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Now that the final regulations have been announced the contents of the pack require updating. We also know the specific order in which they have to appear now. Cameronjamesburns 14:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Changes to contents of pack now made. Cameronjamesburns 10:11, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Hipsco appear to be spamming this page. I have removed 3 external links to their site Cameronjamesburns 06:05, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Cost beneficiaries?

I've dispute tagged the last Cost sentence:

The main beneficiaries may be first-time buyers, since they will benefit from the information without having to pay for a HIP on an existing property.

and put these comments: cite authority that shows property sellers will not incorporate HIP in price; this statement illogical, surely? -84.223.118.236 12:42, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree, it doesn't necessarily follow - UK property prices essentially follow supply and demand and so a happy medium will be naturally arrived at. Assertion is uncited anyway, so removal is justified.--A bit iffy 11:07, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name should be "Home Information Pack"?

Links to various external sites I've looked at so far indicate the "i" and the "p" should be capitalised. So, if no one says why not, I'll go ahead and rename the article accordingly in the next few days.--A bit iffy 11:02, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Nobody objected, so I renamed it.--A bit iffy 13:43, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] merging and renaming sections

I've done a fair bit of work on the article over the last day or so. Amongst other things, I've renamed "Introduction of pack" to "History", and moved the Timeline section up to the top, prior to merging it into the new history section. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 12:19, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

...also, there are 8 {{citation needed}} tags in the article, and the whole timeline section is unreferenced. If anyone can find a reliable source for any of them, that would really help. You can copy and paste this citation template into the article, filling in the bits after the equals signs:
<ref>{{cite web |url= |title= |publisher= |date=[[200]] |accessdate=2007-08-02 |quote=}}</ref>
...or you can just leave a link here, and I'll put it in the article. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 12:34, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Update: I've done some more work on the article. I've merged the Timeline section, mostly into the History section. There are now 28 references on the page (hooray), and 13 {{citation needed}} tags - I've finished adding them so until more text is added that's the final tally. I'm hoping that if we can find those references we can try to get to good article status. To meet the good article criteria, as well as finishing the references, we'll need to improve the quality of the prose. If we can find any, we could do with some pictures, but I'm not sure that's possible. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 19:52, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fiirst Paragraph

Should'nt the first paragraph be in present tense, instead of future?

Nitpickers Anonymous - Rabbiphil 15:50, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Need to define jargon words

"Conveyancer" and "gazuming" should be defined where they appear in the article. I believe these are terms not used outside the British Isles. VisitorTalk 15:05, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong article!

HIPS is the well-known shorthand for "Host-based Intrusion Prevention System", which is a new kind of computer system monitoring technology, touted as the future of anti-virus defence. 82.131.210.162 (talk) 13:58, 1 February 2008 (UTC)