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In the "Later policies" section, please change "Hoover's alleged apathy towards the unemployed" to "Hoover's perceived apathy towards the unemployed", per WP:ALLEGED. --2001:BB6:4756:DF58:7196:1F29:A65:B3E3 (talk) 09:39, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Somajyoti ✉ 15:36, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Undone, while alleged is a word to watch, its use was perfectly fine and factual here. Remsense ‥ 论 15:58, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The sentence “He did so with the cooperation of black American leader Robert Russa Moton, who was promised unprecedented influence once Hoover became president.” Should be removed or needs to be explained in much more depth. As it is the sentence is misleading. It gives the impression Moton was complicit or had influence to change the policy which he did not. 74.96.107.132 (talk) 14:00, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Read the cited source. We are obliged to quote or paraphrase the cited source, not make up our own narrative. If you think we are incorrectly paraphrasing the cited source, give some more detail about that. Bruce leverett (talk) 14:16, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article is misleading - it is clearly written to give the impression that Herbert Hoover was always a supporter of the free market (in modern American language - a conservative), when, for much of his life, he was not. For example, Herbert Hoover supported the Progressive Party in the 1912 Presidential Election - and as President himself, from 1929 to 1933, was the first President in American history to put pressure to PREVENT wage reductions in the face of a Credit Money bust (there had been such busts from at least 1819 - and the most recent one before 1929, was the bust of 1921), in every previous Credit Money bust real wage levels had been, for a time, reduced to enable the labor market to "clear" - whereas in the 1930s no such "clearing" took place (due to government pressure to PREVENT reductions of real wages), with the result that mass UNEMPLOYMENT persisted year-after-year. Herbert Hoover had also pressed for an ever bigger budget for the Department of Commerce in the 1920s - and, as President, created many new government agencies and programs. Whatever he may have become after he left office - he was not a free market supporter either as a young man or as President - see "Herbert Hoover: The Forgotten Progressive" by Joan Hoff-Wilson. 2A02:C7C:E15E:F000:E59A:CB61:1657:70A6 (talk) 09:03, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

NO it is not misleading. It clearly states that he was progressive in 1920s. In the 1930s he turned conservative and became a leading opponent of FDR and the New Deal & what was now called "liberalism". Rjensen (talk) 09:53, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is desirable to avoid an edit war over this.

I myself was happy with A, which had been in place for a long time. I went to Amazon.com and searched for "Herbert Hoover", and found two books that used that portrait on their jackets. The objection that his suit blends into the background does not seem terribly important; is it even a bad thing? Bruce leverett (talk) 01:57, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it is bad for his jacket to blend as it does with Option A because that's awkward at best on the eyes and makes it harder for viewers to decipher which parts are his body vs. the background. His hair also does that to a lesser extent. With Option B, you thankfully can tell where his shoulders end plus get a clearer sense of head dimensions. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 02:03, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, tastes differ. But if publishers of softcover and expensive hardcover books can use A, I would think we can't go wrong with it. We have been using one or another version of this photo since 2003, I think. Bruce leverett (talk) 02:14, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

when was option b taken? Like what year? Zaptain United (talk) 01:58, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I want to add a photo caption Zaptain United (talk) 01:58, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Option B was introduced in this edit. Bruce leverett (talk) 02:44, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I oppose the image change. The previous image was the main image for years and was taken the year he got elected. This proposed image has no confirmed date on when it was taken. Zaptain United (talk) 03:06, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Option B is a cropped image of a Library of Congress holding https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016859622/ date is stated to be "between 1905 and 1945" Personally I would stick with Option A. I find the fuzziness in parts of B distracting. Erp (talk) 04:22, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I say we keep the image, Option A. If you look closer, his jacket doesn’t blend in too much. Plus, the date of when Option B was made seems to be ambiguous, making it harder to add a caption. (per messages above) GuyMan529 (talk) 19:12, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a square called "Herbert Hoover Plein" in Leuven Belgium. Adjacent to it is a library with inscriptions honoring him for having funded rebuilding it after it was destroyed by German actions during World War I. This should be mentioned somewhere. ~2025-31158-02 (talk) 02:48, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]