Talk:Dally Messenger III

Comment
Very minor revisions on 6 July to the piece as submitted for evaluation 3 or 4 days ago. Have tidied punctuation marks relative to footnotes.Marcasella (talk) 11:24, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

On 10 January 2015 minor revisions to the section "Pioneer of Civil Celebrancy", and a tidying and expansion of the entry for the book Ceremonies for Today (1979)drawing attention to its historical importance as a "kit" from which new celebrants could evolve civil ceremonies to rival the existing religious ceremonies. Marcasella (talk) 23:10, 9 January 2015 (UTC) Also removed the rubric at the top saying the page requires further copy editing, since it is no longer a fresh page or in obvious need of copy editing. Marcasella (talk) 23:16, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Messenger's battle with funeral directors and prosecution by the ACCC
I have removed from par. 2 of the article on Messenger the following recent paragraph (labelled Balanced perspective of Messengers' achievements), which (at least when placed in such a key position, as if it were the most important example of Messenger's contribution to public life)  clearly violated Wikipedia rules for the treatment of living persons: "In 2007, Dally Raymond Messenger was found liable for attempting to induce persons to contravene section 45(2)(a)(ii) of the Competition Code of Victoria, and was penalised $10,000 plus costs. Messenger had attempted to fix the fees which civil celebrants charged for providing funeral services.[6]"

However I have found a way to incorporate the information in Section 6,"Pioneer of Civil Ceremonies", that I hope is balanced and not libellous.

I toyed with creating a new section on Messenger's battles with funeral directors and the ACCC but felt this was already treated elsewhere on Wikipedia. Marcasella (talk) 05:14, 10 January 2018 (UTC)