Talk:Stephen McNallen
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This is a list of claims made in the article for which we should have citations, or at least external links that establish the claims, in order to eventually bring this biographical article to 'featured' status.
1.) "Born in Breckenridge, Texas," - The names of his parents, and perhaps a few more details for his childhood would make the introductory paragraph more friendly.
2.) "After receiving a degree in political science and his officer commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army, McNallen went on to become an Airborne Ranger." - Substantiating these facts would be good in order to establish this turning point in his life, as his military career quite obviously has continued to affect him over the course of many decades.
3.) "worked as a journalist" - At what time in his life? For which news reporting agency?
4.) "McNallen has a background in law enforcement," - At what time in his life? Which police department?
5.) "has held a "Secret" level security clearance as recently as 1993 for classified work in military counter-drug operations." - This has been mentioned in numerous places, but nothing else is provided to flesh out the details. Does anyone know why exactly he was granted a higher-level security clearance in the first place? Did he, for example, perform exceptionally well in his capacity as an Army officer in certain tasks?
6.) "McNallen has also worked as a school teacher and a corrections officer" - Same thing as with the journalist occupation: where? for whom? We need a few details.
7.) "After some years of inactivity and restructuring, McNallen currently leads the Asatru Folk Assembly or AFA." This statement glosses over quite a few relevant details. 'Restructuring' in this context is almost a euphemism- it is common knowledge amongst many American Heathens that McNallen had to fight with tooth and claw in order to get that group reorganised, and even with those efforts some people still broke away (which is usual amongst modern heathens, yes, I know). This quoted sentence could use some substantial expansion.
8.) "Asatru Folk Assembly v. United States" - The full text of this case at Wikisource would be invaluable. I may have a copy around here somewhere, but if someone gets to it sooner than I, please place it at WS and link it.
Other than a few bits needing expansion, and a number of citations needed, this is looking like a good start for the article. Kudos to Bloodofox and WeniWidiWiki for getting the ball rolling.
→ P.MacUidhir (t) (c) 17:42, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dead link
Here it is. * Tribes upset by ritual for Kennewick Man I'm storing it here because something regarding the court case, actual complaints and so on would be wonderful. As of now the article isn't clear on the case or what claims Asatru made, etc. #8 above would be perfect for this. Penguinwithin (talk) 02:30, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
