Talk:Vere Bird Jr.

Odd sentence
In the "scandal and firing" section, the first sentence, "The inquiry, run by Sir Louis Blom-Cooper,[12] Bird was formally fired as a Cabinet minister on 10 May, the day Blom-Cooper arrived to begin conducting the inquiry.[13]", doesn't sound right. I'd reword it myself, but I can't tell what was intended and the sources are offline. Jenks24 (talk) 03:50, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, bit of a head-scratcher for me too; any better now? Ironholds (talk) 11:36, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, thanks, that makes sense now, though I'm sure a good copy-editor (I'm afraid that's not me) would be able to tweak it a bit. On a related note the two sentences don't really combine that well when it's read as "on 10 May, the day Blom-Cooper arrived to begin work.[13] Blom-Cooper began work on 4 June". Does that sound strange you, or am I just being dense? Jenks24 (talk) 11:59, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll rephrase as "Arrived on Antigua". And no, all my GAs and FAs need a good copyedit after I finish them before they're useful - thanks for the help! :). Ironholds (talk) 12:13, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, much better now. Other than that, great article, very interesting read. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 12:43, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Re-did the Review

 * Explanation after explanation of why it is not a good article. Electronscope44 (talk) 12:20, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Guns for Antigua
I'm considering making a page just for the "Guns for Antigua" scandal and the Louis Blom-Cooper commission, though at present only have one or two sources I could cite for such a page. But I really don't think it's proper for such a major event in modern Antiguan history to be dealt with most comprehensively on the page of someone who was involved but not key. Thoughts? Pascal (talk) 07:28, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed! I have full LexisNexis access - give me an email if you want additional sources. Ironholds (talk) 07:53, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I personally prefer Westlaw, but there we are. I'm not sure if the text of the commission report is on there, and Blom-Cooper's book Guns for Antigua is rather expensive and probably not in my uni library, though I will check. My only current source is a book by Geoffrey Robertson, who was involved with the commission. It's a fascinating story and I think it deserves more than a mish-mash of paragraphs on several different pages. Pascal (talk) 15:49, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Found a lovely journal article with a stack of info - "Narcotics arms trafficking, corruption and governance in the Caribbean" by Griffith JMLC 1997 1(2) 138, at 139-140. Pascal (talk) 16:02, 4 August 2011 (UTC)


 * No, I meant LexisNexis academic, rather than legal - it's an archive of every piece of news literature since 1960, basically :p. Ironholds (talk) 06:02, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Well that sounds badass. I've got a half-plagiarised passage on my Sandbox page, if you wanna check it out and make a few changes or something. Pascal (talk) 06:32, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Drop me an email so I have your address and I'll send over every source I can find.
 * I have no idea how to do that, can't find your address. Pascal (talk) 06:50, 11 August 2011 (UTC)


 * If you go to my userpage and open up the toolbox and the like on the left hand menu bar (if you're using the shiny, Vector skin) there should be a button marked Email This User? Ironholds (talk) 15:04, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Good Article reassessment
At this point I have decided to do a GAR because of an old GA assessment from 10 years ago, which the reviewer has been removed/banned. Due to this it would be a good time to reassess this page. Moonlight Vector  13:30, 3 September 2021 (UTC)