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Please don't remove external links because you don't like them. Feel free to add more and present a range of views. JQ 07:41, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
This entry is not from a neutal point of view, with an easy explanation: it is taken directly from his bio page on the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies website. It is, in essense, a puff piece written for the purpose of promoting him. That is fine for the Foundation's website, but not for an encyclopedia.
Reviewer: Wizardman 05:20, 20 November 2009 (UTC) Overall the article is pretty good, but I do have some issues:
There's not much to fix, though unfortunately I'll have to fail the article due to the retirement of the article writer. If this is all fixed up it can always be renominated at GAN. Wizardman 05:20, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
I don't understand the point of this edit: [1]. The person who made the edit deleted all wikilinks and citations. I have reverted it since it didn't make much sense and seemed to disguise some non-neutral edits as "updates". If there is an argument to be made to restore some of these edits, please make them.-- Franz Brod ( talk) 15:48, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
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Please don't remove external links because you don't like them. Feel free to add more and present a range of views. JQ 07:41, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
This entry is not from a neutal point of view, with an easy explanation: it is taken directly from his bio page on the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies website. It is, in essense, a puff piece written for the purpose of promoting him. That is fine for the Foundation's website, but not for an encyclopedia.
Reviewer: Wizardman 05:20, 20 November 2009 (UTC) Overall the article is pretty good, but I do have some issues:
There's not much to fix, though unfortunately I'll have to fail the article due to the retirement of the article writer. If this is all fixed up it can always be renominated at GAN. Wizardman 05:20, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
I don't understand the point of this edit: [1]. The person who made the edit deleted all wikilinks and citations. I have reverted it since it didn't make much sense and seemed to disguise some non-neutral edits as "updates". If there is an argument to be made to restore some of these edits, please make them.-- Franz Brod ( talk) 15:48, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
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