Talk:Murder of Cassius Turvey

Naming the accused

I'm just wondering what the guidelines are on naming the accused person, before conviction? I had a quick look at WP:MURDEROF and couldn't see anything specific there. (In this case, the accused's name is all over the media.) Laterthanyouthink (talk) 06:08, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

I was curious about this as well. I erred on the side of caution initially but it has now been added, and is very widely reported, including cnn, bbc and abc, so I assume at this point it is fairly safe to include? Dauwenkust (talk) 12:51, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Hey, this is late and no longer applicable to this article, but for future reference: the most relevant policy would be found here Wikipedia:BLPCRIME Mason7512 (talk) 01:23, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Since Gilmore was found not guilty, should her name be removed from the article? WWGB (talk) 02:19, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

cat:History of Indigenous Australians

Re: ... I really don't think that this falls within the scope of Category:History of Indigenous Australians, for the purposes of categorisation. Per WP:CATDEF, are there reliable sources referring to it as such? Mitch Ames (talk) 00:55, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

The scope of the category does cover it. Such as Death of Ms Dhu and Hornet Bank massacre. Articles about the deaths of Native Australians are appropriate under the history category. And it appears that Cassius' death which is now a murder due to the charges filed was because the rationale for his this act was because of his background. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:24, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

The Hornet Bank massacre occurred in 1857, which one might reasonably consider "historic" - it's not exactly on a par with something that happened two weeks ago.

Like Turvey, the 2014 Death of Ms Dhu is not "historic" by any reasonable definition. There's nothing in the article to suggest that it's historic, the reliable sources don't refer to it as a historic event. (There were some changes to the laws as a consequence of her death, but they were to do with fine defaulters, not Indigenous people.)

Mitch Ames (talk) 12:02, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

I feel like part of the problem here is to do with the definition of history. I always understood history to be "study and the documentation of the past", and as such all past events were history, but I feel like a stricter definition of history as famous or consequential events is being applied? However I would have thought something like Captain Moonlight would have fallen under History of Australia despite noe bing overly famous or consequential, but I can see that has also not been categorised as history, so my understanding there may be lacking. Dauwenkust (talk) 04:40, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Captain Moonlite is in Category:History of Australia indirectly via Category:Bushrangers, Category:Irish emigrants to colonial Australia. Mitch Ames (talk) 05:06, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Article title

Now that the two accused have been found guilty of murder, would it be appropriate to rename the article to "Murder of Cassius Turvey"? I am not familiar with the policy around that and general guidelines that are practiced. Ornithoptera (talk) 23:02, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

 Done. WWGB (talk) 02:18, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

WA or WA's

@Mitch Ames: see https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/listing/2024. Elrondil (talk) 12:55, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

See https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/mechelle-turvey, which says "2024 WA Australian of the Year", with no apostrophe. Mitch Ames (talk) 14:04, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

The Wynne (2023) reference has an apostrophe, and there are 8 listed here: https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/listing/2024. I think Wynne (2023) got it right, and the awards wrote it poorly. Elrondil (talk) 14:18, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

"2024 WA Australian of the Year" reads as "2024 Western Australian Australian of the Year" … something is wrong. Elrondil (talk) 14:22, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

To put it another way, there is a 2024 Australian of the Year for each state and territory, and inserting the apostrophe [... correctly expresses that] there are several people who are "Australian of the Year", one from each state and territory. Elrondil (talk) 14:29, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

The Wynne (2023) reference has an apostrophe — Sources differ on the exact punctation - here are some that don't have the apostrophe . The other source currently in the article is not consistent in its use of the apostrophe.

the awards wrote it poorly — australianoftheyear.org.au is a close to an official source as I've seen. I suggest we should use https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/mechelle-turvey as the definitive title, regardless of whether you think it is "wrong". I've searched but I can't find any more "official" source - but I'm open to the possibility that there is one, if someone can provide a link.

2024 Western Australian Australian of the Year … something is wrong — Nothing is wrong; "WA" (which is what australianoftheyear.org.au says) or "Western Australia[n]" is a noun adjunct, with "WA" being the adjunct to the noun (phrase) "Australian of the Year".

Mitch Ames (talk) 03:10, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

The Australian of the Year Awards use the title in a proper English sentence (like we're trying to) in their official media release. Can we please use that wording, which is just as official as https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/mechelle-turvey but less problematic, especially in the context of this note: "The Australian of the Year Awards program is run by the National Australia Day Council. It includes state and territory awards, including the Australian of the Year Awards for Western Australia. The Australian of the Year Awards for Western Australia are NOT connected with an awards program known as the Western Australian of the Year, run by the Celebrate WA organisation."? Elrondil (talk) 08:58, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

OK, done. I've also swapped the order of the refs so the media release (with "2024 Australian of the Year for Western Australia") comes first, before the one that says "2024 WA Australian of the Year"). Mitch Ames (talk) 09:50, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

Out of curiosity, I followed the link from https://australianoftheyear.org.au/news-and-media/news/article/2024-australians-year-western-australia-announced to the high resolution photos, where I found this picture that is sufficiently hi-res to zoom in and read the text on the award that she is holding. It says:

NOMINEE
Western Australia
Australian of the Year

which doesn't help us, because it suggests she was only a nominee! (She was, of course, a nominee for the national "Australian of the Year", as all state/territory awardees were.) Mitch Ames (talk) 10:03, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure I follow.

The photo shows her with a certificate for being nominated. Nomination is not the same as awarding, with the former happening before the latter. Elrondil (talk) 14:30, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

https://australianoftheyear.org.au/news-and-media/news/article/2024-australians-year-western-australia-announced says The 2024 Australian of the Year Award recipients for Western Australia have been announced ... The 2024 Australian of the Year for Western Australia is advocate for victims of crime, Mechelle Turvey so this page is apparently about awarding of Australian of the Year for WA (AOTY for WA), not nomination for AOTY for WA. At the bottom of that page is PHOTOS: From the awards announcement event ... from this link (credit NADC/Salty Dingo): WA Media Distribution photos - High res from which I deduce that the photos are of awards for AOTY for WA, not nominations for AOTY for WA. But the certificate shown in the photo says "Nominee", not "Award". My understanding is that (for each of 4 categories, including Senior, Young, Local Hero) "states and territories ... announce their own winners ... with those ... local recipients in the running for the national AOTY awards"; i.e. a recipient of AOTY for WA is a nominee for the national AOTY. This all makes sense, but what I was looking for - to help resolve out disagreement as to the official name of the award that Turvey won - was a photograph showing a certificate/award with the official name of the award that she won. What I found is a certificate that says she is a nominee, not a recipient.

It's not a bit problem - I'm happy to use AOTY for WA in our article - but it bothers the pedant in me. Mitch Ames (talk) 01:29, 18 May 2025 (UTC) Mitch Ames (talk) 01:29, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

I suspect that this is an older photo taken at the time the nomination occurred. I had a very quick look yesterday and couldn't find a date inside the image. Being nominated is already an honour. Having taken the photo, perhaps they dumped it into the set of photos for the award not having a good photo taken at the award itself, probably not expecting anyone to zoom in on and look at the text on the certificate 😀. But that really is just supposition, and thankfully the media release is clear.

The website is messy and IMO awful; look at https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/listing/2024 for example. There are nine winners (as in 'more than one') listed under "Australian of the Year" (singular), with the first two (plural) being co-winners for New South Wales, with a different coloured background. Well, those two are actually the Australians of the Year (which I assume is what the different coloured background is meant to communicate), the rest are Australians of the Year for their state and territory. It isn’t clear whether (1) the first two are also still Australians of the Year for their state (NSW) or (2) their Australian of the Year for NSW was promoted to (that is, replaced by) their Australian of the Year award. The website fails to communicate clearly and concisely, and it’s just a mess. Elrondil (talk) 02:11, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

I suspect that this is an older photo taken at the time the nomination occurred. I had a very quick look yesterday and couldn't find a date inside the image. — I downloaded the image from https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/st79dwrlfisbbsfanabf3/h?dl=0&e=2&rlkey=srf2oy7agbwjlgduakbhytxlq (don't just click on the image, click the download icon) and checked the metadata - Date taken is 2023-11-02. But a better picture (from the same page, and which I should have looked at before) is this, where she is holding what I presume is the actual award (it looks fancier, not a certificate), which says:

Mechelle Turvey
Western Australia
2024 Australian of the Year

The website fails to communicate clearly and concisely, and it’s just a mess — I definitely agree on that. Mitch Ames (talk) 06:26, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

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