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For what my $0.02 is worth, I agree with DickClarkMises on the photo. It seems to be contributed by the photographer, and is more recent than the one which momentarily replaced it. If the other editor persists, maybe the one DickClarkMises placed can be placed in the text of the article instead of the info box.Audemus Defendere (talk) 08:31, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

al.com News Items

Several of the source notes in this article are to news stories from The Birmingham News, the Mobile Press-Register, and The Huntsville Times, as they were posted on the website al.com. The website, and the three papers, are all owned by Advance Publications. Most of these links on this page now open dead or error pages on these sites. This is because Advance relocates pages to its paid-access archives, usually a few months after publication. The Montgomery Advertiser does much the same thing. If a citation can be made to a national source such as The New York Times (whose archives since 1987 are free), that might be preferable. Unfortunately, national media don't cover Alabama issues like these four newspapers do. (And the archive access of other Alabama newspapers is even more limited, or nonexistent, and in any case fee-access.) There doesn't seem to be a perfect solution. The imperfect compromise I have made contributing to other Alabama topics is to use Lexis to access the articles from these four largest Alabama dailies, then provide page cites to the print editions. If someone wants to go deeper than the Wiki article, they can access these articles on Lexis, Westlaw, for a fee on al.com, or hopefully at a local library. I am open to suggestions as to what else can be done.Audemus Defendere (talk) 08:31, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2002 Election Text

The link to the section of the 2002 election article (Alabama gubernatorial election, 2002: Baldwin County Controversy) is not, and was not intended to be, a citation to a source, so the comment of the anonymous 75.200.235.70 is incorrect. It is merely a redirection to the pertinent section of the more expansive article on the specific topic. A reference, I would have put in a <ref></ref>.

As to 75.200.235.70's comment that it is not NPOV: after several edits and counteredits, I relented some time ago to moving the bulk of the discussion of the '02 election controversy to a separate article. (Other elections are getting their own articles, which I think is a good thing.) The fact that it seems difficult for everyone to agree on language in such a truncated summary reflects my initial concern that it is hard to get to NPOV on a controversial topic when there's not space to lay out the facts and arguments advanced by both sides. My problem with 75.200.235.70's language is that it clearly implies that there is no dispute that the "correct" result was reached. This is itself an NPOV issue. As with the 2000 Florida dispute, such consensus is unlikely. The recount in question (1) took place after midnight (not "at dawn the next morning," as 75.200.235.70 says, see the news articles cited in the '02 election article) and (2) no one, not even Riley's lawyers at the time, disputed that the recount was done after the Democratic observers left, also as reported in the sourced articles. In an effort to avoid ruffling NPOV feathers, I omitted adding a phrase pointing out that counting (or recounting) in the absence of designated pollwatchers is illegal under Alabama law. But language which completely omits reference to this critical fact, undisputed by the parties to the subject dispute, violates NPOV, and possibly accuracy as well, by leaving the impression that everyone agrees that, "oops, we didn't count them right, but we got it right on the recount." I am open to alternative language which accomplishes this accuracy and balance, but please refrain from overcorrecting edits without talk first. I'll catch such Talk. Tks.Audemus Defendere (talk) 08:31, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Amendment politics

Governor Riley's proposed amendment to the Constitution of Alabama.

In the artcle on Governor Riley great play was made of his proposed amendment on taxation to the Constitution of of Alabama not "raising the personal taxes of most people". As there is no dispute that the proposed amendment would have raised taxes overall what is the function of all the spin about "personal taxes on most people"? Attacking the political campaign against the proposed amendment is hardly a function of a reference work.

-- Paul Marks.

Requested move

I have done most of the above, however I couldn't do the actual move due to Bob Riley having a previous page history. I have filed a request for move at Wikipedia:Requested_moves. Wasted Time R 11:39, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moved --Stemonitis 13:13, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Riley is the 52nd Governor

Who keeps messing up the numbering, see List of Governors of Alabama - Ala Governors are listed by individual 'only'. GoodDay 23:07, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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