Talk:Ann Coulter

Article Checklist for "Ann Coulter"

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Article status	Developing article: beyond a stub, but incomplete
Underlinked article?	Yes
Basic cleanup done?	No
Checklist last edited by	Louis F. Sander 19:48, 8 April 2007 (CDT)

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I imported this from Wikipedia, with the intention of making it into a decent encyclopedia article about a controversial personality. IMHO, the Wikipedia version is a very bad article that places far too much emphasis on negatives, controversies, and the like. Louis F. Sander 22:33, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

I would start over, putting this on (say) Talk:Ann Coulter/WP, picking and choosing what to use. It's a mess right now. --Larry Sanger 23:12, 28 March 2007 (CDT)

Do you mean I should put it in some sort of "work in progress" area, where it can't be readily seen until it's finished? I'm going to work on it, and I already have, but it needs a LOT of work. I've discovered that the work goes fairly slowly, too, especially due to some pretty convoluted and hard-to-get citations. Louis F. Sander 00:39, 29 March 2007 (CDT)

Don't trim large amounts of fat without explanation, please

Mr. Sander, I noticed that you deleted two paragraphs from the article [1] saying only "trim the fat" in the summary. If you delete that much, you really owe the other contributors more of an explanation/justification. I am going to reinstate the material, on the assumption that it could easily be re-deleted--but after some explanation. I hope this seems reasonable. --Larry Sanger 07:59, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

Very reasonable. Here's an explanation:

The WP version of the article includes endless crufty and unencyclopedic examples of Coulter's controversial remarks, along with the crufty and unencyclopedic responses of other commentators to those remarks, along with the responses of still others to those responses, etc. When I brought the article to CZ, I left that stuff behind. I retained a small section on Coulter's religious beliefs, which, in the WP article, serves to illuminate some of the crufty discussions.

On reflection I realized that that purpose is moot in the CZ article. Since there's no other strong reason to keep the material (she's a political commentator, not a religious figure), and since nobody else seems to be working on the article, I just took it out.

I'll wait a while, and if nobody objects, I'll take it out again. Louis F. Sander 09:00, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

Political activities

I propose to delete this section, moving the Paula Jones stuff up to the discussion of her High Crimes and Misdemeanors book. The bit about her aborted candidacy is insignificant. (Another case of something that maybe belongs in the excruciatingly long article in another encyclopedia being out of place in this one.) Louis F. Sander 15:42, 27 May 2007 (CDT)