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This is a draft, notability standards do not apply to drafts. Every draft falls short of Wikipedia's standards, that's why they are drafts.
As far as drafts go, this one is better than most. It's just that - a draft - and according to Wikipedia standards, it is only after 6 months of abandonment that a draft can be deleted, excepting very special circumstances and multiple users agreeing to the deletion. This is a draft, not a published article. Can you quote the part of the current draft which you believe requires non-standard, immediate deletion? Max Freedom Pollard (born 1993) is an Australian author and library administrator, listed as President Emeritus of The Library, a public library in Seven Hills, Australia. He published New Testament: Immaculata Version (2021) and ElementOP: Imprinting (2025) and serves on the University of Adelaide Library committee. In October 2024 he was apprehended in Sydney following what media described as an armed siege, and judgements from his earlier 2023–2024 civil proceedings now form part of New South Wales case law.
Literary Career
Pollard published New Testament: Immaculata Version in 2021 and ElementOP in 2025. He has also published work on other Semitic languages.
He is listed as President Emeritus of The Library, a public library in Seven Hills, and as a member of the University of Adelaide Library committee.
Immaculata Translation
Pollard's New Testament: Immaculata Version (2021) translation implements verse and chapter change, as opposed to merely word change. The translation claims to fix inaccuracies introduced along with the verse-and-chapter system introduced in the middle ages.
ElementOP: Imprinting
The book ElementOP claims to introduce new theories of ontogenetic plasticity, described in the books synopsis:
That ethological imprinting is a process trait present in all advanced species.
That the evolutionary advantage imprinting provides is an advantage to the evolutionary process itself, allowing evolution in relation to organism and object type, as opposed to form.
That ethological imprinting processes which shape behavioural perception are identifiable in humans.
2024 Sydney police operation
On 22–23 October 2024, New South Wales Police attended an apartment building in the Coogee area, advising the public to avoid the area as specialist officers responded. According to the police, "just after 8.20 pm, police gained access to the unit and the man was arrested," and officers later "located and seized two allegedly unauthorised firearms and a ballistic vest." The incident was covered broadly by Australian media including News Corp Australia.
Television coverage by 9News Sydney indicates Pollard was arrested for AK47 and Cobalt 60 possession.
Supreme Court litigation
In 2023–2024, Pollard was a self-represented defendant in civil proceedings brought by his former employer Aland Care Pty Ltd in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
In Aland Care Pty Ltd v Pollard [2023] NSWSC 1466, Aland Care Pty Ltd sued Pollard, seeking a non-publication order to restrain Pollard from publishing matters in dispute. A permanent non-publication order was granted. The case became a part of the less than 1% selected to become published Caselaw, and details of the dispute are published on the NSW Caselaw website.
In Aland Care Pty Ltd v Pollard [2024] NSWSC 439 The Hon. Justice Francois Kunc dismissed Pollard's motion to summarily dismiss the proceedings under Part 9.4AAA of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ruling that owners corporations are not "eligible recipients" under the act. PaulHSAndrews (talk) 12:08, 20 October 2025 (UTC) PaulHSAndrews (talk) 12:40, 20 October 2025 (UTC)