Talk:Mark Williams (politician)

Untitled
This article reads like material pasted from a campaign website. While there may not be copyright issues associated with that, it still creates NPOV issues. --BillC 00:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Significant edits
I removed some material from the article. There were three reasons for this:


 * 1) Some of its content had been vandalised.
 * 2) There was material not relevant to its subject, for example biographical details of his wife. If she is a notable enough individual to have this level of detail, then the proper place for it is in an article about her. If she is not notable enough, then a biographical article on Mark Williams is likely to require only a brief mention of her.
 * 3) Much of the text, as had been noted earlier, seemed to have been copied from Williams' and the LiDems' websites. This had created POV (and copyright) problems for the article. A biographical article on any individual should conform to Wikipedia's NPOV policy.

If you disagree with this, please discuss it here in the article talk page. Finally, I do recommend you create a WP account. Changes made by known editors carry a lot more weight than those made anonymously. Regards, --BillC 21:40, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

-the info is at www.markwilliams.org.uk. It is copywrite free.


 * Thank you for replying. This addresses the issue of copyright. However, one point remains: Does the material conform to neutral point of view? This is important. Material taken from a politician's website, no matter its copyright status, is unlikely to be free of bias: it is, in effect, a form of advertisement. The maintenance of neutrality is important for WIkipedia. (Incidently, if you type four tildes ~ after your text on talk pages, it signs and timestamps your edits, which is useful). --BillC 21:51, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I've reverted this back to the last "non-biased" state it was in. We don't need to know about what Mark Williams enjoys in his spare time, it's just the kind of unnecessary thing that's put on campaign leaflets to make politicians seem more human. Trystan Morris-Davies 22:16, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Lack of Welsh speaking
Er, are you sure about that statement that he's a non Welsh speaker? I'm sure I've heard him speak Welsh on S4C in the past. Harry Hayfield 15:47, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I've heard him read out statements in Welsh, but he is not able to converse freely in Welsh, which is the usual definition of a Welsh-speaker. Lord Tonypandy would read out carefully prepared statements in Welsh on the Welsh news when he was Welsh Secretary, but he was most certainly not a Welsh-speaker. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.66.232 (talk) 12:34, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The Welsh Liberal website says "Welsh learner", rather than speaker. &mdash; BillC talk 19:06, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Recent Vandalism
I've just reverted the recent vandalism that was done to this page. Please keep an eye out just in case someone tries this again! - Greg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.107.138.16 (talk) 16:09, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

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