User talk:James 92327363744

I didn't add that information. It was added by GoesOFF.diffs According to the relevent document that is attached to the ALP's media release he is Parliamentary Secretary for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. --AussieLegend 10:35, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Robert Sercombe
Wikipedia's verifiability policy requires that "any material challenged or likely to be challenged should be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation." "According to the Australian Electoral Commission" doesn't satisfy that requirement. What is actually needed at that point is an inline citation that supports the claim that "Sercombe has been criticised for taking the seat for granted and failing to campaign to keep a strong majority." The AEC figures say nothing about Sercombe's campaign or criticism's directed at him so it's not a valid reference.

Similarly, the statement that you added further on, "Due to strong campaigning by Mr Shorten the majority has lifted to 66%" requires citations that verify he ran a strong campaign and that was the reason for the vote being increased to 66%. That said, the sentence itself is really irrelevant and shouldn't be included in the article since the article is about Robert Sercombe, not Bill Shorten or the electorate.

When choosing to restore information you should always verify that you aren't restoring incorrect or irrelevant information. In reverting my edits you've done just that. In the opening paragraph there's no need to mention that Bill Shorten won the seat of Maribynong since that isn't really related to an article on Robert Sercombe which is why I changed it but you've put it back in order to restore the edits that were discussed above. I had also edited the article to correct the tense regarding preselection (from "will be" to "was") but by reverting you've re-introduced the error. In order to avoid this you should always check to see what was edited before reverting.(example)

Cheers. --AussieLegend 06:29, 2 December 2007 (UTC)