Talk:Alex Villanueva

First Spanish-speaking sheriff in how long?

The article states that he's the first Spanish-speaking sheriff in more than 100 years. What about Eugene Biscailuz, who spoke Spanish and served from 1932 to 1958?

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Significant problems with this article

I went through and removed what I considered to be the most significant violations of WP:NPOV and WP:SPIP, particularly if the underlying information was unsourced. These included an entire press release, a section header called "financial responsibility", a strangely twice-mentioned and unsourced claim about him being the first Spanish-speaking sheriff in X number of years, and how his efforts to ban smoking in county jails was a "bold" move.

However, I think this article still has some significant problems relating to overall lack of sourcing for huge sections of his early career, and then everything relating to his tenure as sheriff I have serious WP:UNDUE concerns. For example,

• The "significant incidents" section covers some murders of deputies which may make sense in the article about the department itself but is strange for the article about the sheriff as he was not directly involved in the shootings. One of the sections doesn't even quote a response from the Sheriff.
• The Summer 2020 "civil disturbance" downplays what the rest of Wikipedia refer to as "protests". The section only mentions how he led a response and overplays his role in the National Guard deployment, speaking of which I will remove because it is uncited.
• The article, to its credit, does mention the Board of Supervisors and Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission concerns over Villanueva's management, as well as the AG's opening of a civil rights investigation against the department. But rather than exploring the substance of those concerns and disputes with the other county and state government, the article immediately jumps to promoting how Villanueva is very transparent in holding Q&As and press conferences.
• I removed some of the particularly egregious fluff. But the rest of the remaining content about Villanueva's tenure needs to be better balanced, and the organization needs to move away from one section header per short paragraph.

I may take some time in the coming weeks when I have time to make these improvements, but I felt it necessary to explain my concerns as well as a rationale for the edits I did make on this talk page. --haha169 (talk) 07:10, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

No doubt Villanueva has many positive accomplishments, BUT

BUT: The article reads as if it was written by a PR firm, and as though all negative facts about Villanueva are regularly expunged from the article. Could this be true?2601:200:C000:1A0:DFF:30D6:B006:D0B (talk) 03:34, 25 February 2021 (UTC)