Talk:Shirley Sherrod

Blp cats

...hv been mv'd from "Resignation" pg to this one, currently a redirect, per wp:RCAT.--Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden (talk) 07:02, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Breitbart video

Why is this only mentioned in one sentence in the lead? This was a pretty significant event. The video was deceptively edited and used to attack this woman who then lost her job. Is it not notable? StarDust787 (talk) 02:09, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

If nobody has a dissenting response in the next 24 hours, then I'll add a new section about the controversy. I would like some feedback before I do that, though. StarDust787 (talk) 21:34, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

It is a significant event and has it's own article. I created a summary section here and copied salient content from the Resignation article. Since there is an extant article for this, the treatment here should be minimal.Lionel (talk) 08:25, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Now that I look at the article, it is the only thing she's know for. Lionel (talk) 08:45, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Removing hatlink to resignation article

Am I looking at this edit wrong, or did Viriditas just remove a link to an article about the resignation of this woman who is primarily notable for her resignation. A first glance, it looks like Viriditas is trying to bury the resignation article. I'm going to WP:AGF and assume I misreading this. Care to explain your intent Viriditas? NickCT (talk) 02:37, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

The resignation is properly covered in this article. The daughter article, Resignation of Shirley Sherrod, was created by a disruptive sock puppet (User:Smile1234smile, see User:Elockid/Long-term abuse/23prootie) after this biographical article was created and later, another user redirected this topic to the resignation article. Shirley Sherrod was forced out of the Obama administration through a conservative tactic of what has become known as a manufactured controversy. A highly misleading video made by Andrew Breitbart was spread through the media by a small conservative fringe composed of unemployed bloggers and extremist pundits in an attempt to tar her and the Obama administration. The fabricated video failed to work, and she was offered a new job and a sincere apology by the administration. If anything, the primary topic is the manufactured controvery by Breitbart not her resignation. In any case, the undue weight and POV pushing has been redirected to her biography. She is notable on her own, as her extensive memoir, The Courage to Hope (2012) documents her life's work. According to the U.S. government, Sherrod was notable for the following things before she joined the Obama admin:

• Director of the Georgia Field Office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund
• Georgia State Lead for the Southern Rural Black Women's' Initiative for Economic and Social Justice.
• Executive Director for Community Alliances of Interdependent Agriculture, Inc.
• 15 years experience working with agriculture-focused organizations.

She is also cited as an authority/spokesperson for these organizations in the newspaper archives. Viriditas (talk) 03:38, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

@Viriditas - Sorry for a late response -

Resignation of Shirley Sherrod, was created by a disruptive sock puppet - So? The article has a long history of being edited and discussed after it was created. It also survived an AfD. You may feel that the long established article Resignation of Shirley Sherrod ought better be a redirect, but to essentially blank the article unilaterally and without apparent discussion seems a tad rash.

She is notable on her own - Really? Just looking at news stories that come up googling "Shirley Sherrod", essentially all of them are related to the resignation/manufactured controversy story. Even if Sherrod can beat WP:BLP1E, it strikes me that the "resignation/manufactured controversy story" is notable on its own and deserves a seperate article.

I'm a bit confused by your primary objection to the Resignation of Shirley Sherrod article. Are you saying that since the Resignation of Shirley Sherrod was a manufactured controversy, it ought not have a article? Well, personally I'd agree that this is a classic example of a manufactured controversy, but the fact is that it is a notable manufactured controversy and thus ought to have an article. NickCT (talk) 15:39, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

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