Talk:Francis Sargent

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Huh? Could somebody explain the relevance: "On occasion, groups of anti-busing protesters from the city showed up to picket his Dover home, only to find that his road had no street lights."140.247.248.146 (talk) 02:57, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Singular curiosity

"William", eh?

--Jim Luedke Jimlue (talk) 01:55, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Boston Brahmin?

Does Sargent belong to any of the famous Boston Brahmin families? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.49.5.219 (talk) 23:56, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

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Article needs overhaul

I did some preliminary copyediting, but the article needs major reworking. The one-sentence intro was a run-on right into the body of the article, so I separated it in accordance with standard Wikipedia structuring. A few more lines can be added to the intro to summarize, once the rest of the article is in good shape.

The Willie Horton incident has its own extensive and well-documented article, but it is inappropriate to rehash it at length here, when it occurred many years after Sargent left office. Any linkage to Sargent's administration can be summarized in a sentence or two.

The overall problem with the article is lack of balance. Disproportionate amounts of text are given to some things, while other areas are ignored. I am not an expert on Sargent, so I hope others can pitch in. Otherwise, I will do the best I can, starting by trimming some of the superfluous coverage which is already better done in other Wikilinked articles. Reify-tech (talk) 16:37, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

@Reify-tech: I've done some reorganizing, and added information and cites. There is one section that I didn't look at, which may be okay - "Policies as governor", and one that clearly is problematical - "Anti Inner Belt" (long quotations are almost always unacceptable in Wikipedia articles). -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:37, 4 July 2020 (UTC)