Talk:Tim Parker (businessman)

Source being quoted incorrectly

The 'Post Office scandal' section in the article is inaccurate and needs correcting to preserve NPOV. I would also like to declare my conflict of interest in requesting these changes on behalf on Tim Parker.

Here is the original paragraph and source:

In 2016, Parker was criticised by the head of the government department responsible for the Post Office when he concealed from Post Office Ltd's own board of directors a report commissioned by the department's minister concerning potential miscarriages of justice resulting from the Post Office's prosecution of subpostmasters.

Source referenced: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/823579/response/2099404/attach/html/4/Information%20for%20release%2021.pdf.html

1. Rather than opening with "In 2016", it should say "In 2020" (as in the letter).

2. The letter acknowledges that Parker was "advised at the time by the Post Office’s General Counsel that for reasons of confidentiality and preserving legal privilege the circulation of the report should be strictly controlled". Rather than saying that Tim "concealed" the report from the Board, it would be more accurate to say "Parker was criticised by the head of the government department responsible for the Post Office for accepting advice not to share with Post Office Ltd's board of directors a report …"

3. The Swift review concerned "the steps taken in response to various complaints made by sub-postmasters", not "potential miscarriages of justice resulting from the Post Office's prosecution of subpostmasters" as written. The title and point 4 on page 4 of the review confirm this: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/871383/response/2099388/attach/3/Chairmans%20Review%20Redacted.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1

Following these changes, the paragraph should read as follows, citing the existing source and the new source in point 3:

In 2020, Parker was criticised by the head of the government department responsible for the Post Office for accepting advice not to share with Post Office Ltd's board of directors a report concerning the steps taken in response to various complaints made by sub-postmasters.

Many thanks for reviewing this change and please leave a message on my Talk page if I can help with anything or you have any questions/advice Riffsvill (talk) 18:09, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Linking my response to this at WP:BLPN so anyone checking this talk page can see I responded to this [1] Tristario (talk) 06:22, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 23 August 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 21:27, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

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Tim Parker → Tim Parker (businessman) – No clear primary topic. The soccer player receives more page views. Schierbecker (talk) 21:41, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

• Support, precisely per nom. BD2412 T 02:59, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
• Support the soccer player has 164,243 views compared with only 101,303 for the businessman. Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:09, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
• Support per nomination, BD2412 and Crouch, Swale. Tim Parker should redirect to the Timothy Parker disambiguation page where both the businessman and the soccer player are already listed. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:36, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
• Support redirect current title to the disambiguation page -- 67.70.25.80 (talk) 08:39, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.