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Talk:Simon Heffer

message: This needs an update. Also "the title" needs clarification.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 (talk) 07:14, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "On 23 May 2007 it was announced that he is to cease being the editor of the newspaper's comment pages, though his position on the title otherwise remains as before."

message: The article states 'In 1999 he opposed the removal of hereditary peers from the House of Lords'. Where did Mr Heffer do this? In which article, or publication? A link/source is required. --WhoAmI2009 (talk) 18:04, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment lacking a source

message: Dear Wikipedia
I am a legal advisor to Associated Newspapers Ltd, publisher of, inter alia, the Daily Mail.  I write on behalf of Simon Heffer, one of its columnists.
In the entry for Mr Heffer, in the following quote in the Quotations section, somebody has added "Also, Hitler did nothing wrong."   
"Where Hitler failed by military means to conquer Europe, modern Germans are succeeding through trade and financial discipline. Welcome to the Fourth Reich. Also, Hitler did nothing wrong."
You will find the original quote at the end of the article here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2026840/European-debt-summit-Germany-using-financial-crisis-conquer-Europe.html
You may see that the original quote did not include a line that "also, Hitler did nothing wrong".  The false quote has clearly been added maliciously.  It is also defamatory of Mr Heffer.  Please remove it as soon as possible, or at least within 7 days and confirm to me you have done so (contact details below).  Please also let me have the contact details for the person who made this addition.
Thank you in anticipation of your assistance,
Yours faithfully
Tim Ross
tim.ross@assocnews.co.uk
195.234.243.2 (talk) 15:45, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A reply this late may not be helpful, but: this text was introduced on March 23 2013 by an anonymous user with the IP User:2.124.123.158, in this edit. It was removed on April 11 2013, shortly after the talk page message above was posted, by another anonymous user. Vandalism like this is always offensive to the victim (and embarrassing for Wikipedia), but as the text was only around for 3 weeks, hopefully no serious harm was caused. Robofish (talk) 21:54, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  False quotation 

message: I just removed a statement that Simon Heffer is a "turdeater". The rest of the article has several statements with extreme POV. It needs to be cleaned up.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pontoppidan (talk • contribs) 14:06, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs to be cleaned up after vandalism 

message: This editor is removing sources and links for no reason and is adding inappropriate content WP:NOT WP:QUOTE. 64.4.93.100 (talk) 21:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad edits
Talk:Jackie McLean

message: I fail to see the point of infoboxes, but I added one. I've been wrong before. I am going to verify the dates of his career. His first jazz recording was in 1951, but he may have been a full-time professional musician before then. John FitzGerald 21:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The latest performance dat I have found for him is 2004, in Nat reeves' bio at the Hartt School site. John FitzGerald 22:32, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: Jackie McLean was the insperation for the Simpsons jazz musician Bleeding Gums Murphy.
Jake b 23:46, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a source for that? John FitzGerald 12:17, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Bleeding Gums Murphy implies that Sonny Rollins was the inspiration. John FitzGerald 15:44, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Simpsons

message: People keep reverting "stepson" to "son", for reasons I can't fathom. If you want a source for the info, try Ira Gitler & Larry Kart: see discussion here. Plus simple logic: Rene was born in 1946 (see his page at allmusic.com), when his dad was 14 or 15--not impossible, but very unlikely, for a biological father. --ND 18:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rene McLean

message: It is invalid to claim that his period after his 1964 imprisonment is one of biter recordings.  I have some of those records.  And they are no more bitter than his earlier recordings.  Sure, the subsequent recordings (those recorded from August 1964 and on) can sound "nocturnal" or "reflective"; but they do not signal a bitter period.  So, I removed the invalid commentary from the article. Dogru144 06:20, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Acid period"
Talk:James Cameron (journalist)

message: I think this ought to be a separate page. This is unusual for me as I'm normally something of a mergist – in fact this is the first time I've proposed a split. Many awards and prizes are named after people, and this is the first time I've seen one as a section of the article on the person it's named after rather than on its own page.Qwfp (talk) 19:25, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: James Cameron Award

message: Taken from parallel article:
James Walter Cameron (born 1911 in London, died 1985) was a Scottish journalist, broadcaster, and author. 
He worked for papers including the Daily Express (1930-45), the Picture Post, and the News Chronicle (1952-60). He covered the Vietnam War. He later produced television films on contemporary subjects, including Men of Our Time (1963) and Once Upon a Time (1984), and won various journalistic awards, among them the Hannen Swaffer Award for Journalism in 1966. His books include A Touch of the Sun (1950), Mandarin Red (1955), Witness in Vietnam (1966), Point of Departure (1967), and What a Way to Run a Tribe (1968).
Can someone check and merge, thanks Ian Cairns (talk) 01:31, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge data
Talk:Undiscovered (Brooke Hogan album)

message: All of her singles have pages except for "Heaven Baby" have pages, and "Heaven Baby" was more successful than "For A Moment" yet "For A Moment" has a page and "Heaven Baby" doesn't.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spongebobelmodude (talk • contribs) 02:15, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Heaven Baby

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect For A Moment (Brooke Hogan Ssong). Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Regards, SONIC678 00:13, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "For A Moment (Brooke Hogan Ssong)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Best in Show

message: I'm redirecting this page to Best in Show (film) because the only other item on the disambiguation page doesn't have an article. It may be fitting to add at Best in Show (film) a line like "Best in show" may also refer to the winner in a conformation show or something, but it doesn't seem to make sense to disambiguate a page that only has one goal article. Dylan 00:27, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

message: Conformation show points to this page a lot. I don't think it makes sense to point to a disambiguation page. --80.179.206.193 (talk) 15:14, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does "Best In Show" mean?
Talk:James Wood (critic)

message: The text cited in the "Cons" section doesn't clearly express what, exactly, the editors of n+1 were criticizing. Also I'm not sure that splitting this portion of the article into "Pros" and "Cons" is necessary, especially given their brevity. livefastdieold (talk) 22:19, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: While I have no doubt that should n+1 have appeared at almost any prior period in the 20th century, it would have become a well known (within the confines of an intellectual magazine) and important journal, alas it is a product of the early 2000's and isn't.  I don't think that what their editors may or may not think about the subject of this article (or perhaps any other) means a whole lot, and probably should be removed. (A similar example would be: would anybody care what the editors' stand of the contempoary journal Standpoint be on anything or anybody, as far as their view being reported in a Wiki entry???? No, interesting or insightful as it may be).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.125.228.159 (talk) 02:13, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism from n+1 

message: The article reads like a well written print media article, so I re-arranged the contents to be more encyclopedic.Julia Rossi 23:09, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  shape 

message: To say that woods wrote "an autobiographical novel about his father" might not be quite accurate.  He grew up in a religious family and embraced atheism as a young man, but as far as I know, there's no evidence that he's a compulsive liar, or that he he frittered away many years working on an unfinished thesis.  Nor is the book "about his father" or the character's father per se...its about the roughly Woods-like character Thomas.  I think I'll change it to just "novel". Thanks Staple 22:24, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Novel 

message: i can not find the date and the  article in which Maximalism has been presented and or coined by him. please, let me know if you do have the data?
i thought daryush shokof cioned the term Maximalism in 1990, and is registered in Colgone exhibition of the maximalists in Germany.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sadilla (talk • contribs) 14:28, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  maximalism 

message: Surprised to see Harold Bloom listed in the "Pro" section.  He's on record with some very dismissive comments about Wood, at least in this interview ("there's nothing to the man"):
[]
I would suggest moving Bloom to the "Con" section.
Sbsbsbsb (talk) 15:22, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pro/Con - Bloom 

message: The Somerville Scout seems to think at some point he lived in Somerville, Massachusetts. -- Beland (talk) 20:11, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Somerville
Talk:New York anti-abolitionist riots (1834)

message: The J.T. Headley reference I've added (text online), offers more detail and presents the facts about the 1833 disturbance that was a preamble. Nativism and Tammany Hall need to be linked. --Wetman 00:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But was it used as a reference for the text in this article?  I thought that was the purpose of the References section. -- JHunterJ 11:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In this collaborative writing, it's a bit trickier than that. We certainly shouldn't ever remove references that have been actively used, but it's OK (encouraged even) for people to add confirming references after the fact. - Jmabel | Talk 05:51, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Headley on-line text might even be employed now by anyone to give added depth and context to the article. --Wetman 08:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Hope so. Not high on my own list right now... - Jmabel | Talk 04:32, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Headley

message: "lay in the combination of nativism and abolitionism among Protestants who had controlled the booming city since the American Revolutionary War, and fear and resentment of blacks among the growing underclass of Irish immigrants and their kin. In 1827, Britain repealed legislation controlling and restricting emigration from Ireland, and 20,000 Irish emigrated; by 1835 over 30,000 Irish arrived in New York annually." Seems like the root causes and actions involved in these 1833-34 incidents are basically the same as those that would occur in the Draft Riots three decades later, albeit without the fatalities. Quis separabit? 01:33, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Similarity to [[Draft Riots]]

message: Why are the Irish mentioned?  Were they the rioters?  Were the anti-abolitionists rioting because they did not like the Irish? --142.163.195.90 (talk) 22:23, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irish?
Talk:Hannah Montana (soundtrack)

message: "This is the first Disney Channel soundtrack that features the main character singing the whole album." That's obviously not true; just look at the track list. But I don't know how to fix it. Would it still be accurate if it said most of the album? Everyking 08:31, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I just rewrote that part so the claim was eliminated entirely. But if it is a milestone in a similar way to what was described, feel free to add that. Everyking 08:43, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  (no header) 

message: Hi hanna, I am auhnya (onya) i am one of your greetest fans it is true u don't know me yet with time we shall know each other.Please accord me the pleasure to write to me throuhg my E mail "ashleypentle@gmail.com" .THank u i am expecting yo hear from you. Bye. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivan kestin (talk • contribs) 16:51, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greeting  
Talk:Jeremy Corbyn

message: The childhood section says JC went to an « independent «  school. This is what conservatives call them. The normal expression, and certainly what Corbyn would say, is « private school » 2A01:CB06:8009:4A76:F0B1:A914:D769:E9FC (talk) 17:32, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The distinction is that independent schools are governed by trustees, whlle private schools are governed by owners. TFD (talk) 10:58, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: private school

message: It is misleading to claim Corbyn supported remaining in the EU, since he was widely accused of deliberately sabotaging the Remain campaign: Corbyn sabotaged Labour’s remain campaign. He must resign | Phil Wilson | The Guardian Aardi18 (talk) 17:35, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Phil Wilson, a Labour politician  who wrote in the run up to the 2017 general election: "I am no supporter of Theresa May and I am no supporter of Jeremy Corbyn". Hardly a neutral voice you put forward. All my warmest wishes, ItsKesha (talk) 17:43, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There was widespread criticism, so much so that Corbyn had to publicly deny he had voted to leave the EU.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aardi18 (talk • contribs) 18:17, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lede 

message: I know it’s somewhat ongoing but given how much media attention has been paid, I think we ought to at least try add something on Corbyn’s candidacy (apologies if this message comes off as rude, I’m quite inexperienced so my wikipedia etiquette may be lacking) Oldboad (talk) 09:43, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Independent Candidacy  

message: with two A levels at grade E how did he go to college? He failed to graduate? Something not right here. 89.243.48.130 (talk) 21:14, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It's entirely plausible (and backed up by sources) that he was admitted on to his course with those grades. North London Poly is not Oxford or Cambridge. Mark and inwardly digest (talk) 14:15, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I got two Es at "A" level. I was admitted to University of London, Bedford College, to study philosophy. This was long before the grade-inflation that has resulted in anything less than four A++'s being considered a waste of exam fees. MrDemeanour (talk) 13:41, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  college?
Talk:Toyota Super Corollas

message: This is protected, but there's no explanation in the talk page. No problem with it being protected, just curious. Someone care to elucidate?
Datapolitical 00:48, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There was an edit war, mainly on whether to apply the Manual of Style. The revert war subsided already so I guess it's time to unprotect this. --Howard the Duck 01:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've unprotected it. For some reason Voice of All removed the protected tag but didn't click on the "unprotect" tab to unprotect it. --Chris S. 04:51, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Jo Kendall

message: Yesterday I reverted several unsourced changes to the article, one of which claimed Kendall's birth name was Josephine Robinson. I did some digging, and according to this, Josephine Robinson is indeed her actual birth name. This would mean that the Jo Kendall born in 1938 is actually a different person (and also means that the information about her marriage and parents don't apply to this Jo Kendall either). Unfortunately, this image is the only source I could find about this. --C. J. Greengrass (talk) 15:52, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work.  That bit about marrying a farmer didn't ring true so it's good that you got to the bottom of it.  And the cutting is excellent evidence; well done!  We need to dig like this as the mainstream media like the BBC seem to have forgotten her. Andrew🐉(talk) 13:03, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. It's indeed a shame the mainstream media hasn't noticed her passing. At least the tabloids have given her a lot of attention, though unfortunately many of them seem to have copied the incorrect information about her birth date and marriage from here. --C. J. Greengrass (talk) 18:28, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real name 

message: Why is there no reference in the article to the Leicester Collegiate School, when there is a link to it in the 'famous people' list? Did she study there? Collegiate Girls' School in Leicester was still going strong in the 1970s - I lived nearby, and my school pal's two sisters attended. I wasn't aware of a Collegiate Boys' School. I am intrigued. Lavengro1954 (talk) 18:36, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education in Leicester?
Talk:Steve Bell (cartoonist)

message: Am I the only person to make the point that Steve Bell is utterly punctilious about attributing to its author(s) the sources which he chooses to imitate, or, indeed, to parody? If all the "works of art" which he has re-used were laid end-to-end, I just _hate_ to think how far they would stretch! Good on him!
I edited the cartoon strip example shown in this article as it was too grey... Saved it as a jpg(format)at a smaller file size though...  It is findable at this link   http://licornenoir.chez-alice.fr/If_strip_adjusted.jpg      if someone wants to insert it (how does one do that???) I don't know whether one is supposed to download images to Wikipedia before using them in entries (????)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Licornenoire (talk • contribs) 21:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attributions of older art 
Talk:Joan Littlewood

message: There has been confusion over Littlewood's place of death. My change today reflects a letter from Peter Rankin in The Independent of 4 September 2006.
Joan Littlewood, the English actress and director who was active from the 1930s to 1970s, made extensive use of improv in developing plays for performance. However she was successfully prosecuted twice for allowing her actors to improvise in performance. Until 1968, British law required scripts to be approved by the Lord Chamberlain's Office. The department also sent inspectors to some performances to check that the approved script was exactly complied with.CharlesKiddell 15:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Charley Straight

message: "Rags and Ragtime" by Jasen and Tichenor lists 21 Sep 1940 as death date.  The various web sites I consulted list the 21st, the 23rd, and the 24th.  Does anyone know for sure?
--Skylax 00:56, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Steve Lacy (saxophonist)

message: This article veers from neutrality several times. For example, calling Lacy underrated in the US. Calling him an innovator to rank with Braxton and Evans....the "most important" collabortation with Waldron, etc. It reads like a fond obituary more than an encylcopedia article.Bsharvy 15:22, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read more carefully: it compares him to Anthony Braxton and (saxophonist) Evan Parker not Gil Evans; & the statement about Waldron is not excessive (it's hedged with "probably" & it is straightforwardly true: outside of his own sextet, Lacy recorded most often with Mal Waldron--take a look at a discography if you like). --ND 01:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: The "Conversations" book mentions on pages 13, 14, 25, 28, 29, 30,
33 and 37 a first wife and (step) children.  Perhaps it risks
making the article too "gossipy", but it seems to me to
be something that would improve the article if it provided
a name or any other information on this woman and the children.
This sort of thing is typical in may biographical overviews.
Delegan2 08:53, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  prova 

message: This article is about one person, whose real name was not Steve Lacy. There are other successful persons whose real names are Steve Lacy, however this article disparages them by not including any notation about the REAL Steve Lacy's in the world. One such example is the site located at STEVELACY.COM yet there are many others who have made significant contributions to humanity, to business, to the arts, etc. This article has the feel of an obsession by one person who imposes such information upon the readers and censors editoral comment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.52.26.80 (talk • contribs) 22:36, 7 July 2007
:I take it this is a put-on. --ND 00:48, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: your comment is ridiculous - this article is about the musician STEVE LACY HammerFilmFan (talk) 11:08, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not "Steve Lacy" 

message: Moro, il veneto (talk) 12:46, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  prova 

message: There is more than enough biographical info on Lacy to point this out. HammerFilmFan (talk) 11:09, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  no mention of his wife Irene?
Talk:Charles Vaughan (priest)

message: Not having read the book in question (or knowing anything about CJ Vaughan) I can't speak to the factual accuracy of this section, but the tone of the section is not encyclopedic.  It reads more like a tell-all than it does as an encyclopedia article, and the amount of text in the section greatly overshadows the rest of this article, despite the fact that Vaughn's time at Harrow represents 15 years out of the 80 that he lived.  I suggest that this section be edited for length and tone.  Portions of this section could also be moved to the page for Harrow. RainbowCrane 00:56, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't quite agree: his own actions prevented a published biography, and the contributor has given a satisfactory and quite well-known reference. Without the usual Victorian biog it is difficult to expand it. There might be more in the Dictionary of National Biography, though that earnest work tends to concentrate on official appointments. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:13, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scandal at Harrow section
Talk:Bob Massie (activist)

message: "Although he did not win, the campaign gave him the opportunity to traverse the length and breadth of Massachusetts and to meet thousands of citizens from all walks of life, many of whom would remain partners in subsequent issue-oriented initiatives."
How about a more objective view from the outside?  Something more confined to the facts?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.162.253.101 (talk) 01:23, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Please alter and add to the article to make it more objective using 'reliable' sources.Jonpatterns (talk) 16:28, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I went through the article and removed a number of sentences and other chunks of writing that were severely editorial in nature. I didn't add any new sources, but I did add citation requests for a number of biographical assertions. This is a candidate for governor of a U.S. state and the article needs a great deal of further work in order to reflect a neutral point of view. Williw (talk) 20:29, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Did he write this himself?

message: Time magazine May 2012 Jonpatterns (talk) 16:28, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference