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I've moved everything related to his personal life and sexuality into one section at the end of the article. Before we essentially had three paragraphs, in different parts of the article, all saying something pretty similar. I appreciate that there are elements of the personal life section which clearly relate to his political activities, but I'm not entirely certain if there's a better way to bring all this information together - I suppose the alternative is that we remove the personal life section altogether. It does, however, look like we'll get the same stuff added again if we do. So - anyone with any better ideas here?
I've also removed reference to him being single as of a set date. That's just going to get out of date so quickly it's silly. I've also removed reference to his voting a specific way on a specific bill. If we want to add something about how he spoke on that bill, suitably referenced of course, then that might not be a bad idea - but simply a record of how he voted on a bill opens up articles on politicians to ending up as massive lists of votes.
There are a couple of places I plan to look to add references to the article as well - a few cn tags added in that I hope to resolve shortly. Blue Square Thing (talk) 09:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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