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[edit] Welcome to WP:Sydney

Just thought I'd say HI! and please have a look at the suburb pages, and the highway / road pages, and PARTICIPATE! --Garrie 22:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Westfield Hurstville

Hi There are articles for quite a few Westfileds around Sydney - check out Category:Shopping centres in Australia, Category:Shopping centres in New South Wales, Category:Shopping centres in Sydney. Is there something that could go in the article for Westfield Hurstville that would help it stand out from the other Westfields in Sydney - and try to stay away from issues that will date unless you can write them in a way that doesn't become dated (such as, "it's the biggest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere" vs "when built in 2002, Westfield Hurstville was the biggest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere An online reference"). If you are making these kind of claims please cite a source!

Categories are an easy way to avoid your page being marked as an orphan, and an easy place for other editors to find your article so they can link it to either existing or new articles.

By the way - all the shopping centres in Sydney should only be in Category:Shopping centres in Sydney, if you feel like moving some of them out of Category:Shopping centres in Australia... --Garrie 23:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

A bit more but this time it's a semi-rant:
Please see my suggestion that All Westfields are the same, and my proposed new article, Westfields in Australia.
--Garrie 05:32, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bus companies / route information

Hi, I don't want to be in edit wars regarding bus route information. But could you please include a commentary along with any list, regarding who/what/where/why/when for the bus routes - who is serviced, why and when does change depending upon the routes. It can be a single paragraph at the top of the list. Along the lines of "XX operate N bus routes between Suburb1 and Suburb2." A sentence to identify are these links to a cityrail station, or direct to commuters destinations would help to provide context for the article, as would information regarding when the routes commenced or were taken over.

BusLink#Routes is a short example of what I mean - it needs expansion.

In my opinion if you don't provide a secondary reference a list of bus routes is either a copyvio or it is original research. If nobody else other than the bus company and STA have written about the bus routes they probably aren't notable enough to be on the article. As I said I'm not looking for an edit war, however if the information is to be on the article I would like to see commentary as well. Garrie 05:42, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

You wrote
I don't want this section of the article to go the way of Sydney bus routes 100-199, which was deleted ..
That is what I am getting at when I say, put the list of routes in a human context as providing identified services to a specific group of people (school kids? work commuters? shoppers?).
  • LISTS OF SERVICES are going up to AfD and being deleted.
  • Articles describing bus services are going up to AfD and being kept.
Garrie 23:51, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Re BusLink article - that's pretty much what I had in mind. A narative offering context for the list which follows. Think of the list as being the detailed information in a report - a lot of readers will want to be able to pick up the jist of it without reading the whole list to find that "most of the routes commence from the same place". Garrie 22:29, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Iron Cove Bridge

Hey What's New? (Like your user name btw). I noticed you added a picture of Iron Cove Bridge today. Have you considered uploading this and your other images to Wikimedia Commons. I have added a number of other Iron Cove Bridge pictures to the Commons:Rozelle, New South Wales page and it may be worth doing the same so there is a central repository for them. If you need a hand doing this, just let me know. --10:47, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy birthday

I wish you a very happy birth day, and all the best! --Bhadani 03:15, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

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I second what Bhadani said! -- P.B. Pilhet / Talk 20:32, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] License tagging for Image:Evans Bridge.JPG

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I have replied on the user's talk page --Whats new? 06:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Thanks for the great review

I am glad you had considered my review as a good advice. Keep it up! -- ReyBrujo 02:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bathurst railway station, New South Wales

Thanks for the quick turnaround on providing a category. The article looks well-written, though be aware that there is some ongoing controversy in certain areas of Wikipedia as to whether or not railway stations are notable enough for individual articles (see WP:NOT under "Wikipedia is not a directory" for more). However, I've definitely been seeing many railway station articles appear around Wikipedia, so this may have been discussed in more detail somewhere else, I'm not sure. Also, I couldn't tell where any of the information in your article came from? I've added the {{originalresearch}} tag for now, but if you can supply some sources to a "References" section on the article, so that it also complies with the policy on Wikipedia:Verifiability, feel free to then remove the tag. Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions.  :) --Elonka 18:11, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd simply ignore the above. There is a long-standing consensus that train stations are notable, and all such articles have received keep results if nominated for deletion (at least that I can remember) since at least 2003. Elonka disagrees; that's her prerogative, but she actually needs to get a consensus if she wants to change the status quo. The article is well-written, and I'm absolutely sure it would survive any deletion attempt. Rebecca 23:13, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

No worries about the edit - I figure it should keep the "non-notable" people away from the article for a while -it has more references than Central station now! I think it's about time all listed CountryLink stations got their own article - Victoria, and also the UK have one for every operational country station, so I don't know why we can't. JROBBO 08:28, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Iron Cove Bridge

Believe it or not, we were writing about the second bridge at the same time. I have merged our two contributions together - hope you are OK with the result. amitch 10:16, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sydney Morning Herald Wikipedia story

I work at The Sydney Morning Herald and one of our journalists, Tim Elliott, is doing a feature story on Wikipedia and would love to talk to anybody who contributes, edits or administers Wikipedia, especailly those who are part of the Sydney Wiki community. His contact is 02 9282 1926 or 0419 370 651 or telliott@smh.com.au

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Angela Bell (angela26)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Gogostop.jpg

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[edit] Notability guideline being developed for malls

You have recently commented on AfDs for Shopping Malls. Please see WP:MALL where there is an ongoing attempt to create a guideline for which malls are deserving of articles. Your thoughts are appreciated. Thanks! Edison 07:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shell Australia

Thanks for your feedback. I did see the Shell Canada reference. It is a moot point whether a company 78% owned by Royal Dutch Shell can be termed a "Canadian oil company". In the case of Australia, I'm not 100% sure there is an entity termed Shell Australia anymore, but suffice to say the operations of Shell in Australia are 100% governed by Royal Dutch Shell. It is a case these days of Royal Dutch Shell having some operations in Australia, being its "upstream" operations like North West Shelf gas production, and "downstream" operations such as its refineries and the retail network (the latter being largely operated through Coles Express). To that end, Shell's activities in Australia are not particularly distinctive from its other operations elsewhere in the world, so I don't believe a separate reference is required. Cheers Murtoa 10:27, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hello

hi i would like to know how much is this item?

                                Thank You
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[edit] Jimbo is coming to Sydney

Sorry to spam you if you aren't interested. See Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#April 25th for more info if you are interested. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:LA Ice Cola.JPG

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[edit] Sean Berry (journalist)

Hi, I noticed who created this so the fact I recognise you is the only reason I haven't tagged this for a speedy. Your stub is reasonable, but you haven't attempted to assert notability for Sean. Fair enough, he's a TV journo so he's on television. That doesn't make him notable, it just makes him potentially well known.

Has he done anything apart from his basic job yet? (WP:BIO doesn't just say "someone who is on TV every day")

It would be even better if any references you use to assert notability are independent of Channel 7 - otherwise it is just self-promotion.

Happy to discuss further at my talk page, but could you please add some form of notability for the article? Garrie 05:55, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] First Edit

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[edit] Re:Tram maps

Hi, regarding your question, I took the PDF files of the Sydney Buses region maps, used Acrobat to remove the bus routes and other stuff, then drew the tram routes in and saved it as a JPEG I think. Hope this helps. Quaidy 11:46, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

You need the full Adobe Acrobat software, not just the Adobe Acrobat Reader.Quaidy 04:14, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] AfD nomination of Sean Berry (journalist)

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[edit] Eastern Trams

Sorry mate but your latest eastern trams JPEG seems to be corrupt —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.101.149.175 (talk) 06:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)