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Article milestones Date Process Result March 26, 2006 Good article reassessment Delisted July 21, 2006 Peer review Reviewed July 30, 2007 Featured article candidate Not promoted November 4, 2007 Featured article candidate Not promoted January 21, 2008 Featured article candidate Not promoted Current Status: Former featured article candidate

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[edit] Futurama

No mention of his numerous guest appearances on Futurama? Maybe "Al Gore in Popular Culture" or something? Solar Eclipse (talk) 02:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC) Yeah and there is no mention of Manbearpig at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.238.146.75 (talk) 16:06, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Futurama is mentioned in the subarticle

Al Gore and the environment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_the_environment#Futurama

-Classicfilms (talk) 05:02, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Criticisim Section Absent

Need one. Tonight, on Hannity's America Sean Hannity and other radio and TV conservatives exposed him as a hypocrite and cited that the environmentalists AND HIM are the reason why food and gas prices have spiked. Show aired on 5-11-08 on the FOX News channel.

The lack of a criticism section on here give Al Gore's enemies ammo, especially those on Conservapedia, who has accused Wikipedia of ridiculing conservatives while applauding liberals, worse. For more on that go to Conservapedia, look up Wikipedia there. 205.240.146.247 (talk) 03:34, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Take the partisan retoric elsewhere. This is an encyclopedia for the people not an encyclopedia for the bigotted. Cheers. Realist² ('Come Speak To Me') 06:27, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

This has been the topic of previous discussions, now in the archives. In following, Wikipedia:Criticism, criticism does exist in the article, but is spread throughout rather than grouped into a section. Please note: "In general, making separate sections with the title "Criticism" is discouraged. The main argument for this is that they are often a troll magnet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criticism#Criticism_in_a_.22Criticism.22_section

-Classicfilms (talk) 19:31, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

<sarcasm>Of course.. The weak American dollar (commodities like grain are traded in dollars), high oil prices that have driven up the transportation costs of the grain(yet again, weak American dollar), ongoing drought in Australia that has slashed the amount of grains the country produces by 42%, etc. has absolutely nothing to do with the high food price...</sarcasm> --Bobblehead ^(rants) 19:54, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

my reply to first comment, LOL, as a general rule, we do not rely on source like FOX news who repeteadly talked about assasinating Obama, claiming obama went to a madrassa, and "hoping" that the iranians were behind the filipino monkey's radio threat. its a mazing how many people could use FOX news as a reliable source.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by RestoreTheEmpireSociety (talk • contribs) 01:03, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Albert III's drug arrest

I have a question regarding the July 2007 drug arrest of Gore's son Albert III (whose article was deleted in February 2008). I'd like to add the arrest, in response to charges of liberal bias by Conservapedia:

Wikpedia's entry on liberal former Vice President Al Gore contains no mention of the drug charges against his son. But Wikipedia's entry on conservative Vice President Dick Cheney prominently mentions his adult daughter's sexuality.

Conservapedia, item 53

However, I don't know where it can go in the article given the structure. Is Al III's arrest too minor to be given any place in this article? If so, why is Mary Cheney's sexuality mentioned in the Dick Cheney article then? Shouldn't both sides get the same treatment? --Andrewlp1991 (talk) 20:19, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

There used to be an article on this topic that went through about nine deletion reviews before it was finally deleted. I couldn't find the archive for the final deletion, but this link contains some of the others.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al Gore III (8th nomination)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Al_Gore_III_%288th_nomination%29

You might want to read through all of this first before you proceed. The central issue rested upon notability. In my opinion, this is not relevant to the article (I also think that none of the other points listed above are relevant either). It would be good to hear from other editors on the topic as well, however, since the final decision rests upon community consensus. -Classicfilms (talk) 21:20, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually, after reviewing all of the discussions, it appears that the 8th review was the final one. -Classicfilms (talk) 23:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

First, Mary Cheney is a prominent businesswoman, political operative, and author, while Al Gore III is not prominent for anything outside of certain right-wing internet circles. Second, it's hard to think of two personal attributes less comparable than being gay and being busted for pot. Third, responding to charges of bias by a group called Conservapedia doesn't sound like a healthy encyclopedia-building exercise. --Allen (talk) 02:13, 9 June 2008 (UTC)