Talk:Steve Kent (politician)

Neutral edits
I have concerns about the changes which started being made to this page on 5 July 2013, at the same time as the media interest in the Liberal Leadership race. I have concerns that these changes were motivated by these events, so as to move media attention on to something else. Canbrit01 (talk) 02:06, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

What on earth do the changes have to do with the Liberal leadership? It is a violation of neutrality to scrub Kent's known and public history of past involvement with the Liberal and Canadian Alliance parties from his Wikipedia bio. Which is exactly what's been happening, despite the added information being well documented with reference to published sources. Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.241.108.174 (talk) 04:23, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Canbrit01's remarks are irrelevant. Either the recent changes are accurate or they are not. I have traced back the changes and found that they were all properly sourced as true and verifiable. "I don't like them" is not a good reason to question these valuable additions which provide illumination to a colourful political career! SteveWinslow (talk) 10:05, 19 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Some of the information that had been posted was not sourced. I had made edits to the information and sourced what I could, but it was later changed. The last chart of the page that shows the 2000 Liberal nomination is not sourced at all and none of the information of how candidates did in that race, besides who won, was released. Some citations seem to be made up, while another links to a blog. Newfoundlander&#38;Labradorian (talk) 12:52, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Which citations seem to be "made up"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.241.108.174 (talk) 04:37, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm hoping that impartial editorial support from an admin will be able to review and resolve this for "Involvement with the Liberal Party" and "Electoral history - Liberal Party of Canada nomination meeting, April 11, 2000"

I believe that these sections of the article need additional verifiable citations for verification. Especially as the the content and the timing is questionable as well as the citations are coming from a single source (blog post) which is difficult to verify.

I apologize if I've used the message boxes incorrectly, but I thought it was better to put this in the talk section rather than the main page. Thanks for your help. Canbrit01 (talk) 18:44, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Nothing you are asking for requires an administrator, rather than any other experienced editor, so I am replacing your adminhelp template with help me. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:31, 18 March 2014 (UTC)


 * There are quite a few issues with this article, but I don't think those particular sections are the problem. The "Involvement with the Liberal Party" section cites five different sources, at least two of which are newspaper articles (a third is an opinion piece). The entire rest of the article combined cited three sources, two of which don't even write a single sentence about Kent, and the third is a press release, not an independent source. In particular, there are numerous sections without any sources whatsoever. I have rescued a couple of the more reliable sources Gerbergal82 accidentally removed, but that still leaves the first half of the article woefully under-referenced. That is much more of a problem that the best-sourced section we have, unless you mean to say that the sources we currently cite don't say what we cite them for. Huon (talk) 23:32, 18 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Help me is not appropriate here. Just add the tags to the article if you feel they belong, explain why you added them here and if someone disagrees without resolving the issues, then following the instructions on WP:3O or WP:DRN. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (t • e • c) 23:33, 18 March 2014 (UTC)


 * This section has been tagged since Sept 2021 requesting citations, none have been made, so for now, just cutting and pasting here. OvalMirror (talk) 19:55, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Community involvement

Some of Kent's more extensive volunteer positions are listed below.

Kent volunteering with Scouts Canada Chief Commissioner and chair of the board of governors for Scouts Canada, which is a volunteer position Founder and Leader of the 1st Royal Newfoundland Constabulary-Mount Pearl Scouting Group Member of the Rotary Club of Waterford Valley Big Brother with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Newfoundland Former Assistant Provincial Commissioner for Scouts in Newfoundland and Labrador Founding Chair of National Youth Committee for Scouts Canada Member of National Volunteer Services Committee Vice-Chair of the 2000 Newfoundland and Labrador Summer Games Founding Chair of the Mount Pearl Anti-Vandalism Campaign Past President of the Mount Pearl Youth Advisory Council

The original appointment to the position as chief commissioner and chair of the board of governors for Scouts Canada made in November 2008 was a viceregal appointment by Her Excellency, Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada. He was appointed again in November 2009 by her Excellency and appointed again in 2010 by His Excellency, David Johnston, Governal General of Canada. [citation needed]