Talk:Andrew MacLeod

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message: It seems this page has been the victim of counterfeit as the so called 'close relation' actually seems to be a vandal.
all the changes by this 'close relative' seem to be abusive.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Alpmcewen (talk • contribs) 11:06, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article appears to be plagued with misleading or wholly inaccurate information.  After beginning to edit the entry I am finding that considerable portions have no supporting basis or even worse are wholly misleading.  Articles indicating to have been published in The Age, a Melbourne newspaper, instead were published on an open online forum.  Published book was in actual fact a self-published novelette.  I don't want to delete all of the unsubstantiated work but I'd appreciate it if someone who is associated with this page clean up the misleading or unsubstantiated sections.  --Ddragovic (talk) 16:12, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Ddragovic, I googled all of the articles in the Age and they are ALL there..... Which ones do you say are false?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.163.175.193 (talk) 03:25, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Unsigned, if you Googled them then please show me where this article appears, "A Challenging Time for Labor Too".  This was on the page as having being published in "The Melbourne Age".  This was the one which I refer to as not being published in The Age, which is NOT The Melbourne Age.  The article actually appeared on an open online sourced site.  Please correct me if I am wrong but I also checked on the The Age's archive and it doesn't show up. --Ddragovic (talk) 11:06, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The several pieces repeatedly offered as "publications" exist but are in fact biographically and encyclopedically insignificant without some indication of importance through an unrelated third party. This is especially true of the partial contribution and op-ed pieces. This is not a WP:RESUME, and primary sources are not acceptable to show anything meaningful about the publications. This person does not appear to be an WP:AUTHOR or WP:ACADEMIC, so there's no real context for the list of publications. So not only is it insignificant, it's WP:UNDUE as well. Let's keep them out, please, unless third parties have given treatment or there is some clear indication of significance. JFHJr (㊟) 14:36, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Another very misleading point that I didn't pick up on before.  The reference as written by the author of this article and repeatedly re-entered by IP editors is to Mr. MacLeod being founding chairman of the  United Nations Global Compact Principles for Social Investment.  This would suggest, as I believed, that it was a body of the United Nations, just as the United Nations Office of Project Services or the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.  But in looking through the website it is actually a collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact.  In other words its a locally established operation that has an Memorandum of Understanding with the UNGC to undertake certain tasks.  Even on its own website on the main banner it says, "A collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact".  To suggests that Mr. MacLeod was the Chairman of the United Nations Global Compact Principles for Social Investment is wholly misleading.  I'm not going to change it on the page as it'll just be reverted by the interested party but this is just one more example of misleading information.--Ddragovic (talk) 08:50, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: An IP editor commented below in the notability section that, "UNGC PSI and PSI are the same organisation."  Despite both websites suggesting that they are clearly independent from each other I went to the UNGC website checking to see if PSI has a subsidiary status under UNGC by looking at the membership of the board which may suggest an overlap because at the moment I can't see any suggestion that there is one, but I'm trying.  Not one member of the PSI board is on the UNGC board nor vice-versa, which goes along with what is clearly suggested on the PSI website which states that it is, "A collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact."  The International Rescue Committee collaborates with the UNHCR, they have a memorandum of understanding that gives IRC the responsibility of meeting short term staffing needs of UNHCR.  This does not give IRC the right to call itself UNIRC.  They are NOT the same organization.  We must be clear here not to allow people to borrow the legitimacy of international organizations for their own ends by playing with words and tying the two acronyms together.  This is explained clearly (having read it now for the first time) in WP:SYNTH. --Ddragovic (talk) 15:26, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Following your comment, this info should be nuked from the article, it is outrageous to mislead people with this type of puffery claim, please make the changes necessary (as you see fit), or I will research it myself and do the same (imho there is a lot of vainglorious self-promotion that went on here and it needs to be definitively removed). CaptainScreebo Parley! 20:53, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

text: For the sake of subsequent reviews by outsiders I'll rebut the relevant points here.  You note WHO above so I'll run with that example.  The World Health Organization may well be a United Nations body but it is not formally known, nor colloquially, as UNWHO. (See also example of WFP).  Its registered name is World Health Organization and it is referred to as such in formal documentation.  Similarly, it is not a subjective issue, that requires insider knowledge to decide whether PSI can be called UNPSI, it is a point of fact.  You have noted yourself that it is registered as Principles for Social Investment, as such we must call it Principles for Social Investment and not add personal subjectivity into the process of deciding when one can use the UN name, that is for others to debate.  When they allow PSI to use the UN within its name, and it changes its registration as such, then we'll change it here.  You are right that others attempt to conflate the UN and PSI such as on Andrew MacLeod's LinkedIN profile and other bios that he has produced, but for the purposes of Wikipedia these are not credible sources.  Whether the conflation of the two names as applied in these cases is considered acceptable on those sites is a point that his employers will have to decide, in particular whether it was misrepresentation, but for the purposes of an encyclopaedia it is only the facts that matter.  I hope that this suffices in ending the debate on this matter. --Ddragovic (talk) 08:03, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Considerable Misleading and Inaccurate Information

message: Besides the general promotional tone, does anyone else think seven pictures is a bit excessive for an article of this length? Even if they are all freely licenced, Wikipedia is not meant as an image gallery (that's what Wikimedia Commons is for). We only really need one or two to show what he looks like, the rest can be removed. Robofish (talk) 01:25, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with caution. I'd actually removed some superfluous images in a recent edit. An WP:SPA appears to have produced them, though many are of good quality, and at least one, with the Australian PM, is most clearly worth transferring. Otherwise, images in question seem of decent quality, though I'd call into question the authorship/ownership of any and all. Given the editing practices in operation, I wouldn't doubt that at least a few have fudged licenses. JFHJr (㊟) 05:24, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: They do seem superfluous.  I'm reluctant to delete what seems a lot of work put in by someone, but yes, wholly unnecessary relative to the apparent level of notability. --Ddragovic (talk) 17:10, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many pictures? 

message: Whilst the editors have removed some clear puffery, I think removing the PSI link is a bit too much. given the PSI website (p4si.org) is a credible primary source and it states under the 'about us' and 'leadership' section that Macleod is a member of the Board. Until recently it showed him as chairman.
The other sources, such as the Herald Sun article clear,y refer to Macleod and Longstaff as having negotiated the PSI Secretariat for Melbourne.
The fact that a distinguished. university (Deakin) had Macleod give their major annual oration (searby oration) and in the publicity mentioned MacLeod as FoundRion chair, as did Australia's primary philanthropic peak body, as did the Aistralia African NGO, is a clear weight of evidence, taken with The Heral Sunarticle, gives enough weight to substantiate the claim that Macleod was the first chairman of this new organisation and remains a board member of same.
This reference should stay in.
Other examples of puffery though have been cleaned up.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boydisperse (talk • contribs) 06:48, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Firstly, see above under "Considerable Misleading and Inaccurate Information" for additional comments on the topic of PSI.  As for the Herald Sun article.  Great.  No one is disputing that he was or wasn't responsible or participated in the process, the point is that the reference did not reflect as such.  This Herald Sun reference says that he participated in negotiating with the UN along with Simon Longstaff and as such any update should correctly reflect this i.e. include words such as "contributed to the" or "jointly" or "in collaboration with Simon Longstaff".  --Ddragovic (talk) 09:05, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

text: Your original research is not usable. Please find a publication by a reliable source, preferably a third party or a very good primary source. Phone calls won't do. Please see WP:RS, WP:PRIMARY and WP:BLPSPS for information on how to use primary sources appropriately. I'll further note that WP:BLP guidelines, on which content removal was predicated, must be followed on talk pages as well. JFHJr (㊟) 18:43, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

text: You've severely misunderstood the function of an encyclopedia. The only clear lack of knowledge is yours regarding relevant guidelines. PhD students perform and publish original research. Not encyclopedias. You can have your opinion about the matter, but that doesn't change the applicability of guidelines. The information in this article isn't supposed to come from editors' understanding of the UN. It comes from reliable sources. Best of luck to you. JFHJr (㊟) 13:35, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re Principles for Social Investment 

message: I called the NSW parliament to get the Contact details of Janelle Saffin, the State politician whose Hansard speech in Parliament was a reference to MacLeod's ICJ work in East Timor. Saffin is no longer a State member of Parliament but is now a Federal Member of Parliament in Australia. She has confirmed to me that MacLeod did do the ICJ mission to East Timor, and also did two others, one to Sri Lanka and another to train election monitors in Timor in 2000. She is quite effusive in MacLeod's role in Saving Abel Gutteres life at Dili Airport in 1999 by staring down the Aitarak Militia. I have put in a call to Gutteres who now is the Timor Ambassador to Australia. assuming Gutteres backs this, how does one reference this. --Boydisperse (talk) 11:29, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You are performing original research, which is categorically unacceptable for an encyclopedic biography. Call whomever you like, but the information does not belong here unless it's verifiable and citable. An unpublished conversation is not citable. It's best to stick to publications. JFHJr (㊟) 18:39, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: east Timor

message: The more I dig the more I find. Here is an interesting articleHere in both the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald that seems to validate many of the things you guys cut out. I'd suggest we redraft it taking out the puffery but put a lot of it back in....
--Boydisperse (talk) 11:41, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Read through the article.  I'm not clear on what needs to be added that is of note that isn't there already.  As noted repeatedly on this Talk Page, this isn't an opportunity to present a resume of an individual.  I'm not an expert on all of the Wikipedia guidelines but I've made the effort to read some, here's one that I suggest will help clarify why most of what is being presented is not appropriate (along with all the other WP pages suggested above) : WP:RESUME.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddragovic (talk • contribs) 22:53, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: more sources

message: For the other editors involved in pruning this article down to what is considered to be an encyclopædic entry, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that this user is an SPA, having edited only three other articles besides this one, and all the other articles concern the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. "Curioser and curioser" said Alice!
I am also wondering about the rather involved IP, who traces back to Australia  , I am not very knowledgeable about SPI stuff, but I do get "hunches".
Boydisperse, it would be in your interest to disclose any conflict of interest that you may have in editing this article. In good faith. CaptainScreebo Parley! 20:47, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Heard of him of course but not met him. According to media reports Here he now lives in London. IP should therefore calm at least one suspicion ;-)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boydisperse (talk • contribs) 23:19, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  It would do you well to know that the internet is not as anonymous as you might think.  Consider the 'paper trail' of the photos that have been uploaded related to the subject in discussion.  If you do not know him and you have never met him then it would suggest that you or someone who is using the same IP address over the past six years has stalked him over the past thirty years to places such as East Timor, Pakistan, his primary school days and even at events in Melbourne.  When you uploaded these photos you gave the rights to them to Wiki Commons upon the assumption that you had the authority to confer such rights, presumably you did or should we be looking at deleting the photo that currently stands as you may not have the rights to it.  --Ddragovic (talk) 08:14, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'd like to advise everyone to discontinue this discussion. A somewhat reasonable question was raised and answered. Please see WP:AGF, WP:CIVIL, and WP:OUTING for more reasons not to continue this discussion. I encourage Ddragovic to raise these concerns at Commons, where as I recall many images are stored. Fair warning: fudged image licenses are a serious issue. But this simply is not the forum. Please, let's stick to the subject of the article. Cheers! JFHJr (㊟) 04:48, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  <small>— [[User:Boydisperse|Boydisperse]] ([[User talk:Boydisperse|talk]]&#32;• [[Special:Contributions/Boydisperse|contribs]]) has made [[Wikipedia:Single-purpose account|few or no other edits]] outside this topic. </small> 

message: I went through the article, as noted in the comments of the "View History" tab, separating the changes for ease of undo.  Relative to the notability of our subject I think that this is a fair representation of what is relevant.  It does appear stilted with a few too many headings.  Personally I favour crisp multiple no-headings paragraphs for people with this much to be said, but I'll leave it to others to amend further.  Happy to be corrected on any part of what I've done, but as it stands seems appropriately detailed and importantly, accurate.--Ddragovic (talk) 22:33, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The question mark over whether a course guide from the University of Tasmania is a reliable source: I think that it is as far as whether he was or was not a graduate.  We can only presume that it did its due diligence just as much as any journalist would.  Yes, it is an interested party but the weight of the institution versus the matter at hand (graduation as opposed to the rest of the bio) would lend towards taking this point as fact in my opinion.  --Ddragovic (talk) 08:19, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your input on that. I removed the tag I put in place. The assertion it supports isn't puffery, though the source itself is clearly an advert for prospective students. A better source should be available, but I've removed the tag so as not to ugly the article up. I think a more neutral source should be available, even from the university. JFHJr (㊟) 04:45, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
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