Talk:Rex Armistead

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Nominated for deletion[edit]

I'm rather surprised at this nomination.

Rex Armistead has been a red link in several articles surrounding the Starr report, the Arkansas Project and the suicide of Vince Foster. He was a notable participant in the Jackson State killings, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and in controversies in the election of governor Bill Allain. He is covered in several books on both the Mississippi segregation era and in the attempts to smear Bill Clinton in the 1990s. In the article I put up there are fourteen different reliable sources alone that mention him. He pops up all over the place.

Yes, the article makes him sound like a bad man, but that's what he appears to be, and that's what the judges in Armistead v. Minor said was substantially true. The original trial was thrown out because the judges claimed his reputation was so bad anyway, libel wasn't possible.

I'm assuming good faith on your part, but did you actually look at the details of the article, including the citations?VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 06:08, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I did look at the cites. But the first thing that caught my attention was in the opening paragraph: "a co-ordinated attempt to smear former President Bill Clinton by certain figures in the Right-wing US media." I'm sorry, but whenever I hear "left-wing" or "right-wing" US media, that sets off the "bias" alarm bells. That some of the cites include James Carville and Joe Conason - both of whom are pretty open supporters of the Democratic party - doesn't help your case. Regardless of whether the allegations are true or not, the article must be written to be non-biased. To do otherwise would be a disservice. Wikipedia is not an op-ed page. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 06:17, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed the opening line, in case, as you believe, people will see left-wing and right-wing as weasel words. Carville and Conason are two sources out of fourteen; the statement I sourced to Carville can be sourced elsewhere; it's a fact, not an opinion. The only opinion that comes from Conason is the remark of who was promoting Armistead to do these various things - that can go if need be, although Armistead was effectively pushed out of the Mississippi police force once Williams lost office. (I didn't include that, as it would have been my own WP:synth.VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 06:34, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality[edit]

Let's talk to get the tag off the article page. Can someone please point out in what way the article does not conform to NPOV?VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 00:25, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How much faith can we put in an article that repeatedly refers to the Mississippi State Police, an organization that doesn't even exist? 70.233.128.116 (talk) 21:40, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Or that refers to a suspicious death matter-of-factly as a suicide? Garth of the Forest (talk) 20:32, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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