symms civil rights I m pinging you as I don t know whether this is on your watchlist on not original research is material for which no reliable published sources exist are you suggesting that the New York Times is not a reliable source It s the paper of record man How is that not reliable The Associated Press is a reliable source as well Also it isn t our opinion it s the opinion of liberal opponents as I noted in my edit I ll remove the terrible part and just put criticized by liberal opponents for his civil rights record if you believe that will make it NPOV Also it isn t synthesis if I m stating material not published by one of the sources Symms himself even gave a reason for voting against a civil rights bill because in his words It s just another layer of the federal government that we don t need and that free market should determine how many housing units there are for disabled I didn t state anything not explicitly stated by the source I stated criticized by liberal opponents Indeed in one of his liberal opponents Marilyn Shuler of the Idaho Human Rights Commission stated that I m saddened that once again Sen Symms has chosen not to support civil rights legislation I believe my edits were entirely sound I d like to hear an argument for why they weren t but I d need to hear it quickly