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The second paragraph of the intro attempts to link Elder to the "far-right" in a non-factual fashion, and comes across simply as a character-attack by a critic. It does not contribute useful background information, and should be omitted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.128.226.174 (talk) 15:33, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
I concur, the sources linked, such as Salon, are considered left wing by wikipedia and cannot be considered a neutral source. Having them in the article to represent varying views is fine, but don't belong in the opening paragraph. I have shifted them to later in the article and reworded them to make clear that they are the opinions of critics, and not widely accepted. Ageofultron (talk) 20:57, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
I absolutely agree. I personally like Larry Elder, but agree that opinions need to be taken out. Simply being called something based on someone else's opinion shouldn't be used to state a fact. Several portions of this read as opinion rather than statements of facts. This is concerning to me, especially with Wikipedia asking for donations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:FFD1:3730:5574:F1CE:A72B:C3C9 (talk) 18:41, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
Considering the significance of race in Elder's writings and talk, the article should make explicit what his race is. (Not everyone can see the pictures of him, and they are not 'proof' that he is African-American anyway.)2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:CCA7:980C:8BC4:C192 (talk) 15:00, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
I messed up the formatting and don't know how to fix it, sorry. Cash713 (talk) 18:11, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
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I propose merging Larry Elder 2024 presidential campaign into Larry Elder and leaving behind a redirect. I think that the content in the campaign can easily be explained within the biographical article for the foreseeable future, and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in the candidate’s main article. It is not clear whether the campaign will obtain enough note down the road to warrant its own article, but it is not useful to have a stub article at this moment. I am not opposed to a future spinning-off/re-creation of the campaign article if there later becomes sufficiently more to write about the campaign, but for now I believe the stub-article on the campaign serves no use and there is not enough to expand the article beyond what is now contained in it. I am in the process of making similar requests for some other 2024 campaign articles.
The main info of the campaign article would receive its own section of the Elder article, while the "Political positions" section would be merged with the Elder article's "Political views" section if any content mentioned in the campaign article is omitted from Elder's main article.
SecretName101 (talk) 15:51, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
I have removed the tag, as the proposal has clearly failed at this point. BD2412 T 03:59, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
I'm trying to understand the following statement in the opening introduction paragraph for Larry Elder, as it reads:
"He maintains ties to The Epoch Times, a far-right newspaper published by the Falun Gong movement."
I followed the source of this information; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-influence-falun-gong.html
The argument, if I read it clearly, is "Larry Elder has Anti-Chinese sentiment, there-fore he's associated with the Falun Gong movement". Because that is the only basis for the inclusion of that statement...There is no reference to anything but an opinion piece.
This is like saying "You like dogs? Hitler liked dogs too. You must be associated with the Nazis"... 2600:4041:5B5F:DF00:3979:1DCD:A8B5:2064 (talk) 01:21, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
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Now that campaign is over, I am again proposing a merge of Larry Elder 2024 presidential campaign into this article. The article has a "Political positions" section that is duplicative of a section featured within this article, and so should be merged. The rest of the article is five short paragraphs (each about two-sentences). Very clearly able to be merged without length issues. The campaign was not all that impactful or notable on the primaries, and therefore lacks much other content that could expand the page. The campaign received very little media coverage (it seemed it would often go weeks at a time without there being any news stories). This article was prematurely created, and was never justified as a separate page. SecretName101 (talk) 16:02, 30 October 2023 (UTC)