Talk:Gary Friedman

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Controversy coverage[edit]

Gary Friedman is a controversial CEO. Among the allegations that have been deleted from this page by one user are an unsourced allegation about why he was passed over for a promotion, and the information that he had to resign in October of 2012 before being reappointed in 2013. It is important not to whitewash facts like these in a neutral encyclopedia article, if they can be sourced. So I have added the resignation back in, with appropriate sourcing. Please do not delete it. I would be in favor of creating a separate controversy section if more coverage could be unearthed. 67.194.234.28 (talk) 05:01, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there 67! I don't see that there is enough for an entire section... Can you share your research with me? Also, I think the page with info about living persons may be helpful for you.

ReginaldTQ (talk) 18:26, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

HI, Reginald. I haven't done much research beyond what is currently cited. In fact, I am happy with the current form of this article except for the word "coined" in the lead-in. Is there a more appropriate way to report his relationship to that phrase? Perhaps: "Friedman sums up the company's philosophy..." instead of "Friedman coined the phrase..." (I am not sure this belongs in the lead-in anyway.) I just meant that, if there is more coverage of controversy surrounding Friedman--for example on the alleged circumstance of his being passed over for leadership of RH earlier in his career, as an old version of the page reported--then a separate section might be justified. But I don't have further independent sources with substantial novel information. Cheers. 67.194.234.28 (talk) 03:54, 16 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It does seem like something weird is going on here with the article, actually ReginaldTQ (talk) 08:13, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Objectivity[edit]

The lead-in had pretty serious objectivity problems. I have now reduced them to one: the source cited doesn't support the claim that he coined that phrase, and Wikipedia is not a venue for OR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research But I don't want to turn the article into a stub, so I'm leaving that for now, to give the page's existing curator(s) a chance to remedy the situation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.194.234.28 (talk) 05:17, 13 August 2013 (UTC) Signature fail 67.194.234.28 (talk) 05:18, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]