User talk:74.210.4.228

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Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from an article. Please be more careful when editing articles and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Dppowell 04:07, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. -- Zanimum 12:51, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edits to Pat Binns

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Pat Binns. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Dppowell 19:34, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pat Binns page

The page on PEI Premier Pat Binns contains a link to PEI Disability Alert. Please note, the PEI Disability Alert is a one man operation. It was created by Stephen Pate and he is the sole participant of the group today. It is not a registered non-profit organization as he claims in the article he has written about himself. As I understood, writing Wiki entries on yourself was forbidden. The page on disability alert appears to be more of a personal blog than anything else and should be deleted. As well, the link to said page from the biography of Pat Binns considerably exagerates the impact Pate has had on PEI. This link is not warranted.

There is considerable information on Pat Binns that is lacking. He lowered UPEI tuition by 10%, he lowered taxes by $34 million, he negotiated a new equalization "base formula" with Prime Minister Stephen Harper (which delivered $40 million to PEI's health and social services departments). The Premier is also building a new hospital in Western PEI and is creditted with saving the education system on PEI. (Binns turned the 1996 election around with a promise to build a new school in Summerside PEI to replace one with mold. This was done. Binns also insisted on maintaining rural schools despite the cost and poor fiscal management. Rural development is a centerpeiece of the Binns legacy).

None of these points, which are synonomous with the Pat Binns government, are listed. Yet some guys one man clown show is front and center. If the article is not changed to reflect the truth, it should be considered libellous slander and immediately removed. Please note that the article in its current form is not only inaccurate, it is also dominated by one mans crusade against the Progressive Conservative government of PEI. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.210.4.228 (talk) 15:32, 24 April 2007 (UTC).

There is no link to Disability Alert in Premier Binns' article. There's a link to Disability rights in Prince Edward Island, but that's a legitimate topic altogether separate from his blog. I assume that when the province was founded in 1873, there was at least one person with some form of a disability, and so from then on to 2006 or whenever, the topic is unrelated to Mr. Pate's unorthodox measures.
I've removed the see also link, but the words "to Islanders with disabilities" now point to this article.
Yes, I do realise that it's all a one-man operation. I've repeatedly questioned him on the topic, with no response otherwise.
Regarding tuition, taxes, equalisation, etc., yes, I agree the article is sorely lacking without this content, which clearly has been of importance to the province over his terms in office. I invite you to add it to the article, and link to news coverage of these advances, so people can read about them in further depth.
Nothing has ever stopped you or anyone else from adding this content to the article. All we ask is that everything is properly referenced and contains no POV. -- Zanimum 16:33, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm just noticing that you were the editor who removed valid references in the article, pointing to the Canadian Encyclopedia and the PC bios of Premier Binns. I'll point you to WP:CITE to show just how picky we are that everything is referenced. The article isn't a good example of our goals, but some references are better than the no-reference format you seemingly tried to push. -- Zanimum 16:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)