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A lot of work has gone into this article. Unfortunately, the anon editors involved produce long lists rather than encyclopedic text; there's not a single sentence to be found. Apparently, they have no clue about the MoS, either. That wouldn't be all that bad if they didn't insist on blowing away the few lines we once had that could have provided context and intro. I marked the page with {{cleanup}}, maybe someone else can fix this. Rl 15:40, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
Is the timeline information already present in the career information, or is it in the process of being merged, or what's going on? A list is quite unnecessary. superman 18:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed this article at the top of a list of articles needing external link cleanup at Wikipedia:WikiProject External links. At 90 links, it was by far the most heavily-linked article on the list, and although these links were pared down at one point, they have made a comeback. The last edit on January 8, 2007 added 70 external links, most of them without descriptive text. I suggest that someone familiar with the subject of the article go through and select only the most essential links to keep, so that readers will be directed to the ones that are most likely to be interesting and rewarding. Wikipedia is not a link repository, and excessive linking distracts from the article and makes external links less useful/meaningful. - AdelaMae ( t - c - wpn) 06:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I am removing this section from the article, but am relocating its content here for future reference. As it stands, it does not really provide useful information as this was mostly part of his job with the state department (There were no inline citations to transfer over with the content).
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A lot of work has gone into this article. Unfortunately, the anon editors involved produce long lists rather than encyclopedic text; there's not a single sentence to be found. Apparently, they have no clue about the MoS, either. That wouldn't be all that bad if they didn't insist on blowing away the few lines we once had that could have provided context and intro. I marked the page with {{cleanup}}, maybe someone else can fix this. Rl 15:40, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
Is the timeline information already present in the career information, or is it in the process of being merged, or what's going on? A list is quite unnecessary. superman 18:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed this article at the top of a list of articles needing external link cleanup at Wikipedia:WikiProject External links. At 90 links, it was by far the most heavily-linked article on the list, and although these links were pared down at one point, they have made a comeback. The last edit on January 8, 2007 added 70 external links, most of them without descriptive text. I suggest that someone familiar with the subject of the article go through and select only the most essential links to keep, so that readers will be directed to the ones that are most likely to be interesting and rewarding. Wikipedia is not a link repository, and excessive linking distracts from the article and makes external links less useful/meaningful. - AdelaMae ( t - c - wpn) 06:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I am removing this section from the article, but am relocating its content here for future reference. As it stands, it does not really provide useful information as this was mostly part of his job with the state department (There were no inline citations to transfer over with the content).