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I wish to have my page omitted from Wikipedia. There is a college professor named Preston Coleman who has faced repeated failures in his attempts to harass me over the content of my radio show. Now he contents himself with making repeated negative entries to my Wikipedia page. Since there seems to be no way to stop this childish man's antics, I would like to request that my profile be eliminated alltogether.
Thanks
Neal Boortz
- I have raised this issue here: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Neal Boortz. –xeno (talk) 00:47, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Some of his additions are factually incorrect. The assertion that I have never debated the FairTax ina public forum would be an example. Other additions merely reflect a desire to harass and embarrass me due to one particular comment to which he took umbrage. Preston Coleman has gone so far as to try to arrange for attorneys to pursue civil actions against me on behalf of a third party (with no success) and to file challenges with the FCC to my employer's (Cox Radio, Inc.) right to purchase radio stations. The challenges were dismissed out of hand. Coleman has a personal grudge against me and my show, probably based on a difference of political philosophies -- he being a liberal college professor and me being one of those evil right-wing (though libertarian) talk show hosts. The easy route here would just be to eliminate my Wiki page altogether.
NBoortz (talk) 05:46, 7 August 2008 (UTC)Neal Boortz.
- Neal, Coleman's Buford entry has been removed from the article, since it has not received sufficient news coverage to be notable in your biography. I'm not sure if Coleman is responsible for the FairTax public forum comment. I think that might have been one of your other critics (more specific to the plan). From the discussion going on at the noticeboard, deleting your article does not look like a popular option at this point, since you are a notable person. However, we can certainly work to remove any libelous and unsourced material. If Coleman does improperly add such material, he will be blocked from editing. Your article can also be put into a protective state if need be to block editing for a certain period of time. It looks like we're going to delete the article Neal Boortz controversies. We may include some of this in your main article, but hopefully in a proper context with sources and rebuttal if need be. I don't think we could get away without mentioning some of the panties you've bunched. I think it can be presented in a fair and neutral manner. We certainly welcome your input. Morphh (talk) 15:09, 07 August 2008 (UTC)
- Since you've gotten a range of views on this Neal, I've nullified the adminhelp template. Feel free to make any further comments at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Neal Boortz. Best regards, –xeno (talk) 19:01, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm Preston Coleman, and I'm not responsible for the factual error Boortz mentions about his never debating the Fair Tax in a public forum--I'm sure that can be easily verified. I'm also not a "liberal college professor" (I'm a Libertarian who was the official announcer at the 2004 Libertarian National Convention.) In addition, I haven't tried to have Boortz sued--the family of the nine-year-old child he humiliated on his show is doing that. I did take umbrage with his repeated ridiculing of this child, who lives in my community. What Boortz characterizes as "one comment" was actually over an hour of abuse on one day, a brief mention on another, and two web posts at Boortz's website, all of which occurred over a period of a week from March 7-13. I did try to have the incident included at Wikipedia in early August. An FCC petition to deny the sale of radio stations to Boortz's employer was filed by a group of nineteen people; the FCC contacted me five times during its investigation, so while the petition was, predictably, denied, it was not denied "out of hand," nor was it filed based on a personal grudge. 02:34, 4 September 200868.217.101.69 (talk) 02:55, 4 September 2008 (UTC)