Talk:Ben Konop

message: Lucas County Roots:
*Grandparents immigrated to Toledo from Poland and Russia in the 1920’s.
*Son of Alan and Barbara Konop.  Father has been a Toledo attorney for 40 years. Mother has been a teacher, social worker, and non-profit board member in Toledo.
::Moved why? Isn't this relevant? 
Career Experience:
*Worked for Congresswoman Kaptur, Federal District Court Judge Carr, and Lucas County Common Pleas Court Judge McDonald.
*Practiced law for three years in Washington, D.C. at Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP.
*2004 Democratic Party Nominee for the United States Congress (4th District of Ohio).
*Presently serving as a professor at The University of Toledo College of Law.
::Moved why? Unsourced? Gordonofcartoon (talk) 15:12, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: moved from article to talk page:

message: Konop's brief tenure as a politician has been shrouded in controversy.
-Konop has been labeled by some a carpet bagger since he ran for commissioner in Lucas County in 20006, despite running for Congress two years earlier in an entirely different district."Blog referring to Konop as carpetbagger," . Ironically, Konop had questioned Congressman Mike Oxley's residence in his 2004 campaign."Konop attacks Oxley on issue of residency," Toledo Blade .
-In one of his earliest votes as commissioner, Konop voted in favor of a tax increase on Lucas County hotels and motels."Hotel-motel tax going up to 10% to fund arena," Toledo Blade .
-In December, 2007, Commissioner Konop was caught driving without auto insurance when he caused a traffic accident. He was forced to settle out-of-pocket. "Konop thought he paid for his auto insurance, but discovered his policy had lapsed," Toledo Blade, January 18, 2007, .
-In April, 2008, Konop skipped the Lucas County State of the County event and instead opted to hold his own event."Konop skips board event to hold one of his own," Toledo Blade, April 9, 2008, .
*Referred here from WP:COIN. This whole section sounds like a political ad. The tags as placed do reflect some of the problems with the section. I'll add a few other observations: First sentence is very POV pushing. How do you quantify "shrouded"? The carpetbagger paragraph as it stands came mostly from a blog, hence more unverified POV. The last sentence by itself there is rather irrelevant and out of context if the rest of the paragraph is removed. Finally, the 3 example bullet items are cherry-picked negative items which, although sourced, are too unrelated and arbitrary in my mind, and I consider to fall under WP:UNDUE. Are these 3 items representative of a pattern? Are they the only 3 controversial things he's ever done? (Don't answer that... they are just to illustrate the arbitrary nature of a selected bullet-point list like these). They might play well on a radio ad, but not here. (2 more weeks.... 2 more weeks....). ArakunemTalk 14:12, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since when "blogs" automatically imply unverified POV?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.83.70.253 (talk) 02:49, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved to Talk for analysis

message: I have removed all information that was sourced by blogs or video-hosting sites. Wikipedia does not allow original research or blogs as sources (see WP:RS). Information can be added to the article if it is published in what Wikipedia considers a reliable source. Let me know if you have any further questions here or on my talk page. hmwitht 15:27, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: the information i posted came from the toledo blade, is that not considered a reliable source?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.240.39.190 (talk) 15:35, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the Toledo Blade is a reliable source. What in particular would you like to add to the article from the current point? hmwitht 16:24, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Reliable sources and original research

message: There have been repeated attempts to include information relating to the well documented and sourced heckling incident involving Mr. Konop. This incident is likely to be the most relevant information to the vast majority of people accessing Mr. Konop's wikipedia page. Yet, the info continues to be removed, while non-NPOV, non-sourced, opinions, etc are being restored to the page without any clear explanation. Clearly there is a problem with biased editing of this page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.73.20.159 (talk) 17:31, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough but it needs a reliable source. It's not in the one you provided. Brycehughes (talk) 05:20, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

text: Oh, I found the source it looks like you meant to use. However, what you added was a direct copy-paste. Feel free to add it back in in your own words. Brycehughes (talk) 05:29, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heckling Incident 

message: Substituted at 09:25, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment