Talk:Erik Paulsen

MNGOP, You can't just copy and paste his campaign bio into wikipedia. It's not only copyright infringement, but it also violates the spirit (and presumably the rules) behind wikipedia.

This is a source for unbiased and well-sourced information on candidates. Where they were born, where they went to school, their families, their life experience: all of that is appropriate. What is not appropriate is to use that information to paint a picture. Any picture. Nobody here cares what "the driving force in Paulsen's distinguished career" is. They just want to know the offices that career has consisted of, how he got into those offices and what he's done in those offices.

I'm too lazy to take the relevant _FACTUAL_ information from a campaign bio and rearrange it into a Wikipedia appropriate fashion, but if whoever posted the campaign bio (assuming their not a campaign staffer for Paulsen or the GOP, which it appears you are) wants to do that, go ahead. We'd all appreciate it.

I don't have the time either, but this is perhaps the worst POV violation I've seen in my years at Wikipedia. FIX IT or I'll report it, and then you'll get lots of other people editing the POV out of it. Moncrief (talk) 17:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This problem is being fixed. It appears someone went on to our profile and used over the top vocabulary about Erik. No way to tell if it was a supporter or someone against Erik looking to mess-up his wikipedia page. No way to tell.

Regardless, this problem has been taken care of and the parts that are in question have been taken out and are being rewritten.

Andfoxy13 (talk) 21:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)PaulsenFriend[reply]

"It appears someone went on to our profile"

What on earth does this mean? Moncrief (talk) 19:05, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, considering that you're someone who removed the utterly truthful and even banal statement "Paulsen's opponent in the 3rd district is Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL) candidate and Iraq War Veteran Ashwin Madia" from the article, I'm not sure you're the best judge of non-POV. Moncrief (talk) 19:06, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Moreover, there is most certainly a "way to tell" who made exactly which changes to the article. It's called the page history, and it's easily accessible. Here's a link: [1]. And here are some very POV changes you yourself made to the article: [2]. Moncrief (talk) 20:53, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Andfoxy13 why did you remove the advert tag? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.203.43.194 (talk) 08:06, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I assume the tag was removed because it's not written like an advertisement anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.109.29.186 (talk) 21:29, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Andfoxy13 do you understand that the history tab shows who did what? You might want to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Db-spam which explains the Db-spam tag.