Talk:David Lilienthal

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I am the writer of the David Lilienthal article.

If other Wikipedians feel they can improve it, by all means, do so. But I do not consider the article to be "crap" -- indeed it seems to be far more fair-minded and well-rounded than the flippant and negative comment below from "Jamesg".

At any rate, the article was neither plagiarized nor paraphrased.

Andrew Szanton, 10/06

Who writes this crap? This sounds like it was either plagiarized, or at best paraphrased, right out of a biography -- a very fawning biography, at that. This article is in serious need of some cleanup. Jamesg 14:36, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

This article about David Lilienthal seems to me far too short. Lilienthal was one of the most capable and controversial public figures of his day and deserves more explanation.

Contrary to the Wikipedia heading, Lilienthal was not a "Tennessee politician" -- he was an Indiana native, with professional experience in Wisconsin before being appointed to the Tennessee Valley Authority. As much as he enjoyed Tennessee and admired Tennesseeans, he was never a Tennesseean himself.

Nor did he consider himself a politician, but a public servant and later a public-spirited businessman.

Andrew Szanton, 5/06

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I think that it is customary to acknowledge your sources early in the article. As I read it, I thought to myself, is all this actually documented? Then I saw the references section and assumed that the article is primarily taken from those journals. But it might help Mr. Szanton to read some other biographical articles on Wikipedia and try to conform to the conventions here. Bear in mind, of course, that there are some absolutely dreadful biographical articles written by amateur character assassins, which is why they had to institute WP:BLP as a policy. But there are also some decent ones. --MaplePorter 08:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)