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His kicking of the thimerosal anthill ought to be fit in somehow. ("You mean to tell me since 1929 we've been using thimerosal and the only test that you know of is the one that was done in 1929, and every one of those people got meningitis and they all died?" 19 Jul 2002) It was a service to mankind that made up for Helms-Burton. 142.177.169.163 21:26, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I am pretty sure that Congressman Burton's name is actually Danny and not Daniel. Every bit of material I have seen on the subject points to Danny. His congressional biography should be a good enough source. Harmon1630
I changed his name, but it was reverted back. I am not sure why it was reverted. Daniel Burton is not the first name of the congressman. It is actually Danny Burton. ( Harmon1630 21:32, 26 October 2006 (UTC))
On the congressional biography website he also refers to himself as Danny in his speech on CAFTA ( Harmon1630)
I removed this:
"Burton is perhaps best known for his efforts to prove that former White House aide Vince Foster was murdered. He is said to have fired shots at a watermelon or pumpkin in his backyard to test a theory about Foster's death."
because it is unsourced opinion. By whom is he said to have shot a watermelon? I don't object to having the observation included as long as there is a reputable source for it. As to what he is best known for, I guess that's debatable; I do wonder; Of the people who know who Dan Burton is, how many know who Vince Foster was? Tom harrison 17:36, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
All it takes to find proof for these is to do a Google search; I found an article by Time stating the exact thing quoted above four results down after searching "dan burton vince foster". Before removing, place a citation tag to allow other editors to find a source for the information if you can't.-- Gloriamarie 19:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
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Keep unproven attacks out of the bios. Anyone can make a partisan accusation. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.224.67.23 ( talk • contribs) .
The succession information on this page is incorrect. It states that he succeeded Steve Buyer in 2003 as Indiana's 5th district congressman and prior to that he was the 6th district congressman. While technically correct, the post-2002 seat that Burton now holds is not the same district (I don't think there is any overlap) as the pre-2002 district that Buyer held. This is because, as a result of the 2000 Census, Indiana lost a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and the 10 pre-2002 districts were re-drawn to the current 9 districts. Burton's current district is largely a superset of his old district, and has mostly the same constituents as before, plus a few more. In other words, Burton got a new district number, not a new district. The same thing happened to some of the other members of the Indiana delegation. -- rogerd 00:20, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I've removed most of the details of awards that Burton has received, as well as lengthy discussion of the history of the RSC (covered in another article, anyway), and most of the discussion of a bill he sponsored that failed. Per WP:NOT, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collector of information. Per WP:NPOV, giving excessive amounts of space to relatively unimportant things is itself a violation of the principal of neutrality.
Wikipedia should serve as a place where those interested can (for example) follow a link to see all the awards that Burton has garnered, not as a place to collect, show, and try to keep updated such a list. Besides which, that stuff is boring to most readers, precisely because it is relatively unimportant. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:06, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Rome just read directly off this page on his radio show. He said several times "I'm getting this right off Wikipedia." It was in reference to what Burton said about Brian McNamee. He read the part about Burton being a "skirt-chaser" and Burton marrying the doctor that treated his mother. Enigma ( talk) 17:57, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
The recent additions by IP addresses haven't been the most helpful, but I think there should be a section on what happened on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Enigma ( talk) 18:08, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
After this section was removed citing WP:NOT I restored part of the edit because I disagree with the non-notability assertion. CredoFromStart talk 17:19, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Burton was one of 117 co-sponsors. The House probably passes several hundred bills per year, and any given House member is probably co-sponsor of dozens of these, at minimum. If we included a section about each one, for each Congressperson who was a co-sponsor, then Wikipedia articles would consist mostly of hundreds of sections describing bills.
Per WP:NOT, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collector of information. If Burton's involvement with this particular bill was so substantial that newspapers and/or news magazines described what he did in some detail - and obviously those newspaper and other sources need to be cited - then fine, there should be such a section. But if he merely added his name to a long list of co-sponsors, then sorry, that's not important. (There is already a section on his conservative political stance, and I suppose this could be added, but that would then start making that into a laundry list.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:34, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems that the sole definition for interesting and useful information to you, Mr. Broughton, is that it must be negative. KLF2007 ( talk) 04:11, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
It is very odd that the illegitimate child he fathered, which is well documented in the news is not mentioned. 65.87.184.50 ( talk) 09:30, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I had reason to look this person up and also found it odd that his illegitimate child is not mentioned. Here is the latimes article: LA Times 173.95.166.98 ( talk) 02:15, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
what the hell is so controversial about golfing? John Asfukzenski ( talk) 02:17, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm curious as to why the passage about his daughter receiving a salary was included under controversies. The passage even states that no law seems to have been broken. Even if we accept that premise that it's "legal but still questionable", then why aren't the more prolific offenders having their wiki bios amended to include their activities in this regard? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.12.244.13 ( talk) 19:44, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Interesting article:
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I think his support of Laetrile and his condemnation of vaccines should probably be documented under the "controversies" section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angmar09 ( talk • contribs) 23:53, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
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His kicking of the thimerosal anthill ought to be fit in somehow. ("You mean to tell me since 1929 we've been using thimerosal and the only test that you know of is the one that was done in 1929, and every one of those people got meningitis and they all died?" 19 Jul 2002) It was a service to mankind that made up for Helms-Burton. 142.177.169.163 21:26, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I am pretty sure that Congressman Burton's name is actually Danny and not Daniel. Every bit of material I have seen on the subject points to Danny. His congressional biography should be a good enough source. Harmon1630
I changed his name, but it was reverted back. I am not sure why it was reverted. Daniel Burton is not the first name of the congressman. It is actually Danny Burton. ( Harmon1630 21:32, 26 October 2006 (UTC))
On the congressional biography website he also refers to himself as Danny in his speech on CAFTA ( Harmon1630)
I removed this:
"Burton is perhaps best known for his efforts to prove that former White House aide Vince Foster was murdered. He is said to have fired shots at a watermelon or pumpkin in his backyard to test a theory about Foster's death."
because it is unsourced opinion. By whom is he said to have shot a watermelon? I don't object to having the observation included as long as there is a reputable source for it. As to what he is best known for, I guess that's debatable; I do wonder; Of the people who know who Dan Burton is, how many know who Vince Foster was? Tom harrison 17:36, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
All it takes to find proof for these is to do a Google search; I found an article by Time stating the exact thing quoted above four results down after searching "dan burton vince foster". Before removing, place a citation tag to allow other editors to find a source for the information if you can't.-- Gloriamarie 19:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
To repair the creation of the ill-advised Dab, i am merging the histories of both titles. The following will aid in decoding the confusingly interleaved histories.
Keep unproven attacks out of the bios. Anyone can make a partisan accusation. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.224.67.23 ( talk • contribs) .
The succession information on this page is incorrect. It states that he succeeded Steve Buyer in 2003 as Indiana's 5th district congressman and prior to that he was the 6th district congressman. While technically correct, the post-2002 seat that Burton now holds is not the same district (I don't think there is any overlap) as the pre-2002 district that Buyer held. This is because, as a result of the 2000 Census, Indiana lost a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and the 10 pre-2002 districts were re-drawn to the current 9 districts. Burton's current district is largely a superset of his old district, and has mostly the same constituents as before, plus a few more. In other words, Burton got a new district number, not a new district. The same thing happened to some of the other members of the Indiana delegation. -- rogerd 00:20, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I've removed most of the details of awards that Burton has received, as well as lengthy discussion of the history of the RSC (covered in another article, anyway), and most of the discussion of a bill he sponsored that failed. Per WP:NOT, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collector of information. Per WP:NPOV, giving excessive amounts of space to relatively unimportant things is itself a violation of the principal of neutrality.
Wikipedia should serve as a place where those interested can (for example) follow a link to see all the awards that Burton has garnered, not as a place to collect, show, and try to keep updated such a list. Besides which, that stuff is boring to most readers, precisely because it is relatively unimportant. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:06, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Rome just read directly off this page on his radio show. He said several times "I'm getting this right off Wikipedia." It was in reference to what Burton said about Brian McNamee. He read the part about Burton being a "skirt-chaser" and Burton marrying the doctor that treated his mother. Enigma ( talk) 17:57, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
The recent additions by IP addresses haven't been the most helpful, but I think there should be a section on what happened on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Enigma ( talk) 18:08, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
After this section was removed citing WP:NOT I restored part of the edit because I disagree with the non-notability assertion. CredoFromStart talk 17:19, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Burton was one of 117 co-sponsors. The House probably passes several hundred bills per year, and any given House member is probably co-sponsor of dozens of these, at minimum. If we included a section about each one, for each Congressperson who was a co-sponsor, then Wikipedia articles would consist mostly of hundreds of sections describing bills.
Per WP:NOT, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collector of information. If Burton's involvement with this particular bill was so substantial that newspapers and/or news magazines described what he did in some detail - and obviously those newspaper and other sources need to be cited - then fine, there should be such a section. But if he merely added his name to a long list of co-sponsors, then sorry, that's not important. (There is already a section on his conservative political stance, and I suppose this could be added, but that would then start making that into a laundry list.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:34, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems that the sole definition for interesting and useful information to you, Mr. Broughton, is that it must be negative. KLF2007 ( talk) 04:11, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
It is very odd that the illegitimate child he fathered, which is well documented in the news is not mentioned. 65.87.184.50 ( talk) 09:30, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I had reason to look this person up and also found it odd that his illegitimate child is not mentioned. Here is the latimes article: LA Times 173.95.166.98 ( talk) 02:15, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
what the hell is so controversial about golfing? John Asfukzenski ( talk) 02:17, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm curious as to why the passage about his daughter receiving a salary was included under controversies. The passage even states that no law seems to have been broken. Even if we accept that premise that it's "legal but still questionable", then why aren't the more prolific offenders having their wiki bios amended to include their activities in this regard? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.12.244.13 ( talk) 19:44, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Interesting article:
Brangifer ( talk) 07:36, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
I think his support of Laetrile and his condemnation of vaccines should probably be documented under the "controversies" section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angmar09 ( talk • contribs) 23:53, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
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