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<blockquote>On November 30, 1965, the book ''[[Unsafe at Any Speed|Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile]]'', by 32-year-old lawyer [[Ralph Nader]], was published, and was a best seller in nonfiction by spring 1966. In February 1966, U.S. Senator [[Abraham A. Ribicoff]] asked Nader to testify before a Senate subcommittee on automotive safety. According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] at the time [[John William McCormack]], the [[United States Department of Transportation]], and others, Nader and ''Unsafe at Any Speed'' helped the passage of the 1966 [[National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act]].<ref name=wyden1987>{{cite book |authorlink=Peter H. Wyden |first=Peter |last=Wyden |title=The Unknown Iacocca |isbn=068806616X |publisher=[[William Morrow and Company]] |year=1987 |quote=Nader, another poor boy, rose to national hero status on the critic's side of America's car wars. His 1965 best-seller ''Unsafe at Any Speed'' focused on the appalling accident record of Chevrolet's Corvair and was largely responsible for the congressional passage, in 1966, of the nation's first reasonably stringent auto safety law.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=50 Years Ago, ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’ Shook the Auto World |first=Christopher |last=Jensen |date=November 26, 2015 |accessdate=April 27, 2016 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/automobiles/50-years-ago-unsafe-at-any-speed-shook-the-auto-world.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |quote=Few drivers could imagine owning a car these days that did not come with airbags, antilock brakes and seatbelts. But 50 years ago motorists went without such basic safety features. That was before a young lawyer named Ralph Nader came along with a book, “Unsafe at Any Speed,” that would change the auto industry. It accused automakers of failing to make cars as safe as possible. Less than a year after the book was published, a balky Congress created the federal safety agency that became the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — an agency whose stated mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce crashes...By the spring of 1966, “Unsafe at Any Speed” was a best seller for nonfiction...In September 1966 — about 10 months after the book was published — President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, requiring the adoption of new or upgraded vehicle safety standards, and creating an agency to enforce them and supervise safety recalls.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Unsafe at Any Speed hits bookstores |url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/unsafe-at-any-speed-hits-bookstores |publisher=[[A&E (TV channel)|A & E]] |work=[[History (U.S. TV channel)]] |accessdate=April 27, 2016 |quote=On this day in 1965, 32-year-old lawyer Ralph Nader publishes the muckraking book Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile. The book became a best-seller right away. It also prompted the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, seat-belt laws in 49 states (all but New Hampshire) and a number of other road-safety initiatives.}}</ref><ref name=eb>{{cite web |title=Unsafe at Any Speed, Work by Nader |first=Regan |last=Brumagen |work=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |url=http://www.britannica.com/topic/Unsafe-at-Any-Speed |accessdate=April 27, 2016 |quote=Unsafe at Any Speed, investigative report on U.S. automobile safety published in 1965 by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who was then a 31-year-old attorney. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile excoriated the American automotive industry, based in Detroit, for its prioritization of style and design over consumer safety. Nader’s book eventually became a best seller and helped spur the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966, the country’s first significant automobile safety legislation.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Congress Acts on Traffic and Auto Safety |publisher=[[Congressional Quarterly]] |work=CQ Almanac |year=1966 |pages=266-268 |url=https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal66-1301349 |accessdate=April 27, 2016 |quote=Breaking into the traffic safety inertia was the publication in November 1965 of “Unsafe At Any Speed,” a book written by Ralph Nader a 32-year-old Connecticut lawyer who had served as a consultant for the Department of Labor and a Senate subcommittee in 1964–65. House Speaker John W. McCormack (D Mass.) Oct. 21, 1966, credited the final outcome of the traffic safety bill to the “crusading spirit of one individual who believed he could do something…Ralph Nader.”}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Role in Highway Safety |chapter=Epilogue: The Changing Federal Role |chapter-url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/safetyep.cfm |publisher=[[United States Department of Transportation]] |agency=[[Federal Highway Administration]] |first=Richard F. |last=Weingroff |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/safety.cfm |year=2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Ralph Nader testifies before Congress on auto safety |date=February 10, 2016 |accessdate=April 27, 2016 |first=Andrew |last=Glass |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ralph-nader-testifies-before-congress-on-auto-safety-feb-10-1966-218888 |publisher=[[Politico]] |quote=Nader’s advocacy of auto-safety issues, helped lead to the passage of the 1966 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. This legislation sought to reduce the rising number of injuries and deaths from road accidents by establishing federal safety standards for American-made vehicles, including safety belts.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The Ford Pinto Case and the Development of Auto Safety Regulations, 1893—1978 |first=Matthew T. |last=Lee |journal=Business and Economic History |volume=27 |number=2 |pages=390-401 |date=Winter 1998 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |url=http://www.jstor.org.proxy.cc.uic.edu/stable/23703151 |quote=Auto safety legislation was also partly the result of the publication of Ralph Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, which acted as a catalyst for turning the auto safety movement into a legislative force.}}</ref><ref name=leeermann>{{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Matthew T |last2=Ermann |first2=M. David |title=Pinto "Madness" as a Flawed Landmark Narrative: An Organizational and Network Analysis |journal=Social Problems |date=February 1999 |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=30–47 |accessdate=January 21, 2012 |quote=The legislative branch had focused on driver behavior and road design until Ralph Nader (1965) and others convinced Congress that many of the 50,000 annual auto deaths resulted from unsafe car designs. The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966, one year before Ford began designing the Pinto, produced America's first significant federal auto regulation.}}</ref> The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles.<ref name=wyden1987/><ref name=eb/><ref>{{cite book |last=Hendrickson |first=Kimberly A. |chapter=National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act |title=Dictionary of American History |editor-first=Stanley I. |editor-last=Kutler |edition=3rd |volume=5 |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] |year=2003 |pages=561-562 |chapter-url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3401802875&v=2.1&u=nm_p_elportal&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w&asid=73b32300d98b9c9749355917ffb94b15 |quote=Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on 9 September 1966, this act created the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles.}}</ref><ref name=leeermann/></blockquote>
<blockquote>On November 30, 1965, the book ''[[Unsafe at Any Speed|Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile]]'', by 32-year-old lawyer [[Ralph Nader]], was published, and was a best seller in nonfiction by spring 1966. In February 1966, U.S. Senator [[Abraham A. Ribicoff]] asked Nader to testify before a Senate subcommittee on automotive safety. According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] at the time [[John William McCormack]], the [[United States Department of Transportation]], and others, Nader and ''Unsafe at Any Speed'' helped the passage of the 1966 [[National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act]].<ref name=wyden1987>{{cite book |authorlink=Peter H. Wyden |first=Peter |last=Wyden |title=The Unknown Iacocca |isbn=068806616X |publisher=[[William Morrow and Company]] |year=1987 |quote=Nader, another poor boy, rose to national hero status on the critic's side of America's car wars. His 1965 best-seller ''Unsafe at Any Speed'' focused on the appalling accident record of Chevrolet's Corvair and was largely responsible for the congressional passage, in 1966, of the nation's first reasonably stringent auto safety law.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=50 Years Ago, ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’ Shook the Auto World |first=Christopher |last=Jensen |date=November 26, 2015 |accessdate=April 27, 2016 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/automobiles/50-years-ago-unsafe-at-any-speed-shook-the-auto-world.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |quote=Few drivers could imagine owning a car these days that did not come with airbags, antilock brakes and seatbelts. But 50 years ago motorists went without such basic safety features. That was before a young lawyer named Ralph Nader came along with a book, “Unsafe at Any Speed,” that would change the auto industry. It accused automakers of failing to make cars as safe as possible. Less than a year after the book was published, a balky Congress created the federal safety agency that became the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — an agency whose stated mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce crashes...By the spring of 1966, “Unsafe at Any Speed” was a best seller for nonfiction...In September 1966 — about 10 months after the book was published — President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, requiring the adoption of new or upgraded vehicle safety standards, and creating an agency to enforce them and supervise safety recalls.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Unsafe at Any Speed hits bookstores |url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/unsafe-at-any-speed-hits-bookstores |publisher=[[A&E (TV channel)|A & E]] |work=[[History (U.S. TV channel)]] |accessdate=April 27, 2016 |quote=On this day in 1965, 32-year-old lawyer Ralph Nader publishes the muckraking book Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile. The book became a best-seller right away. It also prompted the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, seat-belt laws in 49 states (all but New Hampshire) and a number of other road-safety initiatives.}}</ref><ref name=eb>{{cite web |title=Unsafe at Any Speed, Work by Nader |first=Regan |last=Brumagen |work=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |url=http://www.britannica.com/topic/Unsafe-at-Any-Speed |accessdate=April 27, 2016 |quote=Unsafe at Any Speed, investigative report on U.S. automobile safety published in 1965 by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who was then a 31-year-old attorney. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile excoriated the American automotive industry, based in Detroit, for its prioritization of style and design over consumer safety. Nader’s book eventually became a best seller and helped spur the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966, the country’s first significant automobile safety legislation.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Congress Acts on Traffic and Auto Safety |publisher=[[Congressional Quarterly]] |work=CQ Almanac |year=1966 |pages=266-268 |url=https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal66-1301349 |accessdate=April 27, 2016 |quote=Breaking into the traffic safety inertia was the publication in November 1965 of “Unsafe At Any Speed,” a book written by Ralph Nader a 32-year-old Connecticut lawyer who had served as a consultant for the Department of Labor and a Senate subcommittee in 1964–65. House Speaker John W. McCormack (D Mass.) Oct. 21, 1966, credited the final outcome of the traffic safety bill to the “crusading spirit of one individual who believed he could do something…Ralph Nader.”}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Role in Highway Safety |chapter=Epilogue: The Changing Federal Role |chapter-url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/safetyep.cfm |publisher=[[United States Department of Transportation]] |agency=[[Federal Highway Administration]] |first=Richard F. |last=Weingroff |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/safety.cfm |year=2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Ralph Nader testifies before Congress on auto safety |date=February 10, 2016 |accessdate=April 27, 2016 |first=Andrew |last=Glass |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ralph-nader-testifies-before-congress-on-auto-safety-feb-10-1966-218888 |publisher=[[Politico]] |quote=Nader’s advocacy of auto-safety issues, helped lead to the passage of the 1966 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. This legislation sought to reduce the rising number of injuries and deaths from road accidents by establishing federal safety standards for American-made vehicles, including safety belts.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The Ford Pinto Case and the Development of Auto Safety Regulations, 1893—1978 |first=Matthew T. |last=Lee |journal=Business and Economic History |volume=27 |number=2 |pages=390-401 |date=Winter 1998 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |url=http://www.jstor.org.proxy.cc.uic.edu/stable/23703151 |quote=Auto safety legislation was also partly the result of the publication of Ralph Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, which acted as a catalyst for turning the auto safety movement into a legislative force.}}</ref><ref name=leeermann>{{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Matthew T |last2=Ermann |first2=M. David |title=Pinto "Madness" as a Flawed Landmark Narrative: An Organizational and Network Analysis |journal=Social Problems |date=February 1999 |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=30–47 |accessdate=January 21, 2012 |quote=The legislative branch had focused on driver behavior and road design until Ralph Nader (1965) and others convinced Congress that many of the 50,000 annual auto deaths resulted from unsafe car designs. The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966, one year before Ford began designing the Pinto, produced America's first significant federal auto regulation.}}</ref> The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles.<ref name=wyden1987/><ref name=eb/><ref name=leeermann/><ref>{{cite book |last=Hendrickson |first=Kimberly A. |chapter=National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act |title=Dictionary of American History |editor-first=Stanley I. |editor-last=Kutler |edition=3rd |volume=5 |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] |year=2003 |pages=561-562 |chapter-url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3401802875&v=2.1&u=nm_p_elportal&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w&asid=73b32300d98b9c9749355917ffb94b15 |quote=Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on 9 September 1966, this act created the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles.}}</ref></blockquote>


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    Dear Sir. Gone through the description of Kushwaha/Kushwah/Maurya/shakya on your site.it was totally factually incorrect. You have taken the view of some unknown writer pinch,without understand the India conflict of brahiminsm & kastriya. On going under current of classifying other caste as low by Brahmins to maintain their ego & do greater harm to kastriya. I request you to kindly go through authentic docs at royal places & established history. Your article on Kushwah has hurted the sentiment of some 120 millions people.how 120 million can be wrong for centuries. If pif people living in England are not called English. Then whom so — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.205.178.2 (talk) 14:33, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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    History of automobile safety and Ralph Nader

    Due weight issue in the History section of our project's article Automobile safety. Contended content:

    On November 30, 1965, the book Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile, by 32-year-old lawyer Ralph Nader, was published, and was a best seller in nonfiction by spring 1966. In February 1966, U.S. Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff asked Nader to testify before a Senate subcommittee on automotive safety. According to The New York Times, the Encyclopædia Britannica, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives at the time John William McCormack, the United States Department of Transportation, and others, Nader and Unsafe at Any Speed helped the passage of the 1966 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles.[1][4][9][10]

    References

    1. ^ a b Wyden, Peter (1987). The Unknown Iacocca. William Morrow and Company. ISBN 068806616X. Nader, another poor boy, rose to national hero status on the critic's side of America's car wars. His 1965 best-seller Unsafe at Any Speed focused on the appalling accident record of Chevrolet's Corvair and was largely responsible for the congressional passage, in 1966, of the nation's first reasonably stringent auto safety law.
    2. ^ Jensen, Christopher (November 26, 2015). "50 Years Ago, 'Unsafe at Any Speed' Shook the Auto World". The New York Times. Retrieved April 27, 2016. Few drivers could imagine owning a car these days that did not come with airbags, antilock brakes and seatbelts. But 50 years ago motorists went without such basic safety features. That was before a young lawyer named Ralph Nader came along with a book, "Unsafe at Any Speed," that would change the auto industry. It accused automakers of failing to make cars as safe as possible. Less than a year after the book was published, a balky Congress created the federal safety agency that became the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — an agency whose stated mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce crashes...By the spring of 1966, "Unsafe at Any Speed" was a best seller for nonfiction...In September 1966 — about 10 months after the book was published — President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, requiring the adoption of new or upgraded vehicle safety standards, and creating an agency to enforce them and supervise safety recalls.
    3. ^ "Unsafe at Any Speed hits bookstores". History (U.S. TV channel). A & E. Retrieved April 27, 2016. On this day in 1965, 32-year-old lawyer Ralph Nader publishes the muckraking book Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile. The book became a best-seller right away. It also prompted the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, seat-belt laws in 49 states (all but New Hampshire) and a number of other road-safety initiatives.
    4. ^ a b Brumagen, Regan. "Unsafe at Any Speed, Work by Nader". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 27, 2016. Unsafe at Any Speed, investigative report on U.S. automobile safety published in 1965 by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who was then a 31-year-old attorney. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile excoriated the American automotive industry, based in Detroit, for its prioritization of style and design over consumer safety. Nader's book eventually became a best seller and helped spur the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966, the country's first significant automobile safety legislation.
    5. ^ "Congress Acts on Traffic and Auto Safety". CQ Almanac. Congressional Quarterly. 1966. pp. 266–268. Retrieved April 27, 2016. Breaking into the traffic safety inertia was the publication in November 1965 of "Unsafe At Any Speed," a book written by Ralph Nader a 32-year-old Connecticut lawyer who had served as a consultant for the Department of Labor and a Senate subcommittee in 1964–65. House Speaker John W. McCormack (D Mass.) Oct. 21, 1966, credited the final outcome of the traffic safety bill to the "crusading spirit of one individual who believed he could do something…Ralph Nader."
    6. ^ Weingroff, Richard F. (2015). "Epilogue: The Changing Federal Role". President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Role in Highway Safety. United States Department of Transportation. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
    7. ^ Glass, Andrew (February 10, 2016). "Ralph Nader testifies before Congress on auto safety". Politico. Retrieved April 27, 2016. Nader's advocacy of auto-safety issues, helped lead to the passage of the 1966 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. This legislation sought to reduce the rising number of injuries and deaths from road accidents by establishing federal safety standards for American-made vehicles, including safety belts.
    8. ^ Lee, Matthew T. (Winter 1998). "The Ford Pinto Case and the Development of Auto Safety Regulations, 1893—1978". Business and Economic History. 27 (2). Cambridge University Press: 390–401. Auto safety legislation was also partly the result of the publication of Ralph Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, which acted as a catalyst for turning the auto safety movement into a legislative force.
    9. ^ a b Lee, Matthew T; Ermann, M. David (February 1999). "Pinto "Madness" as a Flawed Landmark Narrative: An Organizational and Network Analysis". Social Problems. 46 (1): 30–47. The legislative branch had focused on driver behavior and road design until Ralph Nader (1965) and others convinced Congress that many of the 50,000 annual auto deaths resulted from unsafe car designs. The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966, one year before Ford began designing the Pinto, produced America's first significant federal auto regulation. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
    10. ^ Hendrickson, Kimberly A. (2003). "National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act". In Kutler, Stanley I. (ed.). Dictionary of American History. Vol. 5 (3rd ed.). Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 561–562. Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on 9 September 1966, this act created the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor vehicles.

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    Coverage in Wikipedia is of course proportional to coverage in reliable sources WP:DUE; beyond the proportionality demanded by policy, we have vast noteworthy reliable sources explicitly stating the pivotal role of Ralph Nader in the history of automobile safety, including The New York Times, the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives at the time, and the United States Department of Transportation. The US is an industry leader, and the 1960s a watershed decade, and Ralph Nader a significant actor, in the history of automobile safety, and so they will always have due weight in History section of our article Automobile safety. Very obviously, the due weight of Ralph Nader, the book Unsafe at Any Speed, and Nader's congressional testimony in the History of Automobile safety is not none.

    Ralph Nader is loathed by some automotive enthusiasts, some of whom are Wikipedia editors. Who knew? The contended content has been deleted multiple times. Arguments for exclusion advanced at article talk include tagging the contended content as off-topic, and a related claim of a bizarre undocumented editorial policy, local to our article Automobile safety, under which the History section is strictly limited to a simple listing of the dates of introduction of new safety features and new regulation, totally devoid of relevant context and background, see for example 11 April 2016, the intent of which seems to be to leave our readers with the impression of a spontaneous stream of safety improvements delivered by benevolent manufacturers WP:READERSFIRST. At article talk the two (2) sentences mentioning Ralph Nader in the contended content were described as War and Peace and dismissed as "burning incense at the Shrine of St Ralph the Nadered." Further, in service of diminishing the significance of Nader, the significance of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act itself is non-neutrally deleted.

    Our article Automobile safety is currently of size 22 kB (3538 words), "readable prose size", less than half of the size at which article length begins to be a concern WP:SIZE. Our article Automobile safety is unevenly sourced; the contended content is among the better sourced paragraphs.

    Assistance from uninvolved colleagues with experience in the application of our project's neutrality pillar is respectfully requested. Thank you. Hugh (talk) 18:14, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    There is little accurate in Hugh's interpretation of the reasoning and (absence of) arguments presented (by him) for inclusion. A major problem with the addition is that it created a 2nd level section solely for that addition, which is almost certainly not the most significant book or action about automotive safety. (It might, although probably not, be the most significant book or action about US automotive safety.) Furthermore, there were (in the original paragraph, and probably in this one) opinions masquerading as fact, which must be specifically attributed. The opinion is attributed to 8 references; unless it occurs in all of them, it must be specifically attributed. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:24, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    Others, more familiar with the articles in question, may have more interpretation or factual errors to report. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:27, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Comments from uninvolved colleagues please? Thank you. Hugh (talk) 17:15, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Comment: Attacking the motives editors in the NPOVN description is probably not the best way to start a neutral discussion. "Ralph Nader is loathed by some automotive enthusiasts, some of whom are Wikipedia editors. Who knew?" This is an attack on the motives of the other editors and an implication of bad faith. Springee (talk) 17:31, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Comment: HughD, please do not significantly modify or add to your comments after others have replied as you did here [[1]]. It can create a false impression of the statements other editors were replying to. You have been warned about this several times including earlier today [[2]]. Springee (talk) 17:58, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Comments on the contended comment from uninvolved colleagues please? Thank you! Hugh (talk) 15:37, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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