Talk:Cheri DiNovo

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Please review this video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COKHE4BjlIM This is Cheri DiNovo speaking about her history. If you find other video footage, I encourage adding those links, too. I do not intend to slander. I have not seen the entire interview, but I'm sure she spoke about her current values throughout the rest of the show. I am not against her... in the video are her own words. If someone has the complete interview, PLEASE include it all as a link. Just presenting what people actually say. erin k. 07:50, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Allegations and biographical representation

Note to our anonymous Australian friend: Wikipedia policy is quite clear on these matters. Read WP:BLP, WP:NPOV, WP:V, etc. — you cannot cite primary sources such as court records or marriage certificates as sources on a Wikipedia article, if the claims you're attempting to support have not already been published in a reliable media source. If you want this information to go into DiNovo's Wikipedia article, you're going to have to try to sell a media outlet on the story first; until you can cite the exact publication date, page number and name of a newspaper, or the exact broadcast date and program name of a television news program, which has publicly reported the claims in question, they cannot be placed in the Wikipedia article. (And, for the record, the onus is on you to provide the citation; it is not sufficient to say "it's out there, look it up".) Whether the claims are true or not is irrelevant; Wikipedia policy explicitly prohibits publishing claims that have not already appeared in documentable and verifiable media sources. Wikipedia does not do primary research — unless and until an external media source publishes proof that DiNovo has falsified elements of her biography, Wikipedia cannot make any such claim. Our job is not to break news; our job is to summarize what other sources have already published or reported. Bearcat 01:41, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Anon IP comment: IP Banning, the last refuge of cowards, something Osama bin Laden and Hitler would have liked. Fuck you Alf, that last batch of semen you swaloed must have been bad. Cheri DiNovo is a fraud and and a rat, you homos are going to have to face the truth one day—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.190.250.105 (talk • contribs) 10:16, December 30, 2006 (UTC)

Note also that you do not have a right to remove administrators' comments from this page. Bearcat 05:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Continued video dialog

The source is video of DiNovo speaking about herself~ it is an interview. It aired first on VisionTV in a program called Vision360, on March 9, 2006. The video IS the source. erin k. 07:59, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it is a primary source. It's exactly as you stated above, erin, when you said the video was her "own words". Wikipedia is a tertiary source, which means it can only call upon verified, reliable secondary sources for its data. As such, this video doesn't have anything to offer the article, even if it were a full reproduction of the interview, instead of a sensationalist excerpt of dubious intent. BFD1 00:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok. I was really wondering about that. Thanx for letting me know, and removing it. Certainly no harm intended, was only matching name with video. erin k. 01:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I understand! Thanks for being cool about it. BFD1 01:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Protection

I reverted this article to a protected page, because it is clear that she is under attack, and will be until at least the October 10, 2007, the Ontario General Election. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Abebenjoe (talk • contribs).