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The "automobile" engine shown in the side photo, is a heavy truck engine...

By: height, number of cylinders/length, and turbocharger, that is not an engine used in any Chinese passenger car of any era.

It is, rather, typical of mid to heavy duty trucks: eg competitors to Detroit/Caterpillar/Cummins in US, or producers such as Isuzu/Hino/Kubota in Japan.

In correctly captioned as it stands... it is showing poor knowledge and "pre digested" captioning by political campaign, or by unskilled reporter. This draws the readers attention if the fallibility of the entire article. 68.151.178.83 (talk) 04:44, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"John L. Kerry" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect John L. Kerry. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 13#John L. Kerry until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Paper Luigi ^{T • C} 16:00, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Institut Montana

The Institut Montana has never been an "elite" school in terms of teaching and learning performance. Rather it is an expensive boarding school for kids of rich (foreign and Swiss) families who do not make it to the real elite schools of Switzerland and Central Europe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1206:45BC:6F70:184E:C44F:CBB:E965 (talk) 07:39, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Opinionated History Again

As someone who voted for John Kerry for President in 2004, I find a significant amount of opinionated bias in this article such as “ it appeared to be” statements which is someone’s opinionated prospective and a lack of the detail about the claims of the Swift Boaters while giving extensive detail about the positive aspects of John Kerry’s Service. Deification Of Kerry appears to this contributor to be the common theme of this Wikipedia page.

 Too bad the page is locked to ensure that other opinions or prospectives are not given the same freedom of speech rights that the person or persons who where allowed to present their prospective on this page were given.

To bad we continue our rapid decline into a society of giving more rights of personal freedoms to some members then others.

As a person who always try to support Wikipedia when asked for financial support, I will discontinue that practice and allow those that Wikipedia grants “”Special” freedoms to express their opinions and prospectives as factual History to provide all the support that Wikipedia needs. Catmandu57 (talk) 20:16, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Catmandu57, "appeared to be" appears once in the article, sourced to this reliable source. which backs up the statements in the article. Nothing opinionated there. We don't give the claims of the swift boaters any weight because they were fallacious. If you have any other specific complaints beyond the bizarre claim of "deification", please bring them up with specifics, what specifically is wrong and what specifically should be changed about it. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:30, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Catmandu57, PS, your "freedom of speech" cannot be abridged by the government, but it absolutely can be by a private enterprise like Wikipedia. That's called free market capitalism. I thought conservatives liked that? – Muboshgu (talk) 20:32, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hombre, we don't do "Opinion" on Wikipedia. The "Swiftboat" complaints are a well documented fraud, and it *doesn't matter* if you have a different opinion, what matters is whats true, and we actually know those allegations are not true. So repeating them would violate multiple wikipedia rules on articles about living people, and worse, would be perpetrating things that aren't true. Duckmonster (talk) 11:48, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 10 April 2021

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Please add a footnote regarding the 1971 arrest on the Lexington Battle Green. The antiwar march that resulted in this arrest is the subject of a new book that Mr. Kerry, in providing a blurb, has approved. Here is the bibliographic information:

Lemire, Elise. Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).

Please link the bibliographic entry to the publisher's page for the book, provided here:

https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16230.html

Below, I've indicated where the footnote should go with an X, namely before what is now FN 62.

Kerry was arrested on May 30, 1971, during a VVAW march to honor American POWs held captive by North Vietnam. The march was planned as a multi-day event from Concord to Boston, and while in Lexington, participants tried to camp on the village green. At 2:30 a.m., local and state police arrested 441 demonstrators, including Kerry, for trespassing. All were given the Miranda Warning and were hauled away on school buses to spend the night at the Lexington Public Works Garage. Kerry and the other protesters later paid a $5 fine, and were released. The mass arrests caused a community backlash and ended up giving positive coverage to the VVAW.X[62][63][64]

I am the author and will respond to any questions about this request at elise.lemire@purchase.edu.

Thank you. Jttevl (talk) 13:16, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: If current sources already provide verification for the next, additional sources don't necessarily need to be added. Current three sources are other offline works, so adding in a fourth one doesn't help the ease of verifiability of anything. Instead I have added in an online source from Boston Globe that supports a lot of the paragraph. Also you posting a notice about WP:COI on your talk page. You aren't COI with the article subject, but if you wrote the article it might not be best for you to add the source into articles yourself. WikiVirusC^(talk) 14:18, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Official Portrait change?

There is an official portrait of Kerry as the Climate Envoy, should it be the lead image?