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
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From: Skyring <skyring(a)gmail.com>
To: slimvirgin(a)gmail.com, "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)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(a)gmail.com
<slimvirgin(a)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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