Talk:David Flint

message: The reference for this information is not "very wonky". The original source, as I stated, was a Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend magazine article by Jane Cadzow, a respected, prize-winning journalist. I read the article in Good Weekend myself when it originally came out. The only source I can find on the web is on Rodney Croome's website. Rodney Croome is a Member of the Order of Australia (2003) who has fought long and hard for gay rights in Tasmania. He even has his own Wikipedia entry! Of course, newspapers are archived in libraries as a permanent resource, so there is no reason not to cite this information. AussieBoy 05:52, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This information was removed again by "Beaconsfield" (possible sockpuppet of "Prof flint"?) with the edit summary "Removed unnecessary comment". This is not a good reason for removal of this notable information about Professor Flint, which has an appropriate reference.  AussieBoy 09:57, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Beaconsfield", a probable sockpuppet of "Prof flint", who refuses to engage in reasoned discussion, has again been vandalising this article with the offhand comment that this material is "irrelevant". The fact that Professor Flint is openly gay is supported by a cited interview with Professor Flint himself and is in no way "unnecessary" or "irrelevant" in a Wikipedia article on the man (especially in view of the Alan Jones connection). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AussieBoy (talk • contribs) 11:17, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe we should say "gay" rather than "openly gay".  It seems it's not a secret, but I don't think he's especially loud about it.  Regards, Ben Aveling 12:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Allegation that Flint is openly gay

message: There seems to be an influx of some good new material into this article, as well as some rather POV changes. These changes have been made by a user who has chosen the name "Prof flint". I will try to ameliorate some of this. AussieBoy 11:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Further POV reversions/changes by "Beaconsfield" (possible sockpuppet of "Prof flint"?). A number of letters (not just one) were involved in the controversy, and the timeframe has been deliberately distorted. I have corrected this aspect and added an appropriate reference establishing the facts. If this is changed again without discussion and appropriate references, I will consider it vandalism. I will correct other aspects over time (unless someone else wants to). AussieBoy 02:40, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: POV material

message: I've edited the article to use Jane Cadzow's article as a reference, but without any link to http://www.rodneycroome.id.au/other_more?id=605_0_2_0_M. Why? Because WP:COPY#Linking to copyrighted works forbids that. (See also Wikipedia:Convenience links. Wikiwonks like me will note that WP:COPY is policy, but WP:CONV is just an essay.)
Links to copies of whole articles are only OK if you can demonstrate the copyright owner has licenced the copy. (Links to extracts count as fair use.) If anyone can show that Rodney Croome has permission to put that copy online, then obviously we'll restore the link. Cheers, CWC 08:15, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  convenience links 

message: I think it's interesting that the article uses the unusual turn of phrase "for long" ("and was for long a board member..."). This caught my eye just now, as I was looking up the article having just started reading Flint's Twilight of the Elites. It also uses the phrase ("For long, civilised society has been based on...") .  I know it's not against the rules to edit an article about oneself, but I just thought this was interesting.--Russell E (talk) 04:48, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit by subject of the article 

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates and tables for short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 03:01, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography