Talk:Young Republicans

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132.241.246.111, your link to the external article, while humorous, is biased, nor does it appear to be related to the content in the article. I believe you are allowing your personal views to interfere with your contribution. Perhaps you would like to edit the article to clarify how the slur is relevant? In the meanwhile, I have reverted the article. DGaw 01:34, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I deleted the section on "Veracity" magazine - this appears to be a non-notable publication of the San Diego chapter, and the text was likely inserted by the proprietors. - David Oberst 02:11, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 External links 2 YR Alumni 3 Generic Discription(use of the word libertarian) 4 Scrubbing 4.1 Semi-protected

[edit] External links

I would propose removing most of the external links from this page. The current group is large enough to be unwieldy, yet apparently only an arbitrary subset of the possible links (50+ state orgs, and other city or regional groups). Contact and website information for these appears to be easily available on the nation site [1], and if a full list is deemed necessary and encyclopedic it could be created at, say, List of Young Republican websites and added to the "See Also" section. Comments? - David Oberst 02:20, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I would agree, this is starting to become a link farm.Montco 16:47, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] YR Alumni

Is there any verifiable source for these people having been members of the Young Republicans? Montco 00:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

The article states that the current Chairman of the Young Republican National Federation is Jessica Colon, and that she was elected at the 2007 Young Republican National Convention, held in July of 2007 at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida. While Ms. Colon is infact the Chair, Glenn Murphy Jr. was elected at the convention, and shortly resigned. The Wiki is incorrect.

[edit] Generic Discription(use of the word libertarian)

The word libertarian has been added to this article many times in the following statement: The term can also be used as a generic description of relatively youthful political conservatives, whether or not they belong to the organization. While there are certainly some Republicans who are also libertarians, it is not common to hear people with libertarian views referred to as "young Republicans" in a generic use of the term. Libertarian share fiscal beliefs with Republicans and social beliefs with Democrats. Therefore, it would not be acceptable to lump them in with conservatives. This does not seem to stop an individual from adding this word the aforementioned statement. A citation should be used if they wish to add that word to this article.

The entire statement should be removed. The article is about the YR movement, not generic descriptions of people.Montco 01:06, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

according to the YR web site they are conservatives. "grassroots support for Republican candidates and conservative issues on the local, state and national levels." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.153.197.59 (talk) 16:34, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Scrubbing

Would Concerned2030 like to explain the motive for scrubbing facts out of the article? Demesne Lord 19:01, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

The account was created this morning, and its sole contributions are to this article. It's obviously a friend of Murphy's who doesn't want his image besmirched on the page; all the facts are sourced, though, so there's nothing he can do. He has been reported to administrators for violating 3RR, and will be dealt with accordingly. Anthony Hit me up... 19:14, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Per the biographies of living persons policy, I've removed the section- these are extremely flimsy facts considering the nature of the situation. The "DO NOT REVERT THIS" comments within the article were extremely inappropriate.-Wafulz 20:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Semi-protected

This article has been reverted to Wafulz' last edit and semi-protected for a week, to prevent further IP and new account edits. Only established Wikipedia accounts can edit the article until next Wednesday.

This was done due to repeated insertion of material which is apparently in violation of Wikipedias' policies regarding Biographies of Living Persons (WP:BLP). Those policies require higher standards of notability and evidence for inclusion of potentially libelous, personal, or offensive information regarding living persons.

This is not a blanket requirement that this scandal not be discussed in the article at all. Edits to date have probably violated the BLP guidelines and are backed out now. I strongly recommend that anyone proposing to reinsert any such discussion read the BLP policy carefully and propose changes here on the Talk page first.

Blatant ongoing violators of BLP who refuse to cooperate with the policy are subject to blocking per existing WP rules and precedent. Nobody so far rises to that standard, and if anyone abuses this situation in the future you will be warned prior to blocking, but please be aware that Wikipedia administrators take issues like these very seriously. Please cooperate - read the policy, and discuss here.

Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert 00:51, 9 August 2007 (UTC)