Talk:Tony Veitch

Tense of Article
As much Tony is no longer a broadcaster of New Zealand television, he is very much still alive. Perhaps the tense of the article should be edited to reflect this, using IS rather than WAS. - typera 17:00pm 17/07/08 NZT —Preceding unsigned comment added by Typera (talk • contribs) 05:01, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Or use "is a former ... broadcaster". Even better may be to find some biographically details about him and write an introductory statement independent of the recent issues. THEN WHO WAS PHONE? (talk) 00:17, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

he still is a broadcaster even though he is currently unemployed (publicly)Tshiels1 (talk) 05:22, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

I have just visited this page for the first time, and immediately took exception to the statement "Tony Colin Veitch is a New Zealand sports broadcaster". I disagree. Tony Veitch *was* a former sports broadcaster since he is now unemployed. If you want to avoid the word "was" then I suggest that the opening sentence should be reworded. How about "Tony Veitch, a former New Zealand sports broadcaster, ..."

(Aside: Consider a person who was formerly a police officer. It would be incorrect to state "Person X is a police officer".  How about the statement "Helen Clark is the prime minister of New Zealand".  No - Helen Clark *was* the prime minister of New Zealand.)

Article balance
I have asked at Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard for some guidance on how to handle the balance of this article. While the events of the past year have been very important, I'm not sure that they should dominate the article to quite the extent that they currently do.- gadfium 05:09, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

I added the expand-section macro to the Broadcasting section, but is was subsequently removed by User:Lambert611/edits who said removed note to expand section as Veitch is far more famous for his assault on his partner & guilty plea. Surely that's not a reason to have a single-issue biographical article? Stuartyeates (talk) 07:24, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Current Court Case
Is that tag appropriate? The main case is now over. Tshiels1 (talk) 07:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 one external links on Tony Veitch. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20110617030954/http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_travel_story_skin/116639 to http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_travel_story_skin/116639
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20110617031151/http://tvnz.co.nz/view/sport_story_skin/469180 to http://tvnz.co.nz/view/sport_story_skin/469180

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Recurrent vandalism
Could this page be semi-protected (is that the right term?!) as it is getting considerable vandalism; I remember that in October 2015 there was a similar spate of vandalism. In both cases it's coincided with statements from Veitch being published in the media. MurielMary (talk) 10:09, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Densem comment.
That Yvonne Densem link is now dead and her comment cannot be supported. I can't find another link that contains her comment. Should her comment be deleted? Dairyflat (talk) 04:14, 27 November 2017 (UTC)