Talk:Vincent Massey

message: I have requested a review of this as an A-Class article under the Biography project assessment guidelines. To see the discussion show the details under the Biography banner above. --KenWalker | Talk 05:51, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added the persondata template as recommended in the A-class discussion but there is much else in the valuable ideas there to do as well.  The persondata box could use the addition of the location in England where he died.  --KenWalker | Talk 21:52, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Article did not pass A-Class review. Please see the link in the "Article History" box at the top of the page. Sorry for the delay. John Carter 21:08, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: A-Class Review

message: Massey was awarded the Silver Beaver Award of the Boy Scouts of America in 1933 for service to youth, not necessarily in the context of Scouting.
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--Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awards and honors 

message: The sections Governor General, Later life and Honours are lifted verbatim, with some rearrangement of contents, from the Governor General of Canada website bio on Massey at http://www.gg.ca/gg/fgg/bios/01/massey_e.asp .  Presumably the editor who added this material did so in good faith, thinking they were acting in accordance with the permission to reproduce this material for non-commercial purposes set out out at http://www.gg.ca/in-ai/index_e.asp#1 .
However, as Wikipedia articles are reproduced on many commercial forks and mirrors, material copied from elsewhere must be licensed for commercial reproduction as well or cannot be included in Wikipedia.   The Commercial Reproduction section of the GG site copyright notice makes clear that the material cannot be reproduced for commercial purposes without permission, and as there has been no assertion of permission, I've regrettably had to remove the offending material, despite the fact that doing so has left a gaping hole in the middle of the article.
I hope another editor will replace these sections in short order with their own work or else GFDL-licensable material.  --Rrburke(talk) 15:18, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation 

message: Although this covers Massey to Jean - this is the where the 'disagreement' began. There's no reason for not compromising with me. Simply move the 'investiture stuff' to the top of the content. GoodDay (talk) 17:06, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: GD, please choose one location to have this conversation. Will it be here, or at my talk page, where you began? --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 17:10, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Your talkpage will do. GoodDay (talk) 17:12, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbering of Governors General 

message: The article states: "But, he was not with his new bride long before, at the end of 1915, the United Kingdom, and thus Canada along with it, had declared war on Germany." However, the article concerning World War I, clearly states that the United Kingdom declared war on Germany, on 3 August 1914, which, to my mind is in the middle of 1914 not late 1915. Could someone with better knowledge of Vincent Massey's life correct this error and perhaps provide a clearer description of what Massey was doing during the early part of the war?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.183.171.90 (talk) 21:36, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Kingdom's Declaration of War 

message: The fact that Vincent Massey was the first Canadian born Governor General is a very important fact of Canadian history. I really feel that it should be worked into the opening header text. His period in office marked Canada's coming of age and is often used as a historical marker of the beginning of the individual Canadian identity...--Oracleofottawa (talk) 01:01, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See the long discussion at Talk:Vincent_Massey#Place_of_birth. Some people don't realise the significance of that fact -- SteveCrook (talk) 01:17, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know about Canada, but in Australia the significance of the first Australian-born Governor-General is well understood. Nobody knows the names of those British chaps before and after, but Sir Isaac Isaacs is very well known. His uniform is on display in Parliament House. I would imagine that the first Canadian-born Governor General is likewise admired in Canada for precisely the same reasons. On checking, I see that the fact is in the lead, albeit reasonably well buried. --Pete (talk) 03:36, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I mean, he wasn't just the first Canadian-born governor-general. He was the first Canadian governor-general. The others were all Brits who only lived in Canada while governor-general. Emphasizing the Canadian-born would seem to imply that some earlier Governor-General was a naturalized Canadian. But I don't believe that is the case. john k (talk) 13:37, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: First Canadian Born...

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