Talk:Peter Dunne

message: This is a page that could easily get PoV or result in a edit war, so good to get some disscussion going here. I would agree with the last revision that "supposed" common sense was PoV and should have been removed, but I question the change from tobacco industry to Taiwan so I put tobacco industry back in, but left Taiwan. Personally I have never heard of Peter Dunne supporting Taiwan, but I could be wrong. 
Certainly IMHO one of the first things I would think of when considering Peter Dunne is his support for the tobbaco industry (for example he infamously described Smokefree legislation tobacco control officers as "Health Nazis").
I also added "opposition to drug law reform" since that is another well known policy (indeed United Future made it one of their three non-negoiatable conditions of ageeing to support the current government, that there would be no changes in the drugs laws).
I also wanted to make clear that the family values and common sense tags are controversial. Definately this is the first two things that you think about when considering Peter Dunne, family values and common sense, but it should be recognised that these are only claims that he makes - many people agree that his policies are common sense, but others completely disagree. The way I attempted to do this is rather clumsy and could be changed: "(self-described) family values and common sense."
cheers 203.167.245.16 03:14, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: PoV

message: This REALY needs a photo. Is anyone going to a campaign stop if they can take and upload a picture it would be great. He is one of the only NZ Party leaders not to have one.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tshiels1 (talk • contribs) 05:41, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: I see that the Speaker is now regarding Dunne as an Independent.  To me, that is a technicality that ought to be discussed in the article, but I don't believe that it should be shown as such in the parlbox.  He's still a member of United Future and the parlbox showing a change of allegiance is somewhat misleading.  Yes, United Future has been de-registered, but it still exists as such, and Dunne is still a member of it (he's even its leader).  So my suggestion is that the parlbox should be restored to what it was, and it should be the text that gives the full story.  There will, of course, be dissenting views, and I for one won't start an edit war over this.  I would like those who believe that a change in allegiance should be shown in the parlbox to explain on this talk page why they believe that it's the most appropriate course of action, though. Schwede66 05:41, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Dunne was elected to Parliament by standing for his seat on behalf of United Future, and he still represents this party. That the party has been deregistered in the meantime does not affect this. He could have stood without ever registering the party, and he would (assuming that made no difference to voters) have been elected as UF's MP. The registration only allows the party to appear on the party list, and Dunne is an electorate MP, not a list MP.-gadfium 06:09, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Also agree that he should still be recognised as a UF politician - if he had been elected as a non-registered party politician in the first place then the party name would have been accepted, and if he is re-elected as an unregistered UF politician next year the same would apply. If he had left United Future then he would be an Independent, but it appears United Future (as a viable registered party) has left him. And I agree with gadfium, Dunne's electorate status is the most important aspect - in 2011 he was on the ballot and elected as United Future. Fan | talk 06:59, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

text: I made a custom parlbox line reflecting change of status (and removing list position) instead of the change of allegiance as recently added to article. Fan | talk 07:11, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the above; the parlbox doesn't need to reflect the change in how parliament recognises him because he is still a part of UF and they are still a functioning party. Good work on the custom parlbox line Fanx, while personally I'd not have anything there I do think the custom line will stop anon's adding in other lines. Perhaps when/if UF is reregistered we can remove it altogether. Mattlore (talk) 07:20, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work, Fanx (as usual).  I agree with you, Mattlore, regarding re-registration. Thanks for your input, Gadfium. Schwede66 07:36, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks: I agree that if the party is reregistered then the custom parlbox can be disposed of, and yes, its purpose is to be a compromise between those that see no change and those that wish to cast Dunne into the fringes, whether in parliament or in wikipedia. Fan | talk 10:01, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Independent politician? 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified  on Peter Dunne. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090209051141/http://2008.electionresults.govt.nz:80/partystatus.html to http://2008.electionresults.govt.nz/partystatus.html
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).
Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 06:01, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified