Talk:Young Liberals (UK)

message: I've just altered the early dates slightly; the previous entry suggested that LDYS was created in 1992, probably by working back through the people elected as Chair and giving each of their terms of office a full year. LDYS was actually created in 1993, through separate merger votes of the Student Liberal Democrats and the Young Liberal Democrats of England in March and April 1993 (first by conference resolutions, then all-member ballots). However, a decision to consider merger had been taken by each organisation in November 1992, at which point five people from each organisation formed a Merger Negotiation Committee (like Sarah Gurling, I was one of those elected to negotiate from the Student side).
:Kiron Reid was the final Chair of the Young Liberal Democrats of England, then elected as the first Chair of LDYS from 1993 to 1994 (not 1992-1993 as originally stated here), and I was Chair from March 1994 to March 1995 (not 1993-1994), and that's the point at which I think the mistake crept in. Constitutional changes in March 1995 meant that the Chair's term of office would in future run from Autumn to Autumn rather than Spring to Spring from that point on, and therefore Phil Jones was only elected to serve from March to November of the same year. The facts look a little strange on the list as corrected, but they are the facts.
Alexwilcock 12:40, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Whilst some internal organisational information (including dates of tenures) necessarily has to be provided by the Liberal Democrats, if it is in dispute, it has to be supported by reliable sources to verify it.  Users may also request citation if they believe that any undue weight is given to said details; I have requested that for the organisational details, but do not believe that listing chairpersons is particularly undue. Bastin 14:51, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates

message: Most of this article seems to have been written before Wikipedia adopted its current, strict rules on verifiability.  Independent reliable sources have to directly verify statements.  For example, it is not enough to add URLs to two news articles and therefore conclude that that's 'significant coverage' of the Homophobia is Gay campaign; one has to find a reliable source that states that it was significant, or else one must delete such weasel words.  Blogs, unless they are the official blogs of news outlets that are otherwise considered reliable and independent of the subject matter, are NOT themselves reliable.
To that end, I have requested better sources for the statements sourced from non-reliable sources (although I have left the current sources, as they may help find a better source).  I have moved one reference that did not support any statement directly, but might be useful in future, to the 'External links' section, and deleted the vanity listing of Vice Chairpersons in the infobox (if the field doesn't exist, it's probably not notable, per WP:UNDUE).  I have also added , requesting citations in support of the factual statements in this article that I believe are in contradiction of Wikipedia's policies on neutrality, notability, undue weight, or conflicts of interest.  Bastin 14:51, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be worth asking yourself for some NPOV given your links to Conservative Future. Once the UK General Election 2010 is over we will re-write this page taking on board your suggestions. Rbrown115 (talk) 10:04, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You'll notice that I actually referenced that article, per Wikipedia's policies.  Furthermore, per WP:COI, edits that you make should be reviewed to prevent bias, due to a conflict of interest.  Unsupported statements are unacceptable, and, since they're been up for over four months without being addressed, I'm now going to delete them. Bastin 14:10, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There's little substantive content on the English Young Liberals page - most of it remains a list which would fall under WP:NOTDIR as far as I'm concerned. I'm unable to find significant third-party sources to justify keeping the page separate. | Naypta✉ opened his mouth at 10:27, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Closing, given the uncontested opposition. Klbrain (talk) 08:45, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[English Young Liberals]]