Talk:The Battle for Whiteclay

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NPOV

This article has a number of NPOV problems, which I've tried to resolve; unfortunately, this involved cutting out a certain amount of material that might've been acceptable had it been properly attributed and sourced.

We need to be careful about taking Vasina's assertions and those of other Whiteclay activists as facts. That EtOH sales at Whiteclay are illegal, that they're made with the full knowledge that most of it will be bootlegged to the reservation, that large beer companies are displaying depraved indifference to this bootlegging, that Nebraska is more interested in its sales tax revenue than in the plight of the reservation's residents... all of these are statements of opinion rather than fact, however strong a case for the opinion one might make. This doesn't mean that they should be left out, but they need to be attributed: "According to Smith...", with citation.

A talk-page exchange elsewhere leads me to believe that several editors contributing to this article feel strongly about the Whiteclay issue. This is in no way reprehensible, but it creates a situation in which we have to exercise extra vigilance to avoid inserting our own POVs. Ammodramus (talk) 00:33, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good reminder on need for attribution - this is a complex issue. Another source wrote that what the activists propose might have been considered "Prohibition for one ethnic group" and a problem because of limitation by ethnicity.Parkwells (talk) 15:22, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]