symms civil rights i'm pinging you as i don't know whether this is on your watchlist on not original research is material for which no reliable published sources exist are you suggesting that the new york times is not a reliable source it's the paper of record man how is that not reliable the associated press is a reliable source as well also it isn't our opinion it's the opinion of liberal opponents as i noted in my edit i'll remove the terrible part and just put criticized by liberal opponents for his civil rights record if you believe that will make it npov also it isn't synthesis if i'm stating material not published by one of the sources symms himself even gave a reason for voting against a civil rights bill because in his words it's just another layer of the federal government that we don't need and that free market should determine how many housing units there are for disabled i didn't state anything not explicitly stated by the source i stated criticized by liberal opponents indeed in one of his liberal opponents marilyn shuler of the idaho human rights commission stated that i'm saddened that once again sen symms has chosen not to support civil rights legislation i believe my edits were entirely sound i'd like to hear an argument for why they weren't but i'd need to hear it quickly