Talk:Robert Stacy McCain

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[edit] POV Tag

This stub in its present form needs substantial NPOV revisions. In its current form the article

Attributes "pro-confederate" views to McCain without any source or specification
Attributes "white nationalist" views to McCain without any source or specification (I seriously doubt he calls himself a "white nationalist," though Morris Dees or somebody of his ilk may have accused McCain of being that)
No source on SPLC demands for resignation, no specification of why they demanded it, and no detail about their own biases and affiliation with the radical left (which could predispose them against a conservative newspaper editor).
Phrase "but have not yet been successful in achieving it" referring to the alleged SPLC effort leans in POV toward the SPLC's supposed position.

Please fix these and develop the content more before removing the POV tag. Rangerdude 1 July 2005 23:44 (UTC)

I've replaced these all with specific quotes with citations. AaronSw 21:09, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable? Vanity editing? POV?

Comments:

Is this person notable? (I mean no offense by this -- I'm not very notable myself.)
Is he supposed to editing his own article? I think subjects of articles are encouraged to note errors on the talk page, but not actually edit.

Presently, part of this article reads like a resume. At the same time, some of the earlier versions were very negatively POV. Neither tone has a place in Wikipedia. Seeing that some of you editors are either in journalism or somewhere in the intelligentsia, I'm confident you all can produce something more encyclopedic -- if you really want to.

--A. B. 01:11, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I encourage McCain to write an article on the Rome News-Tribune -- there's none at present. I was looking for one when I found this article.