Talk:Margaret Mutu

What is it with all of the unbalanced pov?
I've noticed growing POV creep here and there in Wiki, inaccurate and/or unbalanced. The latest addition to this BLP article is a good example, and I have reverted it.

The last par said "Some critics of Mutu have found her discussions on privilege to be ironic considering her social pedigree. While Mutu made the claim that she is incapable of being racist because she, as a Maori, is not in a position of privilege, it has been pointed out that this claim is untrue." That's bollocks. She never mentioned privilege, but used the word "power". Nonetheless that misquote is used to unfairly justify rabbiting on with irrelevancies about her parents and her salary.

Jeez. If we are going to cherry pick a reference to present a POV, let's report what she actually said. And let's balance the article by quoting other information in the reference, some of the racist hatemail Mutu received. For instance, why not quote this email as one example --
 * "Lol u black nigga if the white man hadn’t come, u would still be eating each other and living in huts you maori nigga c***s".

That would even things up a bit. Moriori (talk) 00:04, 23 January 2012 (UTC)


 * No, Moriori, that would not "even things up a bit". That would make it even more unbalanced.  What you claim to be "irrelevancies" are anything but.  Mutu has made the claim that she cannot be racist because she is not in a position of power (your words).  Radical Maori equate money with power and with privilege and with position.  All of these are wrapped up together and it is difficult for *anyone* to argue to the contrary.  Therefore, to point out Mutu's background and current position, both of which have all four, money, power, privilege and position, is merely pointing out that her viewpoint is deeply hypocritical.  It is not a POV but a statement of fact.  Boscaswell (talk) 00:10, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia doesn't point out anything. Read WP:OR, especially the bit that says "(OR) includes any analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position not advanced by the sources." Also, read WP:BLP where it says "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion" . Moriori (talk) 00:27, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

This is not a CV
I'm not sure the entire list of publications in necessarily appropiate. Certainly books she has written or editted and fine, as are publications which have aroused comment in the mass-media and those which are very widely cited. Most of them can safely be left on her professional site at (which can / should be linked). Stuartyeates (talk) 22:30, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Agree - it unbalances the article. I will wait for further comment before removing some of the content. The four books should stay. Pakoire (talk) 04:01, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

RfC:Does this article pass WP:BLP
An issue was raised by User:Ngati Kahu as to whether this article passes WP:BLP. I really don't have time to work on this myself, so I wanted input from others. For a little more discussion, see here and here. United States Man (talk) 02:38, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I believe it does meet BLP (but not as well as it should). Since the article was created (by myself) the relative size of the controversy sections has increased. This needs to be rectified, preferably by more text being added to the non-contoversal sections. Two of the key sources are currently offline, which is unfortunate. There are hundreds of hits for her name when you search http://www.parliament.nz/ and presumably other authoratative sites. I intend to refrain from editing the article for a while, since I may (or may not) have been part of the problem. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:02, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Since there's a question about whether or not this article passes BLP, because of my own concerns about undue weight, and also because one statement had an inline citation to Wikipedia (ironically, not a reliable source according to Wikipedia), I removed the more negative statements. I suppose it's all right to revert my edit, but only if there's consensus to do so. I dream of horses (T) @ 21:38, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Concerns due to the controversy she's currently in over 'racist comments' may be that she may be WP:ONEEVENT but there seems to be other criteria met as an academic & activist on a quick hunt. EBY (talk) 03:48, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep primarily due to her position as head of an apparently notable tribe that has its own separate article. However, need to be wary of POV and take a closer look at sources before making edits. Jaytwist (talk) 17:35, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

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