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Article Cleanup

Following edits by user @KJB2017: after initial cleanup by @C.Fred: and @Rathfelder::

Actions for you to take

Please re-add information on local campaigns, in a neutral way, with more depth.
Please find more non-primary sources to back up all tagged statements
Please find sources to sources for the "Early life" section.

Do NOT edit this page if you have a conflict of interest.

Actions I've taken

Early life

Added citation needed and BLP sources templates

Whilst normally unsourced information in BLPs would be deleted, as this is not potentially libelous or damaging I am willing to let users source it if they can. If not sourced soon, I will delete it.

Justice Select Committee

Removed list of inquires
Removed all external links
Edited for clarity and conciseness
Section header removed

There is no need to include list of all inquiries as not directly related to Chalk - more suited to Justice Select Committee Page. Made more concise and kept otherwise.

All party-parliamentary groups

Deleted in entirety

Copyright violation, copied straight from source

Stalking

Edited for clarity and conciseness
Edited for neutrality
Removed unnecessary quotes
Section header removed

This is a relevant section, I am glad it was added. However, it was excessive and written like an advertisement.

EU

Edited for clarity and conciseness
Edited for tone
Section header removed

Local Campaigns

Deleted in entirety

Whilst a section entitled 'Local Campaigns' would be beneficial, at the time it contained only a list of campaigns and one primary source. Re-add when you have secondary sources and more than just a list of names.

Controversies

Re-added section entitled 'Fraud Investigation'

This is a relevant section and written relatively neutrally. If you have an issue with the way it is written you may edit it, but do not delete it in its entirety.

Hope this helps and feel free to ask me for help or clarification. Legendiii 22:49, 7 May 2017 (UTC) (find me here).

Lead Template Messages

I now believe that this article no longer requires the following template messages above the lead:

{{BLP sources}}
- Reason: Now sufficiently covered by section template message {{BLP sources section}}
{{BLP primary sources}}
- Reason: Only applies to one source, sufficiently covered by inline tag

Any disagreement? Thanks, Legendiii (talk) 12:46, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Partly done: new additions since suggestion rely on primary sources, so {{BLP primary sources}} stays. Legendiii (talk) 13:31, 19 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

children?

In the ‘quick facts’ it states he has two children, but under ‘personal life’ it states that he has three! Nikrehg (talk) 21:59, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

COI

Large sections of this article reads like it always written by a parliamentary researcher/someone promoting the subject 146.198.237.181 (talk) 06:46, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since this concern about a potential COI was raised last year in July 2022, quite a lot of puffery, long quotes, excessive content, trivia etc has been removed from the article. I'm therefore tonight deleting the COI template on the article for the time being. But if any other editors have further concerns about a potential COI, then the template can be placed back into the article. The biography still does contain too many references to primary sources. More of this content with primary sources could be removed. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 00:24, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Primary sources and overall angle of page

As per my recent edits, I have removed quite a bit of unreferenced information and information that only had primary sources, normally from Hansard or Gov.uk. I am more than happy for people to reinstate the information, but only if they can find a secondary source to go alongside the primary source. This brings me on to another point. Going through the article, I found that there were many examples of what Chalk had done in Parliament, many more than other MPs, particularly MPs who were only elected in 2015. The cynic in me would say that this somewhat positive vibe towards Chalk is deliberate, but this is only an assumption. I am happy for feedback and comments on this. Ellwat (talk) 21:36, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]