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*What has been disputed is the first line of the article: "Waterboarding is a form of torture also known as water torture." Is it a violation of ] to have "waterboarding equals torture" stated as fact, when many conservatives hold an opinion that it is not?06:31, 21 July 2007 (UTC) *] What has been disputed is the first line of the article: "Waterboarding is a form of torture also known as water torture." Is it a violation of ] to have "waterboarding equals torture" stated as fact, when many conservatives hold an opinion that it is not?06:31, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
*] Is it a problem under ] and ] that the majority of the article consists of Michale Moore's attack on Gupta with no recounting of Gupta's self-defense? Is it appropriate for an anonymous editor to remove the NPOV tag because he disagrees with the multiple editors who find a NPOV violation? 13:44, 17 July 2007 (UTC) *] Is it a problem under ] and ] that the majority of the article consists of Michale Moore's attack on Gupta with no recounting of Gupta's self-defense? Is it appropriate for an anonymous editor to remove the NPOV tag because he disagrees with the multiple editors who find a NPOV violation? 13:44, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
*] - Does ] apply to non-fiction films? Is a 15K recounting of the plot, including extensive quotes from dialogue and the closing credits, appropriate for Misplaced Pages? 11:19, 15 July 2007 (UTC) *] - Does ] apply to non-fiction films? Is a 15K recounting of the plot, including extensive quotes from dialogue and the closing credits, appropriate for Misplaced Pages? 11:19, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

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  • Talk:Waterboarding What has been disputed is the first line of the article: "Waterboarding is a form of torture also known as water torture." Is it a violation of WP:NPOV to have "waterboarding equals torture" stated as fact, when many conservatives hold an opinion that it is not?06:31, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Talk:Sanjay Gupta Is it a problem under WP:NPOV#Undue weight and WP:NPOV that the majority of the article consists of Michale Moore's attack on Gupta with no recounting of Gupta's self-defense? Is it appropriate for an anonymous editor to remove the NPOV tag because he disagrees with the multiple editors who find a NPOV violation? 13:44, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Talk:Sicko (film) - Does WP:NOT#PLOT apply to non-fiction films? Is a 15K recounting of the plot, including extensive quotes from dialogue and the closing credits, appropriate for Misplaced Pages? 11:19, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Talk:Allegations_of_state_terrorism_by_the_United_States#Request_for_Comment:_title_change_to_Political_violence_by_the_United_States Title change to a neutral title which will drastically reduce edit warring. When the Zionist terrorism page when the name was changed to Zionist political violence the edit warring was reduced dramatically. 11:16, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Talk:Flying_checkpoint#Request_for_Comment There is a dispute about whether to include examples of use of flying checkpoints by Israel, the U.S., and Lebanese militias or to rely only on a general overview of checkpoints.03:33, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Talk:Sicko_(film)#NPOV_tag WP:LEAD requires mention of significant controversies in the lead paragraphs; WP:NPOV requires fair presentation of significant points of view. Does it violate WP:NPOV when there is no mention of right-wing criticism of the movie in the article at all? Should the NPOV tag be removed when there is a significant debate about the neutrality and factual accuracy of the article on the talk page? 19:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Ethnic minorities in Iran Dispute about use of quotes - whether too extensive or not, whether we should weed out "American sponsored" quotes and sources or not etc and what exactly constities NPOV 00:48, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Tony Blair: Should the article include a succession box for the Order of Precedence? 22:24, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
  • National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive - Two questions. Question #1: is this article a stub? User:TDC seems to think so in this edit. Question #2: should the link to the comprehensive analytical article by Michel Chossudovsky, which was added earlier today, have been removed? Diff here. As seen in the article's edit history, User:TDC was determined to "prove" that only one political commentator had commented on the Directive, but when it was shown that four commentators had published on the subject, s/he chose to remove the other links. Many thanks for input. 22:22, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Ted Kennedy - Full RFC here - Should his opposition to the Cape Wind project be included under the section on his political views on energy policy 01:01, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Talk:The_Intelligence_Summit#Deletion_of_criticism There is a controversy about whether massive wholesale deletion of sourced and apparently relevant content is appropriate on this article. The link is to the discussion page. 00:11, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
  • J.K. Rowling There is a controversy on how much information to provide about the Politics of J.K. Rowling and her influences. Outside comment invited. Libertycookies 20:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Talk:House_demolition#RfC_on_article_lead. There is a dispute about whether the lead of this article should indicate that house demolitions are a "controversial component of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." Outside comment would be welcome.17:06, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Western Sahara and the SADR Template talk:Country data Western Sahara This is a dispute regarding the replacement of a flag with a map in order to prevent mix-up between Western Sahara and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) (Example of former confusion). 08:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Talk:Goguryeo#Request for Comment. There are many disputed issues on this article that's been causing constant revert wars for the last few months. Please consult the talk page for details. 07:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam: A dispute regarding if the current article is POV or NPOV, see the discussion page. This also connects to a bounty of 1000 USD for making the article featured as for the moment the article seems to have been taken over by one of the fighting factions in Sri Lanka. 07:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)~
  • Talk:Stephen Barrett Barrett, MD, is a public figure and an opinion leader. He is one of the main critiques of alternative medicine. There is a long, ongoing disagreement over whether Barrett's board-certification status should be included in his article. 17:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC) 17:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Islamophobia: A long-standing dispute over whether a paper by Jehanzeb Hasan, a research assistant at California State University, can be used as a source. Hasan's paper provides a rejoinder to criticism of Islamophobia (i.e. he is arguing that Islamophobia does exist). His paper is used as the basis for part of this section, which some editors have been removing for months because they say he is not a reliable source, because he is not a notable source. Other editors argue that he needs only to be a reliable source, not a notable one. Comments please to Talk:Islamophobia#RfC_on_Hasan_paper. 19:33, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Barack Obama Talk:Barack_Obama#Request_for_Comment There is a dispute concerning how much weight is due in the article to Barack Obama's relationship with Tony Rezko. 02:35, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
  • A debate is going back and forth about whether the lead section of An Inconvenient Truth should note that the film is "controversial". See discussion here (with links to previous discussion). We seem to be going back and forth and outside input would be appreciated. 18:31, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Michelle Malkin Supporters of Michelle Malkin are deleting all references to her 9/11 (Flight 93) conspiracy theory claims. (see here> ). This must stop. 17:17, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
    (See discussion at Talk:Michelle Malkin#Possible source for recent revision by 69.113.141.210.)
  • Nordic theory. Should Nordic race redirect to Nordic theory or should there be separate articles on Nordicism and Nordic race? 09:39, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Talk:Flag of Western Sahara#Request_for_Comment:_In-article_name_.26_dab — In-article name & dab use 17:24, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Barack Obama Talk:Barack_Obama#Identifying_Muslims should the article mention that Obama's father and stepfather are Muslims? 14:40, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Impeach George W. Bush? This discussion has been in the (nonexistent?) Mediation Cabal for a few weeks, and it's turned into a soapbox. I'd hate to think that an AFD should be started, because it's a good concept for an article, but it is almost impossible for it to adhere to NPOV. Help with the discussion please! 22:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Sabeel. Does the lead violate WP:UNDUE by overemphasizing accusations of antisemitism? Please see discussion here. Outside comments needed.--16:59, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Michelle Malkin The Michelle Malkin 'article' is closer to being a fan page than an encyclopedic article. It has over a dozen links to the site itself as sourcing as well. Ownership problems to boot. You can help. 00:24, 10 May 2007 (UTC) (See discussion at Talk:Michelle Malkin#This article is a travesty 02:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC))
  • List of sovereign states. Ongoing debate Should this list be renamed, changed, or deleted?
  • Talk:Institute of National Remembrance - discussions regarding importance and scope of lustration plus few other issues are deadlocked, leading to revert war and protections. Comments from outside neutral parties needed.18:02, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Deir Yassin Massacre. Talk:Deir_Yassin_massacre#Ongoing_debate A 1998 survey of English language history books found that only 8 of 170 "raise serious doubts" that this massacre took place. A search of Google scholar finds that 50 use the term "Deir Yassin massacre" and none use "Battle of Deir Yassin". Google books finds the proportion is 106 to 2. Two editors nevertheless argue, based mainly on the opinion of one leading scholar, that the "battle" interpretation should get equal weight in the intro and in the article itself, while one argues the page name should be changed to "Battle of Deir Yassin". Please comment. 02:47, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Zionist political violence Talk:Zionist political violence Should information on Kahane Chai Kach and Gush Emunim Underground groups that is already in the Religious terrorism article be duplicated verbatim in the Zionist political violence article? 19:42, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Barney Frank Talk:Barney Frank#Request for comment The issue concerns how to discuss Congressman Barney Frank's relationship with Steven Gobie. Each side has summarized its position on the points in dispute. 00:24, 29 June 2007 (UTC)