Talk:Discretion

message: What does discretion mean in all those online personal ads on usenet and craigslist?
for example: 
Family Guy Guy 17:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: My Family Guy  made my Hero List
http://www.youtube.com/user/ubuibiok DAV USAF, Man= -/+? Ubuibiok (talk) 10:21, 1 FEB 2009 (UTC)
Too Get on "My Hero List", You have to Impress me Beyond Belief and Have & Hold 99.9% of the Pieces to "The Big Picture".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ubuibiok (talk • contribs) 10:28, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: BRAVO

message: I have recently taken up trying to improve this article. In doing this I have noticed a major issue, the lack of citations. Does anyone have any suggestions as to usable articles or books I could use? any help would be appreciated. TheTurf (talk) 21:49, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: A brief outline of what I intend to do with this topic  TheTurf (talk) 16:31, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Planned improvements 

message: The Opening paragraph, what needs to be written here to adequately summarize the article
Civil, we are having trouble finding sources for this section
Other contexts, should we add, remove or change?   — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheTurf (talk • contribs) 18:07, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerns for improvement 

message: The opening section needs some work. It makes sense to state that there are positive and negative views of discretion, but discretion is a much wider topic than just law enforcement. The couple of sentences about law enforcement would make more sense somewhere in the "In Law" section. The last two sentences of the introduction to the "In Law" section might violate Wikipedia policies about neutral point of view and no original research. The way it's written sounds like the author is taking a side in the argument about whether discretion weakens the rule of law. This part would be more balanced with discussion of both sides without coming to a conclusion unless there is a clear consensus in the research about the relationship between the rule of law and discretion. If the latter is the case, then there should be multiple sources cited to show such a consensus. The "Criminal" section has some writing and grammar errors that need to be fixed, including the lack of a period at the end of the paragraph. Also in that section, police officers don't file charges. That's the prosecutor's job. The section would be more organized by starting with the victim, then talking about police officers, and then court actors. The page might also be better organized by making the "Abuse of Discretion" section a primary section with subsections dealing with different aspects such as abuse in law enforcement, the courts, etc.
As for the specific questions concerns for improvement, I'd suggest that the opening paragraph give more attention to the various aspects of discretion covered in the article. For instance, discretion is an element of law and other areas, and there has also been some debate about abuse of discretion (what constitutes abuse and is the use of discretion an abuse of power in itself). For now, it makes sense to focus on developing the criminal law parts rather than civil law section. It makes sense to leave the "Other Contexts" section as-is for now. As the article is expanded, others might be able to fill in that section. Profmwilliams (talk) 18:06, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions for revisions and expansions 

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