Talk:John Gieve

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The discussion of illiberal policies is highly POV. For a start they're not his policies, they're the Government's policies. And there are just as many liberal policies from other bits of the Home Office that could have been picked to make the same argument - downgrading of cannabis, race relations amendment act, etc. Vote for amendment if it was up to me.

This page needs to be renamed - he's Sir John Gieve now - and revised to include stuff about the Bank of England, to NPOV the rest of it and to sort out the mess at the bottom. Gabriel R 16:05, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

When I said renamed I should instead have said that a Sir JG redirect shd be set up. Gabriel R

Sopoforic - can you give a fuller explanation for your deletion of parts of the article. The material you deleted is relevant to an understanding of Gieve's career, and his contribution to the running of the Home Office. The material is fully referenced to national sources. Mrslippery 17:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I could swear that I found a couple of articles that most of the article was copying directly, but I can't find them now, and looking at the article history it doesn't seem likely that the article was copied. More likely I stumbled across someone copying from wikipedia without crediting us. The reason I removed it in the first place was that an IP user told me it was just "cut and pasted from the press." It seems that I was mistaken, although I'm not quite sure how it happened. Thanks for catching that. --Sopoforic 21:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. Mrslippery 01:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

If you believe any part of the article is inaccurate please discuss your concerns here. Mrslippery 19:23, 9 February 2007 (UTC)