User talk:Moist towelett/Archives/2015/April

Matthew Banks
I appreciate you are trying to help Rhumidian but it may be better if you raise any changes you want on the talk page first as we are trying to keep the article neutral and balanced, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 08:48, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Matthew Gordon-Banks
Hi there.

I am the subject. Just tell me where to email my passport, Who's Who entry, or any other document to ensure you are confident I am whom I say I am. Please take me up on this suggestion.

My page was altered last month by someone unknown (I have good reason to believe it was the security services) without leaving a footprint. I am only keen to do the following 1. Make sure it is accurate and 2. Give any reader a sense of my career. At present there is far too much emphasis on untrue fraud allegation. Contrary to your remark any removal of comments were made by the Daily telegraph. I have never contacted Google as you state.

It is a fact that there is NO public information on my becoming a Foreign Policy advisor to Tim Farron MP, the Lib Dem FCO spokesperson. I would have to get Tim to confirm it after the election. However, that said I do not know how it came to be on my page anyway even though it is true and ought to remain. Equally someone has deleted reference to a Ltd company International Institute for Strategic Affairs, my current employ (Int ISA Ltd at companies house; public doc)

At present there is virtually nothing on my career it has been removed. I worked for a Govt dept (MoD) over seas. It is in Who's Who and has been for years.

I am going to have to ask someone independent to edit this. At present it does not help a reader know the full picture. Try and be a bit more sympathetic. I have been shot at, blown up, de-frauded and goodness knows what. It is tough having those things listed inc PTSD. I try to present a face now of good health and work.

Please take me up, even though you have been the least sympathetic reviewer recently, on my giving you proof of my ID. Also my son DID try and alter the page and I told him off for doing so! He was only young.

Best wishes,

M — Preceding unsigned comment added by Strathisla1 (talk • contribs) 09:39, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Matthew Gordon-Banks
Thanks for the advice. Here goes with a signature attempt. Please take me up on proving whom I am. I CAN even get you in contact with the journalist who removed my name from Daily Telegraph online items. Not that I think you need it but he is called Richard Eden and is now diary editor of the Daily Mail.

I would just like my career to have some a bit more detail.

Strathisla1 (talk) 10:06, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Open letter to MGB

 * Mr Banks (Strathisla1), There is no need to send your passport. I hope you realise that that would be a borderline idiotic thing to do, (you would be best to send your national insurance number ;) ). As to the who's who, if you send a photocopy/picture of the page of the most recent entry on you to this talk page (submit it to https://imgur.com/ and post the address here) then i will add it and its incuded info to the references on your biography.

Regarding getting someone independent to edit the article, that would not be possible. I hope you realise that wikipedia is a public encyclopedia, where anyone has freedom to publish any information (past or present). It might not be possible to remove any recent entries without proper evidence contradicting it. Any legal action regarding wikipedia is not possible, and it is most likely to be shot down.

Onto the topic of secret files, I would like to highlight a few points; The right to be forgotten cannot be confirmed, but when searching for you on google, the notice does come up on the pages with your name on. On other search engines I can better yield results (duckduckgo.com). You are an MP and I hope you take security seriously, but you are struggling to convince me. If you have taken up the official secrets act then you should be trying to refrain from talking about your job in middle eastern analysis.

I dont want to continue editing your page, You have come off as a bit of a bigot and don't seem notable enough to require a wiki page, but i will continue to monitor it. I hope we can neutralise your page and clear up any inaccuracies. My revisions are final. Thanks, Rhumidian (talk) 10:14, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Matthew Gordon-Banks 2
Your comment: Does anyone know if there is any source for this ″Originally pursuing a career as a British Army officer, he was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders before being war pensioned in 1984.″. It isn't properly cited and there is no information that confirms this statement. Rhumidian (talk) 08:54, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

I am absolutely certain that someone took this statement which is absolutely true from my original election address in 1992 in Southport. Not sure how it ended on Wiki but I was on a Regular Commission not Short Service hence the "originally pursuing a career..."

I have nothing to hide other than that which you know but what to expand so a reader can know more about my career. For ten years I have been trying to "prevent Pakistan imploding" on behalf of UK to quote an intelligence colleague. if you allow me to identify myself I will try and give you as much corroboration as I can. At present the re is nothing much in my career section! I know people are looking as I am standing in a local council election.

best wishes and sorry i do not know how to sign properly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Strathisla1 (talk • contribs) 10:00, 7 April 2015 (UTC)


 * To sign a post to the triple tilde "~" at the end of your post.

Rhumidian (talk) 10:15, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Terry Wilson
Edit on the top right (edit source).Rhumidian (talk) 17:27, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

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GOCE April blitz

 * It appears that the Guild of Copy Editors awarded this barnstar to you by mistake. See this discussion.


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