Talk:TAD Australia

Proposal: Extend this article to cover TAD Australia-wide

I would like to propose extending this article from just the NSW organization to be Australia-wide.

TAD started in NSW, but now there are branches in every state and the ACT. Obviously, any relevant state-specific information would be retained but this seems to be the most straightforward way to fill in an obvious gap for all the missing states. The web site is http://tadaustralia.org.au/. Please make any comments for or against below.--Gronk Oz (talk) 23:38, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

• Pinging some editors who were most involved or edited this article recently, in case you wish to comment: John Vandenberg, Awaywithwords83, Veryproicelandic --Gronk Oz (talk) 08:26, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
  • I should have clarified - this proposed change would also involve changing the article name to TAD Australia, with a redirect from the current name. (Currently there is a redirect the other way, from TAD Australia to here.)--Gronk Oz (talk) 08:37, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

It has been over a week with no comments, so I will go ahead and do it. --Gronk Oz (talk) 13:34, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Maybe you should have gone ahead and done what the section title and opening sentence suggested: that is, extend the article to the Australia-wide organisation. Sliding in a bit at the end about changing the name isn't the most transparent way to gain consensus. In any case, since the redirect at TAD Australia now has a tangled history, you won't be able to move without admin help anyway, so a formal move discussion might as well take place. I'm guessing it will slide through easily enough, but I know nothing about the subject so I could be wrong. Cutting and pasting ths article contents over a redirect is not a good way to rename an article because the history stays here and the text it is associated with moves elsewhere. Lithopsian (talk) 15:24, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

@Lithopsian: Please accept my apologies: I did not appreciate the subtleties of it. In trying to avoid confusion that comes from the similarity of the two names, it seems I only made things worse. Fortunately PRehse was on hand to help fix up my mistake - thank you.--Gronk Oz (talk) 00:04, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

All looks good now. Lithopsian (talk) 15:47, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Awards

Some of the state web sites have their own lists of awards, which don't have supporting references:

• TADWA awards at https://tadwa.org.au/our-story/awards/
• Solve (TAD Victoria) awards at https://solve.org.au/volunteers/volunteer-awards

So the next step will be to determine which ones are noteworthy and then hunt for suitable sources so they can be included in the article.--Gronk Oz (talk) 01:36, 12 February 2019 (UTC)