Talk:Günther Oettinger

message: I would be interested to know the reason for this entire section being removed (see difference: ). Oettinger is a politician and both good and bad information tends to be included on such leading figures. This information is referenced, relevant and of an encyclopaedic nature - see similar articles on state leaders such as this: . BuzzWoof (talk) 11:41, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the removal was explained. The section is totally inappropriate and excessive, as pointed out. It takes up about one third of the entire article, which makes the entire article into an Wikipedia:Attack page and grossly violates NPOV, possibly also the BLP policy. This is a top politician, a Prime Minister for several years of one of Germany's largest states and designated European Commissioner. His eulogy at the funeral of one of his predecessors is a trivial issue that hardly belong in this article at all (at the very best, one carefully worded sentence would be appropriate). The section was excessive and the content was not of encyclopedic nature. Whether it was referenced or not is irrelevant, it was still POV, attack page, WP:UNDUE and not encyclopedic. Urban XII (talk) 21:10, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

text: "In 2007, a eulogyFull text of Oettinger's eulogy for Hans Filbinger (in German) (Microsoft Word document, 232 KB). Frankfurter Rundschau, 12 April 2007. held by Oettinger on one of his predecessors as Prime Minister, Hans Filbinger, caused some controversy in the German press and divided opinionhttp://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,477272,00.html" would be an approproate length and wording. I don't think it's necessary to discuss Filbinger's career in detail in this article. It would not be appropriate to have a separate section title for this (particularly not in an article with only a few other section titles). There are many articles in the German Wikipedia that don't comply with English Wikipedia policies like NPOV, UNDUE, and specifically BLP, and would never be accepted in such a form here. The fact that negative material on conservative politicians tend to be given undue weight at the German Wikipedia doesn't mean the English Wikipedia has to do the same mistake. It's not accepted by everyone, particularly not by CDU Baden-Württemberg, that the eulogy was somehow a bad thing.. Urban XII (talk) 12:09, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
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