Talk:Stockwell Day

message: Uh, where did the picture go?  Digging.holes 02:50, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I think that the account of the 2000 election needs some editing.  First, I wonder whether we might not dispense completely with the chocolate milk incident, which imo is not significant enough to justify the space.  Frankly, I feel the same with the Ottawa high-tech event and the Niagara Falls gaffe.  Can't we shorten this to something like "some staged events turned out poorly" Bucketsofg 23:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the Conservatives from the sentence "The Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives would use this to their advantage: The former campaigned on Day having a "hidden agenda", and the latter would title their campaign "Change You Can Trust"."  Not, of course, that this wasn't true, but was the slogan solely about Day, or the Reform/CA movement generally? And was this about the 'hidden agenda'? or the agenda as presented?  Also, I'm not sure that even if it was true, that it adds enough to the article to justify including it. Bucketsofg 02:25, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've deleted "The result of the campaign Day's credibility and popularity would soon wane under the media and opposition accusations, and he proved unable to show Eastern Canadians that the party was not simply Reform revamped. Many in the Alliance Party, and other Canadians, condemned the "Campaign of Fear" they said was being run against Day."  I'm not sure what this paragraph aims at.  Saying that Day was harmed by the campaign?  Surely no one would deny it.  But it's far from clear how credible and popular before.  'Eastern Canadians' is not NPOV.   Yes, 'many in the Alliance' condemned the '"campaign of fear"', but 'other Canadians'?  Maybe there is something to be salvaged here.  But shouldn't it be added to next section? Bucketsofg 02:26, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2000 election

message: I think that a clip from the water craft footage should be added.  It has certainly had a big impact and seems to get used whenecer Stockwell Day is mentioned on several Canadian comedy shows. Kc4 00:57, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal water craft footage

message: No, you should keep the chocolate milk in and expand it to include his reaction to "homo" milk.  Was it Mary Walsh or Cathy Jones who ambushed him again? - Vaudree  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.77.58.47 (talk) 13:16, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Milk 

message: I think it's a stretch to say that had Day's proposal for national referenda been in effect at the time, the "Doris" proposal would have gone up for a vote. My recollection is the "signatures" for the 22 Minutes campaign were submitted by Internet. Ballot petitions generally require backers to go out and get the physical signatures of registered voters. -- Mwalcoff 04:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly right.  The law would only apply to petitions that collected real signatures, not Internet petitions that can be signed multiple times.  (Four of the "signatures" on the 22 Minutes petition are mine.)  I'm removing the sentence. --The Invisible Hand 13:08, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''22 Minutes'' 

message: It is important to keep the right balance between acknowledging the various controversies ("brain drain", Doris, dinosaurs, etc.) that attached themselves to Day in 2000 while simultaneously not overplaying them. The appropriate response to this imperative, however, is not to bury everything remotely unflattering or controversial in a "trivia" section at the end of the article. In fact, Wikipedia policy is quite explicit that "Trivia" sections are not appropriate in most articles, and have to be integrated back into the main article body. 
The appropriate solution here is to acknowledge these matters in the article, but not to dwell on them. We do need to mention them as briefly and neutrally as possible, but obviously we shouldn't insert meaningless, unverifiable hypotheticals about whether Elections Canada would really have approved a Doris referendum or not. WP:NPOV doesn't mean this article has to be a flattering puff piece that buries anything that anybody might read as even remotely unflattering to him; it means we have to acknowledge the facts without interpreting them. Bearcat 05:51, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversies

message: Do other editors believe that this wording is appropriate:
:The Liberals used this tactic in order to drive NDP and Progressive Conservative-leaning voters into voting Liberal, though at no stage in the campaign did polls suggest that the Canadian Alliance would form a majority government needed to implement such policies.
I would argue that "used this tactic in order to drive" is a rather clear instance of "weasel-wording", while the second part of the sentence seems to violate our policies against Original Research.  Do others agree?  CJCurrie 21:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wording

message: That information is valid and relavent to who Mr. Day is.  It used to be here, and has since been scrubbed.  Is messege control at work here?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.76.229.105 (talk) 02:58, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why no mention of his blog, and the skeptical comments about global warming therein? 

message: An anonymous editor removed the paragraph on his father.  I don't think we need to have too much family background in these articles but it is probably relevant that his father was politically involved and ran for a seat in Parliament.  I'll put it back in shortly. Does anybody have a problem with that? --JGGardiner (talk) 22:41, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father 

message: These links lead to missing or unavailable pages:
How'd They Vote?: Stockwell Day's voting history and quotes
In Their Own Words: quotations by and about Canada's Conservatives
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thread_title:  Broken links 

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