Talk:South Island Independence
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[edit] Sole external link to arguments for independence
I don't have a problem with a link to any genuine SI independence movement. I do question whether the link you have readded represents such. The image of a woman's bouncing breasts on the website makes it clear that this is someone's idea of a joke. The other images fail to dispel that impression. I think the whole page, if not a prank, is an advertisement for a book publisher. Please actually look at the website before readding.-gadfium 01:57, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- Your advice to look at a site before you jump to conclusions is appropriate, Gadfium, and one I always try to practice (especially in my professional life).
- This is a multiple page site that has had a lot of effort expended on it. The jokes may not be to your taste or mine but it is NOT a pornographic or joke site.
- If you actually read the text you will see that the bouncing breasts draw attention to the news item that women in Nelson (in the South Island) have the biggest breasts - not the clincher in a political argument, I agree, but please also look at the economic and health arguments for independence this site advances befoer you condemn it as being without merit - there are at least 4 separate pages you need to thoroughly read...
Please don't make vandalistic reversions without reaching a consensus here first.
<Please consider how few external links are likely to be placed here and read Wikipedia policy before you delete the external link to http://www.cutthecable.co.nz. again without reaching a consensus here.
Note to the deletionist tendency: please don't try and exercise political censorship on what is quintessentially a political topic. The arguments for independence are better rehearsed on an external website than here on Wikipedia and, if you are still tempted to delete the link, I can only suggest that a neutral PoV requires you to at least make an effort to précis the arguments expressed on that external link here in this article before you delete a link to an alternative viewpoint to your own...Gaimhreadhan 02:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC) i
- Yes, I did read the website's claim that South Island women have bigger breasts. I don't consider it authoritative, and I don't see what that has to do with independence. The whole website has clearly exaggerated claims: comparing the South Island to Tibet? It isn't even funny. I also don't consider the website as evidence that a modern South Island independence movement exists. I think this is someone with a strange sense of humour and too much time on their hands. Wikipedia is not a place for such jokes.-gadfium 05:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- The source is inappropriate, what is necessary is an independent source. Without one the article would surely fail an AfD nomination. Please see Wikipedia:Citing sources; the source should be removed. - Shudda talk 06:18, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed with not linking, site appears to be mostly a joke rather than a proper political site advocating change. - SimonLyall 07:18, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
