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Section size for Gail Sheehy (24 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,360	3,360
Early life and education	1,716	1,716
Career	12	21,706
1960s	3,661	3,661
1970s	7,756	7,756
1980s	2,294	2,294
1990s	5,130	5,130
2000s and 2010s	2,853	2,853
Personal life	819	819
Selected articles	23	8,879
1969: "Speed City: The Explosion of Amphetamines", New York magazine	456	456
1971: "Redpants and Sugarman", New York magazine	763	763
1989: "The Blooming of Margaret Thatcher", Vanity Fair	678	678
1992: "What Hillary Wants", Vanity Fair	1,244	1,244
1995: "The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich", Vanity Fair	1,394	1,394
2000: "The Accidental Candidate: George W. Bush", Vanity Fair	690	690
2008: "Hillaryland at War", Vanity Fair	355	355
Professional affiliations	237	237
Television and other media appearances	1,029	1,029
Plagiarism lawsuit	439	439
Awards and recognition	1,571	1,571
Bibliography	1,120	1,120
References	29	29
External links	1,256	1,256
Total	38,885	38,885

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This is sort of a nasty hatchet-job by Wikipedia standards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.245.217.63 (talk) 22:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. This is not a balanced presentation of a persons life and work. There are no positives to balance an unrelenting stream of attacks. At least one is based on a non-existent source (September Eventh History Magazine). Zweibieren (talk) 18:08, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I inserted a POV-Check note because I do not feel that the discussion is a balanced presentation of information on the subject. It is ture that references are provided. Indeed, so much so as to suggest that the author was well aware of introducing bias. At least one refeence, "September Eventh History Magazine", does not exist under that name or the more likely name of "September Eleventh History Magazine." The cited article does appear to exist, but in a strident forum.

In short, the article subsections should be eliminated or the article revised to a proper biography, in which the existing subsections could be a part.

Disclaimer: I have no association with the article's subject, though my wife read one of the subject's books. Zweibieren (talk) 20:43, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why is her 1975 book "Hustling," which was based on a series of exposes written for New York Magazine mentioned in this?

Updated this quite extensively to balance out what seemed like a pointedly slanderous article. Removed the stub class and POV-check.

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I'm currently working through Sheehy's autobiography and other sources to expand this article and to pull in more citations. I would appreciate some help with a good copy-edit. Jaldous1 (talk) 19:28, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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