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Frenchs Forest, New South Wales

Hi Michelle, Cam Nancarrow lived in FF next door to me in Gladys Ave. Inclusion only requires that:

he is notable (squash champion) 
at some point lived in the suburb. He did.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DJGB (talk • contribs) 23:35, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Manly Sea Eagles - Ongoing Edits

I've got a condensed history now in the History page, but am taking on the suggestions of others adapting the style of the Eastern Suburbs page into the Manly content.

Please note that major changes do take time, especially when this task is far from my major lifes concern. I'd suggest you not bother looking through the Manly page for another couple of weeks, thus providing a suitable timeframe for the various amendments to be incorporated.

Your suggestion with the banner was much appreciated. Could you please suggest a more suitable banner for use over a longer period of time, to prevent ad-hoc amendments on items which were already likely to be changed/removed at a later date. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manly1124 (talk • contribs) 09:00, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

University of Canberra

Hi Michelle - just wondering why you are making edits to the University of Canberra - wondering what your relationship to us is - as we're trying to update our content but it keeps being changed - and we're not sure why. Thanks, tiffking2615.

University of Canberra is trying to update its content to reflect that of other Universities, such as the University of Western Australia. Why aren't we being allowed to do this? Why can't we match other Australian universities in terms of style and content? Why are we being treated differently? Why can't we include links like other Australian Universities? — Preceding unsigned comment added by tiffking2615 (talk • contribs) 23:59, 3 August, 2007 (UTC)

Brisbane meetup

	Brisbane Meetup v t e Next: To be decided (watch) Last: Saturday 13 January 2018
See also: Australian events listed at Wikimedia.org.au (or on Facebook)

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) 07:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Your work on Cardiff

		The Editor's Barnstar
		Just a little token of appreciation on your recent editing work on Cardiff, especially catching all the Cruftiness, Peacockisms and unreferenced sections that were littering the article. Diolch am fawr! B e t t i a 11:21, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Neutral Bay, New South Wales

Don't you think it would be better to look for some references to add to existing articles, rather than just deleting information that is important to articles? J Bar (talk) 05:34, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Cardiff

Whilst I understand and appreciate your work on Cardiff, please watch out for editing content that may actually be encyclopaedic, such as, in my opinion, your recent edit to Cardiff's air section. It's common and acceptable to show transport links to/from a city's airport. Thanks Welshleprechaun (talk) 13:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Marseille

Please refrain from tagging actual encyclopedic content: to describe the section devoted to the ancient monuments and customs of Marseille as "reading like an advertisement" is simply a lazy comment, particularly when there are careful references to information on these monuments and the associated customs. Your edits were unhelpful, unconstructive and seemed simply to express your personal point of view. Please use the talk pages to discuss content in future. Mathsci (talk) 23:25, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

No, Michellecrisp, as mentioned above the particular tagging of a section was intellectually lazy and disruptive editing: when you tagged the section, you should have explained yourself on the talk page, as is normal on WP. If you have no special knowledge of French or France, why not avoid pages covered by wikiproject France? Mathsci (talk) 08:00, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

What you have written on my talk page is incorrect. I do not own the page and all recent changes to the article have been made with consensus. Please desist from wikilawyering unless you have some constructive suggestions to make. Reading sources for Marseille does indeed require a working knowledge of French. Please take a moment or two to find out about wikiproject France: it is involved with transferring information from the French WP to this one. A previous version of the page on Marseille had a direct translation of a publicity article on the Marseille Opera, which was removed. Your tag would have applied there. However, finding out details about the recent restoration of the 12th century churches of St Laurent and St Catherine does require some effort. Likewise finding free images for the gallery is non-trivial. Unless you have an intimate knowledge of Marseille or French, it might be advisable for you to stop calling such information or the details of the Candelmas vigil "an advertisement". I have no idea what you could mean and how else this information could be expressed. Your refusal to discuss these matters on the talk page of Marseille helps in no way. FWIW I work in Marseille, employed by the French State, and speak fluent French (although at present I'm here in the UK giving a graduate course). Mathsci (talk) 10:14, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

It seems that you have little or nothing to add to the article on Marseille. With knowledge of neither Marseille nor French, why continue with the comments you are making? It seems that you are a rather inexperienced editor. (This is a specific comment on you, not on any other editor.) Editing articles on Marseille obviously requires a working knowledge of French: it is extremely foolish to suggest that this is not the case. Other people have corrected the Marseille article, particularly the history section, and they have done so by adding or changing content with careful justification on the talk page. You have still not said why the factual information on the various churches, museums and ancient monuments reads like an advertisement. Which advertisement? Australian towns do not have hellenic remains or early Christian sites: does it annoy you that European towns occupied since 6,000 BC should list and describe such sites? Perhaps you consider it unfair to the antipodes? I am merely here trying to probe what might have induced you to add your initial tag that you resolutely refuse to justify. Since you are criticizing sourced and reliable information with no further comment, it seems that you are actually just trolling/wikilawyering. If you are unwilling to add carefully reasoned comments on the talk page of Marseille, please stop trolling. Mathsci (talk) 23:45, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

City of Thuringowa talk page comment

Hi sorry but i realy need to point htis out to you as i guess you missed where i said it on the page, i added the info (that i re-worded from another editor) and had a ref to use but the page was down, so i went saved the info so that i could look for other verifiable sources to add, and after i had found them i went back to the page to add the 2 good ref's only to find that it had been deleted, so can you not be like the other editors and jump in so quick before i have time to finish what it is that i am doing, thanks . Thuringowacityrep (talk) 07:34, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Sydney suburbs

Hi Michelle. I've noticed your comments to JBar about the refs. in the Sydney suburbs articles. I agree that the refs. are generally inadequate, but we're working on it. Some of us are going through the articles steadily, putting refs. in. It'll take a while, but we're getting there.

Sardaka (talk) 08:56, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Ingleburn

As a resident of Ingleburn, I am perplexed as to why you thought it was in your great wisdom to conclude that the statement on the Ingleburn page was vandalism.

The comment re: bogan population is factual and of a neutral point of view since there are no accompanying statements suggesting that this is either a good or bad thing. As a resident of the suburb I can attest to the factuality of the statement and I would suggest in future you check statements more thoroughly before jumping to the conclusion of vandalism.

Thankyou. —Preceding unsigned comment added by OzWoden (talk • contribs) 11:11, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Suburbs

On the matter of adding ref. from a street directory, I suppose it's true that they're not likely to be challenged, but it's just a matter of giving the articles some refs. It all helps, I hope. Are you interested in helping out? We could use all the help we can get. The people who wrote these articles -- and I'm not one of them -- did a magnificent job, when you consider the number of suburbs involved, but apparently they were a bit overwhelmed when it came to the refs. Now it's just a matter of chucking in some footnotes. It would help if I had a copy of Book of..., but the copies in the libraries are generally ref books.

Sardaka (talk) 10:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

"Crisp"

Possibly, madam (I am assuming out of courtesy that you are indeed a female), you clearly being a non-native anglophone (the eccentric and accutely odd usages on your user page speak for themselves), you are unaware of the nuances of the English language. I of course take aboard your frequent insistence that no one may contact you on your user page on pain of being reported, as you so often threaten, but surely given your frequent aggressive -- and that is what they are -- attacks on innocent other Misplaced Pages users an exception can be made. "Crisp" is surely an inappropriate pseudonym for so aggressive a stalker as yourself. Your edits are not "crisp": they are downright rude. Are you not ashamed?

Ordinarily one would simply ignore stalkers and move on but you appear to have taken on a seriously psychotic campaign of hounding certain Misplaced Pages editors and I cannot imagine why. What possible end can you be attempting to accomplish by continually threatening (but never actually following through)to "report" other innocent contributors to Misplaced Pages? It surely cannot escaped notice that your interventions are seldom constructive and that you only attack. Please advise if you think your interventions are otherwise.

You will please notice that I thus far almost invariably observe your peremptory orders that no messages be posted to you. I wonder if this is entirely in keeping with Misplaced Pages policy.Masalai (talk) 11:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)