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Feel most welcome to join us over at WikiProject Western Australia as well. Your work on related topics has been noticed and appreciated. Orderinchaos 07:22, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Motto

Thanks so much for that, and for the link. I was nervous about the PD, but now I can go wild with that 50+ tag. A nicely drawn map, whoever did it, I'm going to have a good look later. On the subject of images, here is an interesting page of images page. I intend to do a bit more about that one day. Your image is at another symbolism page now. See you round, thanks again. Cygnis insignis 13:51, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

West Perth

You hit my my watchlist again, cluttering up the page with facts and explanations ...  :)
You might want to boost it a bit with some of the buildings, Perth Observatory (old) et al. I have a few ideas for expansion, if you are interested, there is a lot that could be said there. Cygnis insignis 14:41, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

You might look at the feature article: Hamersley, Western Australia. The person who welcomed you is the creator, he may have some suggestions or avenues of research. He will also know whether Kings Park is in West Perth or not, by mysterious processes that are beyond my ken. The telephone book gives Fraser Avenue as that address, I have never looked any deeper than that. The history is the most interesting bit; it was a premier residential suburb on one side, and rows of one story terraces on the other. The freeway interchanges and rail have effectively divided the suburb, a large area has been given over to this. This changed the suburb from a hub and thoroughfare, it was on the tram system of course, which continued through to Subiaco. An important water course runs through there, the warkyls path, and you will find some older names for the area. People used to get their lunch there; they would light a little fire, then wait at the bottom of the cliffs for it to leap off. Cygnis insignis 18:46, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Well done

By your hard work and editing you like you might have something for - Pilbara historical timeline ? SatuSuro 03:33, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Transperth railway map

Thanks for bringing this to my attention; the presentation of the two combined lines seems not to be entirely consistent. The Joondalup line timetable shows the two lines overlapping as you depict them, but this picture of an official map shows Esplanade as a station on the Mandurah line, with both lines ‘terminating’ at Perth station. I’ll consider this some more, but my first thought is that unless the official network map has been changed, it’s probably best to keep my map as it is now. Since they run a through service, the distinction between the two lines is rather artificial, so it might confuse the issue to suggest that there is somehow a greater amount of ‘interlining’ going on between Perth and Esplanade than there is anywhere else. David Arthur (talk) 00:05, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Noticed

Your doing coords - could you do one for the Peak Hill, Western Australia art thats just being fixed up? Thanks if cyou can - cheers SatuSuro 03:09, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that - cheers SatuSuro 03:38, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

If

You are indeed human and not a machine - trust you get sleep - take care (your times/contribs history is nothing short of disturbing) - cheers SatuSuro 00:24, 14 July 2008 (UTC) It was meant in good faith and in awe of your dedication just in case i seemed a bit... thanks for your hard work but take care :) SatuSuro 05:51, 14 July 2008 (UTC) Been there done that - just take care SatuSuro 07:05, 14 July 2008 (UTC) Ohmigawd youre into cats - youll never get out of this alive you know - there are more cat issues in wikipedia than there are felines on the planet! :| SatuSuro 08:03, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Manjimup, Western Australia

I saw you rated this article with the summary "rerate as C class, getting close to B". I'm hoping someday it gets to FA status, if only I wasn't always distracted. At least it's on its way. :) Somno (talk) 00:43, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Just wanted to say your re-rating efforts are noticed and appreciated :) Thanks. Orderinchaos 05:44, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Fixed the talk page of Marmion PS per your request. Orderinchaos 12:28, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Deserts

Put em on your watch and the oddest vndls seem to creep in from the cold :) thanks for your merge - go ahead - i dont think we have to wait for any else - good catch - I hadnt seen the other art - well done - and hey get a user pge sometime! SatuSuro

I think youre in my hero list this week - thanks for your support of the disambig issue - it means a bit of work SatuSuro 04:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

editing

you undid a statement on freerunner. Do you have one of these devices? I do, my statement is factual, I have reverted your undo, if you undo again we shall seek mediation. My change was based on fact not marketing slogan.

further on the freerunner

really, great, mine didn't and I can hardly see it fit for consumers of any sort, but, this being said, have you flashed 2008.08 or are you going for the debian? It's abit confusing, the .com website now advises non-hackers to use qtopia but happened to GTK? It's a mess! not only that but none of the systems offered works completely, it is, so to speak a trainwreck in progress..Noserider (talk) 07:04, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

AWB

No worries... if you spot any other needs of that nature feel free to let me know. I did politics, what remained of WA and Victoria. Orderinchaos 14:13, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

icanhascheezburger external link on Lolcat page

Oops, I accidentally posted here the message that I meant to put on Talk:Lolcat. Sorry about that; you can check out the message there. --Politizer (talk) 19:59, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

article importance ratings?

Hi you seem to have been rating the articles importance. I don't agree with your ratings so I think I at least would appreciate if you provided some rationale when you rate. Importance is of course a relative term - but there are criteria to judge - see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Criteria#Importance of topic. For example - Six o'clock swill is indeed covered in external encyclopaedias thus low seems a rather strong rating given the number of sources, mentioned in newspapers still from time to time, subject of art works and a number of editors contributed to developing the article. Scouting in Australia also gets in the news reasonably regularly and has a circulating coin and stamps as well as 1 million members - probably not merely "mainly of specialist interest" depending on how of course you define specialist. To have rated Citipointe Church as mid is bizarre when compared with your rating for the scouts! --Matilda ^talk 20:32, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Rating articles is not really my thing in terms of a task I do and I am sure one acquires a view with practice. I think a variety of external references already in the article or known to be potentially out there indicates something more than mere specialised interest and thus would suggest a higher rating of low per [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Criteria#Importance of topicin the first instance. Both Scouting in Australia and Six o'clock swill have a variety of references; there are no references cited for Citipointe Church. I appreciate now that you were already rerating that last article lower - didn't realise at first. Regards --Matilda ^talk 18:21, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Please stay civil

Please stay civil in your edit summaries. The words you used when editing Christ Church Grammar School are not considered as civil in Wikipedia. Further such usage of these words may compel me to report you.

Also, I have sources for what I wrote on that particular page (2 hours of sport on each of Monday and Wednesday along with 3-4 hours of sport on Friday. Furthemore, sport is a subject itself (in school) and is allocated at least 4 hours per week according to the information on the website).

Topology Expert (talk) 05:44, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

You said: The school does not exclusively want boys to become sportsmen, academic achievement is highly valued as well.

Why then is sport compulsory and devoted more than 10 hours/week (do you accept my explanation for this?)? Add up the academic hours per week (school in most countries goes for six hours (per day) so since there is one hour of sport and 1.5 hours of break, there is only 3.5 hours of academics each day of the week (on Friday's (as you will know), most of the day is devoted to sports)):

Academic hours: 3.5 + 3.5 + 3.5 + 3.5 + (3.5-0.5) = 17 hours

Total hours: (6+2) + (6) + (6+2) + (6) + (6+2) = 36 hours

(note that all hours have been added up from Monday to Friday (in order))

Therefore, percentage of time spent for academics < 50%

Conclusion: Sport is given more importance than academics.

Furthermore, camp is also compulsory (as on the website) for 1 week (years 8 and 9) and one month in year 10. Anyhow, 3 hours a week of camp training is far too much for a school. In fact, I would not call this place a school; a more accurate term would be a 'sports camp'.

Just to note, I am a mathematician but I happened to come across this page. This compeled me to do some research on it and I have found such unbelievable (bad) results. Of course, I don't want to be biased, but the school seems to train boys to be ruthless (the reference given). Sources to all my claims are given on the website.

You can't criticize a mistake such as a typo; typos are always made when typing (hence the name). It would be best to continue this discussion on the talk page of the article so other editors can contribute. Please also explain why you used inappropriate language in your edit summary (considered as incivility in Wikipedia).

Topology Expert (talk) 07:54, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I replied (see the talk page of the article in question).

Topology Expert (talk) 08:59, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I replied again... (by the way, please refrain from avoiding my questions and veering of the topic).

Topology Expert (talk) 08:36, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Interview transcript

Cool that's okay, thanks for letting me know :) londonsista ^Prod 10:19, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much indeed for the transcript! http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2008/12/08/today-show-transcript/ Apparently it was James Naughtie, not Evan Davis :-) - David Gerard (talk) 15:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiLeaks

Well spotted. How / when did you find the new ACMA leak?Sainttux (talk) 12:58, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Reply

The interwikis are still wrong on other Wikipedias. There is no way that I know of to make the changes that you have suggested. Pywikipediabot has its' faults, one of which is this. I have been working with the makers of the pywikipedia bot to get this fixed, however, this might take a while. Please do not block my bot as it really isn't doing anything that aggregious. In fact, I believe about 98% of its' edits are correctly made. Thanks for letting me know, Razorflame 02:35, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

PCI DSS

Hello, and thanks for doing a rating on the PCI DSS page! I'm keen to improve it, but is there any guidance you could give me on the difference between the different levels of pages? Up until now I've only ever really done minor edits, but would quite like to get this page from C to at least a B or A over time. Any advice would be great. :) Random name (talk) 15:35, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

History of Sesame Street

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Heh.

Love the username. What model Trash-80 are you? :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:24, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

OIC. My dog's name was "Mac", after the LCIII we owned at the time. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:28, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

University IP

Did you request an unblock on behalf of the university IP because you couldn't edit there? If so I could give you IP block exemption. PhilKnight (talk) 18:40, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

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Alonso has only completed one leg of the Triple Crown. Something shared by around 200 drivers. When he wins a second leg it might become significant. --Falcadore (talk) 03:02, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

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