Talk:Bob O'Dekirk

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November reverts

@Mpen320, Xstoe, and Materialscientist:

We have a content dispute and a bit of a revert war here over this content:

O'Dekirk was filmed assaulting a protester during the 2020 George Floyd protests.^[1]

and

O'Dekirk is married and has a blended family of three children.^[2]^[3] (disputed content in green)

References

^ ALICIA FABBRE and ANGIE LEVENTIS LOURGOS (June 5, 2020). "Attorneys for protesters in recorded skirmish with Joliet's mayor say clients were demonstrating peacefully, disputing mayor's self-defense claim". The Chicago Tribune.
^ Lorraine Swanson (May 1, 2015). "Mayor-Elect Eager To Get Joliet Moving Forward". Patch.
^ "Mayor O'Dekirk Bio". City of Joliet. Retrieved October 10, 2017.

As far as I can tell the sentence about the George Floyd protests was added back in June here. An IP editor began repeatedly removing the sentence and its references yesterday, and also added the "blended family" modifier, and were reverted by multiple editors. I blocked the IP for unexplained removal of content from a BLP and using false edit summaries and restored the article to status quo, however another editor later restored the IP's edit. None of us have explained our edits. I'm not going to revert again, but let's discuss what should happen here.

I'm in favour of status quo. The info about O'Dekirk's involvement in the George Floyd protests is reliably sourced, was widely reported, and is relevant to his political career. Furthermore the one-sentence addition is already a pretty conservative presentation of what was a significant controversy. The "blended family" is probably required to be removed by the WP:BLP policy: it is information about non-notable persons we can presume are minors; it is not supported by the first source and the second is broken at the moment.

Thoughts? Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 12:09, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ALICIA FABBRE and ANGIE LEVENTIS LOURGOS (June 5, 2020). "Attorneys for protesters in recorded skirmish with Joliet's mayor say clients were demonstrating peacefully, disputing mayor's self-defense claim". The Chicago Tribune.

[elect-2] Lorraine Swanson (May 1, 2015). "Mayor-Elect Eager To Get Joliet Moving Forward". Patch.

[bio-3] "Mayor O'Dekirk Bio". City of Joliet. Retrieved October 10, 2017.

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