Talk:Rudy Hobbs

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I have reverted the article to an acceptable version, and rather than leaving a curt edit summary to explain, as I did previously, and for which I apologise, I will try to explain why the latest version is not acceptable, and how to sort out the issue. It shouldn't be too difficult.

I appreciate the effort that has gone on to improve the article, which I presume is because Rudy is a candidate in an American election of some kind (I would probably vote for him to be my representative if I lived in his constituency, but as I live thousands of miles away and in a different continent, that isn't going to happen!) I'm pretty certain that in an election in the US, candidates and their representatives are governed in their behaviour by the rules imposed to cover the electoral process.

By the same token, wikipedia pages have to comply with the policies and guidelines set by the community, rules of behaviour if you like, but it gets much more complicated than that. Fortunately, it should be easy to deal with the problem. The problem is that all but two of the references to support the new article content lead to error pages. This has left the new page content unnsupported by citations. Sort out the refs, and it'll probably be OK. -Roxy the dog (resonate) 11:02, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]