Talk:Murray Rothbard

message: It's been almost ten years since this article's last Good Article reassessment. Ironically Rothbard has been in the news more since then. I would argue that he's probably more important as an influence on the alt-right than anything else. This article soft-pedals that. Prezbo (talk) 13:18, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Prezbo, you added the NPOV template to the article in October. Do you believe that the article still violates NPOV? Should it receive a specific template such as "third party"? Llll5032 (talk) 18:45, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I don’t know, I’m trying to avoid Wikipedia so I’ll leave it up to you. Prezbo (talk) 20:21, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

text: @User:William M Connoly: this sentence certainly shouldn't be controversial: "Later in his career Rothbard advocated a libertarian alliance with Paleoconservatism and praised David Duke." The second sentence I added, more open to judgment.
Since there was some back-and-forth editing about the sources you added: The two journal articles definitely seem relevant and are the type of sources we should be preferring over blog posts and the like. I've formatted those into proper citations. I also formatted the citation for the Washington Post opinion piece, but overall it seems redundant, and generally that type of source is not preferred for questions of fact. The blog post is also not a great source, even if the author is a historian. Self-published sources are generally not to be used, and while there is an exception for material from "an established subject-matter expert", it seems completely unnecessary to attempt to invoke that for a piece that offers only marginal support of the claims it is being cited for. The Daily Beast piece literally mentions Rothbard once, in a quote from someone else, so I don't know why it was cited at all. --RL0919 (talk) 22:12, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: I WP:BOLDly merged the "Political activism" section at the end of the article into the "Life and work" section, following the structure of most other WP articles about politically active figures, because using a single chronology offers a clearer, more balanced view of the subject's life. Both sections were in mostly chronological order, so the merge was not especially complicated. I removed a few redundancies and edited some sub-headings, but removed no sources. If there is consensus that this merge improved the article, then I would invite other editors to make more improvements to the section. Llll5032 (talk) 02:04, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging "Political activism" section into "Life and work" section 

message: I reverted a series of edits that had removed secondary reliable sources and had added some WP:OR and primary-sourced WP:LONGQUOTEs. The Neutral Point of View policy (specifically WP:BESTSOURCES) and the No Original Research policy (specifically WP:PSTS) say that the encyclopedia follows the emphasis of the best available independent secondary sources instead of Wikipedia editors choosing from primary sources or statements of the subjects themselves. Llll5032 (talk) 16:00, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  December 2023