This article is being rewritten at Jack AbramoffAbramoffRefactor Please take note of the existing notes and outline and follow in the spirit of that rewriterefactor Comments welcome Thanks    Archives   Archive  Friday th August   TalkJack AbramoffArchive  I made some substantial edits to the page and archived the entire earlier talk since it was mostly to do items since dealt with   COPYVIO This article and its sister screed are embarrassments to wikipedia  Theyre essentially the same and both reflect the authors politocal hatred and zeal  Both also have severe irredemable copyright problems and are and embarrasment to wikipedia  They need to be deleted immediately     Alot of this article DOES seem to be a blatent copyvio  Tyco as below was edited the text was accurate but half the news story was pasted in here  You cannot just wholesale paste in paragraphs of text from a news story attribute a link and it not be a copywrite violation  Its called Plagerism      Tyco  Almost the whole tyco section is a blatent rip from the WAPO article  Ive removed  part of it as it needs to be rewritten   I think Ive cleaned much of the CopyVio stuff up hopefully  There is alot of nonessential stuff in this article about peripheral people and not about Abramoff however  It needs to be cleaned up more as the article meanders alot here and there    I reverted some things you took out outside the Tyco section like in the Early years section and in the intro about DeLay That material is not copyright infringement because it is properly sourced when directly quoted    It still needs to be rewritten to not be a direct copy paste unless you are going to quote it  Just providing a link is not attribution and copying entire paragraphs out of an article is plagiarism not fair use unless you are quoting Also if you are going to say the los angeles times reports you need to source the times not a  secondary source ie democracy now  I modified the quote and attributed properly     The speech from Tom DeLay is a direct quote its in quotations so of course it is taken wordforword from the source Ill tweak the setup to the quote a little better as per your request Heres the primary source for the other thing     No problem  If I see something that is probable CopyVio I tend to chop it out first and then rework it I dont usually just leave it out if the quote is accurate  Btw have you found a link for the franken quote I cant find anything other than on blogs  Honestly Im not sure what the relevence to an article on Abramoff is really anyway   The forced abortions part was originally reported by Brian Ross at ABC News for  on March   It also appears in Al Frankens book The Truth with jokes in the Tom DeLay Saipan Sex Tour and Jack Abramoff Casino Getaway chapter Since weve agreed that primary sources are key ive change the attribution in the article     The Indian tribes scandal    This area is a mess I have tried to clean it up a bit and structure it better It may be best to create a new page on the tribes scam and point the Reed Norquist etc pages to it  Basically we need fewer facts and more context At the moment the page is simply a list of transactions that may or may not have been legit with a strong implication that they were not legit   I moved the whole scandal to its own page This makes much more sense since although Abramoff is a major player in that scandal there are several others who are significant players in particular Ralph Reed I am not doing this to hide the scandal I think that people looking for info on i