Talk:David Yassky

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	The following comments have been left for this page: Biographical information has been edited according to Wikipedia's guidelines. Any additional biased editing will cause the editor to lose his or her Wikipedia privileges. We mean this. Thank you. (edit)

I'm not sure where to start with this. The whole thing smacks of a political campaign website. There just wouldn't be any NPOV information left if you took away the political inserts.

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Ruthfulbarbarity 06:00, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

There is already a dearth of information about Brooklyn-and in particular, Brooklyn politicians-on Wikipedia, and I can't comprehend why anyone would think that removing what little information exists would have an ameliorating effect upon the present situation.

And the people who continue to monkey with this article have decided not to respond.

Why doesn't that surprise me?

Ruthfulbarbarity 19:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

The same user-once again-has deleted pertinent information from this article without providing so much as a one sentence explanation.

Which leads me to ask yet again, "why?"

What is his or her motivation?

Furthermore, why won't he or she explain that motivation on this article's relevant talk page?

I'm more than willing to compromise on any edits that that person feels were improper, but I want to know what led him/her to that conclusion. Ruthfulbarbarity 00:13, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I've restored all the deleted text. Clearly we've got an editor here whose sole purpose is to remove information not glowingly positive of Yassky. No surprise there, I suppose, this is a political campaign... -/- Warren 01:22, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, the problem is that the information he deleted was not pejorative or adulatory as far as Yassky is concerned.

It was merely delineating the most important, most highly publicized issue of this campaign. Namely, the fact that Yassky is a white City Councilman from Brooklyn Heights running in a predominantly African-American, Flatbush-based congressional district.

Without that information even alluded to people coming to this article cold will scratch their heads and wonder why on earth this primary has attracted so much attention from the New York Times, Washington Post, etc., etc... Ruthfulbarbarity 00:47, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reversion To Previous Page

No doubt we'll have to do this again pretty soon, if recent history is any guide.

sigh* Ruthfulbarbarity 02:04, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] irrelevant material

and politically biased at that, has been commented out. That two of the people who spoke against him arent from his district is not exactly relevant. DGG 03:00, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

The irrelevant material reappeared and it has been removed again 1/12/2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.120.206.106 (talk) 23:54, 12 January 2008 (UTC)