Talk:Dixie Mafia

message: The original edit by Blueboar removing these links from the "See Also" section were done in good faith as there is no apparent connection between these articles and this one.  Nowhere in this article is anything about Iran Contra or Jack Abramoff mentioned, and nowhere in those two articles does anything remotely mention Dixie Mafia.  The connection is neither implied by the text nor is it explicitly mentioned anywhere - how anyone could possibly interperet this as vandalism is beyond me.  Unless it can be shown there is some logical reason to link these articles, stop reverting good faith edits.  See WP:3RR. Arkyan • (talk) 20:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The connection between Dixie Mafia and Iran Contra is detailed in the source cited with "Contra" in the title. Jack Abramoff is yet another felon, linked to gambling in the South, involved corruptly with public figures or officials there to aid gambling; because that is a new ongoing case, one can only read of other instances linking gambling, official corruption, and the Dixie Mafia in sources cited. MBHiii 20:45, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The first connection is fairly tenuous - the author of the source in question first links the Iran-Contra business to a Mr. Seal, and then Seal to the "Dixie Mafia".  That seems a little weak a connection to me but if you insist on readding that to the "See Also" I won't object further.  The idea that Abramoff is a convicted felon involved in the same types of business as the "Dixie Mafia" is even less a tenuous connection - essentially a "guilty by association" connection.  It would be inappropriate to keep that link there without something more substantial. Arkyan • (talk) 20:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As a point of logic, "less a tenuous connection" is a stronger one. If it showed he's a member of the Dixie Mafia, what you seem to require, it'd be in the article. (The case is a good example, though, of an Unholy Alliance...) It's only a link to show that official corruption by gambling interests in the South is an ongoing problem, like the official corrupting effects of organized crime making and transporting marijuana and meth. MBHiii 21:43, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It should have been more tenuous, that was a typo.  In any case demonstrating the corruption of officials (by gambling interests or otherwise) is a more general issue and not not directly related to this one, so putting links or information to that effect here is inappropriate  Items in the "see also" sections should have a more direct correlation to the topic at hand. Arkyan • (talk) 21:51, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

text: My edit was indeed in good faith.  I saw no mention of Iran Contra or the Abramoff Scandal in the article, nor any mention of the Dixie Mafia on the articles about those subjects, and assumed it was a hold over from the deleted material on Southern Mafia.  Personally, I tend to agree with Arkyan that to qualify for a "See Also", there should be at least a mention of the connection in either the article or in the article being pointed to.  However, I don't see it as being important enough to get into revert wars about.  Blueboar 22:20, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree strongly with Arkyan and Blueboar concerning the "See Also" section. *Most* of the references in this section aren't mentioned AT ALL in the text, especially the KKK, ANY of the specific drugs smuggled (cocaine, pot, meth), Mena, Ark., or Jack Abramoff. However, I don't have any desire to further what apppears to be bordering on an editing war, so I changed nothing here. --Grndrush (talk) 17:34, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iran Contra and Jack Abramoff links 

message: Oklahoma played a large part of the Dixie Mafia too. We had Gene Stipe and Kirksey Nix. The Nix family was orignially from Oklahoma. See http://www.bancockfighting.org/articles/nov/nov1002b.htm
00:26, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oklahoma 

message: I have cleaned up sentence structure and some organization, but I see the name "Gillich" mentioned as the unofficial leader of the Dixie Mafia but there was no prior mention of him.
Who is Gillich?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Byron Bell (talk • contribs) 02:56, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mention of "Gillich" 

message: I cleaned up the entire page, from a *grammar* standpoint, only. While I'm quite sure my grandfather was actually a member of this organization, it obviously wasn't a topic of family discussion, and I know little about the group. Further work clearly needs to be done; knowing my grandfather, combined with the "See Also" ref to the KKK, this group's involvement with the KKK should clearly be expanded upon by someone with the requisite knowledge. Ditto with Mena, Ark., the "Whiskey Rebellion, Iran-Contra, and Abramoff. Simply listing them as "See Also" isn't adequate, by any means, IMNSHO. I also removed all {ref}'s to "SwearingenLee", as I found no articles on "Swearingen Lee", "Lee Swearingen", or "Swearingen-Lee". I no no other permutations to look for.
I put the page on my watch list; *if no one objects* in a month or two, I will remove the "copyedit" request. --Grndrush (talk) 17:34, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy Editing 

message: The article says the Dixie Mafia is still active ("Late 1960's - Present"), but refers to the group in past-tense. Why is this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.70.72.96 (talk) 14:11, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A bit of a question. 

message: Apparently someone severely damaged the article by mentioning a myriad of inexistent Sicilian-American mafia families, even going as far as claiming that the Dixie Mafia is Italian (while it's White Southerner). I have deleted these from the infobox.
As far as the 'membership'-topic goes. In previous articles it was claimed that there are +/- 100 Dixie mafia members. The fact is that it's unknown how many members there are (most likely to be much higher than 100, as they operate throughout the South).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Begbiepwns (talk • contribs) 08:55, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Damage done to the article

message: The "Dixie Mafia" is a concept in Southern Folklore.  There is no such organization; unlike the "State Line Gang.".  This article is a lot of cut and paste from the book Mississippi Mud.  Every time I correct this piece, someone takes it down.  There was a book published in the early 1970's called "The Dixie Mafia."
I realize that the Sherry family is rightly distressed by the murders in Biloxi.  But even Ms. Sherry's book; Mississippi Mud; does not take this kind of license. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:301:77f3:eb50:15aa:92df:2ac:a818 (talk • contribs) 18:31, August 22, 2014‎ 
Moved to talk by Meters  (talk) 18:35, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
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