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Royal Children's Hospital

Your edits had absolutely nothing to do with the hospital: there are many political arguments in the health field, but they don't belong in each and every hospital article just because an editor thinks it's a gr8 place to try to coatrack on their agenda. We have more than enough articles on transgender issues if you want to go push your POV there.

For what it's worth, I find your edit history extremely suspicious. You pretty clearly have some sort of affiliation with the Australian Christian Lobby, and you're editing areas in which that gives you a massive conflict-of-interest. The Drover's Wife (talk) 13:03, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi there The Drover's Wife, thanks for your comments on this article. The same user has engaged in edit warring on the Safe Schools Coalition Australia page, intent on retaining content that lacks context and makes the article less readable. Details are on Talk:Safe Schools Coalition Australia. If you are able, I would welcome any contribution you could offer to assist in dispute resolution. Thanks. Trankuility (talk) 19:33, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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Encouragement

I would like to encourage you to continue to contribute to Wikipedia. Its a great cause. What I hate to see happen is when people spend their time writing to much detail and in the years following all that work gets removed because its trivia. Trivia gets in the way of a good read. The Safe Schools Coalition Australia is a charity. It isn't a movie or video game for which there is a large interest in its reception and critique. The article is already mostly about the controversy. Too much commentary about how people feel about this (or any topic of any article) isn't appropriate here. - Shiftchange (talk) 09:22, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

It may bring solace expressing yourself at online forums such as Whirlpool instead. - Shiftchange (talk) 06:40, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Your edits...

...are adding a nice balance to a lot of articles. I edit articles without agenda, and appreciate the content you are adding. There are too many people who want to protect the image of an organization that they have personal feelings about, your edits bring back the neutrality that these articles require. Thanks. Spacecowboy420 (talk) 08:04, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

September 2016

Hello, I'm Donner60. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Safe Schools Coalition Australia— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 04:20, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Please

You must desist immediately from abusing Wikipedia.

Stop.

- Shiftchange (talk) 08:12, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Discussion continues at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board#WP:NOT B20097 (talk) 10:14, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

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Sources

We should be using secondary sources per WP:MEDRS Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:41, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

By secondary sources we are looking for review articles or major textbooks rather than the popular press which is generally less good than the primary source. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:35, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

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Your behavior on Talk:Same-sex marriage

Your reproduction of (visual) material from my user page is highly unorthodox. I don't think I've ever seen a user reproduce an image from another user's user page on an article talk page before. I find your doing so, as if there were something inherently offensive or disqualifying about a proper Wikimedia Commons image, both homophobic and personally harassing. You've been escalating your various attacks against me, making them increasingly pointed and specific, culminating now in the reproduction of this image. This needs to stop. Keep your discussion textual and relevant. I expect you to engage the discussion in good faith, avoiding behavior that has been found homophobic and harassing. Please do not restore the image to your comment. I would much rather not have to pursue this matter further. Thank you. Antinoos69 (talk) 12:35, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

The discussion is located here and here. The image is located here. B20097 (talk) 23:34, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for updates

Hi Thanks for the updates for the No Campaign. just wondering are you voting No like the majority. Torygreen84 (talk) 09:10, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey

Hi User:B20097,

I think many of your contributions to Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey are being disruptive. I reckon you are giving undue weight to particular perspectives, including with the addition of quotes and with sensationalised language from certain media sources. This is against WP policies. User:Cjhard, User:Whats new? and myself, amongst others, are spending most of our editing either removing, moderating or clarifying your contributions to be more neutral. A few times is forgivable, but it seems to be continuous.

Do you think this is the case, or do you have a different take on it?

Thanks. Boneymau (talk) 23:00, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

I'm in almost complete agreement with you, Boneymau. It's obviously the case that B20097 has an issue with maintaining a neutral point of view in articles. (Safe Schools Coalition Australia is an example of this, add it to your watchlist if you have the time to fix it.) However, I don't think it rises to the level of disruption. B20097 adds a lot of content and yes, too much of it is trivial and biased, so it's up to the rest of the community to improve upon it. Dealing with editors with neutrality issues in US politics articles makes me truly appreciate one thing about B20097: zero edit-warring. When their contributions are criticised, reverted, or changed, they just accept it and keep adding more content. So yeah, I agree with the censure for biased editing, but I wouldn't say the edits are disruptive as such, or worth some sort of administrative intervention. Cjhard (talk) 23:27, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Cjhard: Thank you.

Boneymau: Anyone can write (or make changes to) Wikipedia articles providing they comply with WP:PG. SSM is a very controversial issue, (with Federal Parliament having unsuccessfully 'grappled' with it 18? times), which evokes (what each side claim are) justified positions / responses. B20097 (talk) 00:12, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

B20097, I'm really just asking you to take a moment to genuinely reflect on whether you are complying with the WP:PG of WP:NPOV, given others (not just me) consider you are not. And, if after that reflection you can see what they are getting at, to moderate your editing behaviour a little. I don't think that's unreasonable.Boneymau (talk) 00:48, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

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	With all sincerity, please enjoy your time at the internet encyclopedia project wiki known as Conservapedia. The audience there would love your work. Please be an angel and move along lest you cause continuing disruption here. Shiftchange (talk) 03:42, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

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Biased editing

Hello, I am concerned that you are repeatedly included biased material in articles. Using your recent edits to the Sexual orientation and the Australian Defence Force article as an example, I have the following concerns:

• In this edit you added a quote from some guy's personal blog. The vague wording ("The amount of time and money put into these activities have raised concerns") did not make it clear that this is one person's views. Moreover, it is not clear why Mr Smith's views on his personal blog are worth inserting in the article.

- Only added as (1) other citations are pay-walled and (2) 95%? of it is sourced verbatim from the ADF. In future will not use.

• In this edit you added some views by MP Andrew Hastie. Again, the text was so vague it's impossible to know what he's talking about. More seriously, the fact that he's a social conservative [* WP:OR ?*] was left out. Why these views matter (is this WP:NOTNEWS or a significant intervention?), differing views, etc, were also not included. You also got the details of his Army career wrong - he was an officer in the SAS, not its [* I did not say that *] commander.

- There are 2,030 Google 'results' for "SAS Commander Andrew Hastie" - including the one cited. I will call him "former Australian Army officer and politician".

- I prefer more concise wording - allowing the readers consider for themselves using the provided cites.

- I will rewrite the entry and elaborate on what Hastie said. Feel free to modify / add "differing views, etc"

Aside from the relevance of this not being clear (the article shouldn't and doesn't need to cover random news stories or the views of semi-random people given that there are references covering these issues thematically), you left out the range of views noted in the news story to cherry pick only Hastie's view. Nick-D (talk) 21:58, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

• In this article you added the rather tabloid factoid about how much the ADF has spent on sex change and breast enhancement surgery. The source article is anything but tabloid, and notes repeatedly that this is a tiny proportion of the military's health expenditure. [* relevance? *] It also notes that the personnel were entitled to this treatment as part of their service contract, with the actual support being similar what they would have received through Medicare had they been civilians. You chose not to include this material, which seems to me [* a POV - fine add it. *] to be much more useful to the article.

- The issues raised was breast enhancement in conjunction with MF sex reassignment surgery, financed by ADF. Refer >MF sex reassignment, breast enhancement

- You have objected to the term, "it was reported". I note that wording is used, "about 57,700" times in Wikipedia.

- OK. I will leave all out.

• A common theme in the above is adding random news stories and stuff you've found on blogs without reflecting on whether they are actually significant or putting them in context.

- a POV.

You have engaged in similar patterns of editing across multiple articles now. Given that you are also capable of making good edits, [* thank you *] I think that you're letting yourself, and Wikipedia's readers, down with stuff like this. You will also likely end up being blocked if it continues given the number of complaints you're accumulating (such as those above). I would encourage your to read, or re-read, WP:NPOV and take the time to develop well-rounded material. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 05:53, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

- With respect, suggest you examine the "complaints you're accumulating (such as those above)". Suggest in terms of NPOV it is very black pots (here and here) calling kettles black. I have made 1,351 edits. You complain about 4 easily-resolved issues. Also with respect, rather than using words like "crap" and threatening to unilaterally ban, suggest cooperation and collaboration to produce a better NPOV Wikipedia. I am happy to do that. Regards B20097 (talk)

Please do not edit other editor's talk page posts - I did not write that with caveats in it. Please see WP:TPO. You may want to re-read my post BTW: I was using these as examples of long-running problems with your editing, with editors above raising similar concerns. Nick-D (talk) 21:48, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Do you need more evidence that this user is a paid operative? Have you seen any prominent Australian editors who have suggested that propaganda stay in our articles? - Shiftchange (talk) 00:37, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

'A paid operative' is a ludicrous assertion. I am absolutely not paid by anybody. B20097 (talk) 01:26, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

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Yet another personal attack

B20097 is "obviously" a "paid", "sockpuppet", "bias"ed, "propaganda"ist. B20097 (talk) 22:37, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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