Talk:Karl Zinsmeister

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An entry from Karl Zinsmeister appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 28 May 2006.

This is a message for Sandstein.

Please forgive me if this is not the right way to reply to your message; I am not expert at Wikipedia.

I don't understand why you undid the edits I added recently to this page.

1) the first two links are broken, the third is insignificant and out of date. I replaced them with the bio for subject's current work, from official White House web site.

2) It seems very tendentious to add the special freestanding paragraph, much less with a block-letter headline, on "Controversy." As I flip through pages I don't see comparable treatments of similarly minor dustups for most other figures in politics. I have noticed double-standards and unnecessary editorializing in some political biographies on Wikipedia, and believe these implicitly editorializing comments and formatting decisions should be removed.

3) This individual has two other books which I tried to add. Why did you eliminate? That is precisely the sort of substantive, factual, non-subjective information these articles should focus on.

And so on. I believe my edits were good, and hope you will consider restoring them.

Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.166.4.186 (talk • contribs).

Thank you for taking the time to explain your edits. On reflection, I think you are correct, and have reinstituted your version of the article. Sorry if I came across as brusque, but it's an unfortunate fact that on Wikipedia, virtually all edits by unregistered users that remove content are vandalism. In this case, I should have been quicker to assume good faith. Best regards, Sandstein 22:36, 3 December 2006 (UTC)