Talk:Mel Watt

message: The article implies strong correlation between Fannie and Freddy oversight and financial crisis of 2008-etc. This may be speculative; biased.
Mydogtrouble (talk) 20:01, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fannie, Freddie implications 

message: Addition for the controversies section; attempted to be as neutral as possible, includes citation.
===Support of SOPA===
On 2011-12-15, Watt voted 'yea' in favor of the Stop Online Piracy Act after a demonstration of having no knowledge the difference in legal definitions between 'copyright infringement' and 'theft'.
Cynoclast (talk) 19:05, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I wouldn't include it. The wording is awful, not neutral, it's soapboxing and citation not a neutral reliable source. It doesn't even say what you propose. Just a promotional external link. Don't think we can really say he voted for it since the bill is just now starting to come out of committee. Stop trying to push your agenda here. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 23:32, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: He probably would support it, yes, since he is a co-sponsor of the bill, but the way the suggestion was phrased was just completely wrong for Wikipedia. I'm sorry if you think I was being over-zealous in my criticism of the suggestion. It's just that this article and a few others were slammed with vandalism or non-neutral additions of SOPA-related info around the same time period. It is exactly why this article was semi-protected. This is kind of a moot point now since info on SOPA has been included. I haven't taken that out, although I think that paragraph could stand to be reworded. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 21:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I included that information in the hopes that it would appease most people who were critical about SOPA. I think that it may have helped to keep some vandalism from happening. How would you suggest rewording it? 199.204.125.3 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 01:58, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 15 December 2011 

message: On 2011-12-15, Watt voted 'yea' in favor of the Stop Online Piracy Act after a demonstration of having no knowledge the difference in legal definitions between 'copyright infringement' and 'theft'.
Cynoclast (talk) 19:05, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I wouldn't include it. The wording is awful, not neutral, it's soapboxing and citation not a neutral reliable source. It doesn't even say what you propose. Just a promotional external link. Don't think we can really say he voted for it since the bill is just now starting to come out of committee. Stop trying to push your agenda here. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 23:32, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: He probably would support it, yes, since he is a co-sponsor of the bill, but the way the suggestion was phrased was just completely wrong for Wikipedia. I'm sorry if you think I was being over-zealous in my criticism of the suggestion. It's just that this article and a few others were slammed with vandalism or non-neutral additions of SOPA-related info around the same time period. It is exactly why this article was semi-protected. This is kind of a moot point now since info on SOPA has been included. I haven't taken that out, although I think that paragraph could stand to be reworded. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 21:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I included that information in the hopes that it would appease most people who were critical about SOPA. I think that it may have helped to keep some vandalism from happening. How would you suggest rewording it? 199.204.125.3 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 01:58, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Support of SOPA

message: attorney should be changed to Attorney
Predze (talk) 12:14, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done:  is not required for edits to semi-protected, unprotected pages, or pending changes protected pages. Baseball Watcher 19:45, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 16 December 2011 

message: This article reads more like an article promoting negative points of the Mayor.  There is no reason or indication why the quotation about freddie and fannie are included.  This article needs clean up and needs to fit standards better.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.57.169.99 (talk) 02:15, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Watt was never mayor of anything. I agree that it appears more slanted and have been trying to make it more neutral. I understand it is one sided. However, please don't add comments into the article. That paragraph was probably left over from some previous re-organization. I will find where it belongs and move it. Thank you for your interest. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 02:54, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seems very one sided 

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message: This article has a problem with WP:CSECTION. The items under "Controversies" should be integrated into to the rest of the article if possible. For starters, the section titled "Racial gerrymandering"--I'm not seeing how this is a "Controversy" vis-à-vis Watt. He may have benefited from gerrymandering, but the New York Times source that we have doesn't say that he was involved in the drawing of the districts. If we keep this information, I'd suggest we put it in the elections section as a historical fact about his district, but putting it under a "Controversies" section doesn't seem accurate. Marquardtika (talk) 05:41, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: I am not qualified to make the edit so I'll leave this for someone with topic knowledge and expertise.
He has departed this role - announced 12/2018, effective 1/2019
Official government source: https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2018/nr-occ-2018-140.html
There is also a sexual harassment controversy in 2018 if that warrants inclusion:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/27/federal-housing-chief-sexual-harassment-investigation-714779
Further, there was tumult including contemplation of impeachment at the end of his term, if worthy of inclusion:
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/accuser-law-firm-trying-to-get-mel-watt-fired-before-retirement/275-af662b39-8b10-4e9c-9a84-ba4f0c124e502600:6C56:6600:1EA7:E898:2EDB:3FB1:44E4 (talk) 23:51, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  CORRECTION - needs action - current occupation is incorrect