Talk:Red McCombs

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Red McCombs article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Biography: 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
	Sports portal This article is supported by the sports and games work group.

Business Mid‑importance

	Business portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Business, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of business articles 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.BusinessWikipedia:WikiProject BusinessTemplate:WikiProject BusinessWikiProject Business articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

National Football League Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject National Football League, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the NFL 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.National Football LeagueWikipedia:WikiProject National Football LeagueTemplate:WikiProject National Football LeagueNational Football League articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

National Basketball Association Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject National Basketball Association, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the NBA 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.National Basketball AssociationWikipedia:WikiProject National Basketball AssociationTemplate:WikiProject National Basketball AssociationNBA articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States: Texas Mid‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Texas portal This article is supported by WikiProject Texas (assessed as Low-importance).

It is requested that an image or photograph be included in this article to improve its quality. Please replace this template with a more specific media request template where possible.
The Free Image Search Tool or Openverse Creative Commons Search may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites.

Upload

Neutrality[edit]

Suggesting that McCombs ran the Vikings "into the ground" does not conform to Wikipedia's viewpoint neutrality policy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.145.144.254 (talk • contribs) .

Facts are always neutral. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.49.44.154 (talk) 03:44, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

After adjusting the content and have therefore removed the {{POV check}} tag. jareha ^(comments) 00:19, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article's POV seems to have become a problem again. The article includes many subjective phrases like "a very successful operation," "an astute and successful investor," and "generous concern for others." The entire article reads more like a toast to Red McCombs than a neutral encyclopedia article. I'm bringing back the POV check tag. -Mabeenot (talk) 04:10, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've reverted Special:Contributions/Profcopywriter's edits on the basis that they're just excessive astroturfing. In addition to the edits 174.46.28.58 reverted, there's stuff like "McCombs is recognized as one of the leading automobile dealers in the United States", "McCombs pioneered the used car business model employed by most retail auto dealers in the United States", "McCombs is an astute and successful investor", and then this:

“

Giving to others is a way of life for Red McCombs. He is quick to offer help to those in need, and his generous concern for others is evident in all that he does. McCombs has worked in various leadership positions in his community.

”

Sure, some of the dates are, I suppose, interesting, but they're uncited. And I find it curious how the Biography section was pretty much just a copy / past of the lead paragraph. All in all, the whole thing wreaks of a bad copy paste job. I mean, look at the edit times. Within five minutes, Profcopywriter wrote all that? Sorry, but that just seems unlikely. What seems more likely, in fact, is that it's plagiarism, although I can find no other site using these exact sentences via Google. TerraFrost (talk) 05:58, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

potential copyright infringement[edit]

Some of the latest additions to this article appear to have been lifted straight from this:

http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/mccombs/about/bio.asp

In particular, all paragraphs, save for the first, second, and the last.

The second paragraph appears to be lifted from this:

http://66.162.83.197/bio.html

I'll probably revert these additions within the next few days unless anyone can think of any reason I ought not to... TerraFrost 21:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No need to wait - those are straight cut and pastes. Thanks for spotting it. Kuru ^talk 21:50, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 external links on Red McCombs. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

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.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 09:13, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Career[edit]

The Biography section devotes one sentence to this billionaire’s career. It says nothing about how big his automobile dealership became, or how he became involved in Clear Channel, what his role there was, and how much of his fortune is accounted for. Sajita (talk) 02:24, 15 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]