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I'm rewriting this article - no more sections of just quotes. One section is literally one Newt Gingrich quote and the other is various quotes on Cuba - that's not how an encyclopedia works, kids. If you want to comment on his thoughts on Cuba, but you're too lazy to notice that those kinds of thoughts should be a sub note in a section about his flirtation with communism - and you're too lazy to write that section, so instead you use a bunch of cquotes (by the way that's not what the template is made for - it's not for article content) - you're not actually contributing anything.--[[User:Iduan|Iduan]] 11:45, 10 December 2013 (EST)

I'm rewriting this article - no more sections of just quotes. One section is literally one Newt Gingrich quote and the other is various quotes on Cuba - that's not how an encyclopedia works, kids. If you want to comment on his thoughts on Cuba, but you're too lazy to notice that those kinds of thoughts should be a sub note in a section about his flirtation with communism - and you're too lazy to write that section, so instead you use a bunch of cquotes (by the way that's not what the template is made for - it's not for article content) - you're not actually contributing anything.--[[User:Iduan|Iduan]] 11:45, 10 December 2013 (EST)

:There are also other issues with this article - including random first person tense, casual sentence structure ("Indeed ..."), significant amounts of undue weight (an entire section of one sentence on George W. Bush?, highlighted quotes on Che Guevarra?) and inconsistent citation style. I don't have access to the books cited and I think I can find the same information through online primary and secondary sources so I'm starting from scrap. I will be starting with four general biography sources to create an outline for the article - the sources are the New York Times - a liberal American paper, All Africa, The Nelson Mandela Foundation (supplementary only due to obvious bias) and the Independent - a conservative British news source.--[[User:Iduan|Iduan]] 11:53, 10 December 2013 (EST)

:There are also other issues with this article - including random first person tense, casual sentence structure ("Indeed ..."), significant amounts of undue weight (an entire section of one sentence on George W. Bush?, highlighted quotes on Che Guevarra?) and inconsistent citation style. I don't have access to the books cited and I think I can find the same information through online primary and secondary sources so I'm starting from scrap. I will be starting with four general biography sources to create an outline for the article - the sources are the New York Times - a liberal American paper, All Africa, The Nelson Mandela Foundation (supplementary only due to obvious bias) and the Independent - a conservative British news source.--[[User:Iduan|Iduan]] 11:53, 10 December 2013 (EST)

::Its ok if you remove the quotes, but please mention his positions on Cuba and Communism.--[[User:JoeyJ|JoeyJ]] 13:49, 10 December 2013 (EST)

::Its ok if you remove the quotes, but please mention his positions on Cuba and Communism.--[[User:JoeyJ|JoeyJ]] 13:49, 10 December 2013 (EST)

:::I one hundred percent will - I already have some of his Communist affiliation in there and I'll also include Cuba in the latter half of the article.--[[User:Iduan|Iduan]] 13:55, 10 December 2013 (EST)

:::I one hundred percent will - I already have some of his Communist affiliation in there and I'll also include Cuba in the latter half of the article.--[[User:Iduan|Iduan]] 13:55, 10 December 2013 (EST)