Talk:Mark Colvin

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Request for more on personal life

How about some more on his personal life? 124.171.204.85 (talk) 06:45, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It can be very difficult sometimes to find out personal information about radio announcers. If you look at various articles for A.B.C. announcers, very few if any even mention what year they were born in, let alone anything more detailed. I guess people as public as radio announcers tend to guard their privacy and be tight-lipped about details of their own personal life.

But just yesterday Mark Colvin appeared on Radio National's "Life Matters" (http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2010/3020069.htm), and talked about how he is currently on kidney dialysis 3 days a week, for 5 hours at a time - the kidney damage necessitating this resulting from the illness contracted in Rwanda already mentioned in the article. I also heard this fact a week or so earlier on another program, although I don't remember exactly what the program was.

Not sure if it would be proper to include this or not. Since he said it publicly himself, I guess including it here would not violate privacy. (And I'm not sure if privacy is much of a criterion in Wikipedia for whether something should be mentioned or not. Here's an interesting question: if something embarrassing or private about a person is little-known, but verifiable from a reliable source (if you know where to find the source), is it proper to include it Wikipedia or not?) M.J.E. (talk) 20:17, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Colvin connections

Much more info at Talk:Colvin family. BrainyBabe (talk) 14:37, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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This article has been reassessed as a start according to Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment. Capitalistroadster (talk) 03:21, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request for what happened with Mary-Ellen Field

The damage done to her and her family through the phone hacking was horrific. I think it would be good if it could be said somewhere that they received some kind of settlement from a Murdoch Corporation and/or Macpherson. There would have to be a confidentiality clause but saying that there was a settlement, or there never was a settlement, would be good. If there is nothing known it looks like the Murdochs and Macpherson got away with wrecking people's lives. It should become known if the injustices were left unbalanced or not. Details are not necessary. 2001:8003:A0AC:6200:C4FD:CE15:E74:1EDE (talk) 00:35, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Serious question regarding Mark Colvin's passing.

Hi. Please don't think me stupid, but as the section on his death states, "It was his wish that his last illness remain private and he spent his last weeks in Prince of Wales Hospital with his sons Will and Nicolas."

If it was his wish that his last illness remain private, why have we taken it upon ourselves to include it in the article? Surely the guy deserves some respect for his wishes, even though he's gone. Sunil The Mongoose (talk) 17:31, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's all over the public space, including the mainstream press. Tony (talk) 05:30, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]