Talk:Edward Timpson

A party political broadcast on behalf of the Tories

Is it the role of Wikipedia to reproduce Conservative Party election material, and to act as the party's agent in the Crewe by-election? This article certainly looks as if that's its function! 86.149.20.78 (talk) 07:50, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Good grief, indeed! Some editing done to try and tone this down. SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 09:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Def not a Party Political. The statement about Campaign Themes comes from The Guardian which is a notoriously anti-Tory paper. As such it seems to me to be entirely appropriate to include. it belongs here because they are his themes, other candidates may have different themes. NBeale (talk) 10:12, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Why is the "campaign themes" section here rather than at Crewe and Nantwich by-election, 2008? Seems to me it would be far more appropriate there, as it's not really about Timpson as such. SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 12:40, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

The problem is that different parties may disagree about what the campaign themes are for the election - but each candidate will probably have a clear set of themes on which they are campaigning. NBeale (talk) 18:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

It still belongs at that article, not here. If that article is deficient by not having this information on all the candidates, that's something that needs to be rectified there. Steve ^{T • C} 22:01, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Times/Yorkshire Post reports

User:Snalwibma is perhaps right about the Times report - Labour's "Class War" approach is a theme of theirs not of Timpson's. But the Yorkshire Post report is a key theme of Timpson's and surely belongs here. NBeale (talk) 08:25, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, OK if you insist - though I think (see above!) that the whole "campaign themes" section is out of place here. It turns the article into a shadow of a Conservative-party election manifesto, as opposed to an article about Timpson, and it would be far more appropriate as a one- or two-sentence summary at Crewe and Nantwich by-election, 2008. But I'm not going to fight about it. The by-election will be done and dusted in less than two weeks, and this article should then be amended to reflect whatever is the then-current state of affairs. And I assume that will include deleting all this rubbish about running a campaign from a shed beside a football ground, etc! SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 08:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Citation style

I have used a citation template to reference the by-election result, but I realised afterwards that the other references in the article use a different style. Does anyone here have a preference over which style is used? Road Wizard (talk) 08:42, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Details about foster children

There is no need to quote Timpson about what effect having foster siblings made to his life - this is clearly not a major part of a short biography. And quoting him makes the whole piece sound like an election broadcast! I have taken that part out and left the reference to the foster children without the unnecessary detail.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.181.139 (talk • contribs) 00:39, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Timpson Retailer Internal Link

Can someone put an internal link to wikis article on Timpson the retailer aswell as keeping the external link to Timpsons website? Does anybody think this worthwhile? The Timpson article is not much to look at now but it may improve in time.