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If we really wanted to balance out perspectives, we could add opposing or differing opinions cited by a reliable source. Maybe it'd be a good idea to expand on the sentence: "A number of political scientists have also described Bernier's rhetoric as reminiscent of classical liberalism." Yet, it's not
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has with its "left-wing" label (when the party is heavily liberal and somewhat fiscally conservative). Therefore the page includes the statement of "However In South Korea's conservative political structure, it is also called left-wing." Perhaps something could be written with regards to the PPC and
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a PhD candidate? Because my reply to your original response is, sure, then let's change "political scientist" to "then PhD candidate" if we want to be really specific about his credentials instead of calling him a political scientist, scholar or columnist. Heck, let's remove labels altogether since
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says the author is a "Ph.D Candidate, University of Guelph", I assume he got a PhD later but the time of writing should be what matters, so calling him a "political scientist" looks to me like credential inflation. But even if he was, why do his opinions matter? I'm calling this undue. Do others,
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Change "Right-wing to far-right political party in Canada" Please make some research before labeling a classical conservative, libertarian political party with a pejorative authoritarian etiquette and pick choosing hostiles tabloids is not research! Knowledge, you won't see a cent from me ever.
967:, mentioned with attribution deeper in the article, without linking. However, I have looked at the earlier threads about far-right on this talk page, and it seems to me keeping it is supported by one or more editors. So let's wait and see how much clear support exists for deleting or moving. 1236:. Budd's statement is not being stated as fact nor being cited in isolation. It is an opinion that is properly attributed and is clearly meant to supplement the paragraph describing the PPC as right-wing to far-right. His wording is unique to him but his opinion is not. And yes, 1344:
The PPC has neither seats in the House of Commons nor the Senate, and is not His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. That would be the Conservative Party of Canada, commonly abbreviated as CPC, which is where the confusion arises I believe.
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Sourced content being removed without explanation warrants a helpful note for new and anonymous editors so they remember to explain why. However, the same removal being done on a different account or IP without explanation
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has a different idea of what certain labels mean. The only thing that matters is if reliable sources back up the interpretation you're proposing. Knowledge isn't a local free speech square; only notable POVs matter.
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like this article doesn't give the PPC voice when it comes to describing itself; the majority of the "Principles and policies" section is a collection of statements taken from the PPC and Bernier.
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However, political scientist Brian Budd describes Bernier's rhetoric and the party's platform as " the ideological tenets of a populist radical right, defined by a commitment to
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Actually, I take back what I said about not supporting or opposing the removal. I do not think the reason you offered for its removal is sufficient, i.e. it does not constitute
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But also, are you suggesting that "political scientist" is a label limited to scholars with PhDs in political science? This isn't prolepsis unless you set that parameter.
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Ok, and? What confusion are you talking about? What specific information is incorrect? Nothing in this article claims that the PPC is His Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
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My argument is that Knowledge needn't publish non-notable students' opinions. So far I and the IP want Budd out, Yue wants Budd in. Anybody else have an opinion?
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which describes the PPC in a similar manner to what you're advocating. It's worth noting that your example with the Justice Party was pushed by a sock of
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at best indicates the editor does not care about the notice(s) and is editing at different locations, and at worst warrants a suspicion of socking.
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Could we perhaps add a footnote to the political position in the info-box to avoid confusion with the far-right label. Such as what is on the
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I would expect an expert source for the categorization. Journalists are experts in what happened today, but are not political scientists.
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For me, because of what is described on the far-right page, I don't think the label fits here. "Right-wing" alone should be fine.
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info-box stating: "The RN is considered part of the radical right, a subset of the far-right that does not oppose democracy."
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The party's about us page describes themselves with "common sense, populism, classical conservatism, and libertarianism." (
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Describing the PPC as "far-right" isn't so much as issue as what the Knowledge page for "far-right" describes (
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Addition of a footnote to the "far-right" label to avoid/deter confusion with other (actual) far-right parties
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I assume he got a PhD later but the time of writing should be what matters
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The citations next to "right-wing" and "far-right" seem sufficient. —
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we can't verify it verbatim and we're "inflating" his credentials (
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across several other articles, again without proper explanations.
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Q1: Why is the People's Party of Canada described as "far-right"?
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So your argument then is that his inclusion is undue because
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