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[edit] Appropriate categorisation - should there be 'Category:Schools in city'

moved to Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#Appropriate_categorisation_-_should_there_be_.27Category:Schools_in_city.27

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Trumpet Calls

Hi, seeking input to help answer a question about this featured picture nomination. I've restored this World War I Australian recruitment poster and a respondant wants to know whether it's iconic. As a Yank I have no idea whether it is or not; frankly I restored the image because there's a shortage of featured pictures for Austalian history and the fellow with the bugle looks like a hottie (grin). Plus it's in public domain. Would some editors from this project please help with background questions? DurovaCharge! 01:03, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't call it uniquely iconic. Australians don't associate themselves as machine gunners or bugle boys. As far as it promoting Australian manliness through becoming soldiers, many countries play the same cultural game. Kransky (talk) 12:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ancestry data

I am using ancestry and country of birth data for several ethnic groups, using the 2006 Census results. However one editor has taken grave exception to this practice for Chilean Australian. While I have added caveats for the ABS statistics, my opponent insists on using a student's essay, with rather dodgy figures, instead. Please view the debate and provide your opinions on Talk:Chilean Australian Kransky (talk) 12:28, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Resolved. Matilda talk 23:20, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Criminals & Sex Offenders

On the Patrick Power (Australian) article, I removed the category [[Category:Australian rapists]], because as far as I know he was never convicted of that offence. However, should he be in the other category - [[Category:Australian convicted child sex offenders]] ? The guy was convicted for possessing child porn, so maybe that comes under the second category.

Also, what's happening with the Template:Australian_criminals? I notice it has been removed from a number of crime articles recently, such as Glenn Wheatley, Rodney Adler and Alan Bond (businessman). Is there any policy about who does or doesn't get the infobox? Shouldn't the policy be that if the person is convicted of the crime, they get the infobox? Lester 22:56, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Any ideas on Patrick Power's category? Lester 00:28, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
He is currently classed as an Australian Criminal. If you really want a sub cat instead why not Category:Australian sex offenders? --Matilda talk 00:32, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, Matilda. I missed that category, and will add it to the article. However, the Australian Crime template only lists rapists, and not the other offenders. Lester 09:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
A rapist is a sex offender. Perhaps the category hierarchy needs tweaking if that particular template is to stay. -- Longhair\talk 11:26, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I've replaced rapist with sex offender within the template. The template lists only top level criminal classifications, therefore you can access the rapist category by following the trail from the sex offender category onwards. -- Longhair\talk 11:30, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Brand new Wikipedia:WikiProject Demographics of Australia - need some hlp in the set up

Hi Further to the discussion at WP:AWNB I have started Wikipedia:WikiProject Demographics of Australia. I need some help with some of the set up to make it a sub-project of this one and to introduce article talk page tags so we can then track quality and importance ... Thanks --Matilda talk 01:29, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I've been at it and created what I think you're after. Should the Indigenous WikiProject become a sub-project of the new Demographics project? -- Longhair\talk 11:42, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
There is overlap, the Indigenous WP relates but is broader covering culture (music, language ...), history, archaeology .... IMO no. Paul foord (talk) 02:00, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Satyr

Have you replaced User:SatyrTN's User:SatyrBot? We at WP:CHICAGO are looking for a replacement since he is no longer active. Please respond at my talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:47, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Student Life articles

I have merged Student Life New Zealand into Student Life (university ministry), and plan to do the same with Student Life Australia. The article they are being merged into seems to lack notability too, as I have indicated with the template, and might itself be merged into the apparently notable Campus Crusade for Christ. Nobody seems to be watching them, and they were all created by one-edit wonders, so I need some more feedback. Maybe I should take them to AFD (even though the content is technically being merged) to get some? Richard001 (talk) 03:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security

The National Archives of Australia has released the records of the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security under the 30 year rule.[1] There is more than enough material to spin this off from Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and Australian Secret Intelligence Service into a new article. 59.167.57.197 (talk) 08:44, 27 May 2008 (UTC)