User talk:Jodyrootes

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Jodyrootes, good luck, and have fun. – Luke no 94  (tell Luke off here) 14:08, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

July 2014
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Flag of Australia. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you.  Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 15:28, 11 July 2014 (UTC)


 * The research originated with the Australian Flag Society. It's hitting inboxes as we speak. I think it would be only a matter of time until a newspaper gets onto it. Something like that can't stay a secret forever.

Jodyrootes (talk) 15:33, 11 July 2014 (UTC)


 * As I indicated in this edit summary, galleries are discouraged and the edit clearly is based on personal analysis by a Wikipedia editor, regardless of where it may have originated. Such original research is not permitted on Wikipedia. Everything added to Wikipedia must be supported by third party, reliable sources. The change that you made here did not add anything, it simply restored thesame gallery and original research. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 15:35, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

The genie is out of the bottle now. Let's talk about it on the talk page. I think the Australian Flag Society is a good enough source even before one of their media releases gets written up.

Jodyrootes (talk) 15:37, 11 July 2014 (UTC)


 * The Australian flag society isn't a source for the edits that you made. Most of what you wrote was original research. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 15:42, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

You are quite wrong about that. I'm on their email list and here is their latest offering (I'm not a member or anything):

“The 1927 Mystery Unravels” (12 July 2014) 2(1) Flag Breaking News (ISSN 2203-2118)

The seemingly unresolvable controversy over the type of Australian flags used at the 1927 opening ceremony of the second provisional parliament house in Canberra is now one step closer to being solved. The latest research being carried out by the Australian Flag Society shows that, contrary to previous claims that only red ensigns are depicted in the official portrait, the field of the flag flying vertically in the second position in the order of precedence is predominantly blue, and may either be shown as a Union Jack or a blue ensign. One of the flags flying from the flag poles standing vertically in front of the building also has something of a blue streak. Both artists have made small errors in detail, as Power has positioned one of the westernmost horizontal facade poles as turned 90 degrees to the front and depicted facing the crowd instead. Other photographs taken that day also appear to show a large Union Jack flying horizontally from another, lower facade pole also at the western end. However neither of these two features are in evidence in the lithograph as one would expect from the north westerly perspective chosen by the unknown artist.

Upon microscopic examination, the only hard evidence in at least one of the photographs taken that day seems to show a blue ensign draped behind the Union Jack. John Christian Vaughan, vexillographer and former CEO of the Royal Australian Historical Society, has ventured to say: “The Cross of St George on the Union Jack is red and of darker shade that the blue of St Andrew's Cross. It is interesting to note that the blue on the Union Jack matches the shade of Australian flag which, to my eye means that the Australian flag has a blue field not red which would have matched the shade of the red St George's Cross.”

The 1927 mystery deepens according to other corroboration as to the presence of red ensigns, with a correspondent for The West Australian reporting that: "The sunlight streamed through the crimson of drooping flags”. When one binds all the available evidence together, this strongly suggests that both Australian flag variants were present on this occasion. However the choice would likely have been one Power - who left behind the words “It was decided .. flags in red” - would have made alone, and the fact that there was no comment when the official rendition was unveiled is also considered revealing.

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Blocked indefinitely
Let me make something very clear, I am not Australian. What about the Gloriousrevolution account? Chillum 03:41, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

The only substantial issue seems to be whether I'm glorious revolution or not, and not the way I have conducted myself anytime recently. I'm sorry I cant help you there but I just dont remember back that far. But even if I look to you like I was blocked previously. Cant we just start over now? Look at all the content I have added since 2013. It was all done in the usual way you'd expect of a wikipedia editor acting in good faith. The Eureka Jack article even made it into the newspapers. If I keep on keeping on like that, using only this account from now on, would it really be so horrible if I continued my work? I believe that since 2013 I havent been involved in one edit war. I've started up discussions on several talk pages. As I have said, in my jurisdiction criminal convictions even drop off your record after ten years. It just seems a bit unfair that Nick-D can totally savage the Eureka flag article, but leave bits and pieces I added here and there, but minus the sources I gave, and he doesn't get kicked up the bum and I do? You can really see from the revisions he made it was politically motivated. When are you going to sanction Nick-D for that? Do whatever you want to do. Anyone who saw it before can see it's a poverty stricken article on the Eureka flag you have now. Jodyrootes (talk) 04:59, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


 * What about it indeed? Even if it was me, I cant remember back that far. People grow up. Cant we just start over? Look at the state of the Eureka flag article now its gone backwards. And the Eureka Jack article which was one of wikipedias best efforts and will be missed, with the article having been mentioned in an Australian newspaper article and all. Even if you dont uphold this request, can we put the Eureka Jack article back? And return all the content Nick-D took out of the Eureka flag article? He even left what I wrote about the Roll up banner but without the sources I provided! Wouldnt anyone else get kicked up the bum for doing that? Thats over kill dont you reckon? He didnt even reverse each and every one of my edits. Other editors even got in there and cleaned up some of my contributions to those two articles after I put them up there. It's not like Wikipedia does not have a bit of a reputation for partisan, capricious moderators. Wishing I had a conflict of interest doesnt make it so. It's wikipedias loss.

Jodyrootes (talk) 03:52, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


 * If you were to unban me, I could undo all those revisions, and we could take it from there. If Nick-D didn't like it, we could argue it around on the talk page. So as long as I continued to edit in the usual way, there'd be no problem. Everyone would be a winner. Otherwise, as I say, good luck with preserving some of these third or four rate encyclopedia entries. I tried my best.


 * Jodyrootes (talk) 04:40, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Euerka Jack and Eureka flag articles
Perhaps Nick-D can explain why he removed the Eureka Jack article and removed all that sourced content from the Eureka flag article? I think those edits were politically motivated. The Eureka flag article used to be a hug dinger compared to what it is now.

Jodyrootes (talk) 03:21, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Talk page access
Due to your excessive use of the unblock template I have removed your talk page access. There are other users who need their blocks reviewed and you have already been reviewed by several people.

If you wish to seek further review you can use the Unblock Ticket Request System. Chillum 05:03, 4 January 2015 (UTC)