Talk:Verity Firth

Her seat is under threat: Callan Swap gives park to green council

The Labor government has just given Callan Park in her seat to the Leichhardt council. While the government denies that this is the reason, her seat will be under threat from the greens at the next election. cojoco (talk) 14:05, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Jamie Parker

I removed some inappropriate info about Jamie Parker

Colourful mayor of Leichhardt Municipal Council Jamie Parker from the NSW Greens is widely tipped to be Ms Firth’s opponent at the 2011 NSW State election. Before entering politics, Parker was best known as the spokesman for Naturopathica, a company which marketed weight loss preparations like FatBlaster and the so-called libido enhancer, Horny Goat Weed.

What is this, Labor Party Propaganda? Anyway, if there is ever a page about him, that's where this material should go. cojoco (talk) 11:24, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

References

Former Politician?

Until she publicly announces her resignation from politics, I would still believe she is still a politician. It would be more accurate to say that she is the former MP for Balmain but still a politician. 01:46, 01 March 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.96.85.89 (talk)

Unsubstaintiated statements of opinion

An edit by Black Regent on 24 October 2011 at 15:37 added two unsubstaintiated statements of opinion; namely that:

1. As Minister for Women, Firth delivered an extra $2.9 million in funding for anti-domestic violence programs, as part of a broader restructuring of NSW Domestic Violence Services; and
2. As Education Minister, Firth introduced Ethics classes into the NSW public school curriculum as a secular alternative to Scripture classes, extended the school leaving age, and implemented an anti-homophobia strategy, 'Proud Schools', to protect children against homophobic bullying in schools.

Without clear citations and references, these edits can be considered as non-verifiable and self-promotion and indiscriminate publicity. Should citations not be added in reasonable time, the content shall be marked for deletion. Jherschel (talk) 08:11, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

They're from Verity Firth's campaign material; I thought the page needed more substance regarding her policies as Education Minister, but I'm willing to delete them if it's against Wikipedia policy. Black Regent (talk) 09:09, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Self-promotion and indiscriminate publicity is against Wikipedia's policy. When editing articles, you should rely on reliable third-party independent sources; not from the person or organisation that the article is about. If you can find independent quotes about Firth's work from sources such as the NSW Teachers Federation, St James Ethics Centre, and organisation(s) that promotes anti-domestic violence, that would be fine as reliable sources. Failing that, would you please delete? Thanks. No offence was intended and I hope you feel ok. Jherschel (talk) 10:00, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Noticed you've already actioned. Cheers. Keep up the great work. Jherschel (talk) 10:04, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Verity Firth. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20070929083610/http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT/hansArt.nsf/V3Key/LA20070508047 to http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT/hansArt.nsf/V3Key/LA20070508047

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 19:09, 20 July 2016 (UTC)