Talk:Rod Smith (politician)

message: Why have the editors taken off all negative comments from this page that were sourced?  Also, Wikipedia staff left all the positive unsourced statements, and then locked out all editability.  Apparently a Wikipedia staff member has violated the Wikipedia mission in locking this page in as a political advertisement.grakoth 31 May 2006
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I was going to add a section discussing Rod Smith's platform similar to what I did for Jim Davis, Tom Gallagher, and Charlie Crist, but was unable to find enough information on his stances. Does anyone have more information on his plans as Governor?  Quberoot
I merged the polling section with the campaign section and I removed the controversy section as it did not list any citations. Doctor-of-fostat 17:29, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: Does anyone else feel that the endorsement section is superfluous?  Much of the page being taken up by minor supporters seems non-encyclopedic and a bit POV to me.  I'm considering deleting it but wanted to see other people's views first. Againstxmatt 16:06, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ditching it for those reasons and because it's completely unsourced. --Flawiki 19:03, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Endorsements

message: *"Delta Chi: Campus NOW calls on prosecutor to press rape charges", "Iguana Press", May/June 1999, Retrieved March 14, 2006.
*"Video shows seedy side of Greek life, initiation" by Shannon Colavecchio, "The Independent Alligator", Tuesday, May 11, 1999, retrieved Sunday, April 30, 2006
*"'99 fraternity sex case has senator on defensive" by Lesley Clark, "Miami Herald", July 18, 2005
*"Campus rape ignored...even when there's a videotape" by Cindy Hanford, "National NOW Times", Fall 1999
—the preceding comment is by Grakoth - 14:35 31 May 2006: Please sign your posts!
:I didn't remove the bits but they really did need to go as the passages appeared to be a mix of original research, cites to sources not meeting reliable source standards, and where there were reliable sources the cited bits were inaccurately characterized. --Flawiki 15:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I didn't remove anything from the article (I did revert the controversy language in the template that someone excised from this talk page).  Although I didn't remove the stuff from the article I do however believe the bits didn't belong in a WP article. They are not encyclopedic, they suffer from RS and OR problems, and they do contain inaccurate characterizations (ex., the claim that the subject unsuccesfully brought charges against the stripper when the source material states that the UPD brought charges, the claim that the subject protected a gang of rapists, etc (that one is probably an OR problem)). As a result, the removed bits I think violate the anti-attack policy.  It seems to me a less breatheless presentation would work better. --Flawiki 19:10, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References

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