Talk:Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority

message: This doesn't really explain what they are. Are they like employment agencies? Is it UK specific? Is it just for immigrant workers? What title should this be at? Secretlondon 09:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Also, since "gangmaster" redirects here, a quick explanation of what the term means would be useful. It's more specific than just "someone who supplies workers", and it shouldn't be assumed that (especially non-UK) readers will know. 86.143.52.217 09:58, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
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message: This section was prompted by the edits made on 23 May 2012, to encourage debate, and consensus on the development of the page, avoiding edit warring [WP: edit war], and breach of 3RR [WP:3RR], as this edit equated to a 10 revert within 24 hours, and is the second breach identified. 
In the exercise of free speech it is important that both sides of an argument (advocates and critics)are allowed to ensure NPOV [WP:NPOV]. Equally any references should be to existing articles, and the accompanying narrative in the article should not seek to advance a position, or provide opinion, just report fact/others views and research. Edits, and the explanatory summary of them, should accurately reflect changes, and not seek to hide the full extent of changes made. If it is too complicated to reflect all of the edits within the summary either the editor should post a reference to this page and section, and explain in more detail their changes and justificaiton, or they should make their changes in smaller steps so that there is transparency of the change. In this way further breaches of 3RR should be avoided in attempts to preserve a prefered, yet partial POV (for example the 23 May 2012 edit removed a criticism to replace it with one which presumably the editor felt more compelling, whereas both have relevance). Do active editors interested in this page agree?
CGHCronin (talk) 23:06, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
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message: Revert of edit of 23 May 2012: The edit summary of 23/05/12 misleadingly stated it was adding a reference to a new critical report. It actually reverted the criticism section back, closely, to the 06.23 15/5/12 version. Revised text was equivalent to making 10 version reverts, removing versions: 15.06 10/5/12; 15.12 10/05/12; 08.48 14/5/12; 12.05 15/5/12; 12.10 15/5/12; 12.15 15/5/12; 15.39 15/5/12; 16.19 15/5/12; 08.52 16/5/12; 10.53 18/5/12 - significant breach of 3RR (2nd incident). In changing the above edits it removed the text regarding the Oxfam report criticism (and broke the x-ref to the related para in Adovocate), and removed the explanation regarding the Forestry's view of the Forestry task force report, and their press release, which resulted in the referenced press articles. Both of these clarifications are relevant for balance. The edit re-introduced a section on a major prosecution, which had been removed, and used descriptive terms that were inappropriate, mis-represented the Judges comments, and re-introduced a dead link (section added back but corrected as identified in related edit summaries). Other amendments, in the other edits referred to above changed the tone of the narrative without further discussion. The re-introduction of several additional links regarding the Daily Mirror article remain unnecessary as each can be reached within the main article. It is unclear why these are therefore seen as necessary. CGHCronin (talk) 00:02, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
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message: This article seems to have been written and edited primarily by staff of the organisation (incl. founding Chairman Paul Whitehouse, CGHCronin and MCA RIP).  Their contributions seem to overstate success and support for the organisation whilst deleting or being dismissive and belittling towards critics.  This may be a genuinely held personal point of view, it may reflect a vested interest, and it may or may not be legitimate for civil servants to engage in such self promotion.  Neutral and unbiased it is not.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.243.253.101 (talk) 12:58, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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