User talk:Jacknstock/Archive2018/September

Leonid Slutsky (politician)
See our policy on biographies of living people. Badly sourced material about living people must be removed, if you want the text included then the onus is on you to find a reliable independent secondary source to support it. Note that Breitbart is not considered reliable. Guy (Help!) 12:47, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Breitbart was not one of the sources in the section you removed. Did you even look? Jack N. Stock (talk) 02:39, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Twice. Guy (Help!) 07:52, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Text I removed: Slutsky has expressed concern about North Korea's missile tests and nuclear weapons development program, urging a return to six-party talks involving North Korea, South Korea, Russia, the United States, China and Japan. On February 24, 2017, he also expressed concern about US political rhetoric criticizing New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russia, and urged talks between the two nations. This was reiterated in response to the plans for increased US military spending announced in the President Donald Trump speech to joint session of Congress, February 2017, and in response to additional Terminal High Altitude Area Defense deployment in neighboring Korea.

Text as you restored it: Slutsky has expressed concern about North Korea's missile tests and nuclear weapons development program, urging a return to six-party talks involving North Korea, South Korea, Russia, the United States, China and Japan. On February 24, 2017, he also expressed concern about US political rhetoric criticizing New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russia, and urged talks between the two nations. This was reiterated in response additional Terminal High Altitude Area Defense deployment in neighboring Korea.

So you restored the text sourced to Sputnik (not WP:RS, part of RT, a Russian state propaganda outlet), added a cite to RT, again, not RS, and left in China Daily, which is a Chinese state propaganda outlet, and Zee News, which has a history of fabrications. This is very poor sourcing. Guy (Help!) 08:41, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree that the sources are poor, but it's not controversial information, and English-language reports about Russian politicians are scarce. On the other hand, you left WP:WEIGHTy sections "Allegations of sexual harassment" and "Criticism" untouched, including a completely unsourced section in Russian. If you look at the article overall, it is almost entirely an attack page. There is very little about his policy positions or political career. Even his involvement with a charity is negatively presented, yet I have no idea why the restoration of Kronstadt Naval Cathedral is considered unethical. Jack N. Stock (talk) 18:56, 29 September 2018 (UTC)