Talk:Jeff Leach (politician)

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Removed NPOV section and cleaned BLP language

This page was one of a few that had been edited with non-neutral language to insert a "Notable Votes" section, seemingly for the sole purpose of introducing material about a controversial 2023 vote against Ken Paxton -- while not including any other relevant material about the legislator's record.

I also removed the "overly resume-like" verbiage regarding honors and recognitions, especially since most were uncited. TXLegeWonk (talk) 22:27, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Swatjester per this edit, I have the same issue that I had with same user on this edit. It's an issue of NPOV as to proportion, IMO, and it has happened from same user on several similar contentious pages.

As I said on a similar page, when there is a BLP on a sitting elected official -- one who has taken dozens of positions on hundreds of bills over 10+ years, and been quoted in the media 100 times on different topics, and run in a dozen contested elections -- and an editor cherry-picks one isolated vote or one long-ago opponent or one isolated quote to insert, with no other relevant material to expand the page, I think it's an NPOV issue even if the source is reliable. TXLegeWonk (talk) 18:44, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This edit for example... Under the ostensible banner of "cleaning up promotional/biased language," the user removed actual legislation list, facts on committee appointments, other RS content... and inserted one contentious media interaction and one contentious vote. Why not just remove the bias from the original material? TXLegeWonk (talk) 18:56, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]