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The subject of the autobiography was banned indefinitely from editing Wikipedia for writing material about himself. This was after being blocked for 24 hours and the admin ([User:BrownHairedGirl]) deciding that waiting less than 1 hour was enough to ascertain that Geraint is incapable of writing about himself. Which then begs the question as to what exactly is a subject of a Wikibio supposed to do if someone writes material which is wrong or defamatory? Whatever happened to the encyclopedia that anyone can edit? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.131.97.209 ( talk) 11:02, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Now that the article has been cleaned up, should the {{ COI2}} tag be removed? I applied it on friday after a spurt of possibly-CoI editing had added a lot of unsourced promotional material, but I think that the current version is quite clean. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:33, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry exactly why is it wrong to post that Geriant Davies had to pay back money for stamps. Sorry for the use of a blog as a reference but the Croydon Advertiser do not keep back issues online back that far - however, it can be checked with them and is a matter of public record. It can also be checked by writing to parliment. Also I surely dont have to prove that trains run all night from Victoria to East Croydon on the hour every hour - you cn check this by visiting National Rail Enquiries. They always have done - or do I have to dig out a 2005 timetable? You're just trying to delete real information Anthony Miller —Preceding
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17:26, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
"this article was a war zone two years ago" indeed - a date which would interestingly coincide with the election to succeed Alan Williams for his Swansea seat. Anthony Miller
With regard to train time I have removed the statement "plus a half hour wait the round trip was over 2 hours even with a regular service". I feel the measurement of the time as a "round trip" at the end of a sentence describing the length of the one way journey is deliberately misleading and confusing. Further that it is not and never has been neccessary to wait half an hour for the train. The train goes on the hour every hour - it always has done. The fastest way to do the journey would be to walk to Victoria and get a taxi from the taxi rank outside East Croydon to his own house. This would cost at most an extra fiver in today's money. The exact location of Mr Davies home was the subject of some controversy http://www.angelfire.com/un/geraintdavies/ but as I do not know the details of the case I have not put it up. I dont know the details of exactly where he lived but let us put it this way. If I frequently saw him walking to Ruskin House (the Croydon Labour Party HQ) which is about 500m from Leon House (my old office) in the mornings he cannot have lived much further out than me. 15 minutes walk seems about right. Also he could have driven in for late night sittings. Westminster has a car park. And late night I estimate it talkes no more than 40 minutes. 50 in the rush hour. Anthony Miller
-- AnthonyEMiller ( talk) 09:50, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I added {{ COI}} due to a series of edits by 81.107.198.149 which I suspect may be biased. If nothing else, it needs those private member's bills formatted in itallic rather than bold. -- h2g2bob ( talk) 03:33, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
The Telegraph writes that politicians have had pages whitewashed by users connected to the legislature. Also on Indy and IBTimes. -- Aronzak ( talk) 13:23, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
These seem to have duplicate material, possibly my fault. I'll update Election to Parliament and leave Swansea West after 2010. JRPG ( talk) 14:04, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 |
The subject of the autobiography was banned indefinitely from editing Wikipedia for writing material about himself. This was after being blocked for 24 hours and the admin ([User:BrownHairedGirl]) deciding that waiting less than 1 hour was enough to ascertain that Geraint is incapable of writing about himself. Which then begs the question as to what exactly is a subject of a Wikibio supposed to do if someone writes material which is wrong or defamatory? Whatever happened to the encyclopedia that anyone can edit? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.131.97.209 ( talk) 11:02, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Now that the article has been cleaned up, should the {{ COI2}} tag be removed? I applied it on friday after a spurt of possibly-CoI editing had added a lot of unsourced promotional material, but I think that the current version is quite clean. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:33, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry exactly why is it wrong to post that Geriant Davies had to pay back money for stamps. Sorry for the use of a blog as a reference but the Croydon Advertiser do not keep back issues online back that far - however, it can be checked with them and is a matter of public record. It can also be checked by writing to parliment. Also I surely dont have to prove that trains run all night from Victoria to East Croydon on the hour every hour - you cn check this by visiting National Rail Enquiries. They always have done - or do I have to dig out a 2005 timetable? You're just trying to delete real information Anthony Miller —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
AnthonyEMiller (
talk •
contribs)
17:26, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
"this article was a war zone two years ago" indeed - a date which would interestingly coincide with the election to succeed Alan Williams for his Swansea seat. Anthony Miller
With regard to train time I have removed the statement "plus a half hour wait the round trip was over 2 hours even with a regular service". I feel the measurement of the time as a "round trip" at the end of a sentence describing the length of the one way journey is deliberately misleading and confusing. Further that it is not and never has been neccessary to wait half an hour for the train. The train goes on the hour every hour - it always has done. The fastest way to do the journey would be to walk to Victoria and get a taxi from the taxi rank outside East Croydon to his own house. This would cost at most an extra fiver in today's money. The exact location of Mr Davies home was the subject of some controversy http://www.angelfire.com/un/geraintdavies/ but as I do not know the details of the case I have not put it up. I dont know the details of exactly where he lived but let us put it this way. If I frequently saw him walking to Ruskin House (the Croydon Labour Party HQ) which is about 500m from Leon House (my old office) in the mornings he cannot have lived much further out than me. 15 minutes walk seems about right. Also he could have driven in for late night sittings. Westminster has a car park. And late night I estimate it talkes no more than 40 minutes. 50 in the rush hour. Anthony Miller
-- AnthonyEMiller ( talk) 09:50, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I added {{ COI}} due to a series of edits by 81.107.198.149 which I suspect may be biased. If nothing else, it needs those private member's bills formatted in itallic rather than bold. -- h2g2bob ( talk) 03:33, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
The Telegraph writes that politicians have had pages whitewashed by users connected to the legislature. Also on Indy and IBTimes. -- Aronzak ( talk) 13:23, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
These seem to have duplicate material, possibly my fault. I'll update Election to Parliament and leave Swansea West after 2010. JRPG ( talk) 14:04, 3 June 2015 (UTC)