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(born 1952/1953) – needs to be included in the early life section.
Y
Add {{Australian English}} to the talk page, and {{Use Australian English}} at the top of the article, if you feel this needs to be done.
Y Added the Use Aus English template. I feel the other "warning" style template is only needed where editors are bickering over which style/changing it regularly. I'll leave that one out.
1 Early life
Link lumber yard (note spelling).
Y Linked and spelled correctly
The section is cited using an autobiographical source. While the source is clearly able to support the text (WP:PROVEIT), it isn’t independent (WP:INDEPENDENT), and therefore should not be used as a reliable source on its own.
? For this one, I disagree. Per WP:ABOUTSELF: Self-published and questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves as long as the material is not exceptional or self-serving and the article is not primarily based on this primary source. For a small autobiographical statement I believe this source is fine on it's own. Any claims of achievement or notability are substantiated elsewhere by secondary independent sources.
We don't agree yet. WP:ABOUTSELF allows self-published sources to used under certain circumstances, one of which is that the source is not used to cite "claims about third parties" This means that He was initially educated at Sydney Grammar School, where he left to work in a lumber yard due to the harsh disciplinary environment needs a separate citation to verify the conditions at the school when Watson-Munro attended it. Amitchell125 (talk) 06:07, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That's fair @Amitchell125, would "He was initially educated at Sydney Grammar School, where he left to work in a lumber yard due what he described as a "harsh disciplinary environment"? — MaxnaCarta ( 💬 • 📝 ) 09:30, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This section’s three subsections are too short for them to have their own titles. Ditto the Views section.
Y have made these four parts into one section
It doesn't look like your edit saved. Done for you. AM
Of the 200 murderers mentioned, three are given “detailed treatment”. I understand that not every major case can be discussed in the this section, but is there a reason for why these men were selected?
Because these are the three which have actually been discussed most in the press. I believe the selection of these three cases does not impact neutrality or lend undue weight. These are the highlights which demonstrate the sort of cases he is involved in and are notable in their own right.
@Amitchell125 How would you go about describing this if you were writing this article? I'm a bit lost. I can't just write "The following cases are included because they are high profile". I think the citations themselves are evidence that these are the high profile ones...they are the ones with press coverage? If we were writing about an airline, we would only include the accidents that are themselves notable. So these three people I've included are notable in their own right with articles. I can't find any other cases he worked on that got significant attention. — MaxnaCarta ( 💬 • 📝 ) 09:33, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'll get back to you on this. For the moment, I would imagine a few brief words at the top of the section will do, but the wording will take a bit of thought. Amitchell125 (talk) 14:14, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Either that or something like 'Three notable individuals Watson-Munro has worked with included Julian Knight, Alphonse Gangitan, and Mr Cruel' (the last two being linked). Amitchell125 (talk) 09:25, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I would add a comma after 1987 Hoddle Street massacre.
Y done
2.2 Alphonse Gangitano
Link Melbourne.
Y done
Why now-deceased?
Y Agreed, nice c/e pickup. He clearly was not interviewed when dead...
The sentence starting Gangitano was then released appears to be a run-on sentence. It should be split into two separate ones, between left the country and Watson-Munro expected.
Y Fixed
his arrest for murder – readers may wish to be provided with further information about this crime, and I would consider adding some.
Y Added detail with reference.
2.3 Mr Cruel
I would replace the link for child rapes to Types_of_rape#Rape_of_children, which imo leads to where readers expect it to.
The sentence needs copy editing to improve the English.
Watson-Munro has advocated for educating and informing victims - 'Watson-Munro is an advocate of educating and informing victims'? AM
All fixed now
Something's happened here as well.... Done for you. AM
3.1 Youth
Watson-Munro in 1996 warned the child-welfare system in Victoria – needs to be more clearly written, as it’s not clear if the Victoria child-welfare system was warned by Watson-Munro, or whether he warned others about the system.
Y changed to Watson-Munro in 1996 voiced concerns that the child welfare system in Victoria was in "chaos and on the brink of collapse". He noted truancy and crime being committed by children in the care of the state and called for a royal commission into the government department responsible.
14 year old – ‘14-year-old’.
Y done
while wandering around at night – the text needs to make it clearer that it was the boy who was wandering around.
Y Thanks for that. You're a great copyeditor. Love having these little English errors picked up! Changed to Watson-Munro was involved in assessing a 14-year-old boy who, while wandering around at night, murdered a taxi driver
Thank you very much! AM
He has criticised – ‘Watson-Munro has criticised’ for the sake of clarity.
Y
Add a comma after addressing.
Y
socio economic - ‘socio-economic’
Y
real issues of youth suicide – this needs to be better placed within the right context, perhaps by amending it to ‘real issues of youth suicide in Australia’.
Y
3.2 Ivan Milat
This paragraph seems unencyclopedic, and I would delete it.
Y: Might come up with a sentence to move to Career one day, but you're right, the section as is appears rather sensationalist.
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