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"Stafford, a faithful returned Catholic, opposes abortion and slot machine casino gambling, inter alia, and therefore received no funding from the Republican Party because a majority of its current top leaders are pro-abortion and pro-slot machine gambling."
This strikes me as false, can we get some fact-checking done on this? - TheWama
This article strikes me as one of the most partial I have come across on Wikipedia. Consider the following extracts (quotes in italics) from the latest revision at time of writing oldid=50830222:
I have therfore reverted to the last good version, oldid=32246251 -- BrownHairedGirl 02:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi from a new Wiki. I am trying my hand at various tasks to get the hand of it. I attempted to clean up the page as per the suggestion on the clean up pages. I have given it a go. I put the existing content into sections and added what information I could source online, which frankly wasn’t much.
Most of the content is unsubstantiated by the original author and I could not find the biographical detail online to support it. However I don't feel confident deleting someone else's work totally. Also, there are abbreviations such as SGA that I don’t understand. I have fixed up the more obvious ones such as ‘Nam’. I will copy this into the discussion page. Hoipe that is all okay with you. Cheers.
Some of the other text such as “Cherry Pt. MCAS and NAVARA and the Navy JAG Investigations Division and TBS” is quite baffling to me. As well as some of the US political references. Hopefully my attempt at reformatting and some editing of the content is helpful for somebody else to pick up the next stage of fixing the article and verifying the content. I have added the useful sources I found. I could not find the case laws cited online. The original author links didn’t lead anywhere.
Not being an American, I couldn’t really understand much of it (and don't have any biad of my own here). However, I would expect a clear article to be clear to all readers, regardless of their location. With good links they should be able to inform themselves of anything in the article they are unfamiliar with. Hopefully (I’m new at this) I have the right end of the stick.
Still a lot of work needed - for someone with a bit more knowledge than me perhpas. Jen Powell-Psmith 13:34, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
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I'm working on adding more reliable sources to this article. Just wanted to make other editors aware that, if this article is anything to go by Stafford has a habit of embellishing. So anything that sourced directly from him and not fact-checked should be taken with a grain of salt. Contrawwftw ( talk) 00:36, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
I emailed the archives at University of Maryland to get some clarification about Stafford's time there. I received a lot of information that's not available online so I'm going to source it. I received images but I'm not sure what the copyright is so I don't know if I'm free to upload them. I've emailed back to ask.
I also received information about where to find information about Stafford's work. The Diamondback is fully digitised. And the radio records can be requested via Aeon, their archive request service.
I'd like to thank Maureen Jones at Hornbake Library for her help. Contrawwftw ( talk) 00:23, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
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"Stafford, a faithful returned Catholic, opposes abortion and slot machine casino gambling, inter alia, and therefore received no funding from the Republican Party because a majority of its current top leaders are pro-abortion and pro-slot machine gambling."
This strikes me as false, can we get some fact-checking done on this? - TheWama
This article strikes me as one of the most partial I have come across on Wikipedia. Consider the following extracts (quotes in italics) from the latest revision at time of writing oldid=50830222:
I have therfore reverted to the last good version, oldid=32246251 -- BrownHairedGirl 02:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi from a new Wiki. I am trying my hand at various tasks to get the hand of it. I attempted to clean up the page as per the suggestion on the clean up pages. I have given it a go. I put the existing content into sections and added what information I could source online, which frankly wasn’t much.
Most of the content is unsubstantiated by the original author and I could not find the biographical detail online to support it. However I don't feel confident deleting someone else's work totally. Also, there are abbreviations such as SGA that I don’t understand. I have fixed up the more obvious ones such as ‘Nam’. I will copy this into the discussion page. Hoipe that is all okay with you. Cheers.
Some of the other text such as “Cherry Pt. MCAS and NAVARA and the Navy JAG Investigations Division and TBS” is quite baffling to me. As well as some of the US political references. Hopefully my attempt at reformatting and some editing of the content is helpful for somebody else to pick up the next stage of fixing the article and verifying the content. I have added the useful sources I found. I could not find the case laws cited online. The original author links didn’t lead anywhere.
Not being an American, I couldn’t really understand much of it (and don't have any biad of my own here). However, I would expect a clear article to be clear to all readers, regardless of their location. With good links they should be able to inform themselves of anything in the article they are unfamiliar with. Hopefully (I’m new at this) I have the right end of the stick.
Still a lot of work needed - for someone with a bit more knowledge than me perhpas. Jen Powell-Psmith 13:34, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
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I'm working on adding more reliable sources to this article. Just wanted to make other editors aware that, if this article is anything to go by Stafford has a habit of embellishing. So anything that sourced directly from him and not fact-checked should be taken with a grain of salt. Contrawwftw ( talk) 00:36, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
I emailed the archives at University of Maryland to get some clarification about Stafford's time there. I received a lot of information that's not available online so I'm going to source it. I received images but I'm not sure what the copyright is so I don't know if I'm free to upload them. I've emailed back to ask.
I also received information about where to find information about Stafford's work. The Diamondback is fully digitised. And the radio records can be requested via Aeon, their archive request service.
I'd like to thank Maureen Jones at Hornbake Library for her help. Contrawwftw ( talk) 00:23, 5 August 2021 (UTC)