Talk:Paul Boateng

Prologue

For the record (post IRC discussion), Re Middle name this is single-sourced and not confirmed by other sources which state he does not have a middle name. --VampWillow 21:04, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hansard have it. Enough said. [1] Morwen - Talk 21:08, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

See also Brent Council's election results page. The Electoral Commission's offical results (364k PDF - p.20) list him as "Boateng, P. Y.". I conclude from this that "Paul Yaw Boateng" is the name he stood under at the last election, even if he doesn't use it on other occasions. --rbrwrˆ 21:42, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I've added a reference to Charles Clarke's promotion. Anecdota

the right honourable?

is he still the right honourbale? what is the correct form of address for a high comissioner? Amo 22:36, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

His Excellency, I believe, but he will still be a Privy Councillor. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:19, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Political bias

This entry appears to be written by someone with a vast amount of bias - see weasel words such as 'prissy' and 'exclusive'...

Last section

Why is there a section about Boateng's son? Is it relevant?/Nicke L 13:33, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I've cut it here at least until it gets formatted properly: Biruitorul 05:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

This needs to be removed. It does not relate to the man. If the event is notable enough for a page for his son, then it should be put there, with full citations, not the ones currently present. - Francis Tyers · 15:26, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Mmm. The son isn't independently notable; the case has been dropped; it was a year ago and appears to be a dead story. Shimgray | talk | 15:27, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I have repasted the beginning section here. Why it should appear twice, I don't know. Whoever is up to this should decide properly what he/she wants to do and do it appropriately. --Natsubee 10:09, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I have removed the offending text from the article (and note that it is an IP-anon adding it back) as clearly unwarranted and also removed it here too on the grounds that if it is irrelevant there then also irrelevant here. --AlisonW 12:26, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Does this need to be sprotected until the anon stops adding this section back? -- ALoan (Talk) 12:26, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Although the four IPs which have added this irrelevant content have only edited this page it would, I believe, be ineffective to block just those four IPs given that the offending (ab)user is clearly on a dynamic IP and isn't guaranteed to come back to one again. Similarly, the rate of vandalism is only once per day, so a tital lockout of IPs and new editors isn't really the right solution presently, however the page is being acticely monitored and, should the situation deteriorate, I will semiprot the page. --AlisonW 12:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Shoot, I missed the same information being added by another IP shortly after it was reverted and it remained on the article for the best part of a day. Somewhat ironically, another IP removed it... -- ALoan (Talk) 10:33, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I think we have to agree that this article is currently suffering from this repeated vandalism. it is clearly by the same individual given the nature of the copy & paste having the same markup errors each time, so I've now semi-protected the page for two weeks. Hopefully the individual concerned will cease and desist. --AlisonW 10:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Current whereabouts

What is he doing nowadays, after his High Commissioner posting ended? – Kaihsu (talk) 22:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Times (2009-11-08): Lobbying row as ex-minister Paul Boateng lands defence firm job: ‘Paul Boateng, the former cabinet minister, has become a director of a private military company after lobbying the South African government to water down proposed anti-mercenary legislation. Boateng has joined the board of Aegis Defence Services, run by Tim Spicer, the former Guards officer at the centre of the arms-to-Sierra Leone scandal in 1998.’ – Kaihsu (talk) 18:04, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Peerage

There is no mention of Boateng's new role as a working Labour peer, this should be rectified. 86.156.253.92 (talk) 23:05, 29 May 2010 (UTC)