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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Johnfos (talk | contribs) at 20:26, 15 January 2016 (→Spawn?: support split). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Public opinion: Edit reversion by GliderMaven

A report by an MP who has received documented complaints from his constituents IS public opinion. The MP in question has served as shadow Secretary of State and is a reliable source of facts.

Whether the complaints 'come of anything' is immaterial. They are still public opinion. He reports that 600 planning objections were overruled, so perhaps nothing will indeed come of them. If so, that simply underlines the level of corruption involved. It does not make it excusable to ignore the complaints. Just, corrupt.

Meanwhile, the first para has references to 'Natural Power' 'EWEA Wind IS Power' and E-On, all PROMOTERS and SELLERS OF WIND ENERGY PRODUCTS. (The E-On link is dead) Others are from the BBC and the EU, both fanatical renewables supporters. In addition to being questionable sources due to self-interest, the self-referenced cites contain unsupported claims for the product which are in no way related to public opinion. They violate WP's rules on self-referencing and use of the platform for soapbox-style advertising. If anything should be deleted, it is the first para in this section.

Overall, I feel it is time that all self-referenced cites were banned from renewable energy pages, and all claims for the products made in Wikipedia required to be referenced from an independent source. The fact that renewables vendors' advertising material contains exaggerations on a scale far greater than in typical advertising of other products, has been known for a long time. Such material is not appropriate for Wikipedia. --Anteaus (talk) 08:01, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The section in question is clearly about the general public rather than being about arbitrary groups of people, and I don't think a section on 'public' in the sense of small groups of people like MPs would be practical or very useful. I'm not personally finding the BBC to be fanatical about anything, and if you genuinely believe them to be so, since they are a publicly funded body, you should definitely take that up with their complaints department. In the meantime, Wikipedia standard is compliant with the use of references to BBC's material.GliderMaven (talk) 13:01, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Spawn?

This article has grown rather large, nearing the 100k suggested limit. The section on offshore could be spawned into a new article. The offshore and onshore lists are also articles on their own, and could be limited to perhaps 10 entries here. TGCP (talk) 11:06, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, it is getting rather unwieldy. Perhaps Offshore wind power in the United Kingdom? It seems List of offshore wind farms in the United Kingdom and List of onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom already exist but the info from this article could be merged into them if it is not already present. As you say, we probably only need the 10 largest offshore and onshore on this page. Del♉sion23 (talk) 18:27, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, a split would help improve readability and manageability of the article. Tables limited to 10 lines would help too. regards, Johnfos (talk) 20:25, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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