User talk:Lilsharkman

Updating 2021 census data on suburbs articles

Hi Lilsharkman, just to let you know, the references on the articles you updated the census data don't work because the ID for each suburb does not remain the same, it changes with each census. Unless you update these as well the references are actually broken. In any case, the way you are updating is outdated as the census information can now be directly sourced from Wikidata. For an example on how this is done, just look at the Midland, Western Australia article, which was recently updated by User:Samwilson. Calistemon (talk) 08:12, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I appreciate it. I've figured it out now. Lilsharkman (talk) 04:13, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi LilSharkman - I thought I'd send you this lamington welcome :) I'm not an experienced editor but I have been working on the Lua module (PopulationFromWikidata) that Calistemon mentioned above. I notice you've been editing some population figures. If you're interested, we wrote a blog post explaining how the module works here. If you find any bugs feel free to let us know at the module talk page. Cheers! MaiaCWilliams (talk) 07:15, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]