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July 2013: deletion of content[edit]

Significant vandalism to the ALSA page by user Drmies. Please use the Talk page to discuss proposed changes and do not delete large swathes of content, as per Wikipedia's guidelines. Thanks for your help.JJCaesar (talk) 08:56, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Conferences[edit]

Janetcl just re-added vast amounts of trivia without providing any secondary sources. Much of the re-added trivia comes without any sources, and a bunch of press releases (plus one Facebook page) are not that much better. There is no indication the competitions held by the Association have received any independent coverage, much less winners and runners-up in specific years. In fact, none of the content here cites a reliable third-party source. Thus we should cut the article down to some basics until it can be turned into a neutral summary of what independent sources say about the association. Huge lists of hundreds of names don't help. Huon (talk) 14:06, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

1. I have significantly edited the original version to remove large parts of spam and trivia. Your reversion took no account of this.
2. I have added a sources needed tag for the relevant sections requiring sources. Some time should be afforded to fix that, rather than deleting masses of data which is on its face reasonable.
3. There were in fact some sources for some of the results of competitions.
4. I note a message (not by you) on my talk page re conflicts. I have no conflict. Thanks for asking.
I have therefore reverted the deleted parts with the relevant tags. Do not simply delete huge amounts of the page. Let us see if we can fix the problem by adding sources. Janetcl (talk)
I note that, before this issue could be resolved here, user Chrissymad has peremptorily reverted my edits and asserted my edits were disruptive because they added "promotional" material to this page. Could that please be explained here. I am not sure how the previous version was promotional. Janetcl (talk) 03:03, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This article has been tagged for insufficient references since at least 2007, almost a decade and more than half the existence of Wikipedia. I think we can agree that a decade is enough time for improvement before improperly referenced content can be removed. In fact, the remaining text still largely is not based on secondary sources, and if anything, further pruning is required. Not even the sentence you added here is fully supported by the given source. The sources for the results of the competitions were far worse and amounted to press releases. Huon (talk) 14:51, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
1. The competition results have been removed. I am happy to keep them removed while there are no proper sources. I think what someone has done, if you look at the former table, is transcribe the names of the winners from the championship trophies of some of these competitions, because there was one notation saying that the winner was unreadable on the trophy.
2. As for the rest of the article, I suspect one of the reasons for the problem you raise was that the primary source tag was placed oddly at the very bottom of (then) long article, rather than at the top of the page, so it was very easy to miss. You will notice I have since moved it to the top of the page. I am happy to look for some secondary sources.
3. As for the sentence I added to which you refer above, I assume you mean that the source cited does not say that Connolly was the "first" president of the association. That is correct, though when you take into account the existing context of the article which says that it was founded in 1979, the proposition seems to be supported. Nonetheless if you think "first" should be replaced with "one of its earliest" (which clearly is supported), then I don't think that change is unreasonable. Janetcl (talk) 22:54, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

These massive deletions are uncalled for. The content is the product of considerable research and has been sourced where possible. JJCaesar (talk) 03:40, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JJCaesar. Originally I was inclined to resist the changes but I do agree that most of it is not sourced properly and has been for some time. Hence I have done my best to improve it from the stripped down version. Do you have a proper source for all that material? Could you give it here? Another problem is much of it is trivia. Thanks. Janetcl (talk) 05:25, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I have reverted the large vandalism. First, the content is sourced from engravings on silver ALSA trophies. This is as high a legitimate a source can be - engraved in metal. Where it has been announced online, that has been sourced too. Second, the content is not trivia. If you read the link provided above by UserJanetcl (who is by the way a confirmed sockpuppet), you will see that "A trivia section is one that contains a disorganized and "unselective" list. However, a selectively populated list with a relatively narrow theme is not necessarily trivia, and can be the best way to present some types of information." This is not disorganized and unselective - it is a list of winners and runners up of the ALSA competitions. That would be like deleting the list of Australian Prime Ministers simply because it is a list. Third, a comment was made that this article has been tagged for insufficient references since 2007. That tag has been removed, the references are sufficient. JJCaesar (talk) 05:17, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018: deletion of content[edit]

Reverted significant vandalism to the ALSA page by user Deli nk. Please use the Talk page to discuss proposed changes and do not delete large swathes of content, as per Wikipedia's guidelines. Thanks for your help.JJCaesar (talk) 00:48, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deli nk's edits were good faith and constructive. I have reinstated his edits which fix, most significantly, some gross violations of WP:External links. The table of winners is also outside the scope of encyclopedic content. —C.Fred (talk) 00:55, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
C.Fred, thank you for pointing me to the External Links page, you make a good point. However, the table of winners is certainly encyclopaedic given these represent the top of the major regional law competitions. In any similar article, you will see a table of winners. See for example Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Hong Kong Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot, Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court and more. If you look to other competition articles, eg Auckland Marathon, Windsurfing World Championships, America's Cup. I will await a response over the next week before reverting the deletions. JJCaesar (talk) 09:27, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@JJCaesar: Comparing it to other law competition articles, they list the university that won the competition, not the individual competitors. So, I think it would be reasonable to restore the table with the competitors' names and links to videos stripped. Here are the first three rows for how I think would be appropriate:
Year Championship Moot Witness Examination Negotiation Client Interviewing IHL Moot Paper Presentation
Champion Runner-Up Champion Runner-Up Champion Runner-Up Champion Runner-Up Champion Runner-Up Champion
2017[1] Adelaide Auckland Flinders UWA Notre Dame Sydney Deakin Burwood Auckland Notre Dame Sydney UNSW QUT UQ
2016[2] UNSW Waikato Tasmania Canterbury Waikato Canterbury ANU Griffith Bond UNSW UQ
2015 UNSW Tasmania Otago Auckland UWS Adelaide Auckland Macquarie QUT UTS UQ
At least the acronyms need linked on their first mention in the table, if not the name of every university on its first mention; I had to go back to the table of members to figure out things like UTS, although UQ was reasonably obvious. —C.Fred (talk) 14:45, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ https://www.facebook.com/791548627575942/photos/a.903251573072313.1073741830.791548627575942/1539721259425338/?type=3
  2. ^ https://www.facebook.com/ALSAonline/photos/a.217752084902602.63670.144665782211233/1231305673547233/?type=3&theater
C.Fred, thank you for suggesting that the acronyms be linked on their first mention. The names of the winners have been listed in some competitions; it is helpful to include it in this table because over time, many of the winners and runners up end up as senior members of the Australian legal profession. For example, Justice Francois Kunc of the NSW Supreme Court, Judge Michael Rackemann of the Qld District Court, Peter Braham, Jeremy Kirk, David McLure, are all silks. I will propose an edit shortly which would reinstate the content without external links and with names. Hope this is a suitable compromise! JJCaesar (talk) 00:36, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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