Talk:Kimberly Rivera

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it obviously meets the GNG. Rivera is notable for the actions stated in the article's lead: "Kimberly Rivera is an Iraq War resister who went AWOL in February 2007 after a year of service with the U.S. military.[2] She was the first female U.S. military deserter to flee to Canada.[3] She was deported from Canada on September 20, 2012 and pled guilty to desertion, receiving a sentence of ten months' imprisonment and a bad-conduct discharge. Amnesty International objected to her detention and designated her a prisoner of conscience." This notability is established by the number of reliable secondary sources which have reported in detail on Rivera: the CBC, the BBC, NBC, Marie Claire, The Globe and Mail, the Washington Post, etc. --Khazar2 (talk) 15:52, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Mentioning my bias
Per wikipedia policy Biographies of living persons/Help, I wanted to state that I am Kimberly Rivera's civilian defense attorney (in her US case). I believe my edits in this article have been neutral and objective (I have been a wikipedia editor for many years) but I wanted to state my connection to this case in the interests of fairness. --Jmbranum (talk) 04:34, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the disclosure. Your edits look good to me, and I appreciate the updates. The "Free Kimberly Rivera" website in external links may be borderline, but I think it's okay. I know in most cases promotional/advocacy websites are frowned on as links, but in a case like this, the "cause" is the main thing she's known for--it seems reasonable to include. Cheers Khazar2 (talk) 13:41, 30 November 2013 (UTC)