Talk:Stuart Lyon Smith

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Irony[edit]

On 10 December 2005, the Ottawa Citizen ran a piece on Wikipedia's coverage of Canadian federal election candidates.

The general tone of the article was fairly neutral. Author Ian MacLeod writes, "A selected Citizen review of Wikipedia for biographies about Ontario federal election candidates found many have none and, of those who do, the majority are innocuous, even bland." (thanks, I suppose ...)

But, he adds, "there are exceptions".

One exception he lists is the article on Stuart Smith:

Stuart Smith, former Ontario Liberal leader and now running for the Green party in London North Centre, will find this in his entry:

"As a (provincial) politician, Smith had a reputation as an intelligent but dry and somewhat aloof personality ... (government) Conservatives ... nickname(d) him Dr. No -- a label which also referred to his background as a psychiatrist. He also had difficulty managing members of his caucus."

Readers may find it more than a bit ironic that an article castigating Wikipedia's accuracy would make a mistake of this sort. The Stuart Smith running for the Greens in London is not the same Stuart Smith as the former Liberal Party leader.

In any event, Smith's "intelligent but dry" reputation is well documented, as is Bill Davis's "Dr. No" crack. I don't think we have anything to apologize for here. CJCurrie 22:10, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, both of those observations are, I think, widely considered to be accurate and worthy of mention in an article on Dr. Smith. Ground Zero | t 13:45, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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