Talk:Preston Smith (governor)

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Comment[edit]

This page needs some election statistics to flesh out the guy's career.

Someone is removing info but I can't undo the changes. Please look back at the Dec 2022 version. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.12.172.197 (talk) 12:17, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Later life and political comeback needs to be revised. I think the prior information got struck for copyright violation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doughbo (talk • contribs) 21:05, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Doughbo can someone explain the copyright issue ? Ccirulli (talk) 19:27, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I can't recall the original reason for my comment, nor do I know the reason for the content's removal. However, I reverse searched some of the text and it appears that the article had partially plagiarized this Find a Grave entry. Doughbo (talk) 00:07, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Doughbo Thanks for your reply and dialog. Is it good practice to wholesale delete an entire section of an article, and portion of someones biography, as opposed to correct the plagiarized instances? I will be happy to make the corrections, but as is, a casual reader is missing a lot of information. Ccirulli (talk) 18:07, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not an experienced editor but I think it would be worth it to append some of the clean information that was previously removed. Doughbo (talk) 08:57, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree and intend to work to on that. Ccirulli (talk) 21:32, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Politics Late in Life[edit]

I knew Gov. Smith when I was a student at Texas Tech (1994-1998)---he went to my church and was a very nice guy. Once he gave me a key chain with his face on it and, in the course of the conversation, I recall him telling me that he identified himself at that point in his life as a Republican. I wonder if there is any reference to support what he told me personally.

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