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The article Brett Hales has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged for notability concerns for almost 13 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Poorly sourced and overly promotional finance WP:BLP. Created by the subject himself.

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If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 04:15, 4 June 2026 (UTC)[]

The article Gavin Le Sueur has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged for notability concerns and BLP sources for 12 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Poorly sourced WP:BLP. Fails WP:PROF. Never won any Olympic medals.

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If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 14:48, 4 June 2026 (UTC)[]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Today (1982 TV program)#Requested move 25 May 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 16:45, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[]

Hi WikiProject Australia,

I am hoping a volunteer editor might be willing to review and submit a Wikipedia article about John Steven Novak, an Australian sports mindset coach, author and former television presenter. A fully sourced draft article and ready-to-paste wikitext markup have both been prepared and are available for your review.

I am John's wife, Theresa Novak, and have a conflict of interest under Wikipedia's guidelines, so I am unable to submit the article myself.

Why this article meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines

John has 35 years of continuous independent media coverage (1991-2026) across major Australian publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, The Australian, Fox Sports, GQ Australia, Cleo, ESPNcricinfo and more, a total of 59 verified citations from nine different journalists.

His career includes:

• Australia's first officially labelled home fitness video series (Aussie Fit, 400,000+ sales)
• Co-hosting Aerobics Oz Style on Channel Ten (1986-1990)
• First ever Head of Mind Management in the NRL- Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs (2012-2017)
• Mindset Coach at NRL clubs Eastern suburbs Roosters, Manly Sea Eagles, Soccer club- Sydney FC and AFL Melbourne Deamons, Basketball Sydney Kings and Australian Opals, NSW Waratahs in Rugby
• Mindset coach to Olympic medallists James Magnussen, Melissa Wu and Maximillian Giuliani
• Mindset coach to Test cricketers David Warner and Jake Weatherald
• 20+ published books and titles under the Boomerang Effect framework
• Presentations at National & International conferences

About the draft

The draft has been prepared carefully with full wikitext markup ready to paste. All 59 citations were verified against physical newspaper clippings and digital sources. All articles are traceable to independently published sources.

Key independent feature articles for reference:

• Fox Sports, 24 July 2020: foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2020-manly-sea-eagles-des-hasler-mind-coach-john-novak-bulldogs/news-story/e079385f4e83ff88b31722ff2be1ad58
• Sydney Morning Herald, 8 October 2011: smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/power-of-positive-thinking-guided-haslers-heroes-to-karma-waters-and-title-glory-20111007-1ldkg.html
• The Sunday Telegraph, 11 December 2016: dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/cricket/john-novak-is-the-mysterious-mind-guru-who-has-david-warner-preaching-his-message/news-story/73e1bdfee3f8ee4433b2c6e55cc4aa27
• Sydney Morning Herald, 3 May 2014: smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/golden-boomerang-promises-return-to-success-20140503-zr3uk.html
• Sydney Morning Herald, 3 December 2014: smh.com.au/sport/athletes-put-a-positive-spin-on-students-channelling-winning-energy-20141202-11ysl3.html

I am happy to share the draft document for your review. If any volunteer editor is willing to review it, suggest any changes for Wikipedia compliance, and submit it with appropriate COI disclosure, I would be very grateful.

Thank you for your time.

Kind regards,

Theresa Novak

johnnovaksport.com

Theresa Novak (talk) 01:45, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[]

@Theresa Novak could you share the draft? Paste it in your Sandbox area and then share a link and someone might be able to offer advice. Clicking this link will take you to a template page to get started: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Mypage/John_Novak_(mindset_coach)&action=edit&preload=Template:Article_wizard/userpageskeleton&editintro=Wikipedia:Article_wizard/version1/Wizard-New_edit_instructions_userdraft Jimmyjrg (talk) 05:42, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[]

Sorry, I'm about to go to bed, but I just thought I should quickly ask, is the consensus to use state name or not?? There seems to be repeated consensus on this noticeboard that "placename, statename" should be the title of the articles, and yet there are constant RM's that are moving them away from this? One user even went as far as to call this a "completely uncontroversial" move? Could someone please look into this, if necessary? I'd just like to make sure I'm understanding the situation here. JordyGrey _talk🧸 13:41, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[]

By consensus, one such example would be Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 64#Dropping state/territory from Australian place names by default JordyGrey _talk🧸 13:45, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[]

When I create new articles for localities (and I have made over 100 for Victoria), I tend to not use the state name if it isn't needed. If the state name is added, it will likely be moved eventually, therefore I don't see the need to create more work for future Wikipedians. Viatori (talk) 14:35, 10 June 2026 (UTC)[]

The situation is murky at best. There has been a long-standing convention to use placename, state/territory for Australian places, but recently a lot of editors seem to be in favour of dropping the disambiguation. The relevant guidance is WP:NCAUST which is unhelpfully vague but currently permits both and attempts to change it have resulted in no consensus. It doesnt really clarify when one or the other is more appropriate other than WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, which isnt always a clear distinction. Personally, I would create new articles using placename, state/territory unless it is clearly and unambiguously the only topic by that name (or a very similar one), eg. Ulladulla. Others would favour the reverse. Given the history of the situation, I would disagree that a move like the one you linked is "completely uncontroversial" and fall back on venues to obtain consensus like a Move Request if you have doubts about a particular article. Hope this helps! Dfadden (talk) 00:33, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[]

There is a general principle in Wikipedia that names are not disambiguated unless there is a need to do so. I am not at all persuaded by any of the arguments for disambiguating place names automatically.--Grahame (talk) 07:12, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[]

As Dfadden has pointed out WP:NCAUST allows for some variation, particularly where a location is the primary topic. A common example is where there are no other places with the same name. We've tried to address that one way or the other through RFCs, but so far there has been no consensus for any change from the status quo. TarnishedPath 08:49, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[]

There is consensus to use states to disambiguate location, the RM you link is about whether to use a state name when it is not disambiguating. CMD (talk) 08:53, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[]

Is there a style convention for the capitalization of Commonwealth when used in reference to the nationwide government of Australia? For example, do we prefer The Commonwealth parliament or The commonwealth parliament? — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 22:52, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[]

This has needed sources for literally decades. Please add more sources. Thank you. Bearian (talk) 11:21, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[]

I'll try and take a look at this later today. LivelyRatification (talk) 20:53, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[]

@Bearian: I have added some sources to this article. It is out of my scope of usual edits so I may have made some blunders. I will leave a message at the Colombia WikiProject to ask them about a source I added. LivelyRatification (talk) 00:42, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[]

Thank you, LivelyRatification! Bearian (talk) 01:52, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[]

The article Harry Pavlidis has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged for notability concerns for almost 11 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Poorly sourced BLP. Created by an editor who is now Banned for repeatedly violating copyright.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

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If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 04:30, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[]