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intensely angry leadership meeting that had yet taken place. And there is also no doubt, if the files and witnesses are to believed, that Kerry was present for all of it. Because wives and girlfriends, like ordinary delegates, were locked out, Julia Thorne Kerry, John's wife, sat outside on the grass—it was a warm, sunny
November day—with a bunch of other women that included filmmaker Nancy Miller Saunders, the girlfriend of Arkansas-Louisiana coordinator Don Donner. Saunders says she remembers a lengthy conversation with Julia Thorne Kerry there, as do two other people interviewed: Rusty Lindley and Wayne Beverly, one of the Texas Marines sympathetic to Camil, who was barred from the meeting because he was not a coordinator.
210:, who was eventually banned by Arbcom for a year as a result and later banned permanently for sockpuppeting. This user was a strong advocate for inserting as much negative material as possible about Kerry, and several spinoff articles such as this one were created to appease him and keep this material from overwhelming the article. I had forgotten about this until I stumbled on this article today and I contend that this article does not meet the current standards of Knowledge (XXG). It is about a non-controversy that doesn't exist except in the minds of a few fringe advocates. The few sources that exist are about a minor anti-war demonstration, while most of the rest of the article is unsourced and speculative.
695:. The article is (with a few exceptions) properly sourced as to the charges and responses. These charges were raised against Kerry -- it's a non-controversy in terms of substance, but the right-wing noise machine has considerable ability to bring rubbish to prominence, and this is an example. Thus, the topic is properly encyclopedic. Nevertheless, giving all this information in the main bio article would be clutter, so keeping this daughter article is the correct application of
766:)15:01, 7 February 2012 (UTC) as to Kerry's attendance at the KC meeting. To Nicosia's credit (perhaps also somewhat motivated by Lipscomb's apparent doggedness on the issue), this personal revelation inspired both an advisory to the Kerry campaign and provision of those "minutes" to another inquiring reporter, Scott Canon of the Kansas City Star. THAT was Nicosia's "huge role".
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This was not a seven page exploration of his possible attendance at one single meeting, it's an exploration of his anti-war activism. It's pretty clear that his anti-war activism is important and that some people were angry enough about that to make up things about him decades later. But that's not
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To many political observers, these ads, “Dazed,” “Sell Out,” and “Medals” seemed to reflect the true reason behind the Swift Boat campaign: during Kerry’s appearance before the committee, he had testified to numerous atrocities and war crimes allegedly committed by the majority of U.S. troops serving
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Read it; you've made a strong case that we should have an article about the VVAW. Now, would you care to make a case for a
Knowledge (XXG) article about whether or not a politician attended a meeting, or just part of a meeting, or no part of the meeting, where a frustrated activist proposed a "late
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I've already commenced to do just that with the provision of WP:V, WP:RS sourcing for already existing content and the provision of additional WP:V, WP:RS sourced content. While I'm also aware of additional sourcing addressing each of the issues you raise, I've not yet introduced them into the
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I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. What's really laughable and pathetic here is trying you fly the banner of WP:RS when this sham of an article is largely unsourced and then claiming other people are acting in a POV manner. You are the one dragging POV into what should be a civil
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Nicosia's re-review, at the behest of Thomas Lipscomb, of the minutes of the KC meeting (previously obtained) and subsequent (perhaps first time) review of boxed FBI files (also previously obtained) that convinced Nicosia he (Nicosia) had made a factual error in his
443:, and an imaginary controversy about some meeting which he may or may not have actually attended. The section about the latter is unsourced and the controversy is non-existent except on the fringe and only discussed in passing in articles like the one you posted about his activism.
977:- I've taken a little closer look at things tonight. While this is absolutely something that merits encyclopedic coverage, I am now persuaded by Gamaliel and Xenophrenic above that this matter is already dealt with in sufficient depth and with superior application of NPOV at
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You are, of course, entitled to your opinion...as are the other editors who will hopefully offer a similarly dispassionate opinion. In the interim, I'll look forward to collaborating with you as we work together to improve this article per the {{refimprove}} section tag.
784:@JamesMLane: I agree with you that "it's a non-controversy in terms of substance", which leaves me wondering how you can justify the existence of a separate article, detached from more suitable articles already conveying the same subject matter with context?
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What is the point you are trying to make with this material? No one is contesting the notability of VVAW or Kerry's participation therein. What is at issue is here is the notability and verifiability of the two "controversies" in this specific article.
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I don't doubt that there may have been some sketchy motives on the part of some in starting this page in the first place, but it is unquestionably an encyclopedic topic, one of the big pseudo-issues of the day of the 2004 campaign.
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I'm not sure what these allegations have to do with the Swift
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