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being absurd, I realize) and showed you the award, that wouldn't be good enough because it would be an original presentation of something that is a fact. But, because you can't find "secondary" research to back it up, you would still attach the silly dispute to this article. You should be ashamed. Very sloppy and lack any professional standards.
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This is comical. I've known him all of his life. We grew up together in Halifax. Dartmouth??? Clearly this Tchaliburton is free styling with the facts. Did anyone attempt to contact him??? Wouldn't that be the only way to verify things, as opposed to relying on crap you're simply googling from shakey
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What a joke. "Not original research?" Instead you use secondary garbage that's incorrect? What else should one expect from a crew that apparently trolls online all day inserting incorrect information. So just as an example: he has the G award in his office - I've seen it. So if he came to you (I'm
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It's possible that the CTV bio and the Metro news article are incorrect. It's also possible that the database is incorrect. That's why we need other sources. I don't think it's fair to call a news piece from a reliable third party a "promotional blurb" however. And your claim that it was "almost
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That news "story" — which is actually just a promotional blurb for a bookstore reading — was almost certainly written directly based on a marketing press release for the book and/or his CTV bio, rather than any actual independent verification of facts by any staff member of
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explanation is that Hollingsworth was the host of the segment in question, but the ACCT gives the award to the producers rather than to every single person who had any involvement at all and CTV is fuzzifying the distinction for public relations purposes.
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Stating that "further research is needed to figure out the discrepancy" raises the question as to what kind of research can be done to provide a definitive answer as to whether Hollingsworth did or didn't win the award. If one doesn't trust the
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Attention Tchaliburton: 1. He did not grow up in Dartmouth. He's from HFX and attended p-9 school at Oxford St school and high school at St. Pats. Also, he left CTV three years ago. There is no longer a link to his CTV bio.
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instead of Halifax. As ridiculous as that may sound to you, that exact sort of thing — "he didn't go to the University of Toronto, he went to Stanford!", "she's not from Montana, she's from South Carolina!", etc. — really
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fair to call the piece a "promotional blurb", because if you look at the actual form, content and length of the piece in question, a "promotional blurb" advertising a book launch party
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which person was telling the truth and which person was lying. Which is also why the fact that you claim to have personally seen his Gemini Award doesn't count for beans either —
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that aren't supported by a source — in this instance, "original research" would be happening if you used the discrepancy as "referencing" to add a section to
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Can we find any secondary sources that say who did win that year? That would help clarify whether there's an error with the database or with the news story.
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itself. The thing is, you asserted more than once in the AFD discussion that checking the ACCT database of its award winners would be
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has seen the award for themselves. Furthermore, if you know him personally then you need to read our
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between that and "CTV's promotional department is massaging the facts" is not 50-50. By far the
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certainly written directly based on a marketing press release" is pure conjecture on your part.
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the accuracy of their awards database. But simply checking the ACCT database for simple
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Hollingsworth is not listed as a Gemini Award winner in the ACCT's database at
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And somebody else can just as easily come along to insert a claim that
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The claims about where he grew up need to be backed up by references.
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Knowledge is based on secondary sources, not original research. See
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the trustworthiness of their public relations departments, or to
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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The claim of his Gemini award has been removed again, by
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sources rather than an unverifiable claim that some
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