Talk:Rick Dykstra

message: Mind if I copy your footnoting technique? Much of the idolizing comment on Jack Layton's page deserves this kind of treatment. Thanks for the idea! DSatYVR 17:06, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose there's no reason for you not to use it (though I won't make any assessments of its applicability to the Layton page).  CJCurrie 03:02, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Interesting use of footnoting by CJC<br />urrie

message: Is it appropriate for the article to contain the photo at right, which depicts Dykstra texting on his BlackBerry during a Remembrance Day ceremony, or is it a POV attempt to depict him in an unduly negative light? Posted to WP:CWNB as a request for comment. Bearcat (talk) 04:02, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've refrained from comment thus far, but I strongly suspect that reproduction of this photo constitutes a POV attempt to depict him in an unduly negative light. I would recommend removing both the photo and the accompanying text. CJCurrie (talk) 04:21, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's fine to keep both the photo and the accompanying text. The text has been re-worded to eliminate any POV bias, however if there are still POV concerns the text probably could still be reworded. As for the photo, here is a quote that I believe is relevant. "The picture is fine, actually. It shows me on my BlackBerry, looking serious and intent." That quote is off of Rick Dykstra's blog on his constituency website, as is a reproduction of the photo. In the text there contains an almost verbatim quote from the St. Catharines Standard with Dykstra's explanation of the photo. Seeing that the issue here was the photo, I think it's appropriate for the photo to be posted.Mr. No Funny Nickname (talk) 06:48, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think the photo is fine in view of the fact that there's currently no photo of him on the article. It should be replaced if/when a better photo is obtained. PKT(alk) 12:52, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

text: Clearly I was asleep at the switch...there's a potential copyright issue here. Mr. NFN, do you have written proof that Renate Hodges has actually released the photo into the public domain? It's not enough to simply assert that a photographer has released her copyright, because anybody can say such a thing without proof — Wikipedia requires that an explicit confirmation of this (written by Ms. Hodges herself) be filed directly with permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Until that's done, this image can't be in the article regardless of POV issues. Bearcat (talk) 02:49, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
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