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After being diagnosed with Alzheimers and Parkinson's disease, Fernandes has been facing issues with his estranged wife Leila and son Sean. The media has highlighted the treatment meted out to him and the revoking of access to his brothers and long time colleague, Jaya Jaitly, to meet Fernandes, by Leila and Sean. The issue took an ugly turn on February 20, 2010 when Fernandes was declared missing and accusations were made against his wife Leila and son Sean. Fernandes' property worth over ₹25 crore (US$3.0 million), is believed to be the heart of this custody issue.[1][2][3]
Everything is specifically cited as per WP:BLP. If you have no time to read the references, then that's not our problem. You are welcomed to copyedit the section. But if you are unable to copyedit within the next few days, I'll revert your edits. Just because it is written in a poor manner, is no reason to just remove chunks of data. This is cleary clearly vandalism und the name of WP:BLP. Your actions would had been justified if there were inaccuracies in the content. But there are none. I guarantee you that. Xavier449 (talk) 10:08, 19 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
I disagree that the text above is in compliance with BLP and agree with User talk:Active Banana that the above text does not belong in the article. Here are some of the problems with the paragraph:
"The media has highlighted", "is believed to be...", WP:WEASEL
This paragraph bears many of the marks of the type of tabloid journalism specifically named as unhelpful by Wikipedia guidelines. Banana's comment needs to be seriously addressed before reverting any text. Also be WP:NICE, please. BlueRasberry02:46, 20 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
I have done a re-write that attempts to present the information in an appropriate manner. I am still kind of wary about using a source that has unidentified "friends" making allegations that are essentially charges of kidnapping and makes claims of "are going to go to court". Are there more current sources that give a clearer indication of what is happening? ActiveBanana(bananaphone16:52, 22 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
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