Talk:Lindy Morrison

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Contents 1 Sourcing 2 Malicious misrepresentation of sources 3 Inaccuracy in Source used 4 Unprofessional conduct contrary to Wikipedia policy 5 Proposed restoration of previously deleted unsourced material. 6 Proposed additional material (with references). 7 Notes

[edit] Sourcing

There's this for some of the information that's been removed. I'm not adding any of it due to the OTRS problems and note in the edit summary....FWIW the only source currently in the article looks like a self-published source to me in addition. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 01:04, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Malicious misrepresentation of sources

I want to point out the malicious misrepresentation of two sources (by user Iam) in an edit of this articleon 18'th Dec 2007.

In this edit, user Iam makes claims and cites references which do not in any way support his claims, in what amounts to a malicious and underhanded attack on the reputation of Lindy Morrison.

Malicious because his hurtful claims could not be mistaken for accidental misinterpretations of those sources.

Underhanded because he attempted to slip the hurtful claims into the biography undetected, by marking his edits as minor.

He even had the effrontery to cite Wikipedia NPOV policy whilst inserting the following malicious lies into this article:

a) "Xero had the reputation of being banned from every club in Brisbane because of their low level of musicianship and shoplifting charges" when in fact the reference given THE GO-BETWEENS ARCHIVE supports neither claim. No mention of 'charges' nor does it make any claims about Xero's 'reputation'.

In fact there were no such charges and anyone claiming otherwise at Wikipedia in future best be able to produce a verifiable official document. It can't be done because there were no charges laid.

b) "securing the lowest number of votes ever for a Democrats candiate (sic) in New South Wales". The reference given is THE POLL BLUDGER. Anyone bothering to read that reference would find for themselves that the reference makes no such claim and in fact does not even mention the number of votes received by the Democratic candidate in the seat of Wentworth. The claim is also factually wrong.

Nothing but fabrication from the pen of Iam. I implore all contributors to check out his claims for themselves and join with me in condemning Iam for using Wikipedia in this despicable, underhanded and hurtful manner.

--Mark Ilsley (talk) 13:55, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inaccuracy in Source used

I would also like to point out that Iam makes one further claim which is also untrue, that "she was replaced by a drum machine" in 1989. The reference given is FYFEOPEDIA.

There is some support for this interpretation of the facts in the source which claims that "Morrison's often bypassed in favour of a drum machine" during the recording of their last album, 16LL.

In fact it was LM's drum kit and not LM herself which was sometimes 'bypassed' on the recording of 16LL. Lindy programed the drum machine herself and so her (artistic) input was never 'bypassed'. She was there, she would know who programed the machine.

--Mark Ilsley (talk) 12:57, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unprofessional conduct contrary to Wikipedia policy

I want to point out the unprofessional conduct by TheClashFan in twice reverting edits which sort to remove the malicious misrepresentation of sources inserted into this article by Iam on 18'th Dec 2007.

TheClashFan may or may not have known that the claims being made by Iam were malicious but the fact remains that he twice reverted edits which sort to remove these malicious claims despite the fact that the original references given by Iam did not support his claims.

I implore all contributors to read and check the references of all claims made in future and to refrain from restoring any claim which is poorly sourced.

This behaviour is to be used as grounds for a check for sockpuppet abuse.

--Mark Ilsley (talk) 13:55, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed restoration of previously deleted unsourced material.

I've located sources for the following material which was restored to the article by user Lindymorrison on her Revision as of 04:47, 24 March 2008 and then deleted by Daniel on his Revision as of 08:25, 24 March 2008and propose the restoration of the material.

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Before her time as a musician Lindy was active in Brisbane, employed by the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders Legal Service, where she worked with Aboriginal activist Denis Walker to protect the rights of Aboriginal people. ^[1][2][3][4]

She was later part of the Popular Theatre Troupe^[5][6] who protested against the Bjelke-Petersen led National Party government performing for free in public their sharply satirical political street theatre^[7] during a time when life in Queensland was felt to be strongly constrained by the government, select business groups, and political interests.^[8]

Morrison currently resides in Sydney with her daughter Lucinda^[9]. She works in community music [for example, the Wataboshi Festival ^[10]]. One of her part time jobs is as a community musician where she directs a group of intellectually disabled musicians known as The Junction House Band. ^[11][12]

She also serves as a board member for the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia^[13] where she serves as a representative of registered Australian recording artists (or 'artist director', making contributions to changes in policy to benefit recording artists^[14]) , and national casework coordinator of the benevolent society Support Act Ltd. ^{[15] [16]} She has also ventured into politics as an Australian Democrats candidate. She failed to win in the Federal seat of Wentworth^[17][18] and in the New South Wales (seat of Coogee)^[19][20]state elections.

--Mark Ilsley (talk) 12:47, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed additional material (with references).

Lindy is also the sole author of a short workbook entitled "Australian women in rock and pop music" and made a 1 hour duration video to accompany it. Intended as student material it is housed in the National Library of Australia.^[21] Interviewees for the video include Kylie Minogue, Tina Arena and Wendy Matthews.

Lindy was also the artist in residence at South Sydney Youth Service (1998 - 2001) and was employed by TAFE as the head tutor for the music course run by SSYS.^[22] She also teaches contracts and copyright and music business modules at TAFE.^[23]

Lindy is also currently a Director on the Music Council of Australia Board.^[24]

--Mark Ilsley (talk) 02:43, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notes