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Tim Murphy

The last sentence is misleading. I have checked the citation which is supposed to back a statement that Larry Nickols would support Hilary Clinton's candidacy. It is just a statement of Tim Murphy who authored that quoted article. He says in that article that Larry Nickols told him that now he supports her, which is not proving that Nickols actually had made that statement himself. On contrary, in a movie made in the same year 2015, Nickols says that Hilary should be stopped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS7uSmG-R34

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3385:DAD0:8157:475B:722F:498F (talk) 06:33, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Photo

the photo you have is of Larry Nichols Devon, it is not the correct photo of Larry Nichols of the Clinton Chronicles, i will call larry and ask him about it but it appears to be of someone else with similar name. I have his phone number 104.228.250.209 (talk) 03:50, 29 September 2016 (UTC)shiela[reply]

There hasn't been a photo on this page since at least July, maybe longer. What am I missing? EricEnfermero (Talk) 04:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Linkage

If you type Larry Nichols in the Search box, you will not find this page, but a different Lawrence Nichols. Don't know how to correct this, but there should be a disambiguation page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.94.251.66 (talk) 15:49, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Was No Removal of well-sourced content

@FuriouslySerene: There was no removal of content, I moved the citations to the bottom of the source code. It makes things more readable :/ 12.168.201.132 (talk) 05:16, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And, I changed how the article identifies the fellow per WP:NPOV. They are famous for their allegations against the Clinton's, and those allegations are based on their employment with the Clinton's. Referring to them as "an American famous for allegations" mischaracterizes them as be a random individual with no connection to the Clintons. 12.168.201.132 (talk) 05:22, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You removed the sentence "is an American known for alleging various conspiracy theories." I'm not sure who you mean by "their" but I assume you're referring to just Larry Nichols. In any event, there are (at least) three reliable sources that refer specifically to Nichols's use of "conspiracy theories." Please see WP:V and WP:RS for relevant Wikipedia policies on verifiability and reliable sources. If you have a reliable source that characterizes Nichols's various allegations differently, please share it here and it can be added to the article. FuriouslySerene (talk) 06:23, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Identifying whether Nichol's is allegations are "conspiracy theories" or "anecdote" would be a characterization of honesty, one that should not be preserved in any citation without a relevant claim of fact. Doing so is like preserving the pronoun a transgender individual uses when the majority of sources on the topic are biased to the point they don't acknowledge their preferred pronoun. If their are reliable sources stating that a person is transgender, it shouldn't matter if that source actually uses that pronoun to address the individual, wikipedia should atleast use a neutral-pronoun. Their is no claim of fact in addressing a person's allegations as being "conspiracy theories" that is not implied by describing them as corruption.

'As a second note' neither 1, 2, nor 3 uses the term theory or theorist describing Nichols. All of them use the term conspiracy, and 1 describes Hugh H. Sprunt as a conspiracy theorist, but none of them make any claims about Larry being a theorist. I actually hadn't checked this, but now that I see it actually is Unsourced removing per Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Remove_contentious_material_that_is_unsourced_or_poorly_sourced. Since the material is contentious please discuss further in talk before reverting again, per WP:BLPSOURCES. 12.168.201.132 (talk) 02:23, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, dismissed is not a euphemism, rather it is simply a term ambiguous between an illegitimate removal or unavoidable removal and legitimate removal. The edit was unnecessary, and probably does nothing more than negatively characterize, which isn't something Wikipedia avoids when accurate.. And, it is certainly questionable whether it is accurate. 12.168.201.132 (talk) 06:11, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fine with your edit to say conspiracies instead of conspiracy theories. As for "firing," you realize a firing can be illegitimate too right? Saying he was fired doesn't imply whether it was legitimate or not. Anyways, both the New York Times and Mother Jones described it as "firing," so you'll need some reliable sources if you want to change the wording. FuriouslySerene (talk) 16:57, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Biased, Misleading

Reporting should be unbiased, fact based and not intended to mislead the reader to draw a conclusion. People should read the facts and come to their own conclusions without being led there. This is an opinion piece and as such does not belong in WikiPedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:9781:3C10:85E6:8062:36A8:509A (talk) 11:06, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Larry Nichols of Conway Arkanas died on September 27th 2020

The obituary notice is at: https://www.thecabin.net/obituaries/larry-raymond-nichols/article_a7c7a6f7-3e44-58ae-a050-4560ba7a037d.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.212.197.96 (talk) 20:01, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]