Talk:Vickie D. McDonald

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NPOV[edit]

Seems pretty NPOV... so I'm going to tag it, see if someone can come tone down this new info. I'm not even sure what Salvia divinorum is....--Rayc (talk) 04:25, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've linked to this article from the Legal status of Salvia divinorum article, so that it's no longer orphaned, hence removed that tag.

I don't see how not being sure what Salvia divinorum is has bearing on finding the article POV (I assume you meant to say "seems pretty POV" rather than "seems pretty NPOV").

NPOV is "not the absence or elimination of viewpoints. The elimination of article content cannot be justified under this policy on the grounds that it is "POV". Article content should clearly describe, represent, and characterize disputes within topics".

The article quotes Senator Vickie McDonald's thoughts on the subject of Salvia divinorum, and includes some counterpoints of salvia proponents.

I think you need to be more specific as to how you take issue with it.

--SallyScot (talk) 15:47, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Eh, I was pruning the members of the unicameral that no longer were members. Most of them had remained relatively untouched, but this one seemed to have a bunch of Salvia divinorum stuff attached to it. Since she might never return to politics (thus pretty much freezing the article), I wanted to have someone else come in an make sure we weren't giving undue weight to one issue which might just be spillover from another article entirely, without focusing on other important things she did. I'm just getting back from a wikibreak, and still trying to remember all the tags. Probably should of set it to peer review or something.

The extra text is very well referenced. I'm a little uneasy about the material saying that her largest donors were the beer lobby, as it seems almost like it says she was "bought" by them (even though this is possible anyway). Rest of the stuff is her own words and thus is fair unless it is out of context, which is a bit too much work to find out for someone that just wanted to fix the info boxes :P. Thanks for your help.--Rayc (talk) 06:06, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]