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The Cleveland Plain Dealer today published an article pointing out a number of important errors in this article, some of which I've corrected. I also requested citation on a number of other potentially controversial claims here. No time to fix it all now. A little help? WmLGann 13:37, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, when I get a chance I'll cite the article as a source where appropriate, unless someone beats me to it. Also there are some assertions in the "Abramoff" section of this article that should be easily cite-able by looking at court records online. I won't have a chance to look at it for at least 8 hours, though. BTW LaTourette is not my rep and I actually don't think much of him good or bad; I just can't stand to see someone smeared here. WmLGann 17:56, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
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I have just removed an amazing amount of negative material about Mr. LaTourette that is unsourced. If I see it readded, I will lock the page until I see sources. I am doing this because of WP:BLP. I strongly advise a more carefully written about about this public figure. - Ta bu shi da yu 11:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
User:Hallesister keeps adding verbatim text of constituent correspondence he/she claims to have received from Senator Brown. Similar edits are being made at Sherrod Brown. I have reverted these edits, warned the user on his talk page and proposed a compromise. These letters may have information that could be incorporated as prose, but they cannot be verified as authentic letters, and posting them verbatim does not follow the manual of style. This is my third revsion today, so I don't plan on reverting him again otherwise I will violate WP:3RR. I think the addition of this information constitutes vandalism, but I don't want to risk it. Either way, the user will be in violation of 3RR if he reverts me. Could other editors weigh in on this please, or am I off base here? DCmacnut <> 17:12, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
This is a non-notable event where Rep. LaTourette called a constituent question "bullshit." It's received coverage only on a Huffington Post blog, and the only source is a video of the event. I've removed it because it is a non-notable utterance that is poorly sourced and has not been covered by other reliable sources. He's not the only congressman who has sworn in public. Dick Cheney even went so far as to tell Senator Patrick Leahy to F-off (on the Senate floor no less) and Bush once called a NY Times reporter a "major league asshole." Both events had fleeting coverage of the moment, but neither are included in those individuals articles.
WP:BLP requires more than "so and so said this" as the standard for inclusion in the article. I do not want to get into an edit with the IP editor who seems insistent on including this (even going so far to call my reversion vandalism, when BLP clearly says otherwise). Could other editors weigh on on the appropriateness of including this? DCmacnut <> 02:51, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
The entire section was sourced to 404-not-found pages on two different websites. Additionally, even assuming the sources can be relocated, I am concerned about WP:UNDUE in the way some of this was reported.
First, we made reference in the section to his voting to impeach Bill Clinton, and then go on to discuss - as if it is immediately relevant - some questions about whether he was having affair (with the woman he subsequently married) before his divorce. This strongly suggests an inappropriate political motivation for including this material, i.e. a suggestion that he was somehow being phony or insincere with his vote. I shouldn't have to say this, but that line of reasoning in no way makes any sense.
Second, even without that political jab, it is unclear that there was ever a sufficient "scandal" to warrant mentioning here. I am not saying that there wasn't - I don't actually know. In order to establish that it matters, we need more than just tabloid tittle-tattle, we need to see reliable third party sourcing that suggests it had some basis in fact, some impact on his career, and so on.-- Jimbo Wales ( talk) 11:43, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
I followed List of federal political sex scandals in the United States to this person, and to my surprise there is nothing here. Maybe you guys can also delete him from that list, then the whole thing is properly buried (assuming that is what the guys with a political agenda want) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.160.72.40 ( talk) 10:12, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
"outlaw Mormon" is an improper label for somebody who belonged to Reorganized LDS (now Community of Christ). They are never referred to as the Mormons at all. Samuelsenwd ( talk) 21:54, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
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