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September 27, 2013	Peer review	Reviewed
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Unsourced material

There have been a number of recent edits by a user identified as Oxesoldier which have added a large amount of information to the article. Unfortunately there are a number of issues with these edits, namely:

the material is mostly unsourced;
it is very long and in many places unencyclopaedic;
it doesn't follow the Manual of Style; and lastly
I suspect it may represent a copy-right violation.

Of course this article is in need of significant expansion and would benifit from most of this information being included. For this to occur however it really needs to be re-written using citations.

As such I have reverted these edits for now. Anotherclown (talk) 08:21, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I had exactly the same concerns, and support the materials removal. Much of it could be reworked to meet the relevant standards, but it needs to be sourced, especially as it appears to have been taken from somewhere else. I left a message at User talk:Oxesoldier earlier today asking what their source was. Nick-D (talk) 10:40, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The material may be unsourced, but its better to leave it since it appears to contain worthwhile info. (I am going by my recollections of PNG post WW2.) After 1975 most colonial records simply went missing, or were destroyed unintentionally. THings such as pre-75 colonial marriage and birth records are long gone from local govt storage. All refs must be from Australian held records, and that will often involve recollections being put down on paper. The NGVR as I remember it in Lae 50-60s was exclusive or near to it. Local members, and I don't recall any, would have been doing the cooking and washing. Members appeared to be the kids of older Australians working in the civil service, or they were single men employed as such. Exclusiveness in clubs was the norm (enforced by UN alcohol prohibition until 1963). The Australian Army in PNG was fully integrated by the 60s, and PNG nationals could have the same rank and ate in the same mess. THe NGVR rankled with the PNG government and they made it clear they would not tolerate a foreign militia in the country.203.87.98.101 (talk) 01:35, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

G'day, thank you for your interest; however, please be aware that site policies require that all information be sourced to reliable sources. There has been a pretty solid effort to bring this article up to Good Article status since the information was added, so I'm not sure that this issue is relevant anymore. However, if you feel that there is information that should be included that currently isn't in the article, please list it here on the talk page, providing suitable references, so that consensus can be established about whether or not it should be included. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 02:26, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]