Talk:Bill Vander Zalm

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[edit] Scandal info question/reply

Shouldn't this article be "Bill Van der Zalm"; thought that's how he spelled it; I made a redirect page from that to here, though, just now; also from "the Zalm" Skookum1 00:14, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

He spelled it "Vander" (and still does ;) ). CJCurrie 03:26, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

I gather the reason you reverted my question on your talk page was that it was not the right place for it. Or, if I may ask, do you have objections to including some of the Fantasy Garden scandal's more salacious side? Or are there limitations on what can be in political biographies?Skookum1 06:00, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

(i) It was the wrong place, yes; (ii) I don't object to an inclusion of the more "salacious" details of Fantasyland, but some aspects your initial edit were over-the-top and unencyclopedic (hence the reversion). CJCurrie 19:51, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Salacious Details

It's hard not to talk about Fantasy Gardens, or many other BC scandals, without being "over the top". Vander Zalm himself is "over the top" as are Faye Leung and Tan Yu and Peter Toigo. I can make another go at it and will try to avoid editorializing; the nicknames are common-usage in BC; would they be better put in the BC section(s) of Canadian English or do you object to their presence here? The details of the party in the Bayshore Inn I'd have to dig up from a newspaper somewhere; presumably best thing to do, then, is quote?Skookum1 22:21, 23 November 2005 (UTC)