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Happy editing! Cheers, TarnishedPathtalk 12:15, 28 October 2026 (UTC)
Adding to @Aesurias's comments at Special:Diff/1382631090/1382888017 and @Travis Mulch's at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ben Roberts-Smith/archive2, your editing of this article and commenting at the featured article candidate page has become highly disruptive. Multiple editors, myself included, have given you guidance which you appear to continue to ignore. Your actions display competency issues and a desire to right great wrongs. Please stop before this ends up at a noticeboard. TarnishedPathtalk 01:43, 31 October 2026 (UTC)
- Ps, if you really want something to sink your teeth into, check out Roberts-Smith v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited. I've recently turned it into a redirect to the biography article because frankly the biography article was more comprehensive on the case. However, it could be broadened out with material currently in the biography and expanded even further for someone who cared. I thought about doing that myself but I have a lot of projects on my plate. If you are interested, all you'd need to do to get started would be to revert my edit at Special:Diff/1382962009. TarnishedPathtalk 09:56, 31 October 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you for the suggestion. I'll have a look, but I don't think I'd be very good at it, and I worry that would result in the page being even more skewed towards his "national hero" slogan? Southern Ocean (talk) 10:14, 31 October 2026 (UTC)
- It's a page focused on the case. I don't think you need to worry about that skew. Check out the version just before I turned it into a redirect at Special:Permalink/1371602460. Go nuts on it, just make sure you adhere to WP:BLP and if you want any guidance give me a yell. TarnishedPathtalk 10:17, 31 October 2026 (UTC)
- I thought expanding it elsewhere might mean it gets taken out of the other page? Southern Ocean (talk) 12:56, 31 October 2026 (UTC)
- Nah, not necessarily. The bio is pretty comprehensive in its coverage, but it doesn't go into excessive detail in regard to the court case. That's precisely because it's a biography. There's plenty of scope to go into more detail about the defamation case in a dedicated article about it, without that meaning that detail is necessarily removed from the biography. TarnishedPathtalk 13:38, 31 October 2026 (UTC)
- I thought expanding it elsewhere might mean it gets taken out of the other page? Southern Ocean (talk) 12:56, 31 October 2026 (UTC)
- It's a page focused on the case. I don't think you need to worry about that skew. Check out the version just before I turned it into a redirect at Special:Permalink/1371602460. Go nuts on it, just make sure you adhere to WP:BLP and if you want any guidance give me a yell. TarnishedPathtalk 10:17, 31 October 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you for the suggestion. I'll have a look, but I don't think I'd be very good at it, and I worry that would result in the page being even more skewed towards his "national hero" slogan? Southern Ocean (talk) 10:14, 31 October 2026 (UTC)