Talk:Paul Dacre

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This article has been semi-protected due to repeated WP:BLP violations which border upon libel. Please create an account, log in, and WP:CITE sources when editing this page. Thanks, Can't sleep, clown will eat me 10:15, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Err, mate - this article's been completely vandalised. Again.

[edit] STOP - Add references!

WP:VERIFY allows the removal of any information that cannot be verified. As such, I have to support the shortening of this article. Before adding the removed material back in, please make sure it is properly referenced. WP:CITE may be of use with this. Also remember that when we are dealing with articles relating to living people we have to make sure that the article is entirely sourced and correct, and especially that no slander or libel is present. LinaMishima 16:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the stuff about Mail attitudes being "often attributed" to Dacre's personal views, as well the Today programme vote for "person to be expelled from Britain" (which I can't find any references to, from a few minutes in Google) and the Private Eye "cunt" thing. WP:BLP requires that any contentious commentary be sourced or deleted - as soon as anyone can dig up any sources for these, they can be added back in. --McGeddon 17:47, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

FWIW I well remember the Today programme thing, as do millions of others, so there must be a reference somewhere. Ben Finn 10:06, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I've found this from 2003, but he only made third place, behind Cherie Blair and Abu Hamza. Have they run the same poll before or since? --McGeddon 15:18, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The c-word

I read today in Private Eye about Dacre's vain attempts to control this entry. I thought it very necessary to mention his over-use of the c-word. I'll get out my old Eye copies later and get some references. Hwyl, --AdamSommerton 13:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

It's probably important to mention that the Private Eye article also suggests that Dacre has "tasked a team from the Mail's much respected library with drafting something more impressive to put in its place" - thus there might be some conflict of interest edits soon. Dan Beale 16:30, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Likewise I just read the same in the NZ Herald. [1] Mathmo ^Talk 17:13, 7 July 2007 (UTC)