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Jan '06 – Feb '06

Thanks

You're welcome, KoS- glad to hear it went through, congrats.--cjllw | TALK 21:57, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Romanians

Can you please check on the page, User:Bonaparte returned his statistics when User:MBE left. Thanks. Antidote 20:56, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Antidote. Yes, I've seen some of these revisions while I was away. Now that I'm back I will continue to pitch in to have some sanity restored to these figures. Regards, --cjllw | TALK 21:59, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, just to remind you that the Romanians statistics are still on there. You could as for a page protection if needed. Antidote 20:31, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. I've been attending to a few other things, but will propose some actions at Romanians- I think we need to go through each and every claimed estimate. Hopefully we won't need to protect the page and it can be worked out via consensus- but this depends on some others being reasonable, we'll see.--cjllw | TALK 22:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Nicobar Long-tailed Macaque

Well done! - UtherSRG (talk) 12:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey Uther, and thanks for adding the taxobox - I hadn't quite worked it out. Cheers, --cjllw | TALK 21:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorting template to head of category

To sort a template to the head of the category, but not affect the articles the template is on, you can do something like [[Category:Indigenous Australian language stubs<noinclude>| </noinclude>]]. That way the sorting part doesn't get included on the other pages. --Mairi 02:45, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice, Mairi. To create {{tl:ia-lang-stub}} I'd simply copied one of the existing lang stubs, and wasn't really sure how the sorting would work. Thanks for amending the template, which I see has fixed the problem. (also replied to User talk:Mairi) Cheers, --cjllw | TALK 22:50, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Nueva Guinea

Hey, thanks. By the way, did you ever find those pictures of Port Blair that you took? --Khoikhoi 08:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

(replied at User Talk:Khoikhoi)--cjllw | TALK 00:45, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Merging

(in response to question posted at User talk:Johnleemk re Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Breaking vine)

Thanks for the question. You see, the GFDL requires that the edit history of each piece of content be preserved for attribution. Deleting the redirects would remove this edit history from public viewing, so it would seem as if the merger (myself in this case) wrote the content merged into Turkish folklore, which is plainly not the case. Making this history public and dropping a note on the talk page to indicate which articles were merged makes retrieving the page history much easier. Johnleemk | Talk 10:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

replied over there.--cjllw | TALK 21:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

thanks from a fellow sydneysider

thanks for sending me the info about editing, etc. I have added a reference for some of the data in the Carpentier article. I'll see if I can find other references.

Thanks for polishing the Carpentier article. You seem to have had a few facts at your fingertips and you have certainly given the article a professional touch. I will keep some of your techniques in mind in the future if I do any more work at Wikipedia.

collywolly.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Collywolly (talk • contribs) 3 February 2006.

(replied over at User talk:Collywolly).--cjllw | TALK 03:43, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Dutch explorers resource

Hi,

I'm not sure how to continue a thread, so I started a new one. You seem to be interested/knowledgable about Dutch Explorers in Oz. We recently posted a rare and valuable book by Heeres and I can't quite work out where it might be appropriate to put it. Maybe a new article is warranted. What do you think? If it is easier, my email is cjc@gutenberg.net.au

Col

--Collywolly 06:48, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey, that looks to be a really useful resource, many thanks Col! My extended reply is over there.--cjllw | TALK 08:20, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

dutch surnames

Hi again,

I notice there is an entry for Willem Janszoon and one for Jan Carstensz (also known as Carstenszoon). Peter Reynders recently pointed out to me the problem with 17th century Dutch surnames. I don't want to go changing all the relevant names to add the 'oon' but if you read his article on [Dutch Surnames] you will get the drift and may want to think about how to deal with the issue. Th page for Abel Janszoon Tasman is titled correctly.

--Collywolly 11:07, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

In agreement with that proposal; replying in full over there.--cjllw | TALK 22:29, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Sydney Race Riots

Did you bother reading my objections on the talk page? I thought that its phrasing was POV and that it was irrelevant as the anglos who helped out on the Sunday had not been included.

Licinius Licinius 12:16, 3 February 2006 (UTC) 12:16, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

My bad, I misunderstood your editing sub-text.

By the way there were many but they were for the most part ignored by the media who wanted to attack the Shire. I think there was a couple of references however, notably one in the Telegraph in the week following it. I will look it up.

12:36, 3 February 2006 (UTC)Licinius

Am not sure what 'subtext' you are referring to, Licinius. I did note my reasons for the edit on the talk page.--cjllw | TALK 08:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

de Carpentier image

Hi,

The Carpentier descendant sent me an image of Pieter de Carpentier for the article. I have reduced it to about 50kb and could make it smaller but it has his Carpentier's name and title on the bottom and that could not be read if it were too much smaller. It seems to be an old etching. How would I quote the source when uploading it when I don't know where it came from. I have asked the descendant but he is not likely to know the original source either.

Col

PS The descendant was gobsmacked at OUR work on de Carpentier. He said that we edited his words perfectly and was astounded at the number of cross references which were produced in the article. I enjoy doing this stuff and the PG work but receiving bouquets now and again is the icing on the cake. Thank YOU for your help while I am trying to come to grips with contributing to Wikipedia. As I have grown older I find that I don't want to keep climbing the slippery slope of the steep learning curve. You are making it easier to do so.

I won't go on about references at PGofOz but another which complements Heeres is Collingridge's at http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0501051h.HTML. He has copped a bit of flack for his tardy tratment of Janszoon's discovey but there is a lot of good stuff there.

Another book I like, mainly for the intro, is Swinburne at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15337. She says of original source material:

"The number of events described in a Source Book must necessarily be smaller than that in histories of another type; but the aim is to place the student in contact with the evidence of history in order that he may become his own historian by drawing his own deductions from the contemporary records. The greatest historian can find no materials ulterior to such as are here presented, for there is nothing ulterior to them but the deeds themselves. They are the records written by the men who gave their life and health to lay the foundation of Australia's greatness—by Phillip, weakening under the racking cares of the infant state; by Sturt in the scorching desert, as the last duty of an exhausting day. They are aglow with the heat of action; they are inspiring in their quiet modesty and strength."

Have a nice day!

--Collywolly 1:09, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks once more for the info Col- posted re thoughts on the image at your talk page.--cjllw | TALK 08:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Luis Vaez de Torres

Hi

The entry for the above seems way off beam. Torres was in the strait in 1606. I don't know much about him but there is a bit about him in Collingridge's The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Chapter XII. I don't know how to fix the article. Can you help?

Col Choat

Collywolly 03:47, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Agreed that the article is deficient, and shall try to set some time aside for improvements. Cheers!--cjllw | TALK 08:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Torres refs

Hi,

Here is a reference to torres on my site: Torres

Also stuff about him in Scott Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

I could make up something from the info I have there if you like.

de Carpentier's descendant gave me some info and I uploaded the inmage and put it in the Pieter de Carpentier article. Naturally, you might edit it if it needs it.

Col

Collywolly 08:02, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again for the references, will be handy. As for the image, I've updated the licensing tag on it, this should be fine.--cjllw | TALK 08:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Torres again!

Hi,

Scott's work also has something in chapter III about Torres (Cook's knowlede of the strait). I am going to make an article for him for the page on my site. Would you like me to pass it on to you, to work in with the current info at Wikipedia, or would you rahter work on the article yourself?

There is also an article on Torres strait which probably needs to be considered along with the Torres page, particularly the historical section.

Col

Collywolly 09:47, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Torres once more

Hi,

My last word on Torres, I hope. I have made up my article at the PGofOz Torres page. My references are set out there as well. You can take what (if anything) that you want from it.

I think I will give the Wikipedia stuff a miss for a while as I have other stuff that needs my attention.

Col

Collywolly 11:30, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Col, that's a great article you've put together there in a short space of time. I'll continue to work on the wikipedia equivalent and other related ones from your source material. Take care now, hope to see you back here soon sometime- cheers.--cjllw | TALK 23:23, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Joke's RfA

Hi CJLLW, thanks for your comments and support in my (successful) RfA! –Joke 16:15, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

no worries, Joke, and congratulations.--cjllw | TALK 23:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Semi-automated link sorting

• Hello. This page was semi-automatically modified to sort links to my user page in a meaningful way. Sorry, no other new message. :) // Pathoschild (_admin / ^talk) 04:51, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

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