Talk:Frederick Bee

Multiple issues

I tagged this article as having multiple issues. The page creator removed the maintenance template without addressing any of the issues or making any alterations to the article. I subsequently replaced the template. The creator then went to the Tea House and some charitable soul responded by adding the {{prose}} template instead. I won't edit war by changing it back to {{multiple issues}} but the fact remains that this article is pretty dire, of about the quality I would expect my eight-year old to turn in as a brief homework project. It consists of large amounts of irrelevant material, mostly listed as a date and a place, poorly presented and without context or explanation. Random example: the names and birth/death details of the article subject's nieces... How on earth is any of that relevant? The article leaves the reader none the wiser as to who or what Bee was, and why he is notable. I don't necessarily dispute his notability but the article certainly doesn't present the case very well. It is, to be blunt, a crappy page which will require a lot of work to bring it anywhere near to the standard expected of a stand-alone biographical article in an encyclopedia. I have made a few changes already. The infobox is now infobox: person; the .pdf which was being used as an image has been changed to a cropped .png which I made myself; the infobox about the subject's spouse has been removed (although I don't object to a small, cropped image of her being used in the page.) BlackberrySorbet 10:36, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

I started to remove some irrelevant material but actually I don't know that he is notable enough for an article at all? Theroadislong (talk) 16:36, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Ah, sorry, I only just saw this. There is a post on my talk page, see here and it was I who added the prose tag and spoke to him at the Teahouse, and thought that having a definite thing to work on would probably work better, as the author could then have a place to start. Thanks, Matty.007 18:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

The "multiple issues" tag is pretty meaningless without identifying what the issues are. The purpose of the tag is to combine what would otherwise be a number of separate maintenance tags identifying separate categories of problem. If (exceptionally) the multiple issues tag were to be used without the subsequent parameters to identify the problems, I would at least expect the problems to be summarised on the article talk page. I therefore wasn't surprised to see the bare tag deleted. - David Biddulph (talk) 16:28, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Chinese Exclusion

This section is still a bit of a mess with lists of facts and a lack of explanations. Theroadislong (talk) 09:44, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Lead section

The sentence User:Mcpotbelly has removed... "and as a result he was appointed Chinese Consul of San Francisco." is an explanation of the previous sentence "his advocacy of their human rights was recognised by the Emperor of China" if it's chronologically incorrect please change the order but don't remove content that further explains the context and is correctly referenced. Theroadislong (talk) 13:57, 13 September 2013 (UTC) I will work on that this weekend. MC Potbelly (talk) 19:04, 13 September 2013 (UTC) I added a sentence that explains why Bee was selected to be Consul. MC Potbelly (talk) 03:58, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Reliable sources for this article

A lot of good sources can be found by clicking the "news" and "book" links in the box above titled Sources for development of this article.... Cheers. 64.40.54.143 (talk) 21:59, 14 September 2013 (UTC)