Talk:Anthony Bennett (English politician)
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[edit] Material being repeated
- {{Anthony Bennett (English politician)]] material being repeated.81.107.164.53
}} I think the author shoould make a distinction in the name.... Anthony John Stewart Bennett in the title. Their are numerous other Anthony Bennett's in the world, and as one of them, I would like to be entirely disassociated with all political figures. It is misleading to have the heading Anthony Bennett, to reference Anthony John Stewart Bennett, when there is no definitive or most famous Anthony Bennett. The most famous Anthony Bennetts I am aware of, is the Australia artist Anthony Bennett, or the former Barrow and London Skolars RL player, or indeed the prominent lawyer Anthony Bennett - all of whom should be entitle to their own space in wikepedia. This page seems to getting more & more like an advert for Tony Bennett, he seems to be a self publicist more interested in his name being mentioned everywere & using this site for sales of books, not very good for Wikipedia. Is this the same Anthony Bennett actor & voice overs? Have seen this guy on GMTV, very good actor.
[edit] Section 131
131(2) reads
"If a person without lawful authority or excuse pulls down or obliterates a traffic sign places on or over a highway, or a milestone or direction post (not being a traffic sign) so placed, he is guilty of an offence; but it is a defence in any proceedings under this subsection to show that the traffic sign, milestone or post is was not lawfully so placed."
Just to point out that the original entry was created without my knowledge; I have added to it, but so have others. Just for the record, it is Anthony John Stuart Bennett. I was informed that on 8 July, a malicious entry about me was placed on the site (I have a copy); someone kindly removed it on 9 July before I had a chance to see it. In response to the person above (who ought to improve his spelling, by the way), it was not me that chose the description 'English politician' and I don't think it's that accurate, though I have been a candidate in several elections. I would have no objection to the entry about me on Wikipedia in its entirety being removed - T Bennett, 26 July 2007.
[edit] Editing your own Wikipedia article
Dude....are you editing your own wikipedia article? Are you aware of Wikipedia's standards on that? FYI;
Writing an autobiography on Wikipedia is strongly discouraged, unless your writing has been approved by other editors in the community. Editing a biography about yourself should only be done in clear-cut cases.
Wikipedia has gone through many prolonged disputes about the significance, factual accuracy, and neutrality of such articles.[1] Avoiding such editing keeps Wikipedia neutral and helps avoid point-of-view-pushing.
Writing autobiographies is highly discouraged. It is not impossible to write a neutral, verifiable autobiography, and they are not strictly forbidden. But there are many common problems.
If you have published elsewhere on a topic, we strongly welcome your expertise on the subject for Wikipedia articles. However, every Wikipedia article must cover its subject in a neutral, fair, and comprehensive way in order to advance knowledge of the subject as a whole. Articles that exist primarily to advance the contributor will likely be deleted. Autobiographies are no exception.--Amadscientist 01:31, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
REPLY: I am not familiar with all the Wikipedia rules. What I do know is that Wikipedia allowed the original entry about me, which was quite hostile and contained a number of inaccuracies. Wikipedia did not tell me that they had sanctioned this article and I only found out about it when someone (a journalist) said: 'Do you know what Wikipedia is saying about you?'.
I have responded to that initial article by giving some biographical details so that readers have a fuller picture of who I am and what I have campaigned about. I say again that I would have no objection at all if the entire article was removed. What I could not allow to stand, without correction and amplification, was a slanted, inaccurate portrayal of my career.
I see there is comment about me on my page, such as this: "Despite these activities, he is generally considered sane". That is opinion, and I do not seek to interfere with it. But I reserve the right to correct factual inaccuracies about me.
Tony Bennett 29 July 8.50am
- Correction of factual inaccuracies should certainly not be looked down upon. We exist to provide factual, well-referenced content, after all. --Agamemnon2 10:24, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
REPLY: I have now seen this in the form of a private message:
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Mr. Bennett, It appears your recent edits to Anthony Bennett (English politician) have been against our conflict of interest editing policy. Please stop, and allow a more neutral editor to step up and edit. You can read about our manual of style here. Somitho 10:46, 29 July 2007 (UTC) If you have further concerns relating to the content of articles you are featured as a subject of, please take up the matter on the talk page. --Agamemnon2 10:52, 29 July 2007 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tony_Bennett"
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Question: Is there a process whereby I can be notified if anyone changes the content of this page about me? Incidentally my recent edits over the past 24 hours have been mostly to add sources where previously it said 'citation needed'. I was simply following Wikipedia policy. I have no objection of course to a 'neutral editor' - but how do I know what s/he is posting, what s/he may be adding or deleting? I don't want to have to visit my page evey day. The main reason I have been visiting my page recently is because there was an untrue, libellous and malicious entry about me placed on my page on 8 July and I only learnt about it by accident. I am grateful by the way to the editor who spotted this on 9 July and removed the adverse entry
Tony Bennett 12.10pm 29 July
- There isn't really a way that we can notify you of every change, although there is your 'watchlist', which is basically a tool that will show you changes to pages you have 'watched'. However, you'll need to log in to use it, and it's only really useful if you're monitoring more than one article. If you would like any changes made to your page, just list what you think is wrong here, and other editors will check your suggested changes and correct the article if necessary. Archer7 11:52, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
- If you are using an RSS reader, like many people do nowadays (your email program might have one integrated), you can go to the article's history page and click on the "RSS" or "Atom" links. This should add a feed to your reader where each edit to the article will show up as a new entry not long after it has been made.
- You are always welcome to point out inaccuracies on this talk page. If no one reacts and the statement in question is not sourced, there is usually no objection if you remove it yourself - make sure you explain the deletion briefly in the edit summary. Adding new material and changing existing statements is likely to be frowned upon, although it is appreciated that you tried to follow Wikipedia:Verifiability and that you are not hiding your identity while editing the article about yourself.
- Regards, High on a tree 05:32, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Clean up
OK I have spent a while today cleaning up this article so that it reads more like a wikipedia article than an advert for Tony Bennett. I knew very little certainly about some of the content. However, it has also been clear that some information that could and should have been included has previously been kept out of the article. Also there were many claims made that whilst I would not say they were untrue, they were certainly distorting or bending the truth slightly so as to make the subject of this article appear more favourable. The Stuart Lubbock section I knew nothing about, but unfortunately now do. I have tried again with that section to make it way more balanced than it was previously. I have searched for and added additional sources, and also cleaned up how the sources are inserted. Which then leads on of course to other articles connected with the subject of this article, Tony Bennett such as the article about Stuart Lubbock and others which really do also need cleaning up if they are anyway similar to this. I had already cleaned up the CountyWatch article which also previously just read as an advert for the group.
If as I no doubt have, made any mistakes, please correct them. I need a rest now... ♦Tangerines♦·Talk 00:54, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Comments moved
I have taken the liberty of moving the hugely long messages that were placed on here to Tony Bennetts user page as most of the content was general comments about various aspects of wikipedia and about not just one article but different articles. The content was clogging up this page with discussion of stuff that was not relevant to this article specifically and given the lengthy messages I felt it was best to simply move it in its entireity rather than picking out bits and pieces, as they were mainly questions, comments, criticisms raised by one user that are best dealt with on that users own talk page. The content can be found in full, here - User talk:Tony Bennett. ♦Tangerines♦·Talk 21:42, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Occupation name change
Why has Solicitor, been replaced with Rights Adviser, for Anthony Bennett? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.24.221.173 (talk) 14:16, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
- Was the occupation change made by Mr Bennett? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.24.221.173 (talk) 21:57, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- Please see WP:BLP. Subjects of articles are perfectly entitled to edit articles about themselves.♦Tangerines♦·Talk 22:01, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
