[WikiEN-l] Queen Elizabeth II

Fri Mar 4 07:23:20 UTC 2005

Peter, the Queen IS the Head of state here in Australia , though the matter is 
complicated by the G-G representing her.

On another note, are you Peter Ellis? Just wondering...

Arno

----- Original Message -----
From: Skyring <skyring at gmail.com>
To: slimvirgin at gmail.com, "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] 3RR applied to both parties?
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:51:25 +1100

> 
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:37:35 -0700, slimvirgin at gmail.com
> <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Peter, this probably isn't the place to discuss the factual details,
> > but in brief you are doing original research. Here is the Governor
> > General's page http://www.gg.gov.au/html/fset_role.html There's
> > nothing republican about this description.
> >
> > We had a similar situation a few weeks ago when an editor kept
> > deleting that Israel is a parliamentary democracy, because that editor
> > believes that Israel is not democratic enough, and was able to quote
> > other sources making the same point. But that's beside the point:
> > Israel is recognized by reputable sources as a parliamentary
> > democracy, so that's the term Wikipedia uses; similarly, the Queen is
> > recognized as the Australian head of state by most reputable sources,
> 
> But that's the point, Sarah. She isn't. You might as well say that
> she's the Queen of England. Lots of people would put money on this,
> but they would be wrong.
> 
> I don't mind if incorrect popular opinion is mentioned so long as it
> is clearly labelled as such.
> 
> --
> Peter in Canberra
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