Talk:British Bankers' Association

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Secure trust bank has re-branded itself as "Moneyway". I have added this and added a citation ref link. Is this okay? RoyalBlueStuey (talk) 11:55, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Multiple issues with this article
British Bankers' Association here. I did indeed edit this article (which is why my username is BritishBankers - the BBA identifier for all our social media activity). I strove to be impartial and to present factual information only, and I accept absolutely that as a member of BBA staff my authority to do so can and should be questioned. In editing this article my key test was whether our additions would be helpful to any reader wanting to understand more about the BBA, and I hope I succeeded in doing so. Please accept that I acted in good faith and I am keen to resolve the issues raised to ensure complete compliance with my responsibilities as a Wikipedia editor.

It stands to reason that any further edits I make can still be questioned on the grounds of my close connection with the subject. I would be happy to make any changes to fix the issues identified, but I suppose I am the editor least appropriate for the task.

So is there anything I can do to put this right?

BritishBankers (talk) 09:58, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Instead of editing the article directly, I would suggest making information available on the talk page (as a suggestion). The problem should fix itself, as more editors recognise the need to make this article less biased (of course, achieving true impartiality is next to impossible). --BurritoBazooka (talk) 00:15, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Angela Knight article and The British Bankers' Association article
It is noted that User : 'British Bankers' has been blocked indefinitely as being in blatant breach of Wikipedia's important editorial impartiality, and promotion protocols, as of 17 January 2012.

It is felt that the article British Bankers' Association should now be completely overhauled by a fully independent editor, and then placed open to discussion and arbitration regarding any nuances of interpretation. The revised article should be balanced, devoid of self-promotion, and referenced with verifiable citations that are also independently sourced.

In 2009 'British Bankers' edited that The BBA’s mission is to PROMOTE and protect the interests of the UK’s banks and financial services. This is precisely why an employee of the BBA cannot possibly be expected to edit this site impartially.

Immediately evident is the need for independent and verifiable citations for the claims made under 'SME'. Furthermore, for balance, there is no reference to the BBA's 'humiliating climb down' over the banks' PPI misselling saga, and the widely publicised High Court action in this regard. The latter will always be a milestone in the BBA's history, yet, it is conspicuously absent from the article.

It is also noted that User : 'British Bankers' has edited and removed verifiable content on the site of Angela Knight, CEO of the BBA. Again, this is precisely why editorial independence is one of Wikipedia's cornerstones, and why it is right that editors abusing its user and impartiality protocols are blocked.

If Wikipedia were to permit articles on Xmas to be written and edited by Turkeys, then the vital balance that Wikipedia espouses will always be will a forlorn expectation. (Vigilantbabyboomer (talk) 20:52, 21 January 2012 (UTC))


 * Hmmm, I found some information here . I'm not British and this is not an area of information that is at all familiar to me...in other words, it will take a lot of reading before I am able to make any edits.  Thanks to the editor/s that outed the biased editor/s.  Gandydancer (talk) 12:51, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Angela Knight
Can someone go back and dig up some of the quotes from Angela Knight, re: Libor, and the Global Financial Crisis, to put the BBA defence of the banking industry in context. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.171.128.167 (talk) 14:06, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

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