User talk:Netgraph1

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Hi there. Regarding your concerns with the Peter Lance article, there are some issues with what you have tried to add there. First, it's a copy-and-paste of your biography from your website, which is really discouraged - it's written with a non-neutral point of view, has some promotional wording, and is not referenced to reliable sources. We require our articles to be neutral and written in an encyclopedic manner; the way the article stands now, it looks (to me) to be too detailed, and needs to be backed up by other references independent of your web page. Plus, there's a concern about conflict of interest as well. I'm actually going to revert back to the version prior to your additions, to remove the concerns regarding copyright violations that come with copy-and-paste, and I'd suggest that you use the Talk:Peter Lance page to discuss the changes that you feel should be made to the article. Thanks. Tony Fox (arf!) 21:16, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Tony, I appreciate you reply. I'm not sure how this works. Is this the best forum to answer your queries? I'd like to be able to improve the details of my entry. I understand what you're saying about "promotional" material, but I look at that Talk: Peter Lance page and there were several "attack" like references that were completely unjustified.

First of all, I have a lot more than my five emmys to support my work. I'm the only mainstream investigative reporter to do a critical analysis of the two "bin Laden offices of origin," the FBI's New York Office (NYO) and the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of N.Y. (SDNY). I testified before the 9/11 Commission on 3.15.04. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) called my first book "1000 Years for Revenge" a "must read for the FBI, the 9/11 Commission, Congress and anyone whose job it is to protect national security." That's a comment from a conservative. For a review by a liberal: Jason Leopold, who reviewed "Triple Cross," my latest book for truthout.org see: http://www.truthout.org/article/jason-leopold-reviewed-peter-lances-911-masterpiece He calls it a "masterpiece."

Since you have links to a rather obscure radio interview with Scott Horton, which is fine, I wanted to be able to put those links to coverage of my work by Dan Rather (on the CBS Evening News), Fox News and CNN -- multiple pieces by Paula Zahn and Lou Dobbs.

I also want to be able to expand on the biographical section -- and, if possible do links to amazon and barnes & noble so that the public can have access to my three HarperCollins books: 1000 YEARS, COVER UP and TRIPLE CROSS which are in print.

I have no idea why there is a reference on my section to Alex Jones. He's a guy I had a major brawl with one night on Coast to Coast AM and, I suspect, one of those critics who impeached my work.

So, please guide me in the right direction and let me know what you would need in order to help get my section on Wikipedia the detail that it deserves.

I'm happy to send you copies of my three 9/11 investigative books, if that would help the process. If you want to contact me via e-mail you can reach me at: netgraph@earthlink.net.

Many thanks, peter lance http://www.peterlance.com


 * Yeah, right here is fine for responses. I'll tell you what; being that journalist articles tend to be my thing lately, I'll take on trying to clarify this for you.


 * What I'll need from you is an itemized summary of what you think needs to be changed, and why; a list of Web addresses for the items you mention above that can act as reliable sources would be ideal, as I can then work with those to develop the article. We try to avoid links to specific sales sites on Amazon, etc. - that tends to lean into advertising, and that's definitely a no-no.


 * I can't promise that the edits will be done fast, unless others get involved as well - I'm coming up on some deadlines in the next couple of weeks and tend to be less enthusiastic about writing here when I'm up to my ears at the office. Tony Fox (arf!) 23:45, 22 March 2009 (UTC)