Talk:Matthew Yglesias

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This article was nominated for deletion on 2005-06-17. The result of the discussion was keep.

An individual covered by or significantly related to this article, Matthew Yglesias, has edited Wikipedia as Myglesias (talk · contribs). This user's editing has included this article. Readers are encouraged to review Wikipedia:Autobiography for information concerning autobiographical articles on Wikipedia.

Contents 1 Neutrality 2 Matt or Matthew? 3 A Gay Ole Time 4 Liberal blogger?

[edit] Neutrality

This article lacks the required neutrality. Comments such as "his academic training in philosophy is often reflected in the density and abstruseness of his writing" are clearly subjective. It's evident that this profile was "ghost" written by the subject himself.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.223.48 (talk)

That's a pretty serious accusation. Now, Yglesias has his own user account: User:Myglesias. As it happens that sentence, along with a good portion of the article was written by User:Peripatetic. You think Yglesias went to the trouble of creating another account, making thousands of edits under it just so he could say some nice things about himself? Makgraf 05:02, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

With all respect, 68.50.223.48 is a twit who should do the MINIMUM research before he slings around accusations that are dumb in the extreme. I am a Bangladeshi, loud and proud, and don't give a monkey's toss about what such IPeople are thinking. Check out some of the Bangladesh-related articles I've written and edits I've done. Only possible by a native Bangladeshi - Bobita and Jayasree Kabir and Nilkhet and Uttara will do for a start. Also, check out the Bengali Wikipedia - another thousand-plus edits there - in BANGLA! If 68.50.223.48 has a problem with the prose, he should change it. Nuff sed. --Peripatetic 23:04, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Matt or Matthew?

Why does this article call him Matt, when his proudly eponymous blog is called www.matthewyglesias.com? Skarioffszky 17:59, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A Gay Ole Time

I've deleted the part labeling Matt as a gay blogger, because its obvious that in the link used ([1]), Matt was being facetious. Hamburgers don't invert one's sexuality, at least from what I've seen. I think someone was having a bit fun there :)

[edit] Liberal blogger?

How does this article come to the conclusion that Matthew Yglesias is a liberal blogger? He's a Mitt Romney fan! --JHP (talk) 02:24, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

It's possible you are kidding... but Yglesias is unabashedly a liberal (though he may prefer the term "progressive"). His support of Mitt Romney is firmly tongue-in-cheek, as "the least bad Republican," which should be clear from his post "Why I'm a Mitt Man". Clconway (talk) 03:07, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Andrew Sullivan's not a conservative though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.95.231.76 (talk) 14:44, 6 June 2008 (UTC)