Talk:Leonel Fernández

message: This article reads like it was written by the criminal Fernandez himself. How about some NPOV? 66.108.210.88 02:52, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV?

message: For the May 16th 2008 general presidential elections. Early ballot reports of 25% of the voting reports that Fernandez wins with a 54% over the 41% of the 2nd place candidate Miguel Vargas Maldonado.
This means:
*A Second straight term 2004-2012
*Three terms overall. 1996-2000, 2004-2012
EdwinCasadoBaez (talk) 04:33, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fernandez did it again

message: The following paragraph is unsourced and editorial in tone:
"Many argue that his tight focus on technological development is often at the expense of basic needs such as food, health, and education and judicial reforms. Perhaps Fernández's biggest issue during both terms in office is his inability to resolve the country's chronic energy problems, as well as his unwillingness to contend with governmental clientelism and corruption. His position as legal counsel for the failed Banco Intercontinental during its spectacular collapse suggests his possible participation in the bank's alleged government influence peddling."
In particular the suggestion of corruption is not acceptable in a biography.
I will raise this issue as well as WP:BLPN.  I prefer not to make any edits myself due to a possible conflict of interest, and so merely raise the issue for the community to resolve.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 13:54, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The language is unacceptable. The cited source just above it (), however, does allude to some of the issues raised in the paragraph, including corruption, but if we wanted to cite to that piece again, we'd still have to substantially reword it. One problem with the source is, although it's reliable, it's more an opinion piece than anything else, so we'd have to tread carefully given the BLP issues. For the moment, I'm going to remove the paragraph. If someone wants to discuss rewriting it, they can raise that here.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:17, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I added some External links both for themselves and to provide some additional sources of reference. I believe the Foundation link is worth keeping, even though it's in Spanish. Google translate is in general use, and most articles I've seen in which the topic is about someone in a non-English language county include major sources even if they're only in the local language. I believe there's a template used to denote the language, but I can't remember what it is. Something with "icon" I think. Searching for "language icon" worked and I added them. 99.50.191.169 (talk) 19:42, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You found one of the templates (thanks) - there are others. I don't know about the Google translate part, but I decided to leave it in because WP:NONENGEL sort of permits it, although it's strangely worded.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:50, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  BLP issues 

message: Mr. Fernandez is not on any of Harvard's published lists of honorary degree recipients. There is no public record of him ever receiving this degree. Shouldn't there be some burden of proof for claims of honors and degrees awarded other than the recipient's say so?
:Yes, there should be sources for all of the awards, etc. I've removed the entire section as only ONE entry was sourced, and it was unreliably sourced (a blog and an organization Fernandez himself belongs to).--Bbb23 (talk) 18:55, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  No honorary degree from Harvard 

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