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Merge Friedman Unit to Thomas Friedman

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
Following discussion, pages were not merged. Cnilep (talk) 02:38, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

It was suggested by User:Korny O'Near at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Friedman Unit that Friedman Unit be merged to Thomas Friedman. As rationale for the proposed merge, comments by Korny O'Near and me (Cnilep) are quoted below.

At heart, this is some political invective against Thomas Friedman - not that different from "Tricky Dick" or "Slick Willie", or, even more relevantly, "You forgot Poland". All of those are redirects or disambig links back to the larger topic, which makes sense since the amount of information that could legitimately be said about any of them, as with "Friedman Unit", could fit comfortably into about three sentences. (Korny O'Near, 20 July 2014)
Notability is not temporary, but neither is it inherited. This seems to be a once-notable critique of Friedman, occasionally extended to other political writers/speakers. (Cnilep, 22 July 2014)

Cnilep (talk) 03:32, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

"Views and opinions" esp. "Israel" is terrible

The "Views and opinions" section does not actually seem to be focused on his views, but reads like a dumping ground for criticism. For example, the "Israel" subsection does not include ONE opinion of Friedman's on Israel, but only random cherry-picked criticisms. This is clearly not a NPOV, and neither is the rest of the section. Needs a severe rewrite. --Bobjohnson111980 (talk) 20:15, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Committee to Protect Journalists is entirely misquoted

I'm going ahead with an edit to correct this, but I want to have the explanation on record: The description "war-mongering, crude race-hatred and war-crime agitation" was from FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), not CPJ as is clear from the reference that is provided. DWorley (talk) 00:41, 22 September 2014 (UTC)