Talk:Randy Forbes

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What is this thing, a campaign ad?

[edit] NPOV marker

I added the NPOV marker because Babyboy1 deleted a negative paragraph and added a bunch of praiseful paragraphs. (I left the praiseful paragraphs and restored the negative paragraph, so that at least there's currently a halfway-complete picture, but both sides need to be toned down significantly and sectioned off.) Ruakh 05:34, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I should mention that most of the praiseful paragraphs should ultimately be cut; I just left them all in there because I didn't have time yet to figure out what of them is wheat and what chaff. Ruakh 05:36, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

This article definitely read like a campaign leaflet when the tag was added. However, most of the puffery is now gone. There is still some POV, though the direction seems to shift from paragraph to paragraph - like it sometimes does on Wikipedia. In light of all the changes since the tag was added, I thought it was time to remove the tag. However, please put it back if you disagree.Qball6 03:46, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Main Problem

The entire article, except for the first two paragraphs, were copied and pasted off of Randy's bio on his house.gov site. [1] I think all of the non-factual information (from the copied sections) should be deleted, or at least edited to be neutral. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mac35 (talk • contribs) .

Definitely. Care to undertake that? Ruakh 22:21, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd be glad to do some editing to it, I've been planing on making a few additions anyway. Mac35