Talk:Larry O'Brien (Canadian politician)

message: He's just been charged under section 121 and 125 of the criminal code of Canada and is expected to be fingerprinted and photographed today. wjserson December 10, 2007  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.103.249.251 (talk) 14:32, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Charged

message: I dont think O'Brien is the 58th Mayor of Ottawa, cause I think we are talking about the OLD city of Ottawa. --Deenoe 03:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: New Ottawa IS a different city than OLD Ottawa.  New flag, new logos etc.  Larry is the second mayor. cmacd 16:03, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  We had this debate before. Ottawa just celebrated it 150th anniversary, not it 4th anniversary. Note the words "Mayor of Ottawa". Are we saying Jacquelin Holzman, Marion Dewar and Jim Watson were never mayors of Ottawa? O'Brien is the 58th person to be called a "mayor of Ottawa". I don't see the problem. -- Earl Andrew - talk 16:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No... O'Brien is the 2nd person to be called Mayor of the new amalgated City of Ottawa which is now shorten to Mayor of Ottawa.. But anyways, if we follow your statement, he's 59th, not 58th. --Deenoe 23:23, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mayor

message: I don't know who put that category there (probably  Alm93 who is blocked for six months and which there are still category vandalism that I've reverted from him) but please provide a source on that, then you can put it back, if it's true.--JForget 11:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was, I. I read it in either the Citizen or the Sun. I can't remember when it was, but I added it as soon as I saw it. -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:50, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  After doing a websearch, I found reference to the article in this blog:  -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:55, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've just made a research through the history and discovered that you're the one who've made that addition. Okay, even if I'm not a fan of blogs (often source of factual inaccuracies or false info) I've left a hidden note beside the category, so to show that this is not a  Alm93 edit. It seems that this blog seems more credible than many others. However, I'm a bit disappointed of the lack of info on the web about his Irish background.--JForget 15:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Irish Cat?

message: My God, can someone please get rid of that template or do what needs to be done to get rid of it? Because this thing is seriously obtrusive. SanguineX 18:56, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we have to wait for an admin to deal with it... there was a rewritten version which is somewhat of better but meh. --Deenoe 17:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The temp version has been moved into place and the copyvio deleted - thanks for your patience. --Ars Scriptor  15:34, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Template

message: Is there a source for the article's claim that O'Brien is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada?  I heard it said several times through the campaign that he was not affiliated with any party. 209.217.82.98 19:29, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Political Party?

message: Check this out  There is no writting mention of the Liberals and his link to them (although the article and the webpage does says he work in a Council Advisor under the Jean Chretien admin (Chretien not mentionned here).
Although the guy misspelled Chretien for Cretien.
However, we need a source here for his link to the Conservative Party, seem to have heard it.  the ex-Conservative member for the chief of staff position or his letter to John Baird about the LRT or deal with Terry Kilrea would not be enough. Unfortunately, the former Larry O'Brien article has been due to that copyright violation issue, which means I do not know who put that in the first place.--JForget 19:51, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, he is a former Liberal. He also was affiliated with the Canadian Alliance, and is now affiliated with the Conservatives. He was interviewed on CBC radio shortly after the election, and he stated this himself. -- Earl Andrew - talk 20:24, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Formally affiliated to the Liberals

message: Is this still true? Does he still have the time to be the chair? --Deenoe 22:09, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chair of Calian 

message: Why is SimonP (Simon Pulsifer) editing this page when he worked on the election campaing of one of O'Brien's opponnents, Alex Munter? 209.217.83.175
: Maybe because it's actually hard to find any Wikipedian who doesn't prefer Munter to O'Brien ;-) -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Only edit he made here was the map and that's it I don't see any problems.--JForget 19:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Did he add any unreferenced information? --RealGrouchy 21:23, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, and I guess he did the map possibly with a map or graphic software (not sure if Power Point has features to build up maps like that since you can built graphics for slide shows).--JForget 02:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

text: This is a pathetic and false accusation to a great Wikipedian. Simon Pulsifer has been working on Wikipedia for YEARS, and he perfectly knows the principles of neutral point-of-view, etc. Since he campaigned for Munter, should he albeit from editing any articles related to his opponents or to the election in general? No! If there's a problem with a POV edit Simon did, by all means, revert it, but accusing him in a conflict of interest while providing absolutely NO evidence is really insulting. --Deenoe 11:18, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Also, all the edits from this IP are only in regards of this, so that's even less a concern.--JForget 17:03, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Conflict of Interest

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Old Ottawa Flag.png

message: So like I don't do the wikipedia edit thing much, so I don't know how to best go about this but stop removing my section on Lex Luthor.
This is basically his nickname, virtually everyone of my friends and family members refer to him this way.
"Mayor Luthor did this", "Did you hear what Lex did now", etc... May bloggers refer to him this way also.
I think it should be in there and it is not ridiculous.
You want to improve it fine, 
maybe we rename it to "derogatory nickname" or something, like this, but for now I am going to restore it.
But it is the truth that many many people in Ottawa call him this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.240.201 (talk) 05:22, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nobody in Ottawa calls him Lex Luthor, except it sounds like 1 family - and as it's never been printed in a newspaper, it's WP:OR and therefore not permitted. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 23:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lex Luthor 

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message: I have added a Religion item to Jacquelin Holzman’s  Infobox and had my edit reverted by user: Jonesey95  citing RfC: Religion in biographical infoboxes. For consistency, I am removing Religion from the Infobox of this artiucle. See also Lorry Greenberg’s wp:Infobox. Opinions?  Ottawahitech (talk) 14:00, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should religion be included in the infobox?