Talk:John McCallum

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Add Ministerial positions to info box.[edit]

I added John McCallum's three Ministerial positions to his infobox, as is conventional with politicians, only to have them undone by another user arguing it was WP:TCREEP Cantab12 (talk) 15:04, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Minister of Immigration (2015)[edit]

Please update his biography and political history to include events as of 4 November 2015. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.164.134.231 (talk) 16:11, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Diplomat???[edit]

By saying he is a diplomat, one implies he was at some point a career foreign service officer. He had never served one day as a diplomat before his appointment to Beijing. He is what others will call a political appointed ambassador. It is better to say he is a politician rather than a diplomat. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.118.152.244 (talk) 06:30, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Whether he was appointed for political reasons is your personal opinion, which doesn't belong on Wikipedia.Leugen9001 (talk) 05:23, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia follows a neutral point of view, not anybody's personal opinions. An ambassador is always an inherently diplomatic role by definition — so regardless of whether he was a career foreign service officer or not before being appointed as an ambassador, the fact of having been appointed an ambassador makes him a diplomat now. You're reminding me of the irredeemable idiot who kept trying to remove the word "politician" from Margaret Dawn Anderson's article last year on the grounds that she hadn't already been working a politician before she accepted the senate appointment that makes her a politician now. Bearcat (talk) 07:11, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]