Talk:Shelley Sekula-Gibbs

message: This article is really, really, really biased. Did the Sekula-Gibbs campaign write it??? Good god...PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS ARTICLE OR DELETE IT!!! And it needs to be sourced...Ptown336 00:22, 23 August 2006 Ptown336 (Talk | contribs) 
:Ptown336: If you believe that the article has problems you are welcome to fix them.  Also, there are sources listed out the wazoo.  If you would notice that there are several sources listed at the bottom of the article.  What information do you believe needs to be added???  It would be helpful if you could provide some specific, concrete examples instead of merely complaining.  I look forward to hearing those proposed changes. Thank you. --Getaway 00:57, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is endemic to candidate articles in general. The only people who really contribute to such articles are usually the supporters (or even campaign staff) except for the rare candidate who inspires serious hatred. IMO the vast majority of candidate articles are badly POV, and frankly nobody outside the district cares enough to devote the energy necessary to fix them. Fan-1967 01:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for that essay Fan-1967.  However, I did not hear any concrete specific complaints about the article in your essay either. --Getaway 02:34, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Does this sound NPOV to you? "Sekula-Gibbs is most notable for her championing of healthcare causes." Or this? "Sekula-Gibbs' role in health care issues is important to constituents in Houston and Harris County." Since you wrote them, and seem genuinely mystified by the criticism, I guess those seem like objective comments to you. And let's face it, since I live 1000 miles away, and have never heard of this person, there's no way I'm going to clean it up. Which is what typically happens with these candidate articles, and why they should all be deleted.  Fan-1967 02:41, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, well, well.  We sure like to jump to conclusions don't we??  You are dead wrong, in so many ways and the funny part is you don't even know how you are wrong.  I did not write these lines that you have incorrectly stated that I wrote. All of edits are right there in the edit history and it clearly shows that I did not write these sentences!) Also, you took the time to respond to me, with a way off the mark statement I might add, but you couldn't find the time to clean up those lines.  That is rich.  Also, since you clearly state that you don't care because "I live 1000 miles away" why do you feel the need to comment at all on the article. You say that you don't care. The amount of effort that you have put into this commentary area--about an article you claim not to care about--and the amount of effort that Ptown has put into this commentary area could have probably fixed the lines that you find so offensive.  (So offensive, but you yet you just don't care! HA! That hilarious! You slay me with your inconsistent and incorrect statements.) This morass of confusion is quite entertaining.--Getaway 02:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do I care about this particular article? No, actually I don't, except as a symptom of the general problem with all these candidate articles. This one needs to be cleaned up by someone who actually lives in that district and knows something about her, and that clearly is not going to happen. It never does, and Wikipedia ends up being free adspace for this campaign, and dozens or hundreds like it. Fan-1967 02:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've already fixed the sentences that you complained about.  It wasn't hard.  Also, you are still spending a large amount of time responding to me about an article that you claim that you don't care about.  That is funny.  You just want to complain.  That has nothing to do with the article.--Getaway 02:58, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: The City Council section needs a cleanup.  It has broken links, is written largely in the present tense (which isn't the case), and she is no longer listed as a director on Bay Area Houston Transportation website.   Ryoutou 16:25, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I separated the Healthcare section out, as it was erroneously listed as a subsection of the City Council section.  The information listed within it were board memberships and a policy position - which inferred that she was both currently serving (she isn't), and that the two things were related.  I've made some link fixes, some grammar updates, and moved the Healthcare section down lower - which puts her Council service in a historical, NPOV perspective.  I welcome input and further updates, especially regarding her current board positions (some of which she may or may not no longer serve in).  In fact those lines could probably be moved into the "Medical career" section and the policy position removed - it comes off as a campaign copy/paste.  Regards, Ryoutou 16:41, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates required 

message: Anybody who get's Houston news here? Well if you have you've probably seen her commercials on how the other guy voted for a tax on an abortion pill and something else. Well that pic she had on that commericial where she's wearing glasses and looks like a texas soccer mom is a much better pic than the other ones where she's got that politician lady thing goin' on, so can someone maybe replace it? The Texas Drama King 05:39, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  better pic? 

message: I've added a link to the campaign article for the 22nd district.  That's where most of the details about the campaign and election should go - not in this article.  Please move the details to the campaign article if they are not already there. I also don't think there should be seperate sections in this article for the special election and the election for an entirely new term - the two elections were held on the same day, and they were definitely interconnected because of the write-in aspects.  The campaign article covers both elections, and since there should be no more than a couple of paragraphs (and, arguably, less) in this biography about the election, one section should suffice.   John Broughton  |  Talk 21:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are welcome to make those changes.  They may or may not be accepted by the other editors.  I did not know that you were in charge of telling others to do things. Have a good day!--Getaway 22:47, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Thanks for the information. These seem like logical solutions, and I for one had not seen the article on the election itself. Lawikitejana 04:53, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is a separate campaign article 

message: This new "Biography" section suffers from some major problems.  To paraphrase the very first entry in the Talk to this article: "This section is really, really, really biased. Did the Sekula-Gibbs campaign write it??? "  She "left her mark" on Congress?  Doubtful.  It needs to be way toned down, or just deleted. -- Sholom 16:05, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Biography' section? 

message: Hey Getaway, great job on ferreting out and reverting the edit from that sockpuppet!  Nobody likes it when somebody on Wikipedia pretends to be something they’re not, especially when they're just trying to push their own POV, right?  Anyway, have a good day! 138.162.5.7 15:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: No Sockpuppets!

message: The official congressional bio has SSG as one year younger (born in '53) than the article currently does (born in '52). I'm not going to resolve the apparent discrepancy any time soon. Someone with more time should have a wack at it. Studerby 21:20, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: When I moved to League City in 1988 she practiced medicine as Dr. Shelley Sekula-Greenberg.  A few years later it was just "Sekula" and I don't know if her husband died or they were divorced. The original version of this article left out her first husband. I noticed it and edited it, and it was changed back by someone. I now live outside her district so I can't imagine why she would not want to recognize her first marriage to the father of her children (She married Sylvan after her kids were older). Even though I don't live around there any more, I still follow politics in that district. Zoocat (talk) 20:22, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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