Talk:Drug Free America Foundation

message: I removed a tag placed by CorenSearchBot; the text is fairly short, quoted, and referenced. --Joel7687 (talk) 20:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Accepted as a non-violation.  — madman bum and angel 19:18, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: User:Jojenn appears to be whitewashing this article. He/she has not declared a conflict of interest here or on his/her talk page as required by our WP:COI guidelines. Indeed, perhaps no conflict exists, but these edits are so strongly non-neutral that such a conflict can be surmised. As a result of these edits, I have invited Jojenn to explain these edits here on the article's talk page. Rklawton (talk) 18:16, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you. Once I read that Sembler is behind this group, I now have strong doubts about their real agenda. I'm not going to get into anything here, just Sembler is worse than the drugs. 68.229.40.204 (talk) 19:01, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Apparent whitewashing

message: The corporation Drug Free America Foundation, Inc is The Straight Foundation, Inc. They changed the name in 1995. (A primary but definitive source.) Straight, Incorporated and this article are both about the same organization. Perhaps they should be merged? AndroidCat (talk) 19:31, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Support. They are the exact same organization. This would also be a good opportunity to do away with the WP:NPOV and WP:COI content (i.e., most of this article...) To be clear, I am referring to the blatant whitewashing and promotional tone of this article, I am not agreeing with the bizarrely numerous editors on Mel Sembler-related talk pages and histories that seem to be invested in making these articles friendlier towards the organization. Although, perhaps the Straight, Incorporated page was less encyclopedic when those debates were occurring. Anyways, agreed. Gmarmstrong (talk) 05:03, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

text: Gmarmstrong (talk) 03:58, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge articles? 

message: That section in an unreferenced mess. AndroidCat (talk) 07:06, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  History and origins 

message: Just making a list here of articles that haven't been (fully) used yet in this page or at the Straight, Incorporated page. The Salon articles shouldn't be directly referenced without inline attribution, per WP:RSP, but they do link to other sources, some of which may be used. The Reason articles should be good to use. Szalavitz authored articles in both magazines, but I'm gonna stick to the "canonical" list of reliable sources for facts since they include some heavy allegations.
* Salon.com - Romney advisor's reefer madness
* Salon.com - Behind Liz Cheney's group, a weird legacy of torture
* Reason - Romney, Torture, and Teens
* Reason - The Trouble with Troubled Teen Programs Gmarmstrong (talk) 02:44, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles to read/reference 

message: I'm pretty happy with how the cleanup has gone so far. The number of aliases DFAF has is mind-boggling, which has made this difficult. Here's a quote from a 2005 congressional record, I'm pretty sure at least half of these are different names for DFAF or its own programs:
 Gmarmstrong (talk) 01:06, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making progress 

message: There are some claims needing citations but which are reasonable enough to keep in the text with a "citations needed" note inline. I've removed some others for which I have been totally unable to find sufficient citations.Gmarmstrong (talk) 21:19, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of claims needing citations