Talk:William Donald Schaefer

message: I see a lot of quotes here which have no reference.  For a guy whose been on the record for a lot of stupid things he said, I am tempted to remove some of the things that may be elaborations. Please cite them, or I'll remove them shortly.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dschroder (talk • contribs) 09:33, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Uncited quotes"

message: Note that this article was called out in Conservapedia's Examples of Bias in Wikipedia article:
:21. Wikipedia's article on the longest-serving and most powerful Maryland official in its history, William Donald Schaefer, contains about 1900 words, but over two-thirds of those words (1400/1900) are devoted to silly gossip, outright vulgarity and National Enquirer-type material.[18] 406 words, which is over 20% of the entire entry, is devoted to a silly dispute Schaefer had one day with the local newspaper!
I've addressed one concern by junking the long section on a newspaper interview, which added nothing of biographical value and was already pointed to by an External links reference.   Wasted Time R 20:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Conservapedia target

message: I'd like to add a section on Schaefer's Cabinet members. Does anyone have any suggestions on how that should be done? Do any other pages on Governors use a convention for that information? Eli.pousson (talk) 21:11, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a section on Cabinet members? 

message: Too much original research, uncited allegations, and just plain redundant redundancies. Lots42 (talk) 11:52, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree: Uncited allegations and redundant redunancies - and worse.98.67.108.2 (talk) 03:05, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too much 

message: During his tenure as mayor, he was famous (rightly or wrongly, I don't know) for having public housing occupants actually own their apartments. That (at least reportedly) led to much better maintenance and a lack of the social breakdown evident in the public housing of other major US cities. I don't know how big a deal this was in Baltimore, but among national political circles, it was Schaefer's signature accomplishment. I expected to see some coverage of the policy on his page. Dvd Avins (talk) 17:12, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baltimore public housing 

message: Much of this article reads like an obituary in a tabloid or a church bulletin...
Yes, like statements about who "offered reflections" at Schafer's funeral an so forth - unnecessary statements that do not say anything real. Good opinions, bad opinions, with facts to back them up say something, but "offered reflections" says nothing at all: good reflections, indifferent reflections, bad reflections, questionable reflections, with the facts, would at least SAY SOMETHING.98.67.108.2 (talk) 02:58, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Much of this article reads like an obituary in a tabloid.... 

message: Reference #7 is a dead link.
It is:
http://www.bayweekly.com/year06/issuexiv14/leadxiv14_1.html
I found a copy of the original here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091017002741/http://www.bayweekly.com/year06/issuexiv14/leadxiv14_1.html
Are archive.org copies of dead originals allowed if they can't be found anywhere else?
101.161.54.250 (talk) 11:20, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Archive URL's, especially those from archive.org, are welcome.  You may simply use the archiveurl and archivedate parameters in some citation templates. —ADavidB 14:19, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead Link 

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