Wikipedia and the 2008 US elections/John McCain

Basic questions

 * 1) was the article started as a stub? if so, how long did it take to lose the stub tag?
 * 2) did wikipedia have an article on the subject before the election? if so, compare the article before and after
 * 3) were daughter articles created? if so, when? were all of the daughter articles kept?
 * 4) what was the relationship between talk page edits and article edits?
 * 5) were there edit wars? if so, what were they about, and did they coincide with campaign events?
 * 6) was the article protected or placed under probation? if so, why and for how long?
 * 7) did the campaigns themselves edit the articles?
 * 8) was the article itself ever in the news?

Timeline
Development needed for a timeline with edits by day, week, or month, sorted by:
 * 1) anon, user, and sysop
 * 2) content edits, minor edits (copyedits and so on), reverted edits, vandal edits, reverted vandal edits
 * 3) mark major campaign events on the timeline to see if there is any correlation between number of edits and news events