Talk:Andrew Neil

message: I think the passage "He also employed Holocaust denier David Irving in 1992 on the dubious assertion that Irving was one of the few people who could read German gothic typography." should be removed unless there is credible evidence to suggest that David Irving's appointment was not for the reasons disclosed.
: I have removed the sentence.  I have done this for a number of reasons.
: * The statement has sat for over a month with fact tag - and no source has been added for the claim.
: * Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons - which was formed as a result of the Seigenthaler controversy - gives very clear guidance.  In short - biographies of living people should strictly adhere to NPOV and verifiability policies.  The sentence I removed was not verifiable and of questionable wording. SFC9394 19:07, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[David Irving]]

message: To the paragraph about his current media activity, I added the sentence:
He hosts Start the Week, a cultural programme on BBC Radio 4.
This sentence was removed, with no reason given.  I cannot think why.  I would rather not engage in an edit war.  If reasons are not given for its removal, I will re-add it in a few days. BrainyBabe 17:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If it can be cited, just add it. The JPStalk to me 18:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

text: The presenter of Start the Week on Radio 4 is Andrew Marr. Philip Cross 18:57, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, how embarrassing. I hold my hands up in shame.  I guess their voices sound similar to me.  Or I just wasn't paying attention.  An honest mistake. BrainyBabe 17:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of Radio 4 reference

message: Is the 'much younger woman' in the photo mentioned in this section Pamella Bordes? To me, it reads as if it isn't, but it's sandwiched in between two bits about Bordes. If I knew for sure I could rewrite it to be clearer. Rissa (talk) 23:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the woman is not Bordes. The cited British Journalism Review article explains all. Philip Cross (talk) 22:11, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Private Eye photo

message: Is this really relevant? As the head of Sky, a company with an affiliation to Fox, Neil would have inevitably added The Simpsons to his schedule. Philip Cross (talk) 22:11, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simpsons reference 

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message: My edit was reverted, citing WP:RS, fair enough.
The clarification I was attempting has since been made again by another.
For some background, in case it's useful for future edits, and because the links are hard to find again after time has passed:
The Internet keeps suggesting Andrew Neil is Chairman of Press Holdings.
Their main asset is The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
He has stated he has never had any connection with The Daily Telegraph.
Press Holdings smaller interest is Press Holdings Media Group and Neil is chairman of this, as detailed in his entry in https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmjournl/journalists.htm
PHMG owns The Spectator magazine, amongst others.
Tweets from Neil's account where he rebuts claims to the contrary are many, and include
https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1033814019214372864, https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1033806907226636294, and https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1033805691276980224
-- Ralph Corderoy (talk) 14:35, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: No connection ever with The Telegraph

message: Shouldn't the Neil-Shapiro interview be mentioned:  Neil falsely indicates that he doesn't make a lot of money (~200000 pounds  according to this Wik article), and Shapiro doesn't know that Neil is a conservative. The interview is on various Youtube videos, with commentaries, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AgfNTZP9ck . 37.99.33.34 (talk) 12:48, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ben Shapiro interview 

message: Since Andrew Neil's widely viewed interview with Ben Shapiro, the activity on this Wikipedia page has been blowing up with several highly questionable and charged edits being made. I've already had to restore this page twice. I therefore ask fellow sane editors to prevent any attempt at introducing charged language into this article or giving more than three sentences of space in this article to the Shapiro interview, which is obviously a passing speck in the half dozen political outrages that occur every day and used by the righteous warriors of truth to "fix" Wikipedia so it sounds more like what they read on their cars bumper stickers.Wallingfordtoday (talk) 04:41, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maintaining sanity after the Ben Shapiro debate 

message: The Wikipedia article on AIDS has all the letters in caps.  Is there some reason that this Neil article only has the initial letter in caps (excluding the quoted material, which should maintain what-ever form was originally used)?  Kdammers (talk) 02:10, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually it's the quoted material that generally is that way - the main text is ALL CAPS. It's increasingly common in the British written media to only use ALL CAPS when the acronym is said as letters, such as HIV, and to only capitalise the first letter when it's said as a word, such as Aids. However this is not a globally followed standard and Wikipedia's style guide seems influence by US usage. Timrollpickering (Talk) 22:55, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aids /AIDS 

message: I have removed the unsourced paragrapgh falsely claiming Boris hasn't taken part in leadership interviews. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball and so we must not assume Boris isn't going to be interviewed until Wednesday night and even then we would need a source. We could mention the empty chair already with a reliable 3rd-party source. ♫ RichardWeiss talk contribs 15:29, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Leaders and 2019 GE

message: The section on his political views is terrible.  It's just a hit job for the left.  Not balanced at all - and I generally think Neil is actually on the left with a lot of his views, no matter how he may dress it up - so I'm not even defending him.  I'm simply saying this page is riddled with left wing bias.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.71.122 (talk) 07:41, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Please refrain from going around Wikipedia accusing people of bias. Bacondrum (talk) 02:51, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

text: If you have a problem with the article, either articulate the problem properly, or fix it yourself. Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI converse | fings wot i hav dun 04:16, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: We would fix it, but then your lot come along and undo it.  You've ruined Wiki. 51.158.65.127 (talk) 04:24, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Left wing bias 

message: The Guardian is reporting that Neil has left the BBC to run a 24-hour news channel on GB News. JezGrove (talk) 19:07, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  GB News 

message: The section quoted below claims to be from a Radio4 interview. If you go to min 33 of the interview you can see that it is not true. Neill says that he regrets his position because it was wrong. He does not try to push the blame onto his medical correspondent. He does say that he thought that thry were right in as much as not everyone was at equal risk from HIV. 
Please listen to the section on the interview and correct this paragraph, if not, I will. 
"In a 2021 interview Neil said that he now regretted certain aspects of the paper's coverage of HIV and AIDS, but he was unwilling or unable to accept any personal responsibility for the falsehoods published while he was editor. Neil chose instead to blame an employee, stating that he had placed faith in a trusted correspondent who was found to be wrong.[103]" Rustygecko (talk) 04:47, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  HIV: this paragraph simply wrong 

message: The I says that there were potential legal disputes following his appearance on QT. Now it seems his exit contract has been cancelled, per his Tweet reported in The Telegraph. It would seem that the exit agreement was cancelled because of the critical comments made on QT. This has not been confirmed, but putting it here for now. Solipsism 101 (talk) 12:24, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  GB News