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[edit] Nice work
Nice work on the Central Coast stuff.
As you've probably noticed, I reverted the lower res image back to the higher res images, and adjusted the Bateau Bay page to suit. Feel free to play with the size and placement of the images (I only copied that size from another page), I just wanted to get it fixed up for now. It is common practise to try and keep all images roughly the same size on the page if possible.
Wiki now takes care of the resizing and the higher res image is available for people if they ever need it :) Cheers --darkliight[πalk] 12:39, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- If I come accross any other Central Coast related pages that haven't been tagged as a Central Coast category I'll be sure to add it. If you manage to dig up any decent aboriginal history of the coast, especially specific areas they used to hang out that would be great. There is a little bit on the Gosford page (or maybe it was the Central Coast page) and I've been keeping my eye out for it, but haven't had a chance to have a good look for it.
- One other issue I've been having regarding suburb established dates ... as you've seen, according to geographical names board, Kanwal and Bateau Bay were established in 1991. That just doesn't seem right, I'm sure I remember Bateau Bay and Kanwal from before then, but then again, maybe I don't. If you do come accross any information that says otherwise though, I'd like to hear about it.
- Regarding the Bateau Bay page, it's customary to cite potentially non-NPOV comments, for example, Bateau Bay is a popular destination for tourists because of its facilities and proximity to tourist attractions and tourist icons. According to who? Compared to what? etc. Ofcourse, not being able to find a cite is no reason not to include content, just if you happen to come accross something that says something is true, cite it, because then others can a) check you're correct and b) possibly use that same information on another page (like you have from the Kanwal page). Also, it is customary to only bold the subject of the page once, in this case Bateau Bay, usually in the first paragraph.
- If I get time next week, I'll try and give the page a good copyedit for you. Cheers, --darkliight[πalk] 04:06, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DYK
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On July 6, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Entrance Bridge, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. |
[edit] re:The Entrance Bridge
The Entrance Bridge's only reference is "History of Wyong Shire: 1947-1997". Do you think you could try and give it a full citation, with author, publisher, ISBN etc.? See also template:cite book. Circeus 23:28, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
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- It will be there soon...hopefully.
- same for The Tuggerah Lakes. Circeus 23:29, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DYK
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-- Grue 19:23, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] aussie boy
well done mate on locality stubs! keep it up James Janderson 11:15, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] New South Wales stubs
Hi! Good work with making all those geography stubs about New South Wales... but they should all have been marked with {{ NewSouthWales-geo-stub}} not {{Australia-geo-stub}} (which is only for stubs relating to the whole of Oz!). Any chance of helping me change some of them over? :) BL Lacertae - kiss the lizard 04:23, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- Yepo, I realised halfway through and the new ones I have been doing have the NSW stubs. I will go back very soon and change them. Todd661 04:25, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- cheersa. ive done quite a few of them too, so theyre nearly all changed over now. BL Lacertae - kiss the lizard 05:15, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A-League
I notice you have been doing some great work with A-League related articles. If you intend to continue, it may be beneficial for you to consider joining Wikiproject A-League, which is an attempt to standardise and keep up-to-date information regarding the A-League. We are a tight-nit community, and we would be honoured with your presence should you choose to join us. Daniel.Bryant 12:06, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Australian Politician Stubs
In response to this, that was left on several users talk pages. I am very concerned about the recent deletion of around 50 stubs on Australian politicians. These articles lay the foundation for what Wikipedia will one day be..."a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language" (Jimmy Wales). This however will not happen overnight. I draw parallels to my own project on Central Coast, New South Wales articles. 90% of the suburbs are stubs. But these stubs encourage anyone to edit. Even trivial information has a place on Wikipedia. It should not worry YOU if the articles contained very little information, but you should be happy that the articles had information. In many cases these articles only needed an infobox and they would have been reasonably adequate. In closing I ask anyone who has supported their deletion, that you reconsider your vote by visiting this page: Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2006 September 30#Albert Piddington (Australian politician)
Please don't spam other people's talk pages with the same message. It gets awfully irritating, and doesn't serve anybody any good. People are actually more likely to harden against you in what they see as a protest against your spam messages. Let me assure you that my !vote was well-conceived, and I did some thinking before making my opinion known. Thanks, and Welcome to Wikipedia, — Werdna talk criticism 10:43, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry I spammed your talk page. But when I came across these deletions I got pretty worked up. I am sure you have considered you vote, but the large majority supporting the deletions wanted me to make sure an alternative opion was presented. Todd661 10:57, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- I never spammed people pressuring them to vote one way or the other. I wrote mostly individual thankyou notes to people who participated. It's slightly different. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 11:10, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- I am sorry calling the 60 very similar messages you sent in a little over 90 minutes spam. But I think you, saying I was pressuring people into changing their vote is a low blow, considing my exact words were "I ask anyone who has supported their deletion, that you reconsider your vote". The worst i did was probably bold the message.Todd661 11:20, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- I'm really not interested. As Werdna pointed out, if anything, all you'll achieve is causing people to harden against you. Please stop posting on my talk page. I'm seriously not interested in your views on RfA thankyou notes and whatnot. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 11:23, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- I am sorry calling the 60 very similar messages you sent in a little over 90 minutes spam. But I think you, saying I was pressuring people into changing their vote is a low blow, considing my exact words were "I ask anyone who has supported their deletion, that you reconsider your vote". The worst i did was probably bold the message.Todd661 11:20, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
I ask anyone who has supported their deletion, that you reconsider your vote.
No.
If you're too lazy to write actual articles -- even minimal articles -- don't expect to get credit for them. If you're too lazy to make a specific case to deal with specific objections but have to resort to annoying spam, don't bother. --Calton | Talk 13:39, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
I hope that this incident doesn't dissuade you from editing Wikipedia, or participating with fellow Wikipedians. It is appropriate to voice concerns when something upsets you, but perhaps the manner in which this is done could be improved? Given time all the pages will reappear as they are indeed relevant, so there is nothing to fuss about in the long term.
You've added and expanded a considerable number of Central Coast articles—I'm impressed! Keep at it. :) michael talk 14:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
I am extremely concerned that you have chosen to cut-and-paste the same message (in bold type, no less) on several talk pages. Please do not do this. It is considered spamming, and if anything is more likely to irritate potential voters than make them change their minds. If you wish to discuss someone's vote on a one-to-one basis, by all means do so, but do not cut-and-paste the same message to numerous editors. Thank you. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Being creative works better than fighting. If a lot of stubs on subject X get deleted, one solution is to create an article on subject X and put the data that was in the stubs in article X. List of political people in Oz or whatever. Another solution is to create articles that are not teeny tiny stubs - if what was deleted was a one paragraph stub; create a three paragraph stub and if it gets deleted create a five paragraph stub, etc. Respond by doing something different and maybe better rather than fighting for exactly what was deleted. The right attitude is "Well, OK then; how about this?" WAS 4.250 17:54, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Establishment Dates
1991 is incorrect for the Entrance (and Budgewoi). This is because of inaccuracies in the records of the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. It seems all dates are set at 1991.
Even the board states on their own site:
On 15 Dec 1910, a receiving office for the Post Office was opened under the name `Karagi` an Aboriginal word for `the entrance`, `the door` or `the way in`. It was applied to the point on the south bank of the channel at the ocean. It was not popular. On 15 Nov 1911 `The Entrance` was adopted. (Pratt E, `Place Names of the Central Coast`)
© Geographical Names Board of New South Wales
Drawing dates by a bot (or whatever it is called causes these problems on all the Central Coast Dates.
With this in mind, I respectively suggest that the establishment names be deleted on all of the Central Coast suburb pages until a more accurate reference can be found.
Osakadan 11:19, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- I say leave it for the time being. I have already had a brief discussion on the issue of dates. See above message left by darkliight (who is another Central Coastie). ^^^ Todd661 11:23, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Toukley, Gorokan, Buff Point, Kanwal, Long Jetty, Ourimbah, Doyalson and even Wyong are all listed as having the same Assignment date of 17 May 1991. This is either a glitch in their programme or possibly a change in designation from town to village or some such thing. I stand by my assertion that the establishment dates should be deleted.
http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name/search Osakadan 11:41, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Hey Todd, I left a bit of a note regarding this on Osakadan's talk page if you want to have a look. Cheers, darkliight[πalk] 13:10, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Unblock IP
This IP address is a computer at the University of Newcastle, from which I make many contributions. Todd661 06:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Contributions made by this IP can be viewed here. I will attempt to review all of them. Todd661 06:37, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your attempt to semi-protect Gosford High School
Unfortunately, adding in the {{sprotected}} tag doesn't protect the article. That is only a notification that the article got protected. Only admins can protect an article. You can request that an article be protected by filling out a request at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. -- Gogo Dodo 07:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] You're doing a good job
Hi Todd, you don't know me, but I saw you out doing good work welcoming other users, and I wanted to stop by and tell you how important that is to Wikipedia and what a good job you're doing. I see from your userpage and some of the comments above that you're a bit down right now, perhaps feeling discouraged, and I just want to let you know that the work you do is being noticed, and is appreciated, regardless of what anyone else says. Have a great day, and keep up the good work! Essjay (Talk) 07:42, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Shopping malls
Sure thing. I actually don't normally spend this much time on malls -- my normal hangout is Special:Uncategorizedpages, where I've been seeing a steady stream of mall articles show up in that list recently. Anyway, the citation information you want is probably at Wikipedia:Verifiability and Reliable sources. Basically, you want to avoid primary sources (corporate websites) and stick with secondary or tertiary sources (like newspapers or other large reference works). Hope that helps, and if you need anything else, please let me know. :) --Elonka 08:52, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
It's quite simple - your first batch of edits made the article worse. Your latest edits, however, seem okay, and so are intact. Rebecca 09:20, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- This had nothing to do with assuming bad faith. Rather, you made poor edits, they were reverted, you made decent edits, they were not. Simple. Rebecca 10:55, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Shopping Centres
Hi You might be interested (maybe?) in my failed attempt to get a stack of Westfields merged.
I considered that individually, Westfield Mount Druitt is a crap article with not much scope. But combined in a reasonable merger there is plenty of scope for something which transcends directory-cruft.
- Westfields in Australia
- User talk:GarrieIrons/Westfields in Australia Talk page for -^
Similar approach was considered for Wagga Wagga Marketplace with a few other Marketplace locations (some of which do have articles, most don't due no doubt to {{local}} and smaaaaaaall communities out that way) Garrie 04:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] User_talk:Rebecca#Concerns
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[edit] Westfield Bondi Junction
Thanks very much for your efforts on the page. :) My concerns have been addressed, so I have withdrawn my AfD nomination and closed the discussion. Thanks again, --Elonka 23:09, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stockland Bay Village
Looking at the archived discussion - there was a consensus reached of Merge and redirect. I guess that's not an allowed outcome from an AfD - but if you run the same thing past Talk:Stockland Bay Village then nobody would argue with the article becoming a section on Bateau Bay. Just a thought...Garrie 04:53, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
