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Talk:Douglas Crabbe

message: Any one know what became of the original building? Is it still a pub? Format (talk) 10:03, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems from contemporary accounts that this was an old motel near the base of Uluru which predated establishment of Yulara which was 18 km from Uluru. I'd be interested to know if this motel was one of the base of the rock establishments, as the Yulara article suggests the leases on these properties expired in 1984 and the places were all closed. I'm having trouble finding any references to where exactly this motel was, because news reports of the day don't mention where it was, apart from near "Ayres Rock". One report does mention the driver was found wandering near "Yulara Construction Camp" which suggests at the time of the crash the town wasn't there yet, and that this camp was located elsewhere to the motel. I am curious about what happened to the motel after the crash (was it repaired, or with the expiration of the lease imminent, was it demolished rather than being repaired?) Format (talk) 02:05, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OK this map clears it all up.  Format (talk) 08:45, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Original building

message: This does not make sense. He did a crime in Northern Territory. He's now is jail in WA?103.246.36.61 (talk) 23:57, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something's not right
Talk:Xing Technology

message: Here are some more non encyclopedic stuff that has been removed: Thespeakingcat (talk) 17:23, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

message: I'm sorry to say, but "HIstory of the Internet" article was removed from the www.nab.org site.Special+Utilizator+$ (talk) 22:05, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History of the Internet

message: I found this article looking for information about the 'Xing' data which is often included in MP3 files, in the first MP3 frame, that thus is "abused" for additional meta-data, in particular allowing easy determination of the playing time of variable birate files. This data starts with a 'Xing' signature. 86.81.19.136 (talk) 08:33, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Xing and MP3 
Talk:Maitland Gaol

message: I have removed the following comment due to insignificance to the article - apologies if I've stepped on any toes. If anyone has reasons why this sort of information should be on an encyclopaedic article, I'd be happy to hear it.
" In 2007 and 2008, Central Coast Radio Station 101.3 Sea FM hosted a competition and Maitland Gaol called Sea FM's The Haunting. This involves eight contestants staying the night there."
- Russthomas1515 (talk) 06:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useless Information 
Talk:2005 Macquarie Fields riots

message: Bill Bratton was with the NYPD until 1996, according to wikipedia, but these riots took place in 2005, when he had already been with the LAPD for 3 years... his relevance in the article is highly confusing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.216.7.145 (talk) 01:25, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It would be interesting to see some mention of the socio-economic reasons behind the riots. Knittingand 22:22, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggested Addition
Talk:Criminal law of Australia

message: Article as sections on all Australian States and territories except the ACT.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.56.71.50 (talk) 05:55, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Have added a part for the ACT --SwiftyPeep (talk) 06:43, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of ACT 

message: This is a pretty minor area of the law and does not seem to warrant the great prominence given to it in the main article.  A better authority than an article by an academic would be more useful also.  GeeDee  — Preceding unsigned comment added by GeeDee (talk • contribs) 22:03, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cyber Bullying 

message: I've tidied up this article, but it still needs a lot of work. Jack4576 (talk) 13:09, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tidy up
Talk:Bandyup Women's Prison

message: Prior to editing this, I thought I'd present my point of view so that others may discuss its merits, or lack thereof.
The opening sentence in the body of this article seems completely redundant to me, I paraphrase:  Bandyup Women's Prison is a women's prison located . . . 
Wouldn't it make more sense to say it thusly:
Bandyup Women's Prison is located . . . 
Go ahead, tear me to pieces.
Magnet For Knowledge (talk) 01:24, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "tear me to pieces..." - and why would anyone do that?  Go ahead, be bold. Moondyne 10:01, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redundancy?
Talk:Yatala Labour Prison

message: Is it true that the Heritage buildings are no longer on the register? If so what is the justification?143.216.49.250 (talk) 03:18, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing in the news I can see - do you have a source for this ? I expect it would be somewhat controversial - Peripitus (Talk) 03:44, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  De-Heritage listed? 

message: Cant find sources now, but I think I remember hearing that due to Budget restraints the prison will remain open for now with the construction of a new facility delayed.
121.209.49.111 (talk) 22:40, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yatala to stay open? 
Talk:J Ward

message: Your article on J Ward in Ararat, Victoria, Australia is wrong.  J Ward was a goal in its early years, but was handed over to the Master of Lunacy under the Department of Lunacy not long after it was built, and then its role was one of being Victoria's only Maximum Security Forensic Psychiatric Hospital..  NOT A JAIL anymore.  The men housed in the hospital were not Prisoners when they entered the hospital, but Patients cared for by Mental Health Nurses, there were no corrective services officers at J Ward, only nurses.  Mr. Gary David (Webb) was not a prisoner, but an unfortunate patient.
thank you.
Mark Brown ex Charge Nurse J Ward  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.169.193.225 (talk) 10:13, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Hopkins Correctional Centre

message: Name                	Year of birth 	Date of execution 	Crime
Andrew Vere         	1836, Scotland	August 15, 1870   	Murder of Amos Cheale at St Arnaud, Victoria
Robert Francis Burns	1840, Ireland 	September 25, 1883	Murder of Michael Quinlivan near Wickliffe, Victoriahttp://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/aus1900.html
Henry Morgan        	1828, Tasmania	June 6, 1884      	Murder of 10 year old girl, Margaret Nolan, the daughter of John and Bridget Nolan (nee Curtis) at Panmure, Victoria http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/images/1884/V/general/69.pdf
These three hangings were of course at the Ararat County Gaol, which closed in 1886 (and reopened in 1887 as J Ward, the section of the Ararat Asylum used to house the criminally insane). The construction of Her Majesty's Prison Ararat post-dates the hangings by more than 80 years and I believe also the last capital punishment carried out anywhere in Australia.MrAngy (talk) 05:46, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Executions
Talk:HM Prison Beechworth

message: "Beechworth Prison is architecturally significant as an outstanding example of a panopticon prison, of which nine erected in Victoria, and as one of only two which continue to operate as prisons."
Which are the two that continue to operate as prisons? If this is correct, it would be worthwhile to include the information. Johnatyandoit (talk) 12:26, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know, but the entire article was copy/pasted from the source, which went dead in 2017 and therefore may not be accurate anymore. I've just reworded and removed content that was copy/pasted as per Wikipedia:Copyright violations. Damien Linnane (talk) 02:01, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  panopticon prisons
Talk:Port Lincoln Prison

message: The following comments are provided in respect to some recent edits to the article:
#While various official SA government sources state that the prison is located at “Pound Lane, Port Lincoln, SA 5606“ (e.g. official webpage), the use of Google Maps (and other map apps) show that the prison is actually located outside of Port Lincoln in the locality of Duck Ponds.  
#As the SA government’s official online databases such as Location SA Map Viewer do not appear to include the names of the penal facilities currently in operation, a citation used in the article using the following address which approximates the ‘front-door’ of the prison - "228 Pound Lane, Duck Ponds, SA, 5607".  If one views this address on Location SA Map Viewer using the 'Topographic Map' view, one can see the location and layout of the prison including the word 'prison'.
Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 07:00, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of the prison
Talk:Campbell Street Gaol

message: Comment by 58.96.89.73 in body of article moved to talkpage. --Shirt58 (talk) 08:36, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Dubious
Talk:List of Australian immigration detention facilities

message: The attempted PROD would have turned Australian immigration detention facilities into even more of a mess than it already is. We need one article as an index of our articles on the individual immigration detention facilities (which are numerous enough to need their own article). We also need an article about Australian immigration detention as a subject in and of itself, which Australian immigration detention facilities is a weird title for - and that article needs to be rewritten to be a lot less confused about what it's about. The Drover's Wife (talk) 01:37, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Attempted PROD
Talk:Julian Knight (murderer)

message: There are a number of notable "Julian Knight"'s, one other already has an entry in WikiPedia. I suggest that this page be renamed to "Julian Knight (murderer)" so that other equivalent names can be differentiated.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juliank (talk • contribs) 09:05, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page should be renamed 
Talk:Linguistic descriptivism

message: It is fascinating to see the authors of this article going through hoops to avoid being called prescriptivist while at the same time defending the elements of prescription in their thinking.  To pretend that description can classify some things as incorrect and that prescription only begins when the wrong things are classified as incorrect is just silly.  That's a way of keeping the word "prescriptivist" as a stick with which to beat people who prescribe in ways you don't like, but still claiming the right to prescribe yourself.  Let's come clean: all mainstream commentators on language issues have elements of both description and prescription in their thinking.  If there are "pure descriptivists" or "pure prescriptivists" out there, then they are fringe groups that I have never encountered.  The reality is that we all try to balance these two things.  Both prescription and description are positive, necessary forces in our metalinguistic awareness, but the dynamic tension between them can be very complex.  Let's stop running away from this complexity.  --Doric Loon 08:59, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Walsh Street police shootings

message: The background section is way too long and provides too much detail on other acts of violence unrelated to the Walsh Street police shootings.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.166.52.146 (talk) 13:41, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background section is way too long 

message: Twice the article refers to the killings as 'execution-style' killings. Steve Tynan was shot whilst sitting in a car, Damian Eyre was shot whilst fighting with one of the murderers. No executions are carried out in this 'style'. Unless there are argument against it, I'm going to remove 'execution-style'. Dgen 22:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Execution Sytle? 

message: I'd appreciate more content about the police killing 2 suspects prior to the trial. Are there external witnesses or any indication that the police actually tried their best to not kill them? Animal Kingdom suggest they were murdered. DynV (talk) 06:59, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  suspects killed by police
Talk:Nik Radev

message: The link to this article from the general Melbourne Gangland page refers to Radev's killer being the notorious Chopper Read, and yet this article bore no mention. I have now included this info.
Exemplar sententia 13:23, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Information missing
Talk:Andrew Veniamin

message: Hey, just to leave a note regarding the massive POV, conjecture, opinion and blatant personal theorizing. This stayed for an unduly long time before I caught and rv it. See this diff. Thanks. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 01:27, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: I'm removing this category. How would this be unsolved? MartinSFSA (talk) 07:35, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsolved murders in Australia 

message: why is there no mention of andrew before what is stated in underbelly????  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.175.203.119 (talk) 11:14, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  hmmm
Talk:Max Green (lawyer)

message: *Conroy, Paul (2000) Lawyers, Gems and Money: The Alex Green Murder and the Missing Millions. Melbourne, Information Australia, 268 pp. 
*Conroy, Paul, (2002) 10 Months in Laos: A Vast Web of Intrigue, Missing Millions and Murder. Melbourne, Crown Content, 166 pp. 
*Danes, K. (2002) Deliver Us from Evil: Bad Things do Happen to Good People. North Melbourne, Vic., Crown Content,  278 pp.  --Orange Mike  | Talk 20:16, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible sources
Talk:Andrew Mallard

message: This article makes two references to a person named "Dickinson" without explaining who Dickinson was.
Mild Bill Hiccup (talk) 13:51, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A simple mispelling - the name should be "Dickens". I've corrected it. Retarius | Talk 06:56, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Who is Dickinson?

message: From my experience police do not go about putting innocent people in Jail for no reason, in most cases its because they genuinely believe the person to be guilty and would rather bend the rules than have them walking the streets free. This is complicated by the famous 'policeman hunch' which despite being surprisingly accurate is on occasion utterly wrong.
From what I have gathered, there must have been some fairly significant circumstantial suggestion that Mallard had done it for the police to go to these lengths to put him away. In short there has to be more to it, I wonder if it will ever filter through the media or is being habitually "wall of silenced".
I am looking forward to some kind of police motivation being eventually realised, cases like this always revolve around it.
Hayaku (talk) 06:20, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Police motivation? 

message: I 130.95.175.240 (talk) 09:37, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: hamburger 180.150.126.144 (talk) 07:05, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death
Talk:John Newman (Australian politician)

message: I have moved following comment from front page (don't know the truth of it)--Grahamec 12:49, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ngo did not own or set up the Mekong Club. As a leading member of the Vietnamese community, he was it's honourary president. He was later investigated for using Mekong Club assetts such as a mobile phone and car. He did own a newspaper though, Asia Press Ltd. Wayne (talk) 07:32, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Night club
Talk:Murder of Ebony Simpson

message: The article says she was "thrown into a dam." Dams I have seen are usually made of concrete, but sometimes of earth and timbers, so throwing someone against one could be fatal, as could throwing someone into one during construction and then covering with concrete or dirt. Or the person could be thrown into the associated river or lake. What meaning was intended? Edison 17:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dam
Talk:Donald Mackay (anti-drugs campaigner)

message: Can someone please clarify how a coroner determined Mackay was shot if no body has been found? Did they find bullets with his blood on them or something? I mean this as a real question, not just being critical. 71.63.119.49 01:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification

message: Woodward Royal Commission, coronial inquest, conviction. While we may want to know the whole story, scarcely unsolved. MartinSFSA (talk) 19:24, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a unsolved murder, no one has been charged for murder and is still being investigated. Bidgee (talk) 10:33, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing category: Unsolved murders in Australia  

message: The sources I've found are rather confused.. the obits certainly aren't very helpful. This gives a tiny bit of background. As do "donald bruce mackay" Nevard (talk) 10:30, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the part about Grassby's acquittal 

message: Why is Bazley's conviction for conspiracy to murder (?) not mentioned in the introduction? To say the case is "unsolved" seems strange. Jack Upland (talk) 14:29, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.--Jack Upland (talk) 03:59, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bazley
Talk:Table limit

message: :There is a widely held belief that casinos instituted maximum table limits to limit Martingale betting strategies. The simplest of these strategies is every time a player loses he doubles his bet until he wins.[6] In reality casinos are not at risk from Martingale players. They are at risk against the lucky player who is betting an amount that would be proportionately high for that particular business.
Isn't that the same thing, the lucky Martingale player eventually becoming the lucky player betting proportionally high? I'd like to modify the sentence marked by boldface. --Mumiemonstret (talk) 09:13, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isn't it Martingale? 
Talk:Yasir Arafat (cricketer)

message: Is this page worthy of being in an encyclopeadia? Is this important at all?
He is no more or less important and noteworthy than many other cricketers who have articles on wikipedia Say Hello 16:05, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Read the last paragraph. I'm going to delete the 'ball to jaffer' bit, as it makes no sense if you don't know what seam bowling, LBW, or Wasim Jaffer are. I do.
82.28.52.25 (talk) 17:56, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor writing
Talk:Murder of Karmein Chan

message: Please.. someone out ther emust know something. Something they saw, heard, something towards a clue. This was a horrible death for a young girl to endure. Think og her last hours and her agony. Keep looking, keep questioning. Find Mr Cruel and bring him to justice. This is not his only victim. And he is reading this page for sure too :( Track the URLs of who reads this page.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.219.240.155 (talk) 14:38, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think we need to delete the entire article just because the parents are still alive. If it is a WP:BLP issue, then surely we just fix that bit - I am not aware of any policy that calls for unreferenced articles to be deleted! --Commking 00:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is not sourced and makes no claims of notability. WP:BLP policy intends for content about non-public people, (especially those that are know for only a single event) to be handled differently than other articles. A redirect is the proper way to deal with this type of biographical material. FloNight 14:26, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  WP:BLP - biography of living persons - does not apply here - Karmein Chan is dead. I have thus restored the article. --Commking 06:20, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sample :tr:Karmein Chan --İncelemeelemani (talk) 21:25, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirection to [[Mr. Cruel]] 
Talk:Dan Kelly (bushranger)

message: The infobox in this article is too short and incomplete. It needs to be completely filled out with citations pertaining to the information it gives.--Paleface Jack (talk) 03:04, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 
Talk:Thomas Ley

message: Shouldn't this article be at "Thomas Ley"? Frickeg (talk) 08:40, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, indeed.  Now moved.  --  Jack of Oz  ... speak! ...  08:15, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Does anyone know the original source of the story about Greedor's drowning? It's mentioned in a couple of of apparently reliable secondary sources (though not the ADB), but bafflingly, I can't find a single reference in Trove that confirms anyone even with the surname Greedor ever existed in Australia. One would think if it was true (and the correct name) there'd be a death notice, a birth notice, a marriage notice, something. The earliest online reference to this claim (and there aren't actually that many) is this NLA newsletter, which credits the story to a historian who doesn't cite his sources. Am I the only one who thinks this is a bit dubious? The Drover's Wife (talk) 12:49, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Keith Greedor
Talk:Joe Byrne

message: Please remove the 2016 piece  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.81.109.238 (talk) 08:21, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  2016 

message: What is Byrne's date of birth - the article gives 1856 in the summary and 1858 in the body of the article. Surely there are birth records even in the Beechworth district for this era, but I'm having trouble finding the info. Does any other editor know?  Thank you   Jamesmcardle(talk) 23:21, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Birth? 
Talk:Horatio Bottomley

message: I have restored the Noel Coward section.  This is not a hoax.  The user who deleted it has made over 250 edits in the last 6 days on every subject under the sun.  I do not believe for one second that he has suddenly taken time out to read Brockett & Franklin's "History of the Theatre".  I do not know what motivated him to make such an unwarrented intervention.  Evelyn Jones 9:15, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to confirm: I did indeed check as described above. Glad this hoax has finally been nailed. Tim riley talk  19:40, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: H. Osborne O'Hagan's "Leaves of My Life" contains a lengthy (in the context of those volumes, anyway) and interesting chapter on Bottomley; an editor interested in augmenting this article would do well to consult it. 96.244.70.173 (talk) 13:17, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm writing on Bottomley's involvement in some Australian mining frauds and came here looking for background.  I found this an excellent and very helpful article, one of the best I've seen on Wikipedia.  Congratulations to writers and editors.  Peter Bell (talk) 09:32, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Well done

message: Although some style guides suggest otherwise, the word "parliament" is generally not   capitalised unless it forms part of a construction such as "Member of Parliament", "Houses of Parliament" etc. Personal preferences can differ, but I think we should stick to the format in which the article was promoted to FA. Brianboulton (talk) 07:50, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalisation of "parliament"
Talk:Airport 5

message: I sort of feel like it would be silly to create a seperate page for each little Bob side-project, it'll just end up being needlessly diffuse and confusing for the newcomer if there's a seperate page for Airport 5, Go Back Snowball, Lifeguards, Keene Bros., etc... The Bob Pollard page is a work-in-progress and I'm planning on creating an complete "extended" discography there covering all the side-projects/pseudonyms/fake bands. For that reason I'm suggesting mergeing this with the main Bob article. Thoughts? Anazgnos 09:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Razor gang

message: What about the razor gangs of Glasgow of the 1930ies? Maikel (talk) 16:55, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Glasgow?

message: Many cuts to Australian government spending was done by a 'razor gang'. Ozdaren (talk) 03:57, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Razor gang (politics)