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so clean, so clear

can you ever remember if anyone had ever considered claiming disambig pages with oz only subjects as oz project taggable? I have a vague memory of either a yes or no but it feels like a long time ago - happy christmas and new year anyways :| Satu Suro 11:22, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Not specifically. Tagging a dab page with a country project seems a bit pointless. What would be the purpose? –Moondyne 11:35, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

heheh good response on a hot night - not really anwerable from where i come (i thought it had come up i must be thinking of another project that had appropriated them for no particular purpose from what the memory allows) - trust you are ac'ed or whatever - cheers Satu Suro 12:59, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

It may well have been discussed previously but the grey matter's getting harder to find, so i'd never say it hasn't been debated. Tomorrow's hotter. Just about to jump in the pool, and then off to bed! Cheers. –Moondyne 13:10, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

cheers - cantoment and freo harbour are looking great ! Satu Suro 13:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

You are too kind to em - i reckon those who use ext links in bibs and then dont use any cites in text are lazy buggers - anyways im off literally - been in the pool already could have stayed there a long time - cheers Satu Suro 14:32, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Broken Lives

I just finished reading the book and recommend it highly as a stark reminder of the shortcomings of the justice system, as well as a really good read. Do yourself a favour... –Moondyne 06:42, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

(Favour?) I will be doing so very soon - I'll jump in the pool -(rest in gmail) Satu Suro 07:16, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear Moondyne, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Day, and that 2009 brings further success and happiness! ~ YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 04:38, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

And happy cricket watching eh? YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 04:38, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

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Resolved. –Moondyne 04:41, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Retired

I have decided that its time for me to move on. My first edit was 5½ years ago in October 2003 which doesn't seem that long ago, so I suppose that's evidence that I enjoyed myself. I met some terrific people along the way and have learnt a lot. I may or may not return occasionally, but I have resolved that if I do so it will only be after some time and it will be with a new identity—those who know me will work it out I'm sure.

Why? I'm just burnt out and have lost my enthusiasm. I've had a couple of shortish breaks recently and didn't find myself much refreshed on my return, so a new start may be what's needed.

To my mates at WP:WA: I'm always available for a pizza/coffee/beer and a chat. You have my email. To them especially and to everyone else I know, good luck and best wishes.

Some housekeeping matters:

I've handed back my mop here

My user subpages are here. I don't see anything too valuable there, but someone may see something to run with ...

I'll remove myself from the project pages I was enrolled in. If I miss any, please do so on my behalf.

–Moondyne 04:17, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Done Your request to have your flag removed has been handled, with thanks for your long service to the project... Best wishes where ever life takes you. ++Lar: t/c 06:40, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to see you go, you'll be missed. Good luck and will look forward to seeing you around in person etc. Orderinchaos 10:15, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Moondyne - congratulations and thank-you for a truly remarkable contribution to Wikipedia, in particular to most things WA and Aust-related, over a very long period. 5½ years eh? Well then, its beyond question that you've put in the hard yards and deserve the long break or retirement or whatever. Though I've only known you for a matter of a few months, you earned my respect and admiration when our paths first crossed. I've just checked your edit count. I believe it should be recorded here that you have made 43,685 edits in WP:en alone. I made my 500th edit last night, having started 5 months ago. A quick but of mental arithmetic tells me that it will take me about 35 years to rack up the same total as you. It would follow, therefore, that either I'm extremely slow/lazy, or you are an ABSOLUTE LEGEND. I know which it is. but it ain't just the sheer numbers that stagger me, its the quality that impresses. I know that as I continue to make my modest contributions to WP:WA and Australia, when I check an article's history, that I'll keep coming across your username time and time again, whether in the flagship articles like 'Perth' and 'Western Australia', or the obscure little article that I stumbled across last night in which I notched up my 500th. And I can be quite certain that those edits tagged with your name were good ones. As Hesperian has noted in the award posted on this page, your body of work is indeed a legacy. For a novice like me, your contributions are a useful reference point for how to do Wikipedia properly - technically correct and always in good faith. You should be proud. Good on ya, Moondyne! GlenDillon 11:03, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Well done Moondyne of your extraordinary contribution to wikipedia! Sad to see your going. =( Aaroncrick (talk) 23:40, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		It's not ironic; it's a paradox! Your legacy remains so long as that star keeps on spinning. See you round mate. Hesperian 10:35, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I dare say one day he'll be found in the cellars at Houghton tapping away on a laptop, until then we'll write some ballards on the legend that is Moondyne. May the future be as rewarding to you as your efforts have been to Wikipedia. Gnan garra 14:24, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

All the best Moondyne and thanks for helping the monkey when he was a n00b. We'll get Palace Hotel done as well. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:41, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Freo Sub art

Hope someone else can help raise the Freo Sub art Satu Suro 05:17, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm always available for a pizza/coffee/beer and a chat - please let us know offline when is a good time - I'm in for that sooner than later Satu Suro 13:24, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

It is only after a few days

After editing for a few days after the announcement - I has struck me that it is a sign of the unreplacable nature of such an editor - someone so scrupulous with facts, and with the policies, dedicated, and always there - on wiki and off - as a support and sounding board. It is not simply a loss to the projects to whom he gave such valuable effort and time, but a very timely and poignant move - that we are only here (some of us) because of the supportive subcommunity that we have been able to work with.

Now that I know more people who have left wikipedia, than I currently relate to - I believe in time we have to acknowedge how real life in most cases is far more important than wikipedia - but also we should be a lot more supportive to those who earn the equiavelnt level of respect that Moondyne did in all the projects he contributed to. Who knows what happens tommorrow. Satu Suro 05:18, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Palace Hotel, Perth GA Review: on hold

I have reviewed your GAN of Palace Hotel, Perth, and have placed the article on hold. I did the review prior to seeing that you retired, but I figured I'd still leave a message here in case you wanted to finish the article before you fully retired. I will also leave a message on the related WikiProject talk pages if you will be unable to assist with the article. The majority of the changes should be easy to fix and shouldn't take too long. If you have any questions let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 01:57, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Well done!

Whereever you are in this heat - it got it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Palace_Hotel,_Perth cheers Satu Suro 00:17, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

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:-D

nuff said. Hesperian 00:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Indeed. :) –Moondyne 00:14, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK issue with John Lhotsky

Hello! Your submission of John Lhotsky at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Geraldk (talk) 03:30, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Rollback

Done—I won't give you the template, as I trust you know how to use the tool. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 05:35, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks mate. –Moondyne 05:36, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Split of 1987 America's Cup

Hey Moondyne, I apoligise for any annoyance I caused. I had/have been slowly working along creating Louis Vuitton Cup articles and approached the move from that point of view rather than one of spiting the original article. Also, the America's Cup technically only refers to the race between the defender and the challenger and I think the changes I made have made make the 1987 article fit better alongside the other America's Cup articles. Mattlore (talk) 08:31, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I've left a note on the 1987 DSS page which seems to have been mainly a copy/paste job, I must say I hadn't come across WP:SPLIT before on wiki and as I had said I hadn't approached it from a mentality of "splitting" the page, rather one of creating articles that in my view are notable and needed. I am puzzled by your comment that "I also note that none of the other exiting AC articles has a sub-article for the defender series" because 1992 and 1995 do have DSS articles while in 1988, 2000, 2003 & 2007 no DSS took place. Indeed most of the LVC articles have been started by me, as have many of the America's Cup articles. In general this field seems to be mostly neglected on wikipedia and it is good to find another editor that has some interest, this is the reason that I didn't leave a note on the page, I would have expected to be waiting for six months and receive little to no feedback and so I was just WP:BOLD and made the changes. I guess the fact that we are talking about changes I made over a month ago illustrates my point a little bit, but if I had known there were other editors that had strong views on the page then of course I would have consulted. The 1987 AC article in general is a lot more fleshed out than other AC ones, with the information on the Staging issues, Course and the 1986 World Championships all making it a better article. Mattlore (talk) 22:32, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Proposed community ban of NYScholar

Hello. You have previously commented on issues related to User:NYScholar. I have just proposed that NYScholar be community banned here. I am contacting you partly because your participation in the discussion would be welcome, but also because I have referred to your past comments, and want to give you the chance to ensure that I am not misconstruing them or using them out of context. Best, Steve Smith (talk) (formerly Sarcasticidealist) 07:07, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello

Welcome back sir YellowMonkey (cricket calendar poll!) paid editing=POV 02:06, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Cảm ơn. Của mình tốt để được quay trở lại. Kính trọng. –Moondyne 02:23, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK for John Lhotsky

On June 29, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Lhotsky, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Article was created by User:Cygnis insignis. –Moondyne 02:49, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Article was improved by User:Moondyne, who also created the hook.

Cheers mate, cygnis insignis 07:49, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Desal plant infobox and image

What's the reasoning behind removing the water image in the desal plant infobox? --One Salient Oversight (talk) 03:41, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

I think a generic photo in a navbox is fine, but an infobox photo should represent the specific subject unambiguously. The photo File:AeratedWater.jpg tells me nothing about the article and isn't even particularly attractive (thats just my opinion). A photo of a factory or a pipeline or even the ocean might be more relevant, if you had to have one. Also, its presence might be a discouragement for someone to go out and get an original photo of the plant in question. –Moondyne 04:12, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Can you check David Kent for Trojan malaware?

I noticed at Kent Music Report there is a delinking of his Australian Chartbook website with the note:

David Kent's Australian Chart Book website  <small>(CAUTION: website appeared to be hosting a [[Trojan horse (computing)|trojan malware]] program as at June 2009.)</small>

Could you check David Kent for Trojan malaware? I don't know how to check for these, but the article uses the same webiste in a number of references: de-link as necessary.

Furthermore a wikisearch indicates 79 appearances of the website: perhaps a bot is needed to convert these?Shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 01:31, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. My home PC uses Avast! and it was definitely detecting a trojan on that site last night — and that only confirmed the note that someone else had previously left there. My work PC has Trend-Micro which isn't saying anything. I'll double check again tonight and probably delink those other mentions accordingly. –Moondyne 02:07, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Weird, the site is fine now — either something changed there or I/we'd been having a moment. I'll reinstate the link on the KMR article. –Moondyne 12:57, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

About: Frank Duckworth AfD and Tony Lewis AfD

I noticed you commented on the Frank Duckworth AfD. I withdrew the appended Tony Lewis deletion. It now has its own deletion discussion page. See User_talk:Shirt58#Frank_Duckworth_and_Tony_Lewis for why this had been added to your talk page.
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Megalitres etc

I wasn't aware that a style manual existed for megalitres so that is fine to change them. The important thing is to ensure that the measurement is consistent for all desal plant articles - I've found that the Sydney Water external sites measure it in gigalitres per year and the Perth plant measures it in metres cubed per day. In other words, the external links themselves make it confusing to compare. I made the decision to put the measurement in million litres per day but if the style guide prefers a different measurement then I'm happy with that, just so long as the figures allow readers to compare the size of plants easily.

In order to come up with the million litres/day figure I had to do some calculations, so it may be wise to check the original external links to find more accurate figures. Thanks! --One Salient Oversight (talk) 06:15, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

1 cubic metre = 1 kilolitre
1 million litres = 1 megalitre = 1000 cubic metres
1 gigalitre = 1000 megalitres

I think that cubic metres should be non-preferred — kilolitres would be better. I don't know why WA's Water Corporation uses it as often as it does. Perhaps to make the numbers look bigger! –Moondyne 07:13, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Just saw the work you've done on all the desal articles and the list of plants. I didn't know how to draw tables properly and pretty much hoped someone would come along and improve it so thanks again. --One Salient Oversight (talk) 04:29, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure what to do with Wonthaggi desalination plant! It strikes me there's an awful lot of un-encyclopaedic lobbying there which should be removed. Its a bit like Bell Bay Pulp Mill once was but which has now improved considerably. Similarly National Broadband Network. –Moondyne 05:07, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

I shudder every time I read it. The person who wrote it really had an axe to grind. One of the quotes they gave was from some UN report saying that Desalination was inefficient and too costly, but the quote was from a study into water supplies in Saharan Africa and the reason why desal was panned was because of the poor infrastructure in the area - so the quote was taken completely out of context and inserted by someone who opposes the Wonthaggi plant. Very annoying. The Kurnell Desalination Plant was pretty bad too but was written from a supporting perspective. Fortunately I edited it a little bit the other day and made it more neutral. Check out this pre-edited version of the article... yecch! We could probably begin incrementally improving the Wonthaggi article slowly. Anyway, keep up the good work --One Salient Oversight (talk) 10:31, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Mining in Western Australia

Not on your watchlist, huh?[1] Hesperian 05:54, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Apparently not. It must somehow have fallen off in the mists of time. Thanks. –Moondyne 06:09, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Think of it this way - if hesp had a watch list for 'his contribs he'd crash wikipedia for sure :) Satu Suro 01:46, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

York Park

G'day Ian! Hopefully your well.

Even though the topic probably wouldn't interest you in the slightest, could you please if you have time look through Talk:York Park/GA3 and help with copy editing and fixing the lead, as I know with your wealth of knowledge on policies and so forth you would understand it better than me. Thanks, Aaroncrick^{(Tassie Boy talk)} 06:17, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

The topic is interesting and I know you've done lots of work there and it looks good at a glance, but alas, I find assessing other editor's work painful and somehow difficult for me, particularly long articles and ones I can't somehow relate to directly. Its just not what I enjoy doing. Sorry. I will have a look at the article though, just not the review. –Moondyne 06:34, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

That's great you can have a look through the article. I was just putting up the review page in case you wanted to check something out. User:Philcha has given probably the best review I've seen. Thanks again. Aaroncrick^{(Tassie Boy talk)} 07:02, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

sea kayakers

If they circumnavigate a place i reckon they need a project gaga (ie tag) - hope thats not too intrusive on your fine work Satu Suro 01:44, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

That lady is a freak—can you imagine camping out every night on mostly unknown beaches without support for a year. Notwithstanding having paddled for up to 13 hours each day before hand. I calculate she'll be passing by Freo somewhere about mid September. You won't here of course, but anyone with a telephoto lens and reading this may like to try to catch her paddling past! –Moondyne 02:00, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Roland Perry

Have you read any of his books? I think he is trying to edit his own article YellowMonkey (cricket calendar poll!) paid editing=POV 02:15, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

orly? email shortly. –Moondyne 02:23, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

fair crack at the ferret

brilliantissimo mon compatriot in the maritime sense - please take it further!! there is more detail available - will get it to you - so pleased you have taken it for a run!! Satu Suro 15:11, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

going reallywell - thanks so much! Satu Suro 04:48, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

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Fixed –Moondyne 08:45, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Userpage

I've practically copied your userpage as it's so very simple. I hope you don't mind? Aaroncrick (talk) 10:00, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

No worries Azza. It was a format pinched off User:Hesperian many, many moons ago. –Moondyne 13:40, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

... who pinched part of it from User:PDH, who then pinched back Hesperian's tweaks. Other pinchers include Euryalus and Mattinbgn :-) Hesperian 23:38, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

That's good. :) And SatuSuro maybe? Aaroncrick (talk) 23:49, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Absolutely. Someone should have collected royalties. –Moondyne 01:02, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Biggies

Bah suprised someone hasnt kneejerked an afd over Australia's_big_things#Western_Australia list cruft if I ever saw one! The eucla one isnt even worth the jpeg :( I think youve got the whale by the wrong fin :) - but you never know - somebody might have been a sucker Satu Suro 02:30, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Rubbish. Important cultural material you're talking about there. 2 books, lots of websites and news articles. Shame on you. ;) –Moondyne 03:03, 14 July 2009 (UTC) Disclosure: My family appears in one of the pics on that page and that photo was published in one of the books cited. The publisher sent me an email a couple of years ago asking for permission to use the photo and even offered to pay! I said nah, she could have it for nix. –Moondyne 03:08, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Note

Hello! I have asked for another opinion at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Apparent_AfD_trolling.3F after noticing a flurry of rapid fire copy and pastes concerning articles actively being worked on that do not seem to consider these efforts at improvement. I strongly encourage you to more carefully consider individual articles and what is happening to them rather than just copy and pasting what doesn't accurately apply to all of those under discussion, some maybe, but not really all and thus the approach seems indiscriminate if not pointed. Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 06:29, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I certainly don't see the need to read every word of every article in that walled garden to form the view they're a minor characters and not notable. –Moondyne 07:22, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

The problem is that they were seemingly indiscriminately mass nominated and while I would agree that some are not going to be easily improved and would not myself defend them, others are. For one, for example, the actress won and was again nominated for her performance as the character, i.e. verifiable real-world information about the reception of the character's depiction. They therefroe vary and are not of equal notability and as such merit a more closer look. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 07:27, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Lose the platitudes. In future post your complaint here and give me an opportunity to reply. Best, –Moondyne 07:31, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough. I encourage you to more carefully consider these things case by case, because they really are not equal in terms of how we can improve them. I hope you can understand that it is frustrating when trying to discuss them individually to see copy and pastes. That is my concern and I partially offer that out of even my own experience, i.e. when I started here, my comments in these discussions were just not as elaborate as they are now and I too was cautioned for that a few years back and really I don't wish for anyone to experience the same. Take care. --A Nobody^{My talk} 07:55, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

DYK Issue with SS Ferret

Hi Moondyne. There are a couple of minor issues with the DYK nomination of SS Ferret. Please read my comments at the nomination section. Thanks! Arakunem^Talk 15:12, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Zotero

Over the last few days I've been mucking around with this (and how it works within Firefox) and think I'm starting to get the hang of it. Great research tool, recommended. –Moondyne 03:23, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

DYK for SS Ferret

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BorgQueen (talk) 11:57, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for that - your excellent hard work made it what it was from a crappy stub - always pleased to collaborate with you on things like that - looking forward to doing the same once my travels have got to their natural course of conclusion Satu Suro 02:17, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Adelaide Steamship Company

You are coordially invited to the launch of the Adelaide Steamship Company page. Pdfpdf (talk) 12:29, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Otrem

Regarding this edit, Metro Meat Holdings was renamed Otrem Holdings so that the actual meat business and its name could be sold. I don't remember what happened next, but perhaps the actual meat business is now called "Metro Meat International"? Do you have any more information? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 10:44, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

I have nothing citeable. From my hazy memory of the era, after Otrem was created, the seven(?) MMH abattoirs and the Hurtle Square office building were hived off into MMI and 50% of that was sold off to the Chinese CITIC group. At some point CITIC took 100% ownership of MMI and the assets were sold off one by one, with the last two, the WA plants, sold in 1999. I know for a fact that the MMI name ~~and brand~~(?) still existed a few years later within a shell company but with no assets—I imagine that its been de-registered completely now. I have a contact who might be able to recall more details but I wont be seeing him for another week or so. If anything of substance turns up I'll definitely pass it on. –Moondyne 12:13, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Now that you mention it, yes, that all sounds vaguely familiar, and it is the sort of information I was after. Thank you.

If you find something citeable, please feel free to add it to the article. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 13:47, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

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Otrem

Suggest future correspondence on here? Your thoughts? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 12:10, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Lol! Isn't that one of the proverbial "Chinese curses"? (i.e. "May you live in 'interesting' times.") Pdfpdf (talk) 13:52, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes well doesn't really worry me. Aaroncrick (talk) 07:32, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Reply from DiverDave

Hello Moondyne, and thank you for your recent comments. I sincerely apologize for my recent error. I joined Wikipedia a year ago, but I am still learning my way around, and obviously have a long way to go. Please allow me to explain what I think happened.

I came across the Ticket of Leave page last night, and someone had previously posted a suggestion for the page to be disambiguated (it contained 2 different subjects on the same page). I saw this as an opportunity for me to help the project, and also to gain some valuable experience in doing what is probably a routine task.

This is the first time I have attempted such a task, and needless to say, I screwed it up beyond belief. When I tried to revert my changes, I got a message that they could not be undone! So I was at the keyboard until 0530 this AM, manually fixing every link I could find.

With respect to "piping the links": this is a new concept for me, but I can and will pipe all the links in the exact manner you have suggested. Are you sure this is the best way to handle this change? The only reason I ask, is that I do not want to have to go back and do a third round of changes after I have completed that task. I would like to get this valuable lesson behind me and move on ASAP.

Once I have completed fixing all the links I can find, I will attempt to fix the attribution of the authorship of the 2 Ticket of Leave pages. I suppose I will have to do this by placing a note on the each of the two "Talk" pages. It is not and was never my intent to claim credit for authorship of either of the new pages; this really was just an honest error. As far as I can tell, the Ticket of Leave page was created by Hesperian at 03:47 on 08 December 2004. Am I correct? I am sure you understand that right now, my greatest fear is compounding my previous errors even more.

I humbly ask for your help with this task, and a little friendly mentoring would be tremendously appreciated. It is my sincere intent to be an upstanding member of the Wikipedia community. Some day I hope to be in a position to help other Wikipedians extract themselves from this kind of mess. DiverDave (talk) 15:25, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Another message from DiverDave

Hello again Moondyne. I have just finished correcting all the links I could find. I have also written a note on the "Talk" pages for the newly disambiguated "Ticket of leave" pages. This has been a misadventure which I do not care to repeat. Thanks again for your help. I have included below the text of the apology I wrote on Hesperian's Talkpage:

Hello Hesperian. I made an error yesterday, while attempting to disambiguate a page that I believe you created. The new page ticket of leave has been erroneously credited to me as the author instead of you. Moondyne alerted me to my mistake, and I have done everything in my present capacity to make it right. At his suggestion, I have added a note on the "Talk" page, indicating that you are the actual author of that page. Please let me know if there is anything else I can or should do to repair my transgression. It was never my intention to falsely claim credit; this was simply an honest mistake by an inexperienced but otherwise honorable Wikipedian. Thanks for your help, and also for your understanding. DiverDave (talk) 16:59, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

I hope my efforts have been sufficient to correct my transgression, and demonstrate that I have honorable intentions. Thanks again, DiverDave (talk) 17:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Uranium mining in Australia

On July 27, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Uranium mining in Australia, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page _{(here's how)} and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 12:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

reply from SpringSummerAutumn

Thankyou, I have taken your considerations and removed the extra information on the Winemaker and removed text on feng shui author. It was direct copy from book+website |http://www.feng-shui.net.au/aboutauthors.html.
In addition I have emailed the architectural house to find out which exact temples he has designed as stated in the books they claim they are famous buildings in China and wikipedia may have an article on them and may be worthy of notation as it directly translates to the verifiablity of the architectual placement. - 2 august 2009 UTS

Wine

Am aiming for NPOV, the article is free of original research with only direct copy straight from references wording most from books: wine encyclopedias/wine atlas. Want to learn how to create a good article this is my starting ground and am looking into the matter further thanks for adding the links to policies in question. As the page is under construction there is definite work needed, I was probably a bit thoughtless to even submit anything without reading up enough of the documentation - 3 august 2009 UTS Am interested in improving information available for:

see notable winerys in Australia:

o Penfolds Grange o Orlando Wines‎ o Penfolds o Jacob's Creek (wine) o Bonny Doon Vineyard o Brown Brothers Milawa Vineyard o E & J Gallo Winery o Peter Lehmann o Tahbilk o Thierry Boudinaud o Torbreck o Wolf Blass o Wynns (wine) o Yalumba o Turkey Flat o Thierry Boudinaud o Wyndham Estate o Bruny Island Premium Wines o Moorilla Estate o D'Arenberg o Houghton Winery o Vasse Felix o Domain Day o Elderton wines o Schiller Vineyards o Rosemount (wine) o Constellation Wines Australia o Clarendon Hills (wine) o Chateau Yaldara o Annie's Lane o Coriole o Nazaaray o Montana Wines o Romeo Bragato o Cloudy Bay Vineyards o Grove Mill o Montana Wines o Pegasus Bay Vineyards o Two Paddocks o Villa Maria Estates o see Category:Wineries_in_Western_Australia

microbrewers are even mentioned:Bootleg Brewery

Howard park is the 3rd largest wine company in Western Australia and the largest 100% family owned. As in the Book of Lists, 2009, WA Business News, page 44.

1. Ferngrove

Owed by a wide group of private investors and is not publically listed.

2. – Houghton and Goundry

Owned by the publicaly listed company Constellation which is listed in New York, The United states of America.

3. – Howard park

100% owned by one family. Is Australian owned and listed as the largest family wine dynasty in Western Australia listed with Australia’s First Families of Wine which holds all the largest family wine dynastys of Australia, with Brown Brothers Milawa Vineyard, Yalumba, Tahbilk, D'Arenberg, Wynns (wine), to name a few. Most of which have very poor referencing. User:SpringSummerAutumn|SpringSummerAutumn]] (talk) 10:30, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

My suggestion to you is to help develop some other related articles - say some other major wineries, Tourism in Western Australia, Wine in Western Australia etc. This will avoid the WP:COI accusation but allow you to contribute using the fantastic knowledge and resources that you seem to have available. I really hope you'll stick around. –Moondyne 00:28, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

User:Penright

Deleted offending material as requested from User:Penright/Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?)

Have deleted offending material as you all requested from User:Penright/Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?) according to Wikipedia rules that you have pointed out about not appearing to attach any living person or organisation on in a Wikipedia article. Please would you all be so kind to review your individual "to keep" or "to delete" decisions in the light of the revised edit on this article, many thanks again for all your contribution, thoughts, advice and guidance as you all have a lot more experience at this than IPenright (talk) 22:21, 3 August 2009 (UTC)Penright (talk) 23:30, 3 August 2009 (UTC)Penright (talk) 23:42, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

The article is unsuited for Wikipedia as it is (by the standards applied here anyway), not notable. Deleting material won't change that. –Moondyne 00:28, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Sitting on a mine site, having the flu and not much else to do! Quite interessting to browse through the various mining companies websites. Thanks for the welcome. Calistemon (talk) 00:42, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, never heared of him. Looking at Newcrests website today for the Telfer production, there was nothing about him either. Have you googled him? Calistemon (talk) 05:56, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes I have, and have no doubt that the essence of the article is correct, I'm just unsure if we can say "... the officially recognised claimants do not deny [he is] the first prospector to find ... [Telfer]." Considering that the matter of discovery is a legal issue, you do wonder. –Moondyne 06:01, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

According to this, he was living in La Rochelle, France in 1998. It even got an email address! Calistemon (talk) 06:05, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

He seems a little like the nutty professor type, reading this. I can see his theroy of true geologybeing real popular with main stream geologists. Calistemon (talk) 06:12, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Running a website called "The Greatest Australian Mining Covered Up Swindle of the 20th Century" and these edits sounds like someone with baggage. Looking closer now and subsequent cleanup, I think its all OK. –Moondyne 06:27, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Radium Hill

On August 4, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Radium Hill, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page _{(here's how)} and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 08:14, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Banksia prionotes

G'day mate. We're going to take this to FAC pretty soon. You've always read through the Banksia FACs in the past, and usually offered us some probing questions from a non-botanist perspective. Interested in doing so again? Hesperian 05:55, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Good to see Banksia back at FAC YellowMonkey (cricket photo poll!) paid editing=POV 06:05, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Not real flash with refs but seems as if ref 31 needs some help.. Aaroncrick (talk) 06:21, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Aaron; fixed. Thanks Bling; it has been a while, hasn't it. Hesperian 06:41, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Good luck with the article. Aaroncrick (talk) 07:26, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

A little confused?

Howdy Moondyne - hope you are having a good day in the Capital (assuming you are still there?). I am a little confused by your edit here ... obviously your call but with the edit summary saying "s" I thought you had either made a minor error, or I had really annoyed you at dinner :) - anyway just checking. --VirtualSteve ^{need admin support?} 06:12, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Cheers mate. Appreciate the change. Was hoping it was just an error. Have also sent you an email.--VirtualSteve ^{need admin support?} 06:31, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

List of active gold mines in Western Australia

Thanks for the example, I was looking for a better system, but, and there is always a but, will it work with footnotes that have a reference, as it uses the same template, reflist? I tried before and it only gave me a red error message. I wouldn't want to lose the references. And, while I've got your attention, what do you reckon about all the mines that are currently redlinks. Should I try to create the articles one by one, and that will take a while, or just create basic stubs for all of them and then expand them one by one? Your opinion would be appreciated. Calistemon (talk) 13:43, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, I see what you mean. I think that the answer is here, but I am off to the footy. Will look at it tonight. Regarding redlinks, how you do it is entirely up to you. For me personally, I'm quite happy to start off with stubs and expand as I gather more info and as my time and interest intersect. Others prefer to do each properly before moving onto the next. The main thing is to make sure that you clearly assert notability in the lede, even if a stub, and ensure adequate WP:RS (esp. WP:SECONDARY) to avoid any non-notability claims. –Moondyne 03:33, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Looks great! Calistemon (talk) 14:08, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm done for now. Cheers. –Moondyne 14:14, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Free photo search engine

http://www.everystockphoto.com. Cool. –Moondyne 10:19, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Lillee

Yeah I saw your edit, thanks. Aaroncrick (talk) 10:11, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Oddly enough the Perth Oval photo isn't working even though it does in preview. I had this happen to me yesterday. Travis Birt also does the same thing but randomly it started working a month later. Aaroncrick (talk) 10:52, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

'tis now. I was updating the articles while the uploads were happening at Commons, so I did get a bit ahead of myself at one stage. Thanks anyway. –Moondyne 10:55, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

..... now it is :) Aaroncrick (talk) 10:59, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Project tag?

Do you think West Australian (horse) should be tagged into WP:WA? Hesperian 01:29, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Probably not, but I'm not fussed either way. –Moondyne 01:45, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Sandbox on deleted article

Hello Moondyne,

I wish to start a sandbox on a deleted article of Zenfolio and exercise some WP upon it. What would you suggest? Thanks.ESCapade (talk) 13:58, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Zenfolio has been deleted several times on notability grounds. The first discussion makes it clear that the subject isn't really suitable material for Wikipedia. I would suggest you drop the matter and focus on improving articles which are notable. –Moondyne 11:42, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Inspite of complex considerations of notability ground out of complexity of WP which can't be studied in short time as i believe Zenfolio is in position to meet those requirements, i do hope other contributors with long enough edit history can feel free to start this article from sandbox with encyclopedic POV and treat those violations as requests to write such an article.

Thanks, Moondyne.ESCapade (talk) 14:08, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

If there is not anything else - before i drop this matter, i would like to start a stub for other editors to contribute and develop it until full WP compliant article, paragraph by paragraph.

Thanks again, Moondyne. ESCapade (talk) 09:32, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Ashes

Just when I was starting to think we had a slim chance, Hussey works his magic. Although, I admire him for staying in. Running since has been stupid, why risk a run out? Aaroncrick (talk) 14:10, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

And Clarke's just been runout for a duck. 3 runouts in these circumstances is ... incredible. I'm stunned. –Moondyne 14:21, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

North's shot was horrible. After Already playing a shocker out of the footmarks! Hussey is lucky to be there, but toughing it out. Only a matter of time now I think. Haddin will have a slog soon. Aaroncrick (talk) 14:23, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Sydney Riot

Starting work on it. About 80% is in my books, most of the important stuff anyway.... You might have to teach me how to dig up the news archives YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:46, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

'Onya mate. Just passing through: I've been away for a few days and likely won't get back here proper for a few more. –Moondyne 06:18, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Sydney Riot

It should be done within a week. I think you should nominate it, as you were one of the original authors, and as I have a big FAC backlog, under the one FAC at a time and need a colloborator to nominate as my quota isn't enough to keep up :( YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:30, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Is there in formal instruction saying about a FAC limit or is it just general knowledge? Aaroncrick (talk) 06:38, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Last year I nominated a new one if there were no opposes and at least one support on all open ones. This year I got one complaint because of 1 support not being "significant" so I waited until 2-0, as 3-0 is the usual threshold for promotion YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:44, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Happy to do that, but would prefer to park it for just a bit longer. I'm up to my ears in RL stuff which should be tidied by about mid-next week and would then like to spend some time on the article myself. –Moondyne 07:27, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I'll have my changes in there before then so that you can just add in/tweak things after without having a content clash. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:28, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks mate. I'll see how I go over the weekend. I'm on the road from tonight through to Friday so won't be doing much. –Moondyne 07:31, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Got delayed. All the rather perplexing AFD distractions didn't help YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:07, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

No worries. –Moondyne 07:14, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Added some but still working. Have you seen

?? YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:30, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Surely if the B-class articles become GA, it can still be classed as a FT? Aaroncrick (talk) 06:36, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

But of course. The list is certainly coming along nicely, and no thanks to me. ;) –Moondyne 07:04, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

All help appreciated :) YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:12, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Something's not right. Spoff didn't play in the riot match. –Moondyne 07:45, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

You shouldve posted on my talk so I would have noticed. Spof and Greg missed the first match in late Jan. They played in teh second one in Feb when it broke out. Will be done by tomorrow YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:15, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Finished my expansions. The other bits I haven't sourced should be easy to do. You can expand now without fear of the additions getting mimxed up YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:05, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

All accounted for except for Barton's self-promo, which doesnt seem important and can be chopped ? YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:22, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Good work folks... How dare I forget about WA! :p Aaroncrick (talk) 15:00, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

What other meat is missing from the article? YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:29, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

I think we're good to go. You? –Moondyne 06:10, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, go for it. I'll copyedit it, I didn't before because I assumed you were going to add more stuff. Hopefully it will get some reviews. The other three sport ones at WP:AWNB/A might fail if they continue to be boycotted YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:33, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Now copyedited. All done. All you have to do is nominate at your own leisure, per above I can't because I'm already stuck with Loxton in 48 and Brian Booth (which you started :) ) They will ask you for WP:ALT text for the images, which is just a literal description of the pictures, to assist blind people (add "alt= description" in the caption). I think you have more experience with beards so you could describe the stunning array on display (I've never had anymore than some pathetic stubble). YellowMonkey (bananabucket!) 08:55, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

I'll get the BLF onto you. Its done, but I am disappearing for a couple of days of mancation, back Sunday night. I doubt anything much will crop up before then. –Moondyne 14:19, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

~~"In total up to 2,000 swarmed onto the pitch" needs a cite. –Moondyne 14:42, 25 September 2009 (UTC)~~ Done –Moondyne 14:56, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

FAC! Didn't notice. I'll have a read later. Good luck. Aaroncrick (talk) 08:27, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. ditto York Park. –Moondyne 08:55, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Good thing nobody has complained about a third FA by stealth..... or "why didn't you consult the main editors" type thing YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 01:27, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I could start a bit drama? ;) .... joking :) Aaroncrick (talk) 05:43, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

There hasn't yet been a complaint about using the whole letter. Aaroncrick (talk) 05:45, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh, didn't see the oppose. Aaroncrick (talk) 05:48, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Fifelfoo (talk · contribs) seems to have gotten into a few altercations on a few other FARs/FACs YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:52, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Is also at ANI currently. –Moondyne 06:57, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

What do you think about the large quotes.... None of the CRICs are turning up YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:53, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

YM have you read Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sydney Riot of 1879/archive1? Aaroncrick (talk) 08:02, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

things are more stringent nowadays. Back then it was basically a vote. Often Tony objected to some bad prose and got swamped 7-1 by one-liners YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:05, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Just wondering because it has bits about the letters. Same with the FAR. Aaroncrick (talk) 08:12, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

I still feel the letters need to be there as they are. Woud like to hear some more opinion from senior reviewers b4 responding further. –Moondyne 08:44, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

FYI, the two letters are at Wikisource s:Letter from Lord Harris on 11 February 1879 and s:Reply from the New South Wales Cricket Association. –Moondyne 01:15, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Well Giants has reviewed all the sport FACs for the last 18 months YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 01:19, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Hornby wrote yet another letter to the Telegraph, responding to the NSWCA one and defending Harris' claims. Do we mention that also? –Moondyne 07:16, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

I guess so, did it make much of a stir or make anything new. WS will be fine in any case YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 01:58, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Added myself as a nom, since I can't vote anyway. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 04:49, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Cool. Added a better pic of Handsome Dave. Looking for a better Ulyett one but not having any luck. Do you have anything? –Moondyne 05:06, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

That old one might have been taken once he got off the boat in the UK if it was by the MCC (or the Melbourne CC), in which case the author could have been born 1855 died 1940 if he was lucky and not 70 years. The old man photo would work, as we could probably show that he didn't travel to the UK in retirement, but doesn't have the rugged, Ned Kelly-type aura like the youngun YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:09, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

I chose that one specifically because of the caption which implies it was taken in AUS. –Moondyne 05:26, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Images also aren't necessary, so we can always comment them out and look for them in our own sedate pace. These ones are just decorations after all. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:12, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Noted. –Moondyne 05:26, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Well done on tracking the authors down. I aslways thought it impossible. Good that there are a lot of customers. Most of the other ones wait 3 weeks for 3 guys YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 00:46, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Boddington

I might be able to get some pictures. Don't know what the site regulations are, but some people I used to work with at Wiluna work there now. Are you interessted in anything specific? Calistemon (talk) 14:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

I will have to ask. To tell you the truth, I don't even know what the place looks like and what old and new workings are there. I will post the question to one of my mates. Calistemon (talk) 14:15, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Sons of Gwalia

I've nominated Gwalia Gold Mine for DYK today, could you have a quick look at it and fix what might need to be fixed? That would be great. Calistemon (talk) 14:20, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Western Australian Athletics Stadium

Thanks for the comment, and especially for fixing the cats; I ran out of time, and it always takes me ages to locate the best cats. I was at an event at the stadium this week and had noticed it on the to-do list of WikiProject Perth. -- Ishel99 (talk) 14:39, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

GANGgajang

Have noticed that an editor, User:Nouse4aname, has recently moved GANGgajang to Ganggajang, when I attempted to revert the move the user cited 'Correct capitalisation as per WP:MOSTM and WP:NC'. I've checked WP:NC and it would appear that based on the overarching objectives, using the most easily recognized name; using the mane most prevalent in reliable sources; and using the name most readers are likely to search by that the article should be GANGgajang not Ganggajang. I've also had a look at WP:NC (common names) which would seem to support my view - anyhow I was hoping that some people who are older and wiser than me might be able to give some clear directions on the correct name for this article. Dan arndt (talk) 08:09, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Gomez

What is all this nonsense about Gomez having members coming from Australia? Jason404 (talk) 03:19, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I have no idea what you're talking about. –Moondyne 03:47, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

He's talking about this. Hesperian 03:57, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Appears it stemmed from this edit. Looks like missed vandalism. –Moondyne 04:07, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

"How did you find that?" Gomez + "members" = Gomez (band) -> history -> [Ctrl-F] Moondyne -> diff. Hesperian 04:17, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I was too lazy. Just scanned Jason's contributions and didn't see anything familiar. –Moondyne 04:19, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Duh. I didn't think of that. :-) Hesperian 04:28, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Duh myself. You got the goods. –Moondyne 12:15, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Champion of the Colony

Is the first sentence vandalism? Aaroncrick (talk) 11:49, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

No. RossRSmith is a longtime advocate of the theory that the award is fiction, claiming no sources support the claim for its existence. He seems to be a minority of one however. Others refute that and cite newspaper articles which mention a champion player awrad. I don't know enough to engage in the debate, but reckon that The Argus ran two separate awards for champion players at various times, one a popular vote and another voted by a panel. The problem is that definitive RS hasn't yet surfaced. A close read of the talk page will reveal a lot.

Try some string searches at [2] eg. "champion player" (advanced search, with exclusions etc.) , but be warned, you'll have to dig deep and you may go crosseyed. –Moondyne 12:05, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I might just leave it. Thanks for the link ... Saints won! Aaroncrick (talk) 12:28, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm glad. –Moondyne 12:39, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Would Rather have seen the Dogs win. Anyway, as long as Collingwood loose... Aaroncrick (talk) 12:43, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

There are current reliable sources - the AFL annual stats book lists them and 100 years of AFL book lists them too... but Ross (and others, me included) have struggled to find any sources from the time that they were awarded. Maybe it's just something someone in the 50s/60s/70s made up, maybe it's real, but not that notable, maybe it's the poor text recogition (so far) on the NLA newspaper search website. I've started to rewrite it a few times (to take a "disputed" approach), but never finished it.The-Pope (talk) 04:18, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

From memory, I created the article a long time back based on a page on the fullpointsfooty website which is an eclectic collection of history and trivia. Tellingly perhaps, about 12 months ago they removed that page. When I was scanning through the NLA archive last week, I did notice a lot of the search results were article headers which hadn't yet been fully uploaded into the system. Perhaps in a few more months when that happens, progress can be made. –Moondyne 04:31, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Ross and John from fullpointsfooty seem to be in contact over these types of things. We really need the AFL/Col Hutchinson to investigate and update it before AFL 2010 is published. The "has been scanned, will be added in days" comment on NLA has been on some items for months.The-Pope (talk) 09:55, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Patience grasshopper. It is growing. –Moondyne 10:06, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Greetings all. I wrote to the AFL History Dept on 19 February 2008, plus a number of times since, asking for evidence to be produced in support of the award's existence. Didn't expect that they would be able to quote any, and they haven't. I don't have a full set of the AFL Season Guide, but CoTC award is never shown up to and including the 2000 edition - but is in by the 2003 edition. It would be nice to have the matter clarified officially. Bland statements that the matter has been thoroughly researched should be ignored, and requests made [I think] that specific date references be provided. After all, it is simple enough to locate confirmation of each year's Brownlow result.

RossRSmith (talk) 12:43, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

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GSS

Well done. I remember when you first threatened to write that article, many many moons ago. It was worth the wait. Hesperian 01:27, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, its a start for someone anyway. Its one of those that is difficult to know where to stop. –Moondyne 02:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

[3] –Moondyne 14:39, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

:-) Hesperian 00:07, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

From a crappy keyboard from behindwhat was oncea metaliiferous curtain -well done- at leastits been done at last :)

Satu Suro 19:55, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Lady Elizabeth (barque)

The article Lady Elizabeth (barque) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

unnecessary redirect

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Saebjorn! 03:56, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

far out man. –Moondyne 12:07, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Desal Follies

Wonthaggi desalination plant has been edited badly again. Lots of spelling mistakes, unreferenced opinions, biased language and other garbage. *Sigh*. --One Salient Oversight (talk) 07:42, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Sigh indeed; shite galore. –Moondyne 12:07, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Sydney Riot of 1879 passed

Well done YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 23:51, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Congrats. Aaroncrick (talk) 05:56, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Very little to do with me, I just held its hand through the exam stage. All the credit to YM. –Moondyne 06:08, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Well we can do The Ashes YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:16, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Ooh, much harder. 1st thing I'd do is WP:BB and delete all those series summaries. –Moondyne 06:41, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Have another article with each series' summaries? Aaroncrick (talk) 08:10, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Crikey! The discussion at the top of this page kept rolling across my watchlist, and a couple of times I poked around to see why it was suddenly so worthy of persistent discussion; but somehow I never figured out that it was a FAC. If I had known, I would have reviewed and commented; I owe you a few! Congratulations and my apologies for not noticing. Hesperian 03:03, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Never noticed List of Ashes series a former FL. Aaroncrick (talk) 06:46, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Losing touch

Staying in the building that I tried to edit sat night - cripes losing touch with all this stuff - pity my german and polish is zilch Satu Suro 20:07, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

As ever I am forever grateful to your for your help - may your day be a good one - it is very odd sleeping in a room that has been polish nationalist, gestapo/ss, nkvd that is on the top of a death deciding cellar - perhaps the fortuitous little direction finding duck that failed me in getting out of manchester and other similar locations in the uk in less than 3 goes - has flown me to a place that needed identifying... my re-reading after the horrible start (to the stub that is) says that it was built for the poles who wanted to have a polish silesia and it had some very famous krakowians who supported its establishment - then the gestapo used it for their bureaucratic needs - in all probability it was an office area that was used for the paper work for the part of the final solution business - and then the nkvd probably used it as a follow up to the polish free people to send them off to the grave (in russia) as well - and yet it doesnt show up in the feel good stuff about krakow. The name of the street was enough to give any ww2 era citizens/survivors the creeps as it was where they knew of people being killed or sorted to send to the camps that are not so well known. Anyways i will in all probability be low on edits for a while again or maybe rest of the trip - thanks for the clean up. Appreciated. Satu Suro 05:32, 11 October 2009 (UTC) As for the wineissue i have on my shelf about 1o-15 really good off-line sources for all that stuff- but am in budapest :) Satu Suro 17:08, 14 October 2009 (UTC) pomorska - tried to do a redirect - could youfix it for me if itswrong -thanks Satu Suro 08:02, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

H has sorted it out. –Moondyne 11:59, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Phew this hungarian keybord is more complicated than both the russian and the polish one - thanks for the fixes!!! Satu Suro 18:27, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

2009–10 Australian domestic season

No articles as of yet. Aaroncrick (talk) 11:16, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Nope, see the redlinks in 2009–10 Australian cricket season. I only found 2008–09 Australian cricket season itself was red a week ago! There's a fair bit of work in keeping these current and they really need someone to take some ownership through the season. I have neither the time or inclination to do it on my own. I'm forming a view that these individual season articles are excessive and that Template:Australian cricket seasons and the 4 tournament articles would suffice. Perhaps they be merged into History of Australian cricket from 2000–01. The whole business needs wider discussion and hopefully some rationalisation. What do you think? –Moondyne 12:00, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

User:Sam Vimes is to blame. He did a great job on 2005–06 Australian cricket season, but its been downhill ever since. –Moondyne 12:08, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Inclined to agree, although if you think that's excessive check out Tasmania in the 2009–10 domestic Sheffield Shield cricket season I created - although I am in the process of sourcing a writing up properly. Aaroncrick (talk) 12:09, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm.

–Moondyne 12:13, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm gonna keep newspaper snippets in case the online article get deleted. More info around that I thought. Aaroncrick (talk) 12:17, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Pity that the work that SV and Jguk did on the cricket seasons never went the final distance before they retired. IIRC 2005 English cricket season had a pile of subarticles. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) (Invincibles finally at Featured topic candidates) 03:17, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Yep. Ya gotta have a critical mass of contributors who'll keep the series current. I sense we're in decline. Do you remember the related transclusion drahmaz Sam copped on his rfa? Them were the days. –Moondyne 08:11, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes I argued with them. It would be trickier on RFA, as people pay so much attention to the speeches and walking the rope on the questions. I think we are in decline too at the greassroots level. Especialy with Tintin not so active anymore, the Indian stuff doesn't happen at all anymore except the really current and leading international stuff YellowMonkey (bananabucket) (Invincibles finally at Featured topic candidates) 12:24, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Well maybe Sarastro1 (talk · contribs) can revive the British Empire to the glory days YellowMonkey (bananabucket) (Invincibles finally at Featured topic candidates) 23:56, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Wonthaggi

I agree with you on all counts and I apologise if you got the impression that I wasn't assuming good faith. My only remaining point of contention here is that an edit summary with "spelling and grammar" implies spelling and grammar, not rewording the said section to portray it's subject matter in a different light. You reworded the section, altered words, replaced words with other words and the effect of this was that it portrayed the subject matter of the given section in a light different than that which it was portrayed in previous to that edit. The genuine grammar and spelling fixes are more than welcomed, but be careful not to alter the text in doing so. If you've got any problems with the content itself or the way in which it portrayed the subject matter initially, then I should refer you to your own advice of not reverting the edits in question, rather, do as I have done and discuss it on the article's talk page. Nick carson (talk) 07:11, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

long train- short sleep

you might just have to monitor my edits from istanbul i think i gonna have serious trainlag head (krakow to budapest was mad enough -but 36 hours?) hmmm i might have to have a pan galactic gargle blaster when i come to a halt in turkey Satu Suro 08:18, 20 October 2009 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_Western_Australia - its gonna be a challenge to find enough for a stub on Patersons Press- from memory the most difficult itemI have ever ventured to ever pindown (unless some enterprising student has found the holy grail or company records or something)either in henriettas underwear (or hoever it is now) or on shelves Satu Suro 08:46, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Birds of Western Australia

Hi Moondyne - thanks for adding the pic of the cover to the article. Big improvement. Cheers. Maias (talk) 02:25, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

No worries Maias. Nice work. –Moondyne 02:29, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

bing! Hesperian 02:32, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Up for another FL save?

If you've got the time, perhaps you could work your magic on Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of Cricket World Cup records/archive1. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 04:13, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Chris Parnell (Australian)

I have nominated Chris Parnell (Australian), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Parnell (Australian). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Closedmouth (talk) 15:32, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

gut and air

nah - i am more worried about what i am breathing than what i eat - there has been a very odd sour smell in the air here that disturbs me much more than any potential food issue - there is in the rather refined area of smell description (reminds me of the oil/smell shops in damascus) a smell that is sour but with an odd connection with cheap indian soap - i only hope it isnt atmospheric particulate something like sodium laurel sulphate in suspended aerosol form - btw you have an email about ricas memorial service Satu Suro 08:53, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

I hadn't heard of Rica's passing till now (nor had anyone else by the looks). Very sad, but she had an exceptionally long innings and a full life, I'd say. Good to see you have a handle on things despite the distances and odoriferous challenges. –Moondyne 09:10, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Warning

Do not continue deleting known facts from particular pages because you, or somebody you are connected with, finds them morally incorrect. What was written is well known and voiced in the community. If you persist, i will request you have your editing rights removed for disruptive reasons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NotYourGrandmother (talk • contribs) 10:02, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. –Moondyne 11:03, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Advice

Argh what do I do with Als0123345 (talk · contribs)? This editor keeps adding weekly stats to article. All in good faith but a lot better if written in prose. Aaroncrick (talk) Review me! 11:13, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

They're all copy-paste jobs from the footywire website. Editor has been given a heads-up. Revert. –Moondyne 13:25, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I reverted on the Bernie Vince art. Brian all over again ... Aaroncrick (talk) Review me! 02:21, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Als0123345 Could at least use bullets! :) Aaroncrick (talk) Review me! 02:27, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Fresh Air

Cripes it is good to be back - eucalypt bush fire aerosols have it all over the previous inhalants of earlier places :) (i gave up on the december break idea...) Satu Suro 13:35, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Boddington Gold Mine

Sorry for the long delay, but I've finally organised those Boddington pictures through my mate down there. He isn't sure he was allowed to take them, therefore I've uploaded them under my name. Its twelve pictures all up, all at commons. Huge place! Calistemon (talk) 05:14, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Andrew Ward's

Cricket's Strangest Matches - just found my copy... I notice not much is taken from this one on WP - is it because it lacks corroborating footnotes/refs? Satu Suro 13:29, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

I've heard it mentioned at WT:CRIC several times but have not seen it myself. So I dunno. I have your HECWA here to handback sometime btw. –Moondyne 13:46, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

OK - i like wards book - there are some very very quaint matches recorded - but i think id feel happy creating anything from it - only with corroborating RS's Satu Suro 15:30, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Cities

Do you know who originally got Australia cities arts to GA? Aaroncrick (talk) Review me! 08:29, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

I have no idea but reckon it was a case by case process and nothing ever coordinated. Most are now B. It'd be interesting to tabulate the quality status of selected Category:Top-importance Australia articles (Geo's) including dates listed and delisted. That might generate some competition between state projects to get their respective arts up a level. –Moondyne 08:52, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Dunno about other projects but Tassie seems nearly dead as the the Thylacine (apart from SatuSuro). WA would be strong from the amount of fantastic editors - surprised that Perth wasn't a GA actually. Aaroncrick (talk) Review me! 09:09, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

I think that the average Australian editor is getting quite disconnected from GA+ nowadays, thinking it is pie in teh sky or that the time for fine cleaning is a waste, given that most do care a lot about POV pushing/flagrant junk at grassroots level, whereas in many other places, people are only worried about the flagship/prominent stuff that affects Wiki-reputations more and don't care if an alarmingly high % of articles are in disarray due to random accretions of junk as long as the elite bits keep stacking up, because that's the only indicator of health that the casually examining Wiki peer looks at YellowMonkey (bananabucket) (Invincibles finally at Featured topic candidates) 12:28, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you sir

You are always such an agreeable collaborator :) Satu Suro 13:01, 9 December 2009 (UTC) oh dear i think i have but confused the the diff between weather-data and meteorology - oops - oh well tommorrow is another day in the exciting life of the wp ed :( Satu Suro 15:22, 9 December 2009 (UTC) we have a need for some tender loving attention at Fairbridge to move it from PR to art - your keen eye is always appreciated Satu Suro 03:39, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

"Fairbridge Western Australia" [4] (no comma) is a charity and I think the new editor was trying to create an article mainly related to that. Kingsley Fairbridge covers the history and the farmsite and now has a lot of duplicate info. I'd propose to move Fairbridge, Western Australia back to Fairbridge Western Australia and merge the duplicated info. In theory you could have 3rd article on Fairbridge Farm ~~but that may be going overboard~~ maybe not. –Moondyne 04:39, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine

I figured, we should have an article on Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine after its sale yesterday and created one. I've nominated it for DYK, too. If you got time, could you have a quick read and fix it up a bit? It would be appreciated. Also, its fairly ani-BHP but its hard not to go that way when you look at the mess they created and how much bad puplicity they received! Do you think, it violates NPOV? Calistemon (talk) 09:42, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your input, much appreciated. Calistemon (talk) 04:14, 11 December 2009 (UTC)