Talk:Judy Biggert

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[edit] Needs Neutrality

This article is very biased in support of the congresswoman. Few items of controversey or criticism are mentioned. Most of the article might have been written by the congresswoman's own staff.

Sdthorson 18:27, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, the bio is verbatim from her website, which in the absence of anything else is usually okay if it's disclosed as such. If it was added by staffers, it looks like they didn't learn their lesson. I don't think this was the case though. I'm going through it for NPOV.--Dali-Llama 19:45, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I've gone over the article and removed the bio, which was largely redundant. I've also removed ambiguous statements relating to legislation which implied an effect for which there is no evidence (IE:"law that improves law enforcement's ability to investigate incidences of child exploitation on the Internet"). I've removed the "initiatives" which I initially thought were the actual names for legislation, but on second thought were actually made-up slogans for selling her legislative initiatives. Until someone can actually point to legislation (IE: "H.R. 333"), that should remain out of the article. Selectively quoting a bill is not NPOV at all.--Dali-Llama 20:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC)