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Women cricketers who made a century on Test debut

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Well done yourself on adding the men's category. Like you, I am quite surprised no-one had thought of it before. On first seeing the new category, my first thought was "this category must have existed and for some reason been deleted", and I looked for a discussion about it. But I can't find one, so I suspect it really is new! Welcome to Wikipedia, by the way, I hope you enjoy contributing. Best wishes, RobertGtalk 08:14, 30 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Excellent work on adding all the geocoordinate data missing from Queensland articles. - Shiftchange (talk) 05:12, 22 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Your efforts in preserving the factual correctness of wikipedia are commendable. However, I must inform you the Michael James Gallagher entry on the Strabane page is infact a joke to begin with. My edit is actually more factual, seeing as he's the kind of person to add himself to the 'Notable Persons' section of a wikipedia article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.23.50.179 (talk) 00:32, 16 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thomas Bridges

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If you are interested in Thomas Bridges, it might be easier to discuss via email -- he's a relative of my husband -- I'm kerry.raymond@gmail.com But to answer your question. The Brisbane City Council burial register is generally pretty good (apart from typos) from the time that the Council takes control of a cemetery, but Nundah (like most of the earlier cemeteries) was originally administered by private trustees, whose record-keeping wasn't of the same standard, so what records you find from these earlier times is somewhat hit and miss. Yes, Thomas Bridges was buried on the date I claim -- it says so in the funeral notice in the newspaper (which is now available online -- I used microfilm originally -- so I can now add a citation onto the article).

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40826444 if you want to read it  Kerry (talk) 09:38, 29 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Coords

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Hello, Prodded the hoax article you tried a speedy on, should have happened regardless of the reasons you used, but not much use causing a fuss. How do you find coordinates so quickly?? I think I must be technologically inept now and would like to know. Regards (Crusoe8181 (talk) 09:53, 17 February 2011 (UTC)).Reply

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Coords

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Hey Rocketrod,

Thanks for all your efforts in adding coordinates to Australian articles. It helps a lot. May I just point out a few tips to hone your edits. The type parameter is important to the {{coord}} template as it indicates how the location should be displayed iconographically as well as the default scale for a map. I note that you have added coords to some schools and or tertiary institutions recently. These all should be marked as type:edu in the {{coord}} template. See the {{coord}} documentation for all the values of the type param. If an article has an infobox, check if the infobox has a coords or coordinates parameter to place a call to {{coord}}. See this recent edit of mine to an article that you recently added coords to. Note that your Southings were out by 4 degrees placing the bus station in the ocean between Gladstone and Rockhampton. For Australian places and landmarks, the Australian Gazetteer is a useful, reliable source. Once again, thanks for adding all those coords to Aussie articles. Bleakcomb (talk) 03:08, 30 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Common interests

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Hi, Rocketrod1960! Yet again we seem to have some common interests! I have just been adding a few bits and pieces to your article on the Temple of Peace. However, I am perplexed by the three sons who died in WW1 -- they do not appear in the National Archives, the War Memorial or the Commonwealth War Graves listings either under Ramo or Retzlaff (Richard Retzlaff was German and naturalised in 1905 and changed his surname to Ramo in the process). He has the birth of some sons registered as Retzlaff in NSW in the 1890s, so they are the right age for WW1 service, but it brings me no closer to finding any real sources that they died in World War 1 beyond a Roll of Honour entry supplied by Richard himself. So I did some Google searching and found this http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4YWbbE5KpRIC&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=richard+ramo&source=bl&ots=OxD6J8HV9j&sig=U-bdJ8OE_G3iv5rqq8PSaU6Jp24&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5_-FUOuBCc-SiQenhoCQAw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=richard%20ramo&f=false Hmm.... If you are interested to pursue this little mystery further together, get in touch with me at kerry.raymond@gmail.com. Kerry (talk) 03:53, 23 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Howdy! The IP is at it again. I've reverted twice - now it's your turn if between us we're going to avoid 3RR. Also, I'm about to depart Adelaide for a holiday in Sydney, so I suspect wikipedia won't be high on my list of priorities for the next 3 or 4 weeks. Possible useful information for you:

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Bertram Steele

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Buried in Lutwyche (which is confirmed by the funeral notice) and then later cremated. That is unusual; I wonder why. He's not listed in the Brisbane burial register (I guess they must strike people off if they dig them up). You learn something new every day with Wikipedia! Kerry (talk) 22:12, 20 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

His wife Amy was cremated in 1944 which might be linked in some way. Kerry (talk) 22:19, 20 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
I tracked down the author of the ADB article (a former colleague of a friend as it turned out) and the cremation was news to him; he said that edits were made to the ADB entry after he wrote it so maybe that is where the info came from. I guess the ADB entry originally said buried in Lutwyche and someone contacted ADB and had it corrected to include the cremation. I wonder who. Curiouser and curiouser. Kerry (talk) 03:55, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Boggo Road and a Trove tip

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Hi, Rocketrod! great work on adding the citations into the Boggo Road Gaol article. However, looking at the Trove citations, it looks like you are doing them manually. There's a much easier way. On each Trove newspaper article webpage, there is a "Cite This" button somewhere in the top left of screen near where the tags are displayed. Click on Cite This and then scroll to the very bottom and you will find a pre-formatted Wikipedia citation for the newspaper article. Just copy and paste it in - much less work for you *and* the URL in the citation is one that the National Library promises will be persistent. The one you copy and paste out of the address bar in your browser is not guaranteed persistent by the NLA (although they do appear persistent in practice) in their current system, but might not be if/when they roll out their new system. And Merry Christmas! Kerry (talk) 00:05, 19 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi Kerry, you are a lifesaver! I was getting bored doing it the manual way but now using the cite button has saved heaps of time! Using the B.C.C. grave finder has been a great help for this task as it helps getting correct names and dates of the hanging.

By the way, good work on getting Nudgee Cemetery started. My father, nephew, and a close workmate are all buried there and so once I have finished with Boggo Rd I am going to put some work into it. There are loads of famous people buried there, Vince Gair being maybe the most famous (Or in his case, infamous?) I have some photos as well so hopefully will be able to make it a good article.

I hope you have a great Christmas as well and continue on with your excellent editing of Wikipedia. Rocketrod1960 (talk) 00:42, 19 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

I probably should add that it's not just for the digitised newspapers. All the components of Trove, e.g. books, journals, photos, etc have a "Cite This" (with books, you may have to look at specific editions as they are each cited differently). The placement of the Cite This varies on screen in the different types of material but it's always there somewhere. So it's useful for things like adding Further Reading sections and when uploading photos to Commons (I just use the Cite This as the "source" field in the upload template). It really makes me so much productive. I love "Cite This"! Kerry (talk) 18:56, 20 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Not a Harry Potter fan?

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I had to laugh at your date fix on St Peters Lutheran College. I think you rather missed the bigger problem. Albus Dumbledore was a wizard and the principal of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series. I don't think he was ever the principal of St Peters :-) Kerry (talk) 12:53, 28 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Oh boy, well I have never watched a Harry Potter movie in my life!! How embarrassing..... hahahahaha. Even though I haven't seen any Harry Potter I really should have smelt a rat with the name. I have given myself an uppercut for that one! Rocketrod1960 (talk) 06:13, 29 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

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Why is it un-reviewed? Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 13:31, 3 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, I think I clicked on the wrong button. This is an area I have not been on before here on Wikipedia. Rocketrod1960 (talk) 13:33, 3 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Can you please stop delinking politicians currently without articles? That's creating hours worth of work for future editors, and there's no reason to be doing it. The Drover's Wife (talk) 04:13, 9 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hey. Further to above, when you're fixing broken links, rather than delinking clearly notable people it's better to fix the link (so, for William Paull, we might use William Paull (politician)). Thanks! Frickeg (talk) 13:50, 10 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi there, I should have thought of that myself!! I will go back and do exactly as you have suggested, renaming it William Paull (politician). Any other tips you can give me will always be appreciated! Rocketrod1960 (talk) 13:54, 10 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

No worries, I took care of it. I do want to say that by and large the tidying up you're doing around early Queensland politics articles is terrific - great work! Frickeg (talk) 13:55, 10 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the encouragement! Most Aussies seem to have no interest whatsoever in our history which is a crying shame. I would doubt if 5% of Queenslanders would know that Robert Herbert was our first Premier or that George Bowen was our first Governor. If only I was the Minister for education! Rocketrod1960 (talk) 14:08, 10 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

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I replied on my talk page. I love your questions; they are the fun ones! Kerry (talk) 05:57, 11 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Ipswich General Cemetery

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I just created Ipswich General Cemetery as it was redlinked off one of your politician infoboxes. Let me know if you see any other major cemeteries without articles. Kerry (talk) 09:36, 16 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Kerry, and also thank you for all the encouragement you are giving me!! Rocketrod1960 (talk) 00:20, 17 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Thomas Bridges

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I am just wondering why you think Thomas Bridges is a shopkeeper and Seventh Day Adventist. He's part of our family and so I've done a certain amount of family history research on him, and he was a farmer, primarily fruit such as pineapples. I've never picked up his being SDA. Indeed, he doesn't seem to show up as having any strong religious commitments. He was married by Rev B. G. Wilson, who was a Baptist minister, so he might have been Baptist, but in those times, the marriage service was usually decided by the bride's family so it may say more about her family than about Thomas. So I am curious where this info came from? Kerry (talk) 00:57, 26 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi Kerry, I got the information from http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=3186876443. I know sometimes the information they show is not always correct so this could well ne one of those cases. Rocketrod1960 (talk) 01:19, 26 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

They have his marriage wrong too. I will have to email them, but I might let it wait until I have finished my correspondence with them re the renumbering of that database. Kerry (talk) 07:44, 26 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

I have deleted his occupation and religion and left them blank. Does that government website rely on it's own records or people doing historical research? Have they told you why the did the renumbering? It is frustrating to say the least as it has happened at least twice now. Rocketrod1960 (talk) 11:15, 26 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

I think they have people doing historical research. A few years back the register of former members was only partially populated and now it seems complete, so I think it's been a project over the last few years (it may have been one of the Q150 projects originally?). I have emailed them from time to time when my research has turned up something very different to what they have said and they have amended some of the entries as a result. I don't think they are infallible, but they probably do have access to a wider range of sources, e.g. some parliamentary or Qld govt material that we can't access. Certainly they qualify as a "reliable source" I think. Kerry (talk) 03:42, 28 January 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Political families of Australia

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Given our recent observations about political dynasties, it seems there is a Wikipedia page devoted to connecting them up. Kerry (talk) 19:52, 13 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

You mean there is one existing or one required? There would be loads of work getting it done!! Rocketrod1960 (talk) 07:45, 15 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
I mean there is one existing Political families of Australia. I've added a few of the Queensland dynasties to it (probably more but they were all I could think of off the top of my head. For reasons I don't comprehend, some families have sections and other families are just paras in "Other". Kerry (talk) 22:13, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
FYI, they all had sections once - someone ditched all the ones they deemed to be less important or smaller in a new "Other" section. I disagreed but never reverted it. The Drover's Wife (talk) 11:19, 17 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
Christ, some of them have near-decade old dedicated articles, most completely unreferenced (i.e. Burke family). Surely we can torch those? On the "Others" stuff - I agree that it seems pretty arbitrary, but moving them all to headings will leave us with a fairly unmanageable number of headings. I wonder if it might be easier to convert the whole thing into a table or something. It would also be good to have a clear way of showing relationships between individuals; I think at the moment it's not very intuitive. I quite like @JackofOz:'s table for the Hodgmans. Frickeg (talk) 12:23, 17 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Queensland

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Hey - just wanted to say thanks for all the great work you're doing on Queensland state politicians. One thing, though - I don't think I agree with the changes you're making to navboxes. We are linking to the article on the electoral district, not an article entirely on members of that district, so I don't think it should be, for example, "Member for Thuringowa" but "Member for Thuringowa". Certainly this has been the practice in the past. Frickeg (talk) 02:04, 15 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi there, I was doing it purely for aesthetic reasons, however you do make a good point! I have worked my way down to Member for Toowoomba North for all the members of Qld Parliament but once I have finished with Yeerongpilly and the members of the Queensland Legislative Council I was going to go right back to the start and check references, add further information, etc and add the remaining members who do not have an article. I can revert the navboxes back to how they were if you agree?

Rocketrod, if it helps, I can probably quickly fix these quickly in AutoWikiBrowser to save you the trouble of doing it manually. Let me know if you want me to do that. Kerry (talk) 02:29, 15 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Kerry, once again you are offering to get me out of strife!! I of course accept your kind offer. :) Rocketrod1960 (talk) 02:32, 15 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

I will have a go at this (probably tonight or tomorrow - out today). Kerry (talk) 22:14, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Point of order Mr/Madame Speakers! Whenever I am not sure on how to layout something or politicians I was looking at Sir Robert Menzies to get some hints and that article is laid out as I have been doing it. Saying that, I am happy to do it however consensus rules. Rocketrod1960 (talk) 02:39, 15 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

I don't know that we've ever codified it; I know there are examples of both, but more of the latter. I don't feel incredibly strongly about it, but I mainly thought at least I'd be saving you a bit of work changing it over! But consistency would be nice, and I think not linking the full title is in line with international convention as well (don't quote me on that though!). Frickeg (talk) 06:44, 15 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

No problem, I am now doing them in the manner you suggested. Hope you had a good weekend!! Rocketrod1960 (talk) 07:43, 15 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

I think I have fixed all those succession boxes now. Whenever you need to do something that is more or less "the same thing" on many different articles, it is often so much quicker and easier to do this in AutoWikiBrowser, so give me a yell if you think you have that situation. Kerry (talk) 21:46, 17 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Infobox needed

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Given your stated mission to add infoboxes to all the Qld MLA/MLCs, I used AutoWikiBrowser to create a couple of hidden categories:

which contain the ones that need infoboxes still. I don't know if doing this helps you or not. It's relatively easy to create categories like this of sets of articles that do or don't have some particular feature. Note I only check if they have an infobox, not what kind of infobox it is. So it is possible that I might have missed a politician if they already had an infobox for some other aspect of their life, e.g. playing cricket or something. I can create categories if they are missing a particular kind of infobox if desired. If this sort of thing is useful to you, let me know what you need. Kerry (talk) 22:20, 17 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

I probably should add that these categories need to manually removed once the infobox is added. There is no magic here. Kerry (talk) 22:24, 17 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Ways to improve Harold Hungerford

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Rocketing through the Queensland Legislative Assembly and Queensland Legislative Council!

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William Houston Long

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There might be a copy-and-paste error here as he seem to have started the Boiling Down Works in Rockhampton (same text as for Lambert) and there's no mention of this for Long on the Qld Parliament website (describes him as a sugarcane farmer). Kerry (talk) 22:16, 8 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Yikes! Thanks for picking that up. I guess that's what happens when one should have gone to bed earlier as opposed to editing on here. All fixed now. Rocketrod1960 (talk) 22:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

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A barnstar for you!

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You are doing amazing work on these Queensland MLCs and MLAs. So many redlinks are now articles. Well done! Kerry (talk) 21:43, 4 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

Thank you thank you thank you! Just Timothy O'Shea and Arthur Whittingham to go in the Members of the Queensland Legislative Council, 1910–1916 section and then it's the home run.  :) Rocketrod1960 (talk) 03:27, 5 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Not a problem! Your work is great and the progress you've made is amazing, which is why I check your contributions most days to see what new ones you've gotten to - the least I can do is catch any typos along the way! The Drover's Wife (talk) 03:44, 31 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Bennett

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Thanks again for your work on these South Brisbane MPs - the MacGroarty article was fantastic and told me a bunch I didn't know!

I don't know if you're interested in expanding Col Bennett beyond what's already there, but there's a lot more about him online than what's listed - the memorial speeches in parliament after his death had a lot to say, there's a few articles in Factiva, and IIRC, also in Google Books. In particular, there's a lot more that could be said about his activism against police corruption, his loss of preselection and even his relationship with Aikens.

No worries if you're done with him and would rather move on, but he's a really fascinating character who's been on my list for a while, and I won't have a chance to tackle that one for a fair while due to some personal commitments. The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:44, 7 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

For anyone who's post the Trove era, the parliamentary Hansard speeches made upon their death (if you can get hold of them) are probably the best sources you'll get - they're often a phenomenally useful source of information. For instance, the record when Bromley died is quite long. I tend to also just do a general Google in case anyone else has biographised them, do a Factiva search (which, depending on how interesting the person, gets progressively more useful from the 70s), and have a flick through Google Books. I managed to do some quite detailed articles on some of the 1970s and early 1980s Qld pollies that way. (If you don't have Factiva, it's accessible with a National Library card if you get one ordered.) The Drover's Wife (talk) 01:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)Reply
Also I think you started accidentally drafting the Bromley article at Col Bennett instead of your sandbox? Just in case you were wondering where your edits went! The Drover's Wife (talk) 01:26, 8 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

I edited over Col Bennett? AAAHHHHHhhhhh !! Thanks for fixing it up. I will go into more details for guys like Col Bennett, but it is a future task. Rocketrod1960 (talk) 01:56, 8 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

I just read Hansard and the tributes to Fred Bromley. Very interesting indeed! I also noted it was the same day as Russ Hinze "retired" from parliament. You have now convinced me to look up more of Hansard about these pollies! Rocketrod1960 (talk) 01:56, 8 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

Lovely to see you back at your Queensland pollie project - I had missed reading your work! The Drover's Wife (talk) 06:34, 2 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Hi, Rocketrod! I will be teaching Wikipedia edit training classes on Wed this week and Mon next week. About 20+ people involved. As part of this, I need to give each of the students an article to work on (I create a stub and let them take it from there). I was going to create Qld MLA stubs for this purpose. So if you see a lot of one-liner MLA stubs, please don't jump in and expand them (well, not until after next Monday). I need them pretty empty so the students don't have to work too hard to research new information to add to them as the focus of the class will be mechanics of Wikipedia editing rather than the researching so I need the researching part to be easy (point them at the former members website and maybe have them search for an obituary in Trove). Kerry (talk) 06:44, 22 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi Kerry, not a problem! Hopefully some of your students will get the urge to continue on with this type of editing. :) Rocketrod1960 (talk) 07:42, 24 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Good idea. I will do it now. Rocketrod1960 (talk)

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