Talk:SPEAK campaign

message: You did a great job expanding the article, Rockpocket. Thank you. SlimVirgin (talk) 02:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent additions

message: This anyone know what Thisisoxfordshire.co.uk is.  We use it a few times as a sole source, but they have a strong anti-SPEAK POV, and the website doesn't say who they are. SlimVirgin (talk) 01:24, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears to be a site hosting news reports from a number of local and regional newspapers. I can only find one use of this site as a reference: "Robert Cogswell, co-founder of SPEAK is on record as saying that the organisation does not condemn the actions of the ALF. ". It doesn't seem particularly anti-SPEAK to me, infact it reports a common justification for violence used by Animal Lib folks.  The statement itself also seems a pretty non controversial, as Cogswell on record elsewhere saying similar things . Rockpocket 03:49, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We had it as a source in the intro that the leader of SPEAK was encouraging lawlessness or something. I just wondered who they were. We probably shouldn't use them as a source, unless of course they're only copying newspaper stories, in which case the newspaper's the source, and the website simply the vehicle. SlimVirgin (talk) 07:21, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

text: It's run by the newspapers The Oxford Times, Oxford Mail, and a couple of others in Oxfordshire. It's a web archive of the stories carried by those local papers. Anything on that site was a published newspaper story, and has that level of credibility. --86.8.135.95 19:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Source query

message: I have serious concerns with the attempts of new user Trooth-sayer to use this article to further SPEAK's attempts to publicise unsubstatiated allegations against a company, when a legal injuction has stopped them from doing so on their own website. I have added the development without naming the company, though have sourced it from an article that does. If anyone wants to, they can click on the link and read all about it themselves (for as long as the link remains active). I think this is the most responsible, neutral way of dealing with the subject on this article. If a respectible source substatiates SPEAK's claims then i'm all for naming them, but i don't see why this article should function as a proxy for promoting their agenda. If anyone disagrees i'm happy to discuss it. Rockpocket 07:00, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using WP to promote SPEAK's agenda 

message: there has been a series of edits to this article from someone claiming to be a child called julian. it is getting increasingly frustrating having to revert said edits. not sure what can be done but something has to be. --Black Butterfly 18:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ongoing vandalism 

message: :Image:SPEAKlogo2.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:01, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:SPEAKlogo2.jpg

message: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7885687.stm, Spokesman is convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Arson, and receives a 10 year sentence - it's fairly important to the issue of SPEAK. I've just updated the trial with a changed last sentence, but would rather not be the one to write up anything further on the trial. London prophet (talk) 00:26, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mel B convicted to 10 years - deserve its own section?