Talk:Kevin Rudd

Semi-protected edit request on 9 August 2019
Dear Wikipedia Team, I'd like to request that 'Kevin Rudd in August 2019 proclaimed himself the handball king and signed thousdands of hanballs' should be added to Rudd's wikipedia page. This is backed by the following links:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/aug/08/why-is-handball-tragic-kevin-rudd-issuing-challenges-and-signing-tennis-balls

https://junkee.com/kevin-rudd-handball-king/217093

https://10daily.com.au/news/a190807wpsxf/king-of-handball-kevin-rudd-has-got-avalanche-response-to-his-ballsy-challenge-20190807 PresidentPato (talk) 04:33, 9 August 2019 (UTC)


 * ❌ per WP:NOTNEWS. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 16:00, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Keven rudd was a politic — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.91.193.235 (talk) 04:11, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Career (2013–present), international roles
Current chairman of International Peace Institute.

"The International Peace Institute (IPI) is pleased to announce the Honorable Kevin Rudd has been elected unanimously by IPI’s board of directors as the board’s next chair, effective June 01, 2018", according to 89.8.168.191 (talk) 15:18, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Lead image not available for use
The official portrait we have been using originates on the Parliament website here. If anybody thinks it might be sourced from some other body than Parliament please note where and why but it seems unlikely that another department would take an official portrait. That page has a link to site-wide copyright information which includes these words:"With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and where otherwise noted, all material presented on this website is provided under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia licence." This is not a licence we may use - see list here. --Pete (talk) 21:50, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
 * There's quite a few photos of diplomats and foreign affairs ministers on Commons sourced from the DFAT site, which is pretty unequivocal that content on the site is CC-BY "except where otherwise stated". This is in contrast to the NAA site whose statement is pretty vague and ambiguous, CC-BY unless supplied by a third party, but not clear what is from a third party. Presumably the parliament bio profile photos are taken/copyrighted by the Australian Government Photographic Service (AUSPIC), but it's not clear what the use and licensing arrangements are within government——can a government department commission photographs and then release them under an open licence? For example, DFAT has released numerous photos on Flickr which were taken by and credited to AUSPIC, but licensed as CC-BY 2.0 (this photo of Julia Gillard for example).--Canley (talk) 06:54, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
 * The Hon. Kevin Rudd.jpg particularly detest the insipid official portrait we've been using. There is another one which appears to be from the same photo session which we can use. Comments? --Pete (talk) 07:11, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

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 * Julia Gillard official photo.jpg

Mandarin
Someone should please remove the part claiming he is "fluent in mandarin". I've heard him speak chinese. He sucks. Not just bad, *awful*. Seriously, his chinese sounds exactly like you'd expect an australian to sound, TERRIBLE. 203.160.80.238 (talk) 11:33, 6 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Don't think your tone matches Wikipedia's guidelines. I don't think that's true though, he has a fine accent, and it's debatable whether accent is even part of fluency. Commemorative1 (talk) 11:02, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

2023 portrait
Considering it's usual practice to have the lead image be from when the subject was most notable, shouldn't the lead image for this article be his as opposed to the 2023 Ambassador one? RoadSmasher420 (talk) 00:55, 5 May 2023 (UTC)


 * He's not ceased being notable. Additionally the 2007 image is flat and horrible. TarnishedPathtalk 23:25, 17 September 2023 (UTC)