Talk:Ron Ramsey

76.21.217.146 is vandalizing this page by deleting verifiable and significant information pertaining to Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey (of Sullivan County, Tennessee) and his political connections to the Monarch Pharmaceuticals (subsidary of King Pharmaceuticals, Inc also of Sullivan County, Tennessee), the Monarch branded pharmaceutical drug Altace, and Ramsey's August 1999 organizing of a lobbying airlift to Nashville aboard King Pharma corporate aircraft to meet with then TennCare Director Brian Lapps.

Tdl1060 (as above) repeatedly vandalizing above mentioned referenced material.

My edits are not vandalisim, your additions are off topic and do not belong in the bio of Ron Ramsey.--Tdl1060 19:25, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Please do not delete content from articles on Wikipedia, as you did to Ron Ramsey. It may be considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. disruptive editing by Tdl1060 4.88.58.217 23:24, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Again my edits are not vandalisim, your additions are not within the scope of a biography that is supposed to be about Ron Ramsey not the history of these phamacutical companies.--Tdl1060 19:25, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

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4.129.65.223 15:25, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Info about contributors?

• How legitimate is this info in this article (as opposed to a King Pharmaceuticals article accessible by a link)? Should Kenneth Lay be in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush articles along with all of his legal difficulties seeing as how he was alternately a major contributor to both? And shouldn't former TennCare chief Brian Lapps be a separate article, if his links to Ramsey or King are truly encyclopedic? In short, the current, protected article reads a lot like a POV "hatchet job" IMO. 68.53.110.123 22:39, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Review the contribution history of editor removing verified NPOV material

A thorough review of User contributions (excerpt):Tdl1060 reveals that the overwhelming majority of User:Tdl1060 Wiki contributions are characterized as pertaining to Republican politicians (even those not Tdl1060's fellow citizens of Illinois) and elections, suggesting to me that Tdl1060 is not always looking to make good faith and NPOV edits for the advancement of the Wikipedia, but rather, TDl1060 is targeting specific articles for broad-brush opportunities to enforce Ronald Reagan's so-called "Eleventh Commandment": ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.") over all Wikipedians. 4.88.61.188 18:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Altace, etc.

A link to Altace, King Pharma, etc. is certainly perteinent to this article IMO given the extent of King's contributions to Ramsey; however, the reiteration of the entire Altace story is not, as that is what links are for. Otherwise, for example, the article on Richard Nixon would completely duplicate the article Watergate Scandal. The fact that the linkage between Ramsey and King Pharma is verifiably correct does not justify the inclusion of this much detail. Spiro Agnew was Richard Nixon's vice president and the two are inexorably linked, but it would hardly be wise editorship or encyclopedic to put everyting about Nixon in the Agnew article, or vice versa. This certainly looks agenda-driven. Rlquall 03:26, 10 March 2007 (UTC)