Talk:Bob Blackman

message: I reverted an edit that used Pinknews.com as a source as it was being used to support contentious negative information with specific relevance to the LGBT community. I'm concerned that, due to Blackman's comments regarding same-sex marriage, Pinknews is not a neutral source in this specific instance. Are there any neutral sources meeting reliable sourcing criteria reporting on the allegations? As they are only allegations, should they even be covered at all in the article? --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 21:30, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reinserted the essence of the reverted content (but using different, neutral, wording) and with four additional sources. The allegations are valid for an article about a politician because they concern the sustainability of that politician's publically stated views and his voting position on certain issues. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 19:35, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality of Pinknews as a source 

message: I edit a number of controversial pages and hope to reduce arguments in wp:BLP using only wp:Suggested sources#current news and avoiding wp:undue.
Given new rules on Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia I'm monitoring a number of UK politician pages where this has been highlighted as a problem.  However, I'm happy to help anyone who believes they have been unfairly treated. JRPG (talk) 21:16, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested sources paid editing and controversy. 

message: I have removed the passage. Having discovered this has been become a common revert  from the edit history, I offer an explanation, even if I am partly repeating the debate above.
This edit appears to be the one which led to the Telegraph article last year. The main sources, articles in the tabloid Daily Mail and Daily Mirror would not ordinarily be acceptable in isolation, and their deletion would normally be legitimate. (The London Evening Standard source is nothing more than a badly attributed quote.) Any regular Wikipedia editor could have chosen to remove the material. On this basis, it is irrelevant if the edit was made by someone with a conflict of interest, and the inclusion of the Telegraph source referring to this article as subject to an improper practice has got the situation wrong. Philip Cross (talk) 18:29, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Philip, it's good to have an edit reason on this page & I'm sure you expected a response! I have more experience of libel threats than most, have a solicitor's letter to prove it and worked with the Daily Telegraph and their lawyers to help get an article published. FWIW I'm not the slightest bit interested in sex stories per se but I am tired of wp:COI editing and made an effort to highlight it in all the cases reported. I only use wp:Suggested sources but here we have both the Telegraph and the Harrow Times both deemed wp:RS describing the allegations. The Telegraph code of conduct requires a right to reply, I note Blackman didn't deny the claims and the Telegraph wouldn't have intervened if they felt the editing was legitimate.  I discussed honourable vandals with User:BrownHairedGirl. We don't know for certain who is doing this but I believe the best approach is to ensure BLP subjects are advised to provide reasonable proof via the noticeboard that the article is inaccurate -thereby stopping others reinserting allegations- and also warn that there is a risk of further publicity. Regards JRPG (talk) 20:35, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing of this article as reported by the ''Telegraph'' last year

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message: The article gives his birthplace as Kensington but the index to the register of births shows his birth registered as occurring in Ealing Registration District which does not contain Kensington.
MBRZ48 (talk) 05:15, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace 

message: This edit was reverted:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Blackman&diff=1073413036&oldid=1073412755
But who made the original edit? According to whois, that IP address belongs to netname: HOP (Houses of Parliament), org-name: House of Commons. Could it be that Bob or one of his gofers is editing his own wikipage?
Unsurprisingly, the edit history for that IP is all about HoC members. But are all those edits by the same person, or are they all different users of the HoC network? Is it reasonable to allow IP edits to pages about HoC members from a HoC IP address? I believe edits to political pages from this address should only be permitted for logged-in users. 
Incidentally, the edit-comment for the original section-blanking said that the article has been "found to be false", without citing that claim or saying which citation is supposed to be false: The National or The Guardian (both are WP:RS).
MrDemeanour (talk) 13:28, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There's news reporting on this: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/bob-blackman-mp-wikipedia-page-azerbaijan-lobbying-parliament/ Apparently Blackman or someone(s) connected to him have edited this WP page on multiple occasions (t · c) buidhe 11:57, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit from HoC IP address 

message: Three A-levels in Maths?!? What were they - Maths, Further Maths, and Even More Maths? 92.40.216.221 (talk) 08:40, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: You raise a good point. I'll change it, just to say that he got three A-levels. Probably best finding a better source for this. Ellwat (talk) 19:21, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-levels