Talk:Douglas Frantz

Armenian "denial"
Please discuss how this information can be best added to the article, if at all. I'm not against including it, but it has to be neutrally worded and better sourced. The way you added the information originally you were essentially using Wikipedia to accuse the subject of being an Armenian genocide denier. That is not appropriate given the available sources for this "controversy" if one can call it that. § FreeRangeFrog croak 21:01, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, I have to question your ability to be objective here, given User:Steverci/sandbox/Crowe propaganda (which I remembered because I saw it at WP:BLP/N). It seems you're emotionally invested in the Armenian topic, which means it's probably a topic you should be more careful with. Using a few Armenian-American organizations' press releases to accuse the subject of being biased against Armenians is inappropriate. And quite honestly I cannot find reliable sources that covered this controversy. § FreeRangeFrog croak 21:05, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * You cannot just go to a page and remove sourced content just because WP:IDONTLIKEIT, leave it the way it is until you can prove and explain your allegations. There is nothing wrong with the sources, LA Observed (not an Armenian-American organization, as you claim) is a news agency cited in other articles like LA Weekly and the Armenian National Committee of America is a political organization with it's own article. This page is basically a stub except for the part I edited, the rest needs to be expanded, not my part cut down. If you want to propose a change in wording or expand the article, that's fine, but removing sourced content is vandalism. Also you shouldn't bring up WP:OTHERSTUFF and should mind your own business, my sandbox doesn't concern you. --Steverci (talk) 23:34, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * As I said before, you need to find a way to both source and word that more appropriately. You were essentially accusing the subject of being a holocaust denier. That's very serious, and you have no proof other than the allegations of organizations that are not neutral in any way, shape or form. I suggest you re-read the warning left in your talk page about ARBCOM sanctions on the Armenian topic before you revert my edit wholesale again (which among other things is also removing some minor improvements). That the article is a stub is irrelevant. § FreeRangeFrog croak 23:38, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * LA Observer is not an Armenian source, 'in any way, shape or form'. Here is a Jewish American organization source confirming this. And here is an academic source stating he wrote a genocide denying book. There are no allegations here but your own. And that is your fault for mixing your changes with vandalism. Do not vandalize the page again and then feel free to add your minor improvments. --Steverci (talk) 00:07, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Please read the definition of WP:VANDALISM before you use that term again. And I am done attempting to explain why your edit is inappropriate. I left a final warning on your talk page, I recommend you take it into consideration. § FreeRangeFrog croak 00:12, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Are you serious? You're going to ignore (again) that these sources aren't Armenian and not even acknowledge the new ones I showed you and just leave? There is no argument against the reliability of Frantz being a (as you put it) holocaust denier. If you aren't even going to discuss on the talk then there's no reason I shouldn't revert your edits. --Steverci (talk) 01:13, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * No. Some of the sources are OK. But you need to go over WP:UNDUE and WP:BLP as a whole:


 * "He was forced to resign as Los Angeles Times Managing Editor due to his Armenian Genocide denial prejudice views."


 * That's just to begin with, and everything else was exaggerated and misrepresented. And further, I object to your original use of "Armenian Association of Whatever" as sources. The reason being that you need significant coverage from reliable sources to source a controversy like this. Do you understand why your original edit was inappropriate? Please indicate whether you do, because I won't continue this discussion otherwise. § FreeRangeFrog croak 01:17, 27 January 2015 (UTC)


 * And by the way, your description of the Google books links as somehow proving that Frantz wrote a "genocide denying" book is incredibly wrong. I'm not sure if this is an issue with your fluency in English, but ultimately I don't really care because the onus here is on you, not me. I have no problem in principle with the Jewish World Watch article, and here's another one that can be used. So there's two, now the question is whether or not you can manage to insert that in an appropriate manner. § FreeRangeFrog croak 01:23, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Is this appropriate enough for you? --Steverci (talk) 18:52, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

I have shortened and rewritten our coverage to bring it in line with what reliable sources report. In particular, no reliable source says Frantz denied the Armenian Genocide, and claiming he did or categorizing him in this way without such a source is highly inappropriate. Huon (talk) 17:42, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

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