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Michael Barnes (American politician) has no independent notability except interim mayor following Cannons' resignation. Stuartyeates ( talk) 09:06, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
The current opening paragraph is accurate.
Patrick Damon Cannon (born November 27, 1966) is a an American felon and former politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Cannon served on the City Council of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1994-2013 and was subsequently elected the city's 56th Mayor in November of 2013. On March 26, 2014, he was arrested on charges of accepting over $48,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen wanting to work with the city. Cannon resigned as mayor later that evening, and was later sentenced to 44 months in prison.
It is not "disrespectful" to call a person who has plead guilty to one or more felonies in Federal court a 'felon.' Pat Cannon knew what he was doing was wrong. He continued to do it. He defrauded the people of Charlotte. He got what he deserved. Eric Cable ! Talk 16:30, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
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I don't the inmate number is needed for the reader to understand that Cannon was convicted and sentenced to prison. The reader's understanding is significantly approved by the inclusion of such information; not everything that is true needs to be included per WP:NOTEVERYTHING. If there was some kind of special significance to this number other than simply being used as an identification number, then I could see mentioning it. All inmates, however, are assigned such numbers for identification purposes so I think there's anything unusual or special about that when it comes to Cannon. Moreover, the wording "Now federal inmate number 29396-058" does not seem very encyclopedic and a little bit of MOS:OPED and MOS:RELTIME. It's fine for the Charlotte Observer reporter to write in such a way, but it's not really suitable for Wikipedia. I think the version that I am One of Many came up with here is pretty good since it reflects what the source says in a neutral tone without adding unnecessary bits of information.
In addition, to the above "Inmate locator" citation seems to be a primary source of little value so it does not seem to be needed per WP:BLPPRIMARY. Cannon may be a convicted felon, but he is still alive and thus this article is still subject to WP:BLP. The source isn't really helpful to begin with because it only leads the reader to a page where they have to enter either Cannon's name or inmate number to see the relevant information. After doing that, all the reader will see is Cannon's full name (the page lists a different middle name for him than the article by the way), his age, his sex, his race, where he's incarcerated and his release date which is all information which can be obtained from secondary sources already cited in the article. -- 05:02, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
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Michael Barnes (American politician) has no independent notability except interim mayor following Cannons' resignation. Stuartyeates ( talk) 09:06, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
The current opening paragraph is accurate.
Patrick Damon Cannon (born November 27, 1966) is a an American felon and former politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Cannon served on the City Council of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1994-2013 and was subsequently elected the city's 56th Mayor in November of 2013. On March 26, 2014, he was arrested on charges of accepting over $48,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen wanting to work with the city. Cannon resigned as mayor later that evening, and was later sentenced to 44 months in prison.
It is not "disrespectful" to call a person who has plead guilty to one or more felonies in Federal court a 'felon.' Pat Cannon knew what he was doing was wrong. He continued to do it. He defrauded the people of Charlotte. He got what he deserved. Eric Cable ! Talk 16:30, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
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Cheers.— cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 10:20, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I don't the inmate number is needed for the reader to understand that Cannon was convicted and sentenced to prison. The reader's understanding is significantly approved by the inclusion of such information; not everything that is true needs to be included per WP:NOTEVERYTHING. If there was some kind of special significance to this number other than simply being used as an identification number, then I could see mentioning it. All inmates, however, are assigned such numbers for identification purposes so I think there's anything unusual or special about that when it comes to Cannon. Moreover, the wording "Now federal inmate number 29396-058" does not seem very encyclopedic and a little bit of MOS:OPED and MOS:RELTIME. It's fine for the Charlotte Observer reporter to write in such a way, but it's not really suitable for Wikipedia. I think the version that I am One of Many came up with here is pretty good since it reflects what the source says in a neutral tone without adding unnecessary bits of information.
In addition, to the above "Inmate locator" citation seems to be a primary source of little value so it does not seem to be needed per WP:BLPPRIMARY. Cannon may be a convicted felon, but he is still alive and thus this article is still subject to WP:BLP. The source isn't really helpful to begin with because it only leads the reader to a page where they have to enter either Cannon's name or inmate number to see the relevant information. After doing that, all the reader will see is Cannon's full name (the page lists a different middle name for him than the article by the way), his age, his sex, his race, where he's incarcerated and his release date which is all information which can be obtained from secondary sources already cited in the article. -- 05:02, 25 March 2016 (UTC)