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Thanks for updating the links in the Mount Isa Mines page.
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Hi there. I'm creating Sydney Harbour Naval Precinct based on the NSW SHR auto-generator. I notice it's also listed on the CHL. Have you auto-generated content from the CHL, as I could merge the two. It's a potentially messy article as there are heritage-listed items located within the Commonwealth Heritage Listed site, namely:
There is a lot of content at Garden Island (New South Wales), too. Rangasyd ( talk) 09:05, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
This conversation moved to Talk:Garden Island Naval Precinct for ongoing maintenance and input. Please do not add any further content to this article. With thanks. Rangasyd ( talk) 12:26, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
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You recently undid an unsourced edit. Here's the reference — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.2.132.157 ( talk) 04:07, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
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Just wanted to say that I have been seeing your edits everywhere .. and you seem to being very thorough and your work is being appreciated Bruceanthro ( talk) 06:48, 15 November 2018 (UTC) |
Thanks for commenting (and researching). It’s nice to get a response; even though I still don’t know the answer(s). MBG02 ( talk) 19:45, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
Re: Talk:Willandra Lakes Region I wasn’t prompting for more info; I was just saying it was nice to know I’m not “typing into a void” (but I still wanna know). Your typing has Williandra (but link works). Article still has Pringle.
NB: I know (almost) nothing; I couldn’t write about this... or anything. MBG02 ( talk) 02:17, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Kerry,
This is the poster of the edit for the "Commonwealth Police" article - specifically, the edit that included the first director (Harold Jones) of the CIB's single-minded focus on left-wing subversion. IIRC, I cited the source - Andrew Moore's "The Right Road? A History of Right-wing Politics in Australia", published 1995 by Oxford University Press Australia, in Melbourne. Specifically, p. 27 of same, where Dr. Moore describes the CIB's first incarnation as "indulging...in a 'fantastic obsession'" with left-wing subversive activity - or hints of it. Dr. Moore then goes on to note the CIB's starring role in forming a variety of right-wing militias, such as the Old Guard and others, to counter the spectre of a Communist revolution which never materialised.
As his (unedited) Wikipedia page shows, Dr. Moore is recognized worldwide as a leading expert in the historiography of Australian right-wing politics, and has taught at four separate universities courses relating to Australian politics and/or history. I fail to see how a book written by Dr. Moore, on the topic of right-wing politics (his academic specialization), is *not* a "reliable source" when it comes to identifying right-wing biases in the way key historical Australian civil servants performed their duties. Could you please explain why you removed the insertion?
- MC
EDIT: Having found the archived change, you were quite right - I failed to cite my source, as I did with a couple of other edits earlier today. My bad; I'll put the source in when re-adding the CIB history snippet, if that's OK by you.
EDIT 2: Having re-read the section on Harold Jones' focus, I've also re-worded it to be more precisely in line with what Dr. Moore stated was the case. I acknowledge that my earlier wording was overly-broad; the CIB was not focused on "suppressing" potential left-wing subversives, but on monitoring and making sure they *could* suppress them if called upon to do so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.69.48.168 ( talk) 15:39, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
20/11/18: "MC" here - I'd forgotten my password, and didn't bother retrieving it. Thanks for the message, but I thought the page number was already in the citation line - p.27, to be precise. I filled in the details - including page number - from the "cite a book" template; did I do something wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chalcedonian ( talk • contribs) 07:22, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi Kerry,
This sandbox of
someone who only made two edits is up for
WP:G13 deletion.
If it has already been deleted:
While nothing leaps out at me and says "notable! must not be deleted!", I thought it would be helpful to let you know about this.
Pete "there's a law faculty at QUT?" aka --
Shirt58 (
talk) 08:51, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
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Kerry ( talk) 23:11, 6 December 2018 (UTC)Welcome to the fourth newsletter for the new Growth team!
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Hi Kerry Raymond -- thank you for weighing in when the Growth team was discussing ideas on what we would build. Your wisdom on the newcomer's experience was a huge help in our planning. We've made a lot of progress in the last few months, and we're hoping you could take a look at some of our current work and post any thoughts you have. We're working on a " help panel" (comments can go here), and on the next steps for the "Personalized first day" project (comments can go here). Thank you for any time you can give! -- MMiller (WMF) ( talk) 22:07, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
they aren't necessary MOS:PUNCTSPACE, if you're going to be fixing something, go ahead, but don't be spending time looking for this thing to be done, it's like looking for em-dashes inside templates that already output correctly Dave Rave ( talk) 09:00, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
As you may have noticed, I have tried to update various Brisbane railway stations with out of date transport links. The more I am doing, the more I find information that is out of date. Information regarding train timetables which I am mainly working on is fairly easy to update but will need to be maintained in the future which will not be easy unless someone else takes this on at some time. Information regarding bus timetables is totally out of date and will also be hard to maintain. Both Sydney and Melbourne have a different approach where the timetable links go to a page in their transport site where the link does not change but where the URL for the new timetable within that page changes when a new timetables is produced. Brisbane also has such pages which are currently not used in timetable links. An example of a train timetable link is say the Beenleigh line where the current reference to the timetable is [1] but under the proposed change would be [2] from which a link to the full timetable can be found at the bottom right hand corner but may be more difficult for the irregular user. It is much easier to find in this NSW equivalent. [2] As I am not aware of anyone else in Queensland who seems to have a current interest in this, I am seeking your advice on this. Fleet Lists ( talk) 06:41, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
<ref>{{Cite BrisbaneCityTrain|Beenleigh}}</ref>
produce the relevant citation based on whatever line name is used.
Once the hard work of putting this template call into all of the railway station articles is done, from then on, all one has to do is m). So I agree it would be better to use a more stable URL if one is available to reduce the update problem. But the other thing that occurs to me (correct me if I am wrong) is that you are putting the Beenleigh timetable URL into many railway station articles (all the ones on the Beenleigh line) and doing all of that for all the other railway lines. So I am wondering if it might be better to create a template and then make the citation odify the template *once* ( whenever the timetable for one or more of the lines changes their URL and then all the articles using that template will automatically switch to displaying the new URL. Would that be a better plan? It still involves modifying each railway station article to add the correct template call but it is easy-peasy to maintain things after that as it is just a change in the one template. The only reason to change the railway station articles would be if the line running through them changed (not a frequent occurence). What do you think of that idea? The template can either use either of the two URLs you describe above, whatever you prefer. Kerry ( talk) 07:30, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
<ref>
tags on this page without content in them (see the
help page).
Hi Kerry - re my sources for the Solar eclipse 2030. I have taken several projections from several sources all of which show the path of the total eclipse passing over the village of Hungerford, Qld. The area of totality is actually quiet wide compared to a civil parish and therefore taking the projected line of totality from the various totality maps I have superimposed that line and angle of totality onto several county maps stored with the NSW Land Titles department and NLA's trove database to determine the affected parishes.
In this I am probably guilty of original research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.174.62.147 ( talk) 05:35, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Thank you Kerry - I have taken your edits for Hungerford and used that for the 10 or civil parish south of the Border. In regard to the issue of the date order used in Australia, I have use the American order as the specific text is a link to a wiki page with a name that uses the American date. So I will correct that. thankyou. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.174.62.147 ( talk) 05:03, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
Have a happy and safe Christmas and new year - JarrahTree 00:47, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
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I'm on the Wikipedia typo team and have noticed that over the past two or three months you have thanked me numerous times for correcting spelling errors. I took a look at your user page, which I admit is to get ideas for formatting my own page, and realized that all those articles had a connection to Australia. It took me a little while longer, but I realized that since you are so involved with spreading knowledge about your home country, you deserve this:
The Australia Barnstar of National Merit | ||
For dedicating so much time to spread knowledge to the world via Wikipedia about the history, government, famous and not-so-famous people, and everything else Australian, and especially Queensland.
Ira Leviton ( talk) 15:56, 24 December 2018 (UTC) |
I started editing Wikipedia more frequently around this time last year. I can positively say that without the support and encouragement from a handful of Australians, who knows what I would be doing. Clicking the log out button and moving onto another hobby perhaps. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year, Kerry! Nat965 ( talk) 20:56, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
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Wanting more information about the Hines family when they lived in Victoria near Apsley — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fovant Peronne ( talk • contribs) 11:03, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Kerry, sorry for those edits. I am new and trying to learn. Wanted to make a few changes but yes will definitely cite the source next time for any updates or changes. Thanks Pawpatro107 ( talk) 14:47, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
Good to have you back! I recently stumbled across another SHR article that was somehow missed: Mount St Mary Campus of the Australian Catholic University. Any chance we could get generated text for some of these? The Drover's Wife ( talk) 11:00, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
I still seem to be having trouble with archiving my talk page, and you were the one who had a go at fixing it last time it really needed archiving - any idea why it still isn't automatically archiving? I am hopeless at this stuff. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 21:18, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Welcome to the fifth newsletter for the new Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
We began the " Personalized first day" project with the welcome survey so that we could gather information about what newcomers are trying to accomplish. The next step is to use that information to create experiences that help the newcomers accomplish their goal – actually personalizing their first day. We asked for community thoughts in the previous newsletter, and after discussing with community members and amongst our team, we are now planning two projects as next steps: "engagement emails" and "newcomer homepage".
We have published initial reports on each of the team's first two projects. These reports give the basic numbers from each project, and there are many more questions we will continue to answer in future reports. We're excited about these initial findings. They have already helped us define and design parts of our future projects.
The help panel was deployed in Czech and Korean Wikipedias on January 10. Over the past four weeks:
We think that the 20% open rate and 50% click rate are strong numbers, showing that a lot of people are looking for help, and many want to help themselves by looking at help pages. The somewhat lower numbers of asking questions (especially in Korean Wikipedia) has caused us to consider new features to allow people to help themselves. We're going to be adding a search bar to the help panel next, which will allow users to type a search that only looks for pages in the Help and Wikipedia namespaces.
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Hello Kerry - nice to connect in this immense world of Wikipedia. I'm fairly new to the space as a contributor however wanted to discuss context around removal of "heritage-listed" from the opening line of the Anzac Memorial article. The Memorial's Google My Business listing is pulling information from third-party sources to auto-include fields that vary in relevance to the Memorial itself, including from its Wikipedia page. Users are unable to update this information, even if they manage the business listing. You can see the listing by searching for "Anzac Memorial" on Google. The Google listing currently says "Designated as world heritage site 23 April 2010" however this is incorrect. The Memorial is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register, it is not on the UNESCO Register. It's my feeling that Google is reading "heritage-listed" in the first line of this article and as it can't tell the difference between state and global heritage, assumes the Memorial is a world heritage site. For comparison please note the article for the Sydney Opera House, which is a UNESCO world heritage site, but does not have "heritage-listed" in its opening line. It also does not have its world-heritage status in the Google My Business listing. Is having "heritage-listed" in the opening line a mandatory requirement or a stylistic preference? In the Memorial's case the end of the opening paragraph notes in fuller detail that the building is registered on the New South Wales state heritage register, so users are receiving the same information as they would by having the info in the opening line. The "heritage listed" detail, though small, is possibly affecting the accuracy of other public information about the Memorial because of Google's algorithm. But the only way we'll know this is to test this by removing the "heritage-listed" from the opening line. What are your thoughts on this? Jk.nickels ( talk) 05:52, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
He/she has been using at least seven IP addresses to make such non constructive posts, mainly in Victoria but also in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia and today even changed a station in Los Angeles to look like a Victorian one. User talk:122.108.100.214, User talk:175.34.64.2, User talk:49.180.97.241, User talk:122.110.221.80, User talk:122.108.96.93, User talk:211.27.86.17, User talk:49.199.113.207 I tried to report this user again this weekend but my report lapsed in time on three occasions. So I am not sure where to go from here. Drovers Wife has also reverted a number of his posts. Fleet Lists ( talk) 09:30, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
Before adding a category to an article, as you did to Woy Woy Tunnel, please make sure that the category page actually exists. In some cases, it may be appropriate to create a new category in accordance with Wikipedia's categorization guidelines, but it is usually better to use the most specific available existing category. It is never appropriate to leave a page categorised in a non-existent category, i.e. one whose link displays in red. Thank you. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 15:21, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Hey, is there any chance you could generate the Victorian CHL articles for me? Don't worry about the links (happy to do that myself), but it just saves a lot of nuisance with infobox creation etc. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 05:06, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello Kerry, I noticed you removed the Australian outlaws category from Ben Hall's page, saying it's covered by the bushranger category. But "bushranger" and "outlaw" are not one in the same, given that only a small number of bushrangers were officially outlawed. I think it's a category worth keeping. - HappyWaldo ( talk) 22:06, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Kerry. I have moved this article into draftspace as an alternative to outright Template:Db-person speedy deletion. As far as I can see, an article about this Ms Li would fail any number of tests - WP:GNG, WP:ANYBIO - for notability. What do you think about this? Pete AU aka -- Shirt58 ( talk) 10:58, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello. If you create a category by mistake such as Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Upper Lachan Shire then rather than blanking it, it's better to tag it directly with {{ db-self}}. Blanking just creates work for someone else who will tag it with db-self... Le Deluge ( talk) 01:55, 18 March 2019 (UTC)