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This page in a nutshell: Please do NOT vandalise this discussion page. Any vandalism to this page or associated user page will be reported immediatly to the Vandalism team.

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This is my new talk page. For anything said on or before 10 October 2007 should be in my Archive. Thankyou.

Contents 1 Reply to your question 2 Move of Australian federal election article 3 nutshell template 4 Patel 5 Christopher best 6 Your recent edits 7 My RFA 8 Thank you 9 Second Ostend Raid 10 RfA thank-spam 11 Ethiopian crash 12 Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Australian rules football 13 Qantas 14 Speedy deletion 15 Appology 16 A O E 3 17 Brisbane meetup 18 Air New Zealand 19 RE:Huggle Whitelist 20 Brisbane meetup invitation

[edit] Reply to your question

No, having been blocked does not disqualify you forever from being an admin, but most people will expect several months to pass after the block so they can be reasonably confident that the incident was a one-off. WjBscribe 14:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move of Australian federal election article

Please note that moving a page which is undergoing heavy editing without discussion is considered to be highly disruptive. With the federal election now called, the page is likely getting several thousand hits per day, and worldwide standards on Wikipedia have "Location jurisdiction election, year" as the title. See for example Category:Canadian federal elections, Category:Elections in France and Category:United States House of Representatives elections for just three examples, quite apart from the extensive number of Australian federal and state elections already using similar nomenclature. If you want to change the standard, propose it at the village pump and notify talk pages/projects such as WikiProject Australian Politics or other politics projects as needed. Orderinchaos 09:51, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] nutshell template

Hi Aflumpire! It looked like you were trying to add an empty nutshell template to your user page. If you want an empty nutshell template on your user page, try this: {{nutshell|}}. (By the way, that's not three letter L's in "nutshell," the final one is a vertical bar.)
Here's an example of what this will look like.

If you want the template to describe your user page, you would do it something like this: {{nutshell|i like the AFL|i like arcohol|i hate vandals}}. (Notice that each item is preceded by a vertical bar.)
Here's an example of what this will look like.
Hope this helps. Jecowa 12:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Patel

A disambiguation of one person with that surname is not appopriate, more so because of the WP:BLP problem inherent in your labeling of the person in question. I suggest you take that to heart. Carlossuarez46 18:00, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Christopher best

May I suggest you actually read the article before claiming it not to be nonsense and removing my CSD tag? Are you an admin? B1atv 22:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

As you have replied on my user talk page I have responded there to prevent the conversation becoming truncated. B1atv 22:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. On many keyboards, the tilde is entered by holding the Shift key, and pressing the key with the tilde pictured. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot 22:26, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thanks for voting on my RFA! Although ultimately it was unsuccessful, I do appreciate the feedback. As to the lack of involvement issue you raised - I think the only way I can respond is to say that if I run again I'll hopefully have enough experience to gain your support. Again, thank you so much for voting, and I look forward to seeing you around Wikipedia --danielfolsom 21:32, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hi, Aflumpire. I guess my comment on your teacher correcting "thank you" to "thankyou" is that teachers are human and sometimes make mistakes. I'd be very interested to see some evidence that Australians with decent writing skills (a rapidly diminishing breed going by what kids are taught in Aussie schools these days) generally write "thankyou" and not "thank you". Does "thankyou" appear in any dictionary? Cheers. -- JackofOz 02:13, 21 October 2007 (UTC). PS. Thank you for the invitation to chat about this.

"Australians are getting worse at spelling every day!" - oh, tell me about it, mate. There are various major factors at work. Firstly, the lack of quality teaching these days. I don't mean that teachers don't do their job well, but what they teach leaves a lot to be desired. It's not the teachers' fault, but the fault of governments who allow basic concepts such as nouns, verbs and apostrophes to be glossed over, if mentioned at all. Ever since kids started coming out of high school functionally illiterate - and this was first commented on at least 30 years ago - alarm bells should have been going off and changes should have been made in primary and secondary schools. This was one of the few things I agreed with John Howard about in the leaders debate last night. What a disgrace that English ever became an optional subject in schools. What a disgrace that a person can do 12 years of school, and still have to do a remedial English class before being accepted into university. Then there's the internet, which, for all its great benefits, has dumbed down language. People used to know the difference between "affect" and "effect", and "its" and "it's", and "your" and "you're", and "to", "too" and "two", etc ad nauseam - but the numbers are rapidly diminishing. Websites, TV ads, newspapers, you name it, now get these things wrong all the time. People are writing "a lot" as one word "alot". The tragedy is that they're unaware they're making a mistake in the first place, and if the error is pointed out, they don't seem to care. It's become uncool to ever correct anyone's spelling or grammar - as long as the intended meaning can somehow be deciphered, that seems to be sufficient. I do some professional editing, and I've often been told "Why change it - it gets the message across". I live near the Princes Highway, which is so often misspelled - and mispronounced - "Princess" Highway - by the locals, and in websites and ads. If they paid me for the amount of time I spend cringing and weeping, I'd be a millionaire. And American spelling is starting to dominate. We've always used "practice" as a noun and "practise" as a verb, but the Americans for some strange reason have reversed this. I see you wrote "defense", whereas the Aussie way is still "defence" (I'm not having a go at you, just noticing what's happening). Then there's SMS, which has resulted in many people now writing abbreviated SMS-code in contexts where it's completely inappropriate. Anyway, enough of my ranting, because if left unchecked I could go on literally forever. -- JackofOz 00:37, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Second Ostend Raid

Thankyou for your comments and support at the above successful FAC.--Jackyd101 18:34, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thank-spam

[edit] Ethiopian crash

I re-organized it with a subheading :)

I would love to find a total list of passengers AND a total list of dead. Preferably both lists would have nationalities. If the lists also had planned destinations, that would be good too (Singapore Airlines 006 lists have nationality AND origin, as the flight was SIN-TPE-LAX and crashed after takeoff for the 2nd leg) WhisperToMe 09:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Australian rules football

I've left a few comments on this FAC - hope they help. — H₂O —  09:38, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Qantas

I understand you are dedicated and all but how long does this last the FAC? Sparrowman980 06:44, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

If you are unsure if an article meets one of the speedy deletion criteria, it's better not to be bold and use another method instead. I'd recommend AFD so more people than just the deleting admin would have input in the process. Speedy deletion is only for clearcut cases. - Mgm|^(talk) 05:42, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Appology

I apologize. I was in a hurry... I appreciate your tolerance though.--Getoar (talk) 04:24, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A O E 3

No problem. I think it would be deleted under either one. Also, don't forget to sign your comments. KnightLago (talk) 01:15, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brisbane meetup

Brisbane Meetup Next: In Discussion Last: February 10, 2008 This box: view • talk • edit

Delivered on behalf of Dihydrogen Monoxide. Sorry you got this later than some other people - took the lazy botop 2 days to run :) Giggabot (talk) 07:56, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Air New Zealand

Look at the route map here: [1] and do a timetable search here: [2]. Look at the press release on this page near the bottom, note that it says year-round service. [3] I think you'll find that you had trouble booking because in the off-season, the flight only operates twice a week. That can be confirmed here by doing a search: [4]. Just because you aren't able to book a direct flight does not mean it doesn't exist. Zeus1234 (talk) 06:26, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE:Huggle Whitelist

The huggle whitelist is the whitelist of users that the relatively new anti-vandalism application Huggle uses. If you're on it, that means huggle will ignore all edits that you do, assuming that, because you're whitelisted, you won't vandalize. Therefore there's nothing bad about being on it (or off it, for that matter). Calvin 1998 ^(t-c) 00:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

How did you find out you were on this whitelist? Ideally, whatever you saw that informed you of this should also have contained some link explaining what it means. If the link is not there, then we should fix that if possible. Since Wikipedia is a do it yourself project (and probably the world's largest one), we need to make everything on Wikipedia as self-explanatory as possible. --Teratornis (talk) 04:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Brisbane meetup invitation

Brisbane Meetup Next: In Discussion Last: February 10, 2008 This box: view • talk • edit

Hey there, you're invited to the second Brisbane Meetup. Please see the page at Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/2 for more details. Hope to see you there!

Automated message delivered by Giggabot (stop!) to Wikipedians in Queensland and known Brisbaneites, at 04:02, 7 June 2008 (UTC).