User talk:Dunks58

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[edit] Welcome

hi duncan, welcome to wikipedia.

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again, welcome! - clarkk 14:41, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

Dunks, see my comments on Talk:Young Talent Time. I don't object to a rewrite of that section of the article, but a discussion of that aspect of the show is warranted seeing that it has stuck in the mind of so many Australians (and, with the benefit of recent history, it does look very odd). Of course we should note that, as you've pointed out on your own site, that Young is a twice-married man with children who has never been accused of any sexual impropriety by anyone. --Robert Merkel 03:52, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Spectrum

Your editing of spectrum prompts this tip: There is no need to write [[Australia|Australian]], since [[Australia]]n has the same effect (the whole word, not just the part between the brackets, appears in blue (or whatever color your browser is using) as a clickable link). Similarly with [[dog]]s and the like. Michael Hardy 20:49, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Triple J

Nice to see another person working on that article. Is there anything more you'd be able to add? It's probably one of the closest Australian articles to becoming a featured article, so any contributions there would be much appreciated.

By the way, a bunch of us Australians have got together to try and eliminate some of the huge holes in Wikipedia's Australian coverage. If you're interested, it's at Wikipedia:Australian wikipedians' notice board. Ambi 02:32, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

You wrote Breaker Morant too? Woah. I'll give that a bit of a copyedit when I get back, but that's pretty close to being featured-worthy already. The only problem I can see is that it does take the point of view that he was indeed a hero. For neutrality's sake, it'd be good to have some opposing views. It'd be nice to be able to get a public domain picture of him - which shouldn't be too hard considering he died in 1902. Ambi 03:55, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've got no particular opinions about the guy, and haven't studied it much, but it's generally a good idea if an article reflects all views, rather than taking a particular slant. You may well be right, but the Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policy requires that little bit of neutrality. But like I said, it's a fantastic start, and really isn't far off being featured, I think, with a little bit more work. Ambi 04:32, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I noticed you made a (sp?) comment next to Andy Nehle. I am sure I saw an Andy Nehl in the crew credits on The Chaser Decides last night (Thursday). Not knowing much about him(them?), I don't know if it would be the same person. (slightly unrelated, Richard Fidler was a DAAS guy, and there is a Richard Fidler as head of comedy at the ABC.. now that HAS to be the same person!) -- Chuq 01:59, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Changing attribution for an edit

Hi Dunks, I noticed you made some anonymous updates under your IP address earlier... just thought you might like to know you can have these attributed to your user account... see Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit -- Chuq 07:00, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Breaker Morant

Might I just say: this is the finest piece of writing I have read yet on Wikipedia! If we can wikify it properly, have a few of my clarifications answered (see talk), find some appropriate photos and place it on peer review for a while to gather comments, then I reckon this could be a featured article!!! superb work, an interesting read and IMHO very well balanced. Please keep up the good work! - Ta bu shi da yu 13:44, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hey, we keep losing information from this article! see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Breaker_Morant&diff=6112912&oldid=6111202 - Ta bu shi da yu 03:00, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The same thing just happened again - I fixed the mass erasing of content, but I accidentally wiped out a couple of your edits in the process, I'm sorry. Ambi 00:30, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

hi dunks58, careful with your editing, it looks like you wiped out a huge chunk of your article Breaker Morant again on 28th of Jan 2005 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Breaker_Morant&diff=9753902&oldid=9752699). i realise that you refactored the court martial material to court martial of Breaker Morant (i moved the page), but it appears that you also inadvertantly (i presume) also deleted all the material after that section, including the reference section! i have since readded it back (and preserved the edits after that date too). does your browser have a bug or something? i suggest regularly using the "diff" tool after you make your edits to make sure you are changing what you really think you are changing! cheers clarkk 10:41, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SMiLE

Hi Dunks, Thanks for your contributions to the Smile article. A few style pointers:

Song titles should be enclosed in "Double Quotation Marks"
Album titles should be Italicized, Not in Boldface

Thanks! And your handle sounds familiar. Do I recognize you from Chalkhills? --Lukobe 19:11, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
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Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Barry Humphries

I just wanted to say that I loved your work on the Barry Humphries article. - Ianbrown 14:12, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] James Branch Cabell

Significant portions of the text are copied from this page. The article is now listed on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Your help would be appreciated in rewriting the article. Thanks, Alphax ^τεχ 06:19, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Aliens (1986 movie)

If you see this movie, ypu will discover some incongruousnesses. And I would like you explain me them:

The Colony people did not discover The Derelict in many years living on LV-426. And this moon were not as big.
Why did this people explore the terrain to discover The Derelict? They might find it by tracking the Alien transmission that were permanent and continous.
Why did The Derelict look like a ruin when in the first film were in one piece?
Why the LV-426 is called planet instead of moon?

By the other had, I have other doubt: Did Aliens movie create the concept of Weyland Yutani and Bishop?

200.92.231.119 12:11, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Masters Apprentices

Excellent work on The Masters Apprentices article. My father loved the band, so I grew up listening to his recordings of it. I learnt a lot about the history of the band from the article, and the context in which the songs were written: I can just imagine Turn Up Your Radio being recorded during a boozy late-night session; I should have guessed that earlier. It's a classic though. Graham 10:58, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

It reads very well with text-to-speech software. The most important things are to not use terms that are too obscure (so the words will always be pronounced correctly), and to not make typing mistakes, as these alter the stress of the words (especially in newer text-to-speech technology). You can find some samples of the synthesizer I use, eloquence, but I listen to the speech at very high speeds and at a higher pitch than the samples, to make working on the computer as efficient as possible. Graham 11:37, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Dunks, I'd like to suggest you heavily reduce the Master's article and refer readers to Milesago for further info. I reckon the current article is too long and has too much trivia for an encyclopedia article. cheers Design 03:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello again Dunks, I haven't heard from you regarding my above comments on The Masters Apprentices, I would say the same for Dinah Lee. I guess maybe you have been cut & pasting many of your Milesago pages into Wikipedia. I still reckon you should cut them down for Wikipedia (too much non-encylopedic detail) and provide a link to Milesago. Hey, I love Milesago, but think for Wikipedia the articles should be more "readable". cheers --Design 02:16, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ABC

I think it is preferable to exclude allegations of political bias by governments in the history section; for that purpose, I'm creating a 'Relations between the ABC and the Australian government', where the issue will probably raise less concern among contributors who are keen to criticise what they see as 'left-wing bias' in the article. Tony 15:10, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wolof loan words

Hey Dunks,

I just saw your section on Wolof loan words. Nice stuff! I wanted to warn you, though, that I've moved them to Wolof language as perhaps a more appropriate heading. I was also wondering if would be possible for you provide some references--this list makes sense, but I've seen a lot of explanations of the history of the word "jazz," for example, so some refs would help us pin it all down. Thanks much! --Dvyost 13:50, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Calwell

I have reverted the "two Wongs don't make a white" story from the Calwell article, as I have done several times before. The "white" in the joke was not a reference to "white" people but to Tom White, a Liberal MP with whom Calwell was debating in the House. I also think it is incorrect to call Calwell a racist, despite his defence of White Australia a decade after other politicians had stopped doing so. Although he opposed Asian immigration he did not hold racist views about Asians. Adam 05:10, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Newtown

Hi, I just had a look at the Newtown article, I was amongst its first contributors. I must say, you know a lot about that suburb! What you've written eclipses my poor efforts! Arno 07:39, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Janis Joplin

I had to go back and see who was responsible for the terrible bit of misinformation in Janis Joplin. I assumed it was someone young and unfamiliar with the history of rock 'n' roll. 1958, huh? Nope. You're definitely old enough to know better. Shame on you! (No response expected -- but if you haven't already, go back and read the changes to your verbiage about Joplin being an innovator, 'cause you definitely need educating.) Your erroneous text is precisely the kind of thing black people talk about when we speak of cultural appropriation. Downright disgusting. deeceevoice 22:02, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright violation

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[edit] Monterey Pop Festival

Hi, I removed the text you added to the Monterey Festival article, since it was taken froom the Milesago site...but then I realized you probably wrote it on Milesago too. Did you? If so, I think it might still be a problem, since there is a copyright notice on the Milesago page, which doesn't match the GFDL that Wikipedia uses. Adam Bishop 16:24, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's your copyright on Milesago, but not here - if you add it here, it's no longer "yours", and other people can change it or even copy it to another site and make a profit off of it. If you don't care about that, I suppose it's fine. Adam Bishop 16:40, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brunel

Hiya, noticed you've done a bit on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it's submitted for Peer Review now, [1] aiming to get it Featured! Comments appreciated, cheers. --PopUpPirate 00:44, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Regent Theatre move

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[edit] Garry McDonald

I have made a couple of disambiguation edits to Garry McDonald, an article you made significant additions to some months ago. Would you very kindly check what I've done, please? (I live near a different Cranbrook School, in England) CarolGray 09:54, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Derek & The Dominos

I've been extensively working on the Derek and the Dominos page and have been able to get most of info I need to write it but I'm having difficulty with where the group got there name, from a source I have it says it was originally "Derek and the Dynamics" but from the wikipedia articles of Eric Clapton, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs and what I had copied over from the Eric Clapton article into Derek and the Dominos it was "Eric and the Dynamos." I tracked down who first wrote in the information of "Eric and the Dynamos" and found out it to be you who put it on the Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs page here way back in April of 2005. I know that its been a very long time but do remember how and where you learned that info so I can know if your version is correct or not. Was it from a book you can look at again or something you had heard over the years? Your answer would help to an extreme extent because this question has been driving me crazy. Thanks, Patman2648 07:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Novelty and fad dances

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[edit] Hi

I have no idea why I ended up at your user page - but you spelt margaret roadknights name wrong ( I once walked across an airport tarmac with her and had a conversation with her about none other than ellen mcillwain - small world) you should at least start an article about her (margaret that is) - wikipedia is infested with rude little 15 year olds - we need gems from you mate! cheers! btw I used to live in albermarle street in the very deep dark past (73) - rushed through last winter in a taxi with a lebanese taxi driver - its changed since the 70's for sure! SatuSuro

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