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Comments

The last section headers sounds like it is about organization that militate for the criminalization or are otherwise discriminatory against homeless people. It should probably be changed. Circeus (talk) 05:43, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Some notes from reviewing it for DYK

  • There has got to be some way to work in that great Anatole France quote: "The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor from sleeping beneath bridges". Don't know where it's from, though. Maybe it's on wikiquote.
Yes, it is. Got it. Daniel Case (talk) 15:39, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • How is "Another Day in Paradise" anti-homeless? Is the song itself expressing this viewpoint, or (more accurately, IMO) is it calling attention to the attitudes of the passersby ("Don't think twice/ It's just another day for you and me in paradise")? You also might want to note that Phil Collins had also written another song about homelessness years earlier, ("Man on the Corner", on the Genesis album Abacab, in 1981 before it became chic to write songs about homeless people), with similar lyrical themes ("When he shouts, nobody listens/ Where he leads, no one will go"). Daniel Case (talk) 15:29, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article needs to be split

This article covers two entirely different topics; political opposition to homelessness, and discrimination against the homeless. It needs splitting into two. -- The Anome (talk) 13:55, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, also it appears to be pretty unbalanced. Tag applied. //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 14:38, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Refactored

I've now refactored this article (formerly called "Anti-homelessness") into three:

It's not perfect, but at least it avoid conflating wildly disparate topics into a single article.

I've taken the Phil Collins "Another Day in Paradise" stuff out completely: if it belongs anywhere, it might be in an article called "songs about homelessness". -- The Anome (talk) 14:57, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is major original research going on in this article.

There is a lot of WP:SYN and unsourced assertions that are made in this article. JustGettingItRight (talk) 23:33, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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