Talk:Stephen McNallen

Wotan Network
since stepping down from AFA, mr Mcnallen seems to have formed something called the Wotan Network. A cooperation with Red Ice that seems primarely focused on spreading anti Islamic Immigration stuff and promoting an racialist interpetation of Heathenry. I see sources that I consider reliable but that probably do not meet Wikipedia´s standards. I feel it is relevant to add to the page. I can add some of my sources here, but as I said I´m afraid they won´t meet the Wikipedia standards, even though they are speaking the truth. Maybe someone that has more experience with updating pages of living people can find sources that are considered up to standard. https://twitter.com/wotannetwork1 http://www.heathenhof.com/mcnallens-wotan-network-promotes-alleged-human-traffickers/ https://adventurousgit.blogspot.nl/2017/06/the-wotan-network-how-to-corrupt-god.html

2001:1C06:1402:0:4DFF:B93E:8CE3:26A6 (talk) 23:14, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Untitled
This is a list of claims made in the article for which we should have citations, or at least external links that establish the claims, in order to eventually bring this biographical article to 'featured' status.

1.) "Born in Breckenridge, Texas," - The names of his parents, and perhaps a few more details for his childhood would make the introductory paragraph more friendly.

2.) "After receiving a degree in political science and his officer commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army, McNallen went on to become an Airborne Ranger." - Substantiating these facts would be good in order to establish this turning point in his life, as his military career quite obviously has continued to affect him over the course of many decades.

3.) "worked as a journalist" - At what time in his life? For which news reporting agency?

4.) "McNallen has a background in law enforcement," - At what time in his life? Which police department?

5.) ''"has held a "Secret" level security clearance as recently as 1993 for classified work in military counter-drug operations." - This has been mentioned in numerous places, but nothing else is provided to flesh out the details. Does anyone know why exactly he was granted a higher-level security clearance in the first place? Did he, for example, perform exceptionally well in his capacity as an Army officer in certain tasks?

6.) "McNallen has also worked as a school teacher and a corrections officer" - Same thing as with the journalist occupation: where? for whom? We need a few details.

7.) "After some years of inactivity and restructuring, McNallen currently leads the Asatru Folk Assembly or AFA." This statement glosses over quite a few relevant details. 'Restructuring' in this context is almost a euphemism- it is common knowledge amongst many American Heathens that McNallen had to fight with tooth and claw in order to get that group reorganised, and even with those efforts some people still broke away (which is usual amongst modern heathens, yes, I know). This quoted sentence could use some substantial expansion.

8.) "Asatru Folk Assembly v. United States" - The full text of this case at Wikisource would be invaluable. I may have a copy around here somewhere, but if someone gets to it sooner than I, please place it at WS and link it.

Other than a few bits needing expansion, and a number of citations needed, this is looking like a good start for the article. Kudos to Bloodofox and WeniWidiWiki for getting the ball rolling.

→ ''' P. Mac Uidhir''' (t)  (c)  17:42, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Dead link
Here it is. * Tribes upset by ritual for Kennewick Man I'm storing it here because something regarding the court case, actual complaints and so on would be wonderful. As of now the article isn't clear on the case or what claims Asatru made, etc. #8 above would be perfect for this. Penguinwithin (talk) 02:30, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Interviews for further research taken from article
McNallen has been interviewed a number of times: October 9 1999 on the Art Bell radio show, June 2007,  July 2007,   July 2007, January 2010 in 2 parts, May 2010, March 2011, May 2011, March 2014, April 2014, May 2014,  June 2014,   August 2014, December 2014 ,  February 2015 , June 2015,  and August 2015.


 * Yes. I plead guilty, noting that a. articles here shouldn't be resumes, and merely listing interviews is nothing but resume padding; b. it does not appear to be the case that all those interviews were done with things considered reliable sources; c. I do not know why so many of these things are linked to the club's own website, but it sure looks odd. Drmies (talk) 23:42, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

A note for the admirers
This article must adhere to the WP:BLP, to the standards set out for biographies of living people. In addition, it must be encyclopedic, meaning in this case that it has to be neutral. I have removed a hell of a lot of claims that were not neutral, most of them promoting the subject or inflating his importance one way or another, claims that were unsourced or improperly sourced. This cannot be. I have noticed that there is spillover to other articles, including Kennewick Man and Asatru Folk Assembly--there also, rigorous standards of sourcing and neutrality must be applied. That this Asatru club was involved with some legislation involving Kennewick Man is really of interest to no one, given the complete lack of reliable secondary sourcing, and as such those report have no place anywhere in our project. Drmies (talk) 23:40, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 3 one external links on Stephen McNallen. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Attempted to fix sourcing for http://www.runestone.org/bio.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20150609090130/http://www.mynevadacounty.com/nc/probation/docs/July%202014%20Newsletter.pdf to http://www.mynevadacounty.com/nc/probation/docs/July%25202014%2520Newsletter.pdf
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20150415140157/http://www.runestone.org/declaration.htm to http://www.runestone.org/declaration.htm

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Citation error
A quick drive-by comment: Citation 42 refers to McNallen 2006, but there is no McNallen 2006 in the bibliography, so the link goes nowhere. Josh Milburn (talk) 23:34, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * - well spotted, thank you! I have corrected the faulty citation (it should have been 2004, not 2006). Midnightblueowl (talk) 16:16, 25 September 2016 (UTC)