Talk:Michael Danby

message: *Strictly speaking Danby will not be preselected until the Public Office Selection Cttee votes, which I think will be on Thursday night. But his 75% local vote assures his endorsement.
*I cannot provide a published source for the preselection voting, since it has not been reported in the press (not as newsworthy as Hotham, obviously). I conducted the count and I can tell you that Danby polled 277 votes to van Leeuwen's 89, with 2 informal. You can take my word for it or not as you please. Adam 07:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Danby's preselection

message: I've removed the para about Julia Irwin, Adam Carr and the Sunday Herald Sun. Here's a copy:
:The Sunday Herald Sun published an article where it reported that an advisor to Danby, Dr. Adam Carr, had been accused of using Wikipedia to "blacken the names of MPs." Labor MP Julia Irwin was quoted saying that Carr was "getting dirt on people." However, the accusations were strongly denied by Carr.
(Hmm ... I overlapped edits with User:138, who stole my line about the Inquirer item before I even wrote it ;-)
Reasons:
#This article is about Michael Danby, not Dr. Carr, Julia Irwin or (the topic of most interest to most people reading this) Wikipedia.
#Incidents like these are common and non-notable in politics.
#The newspaper report is (to be very polite) not a very impressive piece of journalism.
#Julia Irwin got her facts wrong, but we shouldn't. If we retain this stuff, we should add text explaining that it wasn't Dr. Carr who put the offending material in the article. A long paragraph about one minor incident involving one of Danby's staffers would unbalance the article.
#This is just another inter-factional spat in the ALP. They've been going on for decades. Outsiders such as me find them very tedious; I understand that some of the participants do too.
Cheers, CWC(talk) 04:46, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good call, and good rationale. So I'll just say "what he said". Rebecca 06:05, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed 

message: Mr Adam Carr - you state that Southwick spent quarter of a million dollars on his Liberal campaign. What is your proof? A statement by Michael Danby under parliamentary privilege stating that is not proof. Please explain?
As you state that Southwick ran deliberately to decrease the Jewish votes in Melbourne Ports (which would not realistic help Southwick to get in politics since only 10-15% of Jews live in Melbourne Ports and it is the Greens that gets Michael Danby into parliament and the Jewish vote would not make any substantial difference)? I do recall that David Southwick contest a pre-selection against another Liberal contender. Did Michael Danby during 2003-4 have any Labor Party members challenge him for a preselection? Because it is unfair to say that Southwick was pre-selected because of the religion he and his ALP opponent worship. I look forward to the former employer of Michael Danby MHR, Mr Adam Carr for a response. Kind regards, Greg LibDeepThroat 02:39, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  David Southwick - To decrease Jewish votes in Melbourne Ports? 

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: The story does appear in The Age, so it's not about the person being there or not.  But after reading the article, this simply doesn't belong in the article.  The story is literally 1 paragraph long, in amidst many other "life" stories.  Adding this here gives undue weight to a minor story.  Per WP:NOTNEWS, we shouldn't be trying to record everything that is published about a given subject--only the things that have the most weight for the overall story.  Qwyrxian (talk) 10:24, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The diva advert story 

message: I have removed two sentences at the end of the article which were not sourced. It is a basic rule of Wikipedia that all statements of fact must be sourced. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 06:34, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent edits (2011)

message: User:Alp watcher added some text, that User:Frickeg suggested was "defamation" and reverted. Alp watcher restored the material saying that it was sourced.
I'm not happy with the material either, so I've:
* Added the word "allegations" to one paragraph, to more accurately match the reference.
* Deleted one paragraph because the cited ref does not say that proceedings were suppressed (which is the main clause of the deleted sentence).
* Deleted the section "Intimidating behaviour towards women" because:
** The cited ref says the Greens were outraged - but I don't think that's necessarily "attracting controversy" - controversy would require some other (than Dandy) party to express a differing opinion. (The ref uses the word "controversial" to describe Rhiannon, not Danby.)
** The ref does not say Danby intimidated anyone - merely that he "described" Rhiannon.
Mitch Ames (talk) 12:54, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits by Alp watcher, August 2013 

message: I'm not entirely happy with the insertion of the sentence "Jews only make up about 10% of Melbourne Ports Electorate." at the beginning of the [[Michael Danby#Jewish representation|Jewish representation] section. I seems to be a little out of place, not fitting in with the rest of the paragraph. Given the contents of the section, the Jewish percentage of his electorate may be relevant, but perhaps some rewording is required. Was his Jewry a significant factor in his election? If so, we should say so explicitly. Mitch Ames (talk) 03:57, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Percentage of Jews in Melbourne Ports Electorate 

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