Talk:List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama

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5/20/11[edit]

Can someone add these 8 missing pardons in?

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0511/obama_grants_pardons_8aa864f2-39e9-40ef-8d75-bf616cc282c0.html

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/05/obama-grants-eight-pardons/1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.9.136.251 (talk) 00:21, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done! --Coemgenus (talk) 00:51, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

11/22/11 pardons[edit]

More pardons today: [1] [2]

This page is massively outdated, I suggest just replacing it with a link to the actually up to date information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4898:80E8:EE31:0:0:0:3 (talk) 00:13, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Title consistency[edit]

Can we make all of these have the same title format? --Posted by Pikamander2 (Talk) at 04:07, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reviving this topic thanks to my post on Talk:List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump. Amyipdev (talk) 19:00, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Completeness[edit]

This article shouldn't list all 1,900+ people he pardoned, but if Willie McCovey isn't mentioned here, I wonder how many other notable people were too. – Muboshgu (talk) 04:38, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I added Willie to the article. I imagine other notable people are missing from this article. --Frmorrison (talk) 17:37, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's a "List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama" so of course it should be correct, complete and mistake free. I couldn't believe I couldn't get a list from the media on the day that it happened and I'm concerned about transparency now, several years later. 173.153.162.37 (talk) 20:47, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Poor sources[edit]

To support this sentence, "He also issued more commutations than the past 13 presidents combined.[2][7]" a contributor points to a short AOL.com item, which is a poor source. A much better source to use would be https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/20/obama-used-more-clemency-power/, which actually gives the numbers for pardons, commutations, and total acts of clemency. Counting up one column (the commutations) while ignoring the other columns strikes me as an irresponsible use of a source. This article is about clemency, after all, not just about commutations. Jk180 (talk) 23:31, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]