Talk:Norris McWhirter

Norris McWhirter definately did not hold 'far right' political views. In fact almost the opposite as he held a passionate belief in individual freedom, limited government and national parliamentary democracy. It is perhaps fitting that Tony Blair has today announced that the there will now be a referendum on the issue of a European Consitution.

BBC News website has a completely different text for the breaking of the 4-minute mile:

"Ladies and gentlemen, here is the result of event No 9, the one mile. First, No 41, R G Bannister, of the Amateur Athletic Association. The time is three minutes 59.4 seconds."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3643133.stm

--Auximines 15:24, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. I have altered the text to remove the word "far". In any case "far, "ultra" and "extreme" are statements of opinion. They should never be used, except by political opponents in leaflets/propaganda. Dissidentcongress

Well, McWhirter was right wing, certainly not "almost the opposite". "individual freedom and limited government" is often used as code for right-wingery IMO.


 * Exactly - in YOUR opinion. This sort of terminology should be used with great care on Wikipedia.  Others associate the far right with, for example, National Socialism in Germany, which stood for the opposite of what McWhirter believed in.

Having said that, the assassination of his brother was one of the most disgusting crimes carried out by the IRA.

He DID say what is quoted in the article after Bannister's mile - I have seen recordings of the event.

Exile

=Right wing?= I am removing the references to him holding right-wing views. You need to be very careful when you use this type of language in Wikipedia. I don't see any sources. Please find a reliable source for this comment, if really feel it needs to be said, then we can discuss further. Johnx10 05:31, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Is advocacy of the South African Aparteid regime not right wing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.6.246 (talk) 20:15, 6 July 2008 (UTC) As faras he political views extended he was also affiliated with the Referendum Party, I spoke to him on one occassion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.192.64.24 (talk) 00:45, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

=Poor article= In the article we get the text "After an interview in which the Guinness directors enjoyed testing the twins' knowledge of records and unusual facts...". The crux of it is this: the twins were famous for their knowledge of records and unusual facts, yet apart from this one sentence nothing more is mentioned in the article. I wanted to know how exactly they attained this knowledge and why. Did they study intensively ? Did they travel to do research ? Did they keep notes of records ? Come on, this is surely information that needs to be put in there. 177.158.154.147 (talk) 00:14, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

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“Defamation”
Defamation was never a part of the lawsuit against the IBA. It was only ever based on the use of “flash screen messaging” 82.25.242.123 (talk) 18:01, 24 March 2024 (UTC)