Talk:Fred Smith (politician)
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[edit] Raleigh News and Observer Blog reported on this wikipedia article
State senators don't typically get very long Wikipedia entries.
Until two months ago, Sen. Fred Smith's bio on the collaborative encylopedia was a scant 50 or so words, listing his name, party and district.
But on March 28, it suddenly expanded to 300 words.
The new biography reads like a press release from the Smith campaign. In fact, a few sentences are lifted directly from a bio his campaign handed out at the kickoff of his gubernatorial campaign:
The principles that have guided Fred Smith are grounded in his parent's strong influence and his childhood experiences growing up at the Methodist Orphanage in Raleigh, NC.
That observation and an epigrammatic quote about how he's "not a politician" will probably not survive under the encyclopedia's "neutral point of view" standard.
The revised entry will no doubt soon be edited to look more like campaign rival Bob Orr's page, and someone will no doubt take care of Bill Graham, whose page appears to have been deleted.
Jerimee 16:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Added COI tags
I have significantly increased the content of this page. In fact, it is now over 100% larger than before my edits, so I am a significant contributor to this page. I am now the top contributor to this page, as far as volume. I am not willing to say whether or not I have any connection or not to Senator Smith, but given my username, and given the guidelines on the talk pages (here and here) of the {{COI}} and {{COI2}} template tags, it seems required that this page now be tagged with these templates.
Please do not remove these tags until my contributions to this page have been rendered insignificant (probably less than 10% by volume), or until policy changes on the COI tags. Fredsmith2 23:30, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
