Talk:Daniel Snyder/Archive 1

Archive 1

Tottenham Hotspur

The article states the soccer team he may purchase as Tottenham F.C., the team is known as Tottenham Hotspur F.C. I am correcting this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.220.177.237 (talk) 21:26, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Current Events

Should there be an addition of some of the recent things Daniel has done to upset the public? Clearcutting trees off public propertry near his home on the Potomac so that he could have a better view of the river and attempting to buyout the last classical music radio station in DC and turn it into another sports talk station.

Also, what about the article in the Washington Post that reported that under his ownership, the Redskins have been selling tickets via Stubhub instead of selling them to the fans on the waiting list? Or the report that the team has sued fans to enforce the club level contract duration? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.245.246.9 (talk) 16:02, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

This article should include the fact that it is general consensus that Daniel Snyder has run the Redskin franchise into the ground with the aid of Vinny Cerrato, and that Redskin fans, upset with the performance of the franchise on the field, the drive to raise revenues, the contempt for fans exhibited by actions such as suing long time season ticket holders who are victims of the recession; horrible game day experiences (such as the refusal to run shuttle buses to the stadium in a blatant move to raise parking revenues), and his penchant for running the franchise as a retirement home for former Pro-Bowlers to satisfy his fantasy football dreams, has resulted in a fan revolt, evidenced by

http://www.buyoutsnyder.com/

http://www.burgundyrevolution.com/

http://www.fanexodus.com/

http://snydersucks.org/

and frank fan postings on http://blog.redskins.com/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jburnetti (talk • contribs) 01:08, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguation

Should there be a disambiguation between this Daniel Snyder and the late hockey player by the same name? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.10.241.61 (talk • contribs) .

• Thanks for bringing this up; I was thinking the same thing. I've put disambiguation notices at this page and at Dan Snyder. Since there are only two people in question (and it helps us that the Redskins' owner usually goes by Daniel, whereas the hockey player is usually Dan), I didn't feel the need to set up a formal disambiguation page, but the notices are now there in case somebody searches for one and gets the other. --Idont Havaname 18:28, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Snyder’s father, Gerry, was a free-lance writer who wrote for United Press International and National Geographic, and he was raised and schooled mostly in nearby Maryland. Finding school uninteresting and lured by the scent of money,

garbage editorialism.

• to tell you the truth, after rereading this again, it reads like a biographer or publicist. i'd recommend a rewrite.
• this definately needs a complete rewrite. It has obviously been written by someone in Snyder's employ. For example, there is no reference to a telling profile by the local NBC affiliate http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/sports/Is-Dan-Snyder-the-Worst-Owner-60667017.html

I've cleaned up some of the sources and added Template:Article issues referencing the lack of proper sources. Still could benefit from a rewrite. --Quovado (talk) 15:43, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Test of Wikipedianism

As much as I wish Dan Snyder would get out of town and let in an owner who lets football guys run a football team, I undid vandalism on this article. You should be proud of me. Fool4jesus (talk) 22:48, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. There are plenty of blogs out there; a Wikipedia article is not the place to espouse one's personal views. (That's what the talk page is for!) --Quovado (talk) 15:47, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Tone

I think that the tone and level of discourse used in this article are nowhere near wikipedia standards. "Average Joes", "youngster", and jargon like that should be replaced with more formal and descriptive words. Zurkash (talk) 00:29, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

So fix it. --Jayron32 00:54, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Six Flags

According to Bloomberg, Disney is the world's largest theme park operator http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=arlhwBE4uBXU&refer=us Matttwd (talk) 12:36, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

The Washington City Paper...is it a reliable source?

I'd like to challenge IP address editor 63.104.174.146's contention that the City Paper is no longer a reliable source merely because it's the subject of the Snyder's defamation lawsuit. When lobbyist Vicki Iseman filed a defamation suit against the New York Times back in 2008, did that change it's status here at Wikipedia as a reliable source as per WP:RS or WP:BLPSOURCES...even temporarily until the lawsuit concluded? I could try to find other examples of attacks on the media, such as the 1964 Sullivan case, and no, I am not saying the NYT is the CP...yet I digress. You're going to have to come up with something more compelling to try to marginalize the City Paper as an unreliable source than the mere fact that it the subject of a billionaire's defamation lawsuit. I'm restoring all of the material you deleted from the article and while we are at it, should we toss this up on the BLP noticeboard? CriticalChris 04:51, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

I neither made, nor intend, any attack on the City Paper as a whole, nor am I expressing any opinion on the accuracy of the particular article. But it seems obvious to me that we cannot rely, for a specific piece of information, on a single article that is being contested. It's effectively he-said, she-said. I have no doubt that the folks who concern themselves with BLP would agree that it's inappropriate to state, as fact, any information sourced solely from that article. 63.104.174.146 (talk) 19:43, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Incidentally, the City Paper article doesn't even seem to state that the profits from the 9/11 hats weren't given to any relief effort, as this Wikipedia article stated. 63.104.174.146 (talk) 19:48, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Aaaaaand I just noticed that you also reverted my edits that had nothing to do with the City Paper source: you undid my updating to state that the lawsuit had been filed, for which I provided a fresh citation, and you undid my correction of the smart quotes. Seriously, you couldn't be bothered to even look at the content of my other edits before undoing them? Wow. I'm glad you're so concerned about the quality of this article. 63.104.174.146 (talk) 19:53, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Annenberg poll

I've removed a sentence in the mascot controversy section: "A 2004 Annenberg poll found that almost 90% of Native Americans were not offended by the name 'Washington Redskins.'"

My reasoning is that while this poll does exist, the controversy section on this page is about the controversy as it relates to Snyder. Snyder did not commission the poll or have any involvement with it, so mentioning it on his page seems intended more to advance a position on the matter than to disseminate neutral information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewlorente (talk • contribs) 16:05, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

I also removed it. The study is old, flawed as it only called landlines and had a badly phrased question: 11 Reasons to Ignore the 10-Year-Old Annenberg Survey About the Washington Football Team’s Offensive Name[1] 97.85.163.20 (talk) 02:55, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

“The professional football team in Washington calls itself the Washington Redskins. As a Native American, do you find that name offensive or doesn’t it bother you?”