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[edit] WP:AFL

Hi mate, was wondering with your great love of everything footy, you'd like to check out Category:VFL/AFL players - let us know how we can improve them by airing your views at WikiProject AFL. Cheers! Rogerthat Talk 11:45, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Cheers for you quality work on some of the best and fairest articles - keep it up and be sure to spread the word of WP:AFL Rogerthat Talk 09:11, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deed Poll Name Change

I agree with you totaly, Lennon did change his name by deed poll to John Ono Lennon, but I am unable as yet, to cite a source. I've searched all our papers on the day he died, they only refer to him as John Lennon, so I'm only relying on my memory. One thing puzzles me, which article of English Law did "Crestville" cite to say he would be unable to drop "Winston?" When you change a name by deed poll you can drop, or add anything you wish to! Lion King 03:21, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AFL Infobox

Hi mate, thanks for the kind words. Remember we need as many people we can get on WP:AFL so make sure you tell your mates :) With the infobox, I noticed this problem with the Andrew Mackie photo. For some reason it automatically sets the image at 200px. Ask the question with User:The Brain of Morbius, who created the template a long while before I started up WP:AFL. Cheers mate, keep up the good work Rogerthat Talk 12:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Franz Joseph I of Austria

Could you explain why you deleted the Category:British Field Marshals and Category:Field Marshals of Germany? According to the Almanach de Gotha FJ was a British and Prussian field marshall. Noel S McFerran

Thank you for your quick response. FJ definitely held the rank of a Field Marshall in both the British and Prussian armies. He was not a British subject, but neither were King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King Albert I and King Leopold I of Belgium, King Ernst August I of Hanover, King William II of the Netherlands, King Mahendra of Nepal, or Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar (all listed in this category). Noel S McFerran 02:37, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AFL season article naming convention

As a participant of WikiProject AFL I thought you might be interested in this. I have started a vote to get a consensus on the naming convention for AFL season articles. You can participate in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject AFL#AFL season article naming convention. Cheers. Remy B 13:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No image in infobox

Yep I've noticed that problem as well. Have no idea what has happened but I left a message a few days back on the discussion page of {{Infobox_afl_player}} - seems it hasn't been fixed. I'm not sure who removed the image functionality either. Rogerthat Talk 11:31, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

References list the primary and secondary sources that were consulted in the writing of an article. I don't think you should be adding DoAB references to articles that were written without consulting it. At the very least, I hope you're first checking the Wikipedia articles against the DoAB articles. Snottygobble 13:15, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I do add the DoAB reference and see if there is extra info that could be added. Also, references can be added to verify information in the article, see the Wikipedia:Cite_sources#When you verify content article. Diverman 03:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Okay, that's fine. Keep up the good work. Snottygobble 03:55, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sort by date

I noticed you sorted John Wright by date. Is that the most effective way to have it? I understood that dab pages would have the most likely candidates toward the top and the lesser toward the bottom. For people, i can see this might be useful, but not sure. John (Jwy) 13:57, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I looked up the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#People, it didn't give a suggestion for sorting. Is there another recommendation somewhere? I just thought it would be handy to sort by date, because you generally know the approximate years a particular person was alive when searching. Also, a people will different ideas on who is the most likely candidate. Maybe this could be voted on? Diverman 02:22, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Here's the general rule: WP:MOSDAB#Order of entries. I do see that date sorting could be useful - and they allow for chronological (I hadn't seen this before), but sometimes its obvious who the most likely people are. John (Jwy) 03:25, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pipelinks

Please guide me to your MoS section that refers to not pipelinking names on a DAB page as you cite on David Wright.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by D C McJonathan (talk • contribs) .

Allow me: WP:MOSDAB#Piping John (Jwy) 13:28, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Doc ♬ talk 01:30, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Raymond BROADBENT

No worries. My Father is the one who was keen to get this updated. Perhaps we should start another entry for 261506 (NX12225) Lieutenant Colonel John Raymond BROADBENT, born on 24 June 1914 at Manly, NSW to avoid confusion. BTW He's now a MAJGEN retired, and currently residing in Sydney.

[edit] Activate

Thanks for your question and sorry for the delay. There was community consensous somewhere (I can't remember where) to move Activiate on over to Rhodes. >IF< I remember correctly and according to the edit history, the page was actually created twice before but deleted due to A7 a la non-nobility, which I feel is correct. My recommendation to you would be to slip in a section about Activate somewhere appropriate in that article. Maybe bring it up in the talk page? // Pilotguy (Have your say) 18:11, 7 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Copyright issue with ADMD

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[edit] ADB

Ah, I incorrectly assumed that if they were blue they were counted as done. I'll revert. Also, what about using <s>...</s> for completed entries. I also noted that in several letters, there were more articles than the count said. I wonder how that could be? I'm sure that last time I looked (which was a few months ago) they were all OK. I guess someone (I'm happy to do it) needs to go back to ADB and cross reference again. What do you think about adding an ext link to the ADB article next to each of the stubs and redlinks - it might encourage article creation. Waddya think? —Moondyne 06:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps also link to the the DAB article in the list. —Moondyne 06:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
I did intentionally say DAB and not ADB but probably should have said both. My thinking was that both are useful resources for a new article. Sure DAB is not PD but it wouldn't hurt to link to it anyway else you may as well just copy-paste from ADB and it'd be done. But its a moot point anyway as you're right that the time spent could be probably better spent writing the articles. Thanks for listening to my ramblings. —Moondyne 23:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes, there are a few blue links that are a couple of lines only, so they shouldn't be counted as complete. We could use strikeout to signify completeness (once all D.A.B text and ref. is in place), I've just been using "good" after the article to signify so far. As for some numbers being a little higher in the section list than in the heading summary, there are a few "see other" entries e.g. M. Blashki - see Miles Evergood - good' so we shouldn't count twice for that on article. I guess adding the ADB link next to reds/stubs could help, but that's a fair bit of work that may be better spent creating the articles themselves. – Diverman 10:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IP was Spamming

I removed them because they were being spammed onto articles, they werent being utilised as a reference (see the list below). The editor was making no other edits to the articles just adding links. I removed those edit added by the annon IP, these are the only edits the IP made. Gnangarra 02:14, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
  1. 12:05, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) Joseph Horrocks (→References)
  2. 12:02, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) Joseph Foveaux (→References)
  3. 11:59, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) John Septimus Roe (→References)
  4. 11:56, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) John Pascoe Fawkner (→External links)
  5. 11:53, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) John Hampton (→References)
  6. 11:48, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) John Carne Bidwill (→References)
  7. 11:43, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) James Stirling (Australian governor) (→External links)
  8. 11:40, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) James Simpson (Tasmanian) (→References)
  9. 11:38, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) James Scobie (→References)
  10. 11:36, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) James Hurtle Fisher (→References)
  11. 11:34, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) James Battye (→Works)
  12. 11:26, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) Henry James O'Farrell
  13. 11:24, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) Henry James O'Farrell
  14. 11:01, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) George Fife Angas (→Publications)
  15. 10:57, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) George Augustus Robinson (→External links)
  16. 09:56, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) Charles La Trobe (→External links)
  17. 07:08, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) Charles Hotham (→References)
  18. 06:55, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) Alfred Bussell (→References)
  19. 06:52, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) John Bussell (→References)
  20. 06:45, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) Anthony O'Grady Lefroy
  21. 06:37, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) Alfred Felton (→External links)
  22. 06:32, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) Daniel Deniehy (→External links)
  23. 06:28, 30 March 2007 (hist) (diff) Daniel Deniehy (→External links)

[edit] Bishops and Primates in Australia

Mostly I read the articles to find out which is/was a Primate. It seems in Australia the Primate is not always the same See -- it seems to move around, unlike England where Canterbury and York ARE the Primates. So it takes some detective work. Sometimes the Bishop's websites also will tell.

As to what other cats, sure, many of those seem appropriate. However, an article should not be in a cat and a subcat of that cat. Put it in the most specific subcat. Then it will be in the parent cat, too, because the entire subcat is in it.

Thanks for your interest. It is mostly just an interest of mine, too. I claim no special expertise, other than a basic understanding of what a Primate is, etc. God bless. Pastorwayne 12:01, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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