Talk:Maureen Reed

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POV edits reverted[edit]

This article is continually edited by an anonymous editor to appear more like part of an electoral campaign (a transient event) than an article about a person, with no edit summaries or discussion. Detailed text which relates to a forthcoming election and says nothing about the subject of the article is added. Wording is chosen presumably to support some agenda rather than to quote a reference accurately. References are given to support statements; on checking the references there is no mention of Reed. For example regarding Minnesota Legislature appointing Reed to serve on the University of Minnesota's Board of Regents in various capacities a reference is given which does not name Reed. (I am not trying to say that the information is necessarily false, but that it must be documented.) Reed's own press release says she would seek the DFL and Independence Party endorsements; this has been edited in the article, referencing the press release, to say that she is running as a Democrat.

The anonymous editor has removed Failed verification tags for such references. Details of fund-raising for an ongoing campaign are added, but referenced information from polls showing that she is not leading has been deleted (neither point is justified in an encyclopaedia article on a person; but deleting one seen as unflattering and inserting one seen as supportive is not objective).

Given all the above I am going to revert all the anonymous editor's changes without time-consuming detailed examination of each one, and add a NPOV tag.

I would add that I personally have no point of view; I neither oppose nor support Reed or her policies; indeed I know little about them.

Pol098 (talk) 12:36, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitrarily including one bit of information vs another doesn't seem justified, a poll that's 6 months old vs current fund-raising information. Also - Reed is no longer seeking the DFL or IP endorsements so it's stupid to keep that in there, she is simply running as a Democrat in the Democratic Primary. It doesn't even mention in the top paragraph what PARTY she's running with. Find me another politician where it doesn't mention the PARTY of the politician in the top paragraph. That is not POV edit. I'm going to revert some of the changes which are 100% valid and were in good faith. before mass reverting please discuss.

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