Talk:Robert H. Meneilly

Sources for the page on Robert H. Meneilly[edit]

This page ( Robert H. Meneilly ) was tagged for "rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject" and asked to "improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources."

In response to that I would say that:
a) I've endeavored to reference any fact listed on the page. If anyone can see one that I have not, I would be happy to either find a reference or remove the fact.
b) Several sources were given that are not closely associated with the subject:

www.presbyterianmission.org
shawneemissionpost.com
www.kansascity.com (Kansas City Star newspaper)
www.monmouthcollege.edu
www.jcprd.com
www.mainstreamcoalition.org
www.washingtonpost.com
www.bizjournals.com
www.au.org (Americans United)
documents.adventistarchives.org
c) Of the sources that are admittedly close to the subject, there are:
www.villagepres.org ... The website of the church that he founded. Are we saying that what a church said about its founder is unreliable?
The only other such references come when the page talks about stances that the subject took (often controversial ones for someone in his position such as environmental protection, civil rights, separation of church and state, etc) and so I thought the *best* way to source those comments was to link to audio recordings where the user could actually hear those stances in Meneilly's own words, which I would consider far more authoritative to the subject at hand than some journalistic report about what he was supposed to have said.

Having said all of that, if there are references that, if replaced, would improve this page, then please let me know so that I can do so.

Note: I've added the above comment to the Talk page for the editor ( User talk:Melcous#Sources for the page on Robert H. Meneilly ) in case he would rather discuss it at that location than this.