Talk:Pat Binns

message: Any further edits to this page leading up to and over the course of the PEI provincial election that do not comply with the WP:NPOV policies will be removed immediately, and the page will be recommended to be locked by administrators. Enough is enough especially when the edit war over this page has become national news in the media.  And yes, Mr. Stephen Pate, that means you especially. Either source your statements using verifiable sources, not your own website or blog, as Wikipedia is meant to an encyclopedia, not an political commentary page or a place for personal rants about politicians and their policies. If you have any questions as to whenever or not what your add to the article is NPOV, put it here and have it reviewed by everyone here. The continued edit war must stop HERE. Oh, and please remember to sign your posts on talk pages! ThePointblank 13:17, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good lord, I never expected to hear about an NPOV dispute from CBC!  Anyway, it's a week and a heck of lot of edits later.  Have the grounds for the NPOV tag introduced by here by User:Dppowell been resolved?  If not, can we discuss which sections need to be changed? --Saforrest 15:06, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Frankly haven't the foggiest. These are the changes, but most seem to be my addition of refs, and removals etc. I think Powell reverted the article to a stable version, and then put the tags on the stable, to indicate it would likely degenerate in the edits after.  --  Zanimum 16:03, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Zanimum is correct about my intent in placing the tags, and I'm glad to yield to editors who are more knowledgeable about Pat Binns in deciding when it's time to remove them.  I'll continue to keep the page on my watchlist and to revert any obvious stumping. Dppowell 20:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

text:  If someone could go through the article and add as many refs as possible to news items, especially in the last two terms, where all the battling likely was.  --  Zanimum 16:04, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you. I am quite contented to leave the article as is.Sdpate 16:27, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV Warning

message: This article has been linked to be this CBC News article.  I know there's a template for it somewhere, but I have no idea where.  I also agree with prior suggestions for a lock, given the circumstances. -b 13:27, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I made an request for external intervention regarding the edit war at the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard I am commending Mr. Pate for his intentions in trying to draw attention to disability issues, but Wikipedia according to its guidelines, is not the place to do it. I am not too pleased with the situation here, and how it degenerated. ThePointblank 14:11, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

text: The story has ran today on CBC Radio One Charlottetown during the morning show, and then just a couple minutes ago. It's a ten minute segment.  --  Zanimum 15:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CBC News 

message: I am tired of hearing in the papers and on the radio about this, "edit war."   There is a simple way to fix this disagreement between all of the groups involved, everyone needs to stick to the facts.  Everyone who edits this article needs to cite their sources.  If there are no credible sources for an item of information, then the information needs to be left out.  J Dogg 21:33, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Concur. If I see any more edits that introduce information without sources, I will revert it immediately, and slap warnings immediately. There is a reason why the article is on the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. Let everyone who edits this article be warned; for the immediate future, this article will be closely watched to insure that all edits that introduce new information complies with all Wikipedia policies. If you make an assertion, back it up with facts and show sources, under the No Original Research policy.  The scrutiny will be much higher for this article due to the media circus that has developed around it.  Then again, Wikipedia has always been under a media circus, but we as a collective whole as editors and contributors have to demonstrate we can produce articles that are excellent sources of information, that are reliable, non-biased, and ones as a whole, the community can be proud of. ThePointblank 13:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  lack of sources 

message: Congratulations, wikipedians!
This article's made it into the April 19, 2007 edition of the Windsor Star newspaper (a CanWest Global Communications property).  RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 21:53, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Windsor Star]] 

message: I am not being partisan about Mr. Binns or any other politician on PEI but this article reads like campaign literature and is hardly a balanced account.  There should be some mention in the Term 3 section about the electoral reform commission and Mr. Binns demand of a "super majority" in the subsequent plebescite for it to be implemented, nor is there much mention of the electoral boundaries commission scandal and the gerrymandering allegations against him.  I also feel that Polar Foods, one of the largest losses of public money in PEI's history, has been glossed over, as has the running up of record debt levels since the late 1990s.142.177.241.27 02:43, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have the 'varifiable sources' to back those proposed additions, then by all means adds them. GoodDay 18:02, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gerrymandering, etc. 

message: Pat Binns will be the premier until he resigns, which has not happened yet.--Ibagli (Talk) 03:59, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He's resigned, June 12, 2007. GoodDay 20:08, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still the premier 

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