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Wishful Thinking (band)[edit]Hi, i'll see what I can do over the next few weeks. Archiving[edit]Note, everything up to December 2006 has been archived. Garrie 10:06, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Just a suggestion for Roguelike sourcing[edit]Hi Garrie, I see in the AfD for Seven day roguelike that you're looking for items that meet WP:RS. I would suggest using google and combining Roguelike with big-name sources of gaming content like 1UP.com or IGN. Typically you'll find a few items for more esoteric subjects (like Roguelike) that will be less easily challenged as improper sourcing. Just a thought I had which might help. Cheers, Lankybugger 01:00, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. You voted for Mulesing, which has been selected as Australian collaboration. Please help to improve it in any way you can. Thanks. --Scott Davis Talk 12:14, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
I must have forgotten to remove the reference request after inserting the link to the permit. I may edit the entry to indicate that Tri-solven isn't registered, only permitted for minor use. Dunhill BKK 07:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
The AVA article may refer to the use of products, however, I'm pointing out that the product has not been registered for use. To become registered the product would have to overcome a significant shortfall in metabolism data, considering the new actives included in the product that are currently not registered for use in any food producing animals. The permit scheme is supposed to allow for minor use, and this may be a broad consideration of minor use for the current permit. Dunhill BKK 01:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC) Wrestling[edit]CANNON The slam publication is not a wrestling publication, it is a canadian sports publication. And from what I understand its owned by Calgary Sun, so the article as it appears is the Calgary Sun version. JN322 15:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for advice & welcome[edit]Garrie, I much appreciate you response to my first contribution. I must say, getting the hang of this environment isn't all straightforward, but your suggestions have been spot on. One bit of further advice would be great. Is there some way to save work on a developing article as you go? I just had the disagreeable experience of loosing the lot by swithing to another page before saving. The only thing I can think of is to produce the piece in a word processor & then paste it - but there must be a better way. Cheers, john —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JohnHarmonPrice (talk • contribs) 00:51, 9 January 2007 (UTC). sandbox[edit]Garrie, that sounds about right. I'll give t a go. Thanks. JohnHarmonPrice 01:23, 9 January 2007 (UTC)John Robert Cotton[edit]Thanks--Grahamec 06:14, 10 January 2007 (UTC) Thanks very much! It's nice to know my stuff actually gets read sometimes. :) Rebecca 07:09, 10 January 2007 (UTC) Laurie Lawrence[edit]I have now added the information you requested for the birthdate of Laurie Lawrence. You could have asked me for the information with more courtesy than you did, and I am not impressed that, while you criticised me for not adding the information in the first instance, you did not bother taking the time, or effort, to say thank you to me for creating the article in the first place. On a final note, the information you asked for is not required when adding birthdates to biographical articles on Wikipedia (check biographical articles if you do not believe me). Figaro 23:56, 10 January 2007 (UTC) Thanks for the tips[edit]Thanks for your pointers on my questions on schools and family articles. I should have known there would be a guideline for school listings. My instinct that reliable and verifiable sources was a key to inclusion seems to have been good. --Pigmantalk • contribs 05:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC) Mulesing[edit]Ok. I'll remove the PETA reference. Prester John 18:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC) I find it offensive that you removed a true statement while claiming that it was impossible to verify. It took me 3 mins to find a reference. Wikipedia is a project commited to truth. If you want to pursue partisan politics you really should be focusing your energies elsewhere. Prester John 05:15, 14 January 2007 (UTC) I saw Wikipedia:Help_desk#As_of_-_template_or_similar.3F late. See Wikipedia:As of. PrimeHunter 02:11, 14 January 2007 (UTC) 2000 Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony[edit]If you would like help with this information, perhaps you might like to say 'please' to me. Also, you might like to show me the courtesy of telling me exactly how I am supposed to fill in the 'people' requirement for the DVD, and where I am supposed to put the verification templates. Perhaps it might be best if I scan the back covers of both the DVD and CD covers, for Wikipedia, so that you can fill in the required information, yourself — after all, you know exactly what you want to achieve with regard to both of them. As you made a reference to The Goodies' episode, A Kick in the Arts, I would like to comment that the word you edited was actually intended to be "disappearing" (unfortunately, through tiredness,I accidentally omitted to add the word 'been' before "disappearing", when I was writing the plot). Anyway, I have decided to leave the word as "disappeared", as it now stands. Figaro 09:54, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Re:[edit]You welcome :) and I thank you for a nice article you created. - Darwinek 22:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC) Copyright[edit](re: John Carne Bidwill) The site from which you got this is not clear. It says that most of the books on the Australian project Gutenberg are in the public domain, but not that the dictionary of biography is. Is it? In addition, if it is, you simply must note that the text is copied from the other site, or the article incorporates text from the other site. However, your interpretation of what Bidwill did is incorrect, he did NOT publish the name, William Jackson Hooker did, that's why the plant is called Araucaria bidwillii Hook.. The "Hook." is the botanical authority abbreviation for the author who published about the plant in the London Journal of Botany naming it Araucaria bidwillii, namely Hooker published an article naming the plant after Bidwill. KP Botany 00:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC) As mentioned on KP's talk page:
Hope this clears the copyright issue up. Garrie 01:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you turned this off or not... you're in the history of the page... Do you know what's going on here? I know that there seemed to be a problem with templates making the numbers wrong. Seems to me the simple solution is to only incude links from article space - even if the link is from a template in article space it probably reflects real need for the article, rather than project bloating figures through templates in talk-space (which aren't so regulated).Garrie 23:31, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Ornithology stubs[edit]
Eglinton[edit]Thanks for that - I'll review the pre-settlement section tomorrow evening and main to Mooro (which I can add any missing information to). Pipidinny Swamp is actually located in Eglinton, so I'll keep that part, but broadly I agree with the discussion you pointed me to - that if we did every suburb like this it would be utterly pointless. Orderinchaos78 10:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
RE. Eastern Creek[edit]I don't understand what u are asking i didn't write anything about up coming events i only added a template and time zone into the template if you could clear up your query it would be great cheers Bnsbeaver 10:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC) Barnstar & ESR Line Article[edit]Thanks for the Barnstar seconding, and thank you for the comments on the article. They were very helpful. I'm going to nominate this article for FA status; hopefully it will pass or else bring up some ways I can make the article better. JROBBO 10:21, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Sorry[edit]Hey Garrie, Sorry for the late reply to the message yea I know it told as Sydney may be you can go and edit it and change it too. I took the help of cattelGirl to create it. So you better check it with her.rencin24 Palm Island, Queensland Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight[edit]Hi Garrie, you recently edited and showed an interest in proper referencing being brought to the Palm Island article, I share this desire for better referencing in Wikipedia. You might (or might not) :) be interested to know that Palm has become the latest Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight, the work you did to help out with Mulesing was great and I'm hoping to recruit you to help out with Palm. Particularly to help out with referencing and links. Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 08:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey there. Personally I haven't had much trouble finding online news sources for Palm Island, I have back-referenced a fair bit of the 2004 riot and death-in-custody controversy section. Copyright is something to be very careful of. If you were to do it for one or two articles in your own user space, for a definate period of time, then that's one thing... personally I think you're better off saving to pc the relevant text. By all means, keep adding lists of online refs to talk pages. They are useful things in a lot of ways. But my verdict is, keep the copyright material on the host website. The other thing to bear in mind is, if you do what you are suggesting it may be quite difficult for other editors to correctly source the material they are using. ie if you copy the text but leave off ... the orig website, url, publisher, published date, authors name - then it is no longer verifiable information. Don't over-estimate the number of ppl that will / are working on the article while it is ACOTF, either ;).Garrie 04:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Happy anniversary, and thanks for all your help! WikiTownsvillian 05:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Re: Palm Island[edit]No. Not what I was thinking. Not those photos either.--ZayZayEM 13:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC) Forced image height[edit]See my note on the Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) - Leonard G. 20:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC) P. S. See more on the notes - some experiments are shown. Try using WWWxHHH, with w larger than that dictated by the image aspect ratio and height as desired. - Leonard G. 01:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC) Cite news[edit]Except there is no such paramteter as author in cite news--Grahamec 00:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Not listed at Wikipedia:Citation templates--Grahamec 00:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC) Wikibreak[edit]Look at the top of the page please.Garr ie 04:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
welcome back! hope your anniversary went well, WikiTownsvillian 05:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC) Uranquinty[edit]Thanks for the message - I post my reply to your talk page as well, as follows .... The best I can do is to list the link that JROBBO himself provided which definitely shows that Uranquinty is still 'in use'. It is not about buying a ticket from Wagga to Uranquinty it is about buying a ticket from (say) Sydney to Uranquinty - so (do you like this evil grin?) we need someone to write a travel supplement in the Sydney Morning Herald. Still - with respect - saying the station is still in use and giving a reference to that fact as we have should be enough verification - god knows there are far worse verifications in other articles. If not - well it just is no skin of my nose - I don't care enough about train articles to get upset about the rules getting in the way of the facts. --VS talk...images 06:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC) Riverina[edit]Hi Garrie. Thanks for the feedback on the Riverina article. The ADF contribution to the Riverina economy is a very good idea and should certainly be included. As for Forest Hill and Kapooka, while both are in the Riverina, I would consider Forest Hill a suburb of Wagga Wagga (see Template:Wagga Wagga City) and my recollection of Kapooka (I spent some time at 1RTB when I was younger), is that while certainly not in Wagga, is more a defence housing complex than a town. While they should be mentioned in the article, I personally wouldn't think them suitable for the Riverina template. Of course these things come down to matters of opinion only. VirtualSteve has done most of the work with the template and may have a different opinion. Thanks again.--Mattinbgn/ talk 22:12, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Ariah Park common knowledge[edit]Hi - saw your comment at Mattinbgn. I think a useful place to put such points is at the article talk page pending references being found. That way the info won't be lost and somebody can pursue it. Regards --Golden Wattle talk 22:43, 1 February 2007 (UTC) Barmedman[edit]My two cents - Ariah Park is in Temora Shire which is part of the Riverina. We have included Mirrool because it is literally at the edge of Coolamon, Temora and Bland Shire. However the vast majority of the Bland Shire is in Central West and Barmedman is 36 kms north west of Temora. In my view that is too far into the Central West.--VS talk...images 23:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC) Australian category deletions[edit]The category was listed (and still is actually) as being up for deletion, at Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians'_notice_board/AfD, which provides a sub-menu of the Australian Wikipedians' noticeboard. It might pay to add this noticeboard sub-page to your watchlist to keep abreast of future category deletion nominations. Australian categories nominated for deletion are added at this menu subpage rather than at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia, which is primarily used for listing articles only. -- Longhair\talk 02:56, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Leyland Brothers is the new Australian Collaboration[edit]Hi. In case you haven't noticed yet, Leyland Brothers has been selected as the new Australian collaboration. Please help to improve it any way you can. --Scott Davis Talk 11:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC) AfD Westfield North Rocks etc.[edit]I don't know much about the conflict involving Elonka, I'm just concentrating on what I can see is happening. I think the addition of a local tag was a reasonable step, but the removal of the tag without any improvement isn't particularly helpful. Likewise the prod tag may have been a reasonable step, but removing the subsequent redirect without improving the article isn't particularly helpful. I think one problem is that Rebecca seemingly made no attempt to improve the article so it at least asserted notability. Speaking generally it's frustrating to see no improvement to articles for months, then as soon as they are proposed for deletion the articles are significantly improved. One Night In Hackney 03:55, 9 February 2007 (UTC) Hey, I just checked out your article from New Articles (OZ). Gotta say, great article for an academic / lawyer. Having said that - it's in "obvious" need of a copyedit to introduce some section headings and breaks in line with the MOS. Currently it sorta-kinda looks like you threw four different obits into the same article (I know you didn't but it's kind of how the three screenfuls in one section looks). Having said all that, there are heaps of ppl around who can and do do copyedits, which are comparatively easy compared to doing the research and getting the info into the article. Well done! Is Society of Comparative Legisaltion worth creating as a redirect to British Institute ... ? I'm amazed that Corowa Conference is a redlink! Hey, when they took the second photo - was it the Old Law buiding then or did it get that name at a later date? I bet at some point it was just the Law Building. Then some bugger came and built the new Law Building, but people get sick of calling things New XXX (except, Newtown, because calling Nettown, Town, is just plain stupid!) Garrie 00:07, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Cooks River Photos[edit]Hi Garrie, I checked out Google Maps - Cooksriver2 is a photo taken towards Airport Drive - the yellow sculpture gives it away. Cooksriver1 is a photo taken from the northern bank of the river near the railway line, facing east towards the Princes Highway overbridge. Hope that helps. JROBBO 00:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC) NewArtBot and deleted articles[edit]I see what you mean. The articles certainly existed at the time the bot read them (it looks if certain keywords are in the article). The bot does not check if an article was deleted then it dumps the search results to its subpage. It only checks that an article was not already reported on the board. I can add the check that if it was deleted, but I am not sure it will help much. Typically I run bot daily (overnightly) from my home, it needs about ~3h to process ~3000 new articles of the day. So the check would only catch articles deleted during a period less than 3h (3h for the newest articles, zero for the oldest article of the day). Alex Bakharev 05:22, 16 February 2007 (UTC) Proposed Merger: August 2006[edit]Hi! I know this seems a bit overshot, but by any chance do you remember your proposal on the Westfield Shopping Centres? All the pages you had mentioned in your proposal have grown since then, with a lot of contribution on your part, great stuff! :> But not all of them are mentioned on List_of_Westfield_Group_shopping_centres_in_Australia. Could you add them in? xCentaur | ☎ 20:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Road transport in Australia is new WP:ACOTF[edit]Hi Garrie. You voted for Road transport in Australia as Australian collaboration of the fortnight. It has been selected, please help to improve it in any way you can. --Scott Davis Talk 12:45, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Reply[edit]Usually, when warning a user for vandalism edits, you might want to start at level 1. Your use of level four was seemingly a bit too much, and in that case may have suggested a level 2. However, all people make mistakes when they start out, and this is trivial. For more info on vandal patrol, you might want to check out WP:CUV. --210physicq (c) 04:49, 21 February 2007 (UTC) your views on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion- Thuringowa lists[edit]hi sorry to annoy you but can you please tell me why you want the 2 pages deleted ....the thing is the pages are a link from the main city of Thuringowa page and i moved these 2 parts of the main artical onto the pages in question to tidy up the main page, (just like a large number of other editers have done) so can you please tell of another way to do what i have done if my way is so wrong. thank you Thuringowacityrep 11:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC) thank you for your reply, it will be easy for me to just put them back on the main page and give up, as i have seen a lot of other pages with less on it than my 2, so thank you for your thoughts and i will see how things go. Thuringowacityrep 12:03, 23 February 2007 (UTC) Wikilinking[edit]Thanks for the advice. I knew it worked with brackets, but didn't know it worked with commas. Cheers--Mattinbgn/ talk 12:46, 23 February 2007 (UTC) Paluma[edit]thanks for that info i will fix it up now, i was a bit worried that i may have done it wrong. thanks again Thuringowacityrep 01:07, 24 February 2007 (UTC) Hi GarrieIrons - thanks for your comments. As you would have seen Boinka was not a hoax - in fact it has a rich history. (Actually I was quite happy with the article and its rich start). I take your point on not including it as a town - but if you have a look at the article again you will see that I had not done so - referring to it only as a locality and it is (again as is already posted on that page not within Mildura (it is 174km from that City). To the point of whether localities should or should not be included .... We had the same discussion when constructing Template:Riverina with the consensus agreeing to include localities/communities as a part of the template providing that such a place met strict guidelines (including that the location/community was actually still physically locatable in some way) - see here for details of that discussion. However I realise that by not including the word communities in the template that might not seem so clear so I have adjusted that part this morning at Template:Sunraysia. Finally to your point about www.travelmate.com.au - the link actually goes directly to a search page (a map is not being suggested - only distances are) where any person can type place A and place B to see the distances between the two locations. The alternate - given that there are at least 4 locations being referenced is to make the info box totally unworkable). Cheers. --VS talk 21:21, 4 March 2007 (UTC) Westfield Template[edit]Hey mate I have created a template for Westfield's in Australia, see below. What do you think? Do you think we should add it to all of the pages? Todd661 08:50, 8 March 2007 (UTC) Prizes[edit]Unless there actually are some other prizes with the same name disambiguation is not necessary. --Peta 04:15, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Hi, your suggestions worked well. I have added a couple headings to the lead and demoted the states. Also started a separate article for South Australia. The others could probably stay in the article for now since they arent that long and have mostly redlinks --Astrokey44 08:25, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Re: East Belmont Saints[edit]No problem on the prod. I created it from an AFC|AfC submission, and was pretty borderline about whether it qualified or not (especially since the league doesn't even have a page yet), but I eventually decided that since there was an Aussie Baseball Project recently started, and working on building these kind of pages I'd give this one a chance. I won't contest the prod at all, but I copied your notice to the talk page of the original AfC contributor incase he wants to try to fight for it. Of course, since he's only ever made 2 posts (both working on this article on AfC) it's unlikely he'll do anything about it, but I still figure I'll give him a few days to work on it, rather than just speedy-author it myself. --Maelwys 12:02, 9 March 2007 (UTC) West Torrens Cricket Club[edit]Hi. Not sure if you were having a go at me about my deletion of the last edit to the article, or if you are saying the article itself may be a candidate for WP:PROD? If it's me then I probably deserve it for a fairly harsh treatment of a good-faith edit. If its the article, then there would be an enormous number of other Cricket Ckub articles that also need the same, as they have far less content and notability evidenced than WTCC. The article seemed active and slowly being developed so personally I was happy to see how it pans out (Under 14's results aside). I'll leave it to you to decide if you want to nominate it and let the discussion take place as per the normal procedures. Cheers. Pudgey 04:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC) Clarification on lists[edit]Largest churches in Australia is intended to be a list, are you saying it should say so in the description or in the page title itself? Thanks Natebailey 10:26, 12 March 2007 (UTC) Muttaburra Airport[edit]Hi thank you for your thoughts 1: i'm sorry but i have to ask why move it from Muttaburra Airport to Muttaburra airport what is the diff (it's just a capital letter). 2: Fixed text 3: they use it like the guy does that lives on the property next to mine....they hire private planes to fly them to major cities or towns, or they call me and i meet them to fly them in my plane or chopper, but i have added more info now. 4: added refs i like to add them all at once but i have done it now. 5: once i find out the conversion i will add the Mtrs, i will get to it please feel free to add or edit as this will help me thanks again Thuringowacityrep 03:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I had a pilots licence before I had a plane just like have a car licence but no car, I think some people get one just so they can say that they can fly a plane but I don't let anyone fly mine unless they have over 1000 hours in that type of plane and I never let anyone fly my chopper...they cost way to much. I will go and add that info now but please let me know you thoughts on the A vs. a in Airport. if I can find more links to the name of the Airport I will post them here for you to look at. thanks again Thuringowacityrep 05:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Moora Moora Coop[edit]Hi GarrieIrons, thanks for all the tips on how to make by submissions more Wikipedia friendly. I will endeavour to follow your suggestions. Your help has been much appreciated Glenmo 07:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)glenmo Prod category[edit]Thanks for your message. I agree with you I would expect to see that article in the category: interestingly, the category is listed at the bottom of the article! I do not know exactly how that category is populated: it appears to be some feature of the {{dated prod}} template. Perhaps you may find more info on one of the pages about proposed deletion procedure: try WP:PROD? Or you may find an expert who has contributed to its talk page. Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk 09:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC) I edited your bullets as it looked as though there was an unsigned Keep and your signed Delete. Can you check your opinion is still reflected the way you want it to be. --Steve (Slf67) talk 01:49, 16 March 2007 (UTC) Shark Island Challenge[edit]Hi Garrie, Yes, I am brazillian, and a bodyboarder. But the australians find bodyboarding notable! They are currently the most numerous in the world tour. Damian King is a two-time world champion, and they lead the radical revolution that changed the way bodyboarding was surfed! The only things that stands in their way to be the ultimate power in the sport are: brazillian Guilherme Tâmega, Hawaiian Mike Stewart and Hawaiian Jeff Hubbard. There are plenty of bodyboarding DVDs hailing from Australia, and Damian King recently make a 1 US$ million sponsorship deal. I really thing that bodyboard is much more notable in Australia than anywhere else. See Fluidzone You will be amazed in what the community (mainly Australian) are doing and how notable this sport looks to be in the Gold Coast. Regards and thanx for the support. Loudenvier 13:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC) Hi Garrie. Thanks for the acknowledgment. I was very surprised when I discovered there was no article, so I did something about it. I'm not a great one for templates and things of that nature, preferring to concentrate on text. Can you show me where the Ausbio template is? Cheers JackofOz 00:08, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Garrie, I am probably the wrong person to ask about articles on Australian football clubs. In my wiki-newbie days I created Strathmerton Football Club, Berrigan Football Club and others. TAC cup teams are at least as notable as those.--Mattinbgn/ talk 07:17, 19 March 2007 (UTC) Cycling Stubs[edit]Hi Garrie, Thanks for the advice to this total newbie re stubs and sandbox. You'll find that all of those pages have now been corrected. Cycling Stubs[edit]Hi Garrie, Smithy2167 above was giving me a hand on the cycling trials in Melbourne. The trails and bike rides in Melb/Vic have come a long way since about three weeks ago, so everything was in a state of flux. All should be OK; if not let me know. Regards 144.132.69.183 Can you please tell me how to change the name of the page at the very top, ie editing user talk: GarrieIrons Thanks
Westfield Penrith[edit]Thanks for the correction and the information, sorry about the change, and I'll endeavor to ensure that it doesn't happen again. -- ArglebargleIV 22:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC) Aquinas Notability[edit]You have expressed concern about the Notability of a number of articles relating to The AC, i am here to adress these concerns. Memorial Oval[edit]This ground is a first-class cricket ground, and it is listed on the baggygreen website, the ground plays host to Western Fury cricket games, Public Schools Association games aswell. Not to forget on Friday, when Justin Langer was playing there, oh and also that the Fremantle Dockers use it for training purposes. I think i have established notability? or not? If i have, can you remove the tag? Twenty Years 08:22, 26 March 2007 (UTC) Individuals Articles[edit]I admit that these articles need a bit of work and that currently they are unfit in their current state, ill work on them over the next two-three weeks. Twenty Years 08:22, 26 March 2007 (UTC) deletion of[edit]
Just from the articles I see sufficient information that CSD:A1 and A7 dont apply. Being from Perth, I know enough about Bevan Lawrence without googling, he maybe sufficiently notable even if the article doesnt convey it yet. White and Pownall articles establish notability IMHO. The Bryan article I located his AIF service record when the editors were first writing about the various houses at Aquinas College, there was information in there that has yet to be included in the article, this more likely a merge subject into one of the other AC articles. I suggest you take these to AfD and see what the community thinks. Gnangarra 06:47, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Aquinas College stuff[edit]Hey, thanks for the stuff on the articles ive created, its prob correct (and sorry i didnt mention - but i recently had trouble with URSURP and made this account, i voted delete - due to notability issues - my previous account was Smbarnzy). Youre quite on i think, research the article alot before actually creating it, prob making it in my sandbox first, then going all out. Point taken, many thanks. Twenty Years 11:09, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Parramatta[edit]We're very parochial over here in Western Australia you know. It might not be evident from a brief glance, but those notes are entirely about WA's convict era. ;-) I have no plans to expand it to national scope, as I hardly contribute in that space anymore.Hesperian 23:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC) Unfortunately, it has survived an AfD only last month, so I'm not going to nominate it again now. I added the unreferenced template to it, so let's see if anyone turns up some reliable sources after a month. Thank for telling me. Resurgent insurgent 04:02, 29 March 2007 (UTC) == Headings ==[edit]Headings[edit]I have just looked over your article Paul Sait, which looks quite well done for a fairly seasoned player with an excellent record. Obviously it could be improved by a photo of him taken during his career, but that might be hard to get hold of legitimately. Please reveiew WP:MSH, in particular section heading should use the same capitalisation as article headings: first word and proper nouns are upper case, everything else lower case. Garrie 22:42, 28 March 2007 (UTC) Thx for the comments. I'm not big on photos, seems to me that editors who add them then spend time & energy justifying legit use & defending them from deletion. I'll leave that to others. My out-take from reading WP:MSH and your comments is that my section header "Club Career" should be "Club career". Are you saying more than that ? Sticks66 04:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC) I agree, arguing the toss over photos is best left to others. Some of us know people with their own match photos though and anything you took yourself is yours to contribute if you so wish. Yes, "Club career" and similar for other section headings with more than one word. Some people want the section, paragraph and line number others want plain english... ;) You seemed to have been consistent across several articles which is why I came here rather than just fixing it. But having said that, I can't find anywhere else I can fault your work! (I'm sure I looked first though...) So please, let me take my foot out of my mouth and appologise. Garrie 04:50, 29 March 2007 (UTC) No you're quite right. Very many of my articles had the 2nd word in section headers starting with caps. Now fixed. May I ask you something. Many users seem to have 2nd and 3rd pages behind their User page. Do you know how I can do that ? Would like to put some Templates and Frequently Used links off my User Page.Sticks66 14:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC) reconsider your vote[edit]The australian apartheid article is two days old, that's why it has so few sources.--Urthogie 01:13, 30 March 2007 (UTC) Have placed more references to this and the article on Lash and will place some more when I have time Dan arndt 01:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Citing sources[edit]Do you mean List of Supermarine Spitfire operators article and info about captured Luftwaffe Spits? I've just copied info from Supermarine Spitfire article without large modifications and removed that source today. Feel free to clear such entries next time and thanks for info about Wikisource. --Piotr Mikołajski 05:06, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
~You're right, thanks for picking up that typo RP Bravo 05:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC) I suppose the list would be more encyclopedic if it was turned into a paragraph... Took me ages to verify all those links though, forgive me for leaving someone else to undo my work. Regarding whether the article's existence is justified, I created it after finding a red link to it on a WikiProject Australia to do list. I hadn't heard of it previously, thus my interest was sparked. I'm a member of 142 Sig Sqn, Holsworthy (8 Sig Reg) RP Bravo 06:37, 30 March 2007 (UTC) Ze` challenge is accepted[edit]Thank you for your challenge and your appreciation (smile) when you offered the following comments at Commons regarding Image:Mirrool Silos.jpg... I challenge you to prove to me.... these aren't the Marrar silos or any of the other ones along the railway line! Good picture though. (I guess the two - three shrubs are as close to proof as you could get!)Garrie Irons from Wikipedia And so to ze` proof... (1) click on the image to open it to its own page, (2) click with the zoom option about 3.5 centimetres to the left of the two bushes where you observe the white sign with black writing...look closely and then (3) click here and smile as you wonder whether you could kick a football barefoot (as the winner Rob Harper has on 5 occasions) the 32 metres over the top without the ball touching the top or any part of the silos? --VS talk 13:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC) gold medal[edit]1st thanx fr the reminder, i haven't added independent sources to any of the prizes i've put up, oops. (& me going around putting notable? tags on new oz articles.) on that one, can't think of anything specific except for reports of individuals winning it, so i don't think its going to be easy. i intend to create articles on both the organisations (sometime), so will keep it in mind and look out for paper sources. thx, ben ⇒ bsnowball 11:58, 2 April 2007 (UTC) Hi there Ian
Garrie 23:34, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
User:02blythed and his under-19 cricketers[edit]Hi, I have noticed that you have put a handful of articles created by User:02blythed up for deletion as per notability issues - and rightly so. However, I have found that one of them Trevor Ward was actually a significant county player and so have tidied the article up a bit for the user (hopefully) to see how to wikify such an article. I have mentioned this to him on his talk page. I was just wondering whether it would be kinder to him to give him a bit of time to try and clean up any articles he has created and then we can be in a better position to judge notability. He has also been inclined to remove any wikify/prod templates regardless of a change in content or without justification. Obviously if they don't improve and are still non-notable, then the deletion process should stand (I suppose he has the 5 days anyway). My guess is many are in fact non-notable, but I'm prepared to assume good faith and see what happens. Best wishes, –MDCollins (talk) 01:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC) Nash Timbers AFD[edit]Garrie, I believe I will be able to find relevant secondary sources, including some form of certificate from the NSW Architects Registration Board, but until I have time to do so I have saved the article onto word and will allow its temporary deletion to avoid further debate, for now. NN cricket[edit]Thanks for the prompt response. I will wait for further contribution then AfD the article as cricket-related and see what happens. I have proded it previously and the Aquinas College wikipedia kruftian killed the prod without improving the article, the most he has said is "Western Fury play there" (I'm guessing, once, when they couldn't get onto their real game due to a PURA Cup clash).Garrie 04:23, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Wisden[edit]Hi. It seems to me that the problem with the apparent lack of references can be largely solved by moving some of the External Links items to References, where they more properly belong. I'm going to do this and, since you say that you're away till the 12th, take the liberty of removing your flagging of the article. JH (talk page) 08:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC) "My main problem is with "...the operator of the world's highest traffic cricket website..." I don't see how Cricinfo's claim about themselves has any relevance to the Wisden article, though. (It would have relevance in an article about Cricinfo themselves, obviously.) But Wisden now own Cricinfo, and so the Cricinfo section on the Almanack can reasonably be considered authoritative. In particular, one of the three references in the article is to a piece that was originally published in an edition of Witself. I could replace it by a reference to that issue of Wisden if you'd be happier, but web articles are more accessible to more people. JH (talk page) 17:08, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Jimbo is coming to Sydney[edit]Sorry to spam you if you aren't interested. See Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#April 25th for more info if you are interested. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:25, 10 April 2007 (UTC) Australian Championships[edit]I named the articles the way I did because they were known as "The Australian Championships" back then, but based on various complains, it sounds like "XXXX Australian Championships (tennis)" would be a more appropriate title. As for attribution, my winners/runners-up are taken directly from the List of Australian Open Men's Singles champions and List of Australian Open Women's Singles champions articles. I have no idea what the sources for those articles are, but perhaps a link back would also be in order. --dantheox 04:53, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Question as above - I tend to agree with you but your thoughts are now?.....--VS talk 07:16, 13 April 2007 (UTC) Replied on the article in question.Garrie 09:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Woolungasaurus[edit]G'day, Garrie! You must be an Aussie, 'cause you new Gazzster must be short for Gazza! Nice to find another Aussie. Thanks for the message. Point well taken. I guess the prehistoric animal editors sometimes use specific terms so much that they forget to explain them. Mea culpa. This is the new para; if its still no good, let me know.The added phrase is italcised. Woolungasaurus glendowerensis ('Glendower's Woolunga lizard', named after an Aboriginal mythical reptile, Persson 1960) was a plesiosaur, a large extinct marine reptile of the family Elasmosauridae. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gazzster (talk • contribs) 17:30, 13 April 2007 hmmmm still unhappy... to me it needs to say dinosaur... but maybe that's not the right word which is why I didn't change it (and also, are you using boilerplate text to make articles?) Garrie 09:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC) Don't know what boilerplate means, so I'll say no. If it means plagiarism, absolutely not. Plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs, and are unrelated. The taxonomic box on the right makes that clear.Cheers--Gazzster 10:04, 13 April 2007 (UTC) In that case, no.--Gazzster 10:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC) Welcome aboard[edit]Nice to see you signed up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Riverina. --VS talk 14:18, 14 April 2007 (UTC) QXZ ads[edit]Hi. Thankyou for supporting my campagin to place a WP:AUS ad on qxz-ads. To get more feedback when we decide on a banner and also to get more support could you please ask the WP:AUS members that you know for more support? ThanksHarrison-HB4026 01:22, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
New South Head Road[edit]Sure thing I'll take another picture when I go past the sign one day on an afternoon, have you had any luck with further information for the article? Bandwagonman 08:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Bushranger is now ACOTF[edit]Hi. You voted for Bushranger, which has been selected as the new ACOTF. Please help to improve it if you can. Thanks. --Scott Davis Talk 14:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Thanks for your help on the Haslingden article[edit]Thank you for your help on saving the Bruce Haslingden article from deletion. I really appreciate it. Chris 20:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Tassie School issue[edit]Please oh please could we take the tassie schools issue out of user talk pages and to the Tassie project talk page? I hope thats ok! SatuSuro 03:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC) Replied on SatuSuro's talk - Yes I'd be more than happy to! Garrie 03:44, 17 April 2007 (UTC) Yeah - it was creepng into Mrs Plum and Chuqs talk - and the issue is exactly the same issue that I have at the Inondesian project at this same moment - low level stubs and how to defend from enthusicatic (?) deletionists - one must indeed maintain a send (?) of humour :) - I think i need to gt lunch! SatuSuro 03:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Re: Image:Rfs logo.jpg[edit]Easiest thing to do is replace the public domain tag with a more appropriate one. If that is not possible, you can use {{imagevio}} and list it at WP:CP. Splash - tk 22:10, 18 April 2007 (UTC) Re: Are You Lookin' at Me?[edit]Hey, thanks for the heads up. I'm new to creating articles so I didn't know I had to do that. Sydney Children’s Hospital[edit]Sorry I still have to put more inline referencing in the article, (I like to write articles first and often get too lazy to immediately put referencing in straight away.) As for the Florence Nightingale comment that came from the Wikipedia article on the Prince of Wales Hospital, I doubted its reliability but trusted it as a Wikipedia comment, I feel it may be possible vandalism or an un-sourced comment, I will remove it for now and add it to both the Sydney Children’s Hospital and Prince of Wales Hospital talk page to see if someone can clarify if it is true with a reference or if it is pure vandalism. I have improved the New South Head Road Article, but I still have to add a few more references mainly for the tram history and inline references for dates and facts from the Woollahra Council, sorry if this causes any confusion in the short term. Also I will be able to complete the Old South Head Road article soon and get a few more photos for both old south head roads. I noticed that one of your current projects is improving articles on Sydney roads, do you have any other suggestions for future articles or stub improvements? As my current job involves spending a lot of time traveling a variety of Sydney roads. One last thing I also noticed that you are from the McMansions area in one of your comments and I feel the area is of enough notability to add as a Wikipedia article on the area clarifying what the area is to general users, do you feel up to the task? Regards Bandwagonman 16:48, 20 April 2007 (UTC) AWB[edit]In response to your question, I don't believe that AWB will facilitate a bulk rename of pages. If you're wanting to do a bulk-rename, though, I'd get consensus before you push such a change through just to be on the safe side. And then if you're already working to get consensus, you might also be able to find someone with a bot that can do the rename rather painlessly. SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:04, 21 April 2007 (UTC) Robbery Under Arms[edit]Can do. Will take me some time though, as RL is busy. Any recommendations of a good book article I could use as a template? xx baby_ifritah 08:49, 21 April 2007 (UTC) Ouse District High School[edit]Garrie, it may be better to take Ouse District High School to AfD rather than speedy it. There was some discussion at
Montagu Bay Primary School[edit]I saw your comments about my lack of referencing on User talk:Mattinbgn. I started out writing a lot of my articles, such as this one, based upon common knowledge. For example, most of the stuff I wrote about MBPS, I know because I went there! However, I realise wiki is trying to maintain a high standard of reliability, so I have been attempting to imporve my sourcing for my more recent posts. I have a couple of ongoing pages I am trying to imporve, but when I have done those, I intend to go back and try and find better sourcing for some of the previous ones I have done to a lesser standard.Rac fleming 06:48, 23 April 2007 (UTC) I realised they weren't personal comments, that's fine. I agree with your comments as well. I have a degree in history, so I realise the need for proper academic citation, and will try to upgrade all my previous articles in the near future.Rac fleming 08:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC) Bushranger history headings[edit]Thanks for the feedback. It's probably best without "The". I'd seen similar breakdowns in a few of the websites, and I used the dates from the National Museum of Australia pdf. I'll make the change. --Steve (Stephen) talk 05:48, 24 April 2007 (UTC) Hi Garrie. I have removed the prod from the Jane Thurgood-Dove article. Please see User talk:Longhair#Jane Thurgood-Dove and User talk:Mattinbgn#Jane Thurgood-Dove for details. If you wish it can be listed with AfD. Cheers, Mattinbgn/ talk 04:07, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
You asked for more verifiable references on this article, here are two i plucked from the pool:
Re: Earle Page College[edit]Before I prod this article. Do you want to save it by adding some independent citations to it to say why it's important independently of UNE?Garrie 05:37, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Re:Mignon Stewart[edit]You have said that being a TV presenter doesn't make you a notable person, only award winning journalists are notable. Then can you please remove the page for Jessica Rowe, as by your standards, even though she is a presenter on a national morning show, she hasn't won any awards or done anything sepcial, so doesn't count for a page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SA TV (talk • contribs) 20:39, 26 April 2007
I am amazed that Ali Osman really needed disambiguation. Could you have tried a bit harder to come up with a POV name for the article? Nothing in the article suggests he is a career criminal, regardless of your inflamatory edit summary.Garrie 09:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm a little confused about what you want me to do on Bendigo Pioneers and Dandenong Stingrays. What if I find something on the VFL website about them and leave a link to it or rewrite the info? What about a link from the AGE which says the teams for the VFL and TAC cups from round 1 2003? StatsFanatic 07:11, 27 April 2007 (UTC) I added some notabilities to the TAC cup team pages I started (Bendigo Pioneers,Dandenong Stingrays,Eastern Ranges,Gippsland Power,Northern Knights,Oakleigh Chargers,Sandringham Dragons). If you could check them to see if that is what you needed, then give me the feedback, that would be great. Presenters[edit]Hi there; I would take the view, which I suspect you share, that a TV presenter has to have some characteristic, activity, publication, etc which confers notability. I have absolutely no idea how many past and present TV presenters exist, but given the number of TV stations broadcasting the number must easily be in four figures. Possibly five. They cannot all be notable, and I am personally happy for you to continue tagging if notability is not asserted. --Anthony.bradbury 13:53, 27 April 2007 (UTC) Doesn't Wikipedia have the potential to be endless, it's not like it's wasting paper, so why is there such a problem with having pages showing information about a minor celebrity. I think if you are a person who has risen through the ranks of broadcaster to become an anchor, you have displayed a number of characteristic which, in the eys of most normal Australians, would deem you to be a notable person. This isnt America where every state has hundreds of on-air talent, there are only really the 3 networks in 5 cities with maybe 6 or 7 notable pepople each! I really don't see why you people arte turning you anger towards someone who is meerly a humble reporter who has deleveloped a small fan base because of her contined contribution to the Ten network in Melbourne. User:SA TV Small editing problem[edit]Garrie, a bit of advice if you've got a moment. I've just replaced a paragraph with new text in the article Utopia, Norhtern Territory, "ongoing challenges", which was removed by someone who objected to it. I copied the text from my sandbox, pasted it into the editing page, and it appears as a line of type inside a box of broken line. I can't find how to fix this. What's going on? Do you normally work up stuff in the sandbox and get it to the article by copy & paste, or something else? Yours, JohnJohnHarmonPrice 01:05, 28 April 2007 (UTC)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by JohnHarmonPrice (talk • contribs) 01:03, 28 April 2007 (UTC). Thank you for the timely advice. JohnJohnHarmonPrice 23:05, 28 April 2007 (UTC) Climate of Australia is the new ACOTF[edit]Climate of Australia is the new Australian collaboration. Please help to improve it in any way you can. --Scott Davis Talk 10:55, 29 April 2007 (UTC) business resource center slc article question[edit]I have been planning to add sorces and to rewrite the article for sometime...unfortenetly I have not had anytime to make an effort to do so. most of the justification for the article staying is in the article, just poorly written, in the company achievments section. the company is the longest running business of it's type in the state of Utah (26+years) and has sold more businesses then any competetor by at least 1500 more (over 2000 sold) photodude 21:09, 3 May 2007 (UTC) James Mac Guill[edit]I notice you recently prodded this article, and it was unprodded by an anon. To solve any impending deletion problems I've moved it into projectspace here. Due to the lack of categories and the like I wasn't aware the article existed until it was brought to my attention earlier today. I'm planning on doing some work on it (amongst other articles...), so what I'll do is contact you if/when I move it back into mainspace, and you can decide if there's any further action that needs to be taken. Thanks. One Night In Hackney303 15:57, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Mignon Stewart[edit]She may yet become notable so I think the deletion should not be salted. Just keep watching for recreation. I think SATV and Splashmo are socks of each other given the exact duplication of the words each time the article was recreated, notwithstanding the comments made at Sarah's talk page - not disallowed but curious. I can't see otherwise, unless it is a copyright violation, how one could come up with the exact same of words - deleted edits aren't viewable as far as I know to non-admins. There seems to be no other source of these exact same words in the web though. I am also somewhat suspicious of the motives of proposing and defending such a non-notable biography.--Golden Wattle talk 00:28, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
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