Talk:Chris Buttars

message: I took the time to add some more content and removed the unenclyopedic tag. This article still needs work but is more encyclopedic and the tag no longer serves a purpose. Edward Lalone 00:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed Unencyclopedic tag

message: All links to the Salt Lake Tribune need to be updated or deleted as they are dead links. Thanks. Edward Lalone 00:08, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Salt Lake Tribune Links

message: The statement about Buttars being accused of racism needs to be sourced. I do not doubt he was accused of racism by people but this information needs to be sourced to be consistent with Wikipedia's Verifiability and No original research policies. Who accused him, and where is it published? Thanks. Edward Lalone 00:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Racism

message: Please do not delete the contents of the talk page... Also, the article itself has recently been edited in a decidedly non-neutral-POV way.
(edited to add my signature. Whoops!) Porlob (talk) 20:31, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion of Talk page and biased article edits

message: Due to recent negative publicity, this article is getting quite a lot of sudden attention, and recent additions have violated NPOV and BLP rules. Additionally, I have to take issue with the constant adding of the fact that Buttars was once named "Worst Person in the World" on an episode of Keith Olbermann's Countdown. This is not a terribly notable distinction; there is a different one every night, 5 nights a week (okay, half the time it's Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh, but still, that's hundreds or thousands of people given this title, usually not mentioned in the recipient's article). It is also misleading. Anyone unfamiliar with the show would likely think this is significant superlative, not a humorous hyperbole. This isn't Rolling Stone magazine calling Hendrix the best guitarist of all time, it is a gimmick that is different every episode, and Olbermann makes it pretty clear the title isn't serious; even Limbaugh on his worst day is no Hitler, Stalin, or bin Laden. It really doesn't warrant inclusion; certainly not without context. -R. fiend (talk) 07:36, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Worst Person" and other issues

message: The HRC just released an audio file of an interview with Chris Buttars by Reed Cowen where he calls gays the "meanest buggers" he's ever seen, among other things.  should this be included in the article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.49.207.38 (talk) 03:01, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not? There was also a protest that I heard about that the Gay and Lesbian people were doing, kind of tongue in cheek called Buttars-Palooza... could add that too...Sanitycult (talk) 03:38, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversy, comments about gays

message: In the section about Buttars  and his Creationism legislation, there is an inference that creationism is an alternative theory. The title of Theory when examined in the phrase "theory of evolution: is a distinct scientific description, a description that evolution as reached with a broad consensus of science. Since Creationism can not be tested, observed, or disproved, it doesn't even qualify as a hypothesis, and certainly shouldn't be inferred as an alternate theory. One could just as well say the world was invented by turtles, because it can't be proved otherwise. As theory of turtle invention does not qualify as a theory in scientific discourse, it is improper to refer to it as an alternative theory in conjunction with a theory that does qualify. It isn't simply semantics, because the term "theory" has a distinct meaning in the empirical sciences that is constantly garbled when referenced to this particular issue. 
JasBrunner (talk) 14:29, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Creationism

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