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I changed the page back to how it was September 15 2006. Whoever is writing all this libel should quit it.
I'm astonished to see that there is not only no 'Discussion' of Rex Murphy here but no 'History' of one either. Surely the "I" (above) who has taken it upon him/herself to expunge the missing data would be more at home as a censor in a totalitarian regime than as a participant in the information age. It is extremely doubtful that Mr. Murphy, a public figure and ever-willing polemicist, is much concerned about being 'libelled' by any opinion expressed here. In any event, it would have been nice to be able to make up our own minds about the merits of the suppressed views.
I don't think the previous text was technicaly libellous from a legal point of view. It was removed because numerous contributors were making very unkind and possibly slanderous speculations that he was either drunk or mentally retarded or phyically handicapped. His accent has nothing to do with any disability whatsoever. Rex is an extremely intelligent person who simply speaks with a regional accent from Newfoundland and Labrador. Case closed. Mardiste (talk) 19:27, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
@Newf1990: Per MOS:INFONAT, the field is used to list someone's nationality if it has changed after their birth. Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, and all its citizens became Canadian, including Rex Murphy. The field thus lists his nationality as Canadian. Do you have a reason or source for repeatedly changing it to "Newfoundlander"? Yeeno (talk) 21:21, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I have provided an explanation for Murphy's status as a natural born Canadian citizen after Newfoundland joined Canada, with cites to the Terms of Union and a related federal statute. I believe that explanation is consistent with MOS:INFONAT. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 23:13, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
