Talk:Chris Patten

message: I am not sure "柏藤" was ever used.  I think the TVB news (or was it the ATV news?) translated it as "柏勤" (Pak Kun) in the few days of speculation before the appointment and official translation was confirmed by the British government.
Kommodorekerz 02:47, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  unofficial chinese translation name 

message: There is a distict lack of information about his time as a european commissioner. i remember him to be quite an active commissioner but there seems to be little in the article about that. it isnt even listed in his career at the bottom of the article, while somehow enviroment minister is. how obsurd? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.63.48.253 (talk) 22:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  European Commissioner 

message: Shouldn't this one be at plain Chris Patten? He's very well known under that name, and I would suggest hardly known at all as "Baron Patten".--Kotniski (talk) 10:35, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: Judging by the information here and here, there's quite a bit of material missing, including for example his position in as Minister for Education/Science? Then again Minister for Education and Skills doesn't show him or show a gap. I'm confused. Needs checking and updating by someone more familiar with such political figures. FT2 (Talk | email) 21:10, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biographical material missing? 

message: Someone should add the fact that Patten is that he is a connisseur of egg tarts onto this page. I am a violinist (talk) 12:17, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's irrelevant. --88.67.124.101 (talk) 20:39, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  favourite food 

message: The CV and picture in ref. 8 concerning work for Lockheed Martin UK are inconsistent with the ones presented in Chris Patten's Wikipedia article. It seems the person really working for Lockheed Martin UK is Lord John Patten and not Chris Patten...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.156.226 (talk) 09:36, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Work for Lockheed Martin UK  

message: Removed this statement.
:: Ending up, the PRC did bow to pressure and after the handover, an increasing portion of seats in the Legco would be directly elected
The number of directly elected seats in Legco was fixed by the Basic Law and had been negotiated before Patten took office by Annex II of the Basic Law of HK (http://www.basiclaw.gov.hk/en/basiclawtext/annex_2.html) which was adopted before Patten took office.  The changes that Patten made concerned the method of election of the functional constituencies and those were reverted after 1997.
08:53, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed statement on election 

message: Fail to understand why this is relevant to the subject, it must be one of hundred of quotes that Patten must have made criticising stuff any reason why this is notable to him. MilborneOne (talk) 21:36, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism of Sri Lanka

message: The only thing mentioned in the Charity section is his brief tenure as president of Medical Aid for Palestinians. Unless we have other examples of Patten's involvement in other charities, then I propose this be moved to a subsection of Post-governorship. Scarletfire2112 (talk) 08:31, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charity section pretty thin 

message: Isn't Patten notable primarily as a former governor of Hong Kong? It's odd that this subject doesn't get mentioned until the middle of the second paragraph. To give him as "Lord Patten of Barnes" in the flag makes it sound as if we are still living under the Tudor dynasty. Tasty love salad (talk) 00:46, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hong Kong 

message: This article says that Chris Patten was "the son of a charming but fairly unsuccessful music publisher". Is describing him as "charming" really N.P.O.V.?Vorbee (talk) 08:09, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutral Point of View

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates for books and articles, as well as tables for organising short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 10:40, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: He has not voted since 2019 according to The Public Whip.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.100.251.67 (talk) 13:06, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attendance in the Lords 

message: There does not appear to be any reason to mention the Jimmy Saville scandal in the BBC Chairmanship section. Are there any accusations that Patten was complicit in a cover-up, or did he say anything, or take or fail to take an action that was significant? If so, there is no mention here. I would suggest that this subsection be removed. Unless someone has anything to add to make it relevant to the subject.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.112.214.27 (talk) 16:48, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is the Jimmy Saville scandal included? 

message: Shortage of university places given to pupils from private schools for medicine 82.28.67.31 (talk) 10:51, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  University intake for medicine