Talk:James E. Tierney

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I would greatly appreciate any first time help I can get to prepare this short profile to meet qualifications for uploading. The person has help public office, has verifiable major daily newspaper profiles and directs a major organization frequently in the news. I would appreciate a response. Thank you. --Mg1152 12:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Difficult to say without knowing about him, but as a general rule: check WP:BIO to make sure he meets the criteria for notability, and then write the article. For a short article, I'd suggest using the format "who he is/where he's from/what he's done & why it's important/references". If the article uses a lot of sections, give each section a header using two = signs on either side of the section title, like ==section==. Probably the easiest thing to do if it's your first time, is to click on "random article" until you see an article that looks like the way you want your article to look, click on "edit page" and either see how they did it, or copy-and-paste the entire edit box into your own article and replace the original article's text with your own. (If you do it this way be sure to get rid of any inappropriate categories, tags etc). If it's a very short article you may want to add the appropriate stub template from

{{WP:WSS/ST}} to the bottom of the article; this will notify people with expertise in that particular area to be aware that the article may need expanding.

As long as your article gives a good reason as to why he should be included, don't worry too much about getting the style exactly right - someone will come along and tidy it up at some point. Be prepared for people to make changes to your article you don't like, though! If you check "watch this page", you'll see in your watchlist if anyone makes any changes to it, and if it's nominated for deletion you see and be able to defend its right to stay.

Hope this helps! I'll watch this page for the next couple of days, and if you upload an article I'll have a skim over it and try to tidy it up as appropriate if it needs it. Iridescent 13:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your help. I'm afraid I've already been rejected though. The reason was that it was redirected to a page "Jim Tierney," that had been deleted. I am grateful for your attention. Here is the article I wrote--Mg1152 13:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Article: James E. Tierney was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. on April 12, 1947. He currently is the Director of the National State Attorneys General Program www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/ag at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Law_Schoo Columbia Law School where since 2000 he has also been a Lecturer in Law. In 2006, Columbia students recognized him as the Public Interest Law Professor of the Year.

After eight years in the Maine Legislature, where at the age of 29 he was elected Majority Leader, Tierney became the Attorney General of Maine. He served in that capacity for ten years during which time he was active on a wide variety of state and national issues. After leaving office in 1990, he began a career as a consultant to attorneys general. Long characterized by current attorneys general and the media as "America's 51st Attorney General." (Fighting Smoke With Fire In the Legal Fight Against Tobacco, James Tierney Has a Burning Passion by John Schwartz, Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, November 17,1998) Tierney is quoted widely on the operations of the office of state attorney general and is as a regular commentator on Court TV.

Tierney may be best known as one of the key strategists in the state cases against the tobacco industry in reclaiming Medicaid payments paid out for tobacco-related disease. (THE TOBACCO WARS: Strategist of smoking assault calls shots from Maine farm, The Courier-Journal Louisville, KY, Wednesday, April 1, 1997, by HUNT HELM, The Courier-Journal Staff)

Tierney also has advised officials in Eastern Europe's emerging democracies, has supervised national elections in Bulgaria, Cameroon, Croatia and Albania, and was special counsel in the investigation of alleged corruption within the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Tierney is a graduate of the University of Maine and the University of Maine School of Law.

I think this page may have been AfD'd in error due to the redirection mentioned above - as a former attorney-general I would say he is ipso facto notable. I have recreated the article as a stub and added citations/references where appropriate. The article's still very short and hopefully someone will expand it. Iridescent 14:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)