Talk:Steven G. Bradbury

Brandbury's early life
The page says: "He attended Washington High School in Portland from 1972 to 1976 where he was student body president his senior year." It cites this article at the NYT, which doesn't mention the school, student body president, or even use the word 'portland'. Why is it used as a cite when it doesn't cite anything in the sentence? tedder (talk) 23:51, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I just added a better cite. --Esprqii (talk) 00:04, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! tedder (talk) 00:13, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Changes
Why remove the facts of the dates when Bradbury was head of OLC? That seems strange.Parkwells (talk) 04:58, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Parkwells: I agree. In my estimation, User:HenryBlum is a Single-purpose account. As of today, 29 out of 32 of this account's edits pertain only to Steven G. Bradbury. This includes adding mentions of Bradbury to some of Bradbury's former employers, adding favorable material, and whitewashing controversial actions that Mr. Bradbury performed. I have reviewed this user's edits, and in addition to some non-controversial changes (spelling etc.), the user:


 * removed the word "torture", removed Mr. Bradbury's comment describing the Geneva Conventions as "vague", and considerably softened the other language,
 * restated (inflated?) the OLC's and Supreme Court's reliance on one of Mr. Bradbury's opinions in DC v. Heller,
 * removed Mr. Bradbury's legal opinion allowing interrogators to strike detainees,
 * removed a cited use of the word "waterboarding",
 * removed the link to the "Torture Memos" article,
 * added an accurate but uncited list of awards Mr. Bradbury received while working for the OLC (an apparent WP:CLOP of the Dechert citation),
 * removed a wikilink to "enhanced interrogation techniques" (leaving the words in place),
 * removed the word "torture", and
 * removed a cited statement that Bradbury authorized waterboarding, striking prisoners, and forced sleep deprivation of detainees for up to 7½ days.


 * Many these changes were performed without edit summaries, and the majority of edits occurred between 2009-04-04 and 2009-05-29, which falls in between the end of Bradbury's tenure at OLC (2009-01-20) and the announcement of his hire at Dechert (2009-07-13). I have put a lot of work into this article in the past couple of days, added a lot of sources, and reintroduced some of the excised material that was reliably sourced. I didn't find any good PD photos of him, so I took a still image from C-SPAN when he was speaking to the House Judiciary Committee, just to round out the article. I would welcome a fresh set of eyes, but I think the current incarnation is a dramatic improvement over what it looked like a week ago, and it contains enough sourcing to satisfy the requirements of WP:BLP.- Ich (talk) 03:58, 29 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Looks like you made substantive, well-sourced changes. Thanks for all your work!Parkwells (talk) 23:52, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * A second user with no appreciable footprint on Wikipedia (as of now, one single edit) has excised a large amount of controversial material from Mr. Bradbury's page:
 * Removed numerous references from WP:RS, including New York Times, Salon, ThinkProgress, and The Legal Intelligencer et al.,
 * Removed every single instance of the word "waterboard",
 * Removed all but one occurrence of the word "torture",
 * Removed an "" from one of the citations that contained an accomplishment, and
 * Removed the categories "George W. Bush administration controversies" and "Torture in the United States".


 * with the edit summary: "These changes were necessary to make the article clearer, more accurate, and more balanced and objective. Previous edits introduced inaccuracies, biased characterizations, and tendentious sources.". I would venture a guess that this is the same individual with a different account who made the changes before.


 * To respond to the criticisms, I would agree that this page still needs work. I have done some work on the sources, including removing the blogspot article containing excerpts from one of Bradbury's memos, as well as the sourcewatch link which predates my involvement with the page. Again, this page still needs work, but I think the quality and quantity of the sources continue to meet the citation standards set out in BLP.- Ich (talk) 15:28, 10 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Another newly registered user removed a lot of the controversial material without providing an edit summary. These changes that largely replicate the last user's changes in tone, as well as cutting a number of items with inline reliable sources. I have gone through the changes and reverted about half of them. Along with removing cited controversial material, there were some stylistic changes and corrections, and I have incorporated those into the current draft of the article. I found some more sources and added them to the article, including Mr. Bradbury's actions as an advisor to the 2012 Romney campaign.- Ich (talk) 17:44, 28 August 2016 (UTC)


 * ...And another newly-registered user has been edit-warring over content on this page. Thank you, User:Sro23, for reverting the changes and creating Sockpuppet investigations/Stimmer16. I should have posted a link to Sockpuppet investigations/HenryBlum here earlier to save you some work.- Ich (talk) 17:04, 4 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Here we go again! New editor making changes, new sockpuppet investigation here: Sockpuppet investigations/HenryBlum.- Ich (talk) 20:53, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

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