Talk:Sean Coffey
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[edit]This article reads a bit like a campaign website in some part, is there a way we could clean it up a little? I mean, the first sentence saying "John P. ("Sean") Coffey is a retired Navy Captain and former federal prosecutor recognized as one of the most successful trial attorneys in the United States." And the first sentence of his biography reads "Born in 1956 to Irish immigrant parents, Coffey is the oldest of seven children raised in the Bronx, Buffalo and Nassau County, New York. His father John, from County Kerry, was a union carpenter and his mother Mary, from County Cork, was a homemaker." I didn't change anything, but it seems odd in a number of respects (for starts, no elaboration on where he spent his time growing up other than simply a statement that he's been apparently raised equally in upstate, suburban, and urban New York?) Anyway, carry on.
I agree. This page is an obvious PR piece, with many dazzling statements ("recognized as one of the most successful trial attorneys in the United States") which are not objective, and coincidentally are not supported by citations either. Which violates both the NPOV policy and the Verifiability policy. This page also does not contain a single non-positive statement, which seems to be not objective, since no one is actually perfect.
More tellingly, 99% of this page was written solely by 3 Wikipedia accounts, each of which has only been used to write this page and link other pages to this page with positive comments and references. For example, by linking other candidates' pages to this page, without linking this page to the other candidates' pages I.e., the writers are one-sidedly advertising for Sean Coffey's campaign, without any regard for neutrality. This is a violation of the Conflicts of Interest policy.
While I recognize that candidates need to campaign, Wikipedia is supposed to be a neutral, unbiased encyclopedia, not an advertising platform.
Can the makers of this page, or someone else familiar with the topic, please edit this page to make it comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy ( WP:NPOV ), COI policy ( WP:COI ), and verifiability rules( WP:Verifiability )? If it is actually impossible to make this page compliant, Wikipedia policy says that it should be deleted.
-Pegasus-BSG62 (talk) 03:45, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
A bit fluffy
[edit]I have tagged up some of the uncited, what we need are reliable citations that are independant of the subject, not company propaganda from companies he has worked for, I notice citation one and two to which a lot of claims are linked to are primary citations. Also it is simply a list of how nice and how good he is and not a balanced article. Thanks Off2riorob (talk) 11:01, 9 May 2010 (UTC)