User talk:Arlenerae

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Your edit to Bob Rae
And once again, welcome to Wikipedia! If you're the Arlene Perly Rae, it's an honour. If not... well, we are glad to have you whoever you are, but you would have to change your username. Note the policy here.

If you are are Ms. Rae, please note our community's guidelines on autobiography; it is discouraged, but subjects of articles, their relatives, etc. are very much welcome to leave notes on article talk pages, such as Talk:Bob Rae.

Now, looking at your edit of March 19 itself, a few questions and thoughts:


 * Did he not have "a period of personal uncertainty" in the mid-1970s? If there is a published sources that say he did, any editor may add that claim back to the article. Any clarification you would like to make would be appreciated.
 * Did Gerald Caplan not in fact encourage him to run for either the provincial or federal NDP leadership?
 * You removed the sentence that "Rae himself was sometimes criticized for a lack of passion and charisma during the 1985 campaign."
 * Do you contend that he was never so criticized in any remotely notable way or context, such as commentary in the media? If so - if you believe the claim is entirely or materially false, please tell us so specifically.
 * If you removed it because you thought it wasn't very important, it didn't take the full measure of his work in that campaign, etc., please understand that you're unavoidably too close to the subject to make that editorial call for an encyclopedia that prides itself on a neutral point of view. But countless conscientious volunteer editors here would be only too happy to look into any such concerns you might raise.
 * I have to say that changing "cabinet scandals" to "minor cabinet scandals", to the best of my assessment, crosses the line into editorializing. I was all of eleven years old when the Rae government was sworn in and I still remember watching and reading breathless accounts of the numerous cabinet scandals across the media. I'm going to change that back right now; in fact, I'll have it read "scandals in cabinet and caucus, and disagreements among the party and its supporters."

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