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Does an article about a brand new MP who's literally only been in office for a few days really require a thorough (and unsourced) bullet point list of every individual award he's ever won, right down to local volunteer honours?
For the record, these are the awards in question, which an editor has now readded to the article twice:
As you can see, some of them probably aren't even notable enough to warrant mention at all ("Commanders Commendation for service to World Youth Days 2002"? Really?), while others probably are if properly sourced. To date, however, no reliable sources have been added to support the notability of the awards; apart from his own website, the only other source that's been attempted is nowpublic.com, a crowdsourced news site to which absolutely anybody can add absolutely any news they want — editorial standards of notability what dat? — and where it was originally posted by a contributor whose entire history on that site involves stories about Ted Opitz (and hence presumably a campaign volunteer.)
And furthermore, even that article doesn't actually talk about the awards; it just lists them in exactly the same bullet point form that was used here (and, in fact, the list itself may literally have been cut and pasted from that article, because the awards are listed in the exact same order and worded in the exact same way right down to the inclusion of redundant verbs like "received" and "awarded".)
So is this section really necessary, absent real sources and real paragraph structure? Bearcat ( talk) 00:54, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Source for Knight's Cross [1]
Is full protection really necessary? Unless serious violations occur I think semi-protection should be sufficient. EncyclopediaUpdaticus ( talk) 22:51, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
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Does an article about a brand new MP who's literally only been in office for a few days really require a thorough (and unsourced) bullet point list of every individual award he's ever won, right down to local volunteer honours?
For the record, these are the awards in question, which an editor has now readded to the article twice:
As you can see, some of them probably aren't even notable enough to warrant mention at all ("Commanders Commendation for service to World Youth Days 2002"? Really?), while others probably are if properly sourced. To date, however, no reliable sources have been added to support the notability of the awards; apart from his own website, the only other source that's been attempted is nowpublic.com, a crowdsourced news site to which absolutely anybody can add absolutely any news they want — editorial standards of notability what dat? — and where it was originally posted by a contributor whose entire history on that site involves stories about Ted Opitz (and hence presumably a campaign volunteer.)
And furthermore, even that article doesn't actually talk about the awards; it just lists them in exactly the same bullet point form that was used here (and, in fact, the list itself may literally have been cut and pasted from that article, because the awards are listed in the exact same order and worded in the exact same way right down to the inclusion of redundant verbs like "received" and "awarded".)
So is this section really necessary, absent real sources and real paragraph structure? Bearcat ( talk) 00:54, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Source for Knight's Cross [1]
Is full protection really necessary? Unless serious violations occur I think semi-protection should be sufficient. EncyclopediaUpdaticus ( talk) 22:51, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:
Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. — Community Tech bot ( talk) 22:08, 17 August 2021 (UTC)