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No details about his resignation in 2000? That's not good. - Joshuapaquin 05:00, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
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This page is meant to serve as a biography of a living person. It appears that it is being updated to be an extension of a present political campaign. I suggest that the section that announces his "planks" in the present municipal election platform be removed. These have no pertinence to the biography of the individual, but are only meant to serve political aims. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.26.9.56 ( talk) 11:49, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I notice on Bob Chiarelli's, Larry O'Brien's and this page the mayor is number as 1s, 2nd, and 3rd mayor the new city respectively. Since its been nine years since the city was expanded to its current boundaries isn't "new city" a misnomer? I propose changing it to "post-amalgamation" instead. 99.241.90.42 ( talk) 02:08, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Jim Watson is the 56th mayor of Ottawa, he is also the 58th mayor of Ottawa. He was out of office and was re-elected ten years later. Does he really become the 56th mayor again ? Doesn't make much sense. UrbanNerd ( talk) 03:42, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
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I want to avoid violating the 3 revert rule, so I will address the recent reverts here. User:Mewulwe seems to think the order is "inaccurate", but failed to explain how it is. In Canada, when we order politicians, we don't count 2 non consecutive terms as being two different ranks in the order. Not sure if that is what the complaint is. I also know that with Chiarelli and O'Brien there was a dispute about them being the 1st and 2nd mayors of the city because of amalgamation, so we put that in the infobox as well as a compromise. Not sure if that's the issue either. I wish Mewulwe explained his/her issue with the order better. -- Earl Andrew - talk 16:49, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
This article seems to have been written by people who support Watson. Notably, in the second mayoral term section, there is not a single point about negative points during his term, everything is positive. The Minister of Municipal Affairs section is similar, it boasts about his accomplishments and how he improved without providing any negative information.
Basically, there is no criticism. The whole article is "he did this, improved this, increased funding here, and didn't raise taxes", which clearly is not a NPOV. There is no mention of the reason for his resignation as well during his first term, which is very odd because there should always be a public reason given for the resignation. The article is simply too positive with zero negatives. Hti999 ( talk) 02:26, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
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No details about his resignation in 2000? That's not good. - Joshuapaquin 05:00, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
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This page is meant to serve as a biography of a living person. It appears that it is being updated to be an extension of a present political campaign. I suggest that the section that announces his "planks" in the present municipal election platform be removed. These have no pertinence to the biography of the individual, but are only meant to serve political aims. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.26.9.56 ( talk) 11:49, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I notice on Bob Chiarelli's, Larry O'Brien's and this page the mayor is number as 1s, 2nd, and 3rd mayor the new city respectively. Since its been nine years since the city was expanded to its current boundaries isn't "new city" a misnomer? I propose changing it to "post-amalgamation" instead. 99.241.90.42 ( talk) 02:08, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Jim Watson is the 56th mayor of Ottawa, he is also the 58th mayor of Ottawa. He was out of office and was re-elected ten years later. Does he really become the 56th mayor again ? Doesn't make much sense. UrbanNerd ( talk) 03:42, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 ( talk) 12:19, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
I want to avoid violating the 3 revert rule, so I will address the recent reverts here. User:Mewulwe seems to think the order is "inaccurate", but failed to explain how it is. In Canada, when we order politicians, we don't count 2 non consecutive terms as being two different ranks in the order. Not sure if that is what the complaint is. I also know that with Chiarelli and O'Brien there was a dispute about them being the 1st and 2nd mayors of the city because of amalgamation, so we put that in the infobox as well as a compromise. Not sure if that's the issue either. I wish Mewulwe explained his/her issue with the order better. -- Earl Andrew - talk 16:49, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
This article seems to have been written by people who support Watson. Notably, in the second mayoral term section, there is not a single point about negative points during his term, everything is positive. The Minister of Municipal Affairs section is similar, it boasts about his accomplishments and how he improved without providing any negative information.
Basically, there is no criticism. The whole article is "he did this, improved this, increased funding here, and didn't raise taxes", which clearly is not a NPOV. There is no mention of the reason for his resignation as well during his first term, which is very odd because there should always be a public reason given for the resignation. The article is simply too positive with zero negatives. Hti999 ( talk) 02:26, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
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