Talk:This Hour Has 22 Minutes

unsourced section removed?

I see 3,167‎ bytes of this article have been removed by this edit. Do you think all unsourced sections should be removed? Just curious, Ottawahitech (talk) 14:54, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Yes. See Wikiquote:Sourced and Unsourced sections, and cf. Wikiquote:Sourcing. Note also at w:Wikipedia:Verifiability that all quotations must be cited, without exception. "If it ain't cited, it ain't a quote." (You can quote me on that.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:53, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

@Ningauble: The link you provided above lead me to this statement:

Unsourced. Place unsourced quotes on the article's discussion page.

This did not happen here. Ottawahitech (talk) 03:00, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Ottawahitech, that sentence was added not long ago to a proposed guideline without discussion. It will need to be revised because it should never be mandatory to preserve content that is not suitable for inclusion in the article. The actual official guideline at Wikiquote:Sourced and Unsourced sections says to remove unsourced quotes that are not commonly attributed.

It is always possible, as an option, to place notes in the talk page to assist in researching unsourced quotes. (Within reason, talk pages should not be used as alternate articles.) Note that the removed material is still visible in the article history where you can research it if wanted. ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:21, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

I have partially restored sourced material and the rest is below. Ottawahitech (talk) 06:40, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Unsourced material removed from article

• Jerry Boyle: If you can mark an 'X', you are my kind of people!
• Rick Mercer: At this time, we need to look to Canada's poets for inspiration. And when we think Canada, when we think poets, we all think... Trooper! [followed by footage of Canadian politicians singing along to "Raise A Little Hell"]
• Announcer: [after opening] Warning! To France! If you don't go to war now, you won't be able to surrender later.
• Announcer: [after opening] Warning! To Nazi war criminals in Canada! Your decades are numbered.
• Announcer: [after opening] Warning! To the students of Cole Harbour High, these are the best days of your lives.
• Rick Mercer: We demand that the Government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this", you may ask? Because it'll be fun.
• Mary Walsh: [on the territorial government's refusal to legalize same-sex unions] This news has sent shockwaves through the gay community of the Northwest Territories. We go to him now.
• Rick Mercer: Jackie Biskupski is running for a seat in the Utah Legislature, and she's attracting a lot of attention because she's a lesbian. Her Republican opponent, Dan Alderson, is a staunch Mormon, and is running a negative ad campaign calling her lifestyle abnormal and deviant. His six wives agree.
• Rick Mercer: The US is our ally, our trading partner, our neighbour, and our friend, and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack.
• Rick Mercer: [on the US and Canada] We're bigger, and we're on top. If this was prison, they would be our bitch.
• Mark Critch: Warning: To Stephen Harper! You realize you'll have to sit next to Elsie Wayne, right?
• Marg Delahunty: They're out there now, busy bombing for peace. Next I suppose they'll be screwing to get their virginity back.
• Rick Mercer: If the United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies... delusions of grandeur... medicate heavily.
• Rick Mercer: Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.
• Gavin Crawford: Go recuse yourself you mother recuser!
• Don't pay any attention to that. This Hour Has 22 Minutes is an accurate portrayal of the week's events. It is the real news. [Opening of the second episode to bear the warning, 1994.]
• Mark Critch [as Danny Williams]: I have requested that seals be renamed cheezies, so that people don't feel bad eating them.

+Repeated lines

• [at end of show] Well, that's the way we saw the world this week.
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a satirical examination of daily events. Some viewers may not share this sense of humour. [Opening of every episode of the series except Seasons 1 & 12 and onward]
• Babe Bennett: I'm just goofin' around, that's all!