Talk:Kirk Haston

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

This article is rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography: Politics and Government / Sports and Games

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group (assessed as Low-importance).
	Sports portal This article is supported by the sports and games work group.
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool as Stub-class because it uses a stub template. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

College Basketball Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject College Basketball, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of college basketball on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.College BasketballWikipedia:WikiProject College BasketballTemplate:WikiProject College Basketballcollege basketball articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool as Stub-class because it uses a stub template. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

Basketball

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Basketball, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Basketball on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BasketballWikipedia:WikiProject BasketballTemplate:WikiProject BasketballBasketball articles
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool as Stub-class because it uses a stub template. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

Tennessee Low‑importance

	Tennessee portal Kirk Haston is within the scope of WikiProject Tennessee, an open collaborative effort to coordinate work for and sustain comprehensive coverage of Tennessee and related subjects in the Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, and even become a member. [Project Articles] • [Project Page] • [Project Talk] • [Assessment] • [Template Usage]TennesseeWikipedia:WikiProject TennesseeTemplate:WikiProject TennesseeTennessee articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Kirk Haston. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080827200509/http://www.collegebasketballnews.com/customers/aprilnews.htm to http://www.collegebasketballnews.com/customers/aprilnews.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 18:50, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Legislative career[edit]

Has this guy done NOTHING in two terms in the legislature? The entire article is about his career as a pumpkin-bouncer. [Full disclosure: he represents my home district, more or less the one in which I was the 1974 Democratic nominee.] --Orange Mike | Talk 14:15, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Orangemike: As I observed the article, I recognize that you are fully correct in your assessment, and your concern certainly reflects our undue weight standards. It is very hard for someone to be in a political position for four years and do exactly nothing in the meantime. Even the lazy politicians do "something" at "some point". Haston's political career does deserve more coverage on this page. His basketball career was/is arguably catchier, especially considering his connections to Bobby Knight; but his status as a Tennessee state congressman perhaps has greater influence. Besides, with him never exceeding four points or five rebounds in a game and averaging a minuscule five minutes per game while playing roughly a dozen games in both his seasons, Haston is not the most memorable NBA player.

I have added a tidbit about him being Vice President of the House Education Committee, and that is a good start. But yeah, the information about his political career is still lacking here. One way I can fix this issue is by inserting an electoral history table or two, which I will be working on over the next few days.

One page I would like for you to look at is that of Chris Dudley, who, like Haston, has been both an NBA player and a politician. I believe it is a strong example of an article for which this one can follow (disclaimer: I have heavily contributed to that page).

I appreciate your feedback, and the page will be expanded in the near future. And one last note: your "pumpkin-bouncer" quip is hilarious.

Mungo Kitsch (talk) 05:46, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My critique was about the article, not the politician, even though he and I are on polar opposites of the spectrum (part of why I've lived in Wisconsin rather than in this district for over 45 years). --Orange Mike | Talk 16:55, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Orangemike: No worries, I understood that and I did not take it as you criticizing the politician himself. I know you were, with full validity, pointing out this article's skeletal coverage of his political career and not trying to imply him as a lame duck. (Also, I personally have little stake in Tennessee politics, as I have never lived there and have only visited once, maybe twice.)

Your critique is very helpful in inspiring improvement in this page, and is much appreciated. Mungo Kitsch (talk) 20:42, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Political career - expulsion opinion[edit]

i see someone put he supported the expulsion of two lawmakers but the link is broken and there is no supporting information.

I'm quite certain he was not present for the votes that day. I believe he was at his grandfather's funeral if that matters. But there's no information on what his opinions were to my research. 172.56.209.125 (talk) 02:13, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]