Talk:Matthew Hill

message: I'm about to restore the links to the two critical blogs, removed by  (I left a note on that address's talk page).  It's legitimate to include a pointer to criticism in a bio article; if there's a supporter site (besides the campaign site), that should be added, instead of deleting the critic link.
The article still needs cleanup, in particular if the radio station stuff is relevant then it should be explained in the article.  Can you folks take care of it?  I got here sort of by accident and don't want to stay involved for too much longer.  My main wish is that the article stays neutral and verifiable per Wikipedia policy and doesn't take on a partisan slant in either direction.
Btw, I'm sorry if anyone felt jumped on during the early editing of this article.  It was a little bit strange to have these anonymous POV edits show up as soon as the article was created, and the response was probably a little too unfriendly.  Phr 17:57, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  restored critical blog links 

message: Why does this biographical article about Matthew Hill contain a history of several pharmaceutical companies? The section mentions Hoechst AG, Marion Merrill Dow, Nutrinova, King Pharmaceuticals, etc. Controversies about the companies are discussed extensively. However, that information has little to do with Matthew Hill. The section needs to be slimmed down to only include properly sourced information directly related to Matthew Hill. Additionally, the first paragraph asserts that "During both his 2004 and 2006 political campaigns, Rep. Hill has accepted many generous campaign contributions from former King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CEO and current Leitner Pharmaceuticals, LLC CEO John M. Gregory, Gregory family members, and corporate executives employed within both the King and Leitner pharmaceutical companies founded by Gregory." This statement is completely unsourced. WP:BLP states that unsources contentious material about living persons must be "removed immediately and without discussion." Due to the fact that this is a biography of a living person, I have immediately made the following changes to the pharmaceutical section:
*All information not directly related to Matthew Hill has been removed
*The unsourced information about campaign contributions has been removed
That leaves one paragraph left--the paragraph about the location of the companies for which Matthew Hill works. If someone finds a source for the claim about the campaign contributions, feel free to insert it into the section. Until a source is found, however, that information must be left out. Your thoughts on the new, shorter section? --SirEditALot (talk • contribs) 01:03, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pharmaceutical industry section 

message: I checked out the article after it was mentioned on the BLP board.  It seems a little unusual to use the expression "American Indian" now days.  Isn't "Native American" more normal? Steve Dufour 01:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And is being home-schooled so remarkable that it should be the first thing said about him? Steve Dufour 03:39, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: American Indian?

message: I have edit protected this article for one week in response to a complaint of disruption.  This action does not imply an endorsement of its current version: see Wikipedia:The wrong version.  Please direct any pressing concerns that relate to Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy to the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. DurovaCharge! 18:07, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1 week page protection 

message: Why has the King Pharmaceuticals part been removed? Considering it is probably the most notable part of this person. http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9002447  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.183.138.211 (talk) 08:08, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  King Pharmaceuticals 

message: ** The Rep. Matthew Hill article contained limited references to the pharmaceutical industry due to the Tennessee state representatives close financial ties to former King Pharmaceuticals Inc. CEO John M. Gregory, such as:
the majority of Hill's campaign contributions during the early election years in question came directly from John Gregory, Gregory family members, Gregory relatives or indirectly from political action committees that Gregory created (such as the former Tennessee Conservative PAC) or contributed money (such as the former State of Franklin PAC started up by Hill's father);
the Hill father, Kenneth C. Hill manages both a non-profit Appalachian Educational Communications Corporation (d.b.a. WHCB FM et al) and for-profit Information Communications Corporation (d.b.a. WPWT AM et al), and both radio broadcasting entities are physically located within the Leitner Pharmaceuticals Building that is owned by John M. Gregory's SJ Strategic Investments, LLC.;
according to the referenced SEC records, at the time of Gregory's leadership at King Pharmaceuticals, King Pharma created the subsidiary Monarch Pharmaceuticals;
Gregory's Monarch Pharmaceuticals formed a U.S. business partnership with Hoechst Marion Russell, Inc. (HMR; a subsidiary of the giant German pharmaceutical,Hoechst AG), acquiring the U.S. marketing and distribution rights to Altace and other Hoechst/HMR branded pharmaceutical products during late December 1998, and thereby allowing HMR to the circumvent the 1994 U.S. National Right to Life Boycott (over RU-486) against Hoechst AG, HMR, and the HMR branded products such as Altace;
Hoechst AG was able to rebrand its corporate identity and the Hoechst public "persona" during January 1999 by reorganizing and merging with other large pharmaceutical companies and form new corporate identities, and one benefit of such corporate reorganization was to move the Hoechst corporate identity out of the public association with the RU-486 abortion drug;
a corporate jet owned by King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was used to transport several members of the Tennessee General Assembly (albeit, in 1999 and not including Rep. Matthew Hill but relevant to inclusion with the supporting Gregory material) for a Nashville meeting with a then TennCare director prior to the then newly Monarch Pharmaceuticals branded Altace being added to the TennCare Preferred Drug List;
Gregory (et al family members) is notable and widely referenced as a majority contributor to the Tennessee Republican Party and the Republican National Committee and contributor to anti-abortion organizations;
Rep. Hill is notable for his advocation of anti-abortion legislation within the Tennessee General Assembly,and;
all of the aforementioned materials pertaining to the limited Hoechst pharmaceuticals history were pertinent to the Rep. Matthew Hill article and all were referenced from published sources and/or government records.
Bee Cliff River Slob (talk) 14:32, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not opposed to working some of this information back into the article. In fact, it's a good idea as long as (1) we use published sources, like you said, and (2) we don't violate Wikipedia:No_original_research, particularly the part that says no "unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material". What are some of the sources you suggest using? Let me know if you want help. --SirEditALot (talk • contribs) 00:32, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Partisan deletion of Hoechst, Gregory references in Matthew Hill article 

message: What the hell: I didn't think what came out of Tennessee mouths was English to begin with.
What happens when someone from Germany or China comes over to a Tennessee work-place to buy some stuff from Tennessee, and not being able to speak Tennessee... err...  English, they are not allowed to speak and therefore "No Deal"?
Modern English? American English (what dialect)? Olde English? Can I use words that aren't really English but have only been incorporated into the English Language from some other language?  Wait -- That last one leaves out just about all of English anyway!!!
How about Sign Language?!?!?!?   Now that'd hardly be fair, would it!!!!!
Why don't we just get rid of ALL the Legislatures EVERYWHERE! If they can only argue about dumb shit like this...
... well, this is one particularly DUMB Legislator...
Scheisse... Oh, wait -- that wasn't English?
--
Herr Schueffert
P.S. -- So. You'd not be able to speak your own name if it's like mine: German?! Go do something useful, Matthew; you do play golf don't you? That should be an improvement -- and golf's just about the most useless thing in the world.
97.82.164.200 (talk) 06:13, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tenn.'s English Speach Law... 

message: Matthew Hill participated in the April 17, 1999 Bristol protest rally coordinated with International Action Center international protests against the U.S. military intervention during the Kosovo War."Citizens Protest Bombings". April 18, 1999. Kingsport Times News. Bristol Herald-Courier.Bee Cliff River Slob (talk) 12:40, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Matthew Hill protesting the U.S. military during Kosovo War 

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