User talk:Spear

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May 2011[edit]

Please do not add unsourced content, as you did to Geurie, New South Wales. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Bidgee (talk) 11:07, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Deep Purple. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Mlpearc powwow 12:34, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

November 2014[edit]

Janine Balding[edit]

Just wondering about your edit to Murder of Janine Balding at 06:25, 22 September 2013. See here. I presume a mistake? I've reverted it manually anyway. Regards, 220 of ^Borg 13:54, 26 November 2014 (UTC) Hi. From what I see., I removed the word "bludgeoned". Janine was not bludgeoned in any way. I know. I was the forensic (crime scene) officer who conducted the entire forensic investigation of her murder - including the post-mortem, autopsy examination at the Westmead Mortuary. Dr. Peter ELLIS was the attending pathologist and I assisted him with the examination and photographing of her body. I still hold a copy of the entire prosecution brief and every photograph I took during the investigation. One would assume that qualifies me to correct inaccuracies? Cheers.[reply]

Anzac/ANZAC Parade[edit]

Re: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Australian_War_Memorial&diff=635941389&oldid=635940711 - do you have a reference that says the road name is capitalised? Everything I've seen (example) says that it's "Anzac Parade". Mitch Ames (talk) 06:52, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2015[edit]

Hello, I'm TJRC. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Janine Balding, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 05:37, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I AM the reliable source. I was intensely involved in Janine's murder as the forensics Police officer who investigated same. I have a copy of the entire brief of evidence, including Moberley's statement - evidence that she gave at the coroner's inquest, committal and subsequent Supreme Court trials. All that evidence is on the public record and as court transcripts. I could expand this entry to the nth degree if necessary, but I'm just trying to add what I see as relevant, pertinent and interesting points. Perhaps a relevant citation could be statement page and paragraph numbers, with the name of the trial???

You'll need to cite to "reliable, published sources". Please review Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. You cannot simply cite to your own knowledge. Your personal knowledge may be correct, but does not qualify as a reliable source as that term is used in Wikipedia. It also appears to be "original research," another inpermissible practice. Please have a look at Wikipedia:No original research. TJRC (talk) 21:32, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Too hard. Game over.

June 2015[edit]

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Thank you. 220 of ^Borg 04:36, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pink Floyd[edit]

Virtually all of your edits are in violation of our Manual of Style, or just matters of personal preference. Please stop, and familiarize yourself with WP:MOS before making further edits of this nature. --Laser brain (talk) 13:39, 1 September 2015 (UTC) No personal preferences here. All common English usage. I fail to see any 'violations' as you call them - but if that's your decision, so be it! Who am I to argue?[reply]

Every place where people write has house styles and conventions. You should familiarize yourself with these before making purely stylistic changes (such as changing numbers from words to figures). There are specific reasons for the way these things are, especially in Featured articles such as Pink Floyd. --Laser brain (talk) 15:04, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Murder of Janine Balding[edit]

Hi, can you provide a more complete cite than "The Daily Telegraph 25/09/2019"? A link to the article, the article's name or at least a complete date with an actual year? I'd like to keep your contribution in the article, but not if it cannot be verified. TJRC (talk) 15:54, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. That was obviously a typo/slip that omitted the 9 in 2019. The journalist who wrote the article is Janet Fife-Yeomans, chief crime reporter for The Daily Telegraph, who reported on the Balding murder from day one. I was the NSW Police Forensics officer who had carriage of the crime scene/s from day one, and I've stayed in touch with Janet since the days of the original court matters - Coroner's Court right through to the Supreme Court Trials. The details for the cited entry are taken directly from her reporting on Wilmot's appeal. Hope that helps. Thank you. Spear (talk) 10:05, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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