Colonel William A. Phillips

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Eliminate the 'Controversies' section

Now that the election is over, I'm hoping I can raise what I believe is a legitimate concern without the typical politicking debates. I don't believe any politician's page should have a separate controversies section. This used to be a common practice, but was stopped on most pages as it is a clear violation of WP:NPOV. There were wiki projects to do this for presidential candidates, but I guess statewide official pages were ignored. For example, Hillary Clinton and Mike Huckabee had long controversy sections that were eliminated. Please keep in mind that I am absolutely not suggesting to remove something potentially negative, but rather keep it all in a chronological and neutral context rather than in a seperate controversy section. Again, this is a common wiki practice - prior to running for president, Obama, Clinton, Biden, Giuliani, McCain, Fred Thompson, Chris Dodd and many others had controversy sections. MavsFan28 (talk) 04:44, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This has apparently been done and I can see other discussions about removing negative content but I wanted to point out that sanitizing a page to have no content that could be considered negative isn't the same as being neutral. I came to this page because I read elsewhere that events on the campaign trail led to George Allen effectively disappearing from politics and I wanted to know more. Seems like a major item in his biography right? The article mentions that he retired after a "controversial" campaign but then the subject is totally dropped. Are we going to remove mentions of Monica Lewinski from Clinton's ariticle? Are we going to remove mentions of Flint from Snyder's? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:405:4001:45B0:114C:A590:95F5:F0CE (talk) 02:03, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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