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Re: Eric Mjoberg

Hi Maias, while fixing up refs to work, I think I stuft your tidying for David King refs. Result was not as pretty in the reflist but I don't know how to fix them up. If you have time, you might like to segue them, needed but not urgent. Thanks heaps, Julia Rossi (talk) 03:59, 9 February 2008 (UTC) PS another australian, another buzz! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Julia Rossi (talk • contribs) 04:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Very cool. Thanks Julia Rossi (talk) 04:16, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Harbour Island

Hello Maias. I respectfully disagree with your edit of the Harbour Island (Bahamas) page to the extent it's been assigned to a disambiguation page. "Harbour Island" is a unique phrase. I can't recall ever seeing any disambiguation in the various articles I've read over the years about Harbour Island where somebody points out the difference between Harbor Island and Harbour Island. Now I'm not a Wikipedia expert by any means and I see you're a major contributor. I would just appreciate learning why you felt this edit was necessary. Thank you for your time! SurfsUp (talk) 19:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi SurfsUp; I have responded on your talk page. Cheers.Maias (talk) 23:51, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time, Maias! Always a pleasure to discuss these things. I'll think about what you said for a while. I don't like undoing other people's work; especially when they have more experience than I do. You made some very good points. SurfsUp (talk) 17:47, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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Long term project

Amongst the other hundred of threads that i fantasise about and then neglect is the tasmanian island thing - were you venturing into the brothers et al territory to do more - or was it a once off? cheers SatuSuro 00:24, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I was starting at the beginning and gradually working my way through. It is, however, easy to get distracted, and the book has a lot more islands to go. Moreover, though it was published in 2001, many of the surveys it uses data from took place in the 1980s. It really needs someone with more recent, wider and more detailed info, to go through, update and expand. Cheers. Maias (talk) 01:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Well the points you raise are good ones - my materials prior to brothers come from the 1950's and 1960's. While he was still around (since left) we did have someone working on south coast islands - I do have some tasmania south west material from the 70s that i have never worked on on wikipedia - and the bays and rivers and more obscure locations of the south west are virtually untouched - so anything you can do in that area will be appreciated - i hope i can find my stuff sometime and work on it - cheers SatuSuro 09:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Wow! you are prodiguous - well done! - out of curiosity - a name of a group and no link - are you thinking of doing an 'group' articles at all? SatuSuro 12:40, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Good point; yes, I was thinking of it. It could be useful for navigation purposes. However, while the island names generally have some official status, such as being listed in the Gazetteer of Australia 2006, I am not sure what official status the group names used in Brothers et al have. Also, there is very little info about the groups as such - as opposed to the individual islands. I suppose it would quite simple to put together a list of islands, grouped as in the book, and then link them to the individual articles. I would welcome your opinion on this. Maias (talk) 22:33, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Just revisited islands of australia these many weeks later (hey great work on the queensland reserves there!) and think the groups might well be worth doing - but low on the burner for the moment - might check brothers vs geosciences database very very slowly on this issue - cheers SatuSuro 08:04, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

OK - keep going. My own contributions are likely to slow down for a while due to extraneous factors. Maias (talk) 11:21, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

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Pigeon articles

G'day Maias. Please don't tag the pigeon breed articles with the farming/agriculture template. They do not fit into that project. A separate project may need to be created for the fancy pigeon breeds. I'm going to revert your edits to the pigeon breed talk pages.--Sting au Buzz Me... 11:29, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Shark Bay

Having just been in and flying around it as well am about to do some changes - please feel free to get back if i change anything you might have a diff view on - any feedback would be appreciated - cheers SatuSuro 03:52, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

OK - no worries. Maias (talk) 03:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Cheers and thanks - example would be the faure island art - excellent article - and yet bernier and dorre are just as important history and biota wise - so trying to restore some balance for the whole wolrd heritage area and building a hell of a lot more articles - (oh and i havent forgotten my ideas about island groups in tassie - just my distraction rate is up to the same as my teenagers - having holidayed with them at shark bay) SatuSuro 04:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah my pref is to keep dorre and bernier separate despite the large amount of material that lumps them together SatuSuro 01:07, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I was thinking of checking with you and a few others - having been seriously considering grouping articles relative to shark bay into a category and am considering the world heritage category which the great barrier reef subcategory as a good example - would you agree with such a clumping? I would interested in your opinion and will be checking with a couple of west oz eds as well - cheers SatuSuro 10:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

I was amazed by the number of articles (or potential articles) associated with Shark Bay - all those islands, peninsulas and small settlements - so, if you are contemplating doing several of those, I think it would be a worthwhile subcategory. Maias (talk) 10:52, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

OK thanks for the encouragement - but rather than the major category protected areas of WA say - would you agree with the world heritage category? on a par with the reef? SatuSuro 10:57, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely - for everything covered by it. Maias (talk) 11:00, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that - btw when I get the courage I will get around to the tom spence article - it might take some careful checking of the newspaper arts but i think most of it is sufficiently public domain - i did check at some time last yearSatuSuro 11:07, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Kwongan

Thanks a million for that; it has been on my list of things to do forever. I even had it on my watchlist before it existed! Hesperian 00:02, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for the feedback. Maias (talk) 00:13, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

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Stars/Banners/Awards

I do hope someone gives you something - I keep coming across your thorough work - from me it would be a bit lame seeing I am one of the regular talk page persons here (and my talk page count is another thing again) - but am very very impressed - I do hope you keep at it - it is hard not to want to say something about your meticulous approach to things! cheers SatuSuro 01:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi SatuSuro - thanks for the kind words. Actually, positive feedback such as yours is as good as any award and is much appreciated. I suppose that I am fairly wikignomic. Cheers. Maias (talk) 02:35, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

If i ever go for the chicken farm (rfa) there will probably be a real sqwuawk about my talk count - gnomic best way to be imho - everytime - cheers SatuSuro 02:48, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

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Trawling

I seem to go through a range of lines of search because I was sure I had created a stub for Dorre ISland at the time I started the bernier island stub on the 26th april and I came across your Yolla gas basin - and as I used to work for the oil exploration industry for a while in the deep dark past am intrigues how there appears not to be any arts about it all - or for that matter in the bass straight or victoria energy arts any lists or names of the basins - oh well another hole in the gap in the net :| SatuSuro 14:52, 23 May 2008 (UTC) ah found it - yet another case of a red or grey link list that is of very dubious use -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_gas_fields SatuSuro 15:19, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I see what you mean - large number of redlinks to Russian gas fields. I really only did the Yolla gas field stub as a side-effect of doing a disambig for Yolla. I have an interest in the word as it seems to be one of the few Tasmanian Aboriginal words still around, though only just. Maias (talk) 02:02, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I only wish we had eds with your thoroughness, but they are all migratory stock by looks :( - unfortunately I am not very up with Tas Aboriginal issues or language at the mo - but the slow south west and west coast stub stabs - I will get around to the archaeology over there eventually - actually thinking about it - that might be an art - tas aboriginal words still in place and regional features - but hey on the wish list. SatuSuro 02:46, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

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Tern

Thanks for ce to GCTern jimfbleak (talk) 12:30, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Asbestos range

National park in tas I have just shot the map and lead sentence as they totally misrepresent the location - hope to get back to it late to cleanup more - cheers - i hd noticed you had done a cleanup - its a clear pinch from the tas wnat parks web page and about as unhelpful as a kick in the knee from a blind horse - cheers SatuSuro 05:22, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

There are a couple of items in the Management Plan that I can add. Maias (talk) 07:20, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey thats beyond the call of duty :) thank you for your help - I had been there in the late 70's and the ranger of the time said that it had every weed recognised in tasmania at that time - that what you get after cattle farming i suppose SatuSuro 09:06, 21 July 2008 (UTC) I just noticed all the other work related to the issue - that you had done as well - thanks for that - SatuSuro 09:13, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Flyway

Great start and great potential - are you expecting to expand it much?SatuSuro 11:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Jeez - that was a while ago. Yes there is certainly the potential, a lot related to wader and climate change and bird migration. No, I have no immediate plans to add more; it really needs more of a specialist than I am - or someone who has come across some new info. Maias (talk) 16:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Its when i looked at it the potential multiple project tags and complicated eco and bio regional thingoes seem to be quite a diff topice in reality, oh well it stays as it is then - cheers SatuSuro 01:23, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

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Award

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		To Maias, for creating material on birds and other things, from Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds folks. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:06, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Arafura Swamp

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Category sorting

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Thank you for the great articles

Hello! I am currently doing New Page Patrol and I noticed your skein of fine articles relating to the islands off Tasmania. I just wanted to let you know that I've enjoyed reading them and that I think you are doing a great job. Keep up the fine work! Ecoleetage (talk) 12:30, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

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Possibly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Names - suggestion only please ignore if you had thought of a cat for the list of pie names - looks great and thanks for keeping at the Tasmanian islands - it is appreciated ! I will be in Lonnie (west coast joke that one) for a wedding later this year - but cannot imagine in the time that I have that I will be able to get anywhere near any of them at all unfortunately (the small offlying island that is) - cheers and keep up the good work - and good to think you are tolerant of wiki love messages - I delete them on sight :( SatuSuro 01:28, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that, SatuSuro; I wasn't sure about an appropriate cat so have adopted your suggestion with relief. Cheers. Maias (talk) 01:47, 27 September 2008 (UTC)