Talk:Raymond Arroyo

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Note to 207.246.87.219 = Even if this is an election year in your country, I think it somewhat small to ANONYMOUSLY convert a Wikipaedia page about a Religious TV Host into a political rant about some foundation that nobody has heard of. Get a grip, grow a backbone and identify yourself and go vandalize some other topic. Looking at your history, it's not the first time you have done this. Droog57 (talk) 03:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Response to above note: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.246.87.219 (talk) 21:40, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

1) All facts stated in this article can be established by the references cited or by EWTN programming itself. The statement of facts in an encyclopedic venue is not "vandalism" or "a political rant."

2) Stating that no one has ever heard of the Heritage Foundation is an untrue distraction. Both major media and smaller outlets have cited the Heritage Foundation and it's work. It's relationship to goverment administrations and it's positions are well established.

3) The reference to an election year is an irrelevant distraction as Arroyo has interviewed and worked with Republican figures on EWTN since it's beginnings in the eighties.

4) The deletion of established, cited, facts in an encyclopedic venue is dubious, exasperating, and innapropriate.

5) Unobjective insult comments such as "get a grip" or "grow a backbone" are innapropriate. Our objective here is to get all the accurate facts and at the present time, the range of facts for the Arroyo entry is being expanded. That doesn't mean we are always going to be happy with the facts we find.

6) Attempting to bait someone into identifying themselves by insulting them is an old trick.It betrays a foreboding and ulterior motive as to why you are trying to get to their identity in the first place. Whoever you are- I'm not taking the bait!

[edit] Heritage Foundation and original research

I have removed the "controversy" section. It appears to be an original synthesis which makes assertions that go beyond the sources used, which is in violation both of Wipedia's policy on original research and of the policy on sourcing contentious information about living people. It should not be re-added to the article without proper sourcing. --77.96.133.241 (talk) 14:04, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Arroyo contacts with Republican party figures are established fact, not original research. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.131.4.222 (talk) 17:29, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Intimations about a think tank's influence on Arroyo's work as a broadcaster is most certainly an original synthesis. Sorry, but your personal theories have no place on Wikipedia. --212.32.75.219 (talk) 18:37, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

edit cites Arroyo's consistent contact w/ Republican figures, Heritage is only one of them, contacts are facts, will clean up edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.131.4.222 (talk) 18:53, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

You need a source that says there is a Republican influence on Arroyo's work. You need a source that says there is any actual controversy. You haven't cited anything close to that. Again, what you're doing is introducing an original synthesis from what few sources you do cite. Wikipedia is not a venue for your unpublished theories. --212.32.75.219 (talk) 19:49, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Moreover, there has to be a valid reason for dumping all this stuff in the article in the first place. Why should there be a listing of Republicans Arroyo has interviewed? Why is it important to highlight the Heritage Foundation? Where are the secondary sources to say that this section isn't a violation of WP:NPOV? Honestly, if your interests are in writing about Iraq, then find an appropriate article -- this isn't it. --212.32.75.219 (talk) 12:41, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Interests in providing all facts/details about arroyo entry. Your bothered reaction to facts is NPOV issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.191.188.252 (talk) 16:49, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

No, a NPOV issue is when an edit introduces so much material to an article that the emphasis is skewed. Why are you trying to turn a bio on a broadcaster into a conspiracy theory about political control of television in regards to Iraq? --212.32.75.219 (talk) 17:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.246.87.219 (talk) 17:42, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

This controversy section is clearly POV, with someone obsessed with talking about the Iraq war...clearly out of balance with anything else in this article. And the Huffington Post is hardly a reputable source for an encyclopedia, it's a blog with a particular political leaning, discussion site, and editorial repository. This article is in need of massive cleanup, by people publishing with real accounts, not hiding behind IP addresses. Sigil7 (talk) 01:22, 12 May 2008 (UTC)