Talk:Charles Walker (Georgia politician)

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[edit] Serving

Charles W. Walker's projected release date is September 26, 2014^[1] and is serving his time at FCI Estill

[edit] References

1. ^ Federal Bureau of Prisons

[edit] comments

I declined a speedy deletion request on this article. I added two of the many throughly reliable newspaper sources. This is not a BLP violation, but the report on a notable political figure. The criminal matter is both relevant and sourced. DGG (talk) 04:36, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

It's swell you did the research to add the cites. Thank you. But my nomination was not improper, as you suggested on my talk page. Here's a direct quote from the WP:BLP page:

"Administrators encountering biographies that are unsourced and negative in tone, where there is no neutral version to revert to, should delete the article without discussion (see Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion criterion G10 for more details)."

I can NOT emphasize this enough. There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced. This is true of all information, but it is particularly true of negative information about living persons.

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David in DC (talk) 05:13, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

BTW, I've fixed your footnote. Thanks again for speedily curing the clear BLP violation.David in DC (talk) 05:30, 30 May 2008 (UTC)