Talk:Mike Opat/Archive 1

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Mike Opat is a relatively unknown politician who has recently posted a huge wiki page on himself (ip address was registered to Hennepin County Govt Center). I am attempting to pare this page down to an appropriate amount if information that is not insanely one sided. I appreciate wiki editors, but a page this large is not appropriate for a person of his stature.
 * Please see WP:POLITICIAN. He seems to barely squeak by on notability.  Please stop deleting text from the article without discussion.  Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 23:42, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

This page is way to big. Ken Salazar the US Secretary of the Interior has a page less than 24KB while this guy's is over 30 KB. It appears to have been created and largely written by User:Geresh111 who may know the subject (he claims the picture in the article is his own work). Opat is the chair of The Hennepin County Board of Commissioners which doesn't even have a page. One editor was blocked for trying to pate this page down. If I don't hear anything in the near future I'm going to decimate the page. --Weetoddid (talk) 22:32, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 01:41, 12 June 2009 (UTC)