Talk:Allan Blakeney

Inappropriate/misinterpreted citations box
Hello, I added the inappropriate or misinterpreted citations box, as the article makes claims or cites facts that are not included in the article it uses as a source. As well, some claims are made without citation. McMuff (talk) 03:00, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Could you specify which claims are improperly sourced and/or unsourced? Dirac66 (talk) 03:10, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Are the claims dubious? If not it is not a serious problem.  Policy calls for citations for material that is likely to be challenged or otherwise doubtful.  That's not the same as no problem at all but rather a problem best solved by ADDING to the article instead of deleting parts of it or just objecting to the article.  If a cited source says he died from a heart attack and the article says he died from liver cancer, then, yes, the material must obviously be pared down to no more than what the cited source says.  But if a cited source says he died from cancer and the article says he died from liver cancer, the detail is likely accurate and simply from another source.  If one truly doubts that he died from liver cancer, the responsible thing to do is to make at least a cursory search for a possible source before deleting.--Brian Dell (talk) 15:40, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * But that's not what McMuff was referring to. The article history shows that s/he requested citations for three items in the description of Blakeney's economic policy as premier. The revision of the cause of death was made by Gaussgauss. Dirac66 (talk) 17:15, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

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Second worst defeat?
The article says that Blakeney's defeat in 1982 was the second worst defeat in the province's history. I'm not sure that's accurate. The worst was the Anderson government, in 1934, which lost every seat it had. Then there's Douglas's defeat of Patterson in 1944. Patterson lost 33 seats, and was left with a five member caucus. Blakeney in 1982 lost 35 of 44 seats; so he lost more seats than Patterson, but was left with a larger caucus in Opposition than Patterson (nine rather than five). I'm inclined to say that Patterson's defeat was worse, because he was left with only five members in Opposition. Thoughts? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 06:42, 10 September 2018 (UTC)