User talk:JoeCawley

Welcome!

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Watford (UK Parliament constituency)

Hi JoeCawley. I'm afraid I have had to revert your edit on Watford (UK Parliament constituency) as all UK candidates are listed in ballot paper order per WP:NPOV. Cheers - Galloglass 11:17, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I have had to revert your other edit also as firstly it lacked an edit summary and also it removed a well referenced part of the article. Can I suggest you read the five pages I have added above in the welcome message as this will help you avoid having these problems in future. Cheers - Galloglass 11:32, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Galloglass, I have changed the article on the prospective candidates as it was out of date. It did not mention the current candidate and so was in need of revision. I also changed the previous section (mostly just in presentation more than substance) because one section mentioned irrelivant information to the constituency and ommitted information relevant to the constituency. Further the article i wrote contains only one less reference than the previous one; in a article of only two paragraphs this would seem sufficient. Thus i cannot see the desire to revert the article to the out of date version, and hope the new one will be satisfactory.

Hi Joe. There are several problems with your new version. The ones I have outlined previously and also you appear to be promoting one of the candidates in your re-write, this falls foul of WP:NPOV in a big way and cannot stand. Against that, mention of the mental health problems of the retired candidate is a big improvement on the old text. Bearing this in mind would you be good enough to read the outlined policies and merge both the best of the old and new in line with them. Thanks. - Galloglass 12:26, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have read the WP:NPOV and do not feel the article has been made more biased than the previous one which also only mentioned the conservative party. I am quite happy for the article to be updated to included the other candidates, though in terms of candidates they remain unchanged. However, I do not know the state of play with the other candidates and thus cannot update them. As i said i would be happy if anyone else wished to do so. I feel the changed article is better than the last in terms of actually mentioning the current candidate, but realise it is not perfect. I am open to it being changed but i feel a merely reverting to the old one is a backward move. Thanks

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