Talk:Assassinations of Jeffrey Brent Ball and Todd Ray Wilson

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Article contains original and self-published research.

I think this article has several issues. First, that it is admittedly largely based on piece of original research by the article's creator (a 2001 research project with interviews and interpretations) should warrant immediate scrutiny. The source http://ryanreeder.blogspot.com/ , currently referenced over 30 times, is self-published. Excessive use of primary sources (e-mails and correspondence with people, even the creator's own diary entries) within a self-published source is especially dicey, and should not be used. I'm not saying this event is non-notable, but the extra level of detail User:Ryan Reeder personally added to this make hard to declare WP:NPOV. As a start, all block quotes should be removed: even if they were reliably published, they make the article resemble long-form prose than a concise, neutral encyclopedia article. Secondly, didactic questions like "Why did this group attack the LDS Church along with Bolivian and U.S. Government targets? Why were missionaries targeted?" should be abolished, per WP:NOTTEXTBOOK: quote: "it is not appropriate to create or edit articles that read as textbooks, with leading questions and systematic problem solutions as examples". Unverified commentary hidden in references ("It's interesting to note that...") is similarly inappropriate. In hopes of achieving better neutrality and determning due weight, when and if any type of analysis is performed, the weight of sources should shift towards reliable journal articles (e.g. the Sunstone article, and hopefully others like it exist), that can put the news of the time into context that can be lost in daily news items. --Animalparty! (talk) 01:53, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

update: I've removed the block quotes from primary sources, but there is more to be done. --Animalparty! (talk) 02:10, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]