Talk:National Youth Rights Association

message: The slogan needs to be updated. It is now "Live Free, Start Young."Aimjeff2 (talk) 05:16, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone can edit the page, go ahead and change that. KPalicz (talk) 18:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Slogan

message: This criticism isn't even real. He *never* said that about NYRA; that quote referred to another organization entirely. Someone screwed up.
Here is the "out of work socialists" passage: I told her that was a slur on poor people. And anyway, Osama bin Laden is a rich twit.
Rhona said that we are so wealthy and materialistic and they are so deprived. "Here I am," she said, "just an ordinary suburban housewife in a semi-detached, and I'm surrounded by all these things I don't need." Privately I was thinking that my moron cousins from Ulster could fix that with breaking and entering. I said, "You're arguing completely beside the point." She was employing a fallacy of relevance, specifically argumentum ad misericordiam. (Although I had to look that up later; what I said on the radio was "So what?")
Rhona accused me of that most grievous of modern sins, especially when committed against a woman by a middle-aged man. "Don't patronize me," she said.
Calls and e-mails were nine to one in Rhona's favor, but one stalwart sent this message: "I suspect why ninety percent of callers are not in favor of PJ's opinions is because they are out of work socialists who have nothing better to do but phone radio stations."
That has nothing to do with NYRA. I am removing the criticism section; its only quote is incorrectly attributed. 76.5.129.179 (talk) 01:36, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That criticism is lame. It should not be included. It is an ad-hominem attack, it attacks the person/people making the argument and does not attack the argument itself. Furthermore, who is to say this guy's opinion is enough to include his comments in wikipedia? Lastly, you hear people on the right calling people advocating things on the left 'jobless hippies' about as often as you hear people on the left calling people advocating things on the right 'fundamentalist rednecks'. Both are childish name calling and ad-hominem.  --Jon in California 5 September 2007
It really should be removed until their are more instances of criticism.
~IkonicDeath  —Preceding comment was added at 07:20, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

text: IkonicDeath, I do not see the logic inherent in your proposal. The simple fact of the matter is that it is criticism from a notable person in a reliable source. • Freechild'sup? 14:17, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia is a volunteer-driven effort, and as such it is inherently "unprofessional". While I agree with this most recent point, it is up to you or other editors to find additional criticism - not to remove legitimately cited material. • Freechild'sup? 21:41, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism

message: Why is ListGate being considered "non-encyclopaedic content"?  —MaxHarmony (talk • contribs) 19:06, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Seriously? Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It is not biased, unverifiable or original research; it is civil, with no personal attacks. The edit in question, located here, is all of those things and more. • Freechild'sup? 00:45, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the coverage there violated policies. Certainly by now it is reasonable to add coverage again? MaxHarmony (talk) 17:52, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ListGate 

message: I would like to suggest that members of this organization refrain from editing the article without providing reliable sources for their contributions. I have completed a copy edit of the article and have placed numerous citation missing tags; they shouldn't be removed until reliable sources are identified, or until the text next to them is removed. Additionally, the "Recent activity" section reads like a board report; this is not encyclopedic. For more information about appropriate content please see this article. • Freechild'sup? 02:26, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent copyedit 

message: the person listed under advisors as dr elizabeth m whelan blah blah of the 'american council on science' is likely to be at least partially misrepresented. 
if the nyra list (http://www.youthrights.org/boa.php reference 3) is to be believed then the elizabeth in question in this context is supposed to be the doctor of the 'american council on science'.  however two key details are incongruent, a dr elizabeth m whelan is famous for founding the organisation 'american council on science and health' (note the additional "and health" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Council_on_Science_and_Health), the difference is potentially chinese whispers.  additionally the wiki entry for the acsh mentions the middle initial 's' (in the third paragraph of the second section) despite it being listed as 'm' on the acsh site itself. 
a wikipedia page on elizabeth whelan was removed in 2005 for being "nonsense", and the possibility of there being two elizabeth whelans may be the cause.  otherwise this just needs cleaning up.
i havn't signed in cos i can't remember my password at the moment, sorry.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.108.238.155 (talk) 14:26, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  elizabeth whelan 

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