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Wikibreak

{{wikibreak}} No access to Misplaced Pages until Wednesday. Hesperian 21:37, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm back. Hesperian 03:50, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Have a nice break. Thanks for your emails. I will try to be less rude about the gentleman in question now that I know he is come amongst us. Adam 00:30, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Manning Clark photo

This is the best I have seen. Quite possibly MCH would give us permission to use it if we asked, but that probably won't satisfy the photonazis. Anyway, if you want to upload it and argue fair use, please do. I have taken a vow of abstinence from photo-wars in the interests of my blood-pressure. Adam 01:33, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

List

Hi, I saw this neat list; does the geoscience database keep information on habitation? --Peta 03:37, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• Oh well. Thanks. --Peta 03:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Joe

Can you think of a nicer looking format for the verses? -- I@n 00:47, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

From memory Ian Elliot was quite annoyed that the Mahogany Creek people (fourth or firth last owners) claimed that Joe had been one time resident there. He had found no evidence in his research, but they claimed otherwise. I do think there might be room for some of the "created" folklore about the figure.

The Toodyay tourist info had two sep titles on sale (from memory) - they clearly like the idea that there might be more than one idea on the fellow!

Good to see you guys take the literalist view on the hungry ones - I always thought i had seen 'Horgans hungry six' rather than 'the hungry six' - but then the memory does funny things. SatuSuro 01:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Easton affair, et al

Dear Mr Gobble I posted this at http://en.wikipedia.org/WP:AUP, I strongly feel these articles and links were created with malicious intent, containing unverified opinion and innuendo.

• This is to advise wikipedians with an interest WA politics that I tried to change the Carmen Lawrence biog. article from a unverified Easton afffair rant. For example List of Australian political scandals contained ] with more libel at Richard Court etc. But I am new here, so criticism of my approach would be welcome.--Fred.e 00:15, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

I would appreciate your comment if you find a moment. --Fred.e 01:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your Welcome

Hi mate, thanks for the welcome. Watching your work was one of the reasons I joined. Callophylla 01:36, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Tempting fate

I think the latest item at moondyne (good one dont you think?) or his old talk page might be on the way to sorting a problem. SatuSuro 03:05, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

the sockpuppet

thanks for re-posting the sp case - i really didn't know what to do with it, as it'd been posted but archived. stuff started up again as you've seen, and i wanted to know whether i should start a 2nd evidence page and so on, and it kinda went in the too hard basket. will be great to simply resolve the issue. Dibo | Talk | Contribs 04:05, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Ahah Dibo, compose away. That does not change the fact that you spend all your time waiting around to see what edit you can change EVEN though you contribute almost nothing to that article. Your bias is quite poignant and who was the folk that changed Roy Masters football coach to Roy Masters rl coach? Read any article and it is called football by the players and coaches and people etc. but because a shallow media wants to "internationalise" Sydney's sports in some elitist bourgeois orgy, those sections have changed the reference of soccer to football. That does not mean wikipedia should. Gobbler, what have I ever done to yoy? Look into it by all means 05:34, 13 October 2006 (UTC)~__--__

Moon

I've sent you an email -- I@n 04:41, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I think he's User:61.8.3.2. My mistake. -- I@n 04:54, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

List of homesteads in Western Australia

Hi Drew,

I wrote a small program in LabVIEW to convert the latitudes and longitudes listed in the article to a linked coordinates using the coor dm template.

Out of the two alternatives below, I chose the second one. If you prefer the first one, let me know and I can change it.

Option One:

Option Two:

Took about 15 minutes... HOWEVER! I've just noticed that everything from Old Erivilla down isn't including the template properly... is there a limit on the number of transclusions? any suggestions? In the meantime, I'll revert the article. - Gobeirne 05:43, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Western Australia -- Economy "revert to IP"

I'll accept your rv -- I do understand the "good faith" bit, but I thought the condensation was just a bit too much, removing interesting information. Well, it interests me, anyway  :) I have no idea who wrote the paragraph. Gordon | Talk, 13 October 2006 @13:26 UTC

Maps

The big problem is - is it possible to create a new one that acknowledges the earlier one as a base - I am not sure of copyright and mapsSatuSuro 01:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Username

Thankyou for that info. I've reapplied and see you have also (what happened to the alternate "SG" name?). I nearly didn't because I felt the name had been sullied, but really liked my new choice so, bugger it, I say. Here's to new personas! -- I@n 13:12, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Best of luck with it, may it serve you well! - good classical roots! SatuSuro 13:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

As requested, I have renamed you as Hesperian. You should now move your userpages to the new name, and might consider recreating a user with this name and requesting that an admin block it, to prevent impersonation. Oh, and thanks for passing on the information to I@n, who is now Moondyne! Warofdreams talk 18:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Nice name, but all those sockpupets wont be able to find you now ;-P

Commons

Talk about a head spin its been proposed at VP that a featured gallery type system be developed and now they dont want all the subjects images to be put in the same gallery. Gnangarra 00:42, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

An interesting developement, though I wonder why consensus was not first needed to change the policy http://commons.wikimedia.org/Commons_talk:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life#Policy_amendments_reverted ... Gnangarra 13:56, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

yeah it'll be wasted commenting now, it's not even worth asking him to restore all those edits he performed implementing the policy Gnangarra 00:23, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Oz Lit in West Oz

Good point you make - I suppose the more obscure but neverthess notable (you should hear Bill Grono go on about Lilian Wooster Greaves - he has every copy of hers, I have only one or two) deserve not necessarrily separate articles - but they can be easily tracked from the LISWA/Battye catalogue and clumped together within a few more general articles I would say. SatuSuro 12:02, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Challenge

Do tell. (PS I like your new ID much better). Adam 05:10, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

IP addr's

HI Drew these IP addresses are putting the same advertising on perth pages can something be done besides reverts User:202.173.207.237, User:202.173.207.44 06:09, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Looks like the user is User:Perthmetro per linksearch. I'll drop a note on his talk page. — Moondyne 10:24, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Stirling, Western Australia

I was a bit surprised when I saw that "Stirling, Western Australia" had been moved to "City of Stirling". The only two situations in which you would move "xxx, Western Australia" to "City of xxx" are if;

• The council name is not that of a particular suburb (City of Swan, Western Australia)
• There are two seperate articles for suburb and council (Melville, Western Australia and City of Melville, Western Australia).

Also, the article should have been moved to City of Stirling, Western Australia; I did move it to that, however.

If there are other examples of "xxx, Western Australia" being moved to "City of xxx" when the situation does is not part of the above criteria, please let me know of these. Thanks--M W Johnson 12:47, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up. I'd move it back to Stirling, Western Australia, but it appears that all the moving and redirecting have created quite a situation--M W Johnson 13:23, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

OK; so Local government area articles don't require the Western Australia bit by that logic. That means if I go and move all the articles on local governments to "City of xxx" rather than "City of xxx, Western Australaia", I'll be following the naming convention. --M W Johnson 03:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

EF

For a laugh, take a break and turn on the Einstein factor tonight....cheers Cas Liber 08:16, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

The banksia questions were from when I went on two years ago, this time I did Horned Dinosaurs (Ceratopsia) which I practiced for by editing wikipedia (and got me into this whole craze..)Cas Liber 11:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

1987 Americas Cup

For the likes of me I have some memory of you doing an article but I cant find it! Is my memory going completely, or... theres no link to the main ac art if there is. SatuSuro 01:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

OOps! it was way 79 that you did -apologies- I'm suprised no one has done 87 ac as a sep art SatuSuro 01:30, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Out of the blue - have you seen anything on toxic plants/poison plants of wa on wiki yet? SatuSuro 03:17, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

not as yet but there are enough of them. Gnangarra 03:29, 24 October 2006 (UTC) - sneaky bugger, there I was in a long essay about my things about them and we get an edit conflict and you jump in :) Hi ! SatuSuro 03:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh well Hesperian/Gnangarra - I do have quite a bit about poison plants of south west oz - it is not a pleasant sstory, but complicated history involving gardner and bennetts (of what I have stuff on due to being family friend etc) and the 87 cup - if you guys dont start it - i have stuff on that too! . - I'm off in a few minutes, so have a good day - whatever you get up to! SatuSuro

Bennetts as in Eleanor? Probably the way to go is to get hold of the toxic plants of WA book, and work through it creating articles. Then add history stuff per Gardner, Bennetts, Drummond later. Hesperian 03:42, 24 October 2006 (UTC) H.W. ag dept vet - did groundbreaking arts on what was killing the sheep in beverley - hes on the hero boards at the showground RAS building, and online adb - good mate of my father in 50's and 60's. Thanks for your suggestion - have a good day! im off like the proverrbial SatuSuro 03:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Wild Goose Help

Hi Hesperian, Nice name BTW. How do I link to your wiki source copies of JBOR`s poems, I would like to add "Flying Dutchman" and "Old school clock" as links. Cheers Ghostieguide 01:17, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Hoax?

I suspect the the article on DYN today "Sybil Grant" is a hoax, take a look.Ghostieguide 07:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

..for cleaning up Snotty....Looks like I am getting a lot of TLC lately...Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:34, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Stirling

Ah oops :) Sorry about that! Thanks for fixing it up. I finally figured out what was going on and have now substituted City of Stirling in the template and in all suburbs previously linking to what is now the suburb page. Orderinchaos78 04:37, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Maybe - just maybe there is an article needed to delineate aspects of spatial terminology in the west oz legal entity to direct the bright sparks the next time they try? Java and Java (Island) etc has started again, like politicians kissing babies I suppose, its too tempting to those who come across previous time wasters, sigh. SatuSuro 03:33, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Viz all this City and Java are all the rage at the moment - and I havent caught up with who I said would yet - my apologies. Will try to get organised this week! SatuSuro 03:25, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Could you be so kind to look at the talk page of a friend of mine? I have emailed his username as I think it needs checking when harrassment occurs SatuSuro 09:40, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

User blocked before for sneaky vandalism doing it again

This user user:Steveng75 was attempting to do sneak vandalism on George W. Bush. He did a similar tactic on John Howard which you blocked him for. Obviously he doesn't take your advice and continues to do it. ViriiK 22:09, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

As for

Matthew Flinders - someone is doing something very sneaky - I thought I had done a rvv and it has me putting in vndlsm? Dont understand SatuSuro 06:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)