Talk:Michele Bachmann

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Talk:Michele Bachmann/Archive 01

Contents 1 Eligibility to Practice Law in Minnesota 2 Questions of length should be about what information should be placed in a sub-page, it is not a license to delete. 3 Picture of kissing Bush 4 Nomination for Deletion

[edit] Eligibility to Practice Law in Minnesota

I deleted the part about her no longer being eligible to practice law in Minnesota. Although in absolute sense this is true, I feel it is irrelevant, and its inclusion in this entry was biased. It implies, or at least raises the possibility that she was disbarred. Although I do not know why she is no longer eligible to practice law in Minnesota, she was not disbarred: http://www.courts.state.mn.us/lprb/list.html. Most likely she just stopped paying her annual fee to the Minnesota bar after she stopped practicing law. This is trivial and shouldn't be in the article.

• Note: The above was an unsigned comment originally appearing - Revision as of 04:27, 11 October 2006 by 68.169.41.40 (as per history in Talk:Michele Bachmann/Archive 01)

- I disagree with this. This reference should stay, because Michele Bachmann frequently claims to be a tax litigation attorney (present tense). The facts are that she is a former tax litigation attorney. Her ads said former (this was probably after the Dump Bachmann blog published the evidence of her not currently eligible to practice law. I think this should not be a section by itself, but the material should be included in the section on her career as tax litigation attorney for the IRS. Lloydletta 16:24, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Did something happen to the revision history when the talk was moved to an archive. I can't seem to see earlier versions. Lloydletta 04:28, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

See this. The histories got moved with the archival - you can get to it via the history tab on the archive page. Usually histories don't get moved like this - I think it only happens when the entire page is archived using a page move - but they are still accessible via the archive page. ATren 04:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Questions of length should be about what information should be placed in a sub-page, it is not a license to delete.

I've restored the information that a new user deleted wholesale from this article without discussing the matter on this talk page. When length questions arrive to an article the correct policy is to move large segments to their own sub-page and make a small paragraph on the main-page pointing to the sub-page. Deleting valuable information to fit length suggestions (they are not even guidelines anymore) is improper. If an editor has an issue whether some information is unwarranted in the article it should be discussed on this talk page instead of arbitrarily deleted.--Wowaconia 07:32, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I have moved a lot of information to assorted sub-pages, added summary paragraphs here pointing to the sub-pages and now this page is below the Wikipedia:Article size 50kb threshold where page divisions are suggested.--Wowaconia 09:32, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for editing this article down. I've been doing quite a bit of reading about the new Congress, reading about various Representatives as they give speeches on C-Span etc. This is by far the longest article for a Congressman/woman I'd run across. OPMaster 11:51, 8 February 2008

The length seems mostly an attempt to swamp out the controversy surrounding all her national gaffes. Bachmann is the party's next Katherine Harris.

[edit] Picture of kissing Bush

While much has been made of her kissing Bush at the State of the Union, for those of you who missed it (like me) there is copyrighted picture here: http://cache.wonkette.com/images/thumbs/0f4a067c335a50ebeaa0f28d81e1faab.jpg

I wouldn't bother trying to post it in the article as a bot will merely delete it for not being public domain.--Wowaconia 22:28, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination for Deletion

Editors, please note that the sub-pages of this article (Michele Bachmann, EdWatch, and MFI, Michele Bachmann's 1999 school board campaign, Michele Bachmann and the 2000 election, Michele Bachmann and the 2002 election have been nominated for deletion at this link Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michele Bachmann, EdWatch, and MFI. The information was moved from the main article solely because of KB size concerns and is well sourced. Your imput on this matter would be appreciated.--Wowaconia 16:28, 13 September 2007 (UTC)