User talk:SauliH/Archive1

Welcome SauliH. I see you're adding interesting history to the churches in Hahndorf, South Australia. If you're from South Australia, you might like to add your user page to Category:Wikipedians in South Australia by adding [[Category:Wikipedians in South Australia]] to the bottom of it. Also look at WikiProject Adelaide and the Australian Wikipedian notice board. By the way, the first edit of Gotthard Fritzsche is too short to be a useful article. Do you have more information on him? Feel free to ask me any questions on my talk page. --Scott Davis ^Talk 04:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello - in terms of the Frederick William article, I think the key thing is to cite sources (preferably works by historians) that discuss this issue, and try to represent what they say. Obviously, Frederick William's merger of the Lutheran and Reformed churches in Prussia was a big deal, and some discussion should be in the article. But the article is at present so short that I feel like such a lengthy discussion unbalances the article - is this decision as important as everything else Frederick William did for his entire life, because it takes up nearly as much space as everything else put together. Also, the fact of its Lutheranness is a bit problematic - only the viewpoint of Lutherans opposed to the merger is really discussed. Neither the views of those Lutherans who favored, nor the views of any Reformeds, is considered. If you could work to refine the contribution, that'd be great. john k 06:47, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Source

Hi, I'm not some sort of copyright nerd but I noticed the different dates on the expansion you added on the George Fife Angas article. Just out of curiosity I was wondering what your source was. - Diceman 13:08, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to change the dates back as I presume the Australian Dictionary of Biography is a reliable source. You are aware that it's customary to reply to stuff on this page aren't you? - Diceman 13:32, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Australian place names changed from Germanic names

Hi SauliH, and a belated welcome to Wikipedia. I just wanted to mention that Australian place names changed from Germanic names, which you started, is a great idea for an article. I'm a descendant of German immigrants to SA myself. -- Cnwb 05:51, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Why did you edit my vote on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian places, but you didn’t edit Cyberjunkie or ScottDavis’s votes, when they have the same ‘problem’ as me? —Felix the Cassowary 23:15, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I’m really sorry, I misread what happened there. I thought you’d changed my normal sig ‘—Felix the Cassowary’ into ‘Cassowary’, but evidently I typed one too many tildes. I really should no what’s happening before I get miffed at people. My apologies. —Felix the Cassowary 01:40, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regions in NSW

What source are you using for your region pages ie Central West, New South Wales, Northern Rivers, New South Wales? Doing the City of Dubbo page, I came across this site which might help you. Dubbo (according to page 7 of the 04-05 Annual report) falls in the Orana region, but the City of Dubbo site lists it as Central West, New South Wales. What do you think? Should we follow the regions as per the business.nsw.gov site and make a few alterations?SauliH 08:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to make a few changes, after creating the Orana, New South Wales region article. Hope you do not mind.SauliH 09:15, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have been tending to name regions to reflect my understanding of usage. I tend to think the Orana region was something invented by a bunch of bureaucrats and has never been used by real people, who are most influenced by the Met Bureau's regions ([2]). The DSRD also includes the horrible Australian Capital Region. I note for instance that User:Golden Wattle has been working on a the South West Slopes, New South Wales region which is also not listed by DSDR. But we do need a consistent policy. This is probably something that needs to be sorted out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian places--Grahamec 13:09, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot

Not that I know of. I could just do it anyway and get it banned (get self banned too?) meh. I have added some categories that will help the conversion process hopefully, but their not refreshing properly..:( TheJosh 08:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I might just quietly run the bot on my own account for Template:Infobox Town AU because the source is already working for that one, ill just finnish the code, and put the edit delay upto like 3 mins to match a real person.

Good Stuff

Good to see OZ Hist project up - may you have a long life - wikpedian - and in the real one as well! I have been thinking of starting up an art - Australian Coastal Shipping and Australiuan Maritime History - as everything that can be found on these appear disconnected and not in any systematically connected. What do you think? SatuSuro 06:36, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Broader whole country - I did maritime history under the late frank broeze at uwa - and have been fascinated ever since. Bass Strait is a class of its own - but the coast shipping - there are articcles scattered - companies, ports, ships and things should have an overview article IMHO. Aust Mari History - could also link all the mari mseums ect plus the aspects of the academic discipline here in oz. SatuSuro 06:47, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would also love to start a coastline of Australia project sometime, where every stretch of coast is detailed. Anyone else? It -might- not be a wikipedia project - it might have other web based locations that would be more sympathetic to such an idea - unlesss you carefully consider about 'What wikipedia is and is not' - there are hoops - policy wise - that you would have to negotiate on this one IMHO. Best just to work with the history project -and the work that will generate - before trying a coastline coverage projecct. It is very easy to get overwhelmed by something like that. But good on you to get the history project working in the first place!!!SatuSuro 08:02, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Have just put the maritime history as a sister project on the main project page - hope you dont mind! SatuSuro 08:07, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your support - I do hope the coastal coverage dream can fulfilled for you somehwere! SatuSuro 14:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sister/Child - is fairly inconsequential at this early stage - I think there's a long road to go before a definite relationship be determined - both the projects need relatively much larger support for either to really get enough momentum IMHO, and anyways we'll need to wait and see - sometimes the backwater of wikipedia has things go relatively slow... SatuSuro 15:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whichever - the immense scope of the history project in general looks bigger every time I think about it - hope it all works out - whatever happens! SatuSuro 23:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you get the gist of my messages to Hesperian and Moondyne this am (reckless sense of humour reigns) I have about four days to fix things up before I go offline for at least a week - we will see what happens! I am very very impressed by your preps for the hist projecton your contribs - make sure you get sleep :) - SatuSuro 03:12, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I do most nights. I live in Minnesota US :0 - so my hours are out of sync with Aus! I enjoy getting up in the morning and reading all the changes made overnightSauliH 03:15, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That explains a few things about your contrib pattern now -trust youre finding the french exploration stuff as well there have been quite a few books tv series and exhibitions recnetly here in wa about that SatuSuro 05:47, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Am constantly finding more... if you have links, please post.SauliH 05:53, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Probably when you are asleep! but If I find will do! SatuSuro 05:54, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Adelaide

I have noticed that Firefox and Internet Exploiter show the dot in slightly different positions, thus rendering this feature less useful. --TheJosh 05:02, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

oh great! another quirk of internet markup disparity. That is why I think pictures online should always be hard coded ie put the dot where it is meant to be and be done with it!SauliH 05:12, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One solution would be to have it automatically substitute in maps of the individual states (or the aussie map if no valid state data) so that if the dot is out by a pixel or 2 it wont matter as much because it will only be a diff of say 30km instead of 150km

That is a better idea. Can you see if it will work without too much headache?SauliH 05:32, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I will try. I will need some state maps to work with first though. TheJosh 07:42, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]