Talk:Pierre Ballester

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I've removed "Gondecourt Award 2004" from the book details because I don't see it on Google. --Mereda 17:05, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Strangely enough, I immediately found two sources using google. Socafan 17:59, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merging...

... an article of a living person into the article of another living person is a bad idea unless one person is only notable as a minor player in the life of the other. This is not the case here, thus the articles should not be merged. Socafan 00:02, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

no worries. it only took 6 years to correct this error. since the USADA 2012 and UCI 2012 decisions, this guy is a journalistic historical figure, since most of those investigations built off of LA Confidentiel for their work. Decora (talk) 04:39, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Third Opinion

The revert war is over text that is not good english, and is being inserted to push POV. I suspect that if the text were cleaned up to be succinct, clear and balanced it would be fine. Allow me to suggest that, if accurate and verifiable "Armstrong additionally requested that he be allowed to insert a denial into the book itself, in addition to (whatever he was rewarded from the newspaper). The courts rejected this request." Hipocrite - «Talk» 17:45, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for providing a third opinion and your suggestion of better text. No thanks for assuming bad faith. In how far do you see anything not neutral in the words, especially in contrast to what is written about the decisions in favour of Armstrong? Of course I am also interested in language errors as the sentence is taken from the source. The book and the newspaper lawsuits are different ones, so "in addition to" is misleading. Furthermore, Armstrong also lost on appeal, and the source says so. Socafan 22:13, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"this request was rejected at the appellate level." sounds to me as if he had initially won but then lost on appeal. In fact he lost and then again on appeal. Could this be made clear please? Socafan 08:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]