Talk:Melbourne International Arts Festival

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I have cleaned up, wikified and referenced the article. There is still much work that needs to be done. Capitalistroadster 11:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Recent removal of 2003 controversy[edit]

An IP user (202.130.195.90) who has recently edited this article, has removed the following contents a second time without edit summary. If there is no good reason for deleting this material, I will restore it. Political interference into the programing integrity of a public arts festival seems like a notable aspect to me. The section in question is:

In 2003, Andrew Olexander, the Victorian Opposition Arts Spokesman criticised the Festival for selecting a show called I Am Blood. Mary Delahunty, the Minister for the Arts, stated that the Festival should select material without political interference. [3]

This statement was referenced with:

[3] Govt should not veto arts festival, Minister says ABC MacquarieNet 2003 (online edition) Accessed 28 June 2006

Cheers -Enki H. (talk) 01:01, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Change page name[edit]

The page name of this article should be changed to Melbourne Festival. As of 2003, the Festival is no longer referred to as Melbourne International Arts Festival. Davidgeoffreyh (talk) 00:36, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 30 July 2014[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved by Davidgeoffreyh (talk · contribs), out of process. No one has contested the move so I will not reverted, but in case this comes up in future anyone should feel free to revert per WP:BRD – the outcome of this RM should not be seen as binding in any way. Jenks24 (talk) 12:39, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Melbourne International Arts Festival → Melbourne Festival – In 2003 the name of the organisation was changed from Melbourne International Arts Festival to Melbourne Festival. The Wikipedia page should be moved in line with the name change. – Davidgeoffreyh (talk) 00:25, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:57, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There are likely many festivals of various sorts in Melbourne. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:57, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Per the official website's festival-history, In 2003, the Festival was renamed Melbourne International Arts Festival, and is now commonly known as Melbourne Festival. The terms-of-use page indicates that the official name of the organiser is Melbourne International Festival of the Arts Limited. Wbm1058 (talk) 02:50, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
On April 1, 2011 – 3 years ago – User:MelbFest changed the title in the lead sentence to Melbourne Festival. It appears that nobody contested this. Just recently, a hatnote was added by 65.94.169.222, and the subsequent expansion of the hatnote has made it too long and unwieldy. I'd say that an event lasting 17 days and drawing over 400,000 attendees is the primary topic, until proven otherwise. I've seen no other festival that specifically calls itself "Melbourne Festival". Wbm1058 (talk) 13:54, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Naming / move[edit]

@MelbFest:: I've reverted your cut and paste move (WP:RM is the correct way if pagemove won't work. That said, I'm also reverting the change of name in the absence of official / reliably sourced evidence that such a name change has occurred. The primary problem is that the official site and its press releases still use "Melbourne Festival" and the MF logo for 2018 -- see https://www.festival.melbourne/. If you have such current evidence that it is actually changing from MF back to MIAF, please add it, but the MWF is not sufficient (people continue to call all sorts of things by old names) -- and indeed I can't see that that the MWF page provides any evidence of such a change. ^~Hydronium^~Hydroxide^~(Talk)~ 08:20, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]