Talk:Bill Janklow

message: I reverted to my encyclopedia type article and removed the combination civil suit, tort claims act and political statement mishmash.  None of it was compentent for a criminal law article.  If you want to make a political statement about Janklow, then make a separate article or separate heading.  If you want to discuss the civil action or tort claims case, this is appropriate under its own heading.  I would think that political statements and attacks do not show a NPOV, and I would challenge them on that basis.  This is supposed to be a neutral article.
Bill23rdpower 19:01, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Janklow Manslughter Conviction and Civil Suit--NPOV discussion. 

message: I have been off site for a few weeks and lo and behold the Janklow haters stuck all their original tripe back in the article.  I reverted the article to its factual encyclopedia form.
Bill23rdpower 15:24, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  tripe 

message: I put up the NPOV warning. This page reads like campaign literature. Where is the serious treatment of Janklow's record? I started editing out some of the more effusive passages, but man ... 
I've clipped a few beauties here:
* While most public officeholders in America fly over natural disasters from 20,000 feet... 
** Uncited and immaterial. This is happy-talk garbage.
* He developed scores of programs that put prison inmates to work, learning good habits and preparing them for lives outside the prison walls.
** Scores of programs? How many? What are they? Effectiveness?
** Learning good habits? Can we find one reputable source that talks about all of these "good habits" inmates learned?
* He talked the Legislature into investing $6.6 million in the program.
** C'mon. He "talked the legislature into" a $6.6 million appropriation?
* He encouraged the 1998 Legislature to pass two bills that help prevent fetal alcohol damage to children, and also help mothers straighten out their lives.
** What are these bills?
** This may have been the intended effect of the bill, but what were the real effects?
** How can a bill help a mother "straighten out [her] life" exactly?
* He helped make South Dakota a recognized national leader in the employment of citizens with disabilities.
** What does this mean? Did he sign something into law?
In short, the mailer material has to go. This is an encyclopedia for crying out loud.
A fairly disgusted JakeZ (talk) 08:50, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It does not belong in the article unless each item is cited by an independent source and worded nuetrally. Jonathunder (talk) 22:42, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV problems 

message: This edit removed a substantial amount of material. There seem to be two issue:
*The content is taken directly from its source
*The content is being added by someone closely associated with the subject of the article
I suggest that the material be proposed and discussed here. Quite a bit of it looks constructive to me, but we have to make sure it's not taken directly from a source and that it's appropriate to include. Candleabracadabra (talk) 02:18, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content removal 

message: In the section entitled "Libel Suit," there is the following statement: "Matthiessen included a statement by Banks about the rape accusation and drunk driving incident."
This is the first mention of drunk driving in the article.  The incident should either be described above, or the mention should be removed from this section.
108.250.49.213 (talk) 15:26, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: A reference that mentions drunk driving was used elsewhere in the article.  I added it to the section you mentioned. EvergreenFir (talk) 22:22, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing reference to drunk driving