Talk:Emily Murphy

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 06:10, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: I was about to make a "Famous Five" article, but realized it already exists at "Valiant Five".  So, for now, that's the name to use, to be consistent with the existing article.  I always heard "Famous Five", but honestly don't know which is more popular.  I guesse neither is particularly NPOV.  If anybody changes it, be sure to change the main article, and all references appropriately.  --rob 5 July 2005 02:44 (UTC)
:I've added a "citation needed" to the term "Valiant Five".  I've only seen this term used in the article on the Famous Five and the individual articles about each of the five women.  I've spent some time googling around and not found it anywhere else.  Does anyone have any citations to show the term "Valiant Five" is or ever has been used to refer to them?Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:41, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Valiant Five used instead of Famous Five 

message: This article is in need of serious work.  Very strong accusations about Murphy have been inserted without adequate citations.  For example: Calling Murphy a "white supremacist" would have to be supported by a reputable source.  The citation given is an article by John Akpata writing in the Ottawa Express.  He doesn't call her a white supremacist in the article.  The closest he comes is the following two passages:  
Emily Murphy was also closely associated with the Orange Order, an organization of Irish-descended Protestants who advocated a European-based system of apartheid. They were exclusionary to Catholics, and all non-white persons, and closely associated with the Ku Klux Klan. From 1922 to 1937 the Klan was active in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
He says she was "closely associated with the Orange Order..." (whatever that means). Then he goes on to draw a link between the Orange Order and the KKK.  Akpata gives no references to back these claims.  In a paragraph on eugenics, Akpata elides to discussing the Nazi program:   
The Nazis systematically murdered millions of people, based upon the ideologies of white supremacy and ethnic cleansing. Their tactics included mass murder, controlled breeding, and sterilization.   
Are we to conclude from this that people who believed in eugenics (a majority in Alberta at that time), also advocated mass murder?  Another thing Akpata bandies about is the idea that Murphy was somehow responsible for the introduction of legislation:
Judge Emily Murphy approved all the legislation that passed through her bench at the time, which included all of the Chinese exclusion acts, the Indian Act of 1923 and the Residential School Act of 1925. From 1923 to 1980, the Canadian government took native children off their designated reservation, to be raised by Christian-run schools and dormitories. 
This is rich!  Judges do not "approve" legislation.  It is legislators who do that.  However, judges are sworn to uphold the law and pass judgement on those charged with transgressing it.  My point is that an article from a tabloid that engages in this sort of smear and inuendo does not pass as a reliable source.  Therefore I am reverting these statements until someone can produce either a) direct quotes from Murphy, or b) a  reliable source to support these assertions.  I will begin editing for NPOV; look for reliable sources, and  trust that others will join in to bring this article up to standard.  Sunray 18:55, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: errr... thanks for the copy editing Sunray. And for putting in the references. seriously sloppy work on my part. -- TheMightyQuill 17:12, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem.  I appreciate those references you added.  Sunray 18:26, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  famous(e) five? 

message: Last section -- "Due in part to her heavy advocacy of compulsory sterilization, thousands of Albertans, who were not considered to possess any intelligence, were unknowingly sterilized under the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta \before its repeal in 1871."
Should this be 1971?  She was three years old in 1871.Blue5732 (talk) 00:55, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Date? 

message: Over at WP:420, which runs during the month of April, there's a red link for The Black Candle (book). After visiting The Black Candle, I was directed to this article where I see there is some content about the book. Would any page watcher or editors more familiar with Emily Murphy and her work care to fork out content from this article to create one specifically about the book? ---Another Believer (Talk) 04:29, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forked out "The Black Candle (book)"? 

message: There are some errors in this section, I can only think the person who edited it hadn't read the book or purposefully misunderstood it. The book itself is freely available here
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungpub/items/1.0056290#p11z-6r360F:
Page 47 is the section where the error is. The Wikipedia article mentions how Murphy is worried "black and yellow races may yet obtain the ascendancy" but page 47 clearly states she is talking about German and Russian birth rates, and within the context of drug addiction leading to infertility for women. This is just one error, from the writing style I think it is fair to assume this editor has contributed to most of this section, and so there are other errors tooOxr033 (talk) 21:28, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drugs and race