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I've made a number of removals from the politics section, the justifications of which are below:
-- Mrmatiko ( talk) 18:30, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Danbrown765 ( talk) 23:05, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to wikipedia Dan, good to see your first ever edit, to help I've had a google and found some interesting sources to add on the Surrey Heath Council ones, Local Government Lawyer has a detailed article that has further details on the matter. [3]. Private Eye Magazine also has extensive coverage over a number of months on the matter that have been used within the quotations (can't find an online link so one assumes there's an easy way to reference it from the paper copies). There is also the report of the independent investigation [4] There is an on going effort to remove cited information relating to the council in general over the past few years (including from within council IT systems), it would be better to correct promptly rather than remove the whole section. I'll have a go with these and see what I can do to improve the areas you high light, perhaps we should explore protecting the page from anonymous edits? Robidy ( talk) 22:56, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi Robidy, the changes you’ve made are a good start but I believe there are still some inaccuracies. The Surrey statements quote different figures for Ms. Whelan’s base salary, the financial report naturally includes the additional costs of NI contributions, other expenses etc. so to quote that as her pay seems wrong. I have amended accordingly. Danbrown765 ( talk) 10:59, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Given Karen Whelan was CEO at Surrey Heath Borough council and those producing the statements would ultimately have a reporting line to the CEO, Karen Whelan would have been in a position of influence over those statements. It is less likely she would have been in a position of influence over the media sources cited. Equally Karen Whelan has a right of challenge to IPSO if she feels those media reports are incorrect. I've not see any cases brought against Private Eye or others through the regulator or any other form of re-dress, they may also have other sources for their information they wish to protect. Robidy ( talk) 11:15, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
I've added a BBC News source for the salary. Robidy ( talk) 11:22, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
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The contents of the Karen Whelan page were merged into Surrey Heath on January 2021. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. |
I've made a number of removals from the politics section, the justifications of which are below:
-- Mrmatiko ( talk) 18:30, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Danbrown765 ( talk) 23:05, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to wikipedia Dan, good to see your first ever edit, to help I've had a google and found some interesting sources to add on the Surrey Heath Council ones, Local Government Lawyer has a detailed article that has further details on the matter. [3]. Private Eye Magazine also has extensive coverage over a number of months on the matter that have been used within the quotations (can't find an online link so one assumes there's an easy way to reference it from the paper copies). There is also the report of the independent investigation [4] There is an on going effort to remove cited information relating to the council in general over the past few years (including from within council IT systems), it would be better to correct promptly rather than remove the whole section. I'll have a go with these and see what I can do to improve the areas you high light, perhaps we should explore protecting the page from anonymous edits? Robidy ( talk) 22:56, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi Robidy, the changes you’ve made are a good start but I believe there are still some inaccuracies. The Surrey statements quote different figures for Ms. Whelan’s base salary, the financial report naturally includes the additional costs of NI contributions, other expenses etc. so to quote that as her pay seems wrong. I have amended accordingly. Danbrown765 ( talk) 10:59, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Given Karen Whelan was CEO at Surrey Heath Borough council and those producing the statements would ultimately have a reporting line to the CEO, Karen Whelan would have been in a position of influence over those statements. It is less likely she would have been in a position of influence over the media sources cited. Equally Karen Whelan has a right of challenge to IPSO if she feels those media reports are incorrect. I've not see any cases brought against Private Eye or others through the regulator or any other form of re-dress, they may also have other sources for their information they wish to protect. Robidy ( talk) 11:15, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
I've added a BBC News source for the salary. Robidy ( talk) 11:22, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
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