Talk:Kenny MacAskill

message: It's become apparent that we're going to have to take the subarticle road. I think that's unfortunate, but if that's where we have ended up, so be it. I will create it and modify the section in this article accordingly.- Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 14:31, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is nothing wrong with the section you  refer to, it won't require any modification. Just make your page and give a link to it, easy. Off2riorob (talk) 14:35, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: What? Is Simon going to write a new sub-article every time he loses an argument?--Cyber Fox (talk) 14:37, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have lost plenty on wikipedia and as yet I have never tried this subpage thing. Off2riorob (talk) 14:42, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is the new page Release_of_Abdelbaset_Al_Megrahi I have changed the link in this article to direct there. Off2riorob (talk) 14:48, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've also scrubbed the section in this article to be a very, very terse summary of the main article. That serves your purported concerns of giving as little coverage as possible to the decision, and serves my concerns by ensuring that people will click through to the subarticle.- Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 14:53, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

text: There is no consensus for Simon to strip out all of the content regarding magrahi and it is also unnecessary, and a bit wikipedia pointy.I have reverted. Off2riorob (talk) 14:54, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite right, it's not our business to ensure as many people as possible click through to Simon's sub-article.  It's our business to write a suitable biography. Sofia9 (talk) 14:56, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Subarticle

message: The RFC question, in part, asks "whether [a Wikipedia article]... should... distort ... information..."
Of course, "distorting information" is not one of the goals of Wikipedia, so I wonder why an RFC question posed in good faith would ever be phrased in this way. I wonder if there is something else going on here that is not being mentioned?
Meanwhile, questions about a "sole action that boosted [someone] to [international] attention" would seem to be addressed under WP:BLP1E.
I get am getting the sense of a content dispute that is not at all being addressed in an appropriate fashion. Factchecker atyourservice (talk) 23:41, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I did suggest that the RFC question is was framed in a POV way, thanks for commenting, but the situation has been difused by a user creating a specific article to keep all the opinions regarding the release of magrahi in. Off2riorob (talk) 23:52, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: RFC Question

message: This could go, in the balance, this guy left politics in 2003 and his opinion is not very valuable, any comment..
Former Labour First Minister Henry McLeish described Robert Mueller's attack on the decision as 'out of order' saying it was "an unfair slur on the Scots justice system".[17]
in or out? I am for out. As not notable opinion. Off2riorob (talk) 16:07, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Definitely in.  It is required for balance as it was the most high profile rebuttal of Robert Mueller's letter and was very widely reported.  The reason any meaningful rebuttal was only ever going to come from a former First Minister is that neither MacAskill nor the rest of the current administration can be seen to be attacking a senior American official directly.  Incidentally, Henry McLeish is still very much a public figure - he chaired the Scottish Government's recent review into the prison system. Sofia9 (talk) 13:20, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This could go 

message: Would another editor mind reverting this? Reverting vandalism is not a revert for purposes of the three revert rule, but I don't know that everyone else editing this page knows that, and don't want to prompt an unnecessary rejected report.- Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 18:12, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: The Gaelic origine of his name should be mentionned. They've done so in the German wikipedia. Seamusalba (talk) 14:36, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
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