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Adam Marshall

Nope! The version that is there gets across all the key facts without creating an undue weight issue. The version that you want to adds nothing significant to the article apart from comments from various people that it was bad (which is completely self-evident), and serves no other purpose than to pad out the focus on this issue in this article. For that kind of detail to be appropriate, you'd have to expand the rest of the article by a good 200-300%.

This said, I'm not opposed to extending what's there if there is sufficiently good reason, it's sufficiently well-sourced, and it's not over-egged - i.e. the Daily Telegraph expose on his driving record, which was clearly significant, and the summary of the article on Wikipedia stuck to key facts, so I added that section back in.

Calling it a continuing scandal is a bit much. There are zero Google News hits on this issue in the last three weeks, since the last of the regional newspapers caught up with his conviction, and lots of coverage about Marshall doing a whole bunch of other things - in fact, the press seems to be much more concerned with his support for medical marijuana since then. The Drover's Wife (talk) 04:55, 6 August 2014 (UTC)