Talk:John Rees (journalist)

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Stumbled across this page just now...It's presently an unsourced smear, but I don't have the information to fix it. I added POV tag and cite requests and will put the page on RFC. --FRS 19:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

I dug through a bit on the Internet. He was a police informant but I couldn't find enough material to justify calling him a spy. The Washington Post and Skeptics.org found his reporting on Lyndon LaRouche legitimate enough to cite. Added external links and made slight text modifications. Durova 23:33, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re-write by subject

John Rees, or someone claiming to be John Rees, re-wrote the article in this edit. Mr. Rees, if you are reading this, I would suggest you have another go at it, keeping these factors in mind: first of all, a biographical article shouldn't be written in the first person. Secondly, Wikipedia has a rule that articles must be based on published sources. I see that you object to material from Chip Berlet and Political Research Associates that you regard as incorrect -- I symphathize with you on that, I too think that those are very unreliable sources. But under Wikipedia rules, you either have to present rebuttal evidence from another published source, or make a specific challenge to the material based on the unreliability of the source. This can be time consuming. Best of luck on that. I have made some corrections to the article based on non-controversial things you assert about yourself, such as your nationality. --Niels Gade (talk) 16:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)