Talk:Colleen Hardwick

Hello,

I noticed that the current article features an older photo of Colleen Hardwick. For accuracy and better representation, it may be helpful to update the portrait to a more recent image.

There is a publicly available photo from City Hall Watch taken in 2025 which is in the public domain (see page 7).

https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ukra-vancouver-by-election-newsletter-19-mar-2025.pdf

Please consider updating the article if this image meets Wikipedia’s licensing and BLP requirements. I leave the final decision to the editors.

Thank you for your time and consideration. Stanigator (talk) 08:59, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

I am submitting a formal request to correct several issues in this article that currently violate WP:BLP (Biographies of Living Persons), WP:NPOV (Neutral Point of View), and WP:WEIGHT.

The current version of the article contains factual errors, editorialized language, and structural imbalances that misrepresent the subject's career and public record. Please address the following six points:

1. Inaccurate Professional Designation (Lede)

• Current Text: Describes the subject as a "filmmaker."
• Correction Required: Change to "media executive and producer."
• Rationale: "Filmmaker" is an ambiguous term. The subject’s career was as a Producer (Source: IMDb, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638867/#producer) and Executive (e.g. Business in Vancouver, “Influential Women in Business", 2009, https://www.biv.com/news/previous-influential-women-in-business-award-winne-8235680). Defining the subject primarily as a politician misrepresents the timeline; her political career began in 2018, following a 30-year career in media and technology.

2. Editorialized Framing: MovieSet Inc. (WP:BLP)

• Current Text: States the company "did not succeed."
• Correction Required: Replace subjective phrasing with neutral fact: "The company raised Series A venture capital but ceased operations in 2011."
• Rationale: The phrase "did not succeed" is editorial opinion that implies personal failure rather than corporate dissolution. The company was notable for raising Series A capital (source: Fasken, https://www.fasken.com/en/solution/clientwork/2008/07/movieset-raises-us$3,-d-,5-million-financing ; VentureBeat, https://venturebeat.com/entrepreneur/movie-set-inc-piles-15-million-more-for-total-5-million-in-series-a-funding/) and winning the 2006 Marshall McLuhan Award. It was wound down following the 2008 financial crisis. Per WP:NPOV, articles should state facts (ceased operations), not judgments (did not succeed).

3. Editorializing: "Argued without evidence" (WP:NPOV)

• Current Text:"She has argued without evidence that upzonings... have greatly exacerbated... affordability crisis."
• Correction Required: Attribute the view. "She has argued, citing urban planners such as Patrick Condon, that upzoning exacerbates affordability..."
• Rationale: The phrase "without evidence" is editorial analysis. The subject cites specific academic sources such as Patrick Condon from UBC (source: The Tyee, https://www.thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/03/20/Needed-Housing-Local-Democracy/; Spacing, https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2024/03/25/can-we-build-needed-housing-while-preserving-local-democracy/) and municipal data. Wikipedia editors may not agree with those sources, but stating the subject presents no evidence is a violation of WP:NPOV.

4. Misrepresentation of Fiscal Argument (WP:FAILEDVERIFICATION / WP:NPOV)

• Current Text:"She has argued that increased tax revenue through boosted housing supply is akin to a Ponzi scheme."
• Correction Required: Change to: "She has argued that the City's reliance on development growth to fund capital budgets is akin to a Ponzi scheme."
• Rationale: The current text misquotes the source material to imply a general opposition to tax revenue. The source cited (Daily Hive, Oct 14, 2022) quotes Hardwick explicitly discussing the City's restructuring of its "financial business model" to rely on "generating more housing as its revenue source" for capital projects. She likens this specific dependency—not "increased tax revenue" in general—to a Ponzi scheme.
• Source: Daily Hive, "Why TEAM's Colleen Hardwick takes issue with the 'housing supply' solution for affordability", Oct 14, 2022. (Link: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/why-teams-colleen-hardwick-takes-issue-with-the-housing-supply-solution-for-affordability)
• Quote from Source:"She takes issue with the municipal government being addicted to generating more housing as its revenue source... She likens the City’s financial business model as a 'Ponzi scheme' to extract as much revenue as possible."

5. WP:SYNTH Violation: MST Development/Reconciliation

• Current Text: Juxtaposes a question regarding design ("Indigenous ways of being with 18-storey high-rises") with her affirmative vote.
• Correction Required: Remove the editorial synthesis or neutrally report the vote: "In 2022, Hardwick voted in favour of the MST Development Corporation's rezoning."
• Rationale: Hardwick voted IN FAVOUR of the project (Source: Daily Hive, https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/heather-lands-vancouver-rezoning-approved-mst-development-first-nations). Framing a standard planning question about design form as contradictory to a final vote creates a false narrative of "anti-reconciliation" not supported by the voting record.

6. Undue Weight: Omission of Legislative Achievements

• Current Text: The article dedicates disproportionate space to housing controversies while limiting her primary legislative achievement (The Auditor General) to a single sentence.
• Correction Required: Expand the section on the Auditor General to reflect that she successfully secured its establishment.
• Rationale: (Source: CBC News, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-auditor-general-office-2019-1.5334579; Vancouver Sun, https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouvers-first-auditor-general-to-provide-another-set-of-eyes-on-city-hall ; BC Business, https://www.bcbusiness.ca/Does-Vancouver-need-its-own-auditor-general) WP:WEIGHT requires that an article fairly represent the significance of the subject's achievements.

I request that these points be addressed based on the burden of proof required by WP:ONUS for the inclusion of contentious, negative, or editorialized material. Stanigator (talk) 17:35, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Regarding the recent revert by @Thenightaway:

I note that my corrections regarding the subject's business career (MovieSet/Fasken citations) were accepted, but the correction regarding the fiscal policy quote was reverted with the summary "revert COI account."

WP:BLP violations and factual errors must be corrected regardless of the editor's status. The current text in the article claims the subject called "tax revenue" a "Ponzi scheme." This is a demonstrable misrepresentation of the cited source.

The Evidence:

• Article Text:"She has argued that increased tax revenue... is akin to a Ponzi scheme."
• The Source (Daily Hive):"She takes issue with the municipal government being addicted to generating more housing as its revenue source... She likens the City’s financial business model as a 'Ponzi scheme'..." (Source: Daily Hive, Oct 14 2022).

The subject was critiquing a specific municipal business model (reliance on development fees/CACs for capital projects), not general taxation.

I am requesting that a neutral editor review the Daily Hive source and restore the correction to verify the text against the citation. Stanigator (talk) 02:43, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Forgot to add the tag below.

{{request edit}}

Regarding the recent revert by @Thenightaway:

I note that my corrections regarding the subject's business career (MovieSet/Fasken citations) were accepted, but the correction regarding the fiscal policy quote was reverted with the summary "revert COI account."

WP:BLP violations and factual errors must be corrected regardless of the editor's status. The current text in the article claims the subject called "tax revenue" a "Ponzi scheme." This is a demonstrable misrepresentation of the cited source.

The Evidence:

• Article Text:"She has argued that increased tax revenue... is akin to a Ponzi scheme."
• The Source (Daily Hive):"She takes issue with the municipal government being addicted to generating more housing as its revenue source... She likens the City’s financial business model as a 'Ponzi scheme'..." (Source: Daily Hive, Oct 14 2022).

The subject was critiquing a specific municipal business model (reliance on development fees/CACs for capital projects), not general taxation.

I am requesting that a neutral editor review the Daily Hive source and restore the correction to verify the text against the citation.

Stanigator (talk) 02:44, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Forgot to add the tag below.

The user below has a request that an edit be made to Colleen Hardwick. That user has an actual or apparent conflict of interest. The requested edits backlog is very high. Please be extremely patient. There are currently 402 requests waiting for review. Please read the instructions for the parameters used by this template for accepting and declining them, and review the request below and make the edit if it is well sourced, neutral, and follows other Wikipedia guidelines and policies.

Regarding the recent revert by @Thenightaway:

I note that my corrections regarding the subject's business career (MovieSet/Fasken citations) were accepted, but the correction regarding the fiscal policy quote was reverted with the summary "revert COI account."

WP:BLP violations and factual errors must be corrected regardless of the editor's status. The current text in the article claims the subject called "tax revenue" a "Ponzi scheme." This is a demonstrable misrepresentation of the cited source.

The Evidence:

• Article Text:"She has argued that increased tax revenue... is akin to a Ponzi scheme."
• The Source (Daily Hive):"She takes issue with the municipal government being addicted to generating more housing as its revenue source... She likens the City’s financial business model as a 'Ponzi scheme'..." (Source: Daily Hive, Oct 14 2022).

The subject was critiquing a specific municipal business model (reliance on development fees/CACs for capital projects), not general taxation.

I am requesting that a neutral editor review the Daily Hive source and restore the correction to verify the text against the citation.

Stanigator (talk) 02:48, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Here from BLP/N. I reviewed this and removed the word "tax". Fences&Windows 00:41, 16 February 2026 (UTC)