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ThylacineHunter

Disclosure I, ThylacineHunter, am the sole owner of the information site www.trainsofvictoria.info. I am interested in documenting everything to do with railways, trams, traction engines and paddle boats in Victoria, Australia. My edits will refrain from linking to my own site, unless there is a real need to add a reference and there is no other one that meets WP:RS (eg. a closed Facebook group that has photographic evidence of something). I fully understand and abide by Wikipedia's policies on Conflicts of Interest and maintaining a Neutral Point of View.
About Me After finding incorrect information on a couple of pages back in 2015, I decided to create an account to fix these and to eventually add pages that were redlinks within my own areas of interest. In 2019, I started updating deprecated templates on these to the updated ones (eg changing 'Succession templates' to 'Adjacent stations templates'). Looking at some of the relevant modules and how they can be improved. In 2020, I started the massive task of trying to make a BSicon map of Murray River (the 3rd longest navigable river in the world). I will probably follow this up with both the Murrumbidgee River and the Darling River as they are also navigable and the second and third longest rivers in Australia. I am unsure if I will also do the Goulburn River at the moment. From 2021, I started fixing related articles to a uniform layout style (eg all Victorian Railway carriage classes to look the same), fixing the categories those pages should be in, and adding them to the relevant WikiProjects. Did you Know There is apparently a total 2,978 localities and 79 LGA's in Victoria. High-functioning autism / Asperger syndrome Both a gift and a curse... My brain runs at a million miles a minute, never stopping, 24/7. What is it like??? Imagine being surrounded by a giant circular whiteboard reaching from the floor to twice your height. Just behind this is another whiteboard, followed by another, Ad infinitum. The boards can be reordered to bring any one to the front. And on them... Every TV show / movie I ever watched, and every book (which my brain turns into a movie as I read) is constantly playing. Every thought / idea / theory is displayed. Every song, with accompanying lyrics is there. All your memories. And everything has cross references, and you have the ability to recall anything at anytime... Redoing a jigsaw puzzle can trigger memories from the last time you did it. Watching a movie while eating lunch? Next time you see it, you can remember that meal.   Todo Tasks to do Railways Rolling stock  Doing... Add remaining missing VR locos  Doing... Existing VR locos - check data and add missing values  Doing... Add VR locos to Category:Locomotives by builder  Later List of each state locomotive classes Stations  On hold Tidy services section on Victorian station pages  On hold Adopt a standard use of Template:rwsa in services sections  On hold Add missing Victorian stations  Later Update list of stations in Victoria (Melbourne, closed Melbourne, Victoria, closed Victoria) Lines  On hold  HoHo3143 is doing... Adopt a standard article layout on railway line pages with my assistance on:  On hold Service infobox, service map, track infobox, track map, stopping patterns, station history  On hold Move route diagrams from pages on lines to their own templates (some were already templates, to make a uniform standard)  On hold Check locations on Victorian route diagram templates  On hold Adopt a standard use of Template:rwsa on line diagrams  On hold Add missing Victorian lines Other  On hold Tidy/add missing Railways workshops of Victoria  Later Update/check pages are in categories for: Rolling stock of Victoria, Rail transport in Melbourne, Rail transport in Victoria, Railway accidents / incidents, Vic, Railway bridges, Vic, Freight terminals, Vic, Rail infrastructure, Vic, Railway lines, Vic, Railway museums, Vic, Railway stations, Vic, Railway tunnels, Vic, Railway workshops, Vic Tramways Melbourne trams  Later Update Melbourne cable tramway system using: "A Story of The Melbourne Cable Tramway System" by Clement Govett & Alfred Twentyman and "Melbourne Metropolitan Tramways Board reports" Add MTOC stock (Dummies & trailers) - still need sources for CHNPTC stock Update routes  Later Update former Melbourne tram classes (Category:Melbourne tram vehicles) Locations in Victoria Regions 6 official regions (Barwon South West, Gippsland, Grampians, Hume, Loddon Mallee, Greater Melbourne) and the Unincorporated areas  Mostly done Tidy regions/sub-regions  Started Add towns, railway lines, stations to the correct categories  Done localities in LGA templates (Category:Victoria (state) local government area templates)  Done Update "Townships and localities" sections on LGA's with 2021 & 2016 census data Add/tidy subcategories for:  Started Mountains  Done Parks  Mostly done Rivers  Not done Tourist attractions  Started Transport  Started Victorian Heritage Register LGA's During the lockdowns in 2020/21 Local government areas became more important, defining the area that was in lockdown and where you could travel  Started Tidy LGA's  Started Update infoboxes  Started Add towns, railway lines, stations to the correct categories  Started Work on uniform page structure and improving article rating Rivers, creeks and waterways  Started BSicon map of Murray River  Partly done Add missing rivers, creeks, lakes, etc on the Rivers of the XXX catchment templates Not sure. Sort out Category:Tributaries of the XXX River‎ for the main rivers - Is it needed if there is a catchment category? Murray River and other interstate maybe Not sure. also Category:XXX River - Is it needed if there is a catchment category? Maybe could be used for towns on the river?  Not done Add missing tags to pages for Category:Lakes of Victoria (state) and Category:Reservoirs in Victoria (state) and add to associated templates Parks  Done Add parks (national, state, etc) to Category:Parks of XXX (region)  Not done Add/change maps to LGA maps - Better to show location Mountains, mountain ranges, volcanoes and rock formations  Started Add Mountains, mountain ranges, volcanoes, etc to Category:Mountains of XXX (region) Barwon South West, Gippsland, Grampians, Greater Melbourne, YHume, Loddon Mallee, Unincorporated areas  Not done Add/change maps to LGA maps - Better to show location  Not done Fix Default sort by name without "Mount" VHR  Started Update list of places on the Victorian Heritage Register per LGA Barwon South West: Colac Otway, Corangamite, Glenelg, Greater Geelong, Moyne, Queenscliffe, Southern Grampians, Surf Coast Shire, Warrnambool Gippsland: Bass Coast, Baw Baw, East Gippsland, Latrobe, South Gippsland, Wellington Grampians: Ararat, Ballarat, Golden Plains, Horsham, Hepburn, YHindmarsh, Moorabool, Northern Grampians, Pyrenees, YWest Wimmera, Yarriambiack Hume: YAlpine, YBenalla, YGreater Shepparton, Indigo, YMansfield, Mitchell, YMoira, YMurrindindi, YStrathbogie, YTowong, YWangaratta, YWodonga Loddon Mallee: YBuloke, Campaspe, Central Goldfields, YGannawarra, Greater Bendigo, Loddon, Macedon Ranges, Mildura, Mount Alexander, YSwan Hill Greater Melbourne: Banyule, Bayside, Boroondara, Brimbank, Cardinia, YCasey, Darebin, Frankston, Glen Eira, YGreater Dandenong, Hobsons Bay, Hume, Kingston, YKnox, Manningham, Maribyrnong, YMaroondah, Melbourne, Melton, Monash, Moonee Valley, Moreland, Mornington Peninsula, Nillumbik, Port Phillip, Stonnington, Whitehorse, Whittlesea, Wyndham, Yarra, Yarra Ranges YUnincorporated areas  Started Tag places on VHR Other  Not done Fix Williamstown Timeball Tower - sort out the 2 or 3 lighthouses at this site, correct build date  Not done Gellibrand pile light - Not the current Timeball Tower Other bits Paddle boats  Started Paddle boats of the Murray-Darling system - tied in with Barges & Steamboat people  Done Template:River Murray paddle steamers - to the best of my knowledge this is the complete list of 361 boats (there is a lack of documentation of a definitive list on this subject)  Not done Tidy/add missing List of Murray–Darling steamboats  Not done Add the individual significant boats  Not done Barges of the Murray-Darling system - tied in with Paddle boats & Steamboat people  Not done Steamboat people of the Murray-Darling system - tied in with Paddle boats & Barges Tasks completed Regions 6 official regions (Barwon South West, Gippsland, Grampians, Hume, Loddon Mallee, Greater Melbourne) and the Unincorporated areas  Done localities in LGA templates (Category:Victoria (state) local government area templates)  Done Update "Townships and localities" sections on LGA's with 2021 & 2016 census data  Done Add rivers, creeks, etc to the correct region and catchment areas Locations in Victoria Barwon South West region: Parks Gippsland region: Parks Grampians region: Parks Hume region: Mountains Parks Towns Loddon Mallee region: Parks Greater Melbourne region: Parks Unincorporated areas: Parks Victorian Heritage Register   Pages Created Railways Rolling stock List of Victorian locomotive classes Steam locos: Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company 2-4-0WT (1854) (also known as M&SR 2-4-0WT (1861), MRC 2-4-0WT (1863), M&HUR 2-4-0WT (1865), N class (1878)), Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway Company 4-4-0WT (1871) (also known as C class (1878)), Victorian Railways No.1 (1857), Victorian Railways J class (1859), Victorian Railways P class (1859), Victorian Railways L class (1859), Victorian Railways O class (1861), Victorian Railways No.100 (1872), Victorian Railways G class (1877), Victorian Railways H class (1877), Victorian Railways X class (1886) Stations Thorpdale railway station Lines Girgarre railway line - The reason I joined Wiki was due to this page being totally incorrect, finally got around to remaking it Template:XXX Metro Service: Alamein, Belgrave, Craigieburn, Cranbourne, Flemington Racecourse, Glen Waverley, Hurstbridge, Lilydale, Mernda, Pakenham, Sandringham, Stony Point, Sunbury, Upfield, Werribee, Williamstown Template:XXX railway line: Colbinabbin, Frankston, Glen Waverley, Inner Circle, Outer Circle, Outtrim, Rosstown, Thorpdale, Warburton, Whittlesea, Woodside Template:Yarra Valley Railway Other Template:Victoria Livery color - deleted (backed up to User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color) Locomotives builder categories: Category:Phoenix locomotives, Category:Williamstown Workshops locomotives Citation templates: Template:Anderson-All Stations, Template:Cave-First Fifty, Template:Victorian Rail-Newsrail, Template:VictorianRailways-Diagrams, Template:Bray-BHB Templates for use with trains: Template:Table Age Calculator (Template:TAC2), Template:Incline Module:Adjacent stations/Australian tourist station (Australian tourist line) Regions & LGA's LGA's Categories for LGA's: Alpine Shire, City of Ballarat, Shire of Baw Baw, Rural City of Benalla, Shire of Campaspe, Shire of Central Goldfields, Shire of Corangamite, Shire of East Gippsland, Shire of Glenelg, Golden Plains Shire, City of Greater Bendigo, Shire of Hepburn, Shire of Indigo, City of Kingston, Shire of Mitchell, Shire of Moorabool, Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Mount Alexander Shire, Shire of Moyne, Shire of Northern Grampians, Shire of Pyrenees, Borough of Queenscliffe, Shire of South Gippsland, Shire of Southern Grampians, Surf Coast Shire, Shire of Towong, Rural City of Wangaratta, City of Warrnambool, Shire of Wellington, Yarra Ranges Shire, Shire of Yarriambiack Stubs: Template:Hume-geo-stub (Category:Hume (region) geography stubs) Template:Localities in Unincorporated areas Regions Categories for regions: Category:Greater Melbourne (region), Category:Loddon Mallee (region) Categories for towns in ... (region): Barwon, Barwon South West, Central Highlands, Goulburn, Grampians, Great South Coast, Greater Melbourne, Hume, Loddon Campaspe, Loddon Mallee, Mallee, Ovens Murray, Wimmera Southern Mallee, Unincorporated areas Goulburn (region) VHR Categories for Victorian Heritage Register ... (region): Grampians, Greater Melbourne, Hume, Loddon Mallee List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in LGA's: Alpine Shire, Shire of Baw Baw, Rural City of Benalla, Shire of East Gippsland, Rural City of Wangaratta, Shire of Wellington, Unincorporated areas Rivers Categories for rivers of ... (region): Barwon South West, Gippsland, Grampians, Greater Melbourne, Hume, Loddon Mallee Categories for ... catchments: Corangamite, East Gippsland, Glenelg Hopkins, Goulburn Broken, Mallee, North-Central, North-East, Melbourne Water, West Gippsland, Wimmera Templates for rivers of the ... catchment: Mallee Parks Template:Protected areas of Victoria Categories for parks of ... (region): Barwon South West, Gippsland, Grampians, Greater Melbourne, Hume, Loddon Mallee, unincorporated areas Mountains Categories for mountains of ... (region): Barwon South West, Hume Transport Categories for transport in ... (region): Barwon South West, Gippsland, Hume, Loddon Mallee Others Buda (house)	Languages en-auThis user is a native speaker of Australian English. BASIC-3This user is an advanced BASIC programmer. QBThis user can program in QBasic. logo-1This user is a beginning Logo programmer. This user is a native TI-BASIC programmer. HTML-4This user is an expert HTML user. This user codes HTML by hand. css-3This user is an advanced Cascading Style Sheets user. C-1This user is a beginning C programmer. js-2This user is an intermediate JavaScript programmer. wiki-4This user is an expert Wikipedia editor. Lua-1This user is a beginning Lua programmer. PHP-1This user is a beginning PHP programmer.   Wiki Projects This user participates in WikiProject Australia. 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