Talk:Warren County PCB Landfill

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NPOV/tone issues with article

The article has significant NPOV issues as it reads basically as if Wikipedia is clearly on the side of the Warren County PCB Landfill protesters rather then simply describing the controversy in neutral terms. Phrases like "For the next decade, as citizens tenaciously attempted to hold the Governor to his public..." and "Ultimately, however, the state and the EPA protected their own interests...", and "Citizens got a cleanup, but it was without qualified independent detoxification oversight and the cleanup standards and protection they deserved." are clearly not NPOV. If you wish to include such statement then you need to attribute them to a notable source. Here is made up example of a way to include that sort of viewpoint and comply with the NPOV policy on Wikipedia: "John Smith, in an article for the magazine Environmentalist Today, wrote "Consequently, the state and the EPA evaded long-term liability for the PCB landfill and hid the truth about EPA's failed, “dry-tomb” landfills. Citizens got a cleanup, but it was without qualified independent detoxification oversight and the cleanup standards and protection they deserved." which would NPOV since it's properly attributed. You would still need to describe the background that quote refers to in NPOV terms explaining both sides of the controversy. Essentially, you need to describe the efforts to clean up the sight, the actions and responses of the EPA, WV government and governor, etc. towards that effort, and the accusations by critics that the EPA, state. governor, etc. was hiding the truth and trying to avoid liability (they must be attributed to specific critics without the use of weasel words like "Critics charged..." or "Environmentalist claimed..."). --Cab88 (talk) 23:36, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Suggestions for Improvement

This article was very helpful in learning about the events, but it could use one or two improvements to make it even better. As mentioned above the article could use some edits to make sure it does not take on a strong bias. There are some very minor edits which could help fix this issue by just changing word choice in several statements such as "deserved". Another suggestion is in regards to sources, most of the links when I clicked on them did not work, and a lot of the information in the article does not have direct footnotes. It would be helpful if the source citing was edited to make finding the original sources of information easier. The article may also benefit from having more statements from both the members of the community and the ones in charge of placing the dump there. Fiyr grant (talk) 16:02, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Duke Chronicle Quote

I spent some time checking out the Duke Chronicle Archives and did not find the exact quote in the article: "the largest civil disobedience in the South since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., marched through Alabama." One news article describes the march and number of people at the march on September 27, 1962, but doesn't go so far to say it was the largest civil disobedience in the South. Does briefly refer to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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