subject of this article. Per WP:COI I am not editing it directly and am requesting that uninvolved editors review the points below. My aim is only to help resolve the three maintenance tags, not to add promotional content.

To my knowledge, I have not commissioned or paid anyone to create or edit this article, and I welcome review and cleanup by independent editors.

1. Orphan. The page could be linked from related articles such as Embodied agent, Conversational agent, Affective computing, Rosalind Picard and Justine Cassell (my doctoral advisors), where a mention would be contextually appropriate.

2. Résumé tone and neutrality (paid-contributions tag). The biography currently reads as a chronological CV and relies heavily on my CV and Northeastern pages, which are not independent of me. I'd suggest rewriting in encyclopedic prose centered on independently-reported work, using sources already available:

• "An A.I. designed to guide humans through the end of life is already among us". CNBC. 2017-11-13.
• "Virtual Nurse Helps Patients Understand Discharge Information". HealthLeaders Media.
• "Q&A: Northeastern's Timothy Bickmore on the clinical future of relational agents". Healthcare IT News. 2012-09-17.
• "Mentioning what is hard to mention in chatbot for end-of-life preparation". Tech Xplore. 2017-09-24.

Primary documents (CV, faculty page) could be retained only for routine, non-contentious facts (degrees, dates) per WP:ABOUTSELF, rather than as the backbone of the article.

3. Independent evidence of scholarly impact. The strongest independent indicator of significance here is citation impact, relevant to WP:NPROF criterion 1. Editors may wish to source and, where appropriate, cite:

• The Stanford/Elsevier "top 2% most-cited scientists" ranking (Ioannidis et al. composite citation database), currently listed in the infobox without a citation — the underlying dataset is published and citable.
• Citation metrics from independent databases such as Scopus and Web of Science (and, more cautiously, Google Scholar).
• An NSF CAREER award (Faculty Early Career Development Program, National Science Foundation), verifiable via the NSF award database, as a research honor.

To be clear, I am not requesting that my own publications be listed, as those are not independent of me; these are offered only as independent evidence of impact to help editors clean up the article in a "keep and improve" spirit.

I'm happy to supply additional independent sources and defer to editors' judgment on wording and on whether the tags can then be removed.

Heal61 (talk) 00:58, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Toby Ann Stavisky

Request edit: sponsored legislation (2022–2025)

Disclosure: I have a conflict of interest with respect to this article, as I am employed by Senator Stavisky's office. Per WP:COI and WP:PAID, I am not editing the article directly and am requesting that an uninvolved editor review and, if appropriate, add the following well-sourced content. All facts are cited to independent news coverage and the official legislative record.

Proposed addition 1 — to the "New York Senate" section, after the sentence noting her Higher Education Committee chairmanship:

As chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee, Stavisky has sponsored legislation addressing hate crimes and discrimination on college campuses. In November 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill sponsored by Stavisky and Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright (S.6570/A.1202) requiring individuals convicted of hate crimes to undergo mandatory training or counseling in hate crime prevention and education. In July 2023, Hochul signed legislation sponsored by Stavisky and Assemblymember Daniel Rosenthal (S.2060-A/A.3694-A) strengthening requirements for New York colleges to investigate and report hate crimes on campus, including posting campus crime statistics online and informing new students about prevention resources. In August 2025, Hochul signed a bill sponsored by Stavisky and Assemblymember Nily Rozic (S.4559-B/A.5448-B) requiring every New York college and university to designate a Title VI coordinator to receive and investigate discrimination complaints under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Proposed addition 2 — a separate sentence in the "New York Senate" section (health/insurance legislation, distinct from the campus material above):

In December 2024, Hochul signed a bill sponsored by Stavisky and Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (S.2063-A/A.38-A) requiring large-group private health insurance plans in New York to cover scalp cooling systems, which reduce hair loss during chemotherapy, making New York the first state to mandate such coverage. The requirement takes effect January 1, 2026.

Sourcing notes for the reviewer

Each fact leads with independent news coverage; official press releases are used only as backups. NPOV note: I deliberately avoided the "landmark"/"groundbreaking"/"first-in-the-nation" phrasing used in the sponsors' press releases. The four laws can be verified against the official legislative record:

Year	Bill (Senate / Assembly)	Chapter	Signed	Assembly co-sponsor	Legislative record
2022	S.6570 / A.1202	Laws of 2022 (enacted via A.1202)	Nov 22, 2022	Rebecca Seawright	nysenate.gov S.6570
2023	S.2060-A / A.3694-A	Ch. 191	Jul 11, 2023	Daniel Rosenthal	nysenate.gov S.2060
2024	S.2063-A / A.38-A	Ch. 595	Dec 13, 2024	Linda B. Rosenthal	nysenate.gov S.2063
2025	S.4559-B / A.5448-B	Ch. 354	Aug 26, 2025	Nily Rozic	nysenate.gov S.4559

Two points to note:

• The 2023 and 2024 bills have different co-sponsors named Rosenthal — Assemblymember Daniel Rosenthal (Queens) on the 2023 campus-reporting bill, and Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (Manhattan) on the 2024 scalp-cooling bill. These are two different legislators, not a typo.
• The claim that New York was the first state to mandate insurance coverage for scalp cooling is supported by multiple independent sources (QNS, the Medical Society of the State of New York, and ABC News), not only the sponsors' offices.

TiberNero (talk) 15:08, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

Tom Courtney

Conflict of Interest edit request

• What I think should be changed (include citations):

The article should note that while attending college, Courtney was in the Air Force ROTC. When he sought to enter military service in 1955, the U.S. Air Force determined that his eyesight did not meet its pilot requirements. He subsequently enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private because it was only two years and he could be given a schedule that allowed for sufficient time to train for the Olympics. [Courtney, Tom. The Inside Track. Page Publishing, INC, 2018.] [Fordham Now. “Tom Courtney, Olympic Gold Medalist and Fordham Sports Great, Dies at 90.” Fordham Magazine, Fordham University, 23 Aug. 2023, now.fordham.edu/fordham-magazine/tom-courtney-olympic-gold-medalist-and-fordham-sports-great-dies-at-90/. ]

• Why it should be changed:

This information is supported by published sources and provides important context about Courtney's military service and athletic career. The current article omits his service in the U.S. Army and how that decision enabled him to continue training for the Olympics. Adding this sourced information would improve the article's accuracy, completeness, and biographical context.

Plhc (talk) 20:30, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

References

Tommy Sowers

Edit request — April 2026 updates (COI disclosure)

I am the subject of this article and have a conflict of interest. I am requesting three specific edits below, each formatted as a direct text replacement so a reviewer can apply them mechanically. Independent sources are listed under each change.

Change 1: Lead paragraph

Replace this text:

Tommy Sowers (born February 23, 1976) is an American entrepreneur and academic. While in the Army, he served as an assistant professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He taught at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and Duke University. He recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer of a private jet operator. He returned to Duke in 2024 as Faculty Lead in the Duke Initiative for Science & Society's Applied Technology Ethics program.

With this text:

Tommy Sowers (born February 23, 1976) is an American academic administrator, entrepreneur, and former U.S. Army officer. In April 2026 he was appointed Vice Chancellor for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development and Chief Innovation Officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He previously served as Deputy Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society and as President and Chief Operating Officer of flyExclusive, which he led through a 2023 business combination that took the company public. Earlier in his career, he was an assistant professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point and, in 2012, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

Change 2: Infobox

In the infobox, replace:

• |title=Southeast Regional Director, National Security Innovation Network
• |profession=Former President of flyExclusive, Professor, entrepreneur

With:

• |title=Vice Chancellor for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development; Chief Innovation Officer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• |profession=University administrator, professor, entrepreneur

Change 3: New subsection under "Academic career"

Add this subsection after the existing Duke content:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In March 2026, Chancellor Lee Roberts named Sowers Vice Chancellor for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development and Chief Innovation Officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a cabinet role with university-wide responsibility for innovation strategy, entrepreneurship programming, strategic partnerships, and technology transfer. He assumed the role on April 20, 2026.

Sources to add to References

Primary / institutional (for confirmation only):

• "UNC-Chapel Hill names Tommy Sowers as its first Chief Innovation Officer". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 25 March 2026.
• "University Hires New Innovation Chief, Inaugural AI Officer Leaves". Carolina Alumni Review. March 2026.

For the flyExclusive business combination:

• "flyExclusive and EG Acquisition Corporation Announce Closing of Business Combination" (Press release). Nasdaq. 27 December 2023.
• "flyExclusive and EG Acquisition Corporation Announce Closing of Business Combination" (Press release). BusinessWire. 27 December 2023.

Happy to provide additional independent sources or further-trimmed wording on request. Thank you. Drtommysowers (talk) 21:33, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

TourRadar

Edit request: September 2025 AI Discovery launch

I have a paid conflict of interest (employee of TourRadar). Requesting the paragraph below be added to the History section, after the existing June 2025 Moments/RISE paragraph. All claims are supported by the cited independent trade press.

In September 2025, TourRadar launched AI Discovery, a set of integrations linking its tour inventory to external artificial-intelligence and social-media platforms. The release included a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server giving large language models, online travel agencies and developers access to the inventory for use in assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini; a custom GPT assistant within ChatGPT for searching tours using natural language; and a Trip Recommender for Instagram Reels, built with Google's Vertex AI, that suggests tours based on a reel's content.

AleksZarz (talk) 08:28, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Transaction Network Services

Add 2022–2024 timeline entries to History section

• What I think should be changed:

Please add the following entries to the History timeline:

• 2022 – Acquired AGNITY Global, Inc.; First Orion and Hiya joined Neustar and TNS to develop enterprise call authentication standards.
• 2023 – Acquired BornTec’s managed hosting and colocation business.; Acquired West Highland Support Services.
• 2024 – Opened AI Labs Poland.

• Why it should be changed:

To make the page up to date with TNS' recent business activities.

• References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button):

Jfranks90 (talk) 13:10, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

References

Partly done: See page. 2024 history  Not done due to nature of source. (There's no history entry about AI Labs?) Meepmeepyeet (talk) 04:18, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi, we want to add a history entry about AI Labs. Citation 5 is the reference for it. Is more information required? Jfranks90 (talk) 15:05, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

hi, can you please explain your comment? Citation 5 is the reference for AI Labs Jfranks90 (talk) 09:28, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

• What I think should be changed:

Please add the following entries to the History timeline:

• 2022 – Acquired AGNITY Global, Inc.; First Orion and Hiya joined Neustar and TNS to develop enterprise call authentication standards.

• 2023 – Acquired BornTec’s managed hosting and colocation business.; Acquired West Highland Support Services.

• 2024 – Opened AI Labs Poland.

• Why it should be changed:

I am an employee of Transaction Network Services and have been asked to update this page.

• References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button):

References

Jfranks90 (talk) 10:15, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Done DiscoursesonLivvy (talk · contribs) 22:10, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

References

• What I think should be changed:
• 2025 – Malaysian Hub opens in Kuala Lumpur
• 2026 – Select iconectiv network management, digital identity and fraud prevention solutions merged with TNS; TNS completes acquisition of BT Radianz; TNS’s Financial Markets business and Radianz combine to form Waypoint Trading Solutions.

• Why it should be changed:

Updates to business activity.

• References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button):

Jfranks90 (talk) 16:54, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

References

Reply 17-JUN-2026

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Regards,  Spintendo  00:10, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Transparent wood composite

COI edit request: Addition to Applications section

I have a conflict of interest regarding this topic, as I am involved in the project described below. I therefore do not intend to edit the article directly.

I would like to propose adding a short implementation example to the "Applications" section. In May 2026, students at Nagaoka Institute of Design installed a bench-shaped lantern incorporating transparent wood under the gangi, a traditional covered walkway in snowy regions, in front of the Goze Museum Takada in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The translucent wood panels were used as part of a lighting design depicting Takada goze (visually impaired female musicians) walking through a snowy arcade.

Possible sources:

• Joetsu Times, "ベンチ型あんどんの新作 長岡造形大の「木匠塾」寄贈 上越市 瞽女ミュージアムに設置" [New bench-shaped lantern donated by Nagaoka Institute of Design's Mokushōjuku: Installed at the Goze Museum in Joetsu City], 13 May 2026. https://j-times.jp/archives/136971

• Joetsu Town Journal, "夜の雁木通りに高田瞽女の姿浮かび上がる 上越市東本町1に「瞽女木行灯」" [Takada Goze figures emerge on the night gangi arcade: "Goze Mokudon" at Higashihoncho 1, Joetsu City], 14 May 2026. https://www.joetsutj.com/2026/05/14/185057

Would other editors consider this a suitable short example for the applications section? If so, I have drafted a proposed text block below that can be easily copied and pasted into the article.

Proposed text:

In May 2026, transparent wood was used in a bench-shaped lantern installed in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Students from Nagaoka Institute of Design incorporated translucent wood panels into the lantern, which was placed under a gangi covered walkway in front of the Goze Museum Takada. Backlit by LEDs, the panels depict Takada goze walking through a snowy arcade."ベンチ型あんどんの新作 長岡造形大の「木匠塾」寄贈 上越市 瞽女ミュージアムに設置" [New bench-shaped lantern donated by Nagaoka Institute of Design's Mokushōjuku: Installed at the Goze Museum in Joetsu City]. Joetsu Times (in Japanese). 13 May 2026. Retrieved 15 May 2026."夜の雁木通りに高田瞽女の姿浮かび上がる 上越市東本町1に「瞽女木行灯」" [Takada Goze figures emerge on the night gangi arcade: "Goze Mokudon" at Higashihoncho 1, Joetsu City]. Joetsu Town Journal (in Japanese). 14 May 2026. Retrieved 15 May 2026.

ArchandEng Lab (talk) 09:32, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

If this mention is going to be made, then an image file should accompany it. Text placed in an application section means nothing if those applications can't be seen with the reader's eyes. The text description leaves a lot to be desired; wood was used in a bench-shaped lantern installed in Joetsu. A lantern and a bench are such opposites as far as shape, size and function go, that to describe something as a "bench shaped lantern" one immediately thinks of a sofa shaped 500,000 lumen spotlight roughly the size of a small bus. And I bet, what it really looks like will be nothing like I imagined, demonstrating the raw power of an image. Regards  Spintendo  02:16, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback. I have uploaded four freely licensed images to Wikimedia Commons:

• File:Goze Mokudon bench-shaped andon lantern under gangi at Goze Museum Takada, Joetsu.jpg – installation view under the gangi covered walkway
• File:Goze Mokudon bench-shaped andon lantern with transparent wood panels, daytime front view.jpg – daytime front view
• File:Goze Mokudon bench-shaped andon lantern with transparent wood panels, night front view.jpg – night front view showing the LED-backlit transparent wood panels
• File:LED-backlit transparent wood panels in Goze Mokudon bench-shaped andon lantern.jpg – close-up of the transparent wood panels

I think the installation view under the gangi covered walkway may be the most suitable image for the article, since it shows the object in its actual application context: a bench-shaped andon lantern placed under a traditional covered walkway. The night front view and close-up image are also available on Commons as supplementary documentation of the LED-backlit transparent wood panels.

Because I have a conflict of interest, I will not add the text or image to the article myself. I would be grateful if independent editors could review whether the following short application example, with one appropriate image, would be suitable for the Applications section.

Proposed text:

In 2026, students at Nagaoka Institute of Design installed Goze Mokudon, a bench-shaped andon lantern incorporating transparent wood panels, in front of the Goze Museum Takada in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Measuring approximately 40 cm high, 100 cm long, and 38 cm wide, the work uses LED-backlit transparent wood panels depicting Takada goze walking through a snowy gangi covered walkway.

References

Suggested image:

File:Goze Mokudon bench-shaped andon lantern under gangi at Goze Museum Takada, Joetsu.jpg

Suggested image markup, if an independent editor decides to add it:

[[File:Goze Mokudon bench-shaped andon lantern under gangi at Goze Museum Takada, Joetsu.jpg|thumb|Goze Mokudon, a bench-shaped andon lantern incorporating transparent wood panels, installed under a gangi covered walkway at the Goze Museum Takada in Joetsu, Japan.]]

--ArchandEng Lab (talk) 08:12, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

COI edit request: Add Goze Mokudon as an application example with image

I have a conflict of interest regarding this topic, as I am involved in the project described below. I previously proposed a short application example, and an editor noted that an image should accompany the text. In response, I have uploaded freely licensed images to Wikimedia Commons and revised the proposed wording below.

I would like to request adding the following short implementation example to the “Applications” section, with one accompanying image.

Specific text to add:

In 2026, students at Nagaoka Institute of Design installed Goze Mokudon, a bench-shaped andon lantern incorporating transparent wood panels, in front of the Goze Museum Takada in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Measuring approximately 40 cm high, 100 cm long, and 38 cm wide, the work uses LED-backlit transparent wood panels depicting Takada goze walking through a snowy gangi covered walkway.

Suggested image:

[[File:Goze Mokudon bench-shaped andon lantern under gangi at Goze Museum Takada, Joetsu.jpg|thumb|Goze Mokudon, a bench-shaped andon lantern incorporating transparent wood panels, installed under a gangi covered walkway at the Goze Museum Takada in Joetsu, Japan.]]

Reason for the change:

This would add a sourced real-world implementation example of transparent wood in a lighting application. The suggested image addresses the previous concern that the application should be visible to readers rather than described only in text.

References:

References

ArchandEng Lab (talk) 03:15, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School

Some proposed changes

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The school offers programs for granting a bachelor of science in business administration, a master of business administration, an executive MBA, a master of accounting, a doctor of philosophy, a business certificate, and executive education programs.

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The school offers programs for granting a bachelor of science in business administration, a master of business administration, an executive MBA, a master of accounting, a master of science in management, a doctor of philosophy, a business certificate, and executive education programs.

• Specific text to be added: a master of science in management
• Reason for the change: this program launched August 2025
• References supporting change: https://businessnc.com/uncs-kenan-flagler-adds-masters-of-science-program/

KFGreenB (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

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6th (tie) in undergraduate business

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8th (tie) in undergraduate business

• Specific text to be added: 8th (tie) in undergraduate business
• Reason for the change: updated rankings
• References supporting change: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-overall

KFGreenB (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

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U.S. News & World Report - 2025

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U.S. News & World Report - 2026

• Specific text to be added: 2026
• Reason for the change: updated rankings
• References supporting change: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-overall

KFGreenB (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

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28th in full-time MBA programs

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21st in full-time MBA programs

• Specific text to be added: 21st in full-time MBA programs
• Reason for the change: updated rankings
• References supporting change: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-rankings

KFGreenB (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

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MBA@UNC Online

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Online MBA

• Specific text to be added: MBA@UNC Online
• Reason for the change: New name “Online MBA”
• References supporting change: https://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/programs/mba

KFGreenB (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

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The U.S. News & World Report ranked the MBA@UNC Online Program 1st in 2015

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U.S. News & World Report ranked the Online MBA 3rd in 2026

• Specific text to be added: U.S. News & World Report ranked the Online MBA 3rd in 2026
• Reason for the change: updated rankings
• References supporting change: https://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/mba?edu-2736=control

KFGreenB (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

• Specific text to be added or removed: University HQ: 1st in 2025
• Reason for the change: updated rankings
• References supporting change: https://universityhq.org/business/accounting/degrees/#best

KFGreenB (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

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MBA for Executives Program

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Executive MBA

• Specific text to be added: MBA for Executives Program
• Reason for the change: New name “Executive MBA”
• References supporting change: https://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/programs/mba/unc-kenan-flagler-executive-mba-programs

KFGreenB (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Done updated the rankings/program Aloneinthewild (talk) 14:59, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Some more proposed changes

• Specific text to be added or removed: University HQ: 1st in 2025
• Reason for the change: updated rankings
• References supporting change: https://universityhq.org/business/accounting/degrees/#best

KFGreenB (talk) 16:42, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

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U.S. News & World Report (2025)

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U.S. News & World Report (2026)

• Specific text to be added: Business School Rankings sidebar should be updated to 2026
• Reason for the change: updated rankings
• References supporting change: The Best MBA Programs in America, Ranked

KFGreenB (talk) 16:42, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

UNT Health Fort Worth

Post-move cleanup request

Hey again! Thanks to all the editors who contributed to the move discussion above. In the body of the article, there are now numerous mentions of "University of North Texas Health Sciences Center," "UNTHSC," and "HSC" that need to be changed to "UNT Health Fort Worth" or "UNT Health." If any volunteer editors want to handle that, I'd very much appreciate it, but in the interest of respecting other people's time, I'd like to request two specific things:

1. Change the school's appellation in the introduction. It could be rewritten like this:

UNT Health Fort Worth is an academic health science center in Fort Worth, Texas. It is part of the University of North Texas System and was founded in 1970 as the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, with its first cohort graduating in 1974. It consists of six schools with a total enrollment of 2,338 students (2022-23).

UNT Health serves as home to several NIH-funded research programs and currently leads all Texas medical and health science centers in research growth. HSC also houses the Atrium Gallery, a nonprofit public art exhibition space which holds eight to 10 arts shows each year.

2. Change the bold text over the infobox to "UNT Health Fort Worth" and replace the old wordmark logo with the new one. I've uploaded the UNT Health logo to the Wikimedia Commons. You can view it by following this link.

I'm happy to discuss other ways to clean up the article following its renaming, but I think those two things would be a good start. Thanks! Libby.maness (talk) 16:58, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Whoops! I posted the request above from my personal account. I'm now logged back into my COI one. Apologies for any confusion I've created. I'll be more careful in the future. LM at UNT Health (talk) 17:44, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

I've done part of this. The ==History== section should use the names that were relevant at the time (e.g., TCOM in the 1970s, UNTHSC in the 1990s). What year was the school's name changed in?

Also, could you find more recent demographic information for the UNT Health Fort Worth#Student life section, and post that as a separate request? WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:59, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, User:WhatamIdoing! The school changed its name earlier this year.

I understand what you're saying about keeping references to the school's former name intact within the History section. Actually, speaking of, I recently wrote a draft for that section that cleans up the existing content and adds some well-sourced new content. I'm going to propose that in an edit request below, because I have it on hand. If you want to review, I would greatly appreciate it. But don't feel obligated. I know you're a volunteer.

I will circle back on the demographic information for the Student life section. I'm going to rummage through our resources, see if we've published anything that might be useful. If I find something good, I'll put forward a request and tag you in. LM at UNT Health (talk) 15:43, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:18, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done but not all by me STEMinfo (talk) 07:15, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

History section request

Hi! Per my discussion with User:WhatamIdoing above, I'm putting forward a History draft that I hope will significantly improve that section. This is a pretty long draft, so if editors have specific questions, I'll happily answer them. But my basic approach was to:

• Improve sourcing, where possible
• Cut existing passages that I couldn't find good sourcing for
• Trim away some extraneous information to improve the section's readability
• Add new content that's well-sourced and relevant to the average Wikipedia reader
• Add a bit of content about the university's response to Fall 2024 events

I'll hide my draft using the collapse function so that I don't take up too much room on this Talk page:

Extended content

UNT Health Fort Worth was founded in 1970 as the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM). TCOM was the first osteopathic medical school to be established in Texas. The college initially operated out of the Fort Worth Osteopathic Hospital as well as a small white house and its adjacent garage. In 1971, classes were moved into the converted Taverner Bowling Alley.

In 1975, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 216. This law transformed TCOM into a state-supported medical school under the direction of North Texas State University's Board of Regents. TCOM used its state funding to break ground on several new facilities for its Fort Worth campus, which at the time was 16 acres.

In 1993, TCOM established its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and renamed itself University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC). In 1999, UNTHSC opened its School of Public Health.

In 2004, UNTHSC opened a new Center for Biohealth facility.<That same year, the university also opened its School of Health Professions.

In 2013, UNTHSC opened its College of Pharmacy. Its inaugural class was comprised of 82 students pursuing a PharmD. By this time, the university was comprised of five colleges and its campus had expanded to 33 acres. In 2015, UNTHSC and TCU announced the creation of a joint MD school, which began matriculating students in 2018. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNTHSC partnered with the Tarrant County Department of Public Health to perform contact tracing. The program included 90 students working part time to interview people who tested positive for COVID and find out where they had traveled as well as who they had been in contact with.

In 2022, UNT Health Science Center's Physician Assistant, Health Care Management, Public Health, and Physical Therapy programs were ranked #33, #65, #90, and #97, respectively, by U.S. News & World Report. That same year, UNTHSC opened its Regional Simulation Center, a facility that uses virtual reality technology in conjunction with mannequins and multi-functional spaces in order to simulate health care scenarios. The facility is used as a training tool for medical students as well as more experienced health care providers aiming to hone new skills. Also in 2022, the School of Biomedical Sciences started UNTHSC's first bachelor's degree program in Biomedical Sciences. In 2023, UNTHSC further expanded by opening its College of Nursing. The school was founded in part to address the shortage of trained nurses in Tarrant County.

In September 2024, NBC News revealed that UNTHSC had received around 2,350 unclaimed bodies from Dallas County and Tarrant County since 2019, of which more than 830 bodies were subsequently selected for dissection and study. Some of these studies occurred without the pre-death consent of the deceased or the consent of their survivors. The leasing of unclaimed bodies and body parts, as well as related laboratory space, to for-profit medical device makers and others generated revenue for UNTHSC of around $2.5 million a year. In response to inquiries by NBC News, UNTHSC announced the closure of the BioSkills Lab, the suspension of its Willed Body Program, and the firing of the program's leadership.

In November 2024, UNT Health Science Center received a cease-and-desist letter from the Texas Funeral Service Commission, which stated that it had discovered in an October 2024 inspection that UNT Health Science Center had been liquefying human remains using water cremation, which the Commission claimed to be illegal in the state of Texas. The university responded by citing a section of the Texas administrative code allowing for the practice while also indicating that it had proactively stopped water cremation in September 2024.

In January 2025, UNT Health Science Center was awarded tenth place in the Lown Institute's 2024 Shkreli awards, which seek to highlight profiteering and dysfunction in the healthcare industry.

In July 2025, UNTHSC renamed itself UNT Health Forth Worth.

References

Thanks, LM at UNT Health (talk) 15:51, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

I see that User:Ozzie10aaaa made some sensible edits to the article recently, so I'll ask them if they would like to review this request. LM at UNT Health (talk) 20:37, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done CornerLitTweak (talk) 22:49, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

I really appreciate the help, User:CornerLitTweak! LM at UNT Health (talk) 19:06, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Research section request

My History request above has been sitting for a while, which is understandable. It's a pretty dense request. For now, I'm going to move on to proposing a revision of the Research section. My draft here is shorter than the History one but some of its basic aims are the same. I've tried to:

• Find good sourcing for existing passages
• Excise passages that I couldn't find good sourcing for
• Add new information about recent research activity
• Provide readers with a decent idea of the kind of research the university performs

I'm going to use the textdiff function to place my draft side-by-side with the existing section. Here's that:

Extended content

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UNT Health Science Center has a total research expenditure of $79.1 million in fiscal year 2022, of which $53.1 million is federally sourced. Areas of research strength include population health, health disparities, ophthalmology, forensics, and healthy aging. The Center for Human Identification's accredited forensic laboratory provides genetic and anthropological examinations for criminal casework and missing persons identification, local CODIS operations, and development. At North Texas Eye Research Institute (NTERI), which opened in 1992, scientists conduct investigate novel therapies for ophthalmologic disorders affecting patients in general as well as those from minority patient populations. At the Center for Health Disparities, scientists conduct prevention and outcomes research in areas such as Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, stroke, and HIV.In 2018, HSC founded the Institute for Translational Research with the goal of translating basic science into treatments and new procedures for Alzheimer's and other diseases. The institute received a $45 million grant in 2020 from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to examine the biological differences that cause Alzheimer's disease to disproportionately afflict Mexican Americans. The institute also received a $50 million award in 2020 from NIH to lead the coordinating center for the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program. The goal of AIM-AHEAD is building and advancing AI/ML approaches using EHR and other types of data (e.g., genomics, imaging, social determinants of health) to redress health disparities and advance health equity. Taken together, these are the largest research grants ever awarded in the same year to UNT Health Science Center.

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Major areas of research at UNT Health Fort Worth include health disparities, ophthalmology, forensics, and healthy aging. The Center for Human Identification's accredited forensic laboratory provides genetic and anthropological examinations for criminal casework and missing persons identification, local CODIS operations, and development. The North Texas Eye Research Institute (NTERI), which opened in 1992, seeks to develop new treatments for eye disorders such as [[glaucoma]], [[macular degeneration]], and [[optic neuritis]].UNT Health's Center for Health Disparities idenitfies [[health equity|health disparities]] through research and seeks to correct them through training and community outreach. In 2021, the Center for Health Disparities received a $50 million award from the [[National Institutes of Health]] to lead the coordinating center for the AI/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program. AIM-AHEAD seeks to apply AI and machine-learning to health records and other medical data in order to figure out novel ways of addressing health disparities.In 2020, as part of the National Institutes of Health's efforts to study the biology of Alzheimer's disease among different racial and ethnic groups, the UNT Health Institute for Translational Research received a $45 million grant from the National Institute on Aging. In October 2022, the Health Institute for Translational Research received another grant for $148 million in order to continue doing this research.

References

And then here is what my section draft looks like by itself:

Extended content

Major areas of research at UNT Health Fort Worth include health disparities, ophthalmology, forensics, and healthy aging.

The Center for Human Identification's accredited forensic laboratory provides genetic and anthropological examinations for criminal casework and missing persons identification, local CODIS operations, and development. The North Texas Eye Research Institute (NTERI), which opened in 1992, seeks to develop new treatments for eye disorders such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, and optic neuritis.

UNT Health's Center for Health Disparities idenitfies health disparities through research and seeks to correct them through training and community outreach. In 2021, the Center for Health Disparities received a $50 million award from the National Institutes of Health to lead the coordinating center for the AI/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program. AIM-AHEAD seeks to apply AI and machine-learning to health records and other medical data in order to figure out novel ways of addressing health disparities.

In 2020, as part of the National Institutes of Health's efforts to study the biology of Alzheimer's disease among different racial and ethnic groups, the UNT Health Institute for Translational Research received a $45 million grant from the National Institute on Aging. In October 2022, the Health Institute for Translational Research received another grant for $148 million in order to continue doing this research.

References

Thanks in advance to any editors who review this request. If I can answer any questions or concerns about the content I'm proposing, please let me know! LM at UNT Health (talk) 16:19, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm going to ask User:Andrewa if they would mind reviewing this request and/or the one above it. In fact, some advice on what I should do next, since both of these requests seem a bit stuck, would be almost as helpful as a review. Whatever you have time for, Andrewa! Thanks! LM at UNT Health (talk) 16:33, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done CornerLitTweak (talk) 22:15, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

User:CornerLitTweak: Thanks for reviewing and approving this request! No pressure, but if you want to take a look, there's a request to update the History section above this one that's been languishing since December of last year. Regardless, I really appreciate your help with this one. LM at UNT Health (talk) 18:14, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

That looked good to me, the citations all check out, and the request has been hanging out for ~6 months with no other objections.  Done CornerLitTweak (talk) 22:49, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Research institutes section request

Hello! My next request is a pretty simple one. More than a few of the institutes listed under the Research institutes heading are no longer operating. The university currently has six active institutes. They are:

• Center for Human Identification
• North Texas Eye Research Institute
• Institute for Health Disparities
• Institute for Translational Research
• Center for Anatomical Sciences
• Sensory Research Institute

References

Would an independent editor mind updating the list? Thanks! LM at UNT Health (talk) 15:31, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Renaming and updating HSC Health section

Hello! I wanted to ask editors to consider renaming and updating the HSC Health section. That part of the university has been renamed. It's now called the UNT Health Clinical Practice Group. I have a brief draft that renames the section and adds some stronger content that's backed up by decent sourcing. (The current version of the section lacks citations.) Here is that draft:

Extended content

UNT Health Clinical Practice Group

The UNT Health Clinical Practice Group is the clinical branch of the university that provides health care services to the general public across Tarrant County. UNT Health clinicians work to treat a broad range of ailments including dementia, hepatits-c, and musculoskeletal pain.

References

If editors have any questions about my proposed changes, I'm happy to answer questions below. Thank you! LM at UNT Health (talk) 14:45, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

USA Sports (2025–present)

PGA of America extension and Firethorn Productions venture

COI Disclosure: I work with Versant and am not editing directly per WP:COI guidelines.

Two developments related to USA Sports' golf portfolio that have third-party coverage:

1. PGA of America media rights extension through 2033: NBC Sports and USA Sports extended their media rights agreement with the PGA of America through 2033. The deal covers the Ryder Cup, KPMG Women's PGA Championship, Senior PGA Championship, and PGA Professional Championship, with coverage airing across USA Network, Golf Channel, NBC, and Peacock. This is the second major golf rights partnership struck between NBC Sports and Versant since the spin-off.

Front Office Sports: "PGA of America Extends Ryder Cup Deal With NBC and Versant" Sportcal: "NBC Sports, Versant, retain US Ryder Cup rights in PGA of America extension"

2. Firethorn Productions: In December 2025, Versant and Rory McIlroy launched Firethorn Productions — described as Versant's first-ever joint venture. The company will produce original content across GolfPass, Golf Channel, and other Versant properties, including documentary storytelling, branded campaigns, and live fan experiences. McIlroy's GolfPass partnership was also extended through 2038.

The Hollywood Reporter: "Rory McIlroy and Versant Are Launching a Production Company" Sports Video Group: "Versant Announces Long-Term Partnership Extension with Rory McIlroy"

The article currently covers the PGA Tour and Golf Channel rights in the Current rights section. Would editors consider whether these developments warrant inclusion? WeekdayUpdate (talk) 03:32, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Reply 9-JUN-2026

  Clarification requested  

1. N The proposed text regarding the PGA deal appears to contain WP:CLOSEPARAPHRASE material. The text is short, just 3 sentences long, however, the text still needs to be sufficiently variegated so that it adheres to our guidelines on close paraphrasing.
2. Y The proposed text concerning Firethorn Productions can be added if that company is independently notable in Wikipedia. Please provide the H:WIKILINK for the company to proceed.
3. When ready, kindly change {{Edit COI}} answer parameter to read from |ans=y to |ans=n.

Thank you! Regards,  Spintendo  15:00, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, Spintendo. To address the WP:CLOSEPARAPHRASE concern on item 1, here is fully reworded text for the PGA of America extension, drawing on the two independent trade reports. I'm advancing only this item for now; the Firethorn Productions item (your point 2) remains on hold while I work out the WP:N notability question you raised, so please disregard it in this pass.

Proposed addition to the Overview section:

In March 2026, the PGA of America renewed its United States media-rights partnership with NBC Sports and USA Sports, carrying forward through 2033 an arrangement that had previously been set to conclude in 2031. The renewal keeps the biennial Ryder Cup as its anchor event and also spans the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship and the PGA Professional Championship, with telecasts distributed across USA Network, Golf Channel, NBC and Peacock; the men's PGA Championship is not part of the agreement, as those rights are held separately by CBS and ESPN. As a result of the extension, the 2033 Ryder Cup at the Olympic Club in San Francisco will fall under USA Sports and NBC Sports coverage. It was the second golf renewal the partners completed following Versant's spin-off, after an August 2025 USGA agreement that runs through 2032.

I've updated the section's edit-request template to |ans=n per your note. Thank you! WeekdayUpdate (talk) 01:21, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Current rights: add Olympics and DP World Tour; correct WNBA citation

COI Disclosure: I work with Versant and am not editing directly per WP:COI guidelines.

Would an editor consider three small updates to bring the Current rights list into line with the article's own infobox and Overview? Each of these includes independently sourced citations:

1. Add the 2026 Winter Olympics. The Olympics appear in the infobox and are described in the Overview, but are absent from the Current rights list.

Proposed (add bullet): * 2026 Winter Olympics (2026) — NBC Sports–produced coverage of the Milan Cortina Games on USA Network and CNBC, sublicensed from NBC Sports

2. Add the DP World Tour. It is named among the golf properties in the November 12, 2025 launch announcement in the Overview, but is missing from the list. Front Office Sports reports the deal was extended through 2030.

Proposed (add bullet): * DP World Tour (2026–present) — coverage on Golf Channel through 2030

3. Correct the WNBA citation. The Women's National Basketball Association entry currently cites a Sports Video Group article about the League One Volleyball (LOVB) deal — not the WNBA. The correct source is the Deadline report already used in the Overview.

Proposed: repoint the WNBA entry's citation to:

(Note: the same name=SVG reference is also attached to the Babe Ruth League "U.S., International and World Championship on CNBC" line, where it likewise doesn't match; editors may wish to repoint that to the Sports Business Journal source already cited on the Babe Ruth entry.)

Thank you for considering these.

WeekdayUpdate (talk) 01:18, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Ulf Mark Schneider

Request to update headshot

Hello editors! I'm here to request a few updates to the Ulf Mark Schneider article. To start, I just donated an updated headshot and am wondering if editors would be willing to change the photo in the infobox on my behalf. I won't be making any direct changes to the article because of my COI. Thank you, SiemensD (talk) 06:28, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Unite America

Question about the infobox

My name is Kevin Singer and I'm the communications director for Unite America. I have a question for anyone watching this page: Would it be possible to add the Unite America logo to the infobox? I notice that it's a pretty common infobox feature for organizations like ours. Is there anything I would need to do to make this happen? KS at Unite America (talk) 16:31, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

I will do this now. MediaKyle (talk) 21:15, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

 Done. I uploaded the logo as a fair use image. It might be simple enough that it could be hosted on the Commons but I'll let someone else worry about that. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 21:19, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Logo looks great! Appreciate the assist, MediaKyle. I just posted another request about removing promotional content. KS at Unite America (talk) 18:47, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Request to remove promotional content

Hi, this is once again Kevin Singer, the communications director for Unite America.

The Mission section of this article has a large banner on top of it stating concerns about "promotional content."

Would it be possible to simply remove this section? I agree that the content reads as promotional. It's also considerably out of date (e.g. Unite America no longer endorses candidates).

In short, nothing in this section is accurate or encyclopedic and editors have already expressed concerns about it. Removal seems like an easy solution!

(And for context: I'm working on a few suggested updates to the History section that would specify when Unite America stopped endorsing candidates, how the mission has changed, etc. These updates would presumably address any concerns about removing all mission-related content.) KS at Unite America (talk) 18:45, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

 Done, seems reasonable enough. Tessaract2 (hello) 18:47, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

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Update the History section?

{{Edit COI|ans=y}}

Hi, this is Kevin Singer again, the communications director for Unite America.

In my previous request, I asked whether editors would consider removing the Mission section, which featured a prominent banner warning that the content appeared to be promotional. That request has since been implemented (thank you to Tessaract2).

I wanted to ask whether editors might also be willing to review several of the sections that follow, as they appear to raise similar promotional concerns. Some passages aren't supported by inline citations, while others rely on Unite America website content that is no longer available. My concern is that these sections may be removed in the future, even though some of the underlying material seems notable and encyclopedic.

With that in mind, I drafted a revised History section that seeks to preserve the strongest material from those sections while presenting it in a more neutral, concise fashion. Whenever possible, I cited independent news coverage rather than Unite America’s own materials. The draft also helps address what appears to be a significant gap in the article’s coverage from 2019 to the present.

{{collapse top|title=History draft for consideration}} Charles Wheelan, a Dartmouth College professor and former Congressional candidate, published The Centrist Manifesto book in 2013. An affiliated federal PAC, The Centrist Project Voice, registered with the FEC in May 2014. The organization was intended to support ideas from Wheelan's book, most notably the “fulcrum strategy” in which a small group of independent senators could control the balance of power in a closely divided chamber and push both parties toward more centrist policies. The Centrist Project began endorsing candidates, including independents and major-party candidates it saw as pragmatic or centrist. Its first endorsement was Larry Pressler, a former three-term Republican senator from South Dakota who was running as an independent for the seat vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Tim Johnson in the 2014 election. The organization also endorsed Susan Collins, Michelle Nunn, Greg Orman, and Jill Bossi during the 2014 election cycle.

In 2016, Nick Troiano, a former congressional candidate, joined the organization's board as executive director. Troiano pushed the organizations towards supporting structural election reforms, such as nonpartisan redistricting.

In 2017, the Centrist Project opened its national headquarters in Denver, Colorado. The organization then changed its name to Unite America. That same year, an affiliated state-based organization, Washington Independents, launched to support independent candidates in Washington.

In 2018, Unite America and its state-focused local affiliate, Unite Colorado, endorsed independent candidates for the Colorado State Legislature. The organization picked Colorado because of its narrowly divided Legislature and a belief that voters there would be receptive to independent candidates. That same year Unite America also supported a slate of independent national candidates for state gubernatorial offices and the U.S. Senate.

In March 2019, a new statewide chapter, Unite Virginia, launched to support centrist Democratic and Republican candidates.

In September 2019, Unite America announced more than $5 million in commitments through the Unite America Fund to support election reform campaigns in Alaska, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York. The two largest donors to the fund were Kathryn Murdoch and Marc Merrill. In November 2019, New York City voters approved ranked-choice voting through a City Charter amendment. The change only applied to primary and special elections for mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough president, and City Council.

In 2020, Unite America backed Alaska Measure 2, which combined a top-four open primary, ranked-choice voting in the general election, and campaign-finance disclosure changes. Alaska voters approved the measure in November 2020, and the system was first used in the 2022 election. A 2024 ballot measure to repeal the state's open primary and ranked-choice voting system failed.

In February 2024, Troiano authored a book, The Primary Solution, about how primary elections fuel political dysfunction. That same year, Unite America backed ballot measures in six states to replace traditional primaries with nonpartisan primaries or ranked-choice voting. These ballot measures all failed, including the one in Colorado.

In 2026, Unite America published a study of open primaries used in five states: California, Louisiana, Alaska, Nebraska, and Washington. The study showed that such electoral systems reward pragmatic, moderate candidates who are more likely to enact beneficial legislation. {{reflist-talk}} {{collapse bottom}}

I recognize that I have a conflict of interest, so I am not making any of these changes directly. I would appreciate editors’ review of the draft and any feedback on whether this approach would improve the article’s neutrality, sourcing, and compliance with Wikipedia standards. KS at Unite America (talk) 21:05, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Reply 16-JUN-2026

• The COI editor described their- proposal as {{tq|a revised History section that seeks to preserve the strongest material from those sections while presenting it in a more neutral, concise fashion.}} The image presented with that description is of a leaner, stronger section of text with the weaker, extraneous portions culled.
• What that description doesnt state are the portions of text which were wholly created anew, text which was not culled, paired down, or made "lean" an any way, because that text wasn't in those sections to begin with.
• This isn't akin to taking a two sinked bathroom and shower, removing one sink and swapping the shower, pipes, and drain for a simpler, singular bathtub and sink with an eye towards simplicty and utility. This is expansion: turning two sinks into four, transmogrification of the shower into a walk-in sauna and whirlpool with an eye towards conspicuous consumption.
• That being said, the COI editor is urged to be frank and forthright concerning their intentions for improving the article in the future{{emdash}}it would be much appreciated. The reviewer stands ready to review any and all requests which follow this philosophy. Thank you! Regards,  Spintendo  05:59, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to provide such detailed feedback, Spintendo. Your bathroom analogy is quite entertaining. Perhaps I should have been clearer in stating my objectives for the draft. Right now the History, Reform strategy, Unity Candidates, Partnerships, and 2018 Endorsed National and State Candidates sections are a combined 1,300 words, and that includes four tables filled with unsourced data that take up at least one-third of the article's space. My History draft would replace all of that content, and it's only around 550 words with no tables. I've trimmed the total amount of content by well over half and removed promotional claims and unsourced data. The "new" material you identify is largely connective tissue which helps make the information readable—or to continue with your bathroom analogy, it's the plumbing that connects all of the fixtures.

Now, I am not a Wikipedia editor, and if you don't feel the draft works, then that's on me. But I'm hoping the explanation above provides adequate context for what I was trying to do.

What would be the best next step? If it's easier, we could go paragraph by paragraph.

{{collapse top|title=Existing History paragraph one}} Author and educator Charles Wheelan published The Centrist Manifesto in 2013, inspired by the failed bipartisan efforts surrounding the Simpson-Bowles Commission in 2011. In the book, he outlines an approach to government in which a "Centrist Party" challenges partisanship by controlling the swing vote and facilitating compromise between Democrats and Republicans. Putting ideas into practice, Wheelan worked with business, political, and academic leaders from across the country to form the Centrist Project in 2014, which would eventually become Unite America. {{reflist-talk}} {{collapse bottom}}

And I'm proposing we replace that with the following:

{{collapse top|title=Revised History paragraph one}} Charles Wheelan, a Dartmouth College professor and former Congressional candidate, published The Centrist Manifesto book in 2013. An affiliated federal PAC, The Centrist Project Voice, registered with the FEC in May 2014. The organization was intended to support ideas from Wheelan's book, most notably the “fulcrum strategy” in which a small group of independent senators could control the balance of power in a closely divided chamber and push both parties toward more centrist policies. The Centrist Project began endorsing candidates, including independents and major-party candidates it saw as pragmatic or centrist. Its first endorsement was Larry Pressler, a former three-term Republican senator from South Dakota who was running as an independent for the seat vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Tim Johnson in the 2014 election. The organization also endorsed Susan Collins, Michelle Nunn, Greg Orman, and Jill Bossi during the 2014 election cycle. {{reflist-talk}} {{collapse bottom}}

The first four sentences in the new draft roughly mirror the three sentences in the current first paragraph, but I added the detail about the affiliated federal PAC since that seems relevant. The cited Independent Voter News article confirms the notability of the PAC and the cited FEC filing confirms the registration date. The next sentences are all new (as you rightly noted) but are intended to parallel the structure of the next few sections where United America endorsements are discussed. The endorsements from the 2014 election cycle are not currently mentioned in the article, so I added them by citing news coverage (the aforementioned Independent Voter News article and a piece in the Native American Times) along with a press release which was the only source to identify all of the remaining endorsements in one place. As this was straightforward, uncontroversial factual information, a press release felt like an appropriate citation. Jill Bossi is less well known than the other candidates, but it felt like cherry-picking to exclude her.

Does that all make sense? Please let me know and I'll work on a summary of the next paragraph (and maybe start picking out some wallpaper for the bathroom). KS at Unite America (talk) 17:54, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

I appreciate the rewrite. As far as the sources, we cant use articles that are written as editorials or commentary. The Mort Kondracke piece written for RealClearPolitics is labeled as commentary, so we're going to have to find a replacement for that. The Kondracke source was used as a reference for the most contentious of the claims, {{tq|The organization was intended to support ideas from Wheelan's book, most notably the “fulcrum strategy” in which a small group of independent senators could control the balance of power in a closely divided chamber and push both parties toward more centrist policies}}. That text spoke to intent, instead of just facts (like the sentence that mentions who endorsed who, which is relatively straightforward-type info). So to continue our bathroom metaphor, the Unite America article making claims of intent using Wikipedia's WP:VOICE is a very dicey area, frought with the danger of exposed wires and such. The contractor may have said that the construction is completed, but a closer look reveals it's not up to code. That intent needs to be buttressed by reliable WP:SECONDARY sources or placed out of Wikipedia's voice. Regards,  Spintendo  09:20, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback, Spintendo. I should note that I've been trying my best to preserve material from the existing article that feels encyclopedic. (Or to continue with our bathroom renovation analogy, I'm trying to keep a light fixture the previous owner installed.) The current description of the book and summary of the Centrist Project are drawn from the book publisher's landing page. The Mort Kondracke article, although a commentary as you note, does feel like a stronger citation than the existing one. Could we simply attribute that descriptive passage to Kondrake, like as follows:

{{collapse top|title=Alternative}}

Charles Wheelan, a Dartmouth College professor and former Congressional candidate, published The Centrist Manifesto book in 2013. An affiliated federal PAC, The Centrist Project Voice, registered with the FEC in May 2014. According to Mort Kondracke , the organization was intended to support ideas from Wheelan's book, most notably the “fulcrum strategy” in which a small group of independent senators could control the balance of power in a closely divided chamber and push both parties toward more centrist policies. The Centrist Project began endorsing candidates, including independents and major-party candidates it saw as pragmatic or centrist. Its first endorsement was Larry Pressler, a former three-term Republican senator from South Dakota who was running as an independent for the seat vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Tim Johnson in the 2014 election. The organization also endorsed Susan Collins, Michelle Nunn, Greg Orman, and Jill Bossi during the 2014 election cycle.

{{reflist-talk}}

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In the draft above, I also added a WSJ book review from Kondrake as a secondary citation. In both Kondrake pieces, the author offers a straightforward description of the Centrist Project and the fulcrum strategy. The author's assessment of these initiatives would be an opinion, but the descriptions are neutrally worded and factually accurate summaries that I don't believe would ever be contested.

If the above still doesn't pass muster, we could just cut that sentence entirely. Or maybe you could suggest a variation on wording and attribution? Please let me know what you think. KS at Unite America (talk) 16:28, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Specifying my History section request

Hi, this is Kevin Singer again, the communications director for Unite America.

After receiving helpful feedback from Spintendo, I'm back with a more specific request to update the History section and consolidate claims from other sections that are superfluous and poorly sourced. These other sections could then be removed.

I'm first going to identify the passages and sections that should be updated or removed due to poor sourcing and non-encyclopedic content. (I'm not embedding the tables here because they're too large.) Then I'll provide a proposed History draft that consolidates and streamlines notable claims from all these sections & tables and ensures they're backed by reliable citations. If implemented, this update would considerably reduce the article's length.

The final two paragraphs in the current History section cover the period from 2016 to 2019 and read as follows:

Existing two History paragraphs

In October 2016, Nick Troiano, former congressional candidate and part of "Forbes 30 under 30" for Law & Policy, joined as executive director. The organization continued to grow through 2017, attracting talent from both sides of the aisle on a mission to elect enough independents to shift the balance of power in key state and statewide elections. Unite America adopted its current name in January 2018, aiming to reflect the organization's core mission. Unite America announced the first-ever nationwide slate of independent candidates in February 2018.

In March 2019, Unite America announced that they were expanding their mission of accelerating the democracy reform movement, with strategic investments in multi-cycle campaigns and infrastructure. They also announced the addition of two new board members: philanthropist Kathryn Murdoch and former independent Senate candidate Neal Simon.

References

The citations for this section include a mix of news coverage along with press releases from Unite America and the personal website for Nick Troiano.

The next section in the article, Reform strategy, covers events from this same period of time. The two sentences from this section read as follows:

Reform strategy sentences

In 2019, Unite America released the first State of Democracy Report in which they graded every state based on their status in five reform areas. In September 2019, Unite America announced their plan to invest in their first portfolio of campaigns based on these reforms.

References

These sentences are supported by one citation to an article on an advocacy website called The Fulcrum. This section also includes a table identifying four "2019 Reform investments". Presumably these investments are supported by the same Fulcrum source. There is no cited news coverage anywhere in this section.

The next section in the article, Unity Candidates, also covers events in 2019. The three sentences in this section read as follows:

Unity Candidates sentences

In March 2019, Unite America announced the creation of their new statewide chapter, Unite Virginia. Unite Virginia would work to reward bipartisanship and support candidates through the 2019 primary elections.

The organization endorsed a bipartisan slate of candidates in Virginia.

References

The two cited sources here are an NBC News article and the Unite America website. These sentences are followed by a table identifying "2019 Virginia Endorsements" and highlighting the subsequent election results. There is no cited source for the table.

The next section, Partnerships, also addresses events that occurred around 2018-2019:

Partnerships section

State-focused partnerships

In an effort to build the movement from the ground up, Unite America endorses and provides resources to independent candidates for state legislatures in a number of viable states, including Colorado, New Mexico, Maine, Alaska, and Washington.

Unite Colorado

Unite America formalized its Colorado-concentrated efforts for statehouse elections with the organization of its largest state-focused affiliate, Unite Colorado. Troiano identified the state's wide-ranging political leanings and the potential for a historic independent candidate victory as the driving motivations for this strategy. In 2018, Unite Colorado endorsed five independent candidates the Colorado House of Representatives and the Colorado Senate.

The group will endorse independent candidates running for office in New Mexico state legislature in an effort to promote competition amongst 30 of 70 uncontested New Mexico House of Representatives seats.

Washington Independents

Washington Independents, with support from Unite America, launched in fall of 2017 with the intention of supporting independent, centrist candidates in Washington. Its co-founders were Chris Vance, the former chairman of the state's Republican Party, and Brian Baird, a former Democratic Congressman (WA-3). The Political Action Committee spent over $100,000 on three candidates for state office in the 2018 general election. All three lost. In spring of 2019, Washington Independents announced that it would suspend operations.

Unite Virginia

In March 2019, Unite America launched Unite Virginia in order to focus on Virginia's off-year state legislative elections. Pivoting from its strategy in the 2018 elections, Unite America chose to support moderate, reform-minded Republicans and Democrats rather than independents. More specifically, it worked with four moderate primary challengers — two on the right and two on the left. Three of the four won their races.

The Committee for Ranked Choice Voting

In 2018, Unite America endorsed the Committee for Ranked Choice Voting, an organization that pushed for the implementation of instant-runoff voting in Maine. After a majority of voters approved a RCV citizens ballot initiative in 2016, state lawmakers called a special session to repeal the measure. In the following year, the people of Maine petitioned to override the veto, ultimately voting to restore RCV in Maine in time for the 2018 general election.

References

The sourcing in this section does include a lot of news coverage, but the Unite America website is also cited numerous times. There are also passages that speak in the future tense ("The group will endorse...") about events that happened years and years ago.

The next section, 2018 Endorsed National and State Candidates, also addresses events that occurred around 2018. The section includes four sentences and two large tables. The sentences read as follows:

2018 Endorsed National and State Candidates sentences

Unite America announced the first-ever slate of national candidates in February 2018, including three gubernatorial candidates and two candidates for US Senate.

In January 2018, Unite Colorado announced a slate of independent candidates for both the Colorado House of Representatives and the Colorado Senate. In addition, Unite America endorsed independent candidates for state office in Alaska, Arizona, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. All but four were defeated.

References

The tables (which I didn't embed) are the big issue here, as most of the cited sources are the candidates' About pages. There are no cited sources for the election results and it's not clear where that information comes from or if it's accurate.

I would like to replace the passages and tables identified above with the following five paragraphs that could all live in the History section:

Proposed History section update

In 2016, Nick Troiano, a former congressional candidate, joined the organization's board as executive director. Troiano pushed the organizations towards supporting structural election reforms, such as nonpartisan redistricting.

In 2017, the Centrist Project opened its national headquarters in Denver, Colorado. The organization then changed its name to Unite America. That same year, an affiliated state-based organization, Washington Independents, launched to support independent candidates in Washington.

In 2018, Unite America and its state-focused local affiliate, Unite Colorado, endorsed independent candidates for the Colorado State Legislature. The organization picked Colorado because of its narrowly divided Legislature and a belief that voters there would be receptive to independent candidates. That same year Unite America also supported a slate of independent national candidates for state gubernatorial offices and the U.S. Senate.

In March 2019, a new statewide chapter, Unite Virginia, launched to support centrist Democratic and Republican candidates.

In September 2019, Unite America announced more than $5 million in commitments through the Unite America Fund to support election reform campaigns in Alaska, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York. The two largest donors to the fund were Kathryn Murdoch and Marc Merrill. In November 2019, New York City voters approved ranked-choice voting through a City Charter amendment. The change only applied to primary and special elections for mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough president, and City Council.

References

These five paragraphs cover the same time period and events. Nearly all of the cited sources I used are news coverage from notable media outlets. I did cite content on the Unite America website twice. In the first instance, I found countless news sources that confirmed Nick Troiano is a former congressional candidate who serves as Unite America's executive director, but only the UA website's "Our Story" page confirms exactly when he joined, so I used said page as a secondary citation in order to support a chronological accounting. In the second instance, I cited a UA press release to confirm the dollar amount and to specify that the investments came from the Unite America Fund, but all of the specific investments were covered by media outlets (which I cited).

Per my explanation above, removing the identified passages and tables and replacing them with this short summary would (I hope!) greatly improve the article. So much of the current content is poorly sourced and excessively detailed.

Hopefully MediaKyle, Tessaract2, Spintendo, or any other editor watching this talk page can review what I've put together. I tried to reach out to other editors who have been active in developing page content in the past, but those outreach messages were removed for reasons I don't entirely understand. KS at Unite America (talk) 16:30, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

If you could purge all of the references from Unite America that would also be helpful. Since Unite America has their own page on the web, that would be a better place for the organization to make statements about its activities. Where you state but those outreach messages were removed for reasons I don't entirely understand. I'm not sure what happended there, but messages posted by you should not be removed by anyone (unless it was posted to an editor's own talk page, where those editors have somewhat of a free-er range of action). Regards,  Spintendo  18:23, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

Edit request: Verifiability review of Victoria Climbié section against HC 570

I am a paid contributor employed by the UCKG (see my user page for full disclosure per WP:PAID). I am submitting this request in accordance with WP:COI.

I have verified the claims in the Victoria Climbié section against the cited HC 570 report (The Victoria Climbié Inquiry Report, Session 2002–03), available at publications.parliament.uk.

Of the ten claims in this section that cite HC 570, four are fully supported. The remaining six have verifiability issues set out below with specific paragraph references. I am not proposing that the Victoria Climbié section be removed. I am proposing that it accurately reflect its cited source, per WP:V.

UCKG appears once in HC 570, at paragraph 26. It does not appear in Chapter 2, Chapter 3, the Conclusion, or any of the 14 Recommendations.

Issue 1a: Police interview possession claims

Current text: "During police interviews, both claimed that Victoria was possessed by evil spirits."

Problem: HC 570 does not mention police interviews. Paragraph 26 says only that Pastor Lima expressed the view that Victoria was possessed. This claim needs re-sourcing or a {{cn}} tag.

Issue 1b: Lima "suspected abuse" — misalignment with cited sources

Current text: "...saying later he suspected she was being abused, but he did not notify any officials."

Problem: HC 570 paragraph 26 does not say Lima suspected abuse, only that he expressed the view she was possessed. The article also cites BBC News, "Pastor prayed for 'possessed' Victoria" (6 December 2001), reporting Lima's evidence to the inquiry: he "had suspicions the young girl was being neglected" on the second visit, and under questioning he admitted he did not call the police, hospital or social services and agreed, with hindsight, that he should have done. Two issues with the current wording: (a) it upgrades "neglected" to "abused"; (b) by placement it implies the suspicion arose around the first visit, when per the BBC source it arose only on the second.

Note on sourcing: the neglect suspicion and the admission appear only in the BBC report of Lima's inquiry evidence, not in HC 570 itself. The proposed replacement therefore cites each sentence to its actual source rather than leaving the new text under the HC 570 citation.

Proposed replacement: Pastor Lima expressed the view that Victoria was possessed by an evil spirit. He saw Victoria on two occasions; on the second, with Victoria visibly very ill, he suspected she was being neglected and advised Kouao to take her to hospital. He later told the inquiry he should have called the police, hospital or social services.

Issue 2: UCKG listed as investigated

Current text: "...investigated the role of social services, the NHS, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, and the police."

Problem: Paragraph 3 states the Committee's purpose was to assess recommendations, not investigate organisations. Paragraph 8 lists agencies involved; UCKG is not among them. Paragraph 35 focuses on "agencies empowered by Parliament to protect children."

Proposed change: Remove "the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God" from the list of organisations investigated, per HC 570 paras 3, 8 and 35. Pastor Lima's evidence to the inquiry is already noted elsewhere in the article and in paragraph 26.

Issue 3a: "None spotted or stopped the abuse"

Current text: "...but none spotted or stopped the abuse."

Problem: Paragraph 14 records that injuries were identified by two doctors, that Victoria was admitted to hospital, and that social services and police were informed. The claim that "none spotted" the abuse is therefore directly contradicted by the cited source.

Proposed change: Replace "but none spotted or stopped the abuse" with phrasing closer to HC 570 paragraph 14. For example, language that records that injuries were identified by two doctors and that social services and police were informed, but that these interventions did not prevent her death.

Issue 3b: Compressed timeline

Current text: "...advised Kouao to take the girl to the hospital, where she died of her abuse."

Problem: HC 570 paragraphs 26–27 describe a multi-stage sequence: Lima "advised them to go to hospital and called a minicab"; the minicab took Victoria and Kouao to Tottenham Ambulance Station; Victoria was then taken by ambulance to North Middlesex Hospital and transferred to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where she died on 25 February 2000. The current passage is cited only to the BBC ("Victoria's life of horror," 12 January 2001), which does not contain this transport detail.

Proposed replacement: "...advised Kouao to take Victoria to hospital and called a minicab. Victoria was taken via Tottenham Ambulance Station to North Middlesex Hospital, and then transferred to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where she died on 25 February 2000."

Issue 4: Partially sourced biographical claim

Current text: Lima was later promoted to bishop and led the UK headquarters 2016–2021.

Status: The bishop fact is supported by the BBC, "UCKG: Church pastor tells boy 'evil spirit' hides in him" (11 December 2023), which describes Lima as "one of the UCKG's bishops"; this citation could be added. (For the avoidance of doubt: this source is cited solely to support the descriptor that Lima is one of the UCKG's bishops. The submission does not adopt, repeat, or rely on any other content from that article, including the subject of its headline, which is unrelated to this section.) The specific UK leadership dates 2016–2021 do not appear in any cited reference. Could the dates be sourced to a reliable, independent reference, or removed?

Closing

I am happy to provide direct quotations from HC 570 for any of these points. Archer.UCKG (talk) 13:10, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Sources

Full citations for the named references used in the proposed text above:

References

Other sources referenced in the discussion above (not used as named refs):

• "Victoria's life of horror", BBC News, 12 January 2001, retrieved 23 April 2010. (Ref 23 in the article.)
• Mark, Katie (11 December 2023). "UCKG: Church pastor tells boy 'evil spirit' hides in him", BBC News, retrieved 11 December 2023. (Ref 27 in the article.)

Archer.UCKG (talk) 13:10, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

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