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Favourite pictures
Some of my favorites, all of them related (possibly indirectly) to articles I've worked on:
A bobtail (
Tiliqua rugosa ) on a verandah.
Another one of mine: Red
Kangaroo Paws (A. manglesii ).
Aardappeleters ("The Potato Eaters") by Vincent Van Gogh, 1885. Great
expressionist painting of ordinary people. Used by
G. E. M. de Ste. Croix as the frontispiece of The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World (1982), one of my favourite books.
Makhaya Ntini bowls at the WACA Ground, Perth on 16/12/05, the first day of the First Test,
Australia v South Africa.
Adam Gilchrist was facing,
Andrew Symonds is the non-striking
batter . Ntini took five wickets for 64 runs on the day. I took this with my run-of-the-mill Fuji and got lucky with the timing — both the ball and Ntini are suspended in mid-air.
Players contest a
mark at the 1933
Australian Football Carnival , at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The teams are Victoria and an unknown state (possibly Tasmania). (Photographer: Sam Hood.) I don't have a strong reason for including this, other than it has a nice composition and its a classic, timeless Aussie rules pic.
One of the most poignant photos I've ever seen. Christmas Day, 1942. An Australian soldier, George "Dick" Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari, at the
Battle of Buna-Gona . Whittington died in February 1943 from the effects of
bush typhus , the little-known killer of many Allied and Japanese soldiers in the Pacific. (Picture by
George Silk .)
Pet hates
Use of
adjectives as
nouns : "eat more
dairy products "
not "eat more
dairy "
(Consuming a shed is a recipe for indigestion.)
Misuse of
dashes and
hyphens , i.e.:
emdash ( — ) only ever used as
parentheses , either with or without spaces, according to style and preference, i.e.: Sdgdf sdasfasag — bvbnnbsngn jfdgjdj hfhsf agdfgf — fgagfga fasdfasdf or; Sdgdf sdasfasag—bvbnnbsngn jfdgjdj hfhsf agdfgf—fgagfga fasdfasdf.
endash ( – ) used in ranges, such as "10–20" years. Now sometimes used as parentheses, usually with spaces, i.e. Sdgdf sdasfasag – bvbnnbsngn jfdgjdj hfhsf agdfgf – fgagfga fasdfasdf.
hyphen ( - ) , which should only ever be used both to join two words, without spaces, e.g.
Hobson-Jobson . (See also
en dash versus em dash .)
The qualifier "in the
southern hemisphere " , which is popular with some of my fellow Australians; do people who use this have any idea what goes on in
South America or
southern Africa ?
Useful resources
The Wayback Machine — a huge web archive, which contains lots of dead pages. It's a great way of getting hold of those useful but fly-by-night web articles.
Tasks we can all do
You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See
Wikipedia:Maintenance or the
Task Center for further information.)
Update with new information
Fix original research issues
Help counter
systemic bias by creating
new articles on important women .
Help improve
popular pages , especially
those of low quality .
Project membership
Areas of interest
Australian history
Military history
Sport
Cricket
Football
I,
Natalinasmpf give Grant65 this barnstar for his knowledgeable documentation of battles in history.
In recognition of your work I award you this
barnstar . In particular, for the exceptional read that was
CAC CA-15 . Thank you!
michael
talk 12:20, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Pacific Theatre, 1941-45 Barnstar
For superlative work on meticulously organizing the New Guinea campaign and associated campaignbox.
Cla68 06:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I award you the Aviation Barnstar in recognition of your knowledgeable contribution to aviation articles. -
Bzuk
The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
for your efforts with Australian articles
Gnan
garra 00:11, 26 January 2008 (UTC)