Talk:Charles Chauvel (politician)

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I would be inclined to delete: "During the time of Chauvel's service on the Lottery Board and on Meridian (the commercial entities in respect of which public records are available) each business grew substantially in value and profitability." as it reads too much like advocacy, as it seeks to link his presence on a board with the increase in value.

It is inappropriate to write "gay partner", when it is factually correct to write "male partner", and it is less offensive, too. After all, straight people don't have "straight partner" or "heterosexual wife or husband", they just have a note that at the most indicates the gender of their partner, often not even that. This use of "gay partner" is more likely to occur in provincial newspapers, like "lesbian lover", and appears disapproving (and is therefore not neutral). Kiwimw 07:20, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why specify the sex? Why not just "partner"? IdiotSavant 13:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest moving the lines "In November 2007, he became Chairperson of the Parliament's Finance and Expenditure Committee, and in early 2008 was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney-General roles in which he served until the 2008 New Zealand general election." to the "Member of Parliament" section. This would make the introduction more concise and current while maintaining the detail in an appropriate section. Rgiltrap (talk) 01:54, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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The climate change section, taken in part from http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2009/11/climate-change-amendments.html, is released under CC-BY-SA-3.0. See OTRS:4485493. Stifle (talk) 17:54, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Issues[edit]

This article is far too long and contains a superfluous level of detail. To gauge what might be an appropriate level of detail look at the page of any current New Zealand Member of Parliament, remembering that Mr Chauvel has had Parliamentary careers far shorter than some of them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick3fry (talk • contribs) 01:44, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I have attempted to make it more sensible now hes not even in Parliament. He's achieved some good things but the entry was full of irrelevant detail. No problem if people want to put some of it back in, obviously, but I tried to keep it to items of public interest or history, eg gay panic defence. 115.188.239.182 (talk) 00:20, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is important to leave in the point rebutting the Law Society's view, which Chauvel and others explicitly rejected, for good reason. The reason was, that the "gay panic" aspect of the defence had been a point of contention for many years, and the desire to change it was only given media coverage because of the two cases, it wasn't just a reaction to the two cases. Efforts had been attempted a number of previous times, as Chauvel pointed out in the referenced material. Kiwimw (talk) 12:48, 25 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have given the article a good read and a tidy up. It appears that the issues that are raised here have been addressed. I have thus removed the tags. Please put them back and point out what further work is necessary if you disagree. Schwede 66 09:49, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Over the top[edit]

This is obviously a self written advert of a man who actually ranks very low in the New Zealand political world. It needs some serious deleting of basic info that adds nothing to the page, or wiki as a whole. Wiki should not be used as an ad for oneself. Towack (talk) 06:44, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have spent some time in removing and editing to better reflect the time career of Charles Chauvel. Towack (talk) 09:40, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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