Talk:Philip Ruddock

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Selective deletion[edit]

I am about to delete from the article history those revisions whose content and/or edit summaries libel Xtra, per Wikipedia's libel policy. Selective deletion requires full deletion followed by selective restoration. Therefore this article will be deleted for a very brief period of time. Snottygobble 02:20, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, the problem with this is any honest discussion of this man will be automatically libelous and defamatory. He's one of real life's cartoon villains: He wore an Amnesty International lapel pin while presiding over an immigration regime which detained small children indefinitely (incareration for years in many cases) in primative privatised detention centres with 5 kilometre journalist exclusion zones. 203.59.80.62 17:43, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Manga paragpraph[edit]

I have deleted the paragraph about Ruddock opposing the Ninja Scroll manga. It is of minor importance (unless you are a Ninja Star fan!) and does not rate such a detailed mention in this brief article, especially as it fell outside of Ruddock's area of ministerial responsibility. I do not even recall this being an issue at the time. Note that this paragraph was also unreferenced.--Iacobus (talk) 04:41, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Recent changes[edit]

The state of the article was brought to my attention. While I believe I have fixed the problems with it, mainly that it was almost in toto a violation of WP:UNDUE and the level of language was a bit simplistic for an encyclopaedic audience, it could do with substantially better biographical detail. I think the main thing here is to try and avoid the sort of partisan commentary about decisions taken as part of his role in Cabinet, which largely reflected the policy of the government of the day rather than any particular expression of views by Ruddock the person (who is after all the subject of this brief biography). Orderinchaos 03:02, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Service order[edit]

We were saying he’s the 3rd longest serving Member of the House of Reps (correct) and the 4th longest serving Parliamentarian (wrong) in the parliament’s history. Members of the Parliament of Australia who have served for at least 30 years tells us he’s still in 5th position overall, behind Hughes, Page, Pearce and Cooper. By my calculations, he’ll pass Cooper on 26 April and pass Pearce on Christmas Day. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 19:22, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I redid my figures. He passed Cooper on 7 May 2010 and is now the 4th longest serving parliamentarian. -- 202.142.129.66 (talk) 23:46, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

he said pkk is not terror org .he is right[edit]

HE SAYS pkk is not terror pls add thsi txt in wikipedia. yu can translate it -turkish-english here : http://www.firatnews.tv/index.php?rupel=nuce&nuceID=35543 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.171.184.104 (talk) 13:07, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]