Talk:Nancy Cantor

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Came here from RfC. Article was unencylopedic in many ways. I have reduced it down to a stub which is (I think) unobjectionable, although even that is unsourced.

Someone prepared to do some research might be able to restore some of the items I have removed, if that can be done in a NPOV way. AndyJones 10:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree that care needs to be taken when discussing living persons, but Cantor's biography reads like her PR people wrote it. She is a controversial figure who many people have criticized, and it is perfectly legitimate to include sourced criticism of her. The Student Press Law Center and Daily Orange are both reliable sources for legitimate criticism. They are at least equally valid as Cantor's PR pages such as the "Soul of Syracuse" reference. Nobody1234 13:37, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

NOBODY is interested in an "11th chancellor and president of Syracuse University in Syracuse"!! Nancy Cantor is primarily a researcher in psychology, and information on that is what people would expect from this article. The article as it is is completely useless.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.40.5.245 (talk • contribs)

People need to sign their comments. I did not write the above, but it will look as if I did because someone refused to sign a comment. I have two comments on what people have said above:

1. Actually, Chancellor Cantor's term as president of Syracuse University has generated quite a bit of controversy in her handling of the Hill TV racial scandal and several other issues. The article doesn't discuss those things, but it would be stupid to remove her current job from the description when it's her current job that's gotten her some pretty vocal opponents.

2. As for the current stub being unobjectionable, I'd hesitate. It describes her as an advocate for racial and gender equality, going on to cite her support for affirmative action as if it explains in more detail how she has done that. It is not at all uncontroversial to think affirmative action serves racial and gender equality. Many people think it does the opposite. As such, the article is POV unless it can be said in a way that doesn't sound as if Wikipedia endorses the view that affirmative action serves racial and gender equality. Parableman 20:13, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry about the signing thing. You can always use the {{unsigned}} template, as I just did, above. I agree describing someone as pro-affirmative action could itself be a WP:BLP problem, but it seems the page's one source seems to support that statement (that site is possibly not really reliable in the wikipedia sense, but it's almost certainly endorsed by the article's subject). I've removed yet more unsourced stuff from the page, today. AndyJones 20:40, 10 November 2007 (UTC)