Talk:Michael Yon

message: See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/business/21iraqblogger.html. 220.245.128.97 (talk) 05:01, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NYT Article 

message: Yon wrote in a blog post dated 14 July 2008 that:
:"[B]y my estimation, the Iraq War is over. We won. Which means the Iraqi people won."
He later expanded on this claim in a New York Daily News article dated 20 July, "As Iraqis stop living in fear, end of Iraq war is at hand".
I suspect these were among the first claims of victory in Iraq, and therefore worth recording in this article. I'm too busy to write this up properly just now; does anyone else want to tackle it? Thanks in advance, CWC 15:26, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Success in Iraq" 

message: it was very newsworthy and also shows he is so close to the action that the lines got blurred on observer/participant.  72.82.52.106 (talk) 23:06, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  should be something on the battle where he picked up a gun 

message: Yon has long used his 'experience' in Special Forces to establish his credibility.  There is public question of how long he served in SF and speculation of the rank he attained in it.  This needs to be established and reported in his bio.  If he got out as an E5 as rumored, it needs explaination.  A Special Forces ODA is composed of E6s, E7s, an E8, Warrant and Captain.
SF was busy in the 80's but if he took advantage of the training and then got out, why?
Yon has his detractors, including with others in the Milblogger space.  See milblogging.com for some of the controversy.
Yon has indeed been at the center of two General Officers being fired.  He is an unnamed source in the Rolling Stones article.
Questions that need to be answered: What dates did he serve in the Military?  When did he complete SFQC?  What was his MOS?  Why was he not promoted to E6, as is standard in SF?  Why does he generalize the experiences he has used to establish his "credibility" that has allowed him notoriety and financial donations?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.90.18.3 (talk) 04:56, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "One of the youngest" to pass Special Forces Assessment/Qualification 

message: At http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/MichaelYonFanPage I find this posted about 18 hours ago:
: 
: Caution: My Wikipedia entry is incredibly inaccurate. My people have noticed and tried to correct but Wikipedia makes accuracy difficult. In other words, the entry is trash. Enemies have been created with my war work, and they try to exact revenge and have used Wikipedia to do so. They've set up fake websites, Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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Michael Hardy (talk) 02:24, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There doesn't seem to be much indication of any recent attempts to correct the article. This issue has also been raised at WP:BLPN. I've done some aggressive editing of the milblogs section of the article, which, as already noted on this talk page a few months ago, relied extremely heavily on the blogs themselves as sources. I also found it wasn't neutrally phrased or structured. As an outsider unfamiliar with the topic area (and lacking the time to go digging for more and better sources) I have mainly removed what I regard as problematic and poorly sourced material; what's left may or may not constitute due coverage of the significant parts of the controversy. The section needs, firstly, to be based on reliable secondary sources not on repeating negative speculation from parties in the dispute; secondly, to avoid giving undue weight to the controversy according to its significance to his overall career (how much ongoing coverage does this controversy get in reliable secondary sources?); and thirdly, to be neutrally phrased. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 19:00, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

text: Additional note - if Yon's "people" are indeed attempting to correct the article, it would be great if they could contribute to the discussion here, and make clearer which particular areas are inaccurate or otherwise a concern. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 19:02, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yon also says on that same page that "Wikipedia is a for-profit publisher", which is puzzling. (Hohum @) 19:10, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the whole milblog section needed paring down. (Hohum @) 19:14, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
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message: This is a term that Michael Yon is using at the moment (May 2023).He claims many of these migrants coming to the US border are coming to literally kill Americans and he says that without exception. He is pushing this dramatic idea that these migrants will be given a house location via phone and then will go to that house in the US and kill all the occupants. Listen to the referenced video below. He is either correct or totally insane. Let someone else who wants to write up this deal with it. Has Michael Yon gone over the edge? 
https://rumble.com/v2mpr1i-weaponized-migration-biden-admin-directing-and-tracking-migrants-via-smart-.html 
NaturalEquality (talk) 09:40, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Weaponized Migration"  

message: Michael Yon recently claimed that Jewish organizations such as HIAS are funding "the terrorists crossing our border."  Should this information about him be added to the article? 174.130.221.145 (talk) 17:12, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversial claims about immigration