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Very impressed

By your continued high quality additions to the rail articles - as Rebecca might have said to you i think our rail articles were sadly lacking good refs - well done and thanks - sorry for hassling about H22 - it just happens that I have actually been photographed on her/it as a 10 year old in bunbury, and i think the latest photo is not showing up for some odd reason - cheers - also well worth reading up on how to archive! - SatuSuro 09:27, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Possible help

I would appreciate a review of the tag and the state of Railways on the West Coast of Tasmania if you had the time, the inclination or the resources SatuSuro 09:01, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

It would be useful to know if you were interested or no SatuSuro 02:26, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

No urgency - just seeing the quality of the refs you have putting u - thought you might have some on tap that I do not have to hand SatuSuro 02:39, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah well what sort of help? Having more or less done all that with minimal help from others curious what sort you need - I dont have arhs stuff on hand but do somewhere have my copies of blainey. rae and probably the best o all the akinson ticket book SatuSuro 01:29, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for that - the cleanup is appreciated SatuSuro 02:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Realising that wikipedia is an ongoing project and that the process in fact simply tries to approximate a repository of knowledge I am intigued by your use of the word perfect (or the phrase assuming 'less than perfect') - I personally couldnt imagine any railway article as 'perfect' regardless of content or form - so I am intrigued as to how you set your standards - I would be, as initiator of some of the arts simply pleased if there arent too many mistakes - thats as far as I ever expect - considering how many people have made mistakes over the west coast rail history over the last 80 years :) SatuSuro 00:03, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup

I've created a new article, and I have noticed that you're quite the NSW steam fan. Could you check it out and see if I missed anything? Thanks. — Shy Guy Gunzel~Talk 10:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the picture! I've also created another article. Check my user page for any new articles I create. Cheers! — Shy Guy Gunzel~Talk 06:09, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Photos

I am wondering where you are getting the photos from - your personal collection, or are they scans from ARHS stuff? Wongm (talk) 06:46, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

References

Oh - another thing. For the references it is usual to put the reference tags after the full stop or comma, not before. Wongm (talk) 04:55, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK

Hi. I've nominated New South Wales 73 class locomotive, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on October 13, where you can improve it if you see fit. Mjroots (talk) 05:45, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for New South Wales 73 class locomotive

On 20 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article New South Wales 73 class locomotive, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Welcome Victuallers (talk) 07:43, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Happy new year and all

Hope you come back sometime - the likes of you are rare and far between - when you do dont be suprised if I have changed a lot of your bolding titles in references in articles that I check - I was sure the MOS has italics not bold. Also the railways of west coast tassie - could you possibly track down (and enter details) CC Sigletons articles about west coast railways - they were for me much more accessible than the earlier 1940's articles - but someone borrowed and never returned my copies :( SatuSuro 03:52, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Your photos of the Amiens gun

Hi there, thanks for uploading these photos.. can you consider uploading such photos to Commons under an appropriate category so users of other language Wikis can also access them. Regards, Rod (Sydney)> Rcbutcher (talk) 06:59, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks and hope you keep contributing...

Hi there,

Firstly, I'll add my voice to the words of thanks from others for your work in backing up facts in various articles (including the VR steam articles I've worked on) with references to ARHS articles. I'll also say that you've done a great job of loading up all these rail photos from the 60s and 70s, that really important period of the end of steam and the early days of diesel and electric traction. Much appreciated and they've really enhanced articles such as New South Wales AD60 class locomotive.

Anyway, I noted it's been a while since you were last editing. I hope you'll keep making contributions in future. - Zzrbiker (talk) 08:08, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia trainers requested in New South Wales

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Sydney meetup

Short notice but there will be a meetup in Sydney on the 13 January 2018 at 6:30pm, still looking for a venue and open to suggestions. I hope you're able to make it but understand that this is very short notice. Bidgee (talk) 20:35, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

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