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Untitled[edit]

Recent additions by 63.121.249.2 are excessively lengthy and are so POV as to seem like advertising or PR copy from the organization. Much, if not all of it, needs to be deleted and the remainder, if any, needs to be heavily reworked to conform to NPOV. Thoughts? LeoO3 18:06, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted virtually all of the extremely POV brochure advertisement. Hopefully someone can come along and add a NPOV description of the YAF and their activities. Ari 18:53, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV?[edit]

I suggest a POV heading.........

It seems now that there is a slant against the organization......the controversy section is larger than the description of the organization itself.......I propose some research............... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.136.254 (talk • contribs) 23:04, 17 August 2006

I added a very short stub for a History section. Someone needs to fill it in. That should help balance the page a bit, since a minor 2006 incident should not be 2/3 of the entire page! — Lawrence King ^(talk) 05:10, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the "controversies in 2006" section for 2 reasons. First, it belongs in a separate article about the spokesman of YAF himself, as it doesn't even say who "Mattera" is, and it has nothing to do with the YAF (or it's stance) at all. Secondly, this is not a controversy. Every politician who didn't serve in the military is asked/and says the same thing. No other source lists this as "controversial." If someone would like to create a separate article on Jason Mattera, that would be more appropriate. - DMCer 07:34, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

POV[edit]

I have added POV and advert tags to this article because, as currently written, it reads as an advocacy piece for the organization, written by someone from the group, and using the group's literature. Most of the references, such as they are, are primary sources from YAF. In fact, all of the changes are the result of this edit: 09:22, 25 November 2008 Btchambe (talk | contribs), in which the article was drastically expanded from less than 2,000 characters to more than 10,000. This needs to be completely rewritten, and a good start would be removing all of those edits. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 14:27, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New York Times story[edit]

This is a good NYT story with lots of material both favorable and unfavorable to make this entry WP:NPOV.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/us/college-conservative-speeches.html
The Conservative Force Behind Speeches Roiling College Campuses
By STEPHANIE SAUL
MAY 20, 2017

The speeches are a part of the group’s mission of grooming future conservative leaders — Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller, a White House adviser, are among its alumni — and its long list of donors has included the television game show host Pat Sajak, the novelist Tom Clancy, the billionaire brothers David H. and Charles G. Koch, and the Amway billionaires Richard and Helen Devos, who gave $10 million to endow the Reagan Ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., which the foundation runs as a preserve.

Over the past two years, armed with a $16 million infusion from the estate of an orthodontist in California, Robert Ruhe, the organization has doubled its programming, including campus speeches. In 2016 that meant 111 speakers on 77 campuses. On the group’s website, it boasted of “dispatching” 31 speakers to colleges last month alone.

In that time, the speakers have gotten edgier, more in-your-face and sometimes even meanspirited....

--Nbauman (talk) 12:32, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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“controversial forces...”[edit]

The lead indicates some controversy around the organization, but the article does not seem to mention any unless I missed it. It seems the controversial nature of the organization should be specified/expanded upon. Pythagimedes (talk) 20:00, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Needs a Controversy or Criticism Section[edit]

The article seems incredibly short, and it is missing a lot of the criticism the organization already has for their speakers. Even though criticism is spread throughout the Wikipedia page however having a separate section would help consolidating a lot of the criticism. -KrishnaDasMath ^(talk) 23:18, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]