User talk:Orderinchaos/Archive 01-1

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Archive 4 : January 2007

Happy New Year

sigh, hope its a good one SatuSuro 02:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Low-level assessment

I don't have any hard and fast rules on assessments. Assessments are subjective anyway really and opinions on article quality will differ no matter who you ask.

Articles that are merely a few lines of text and are unreferenced I'd assess as a Stub. When an editor has gone part of the way towards expanding the article, perhaps into a few sections or more beyond a leading paragraph, I'd classify that particular article as Start class.

Of course, that leaves a huge gap between Start class and B-class but that's an inherent problem passed down from the original WP:1.0 assessment specs which WP:AUS works within. An example of an article which is borderline Stub/Start class would be Barwon Heads, Victoria. I'd consider it a stub-class article, but it's almost a Start-class if that helps. -- Longhair\^talk 06:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Mooroolbark

Yes, I believe it. Fourth week of school holidays. The kiddies are getting bored. Hesperian 10:25, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I know what you mean; it drives me bananas when the ANBG Flora of Australian "Online" isn't, sometimes for days at a time. Hesperian 10:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Nice work on the "Five ways" plan, I can see a new article in the future "Tricky Intersections of Australia" featuring your diagrams :) --Melburnian 05:36, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

POV forks

I'm not particularly active in XfD. I probably wouldn't get through RfA these days, given how standards have evolved in the last year or so. ;-) So I'm not the best person to ask this question. But here's my two cents:

I would first trying overwriting the POV fork with a redirect to the original article, with an edit summary something like "Merging duplicate articles per WP:POVFORK". This is minimally offensive, minimally adversarial; you'd be surprised how often it works. Hesperian 10:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Done, and a fairly strongly worded message left. Hesperian 11:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

By the way, the people who contributed to the original Mooroolbark article (e.g. you) did so under the terms of the GFDL, which permits the making of derivative works but requires authorship to be acknowledged. This is achieved through the provision of an article history. When our recalcitrant editor copy-pasted their version of the article to a new location with no article history, they essentially passed off a multi-authored derivative work as their own work. This was a violation of the other authors' (e.g. your) copyright. In my opinion, speedy deletion as a copyright violation would be warranted in this case.

(Yes, I know that by this logic the common practice of splitting an article section off into a new article is a copyright violation. This has been acknowledged as a problem for the MediaWiki software. The devs have been thinking about history splitting or referring mechanisms for a while now. Until it is dealt with, remember to give an informative edit summary whenever you split an article)

Hesperian 11:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Yep, your origin of Hamersley narrative is coming along nicely. Great research.

I actually quite like the one answer to seven questions situation. It leads me down all sorts of bizarre garden paths. I'm currently burning with curiosity about phytogeography, having never taken the slightest interest in it previously, simply because a question about Banksia epica#Distribution and habitat led to an answer, led to seven more questions.

Where possible I now photocopy everything even vaguely relevant, and bugger the cost, then turf the crud later. Having never set foot in the State Records Office myself (burning with shame to admit it), I don't know if that is an option.

Hesperian 12:11, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Courtesy note

I won't be around until 11:30 UTC (20:30 WDT; 22:30 EDT) on 2 Jan so leave any comments on my talk page. Thanks! :) Orderinchaos78 14:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Rict

User talk:Rict I'd be interested in your opinion of what I did this morning, additionally you may find the links useful anyway Gnangarra 02:13, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah i had seen the notice I was really just interested in your thoughts both on the link content and the users actions. Gnangarra

Citing the Government Gazette

I would treat it as a newspaper and use {{cite news}}. Hesperian 23:21, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Eskimo Joe

I've noted that each of the members of Eskimo Joe have been allocated their own stub however the lead singer, Kavyen 'Kav' Temperley is incorrect in that the page is Kavyen Temperly which is not the correct spelling of his name - should be corrected Dan arndt

Perth/Metro

I really think following on from a non native speakers nomination incorrectly titled and showing limited understanding of the distinction between article and category shows we're suckers!  :( As for the Perth thingy - the Govt Dept and WALGA show a pref for metropolitan. What do you think? SatuSuro 02:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Yep bit like the earliername for geographic names :) the nomenclature advisory board of western australia - yippee! I agree metropolitan is a tuff one - we'll have to nut it out SatuSuro 02:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hamersley

I would keep the history section in chronological order. If it gets really long you could write a summary paragraph to open the section, but other than that chronological works best for history sections I think. If it helps, there are two featured articles on Australian suburbs: Waterfall Gully, South Australia and Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory. Hesperian 12:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Do you want a map? We could ask Astrokey44; he makes excellent maps. I haven't seen him around much lately, but his contributions says he's still active. Hesperian 12:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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I think we just cross-posted. What help do you need? Sounds like you should:

1. Write an article on the Mooro people. If it is a bit stubby, so be it.
2. Reduce your aboriginal history section to something along the lines of "Before European settlement, the land that is now Hamersley fell within a larger area of land that was occupied by the Mooro people, an Indigenous Australian people...." and finishing with a one phrase summary of the Mooro.
3. If there's nothing else to say about Hamersley pre-invasion, then bite the bullet and go straight on to white arrival, exploration and settlement.

Hesperian 12:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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Re: crowding: my attitude is that FAs should contain everything, and I mean everything, notable and directly relevant to the subject. If you put everything into the article, and find the history section has grown too big, why, you just roll out a History of Hamersley, Western Australia article, and rewrite your history section in summary style. Does that sound insane? I assure you I'm deadly serious. Before taking Yagan to FA, I rolled out separate articles on the process by which his skull was exhumed, and on a cartoon in which he featured. But then again, I probably am insane to enjoy writing on such obscure topics. Hesperian 12:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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Apologies; lately I seem to have gotten old man syndrome - constantly telling anecdotes from my past to anyone who'll listen. Pretty soon I'll hit the next stage of dementia and start repeating the same stories over and over and over again. Hesperian 12:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey I can relate to that! SatuSuro 12:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey I don't mind :P And you're talking to someone who recently edited 400 Melbourne articles for the sole purpose of changing an infobox. So maybe we're all a bit insane :P Orderinchaos78 12:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Apologies for intruding on youse guys ) was trying to check something and I kept seeing you both talking - so the more the merrier I thought! (ok not always - but when it comes to admitting either age or insanity - I'm in! 12:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Dont forget there is an article for the building - also I think I have jpegs of the bronze plaques - somewhere in the middle of the collection! SatuSuro 13:16, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey thread 5,432 on hold - same with me... :) SatuSuro 13:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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Dong I cannot find my 'can we help' humour things from christmas time I think some humourless person has deleted it SatuSuro 13:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Been on too much I have thousands of edits I cannot even have good perspective on - Wikipedia:Can we help you? is still there SatuSuro 13:53, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Shire Info Boxes

Hi Orderinchaos78 - I put this request on User:Mattinbgn earlier on but then remembered that you have offered similar assistance....?

Howdy Mattinbgn - it looks like we have some similar interests. If you have the know-how and time can you please add the appropriate Shire Info box at the bottom of the Yenda, New South Wales & Cookardinia, New South Wales articles that I have started in the last day or two - and perhaps also to Mangoplah, New South Wales? I do not know what the info ({{ref's}}) for these towns are. VirtualSteve 08:35, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Wonga Park

Thanks, I only got that image because I took a wrong turn! The water looked very inviting, the last couple of days were in the mid-thirties here. That's a good suggestion of yours re images, I'm starting to lose track of them all. --Melburnian 09:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the suburb articles have been a playground for jokesters for a long time, here's a suburb article that was started as a joke which was freely added to for nearly a year(!). Check the links too. [1]--Melburnian 13:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Ich bin ein Winthroper :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Melburnian (talk • contribs) 23:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC).

Bris notice

It's quite a ride! I've also phased out {{WPAL}}, {{AusSportsNotice}} and {{WPANotice}}. {{WP Geelong notice}} and {{WP Adelaide notice}} have also been deprecated. There's still {{afl-project}} and {{NBL-project}} to go. More tricky are {{WPGoldCoast}}, {{WP Australian crime}}, {{WPFootballinAus}}, {{Australian Baseball-WikiProject}} and {{WP Banksia}}, which may require discussion before deprecation. Thanks, --cj | talk 12:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm happy to let Banksia stand, though I do think we could satisfy any objections to its removal with changes to {{WP Australia}} (perhaps in the collaborative fashion of WP:IAP).--cj | talk 13:08, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

AS the Banksia (Banksia dentata} is also found outside of Australia I does need to be a seperate box Gnangarra 13:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Success

I got some attention to project today. Look forward to another picture. Just populating a new cat Category:Amphibians of Western Australia and I thought it would fill the gap. Glad it is not my upload, with your stinging criticism :) I have seen better photos of other amphibs since. What are you attending to today? Fred 09:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I think i really chose it for the caption. A deliquent frog? Do you have any leads on candidates for election to this category? Unique to WA is best, may get into trouble for poaching. How far North? Too late for requests anyway, unless you want to snap a memorial by any town hall. Future WA culture agenda item. Regards Fred

All this talk of frogs, and I had no idea! Since you seem interested in frogs, and are in Western Australia, I was wondering whether you would be able to upload any photos of species Wiki dosn't have. WA is the worst represented in that respect. I am willing to create the article for any new species.

Check out this list for all Australian frog species, it lists articles with photos, articles without photos and frogs without articles. If you want all the WA species, here is one, you can create it in Wiki if you like. Thanks. --liquidGhoul 11:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Lymnodynastes dorsalis is the other very common one around Perth. it is the one with a chorus that goes "bonk!". Hesperian 11:28, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Just left a message on hesp's page about pobblebonk. Currently redirect t'otherside. Fred 11:36, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflict)That'd be great if someone could get a Limnodynastes dorsalis photo, we only need 4 more Limnodynastes frogs (3 of which are in WA) before we have photos of them all. --liquidGhoul 11:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

That's a very darkly coloured Litoria moorei. --liquidGhoul 11:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I was about to say the same thing. Hesperian 11:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

On the up side at least we're getting lots of GFDL pictures of Litoria moorei :D The banjo ones are very secretive in my area. I wish I knew what the ones down at Busselton were (no photos, sadly, and only a very poor camera recording of their call - they were up a tree at the intersection of Vasse Highway and Bussell Highway about 11pm one night.) Link to (pretty much sound-only) movie (506k) Orderinchaos78 12:02, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I'll take a listen, I have sent you an email, just reply with the sound attached. Thanks. --liquidGhoul 12:08, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

This really doesn't match with the "up the tree" story, but there are only three tree frog species in south-western WA, and none sound like that. It sounds very much like Heleioporus eyrei, check out the call here. --liquidGhoul 12:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm weird - it got louder as I approached the tree, and quieter as I passed it - maybe it was on the ground near the tree somewhere. The one you linked to sounds awfully like what I remember. Orderinchaos78 12:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Just as well as I dont put my sound thingy here - I have three varieties of frog at the same time here:) SatuSuro 14:47, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The little bikies are going nuts at my place. :) Orderinchaos78 14:49, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The bonk ones are on tonight - but its so loud with the range of sounds - its better than eno and music for airports! (the slowest rendition of the d major chord in the history of music) SatuSuro 14:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Good to see youre gatekeeper at the WP WA and also a conjurer for the reviatlising 'West' article - may the sore on the wide bottom of the west be cauterised soon! SatuSuro 06:43, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

BEWARE the perpetual copyright issue and 'The West' - I am sure theres a trick or catch 22 in there somewhere - I am not a hundred percent sure! SatuSuro 13:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

When I was doing a long research project or two (etc) in battye and sro in the deep dark past (dont let me aver start relating the details on wiki or email - I'll be up all night) - the repoduction of anything from the w required formality and great care to protect - like if anyone does a piccie or quote longer than etc there was always the suggestion to contact them - and any repoduction in journal arts or books even required further nose work SatuSuro 13:48, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Early paper trail - it should be a separate article - watcha think? SatuSuro 14:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I used to go to school with moonface - at least he responded to emails a few times while he was ed :) SatuSuro 14:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah he seemed that way then - but I am not that impressed by his recent opinion artcles though - the reasoning is up the creek on most issues imho SatuSuro 14:56, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

On Hesps talk page my ref to dubysspeak and the canadian mexican borer problems might help on that one! SatuSuro 15:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Good luck to you too

I notice some of your contributions are Victorian locations - a lot of familiar names there, having spent the best two weeks of my life on holiday in Melbourne! I especially recall the name Tarniet (entire trip took 7 hours by car on a single tank of premium petrol with 50km to spare!). West Gate bridge is good too. I'm already missing it :( Enough about my adventures, good luck with your FA! Timeshift 14:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Emailed. Timeshift 14:45, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Articles

Do you know any good articles that really need someone to work on? Preferably country ones I might be able to do? DanielT5 12:25, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Amusing note re Hamersley

Data collection finishes tomorrow. Want to know why I couldn't find the last piece of the puzzle? Whoever put the structure plan on file at State Records (not the SR staff themselves, probably a department staffer) can't spell Hamersley. :) I'm starting to get to a point where I understand the story and now just have to figure out a way of telling it with the reasonably extensive list of sources I now have. (Not even sure where to put them for collaborative purposes - it's ended up as 50k of text files on my hard drive!) Orderinchaos78 14:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Shame, shame.

I suppose they're all still in copyright? If any are out of copyright, and you're a sucker for punishment, you could keyboard them into Wikisource. I like to do so when I use public domain primary sources e.g. see Wikisource:Category:Convictism in Western Australia. But then again, my sources are not as boring as yours. ;-)

Would you consider lodging the lot in the Battye library? They would stick it in a stack somewhere, and you'd get an entry in their catalogue like this one, making it much easies for anyone too snobby to trust Wikipedia to repeat your research.

Hesperian 00:23, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Mooroolbark

There was an obvious behavioural pattern, so I made a point of occasionally checking Special:Allpages&from=Mooroolbark&namespace=0 Hesperian 03:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Battye

Well, good for you! If the OR bit is a good length and decent material, you might look at getting it published somewhere. Then you could cite your own work in the article :-)

I had been planning on asking my library to get me in a copy of Diversity's Challenge, because I noticed it was under-referenced and assumed you hadn't looked at it yet. I should have known you'd be all over it. Bugger, now I'll have to find some other way to contribute.

Hesperian 03:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Imagery

Are any of these of any use?

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Unfortunately the data is too low res to support a closup of the suburb. Hesperian 05:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Grats on GA

Well done getting Hamersley to GA; nice to get that first one, now the down side GA is still a long way from FA <insert smart comment re:GA here>. Eyes kinda hanging out tonight I'll have a look at this article and Culla tomorrow. Gnangarra 14:17, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Take a look

If you need a break for a few minutes - very closely at the Wikipedia talk:Places of local interest/ railway station debate. I am not asking you to get involved -but just see what happens - (actually there are heaps of other similar debates elsewhere but I thought this one is close to my heart -as you will see) I think its of note as rebecca is one of our canberra based admins - a good one...SatuSuro 23:37, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Gawd I dont know whether I'm making a fool of myself there - or whether I'm missing something :0 SatuSuro 00:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Very impressed by your checking the railway station name things - thanks for that - I'd put up the satusuro geographically challenged villain - but suspect poor critter is sort of redundant for what I am not sure - but well done! SatuSuro 01:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

You don't want a talk page like mine I think :)

Thanks for the, well, thanks, but unless you like a whole lot of controversial topics, you might not want the sort of things on my talk page so quickly :). Homestarmy 00:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey I've seen that editors name in the strangest of places in my time on wp - :-0 SatuSuro 00:59, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

There are some editors in the states whose talk pages and user pages would be enough to break every bone in a psychic body without uttering a single sound :( SatuSuro 01:04, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Why?

[2]. Hesperian 02:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Righto, carry on. Hesperian 02:46, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[3]. Hesperian 03:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Category:Local Government Areas of Perth was formerly in Category:Perth. Should articles removed from the former be put in the latter? At the very least, I should think that City of Perth belongs in Category:Perth. Hesperian 03:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

DanielT5 made a pretty good argument. I was seriously considering changing my position. That considered, it probably wasn't quite time to close the debate. But you've gotta close it some time. This is the problem with doing these things through a formal process; methinks these things are nearly always better handled informally. Hesperian 04:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Cydebot was rolling out the recategorisation but pointing to the wrong log page, so I shut it off. Things will be hanging in a messy, half-done state until Cyde comes back to his computer. Hesperian 04:38, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

It is permitted for admins to be absolutely brutal to bots. An indefinite block for a minor inconvenience! For future reference, WP:AN/I is the place to take such issues. Hesperian 04:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Daniel's argument was well put and I also was reconsidering. Too bad. —Moondyne 10:09, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice comments guys :) DanielT5 10:33, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

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Yek, that's one horrific piece of spaghetti code!

This:

{{#ifexist:List of {{{city}}} suburbs| [[List of {{{city}}} suburbs|Suburbs]] | {{ #ifexist:Category:{{{city}}} suburbs| [[:Category:Suburbs of {{{city}}}|Suburbs]] | Suburbs }}}} around '''{{{name|}}}'''

looks like a bug to me. I read it as saying

IF there's a [[List of {{{city}}} suburbs]] THEN link "Suburbs" to [[List of {{{city}}} suburbs]]

ELSE

IF there's a [[:Category:{{{city}}} suburbs]] THEN link "Suburbs" to [[:Category:Suburbs of {{{city}}}]] <-- WTF???

ELSE don't link "Suburbs" at all.

That aside, there's a bucket of code at the end that checks for various forms of city and/or state categories. I wouldn't be surprised if it all worked fine.

Hesperian 04:12, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Shire Boxes

ta mate, I will get onto them on Friday probably... DanielT5 10:33, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

wow that is a lot of links, was wondering where I was going to find all that info!! hey if the population of a town isn't in that list is there another way to find it? DanielT5 12:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

excellent, pity about little Nungarin hey :( nice place if you ever get out that way. I'll probably give you a shout when I've done my first one to make sure I haven't screwed it up! DanielT5 12:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Aquinas College, Perth

Hey Ord =) you seem to be pretty with it, so i was wondering if you could review my article on Aquinas College, Perth at Wikipedia:Peer review/Aquinas College, Perth/archive4 , I have spent a considerable amount of time on this article and have been lacking in the feedback dept. Thanks =) Smbarnzy 12:55, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Story updates

Thanks for filling in the additional information about the plagiarism story. --Michael Snow 16:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Ta

You got one back SatuSuro 14:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

good one got to get off! SatuSuro 15:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

check recent talk. :( SatuSuro 14:21, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Murdoch if he ever finished it SatuSuro 09:55, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I gotta go - but its an Australian thing - I reckon Australian Place project or Australian Project noticeboard is where it should be going on - not in that cruddy little corner - its atrocious what soert of precedent that might set! -speak to ya later SatuSuro 15:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Checkout the sunset coast one - another argh! SatuSuro 15:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

And my response - the attempt at hijacking it to notability - seems to be a classic afd tactic these days! I dont have a problem with your response - its the others! SatuSuro 02:36, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

The whole rail system has holes in it - done most I think... SatuSuro 11:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Bus stations and other dsitractions as always :) SatuSuro 11:54, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Probably disappear to tassie and indonesia for a while - back later SatuSuro 11:57, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Still finding the untagged unwashed in the oddest places - I think I'll have to escape to reality soon.... :( SatuSuro 02:06, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Mukinbudin

okay I did what you said about copying the info box across from Wandering so now I've filled that in. how do you do the distances in it? I did the first one but don't know how to put in Merredin. Also how do I get the map coordinates? And sorry but one final thing could you do the page for Shire of Mukinbudin because it's showing up red. Thanks. Night for now!! DanielT5 16:14, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Week

		The Original Barnstar
		Thank you for your work to WP:VIC. Punk Boi 8 09:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Glen Eira Councillors

Hi, Thanks for informing me of your actions to delete the articles I created. I have placed my response. Please do read it. I disagree with you and I think we dod need a page about each councillor because they are apart of history and have made headlines. CatonB 11:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestions. But I still think we need in the Glen Eira page to mention events and issues that occurred in Glen Eira eg mayoralty votes, sacking (which you've started on), brawls, and catergorise them. How about that in the page, but no biographies? CatonB 12:08, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Can I make a suggestion that all articles that will be deleted be merged into the same article. But this time it will be part of an article called History of Glen Eira Council and one of the subheadings would be Glen Eira Councillors. How about that? CatonB 00:11, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Ta for the warm welcome

I not long here but like lots and is amazing !!!!! DDO you ?? I make pokemon article more betta and now i FIX up Hamersley where i live during now school. also Template:Infobox Australian Place but need make not broken soon !!!!!! No Wories mate

... and how are you? Fred

I had just built up an interesting talk page, full of legit italics and stung bot-jockies and sats dropped that there! Speakin of fires and devils, there was a spot fire Woodside today. Fred 12:25, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Punk boi gave me a barnstar too. Curious to know why. I'm sure you deserve yours, have mine too.Fred

WP:ADOPT

Hi there,

As a user looking to Adopt with the Adopt-a-User program, there has been some ongoing developments that we would like to bring to your attention, as well as request help with the backlog at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user.

You should know that the way the adoption process works has changed slightly. To decrease workload at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user on offering adoption please change the {{Adoptme}} template to {{Adoptoffer}} on the user's user page, and this will add the user to Category:Wikipedians having been offered adoption. Users that have already been offered adoption can always have a second or third offer, but by separating out those users that have not had an adoption offer yet, it is hoped that no one will go lacking. Once adoption is complete please use the templates found here on the Adoptee's and your user page.

Also numerous Adopters have been adding their details to a list of users available for adopting, to offer a more personalised service and allow new users to browse through and pick their own Adopter. The quickest way to adopt though, is still to contact users at the Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user.

Furthermore a new Adopter's Area has been created where you can find useful resources and other Adopter's experiences. Please feel free to add any resources you have and if you know of any useful resources for new users / Adoptees then you can add them here.

So I hope you get adopting soon - and if you have any general questions or suggestions about the further development of Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User please bring them to our talk page. Cheers Lethaniol 15:21, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Stubs

Will have a look for what it is worth. Fred

They

will do nothing unless we let them. Fred

hey I saw the SFD on the project page, man that is dumb. Is there like a list of ones that need to be created, I could may be help if you tell me what is needed. DanielT5 17:27, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

um I did Safety Bay Road is that the way you do them? I can do more DanielT5 17:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

ok no worries I'll get started on those :) DanielT5 06:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

ah thanks for that, didn't know it mattered if it was minor DanielT5 12:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

that's cool I will remember that. always good to get it right! by the way should I keep going with the rockingham ones? if you want any different ones just change the list on my talk page. DanielT5 12:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

DanielT5: thanks, should I do Garden Island Highway, Rockingham too? must be the only highway in Australia to be a cul de sac :)

A: No, we'll keep to built, certain, known highways. It's uncertain GIH will ever be built due to environmental reasons. Orderinchaos78 13:14, 14 January 2007

Help

Sorry to be a pain but I've just found out a road I was going to do no longer exists..... any idea how to put that in the article? It's here [4] also "G.20/9/05. ROAD NAMES – MAIN ENTRY ROADS INTO MANDURAH" [5] basically its saying what the 2007 streetsmart says, that the old Fremantle Road and Mandurah Bypass are now called Mandurah Road as well DanielT5 01:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC) Oh and should we rename the article now that its not just City of Rockingham? !DanielT5 01:38, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

thanks for doing that for me :) I will look at the other articles now, let's see if we can't get the 60!! what are you working on? DanielT5 04:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Hills

Tricky - Old York Road/York Road - could do with some extra - Grt Estrn Hwy can also do with extra - the road between Mundaring Weir and Kalamunda is a needed one - give me some time - I'll check. The bus ports and train stations are almost done (I think!) almost wiki bonked! SatuSuro 04:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

OK I havent checked your list - but main regional roads

• Canning Road
• Old Northam Road (marginal as is whether you consider Chidlow in metro area or not!)
  • It's in Shire of Mundaring which MRS considers metro so yes Orderinchaos78 04:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
• Stoneville Road
• Morrison Road (OIC: I forgot this one had an entry.)
• Campersic Road

ON the boiling sandflat

• Farrell Road in Midvlae should be included in that article - still one of my to do 3,000 ideas... :(
• Scott Street and Ridge Hill roads have things I might find
• Stirling cres and bushmead rd have heaps that can be added re local history etc (actually bushmead is a lost locality thingo it was a stopping place on my zig zag and upper drlg railway arts
• West swan road vip

More later - probably be ablt to do these all - but letting you know :( SatuSuro 04:40, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Maps oftentimes (hey I saw someone edit that out of an art this am - I thinks its nw states usage common) get it wrong. I had the misfortune once to know a map checker who was employed to out the rubbish from 'checking' - about him offline only SatuSuro 04:42, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh the linda tassie - I had been having ongoing discussions about the bloody book - I have the 1949 edition and the 2003 edition - which had an incorrect isbn - and I have not been systematically through all my west coast tass arts to do the correection - rich farnborough, keesiewonder and etkotkie have met me due to this lack of systematic eradication of the anomalous isbn issue so far! SatuSuro 04:46, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Old northam was probably the early version of gt e hwy so should probably be cross refd with - you are most welcome to do any of them - just an idea list here - the wiki fatigue is setting in... adding four tiles on emails :) SatuSuro 05:00, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

cltrlcring and etc - interesting to see how this washes up - im dads taxi cldu watchpls? SatuSuro 07:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Where else

In the world would there be list of rocks? SatuSuro 03:49, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy Wikipedia Day!

Happy Wikipedia Day!

On January 15, 2007, Wikipedia turned six-years-old. According to statistics, Wikipedia has around 1,500,000 articles and Wikipedians have made 104,000,000 edits. The millionth article was Jordanhill railway station, created on March 2, 2006.

Wikipedia has moved from an Alexa rank of 20 to a rank of 12 having already briefly visited rank 8 (current rank). Happy editing!

Gawd to think that we contribute to that, sigh :( SatuSuro 05:24, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Grand Boulevard

Cheers for the heads up, i'll take that one on and see what I can do. thewinchester 11:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

reverted - problematic issue delayed

Sorry - there a couple of contentious issues I think I'll pass by hesp and gnang offline first - SatuSuro 14:06, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Re copyright

You asked a couple of days ago about copyright as the images are from the 1960s they are still copyrighted they dont become pd for at least another 10 years, subject to usual law changes. If they are significant and can't be obtained any other way then you could use under a fair use rationale. Thats the best that can be done, just realise that fair use is one area that editors are always watching very carefully so do everything that required and justify your reasons for using carefully, but be prepared to have someone still question them. If you want to run your rationale by me just drop a note, outside world is going to have a heavy impact onver the next month so my editing will be intermittant. Gnangarra 14:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

AfD vs Prod

Personally I would have prod'd Winthrop Drive rather than AfD it... I think prod is under-utilised for Australian related deletionsGarrie 01:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Beach road

bonked, you might have to go w/out me - will try for a few minutes - otherwise tonight :( SatuSuro 05:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Gooseberry?

If you can easily do it, would you mind bringing a little order to chaos at WP:WA. Not urgent.

• The page sections may need merging and perhaps a review of my template instructions, etcetera. It has become a bit rambling.
• Do you think some frames and colour are appropriate. This would distinguish it from articles and talk pages. Nothing wild, just enough to assist in quickly navigating page.
  • Structure or an arbitrary hierarchy could be
  1. the members, announcements (first?), 'task groups' and policy - meta? space
  2. the tmplts, cats and requests - 'user' space
  3. the 'coal face'; articles, stubs and subjects - 'editor' space

What do you think? There was some nice use of 20px images at a project I saw. No matter if you are busy. I'm reluctant to start applying my 'style' to project, but have confidence in your good taste. Fred You beat me to sign. No bot can do it for me, by the way. See ...

?Hill

Et tu brutus - AWB>? SatuSuro 13:57, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I just did mdg weir road tonight on my way back from dropping son no 1 to his mates place in lesmurdie - will probably try to remember bits before going down. Anyways - it looks ashtough your are using it to good purpose! - I'm off to tag a lot of indonesian renamed volcanoes - sigh SatuSuro 14:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually mdg, mdg wr rlwy, and mdg wr all need re-writes I can see my early contrib era style sticking out like ... SatuSuro 14:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Gawd- if I did something like that for myself - I'd spend about three days just typing it up !  :) V Good idea - must imitate - my swamp page is far too disorgnised.... Anyways back to it...SatuSuro 14:12, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Crikey - its an admin check i think on those two - v clever - but notability issues might just tip the way of, ummm.... at this rate I'll never get to the indon volcs - cripes - make a list and get hesp to have a look i reckon...SatuSuro 14:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

OH well some indonesin volcanoes trapped - a nice chat with intrepid darwinek and a final non groucho comment on freds - and im off - speak to you again soon! SatuSuro 15:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

... under the bed!

G'day comrade, I had forgotten all about that. Strangely, I happened to be full circle at my entry point - a notable pinko's biog. Revert! I followed the 'Red' links from there, back then, and arrived at aforementioned. My on line experience was almost none. Shows, doesn't it. I'll be back ... Fred 15:31, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

yeah ... there! The older royal commissions make later ones pale in comparison. The one regarding corruption during the gold boom (another page missing) was mindblowing in implication. re. Easton et al

• List of Australian political scandals

Regards Fred 16:10, 17 January 2007 (UTC) FYI - replied. Fred

gg

I had a similar experience here; strange to be citing something on page 5311.

You don't have to tell me that. Here in Freo we have the independent Fremantle Herald and the community newspaper. One gets read, the other feeds the worm farm. Hesperian 02:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Which reminds me- worm farms and the inks that the west oz uses - are the inks toxic to the worms? SatuSuro 06:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Sigh, we have a problem with road boxes - whose going to be the mediator on this one? SatuSuro 06:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

So that's what's killing them! I had assumed it was the quality of journalism. Hesperian 10:57, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

This afternoon...I'll email - ....SatuSuro 12:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC) Should be with you. SatuSuro 12:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Knowing our luck hes logged off... :( SatuSuro 13:06, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

PP

I believe you wanted to find out which party the PP was? Well i'm sure you'll be able to find it at http://elections.uwa.edu.au/partysearch.lasso - my guess is that it could be the Progress Party, who ran in the 1977 WA HoR election? Timeshift 20:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah, awesome. :) Since it's WA I checked the Battye and sure enough [6] Might try looking at this today - going photo hunting today :) Orderinchaos 22:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Did it last one election only? SatuSuro 12:18, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Appears to have - it didn't run in 1980. I've yet to check State elections to see if it ran there, but from the stats I have for the northern suburbs, it would appear not. Orderinchaos 12:29, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Eglinton

Regarding the text:

Prior to European settlement, Noongar Aboriginal people had lived in the area for more than 40,000 years, taking advantage of the abundant food and water around the chain of wetlands on the coastal plain. In winter, they moved eastwards away from coastal weather, to return in summer as inland supplies dried up. The Mooro people (led by elder Yellagonga during the early years of European settlement) stretched from the Moore River near Guilderton to what is now the Perth central business district, and used to move between Lakes Joondalup, Neerabup and Yanchep. Local legend is that Pipidinny Swamp was created from the blood and meat of the crocodile's tail that settled here. The part of the stock route between Joondalup and Yanchep is now part of the Yaberoo Budjara Heritage Trail, part of the Bicentennial Heritage Trails Network established in 1988.[2]

You might want to look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian history#Request for comment. In summary: trim the pre-settlement stuff considerably and provide a

Main article: Noongar

Hope this helps Garrie 02:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

I had another look. You had it so, prior to Perth being created, aboriginal australians lived in the Perth metro area. I tweaked that a bit but I'm still not happy.

Someone is going to want a solid reference that Australian Aboriginals lived in what is now this suburb for 40,000 years. I don't know about WA but over this side of the island they were a bit more nomadic than that - the tribe that lived around here, covered that much of a range that the wording is more like What has become the suburb of XXXX was a part of the range of the Dharug people for as much as 40,000 years before european settlement.

no matter what is put there it's a bit tricky so it's best to handwave but direct people to a more encompassing article for the article for the right Aust Aboriginal people, pre-european settlement. Garrie 10:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

My advice: Talk about geographical features that are tied to aboriginal history (the river, scar trees, archaeologically discussed sites etc), which happen to be in the current suburb boundaries. Don't talk about European place-names, in pre-european history (provide an equivalent place name afterwards in brackets to help modern readers locate themselves). If you know aboriginal place names, so much the better (even better if you know the aboriginal place name as it was at the time of european settlement. But there is a lot of handwaving that whitefellas were never told true placenames anyway, whatever that means. So have good citable references - the WP:V beats allegations of the truth eventually.Garrie 09:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

email

you will have (borat speak) SatuSuro 13:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Roads thingo decision is done - SatuSuro 14:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2007/January/12 the result of the debate was.... SatuSuro 15:06, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

There on the watchy screen this thing climbs up - its good old awb! SatuSuro 15:30, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Perth --> WA

I thought it was going to be a tricky one to close, but it seemed that general consensus was to rescope. I've renamed the template and the category, and I was just about to work on getting all the articles to use the new template name. Thanks for fixing the template wording, because I would have forgotten about that. Have a great day and happy editing! ~ Amalas rawr ^{=^_^=} 15:24, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Property values

DYK that there was a concerted effort including council members to change the name of Solomon Street. Can you guess why? BelieveItOrNot I have a reasonable ref for this. Do you have room in your articles for curious little bits of info like this. Also, there are roads named Shakespeare very close to eachother. Just passing, e soon Fred 02:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Agree, there a sceptical position that states that all knowledge is just gossip, more or less accepted. So it goes. The reason why I shy from inclusion is one I asked you to guess. Perhaps it is better not to drag it up. Fred

Road template

What you said... Thanks —Moondyne 08:38, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Maritime

I would like some help to do a maritime history members thingy, and a maritime stub template - are you up to it? SatuSuro 09:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC) Thanks - I'll create a subpage off my user page - it will be obvious - and trying to stay off most of tommorrow if possible - SatuSuro 09:35, 20 January 2007 (UTC) Hasnt happened - will email tonight off most today SatuSuro 01:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Still hasnt happened - if you could make a user thingo stub template things - it would be fantastic - going around in circles today dont know if I'll get some stuff done before Im gone...SatuSuro 04:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Aquinas College

Your edits are very good and important to the future of the article - can you please do the middle and senior school sections in the same way that you did the junior school section - please note that i added a lil info to the junior school bit about sport - it may be a little tacky - edit it if you want. thanks Smbarnzy 16:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Mate, you are doing a bang up job =) - I think the major problem with this article is that it just wasnt written well (im mostly to blame) and the layout was maybe suffering a bit too. Thanks so much for what you're doing :) and what are u doing up @ 2am O.o? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Smbarnzy (talk • contribs) 16:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC).

haha! damn thats funny! **wipes tear** what other kind of stuff do u do on wikipedia? and what do u do in the 'real world' Smbarnzy 17:32, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

shit! so u didnt just join here for one or two articles like me O>O well man, ive done a few too many edits for tonight - should go to sleep - its nearly 3am - and i have to do shit 2morow =( nice talkin to u. BarnZy. Smbarnzy 17:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Questions, questions...

1. Absolutely fine. Copyright covers expression of information, not information itself. You can use the information in a book freely, but you have to express it in your own way: i.e. you can't copy it word for word. Same thing for maps. You can use the information in a UBD map freely, but have to express it in your own way. Of course, your map will look basically the same as the UBD's, but that would be because maps are heavily constrained by reality and convention, not because you copied. This is a key point: there is no obligation to make your map look different from theirs, so long as you can honestly attribute the sameness of the maps to something other than unfair copying. For example: the roads will all be in the same places, because their positions are constrained by their geographical positions on the earth; the maps will be oriented the same way because both maps follow the convention of having north at the top; the colour schemes will be similar, because both maps follow certain widely accepted colour conventions such as having light green for parkland. However, it is a good idea to make your map distinctly different where there is scope to do so. e.g. make your legend icons different.
2. I was thinking about this too. Not just geology but also flora and fauna and any other stuff that is relevant to the area. Leave this with me for a while; I'll think about it and get back to you.

Hesperian 04:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: copyright, I think the above makes sense, but I thought of a better way to explain it. The map information isn't copyrightable, but the map symbology is. So without looking at the UBD, decide on your map symbology: whether/how to represent different kinds of roads, how thick and what colour your road lines will be; what icons you'll use, what land classes you want to represent and how to do so, etc. You are then free to apply your original symbology to the UBD map, and call it your own work.

I've got an idea for a ==Natural history== section, to include geology, original vegetation, flora, fauna, etc. I'll whip something up tonight.

Hesperian 07:41, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I like the "Blissett/Wanneroo, through low level bush" option. Hesperian 10:38, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

IMG_4690 has the best representation of scale, but Blissett/Wanneroo. A very tricky subject to photograph. Fred 12:25, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Would there be any problem with both? I'm getting about equal responses to them, but just want to make sure I'm not spamming pictures on the thing. :P I'll take some photos over that way tomorrow morning to make best use of the light. Orderinchaos 12:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

We are in for a long year..

Yeah I agree with you, and thanks for replying to me, greatly appreciated! Its January now, who knows how long it could take. Lets hope sooner, rather than later. By the way, nice to finally communicate with you, I have seen you around the place quite a bit, but I never really had a reason to just say "Hi". So hi! :P --Ali K 06:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Hamersley-benjafield and tower 2.jpg

I did a quick edit to Image:Hamersley-benjafield and tower 2.jpg removing the power line that crossed the sky and topped the tower, hope you dont mind please revert if you dont like Gnangarra 13:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Hamersley opening

Not sure about the use of the word "entities". Perhaps landowners or speculators. That's a bit trivial TBH and its OK as is. Good work. —Moondyne 14:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Natural history

I added a natural history section. I stuck it at the top because it seemed to precede the history section chronologically. I suspect this is too prominent a position. I'll leave you to re-arrange to your heart's content. I am happy to take responsibility for blueing the numerous redlinks. And I'll ask Rollinator to review the geology paragraph. Hesperian 02:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

One thing that would rather change the situation is if there are or were seasonally wet areas. These would have had a different vegetation, mainly Melaleuca. You haven't come across any suggestion that any of the suburb was swampy land that was infilled or drained, have you? Hesperian 03:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Remaining vegetation bears including. Burnt out is fine: native vegetation is adapted to regular burning. The rectangle is significant; what is that, 10% of the suburb?

Hesperian 03:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Hamers ley

Some preference and comment:

• Crop the photo in info box to reduce lawn. It is a little bit Andrew Wyeth [7]
• Is it possible to match colour of results in Politics box to something like the infobox. Personal taste.
• Increase weight of line at top and left of same. I don't even know if this is possible.
• Benjafield image to right (default?). Breaks headings, in my browser.
• No room to list all the things I like about article. It should become a great model for similar ones. Regards, Fred 14:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Rating of Eglinton

Pleasure to be involved. I love reading articles like this - much better than the proloferation of stubs about suburbs. Great work ! I'd love to see this rated a Good Article - Peripitus (Talk) 20:35, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

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More Hamersley

I reckon (and hope) Waterfall Gully would fail if it went for FAC now. Referencing standards have gone up. The politics section reeks of OR (even if obvious and uncontroversial) and doesn't have a single citation. I think you should state just the facts; if no political analyst has ever gone on the record to say "hey everyone, check out Hamersley's weird voting record!", then Wikipedia shouldn't be the first to declare it unusual/intriguing.

I'm being a bit of a hypocrite here though. I have on occasion pushed the limits of my sources in order to pull together a narrative that is a bit more meaningful than just the facts. e.g. most recently the first paragraph of the Ecology section of Banksia epica. If you're going to push the limits here, at least take great care not to say anything that anyone might disagree with.

Hesperian 11:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

It's still a valid source, even if it is hard to get hold of. If you can't shoehorn it into any of the standard citation template, then just do your best freehand; something like:

Australian Bureau of Statistics (1996), Basic Community Profile: Hamersley.

Hesperian 12:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Email received but not replied. Sorry to kill the conversation, but I'm about to log off and go on Wikibreak for a week. Talk to you when I come out the other end. Hesperian 12:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm...

zzz	This user is currently asleep after a long day. Messages will be replied to only after this user has had an aspirin.

Wagerup

Hi. I saw your reversion of the somewhat questionable changes made by an IP address on the Wagerup article. I was reading the West Australian this morning, and in the Inisde Cover section, they ran a report on it. They actually traced the IP back to Alcoa itslef!

Thought you might be interested--M W Johnson 02:57, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

And what a dubious article with a misleading take that was! They should never cast a stone - they cannot even bring themselves to cite sources for their international wire stories... Nah send them back to writing stories about crooked politicians. One reversion, bah...give the bored journos a proper edit war I say (from Bunbury)SatuSuro 10:47, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Hamersley, Western Australia and the quest for FAness

Love to help - I'll have a look through this weekend and'll help where I can. If you have anything specific drop me a line - Peripitus (Talk) 10:20, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

ISBN for Charles Whitham

Lovely stoty that, was going to giv you the low down whn I gt back (The last archive I did I think its in there - succesully bad mouthd from at least one but hlped by another) - I had about 40-50 articles citing whithams book - and I had brought th 2003 copy in queesntown last june/july in Strahan - some very clver bunny typist in qunstown had typd a number but not the full number - and I have been hounded by th wikipdia isbn police ver sincce - got help from th riendly one who hlped with the Charles Whitham article as a way around the issue - if you check my contrib history rom the day beore I logged off for down here - you can see how I was copying th info to the arts.... Cheers SatuSuro 11:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

SatuSuro mentioned...

Hi there. SatuSuro mentioned at my talk page a Wikipedia related story in your local rag. Would you have a link handy so I can take a look? He's on a break now so isn't able to land a finger on it. -- Longhair\^talk 11:46, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah sorry about that. I was offline for a moment reading another (longish) email. I was just about to send you my email address :) Back offline for some more reading now I guess, thanks for that. -- Longhair\^talk 13:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

An interesting article. Certainly worth a mention at Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media. Thanks for the keyboarding effort also :) -- Longhair\^talk 13:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Begin your wiki-wishlist for an OCR scanner. You'll need your fingers later in life :) -- Longhair\^talk 14:14, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the email from me also. I'll keep my $1.20. —Moondyne 15:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank heavens I have a very good scanner.... :( SatuSuro 06:10, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Either the universe, wikipedia server, or I am really in a Dr Who serial after all - or your computer has a date issue - either way I need a screen shot of the wagerup talk page - it is worthy of wikipedia history! SatuSuro 09:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Checkout the mug at wagerup, then my missives at his talk page and then I'll have an email for you SatuSuro 12:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

In view of official policy that some of our chat would constitute... and the delays and possible time chewing email thing - just got to get one of my kids (msn freaks) to sort out ichat/irc formalities..(i have an imac).SatuSuro 13:41, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Meetup

Regarding the WP:WA meetup, did it happen yesterday, or has it been rescheduled to 31st?--M W Johnson 23:30, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

"DATE: Wednesday 24th 31st January 2007

So no pints then? :@/ SeanMack 11:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC) OK so since that one fell right apart, does anyone have any suggestions for a new date we can all make? :) Orderinchaos 12:51, 25 January 2007 (UTC)" SeanMack is buying it seems.

Thought you missed it. See from reply at M W that you did not. FredThePhantomDateSetter

Its time like these we need some sort of wa chat room...SatuSuro 13:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Brunswik

I fixed it. Is it okay now? --Parker007 13:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Re. BTW

f.e→o78 Fred

So that's where it is! Seems pretty good. Not a big fan of bright greens, etc., many others would disagree. Windows users tend to favor these, as they match that palette, thats my theory. Colour in wikipaedia brings a little ... well, orderinchaos. Like to see where it is going to sit. Will have a look now. Fred 14:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Writing for the enemy: Perhaps the last para from the lead section coud be expanded out into the (recent)Natural History section. Fred 02:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Suggested edit for Hamersley at:

• User:Fred.e/Me sandbox

Geography looks really good. The map is such a relief from boxes. Is there a key on the way? Transport not geeky if an area is unserviced. Are nights and w/ends? Fred 06:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Your doing a F.A. job over there. I will have a look when you are done. The map really makes the page easier to read. May be we should get a womens POV on the colour, they have better colour vision receptors, I believe. Keep up the good work. Fred 07:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

At your service. How can I help you gentlemen? --Ali K 08:15, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Hartfield Park

Would you mind looking at this. Is it a locality in the normal sense of the word? And if not, is it worthy of an article? I'm a bit unsure about these things and you seem to be one of the locality experts. —Moondyne 04:01, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I cannot see anything wrong with your Hamersley referencing as it is. I could believe that one or two others might, but for me its fine. It gets down to personal taste I suppose and you have to go with what you feel comfortable with. —Moondyne 05:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Its my secret mind reading powers. Do you think demographics could be expanded a bit? eg. percentage Australian born, indigenous, non=English speakers, age mix. —Moondyne 01:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Assumption leads to trouble

After a quick copyedit, I'd have to say this article has just about everything it needs. I was quite upset to find that my knowledge of the suburb wasn't as good as I had previously assumed. On the countless times that I had been passed the Hamersley Golf Course, I thought it was in the suburb of Hamersley, not the ward. A quick glance at the Street Directory proved a shock. And all this, even though I have previously lived in neighbouring suburbs. I saw images of the ABC tower on a link at SatuSuro's talk page a while back. The main picture for the info box should be this. Other than that, nice job. I might do a bit of fishing for books etc, you never know. :)--Ali K 09:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Help is needed

Forget the maritime project for the moment (hammersley aside of course) the scottlish clan issue at Petedavo needs some help - when you are avilable - thanks SatuSuro 11:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Good work, but what is the name of these, they are still not appearing. Fred 11:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Maritime needs a user box same as perth/wa - whatever is easy - if youre doing it all in one go maybe the tassie project (OK i know I am pushing it...) SatuSuro 11:46, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

fixed it, ta. Fred 11:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC) P.S. Re. Quality

Or you could have a look at mine once I have them up (cannot wait for school to be on again - kids out of house during the nday - downloading and uploading etc...) SatuSuro 13:19, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Radio mast

Certainly did. Now I see it is your pic :| Sorry, giving credit to the wrong person. Though you will have to forgive me, the language between you, SatuSuro and Fred is at times... interesting... --Ali K 05:44, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey you should see the language in our emails! heheh SatuSuro 14:36, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. Nice for a change though. Rain tonight, I believe. --Ali K 06:27, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Nullabor nymph

Now there is the sort of material the wa project is surely lacking - the whimsically crazy stuff that is older than most editors! SatuSuro 14:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

NDP

hey, that's fine. i always welcome updating obsolete/depreciated templates :)

RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 16:24, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject ... where?

Check out [8] for a view of how things might have gone. A lot of relevant history for towns etc. It seems ok if you want to upload it. I know nothing about such things. I only just discovered how irregular images float over section lines when looking at your image on WP:WA. Could come in handy. Fred

ers, and ians

Probably a local usage that we poor sunset coast inhabitants know nothing about SatuSuro 09:30, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Avoiding edit conflict

Have you tackled image use from LISWA, Battye, et al? Fred 14:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

BTW Saw old book on perth suburb names in a freo elizabeth's. Slight but interesting. also There is a 'list of aboriginal words in en' if you come across any suburb names, etc. Fred The one opposite Fremantle Town Hall. It seemed pretty good. Fred 15:22, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Welcome back

Cheers! Yes it was away from Perth; there was a clue in my wikibreak notice image. Hesperian 12:46, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

It sticks out like the proverbial now as well -SatuSuro 13:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Looking at the above ground and underground of things - I must say the criteria in Yogyakarta ten years ago for whether telephone lines went in the air or below ground related to nothing to do with practicality but politics as well.... :( SatuSuro 14:03, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Freds asking hesp about things sro and battyelike and i answered it you might want to but in...SatuSuro 14:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

as for the suburb names that came and went - if you can copy - I'll desperately want your ref for that - better email though.... SatuSuro 14:13, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

yaba yaba doo! viz my reply and I'm off SatuSuro 14:32, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the greets

Thanks for the greetings Orderinchaos, hope to see you round wikipedia, good luck BarcodeIII 12:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)