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– Anthøny 18:22, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject Australia newsletter

WikiProject Australia newsletter Issue 2, Volume 1 — January 1, 2008

Welcome! WikiProject Australia is a WikiProject, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. This newsletter exists simply to notify Australian Wikipedians of ongoing events within the project and relating to Australia on Wikipedia. Australian Wikimedia chapter Wikimedia chapters are independent organisations run by Wikimedians to further promote the Wikimedia projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, and to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". This means that we in the chapter can promote Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis and their contributor's work in our area. Currently, a chapter for Australia is in discussion. If you're interested in helping the Wikimedia Foundation in more ways than just creating articles, and by promoting Wikipedia and other projects so people can start to read your work and become contributors, then consider adding yourself to the interested participants list at www.wikimedia.org.au Th e proposed chapter also has an IRC channel on the freenode network: join #wikimedia-au next time you are online. The seventh IRC meeting for Wikimedia Australia will also be held in this channel at 8 pm (AEDT-UTC+11) on January 6 (WA at 6pm, SA at 7:30pm and QLD at 7pm). For more information, visit this page. Recent happenings 2007 has been an excellent year for WikiProject Australia and its members – a sudden rise in article quality (see "Quality watch"), more article collaboration, portal creation, gap-filling article creation, image requests fulfilled, newsletter writing and award awarding. Success! A sudden surge in new Portals took place late in the year, with numerous new portals being created and later being promoted to featured status, the best a young portal can get. Among the portals currently being worked on are: South Australia, New South Wales, Australian cars, Music of Australia, Powderfinger, Queensland, with portals for a lot of other topics to come very soon in the new year. Portals and "topics" go hand in hand (not really), and many within the project and throughout Wikipedia aspire to achieve featured topic status for a particular topic. Goals to promote all capital cities to featured status, and among others, a Powderfinger featured topic, and a featured topic on The Invincibles cricket team. It's for sure that 2008 will be filled with Aussie pride, so hang in there with those flags, everyone! Especially on Australia Day, *hints surprises* :) Of course, writing featured articles and making up clever hooks for use on "Did you know" isn't the only way to contribute. Many users contribute day-in, day-out, maintaining the project and portals, tagging and assessing articles, making suggestions at featured article candidacies, coordinating collaborations within the project, responding to peer reviews, save valid articles in deletion debates, in short, the stuff that if not done, will cause the whole project as we know it to slowly deteroriate. Many users who don't qualify for awards like Durova's Triple Crown award, qualify for others. Moondyne recognised the users who work tirelessly every day to make sure that every thing is running smoothly by introducing a new award – the Drover's Award. Initiated in December, eight users have already received an award that is set to become a prestigious award for all Australia-related topic editors; SatuSuro, Longhair, Spebi, Moondyne, Grahamec, Mattinbgn and ScottDavis and more are sure to be awarded. If you know of any users who work tirelessly behind the scenes and have not yet been recognised for their greatly appreciated efforts, award them the Drover's Award. More users have been awarded Durova's Triple Crown award for WikiProjects. This award was given to WikiProject Australia after 5 users who qualified for Durova's standard crown (one DYK, GA, FA). New recipients include Matilda, Moondyne, Mattinbgn, VirtualSteve, Gnangarra, RaNdOm26, and Thebainer. If you believe you qualify, leave a note at Durova's talk page. Recent events Jan 6: The seventh IRC channel meeting will take place on the freenode network at 8 pm (AEDT – UTC+11) in #wikimedia-au. See this page for more information. Dec 26: One hundred Australia-related articles have been promoted to good article status. Dec 20-31: New portals are created, old ones are revamped, some are promoted and others are soon to be among them. Nov 15: "1967 in Australia" has been chosen as Wikipedia's Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight. Main page Talk Notice board Portal Articles Current collaboration Complete to-do Article quality FA GA Subprojects Miscellanous Newsletter discussion This month's newsletter was written by Spebi and published by BrownBot. If you wish to stop receiving it, receive it in a different format, or submit items for consideration next month, see our co-ordination page. Issue 2, Volume 1, January 2008. See newsletter archive for previous issues, or view this issue directly. Newly-promoted content Good articles Ian Craig Brian Booth Young Modern TISM The Chaser APEC pranks These Days: Live in Concert "These Days" Bill Brown Angels Brought Me Here Evermore (band) 2 Hearts Parables for Wooden Ears Omphalotus nidiformis 1947 Sydney hailstorm "Sunsets" Wagiman language Percy Henn Kylie (album) Vulture Street Caulfield Grammar School Avondale Agricultural Research Station Jack Marsh Odyssey Number Five Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994-2000 Featured articles Riverina Internationalist (album) Red-winged Fairy-wren Removed articles The Ashes Recent collaborations 1967 in Australia Media Watch Cabinet of Australia Australia Day Sydney Norfolk Island Quality watch 2007 saw a major feat for WikiProject Australia: one hundred articles were promoted to good article status. This is huge not only for the project's individual members and those who helped achieved such an impressive statistic, but for the whole of Wikipedia. Everyone involved has given readers from all around the world a chance to learn about Australia and relevant topics from the best of sources available on the Internet. A huge congratulations to all involved. And congratulations to Underneath-it-All, who wrote "2 Hearts", which passed as a good article, officially making him WikiProject Australia's "Good Article Centurian" and the article the one hundredth Australia-related article to be promoted to good article status at any one time. Speaking of statistics nearing the number 100, WikiProject Australia has also seen an increase of the number of articles being promoted to featured article status. In November last year, seven articles were promoted, earning the month its official title of "Featured article month" of WikiProject Australia, and making it the month with the highest featured article achievement. Viva la featured article revolution! Also seeing some activity were featured portals – many have already been promoted, and a wave of excellently-crafted ones hitting our shores very soon. End of year statistics Here are some statistics for WikiProject Australia produced by Blnguyen and his Assessment Monkey of 2007's good article and featured article promotions. Summing it up: 71 featured articles, and 106 good articles. Australia-related featured article production Australia-related good article production

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:RMIT University logo.png)

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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 21:54, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

You are now an administrator

Congratulations, I have just closed your RfA as successful and made you an administrator. Take a look at the administrators' how-to guide and the administrators' reading list if you haven't read those already. Also, the practice exercises at the new admin school may be useful. If you have any questions drop me a message at my talk page. Best wishes, WjBscribe 23:25, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Wow, clean sweep! Well done dude! As I said, you're one of the folk I already thought was an admin! --rm 'w avu 02:42, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

No, thank you for becoming an admin. It's not a big deal, as Jimbo puts it, but it's an important piece in the puzzle. I notice you do lots of work on Aussie articles. I do lots of stuff over at WP:FING, the Powderfinger WP. If you're interested, we could always use an extra pair of hands (we do alright, though... as a project, we account for more GAs and FAs than any other project of its size in all of Wikipedia). --rm 'w avu 03:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

• Well done!! --VS ^talk 11:18, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Well done! The very best of luck. Rudget. 18:54, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Just a few words

Congratulations on your recent acquisition of the mop. I offer to you a few words of wisdom:

• Start slowly and carefully. There's a huge temptation to start flying through your new duties as soon as the 'crat pushes the button - resist it. Avoid close calls for your first week or two, and leave it to those who happened to get their tools a little earlier than you.
• Be sure to connect in with other users on IRC, if you can. There's a whole pool of channels there where you can get assistance in your newly-acquired buttons, and get your new colleagues used to your name.
• Be ready for criticism in your first few weeks, but at the same time don't be a push-over. If you feel worried over a decision, get another user to take a look at it.
• When blocking, ask yourself if everything you've entered into that form will benefit Wikipedia: is the block length sufficiently long to prevent further disruption by a vandal, or is it so long that it will put them off ever returning? Is your protection just going to be a minor hiccup in the edit warrior's grand scheme of disruption, or will it hinder the growth of the encyclopedia?

Best of luck with your new buttons, and don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries.

Anthøny 18:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Congrats

Congrats on your adminship, and thank you for the assistance at Paddy Reilly (disambiguation)! --Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 03:56, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

1996 in Australian television

Congratulations on your adminship!

I apologize if I am wrong about this, but I believe that a recent article on Australian television is not encyclopedic enough to be included in Wikipedia. I apologize for placing a speedy deletion tag on the article. Perhaps it would have been better to have placed a deletion tag instead. However the pages do not contain an article and are in fact, trivia lists. The pages would really fit if they were written in an article form, and if the article specified their notability. Otherwise I believe that the articles are not notable enough.

I believe this article in not encyclopedic. I base this on WP:NOT#STATS under Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Please correct me if this does not fall under said category. Also note User:Moonriddengirl's comments at [[1]]. Thank you for your time.

Closing AfDs

Hi Canley, just a reminder when closing AfDs, please remember to substitute the "Afd top" and "Afd bottom" templates (WP:DELPRO). I've fixed the Tumalip AfD, could you check back all your past closures to make sure everything is in order? Thank you, - PeaceNT (talk) 11:59, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. If you plan on doing this stuff more often, you may consider using this helpful user script (just to reduce the bane of admin work). Congrats on your recent promotion, also. Take care and happy mopping, - PeaceNT (talk) 12:18, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion

Actually I did the right thing. Look at how the article was when I tagged it. Now you're right, its not.Ohmpandya (Talk to Me...) 03:10, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

William Todd Mason

Thanks for your messages. I wish I'd seen that so as I could have used the right speedy first time! No apology needed, of course. Would you have a moment to compare the deleted and recreated versions, please? Cheers, --AndrewHowse (talk) 01:45, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Was Curious if I could get some clarification on the deletion of this article. There was plenty of sourcing and references, but internal and external to prove notability. I had seen the first version and it was admittedly much more sparse than this, and thus, I tried to create a new version after its initial deletion so that it fell in line with all the rules. What was your big drive on getting rid of it?--kstjames (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 04:25, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Dubay Cup

Now I saw, already exists another link called "Dubai Cup", so, can you, my friend, delete this created by me? This is unnecessary. Or can you merger this "Dubai cup" with "Dubai Cup" created by another Wikipedist, leaving as top redirect link "Dubai Cup" (the word Cup uppercase)? I have some kind of obsession for perfection. I think it is Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), hehehe. Thank you, Canley. Evandro Davis (talk) 02:04, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Robert Kaplow

Looks like you and I are becoming frequent correspondents tonight/this morning! Anyway, I was going by extension of WP:NFF; the movie is failing at AfD and so that seemed like a poor basis for defending his notability. I think 'optioned by' must be quite a way short of 'attached to'. I'll send it to AfD in a while. Cheers, --AndrewHowse (talk) 02:50, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Dubai Cup

Thank you, Canley. I correct the links from Dubai Challenge Cup 2007 and Dubai Challenge Cup 2008. You are a good guy!

Obrigado. Evandro Davis (talk) 00:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

idea?

Let's form a small RFA class of 9. These are admin who became admin at about the same time. John Carter, Jeepday, Rudget, Jayron32, Archtransit, Appraiser, Kbthompson, Canley, J-stan. It would just be a friendly support group or like a school class. No administrative tasks needed, just know each other so if we need an opinion or want to discuss something, we'll be there for each other. Archtransit (talk) 19:19, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Willow Creek Pass (Montana) Deletion Review

Hi Canley. I'm not asking you to change your mind about your closing of the AfD on Willow Creek Pass (Montana). It was a call that could go either way, and whichever way it went I would go for a DRV because there appears to be a strong feel in some areas of the community that all features on maps should have stand alone articles, even though there is no guideline or wider "official" consensus supporting that view. A deletion review of whichever decision a closing admin made, if then supported by the review, could be used in guidelines. So I am saying that I feel it appropriate that a review is done, but wanted to make sure you were OK with that, and the reasons for the review. Regards SilkTork *^{What's YOUR point?} 00:14, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Cool. I'll do that tomorrow. I'm off to bed now! Good night. SilkTork *^{What's YOUR point?} 00:41, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Listed: Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Willow_Creek_Pass_.28Montana.29 SilkTork *^{What's YOUR point?} 08:26, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Centralized TV Episode Discussion

Over the past months, TV episodes have been redirected by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here [2]. Even if you have not, other opinions are needed because this issue is affecting all TV episodes in Wikipedia. --Maniwar (talk) 02:35, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:The Job cover Aug 2006.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Rimington large.jpg

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Thanks!

Thanks a lot for that input you gave on my article on Shantel, Canley! Was in a little pickle. I really appreciate it. You should check him out if you like - pretty good original stuff. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelmcandrew (talk • contribs) 14:19, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Mega City (The Matrix)

I have nominated Mega City (The Matrix), an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mega City (The Matrix). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:26, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Lingua Franca Nova AfD

Hi,

You closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lingua Franca Nova as keep.

There clearly was no consensus.

I was the nominator, so you don't have to count my arguments, but at least one user, User:Schaefer, presented well-explained reasons for deletion, backed with policy - the article does not have any non-trivial secondary sources. Other users' comments also pointed out the lack of verifiable sources.

Please reconsider this. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:34, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment regarding the AfD for Lingua Franca Nova. I stand by my decision that there was no consensus to delete the article after seven days of discussion. According to the deletion process guideline, consensus is required to delete, but in the absence of that reasonable consensus, and even in more borderline cases, the default action is to keep the article. I read all your arguments very carefully, and I agree that the references could be made better, but that's the point – they could be made better, and hopefully they will be.

If you feel strongly that the article should be deleted, and that you may be able to encourage a more satisfactory (to yourself) outcome or a clearer consensus with a reworded nomination, you are welcome to nominate the article for AfD again. If you feel I have made an incorrect decision regarding policy and consensus, youcan take this to Wikipedia:Deletion review. --Canley (talk) 12:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Can you at least write that the result was no consensus? --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC)