Fighting Poverty

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—George8211 / T 18:03, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

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Sources

Greetings FP. Could I suggest you stick to WP:Suggested sources and avoid the Daily Mirror like the plague! This particularly applies on high profile wp:BLPs. Suggested sources are much more difficult to justify removing unless the facts have been covered elsewhere so that wp:undue applies. Regards JRPG (talk) 09:17, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Poverty

Thanks for all your advice, help and support. May I draw your attention to a new section on Poverty in the David Cameron article. Fighting Poverty (talk) 09:57, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Bit short of time atm. I expect the Cameron article will be vigorously pruned -see wp:BRD as most contributions are ..but as you have wp:rs you can rewrite it meeting those complaints. Always assume people want a neutral article and are trying to be helpful. Some are! I usually get my own point across and can help you do the same with yours. Regards JRPG (talk) 14:31, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Could I suggest that you shorten it so that sources specifically mention DC ..e.g. the Guardian & CPAG articles. If you can, you should state how he plans to tackle it -ensuring parents work, I believe. The rest should go probably go into First Cameron ministry. JRPG (talk) 10:23, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Re Osborne, can I suggest you persist with the excellent Independent article ..but NOT the daily Record -a tabloid. See wp:Suggested sources. Remove the existing article from the lead -as someone will probably do anyway. :) Add a section intended to give his political views on foodbanks. Say that according to the Independent he has never visited one -see WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV claiming they are not part of the welfare system. Add that he was criticized by .. You can also wp:BRD as the reason for the reinsertion. I would expect it to stay. JRPG (talk) 15:24, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

WP:BLP

Hi Fighting Poverty, Just letting you know that I've moved the question that you raised on WP:BLP to the associated Talk page Wikipedia Talk:BLP. Please look there for any answers. - Ryk72 ^'c.s.n.s.' 08:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

David Cameron

Hello, when adding newspaper citations to this or any other article, could you please note that it is necessary to give the name of the newspaper and the date of publication. Also, the names of newspapers go in italics, and the titles of newspaper articles go in inverted commas. Thanks -- Alarics (talk) 20:20, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Sanctions to Jobseekers' Allowance

A great deal was taken out. I'll be away for a few hours, please help and advise. Fighting Poverty (talk) 10:03, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikilink in David Cameron quote

Hi - first, we rarely put links in quotes. Secondly, a link to an organisation that disbanded in January 2006 in a 2007 quote is clearly inappropriate. I appreciate the intent but not the result. Doug Weller (talk) 12:05, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

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