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RM, Ian Austin (politician) → Ian Austin, No consensus to move, Talk:Ian Austin#Requested move 21 May 2018
RM, Ian Austin (politician) → Ian Austin, Moved, Talk:Ian Austin#Requested move 17 June 2019

Photo

This page could do with a Photo Matthewfelgate 21:11, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What about this? http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c54102/x2_c680ab —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.183.44 (talk) 18:28, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 21 May 2018

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 08:17, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ian Austin (politician) → Ian Austin – WP:TWODABS. Unreal7 (talk) 22:35, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:TWODABS when neither is absolute meaning. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:07, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: TWODABS only applies when one of them is the primary subject. As far as I can tell, neither subjects are primary. ToThAc (talk) 17:52, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Very impressive

This article shows what an up-to-date encyclopedia Wikipedia is - it is 22 February 2019 today, and already the article says Austin resigned from the Labour Party in 2019. Vorbee (talk) 16:03, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 17 June 2019

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The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) — Newslinger talk 06:29, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ian Austin (politician) → Ian Austin – I made this request last year, but it's crystal clear that the cricketer pales in notability compared to the MP. The former barely gets 10 views a day.[1] Unreal7 (talk) 10:38, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I support the change, given the page view figures. Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 10:50, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Obvious primary topic. - X201 (talk) 10:56, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Clear advantage in page views, but also dominates a Google and Google News search (UK, that is). The dab page seems unnecessary to me. PC78 (talk) 14:39, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Jewish by adoption?

It is stated that his father is a Jew but there is no information on his mother. As Ian Austin identifies as a Jew we must assume that his mother is a Jew. Can we have some information on his mother? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.19.7.170 (talk) 22:34, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The article contains no information about Austin's birth mother, and also no suggestion that he considers himself to be Jewish. The man who adopted him and brought him up, together with his adoptive mother, was a Jew who escaped persecution by the Nazis, which presumably explains Ian Austin's aversion to anti-Semitism. I don't think that Matrilineality in Judaism applies in this case. Best wishes, JezGrove (talk) 23:22, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

All references to his opposition to antisemitism removed?

Whomever wrote the section on his resignation has a horrendous antisemitic bias. Ian Austin, the adoptive son of Jewish refugees, was an outspoken critic of Jeremy Corbyn entirely over Corbyn's antisemitism. Ian Austin viewed Corbyn as antisemitic, and virulently felt that Corbyn had led the Labour party to become institutionally antisemitic. All references to this have been removed. Not only have Corbyn's supporters denied any antisemitism in Labour, but now they are trying to write-out the scandal from history too?

This is absolutely unacceptable. Wikipedia admins should step in. 217.138.160.138 (talk) 13:47, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Re: your accusations "All references to this have been removed" and "they are trying to write-out the scandal from history too". Could you provide some dates from the article history please, because I've searched and I can't find the phrase "culture of antisemitism" having been in the article, same goes for the Guardian link. Every edit to the article is logged, could you go through it please and point out when the removal happened. Thanks. - X201 (talk) 15:09, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gordon Brown's Parliamentary Private Secretary

I have changed the link that mentions he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Gordon Brown to link to the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister article rather the generic Parliamentary Private Secretary article. He was only PPS to Gordon Brown after Brown became Prime Minster and as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister makes clear while the Prime Minister's PPS is a specific role (and one that generally has more responsibilities and power than other PPSs). Dunarc (talk) 19:28, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Canada.

Good Morning Ian I’m an American I live in California, I read your article “Canada” this morning and it was informative but the last paragraph was not true, your a journalist and you should investigate your claims correct? In that paragraph you relaid a untrue message, the one confederate flag not flags was set up by a left wing liberal probably a democrat and the truckers said on TV on the news they took care of that and same with swastikas!! So you need to correct that statement these folks are regular folks wanting these mandates to end just like 90% of every one!! No one is racist no one is violent it’s just about freedom!!! 2603:8001:BD01:800:60FA:546C:529F:3669 (talk) 16:45, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Er... This is Wikipedia, more exactly this is the talk page of the article about a British politician that has no connection to Canada. Wikipedia does not have journalists or publish news stories. I think you may have confused this comments section with some other news source on the internet. - X201 (talk) 17:05, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]