Talk:Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021

Undue weight given to anti-Act reaction
It appears as though this article gives too much weight to the opinions of a single invidiual (JK Rowling) and the anti-bill side in general, I think it would be good to balance the summaries of the responses a bit. Voltaic181 (he/him) (talk) 21:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I can't say I've seen much in the press recently - do you know of any from WP:RS? Zeno27 (talk) 21:34, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Zeno27 I'm just namely concerned by the fact that things like the SNP's response is given a single unsourced sentence summarising it while we get a summary of JK Rowling's entire tweet chain.
 * Source for SNP response: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/01/hate-act-will-lessen-public-trust-in-the-force-says-scottish-police-chief
 * I think including Rowling's response makes sense as it's reported in reliable sources and she is a public figure, but it should be limited to a summary of her views and the information about her tweet chain should be moved to a section on her views page or something similar. I'll add some more information about the Scottish government opinion and leave it at that for now though. Voltaic181 (he/him) (talk) 21:43, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Added some criticism from professional bodies from before the bill was passed since those are highly relevant and should reduce the weight of opinions of individuals. 2A0A:EF40:68E:901:5DF1:48E:DAAD:53D0 (talk) 11:20, 15 May 2024 (UTC)