Talk:Thomas Esposito

This article was nominated for deletion on 2006 April 25. The result of the discussion was keep.

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Possible article sources[edit]

Full articles available free on line

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/13/150746.shtml
http://www.justice.gov/usao/wvs/office/bio.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E0D81231F937A35751C1A9639C8B63
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120101724.html
http://www.collegenews.org/x5137.xml
http://www.slate.com/id/2131704/ (2 December 2005 entry)

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http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WORB&p_theme=worb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10E55E0942AFF918&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-13897437.html
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-9953109.html

Non-free references are acceptable if otherwise valid … but free are better. That or if you can use what's in the free abstract.

There are more out there if you dig around. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:27, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
above post later marked up and edited 17:16, 8 December 2010 (UTC). --A. B. (talk • contribs)

In reference form

Full, free articles:

"FBI Probes Democrat Vote Fraud in W.Va". NewsMax.com. 13 December 2005. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
"R. Booth Goodwin II, United States Attorney (biography)". United States Attorney's Office - Southern District of West Virginia. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
"Election Fraud Is the Target Of F.B.I. Sting". The New York Times. 4 December 2005. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
Ruane, Michael E. (2 December 2005). "FBI's Sham Candidate Crawled Under W.Va.'s Political Rock". The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
Reed, Bruce (2 December 2005). "Deliverance: If we can't afford corruption in West Virginia, how can we afford it in Washington?". Slate. Retrieved 8 December 2010.

Free abstracts only; full articles available for purchase:

"A planted candidate". Observer-Reporter. 6 December 2005. p. A4. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
- The abstract is so short as to be useless without the full article.
"Article: Ex-Logan mayor expected to plead guilty to federal charge". The Charleston Gazette. 13 August 2005. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
"Ex-Logan mayor gets two years' probation: Official credited with aiding fraud investigation faced up to three years in prison, $250,000 fine". The Charleston Daily Mail. 11 January 2006. Retrieved 8 December 2010.

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:16, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've reinstated the paragraph about the 2004 sting candidacy. I've got a citation-needed tag on it, but as I noted in the edit summary, I see that these sources back up the gist of the claims, and it's just a matter of verifying specific claims. If nobody else has expanded or is working on it, I'll take a go at expanding it based on those sources after lunch. —C.Fred (talk) 16:43, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pruning per BLP[edit]

I've removed the uncited negative content. I see there is a discussion about sourcing above; feel free to reinstate once the content is sourced to your (collective) satisfaction. Please attempt to add other details about this man's life and career; otherwise this article runs the risk of being an attack article. KillerChihuahua^?!?Advice 16:48, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto. This article placed undue weight on legal charges and criminal investigations, without saying anything about the subject's accompishments during his four terms as mayor, or anything else about his life. If stuff like that isn't added, then the negative stuff needs to he removed permanently.Anythingyouwant (talk) 17:01, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discussions elsewhere:

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:39, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fork/new article[edit]

A new article has been created at 2004 Logan County, W.Va. Political Scandal. This title was turned into a redirect to that one. Should this page be history-merged into that one? —C.Fred (talk) 20:18, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think everything is okay now. This talk page discussion can stay here the way it is.Anythingyouwant (talk) 21:56, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]