Talk:Duncan Bannatyne
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What do the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars have to do with anything?
editAs a visitor to this article, I was left a bit confused about the following paragraph: His business career began almost immediately after his move to Stockton-on-Tees with an ice cream van purchased for £450. He soon expanded by buying more vans during the period of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars.
What does a drug war centered around ice cream vans in Glasgow have to do with his ice cream van business in North East England? The Telegraph source provided doesn't mention Glasgow, but does make reference to a profitable but somewhat hairy period of ice-cream wars as sellers fought for the best pitches
, but implicitly this describes competition in the ice cream van market in Stockton, not the drug war in Glasgow.
The top results from a Google search are merely speculative. I see an IP user mentioned something I still haven't understood about it in an archived talk page discussion.
The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars feasibly could be relevant, e.g. if they affected the national market for purchasing and selling ice cream vans, in which case some reliable source needs to be added to attest to this. But as it stands, to the best of my knowledge, this paragraph is currently in violation of WP:BLPRS, WP:NPOV if the intention is to suggest a link between the subject and criminal organisations, and WP:GRAPEVINE.
I would usually be WP:BOLD and remove this myself, but I figure I might have missed something, seeing as this has been in the article since August 2011 (added by an IP user). Perhaps his autobiography mentions something; I've never read it. _MB190417_ (talk) 14:36, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
- Pinging top editors (Sealman—DavidAnstiss—Rocknrollmancer—Strolls—Francish7—GoingBatty—BoroCaroline—Kind Tennis Fan—Kimcrowther—AHJEET) _MB190417_ (talk) 14:42, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
- @MB190417: My previous edits were to fix reference formats, not to change the content. It seems that Duncan bought ice cream vans while others were using ice cream vans for illegal activities. The Telegraph article goes on to quote Duncan: "It was mainly bluster, but someone did get hospitalised." It's not clear if this was because they were part of the drug war, or an innocent victim of the drug war, or had nothing to do with the drug war. You might want to add a request to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland asking knowledgeable editors to participate in this discussion. GoingBatty (talk) 17:03, 21 February 2023 (UTC)