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Sorry about the Sydney Harbour Bridge page. we had to make radical changes to a page for a Uni project so that we could then discuss the effectiveness of Wikipedia. Just out of interest, how do you come across people who are vandalising Wiki usually? |
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Also, I see that you made deleted the info I put up on the Edmund Rice Camps page. I am unsure of why you did this, becuase I didnt think that this was vandalism. |
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Cheers Matilda! I love the book by Roal Dahl that you are based on BTW. Spykeesam (talk) 08:10, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
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Glen Eira Councillors
Hi Matilda, thanks for your assisatnce on this. No I would like it deleted b/c semi-preotection is not permanent and vandals will always come and vandalise this article. I don't see the purpose of the article when it attracts vandalism - hence deletion is mandatory. Thanks again --CatonB (talk) 02:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
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Oz II
Henrietta http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/ and NLA http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First were my main sources for Americas Cup 83 and 87 (in moondynes sub page at moment - noted at wp oz noticeboard) if thats any help (or not) - cheers - SatuSuro 14:04, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, Thanks! Great to see you're still on Wiki. :) ATM I've moved from the Top End due to Rental costs and ATM looking for a new area to move to (Looking at Victoria ATM) but staying in my old home town for now. -- Bidgee (talk) 13:29, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
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HMS Powerful
Most likely the same ship, but unfortunately there's little I can offer to shed light on her Australian career. What the sources seem to agree on is that she was reduced to the reserve in 1904 and was a training ship by 1912. It's quite possible that in this gap she was reactivated to serve as the Australian station's flagship, but unfortunately my sources don't mention this, nor do the on-line ones I can find. But this shouldn't rule out the likelihood that this is in fact what happened, but rather a gap in the sources. Kind regards, Benea (talk) 16:14, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks. I was out getting more photos in the City and have only just got back home. Interesting to see it's a NSW Government IP who just copy and pasted everything from the NT police site. After an issue I had today just getting a photo of a building only to be stopped by NSW Police (Using some LAW banning photography which is the first I've heard of it), It really makes me wonder why I've even bothered coming back to this state! -- Bidgee (talk) 05:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for your comments. I thought WP:COI could be reported at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard Michellecrisp (talk) 00:07, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
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Noel Desmond Gray
I agree with your removal of the refimprove tag from the above article, but have replaced it with a "primary sources" tag instead. The problem with the referencing is not that there aren't any, but that most of the article is referenced by a self-published work written by the article subject and his son. This is a potentially worthwhile reference but falls short of the definition of secondary sources - hence the primary sources tag.
Not a big deal, just in case you were wondering why the tag you removed has been replaced with a different one. Euryalus (talk) 05:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- The anon IP also adds comments to Geoffrey Wickham and Telectronics. They don't seem to edit general pacemaker articles - their sole interest appears to be in promoting Noel Gray and denigrating his Telectronics colleagues. The posts breach civility guidelines and sometimes NPA but I don't consider them offensive enough to need oversight. I respect QRS's view but I think we're going well enough in slowly improving these articles that no admin action is presently required. As you said, any offensive posts get quickly removed and the anon IP doesn't post often enough to effectively disrupt the page. Euryalus (talk) 06:14, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
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Matilda, the image used was cropped from an image in "Telectronics - The Early Years",as the copy of the original is badly scratched, so I have deleted it. The use of the image was inserted as a hopeful but misplaced effort - it was hoped that Gray Jnr would have appreciated having an image inserted.QRS (talk) 22:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Matida, Thanks for your understanding. The image "Geoffrey Wickham" is my own photography, taken on my front verandah in 2004. If you would be so kind as to remedy the Commons page I would appreciate greatly - I thought I'd filled-in all the details correctly.Do not spend your time deleting names and comments from early edits by C Gray; it's no doubt a time consuming & complex procedure. I took the liberty of xxx'ing the names in some of the recent edits - perhaps doing such is not strictly correct, I'm unsure.I recognise that my edits to Noel Desmond Gray, Telectronics & Nucleus Limited may conflict with Wikipedia policy. I was never an employee of either company, but worked in a close relationship with both in research so have a first hand knowledge of who did what and wish to see history accurately recorded. Kind regards QRS (talk) 01:20, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
== Hi Matilda who are you and what do you know in conflict with Chris Gray who was an employee of Telectronics from inception? If you were not an employee of Telectronic how do you know anything above Noel Gray the Managing Director? TUVWXYZ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.164.111.40 (talk • contribs) 6 May 2008
Hi in response to this. I do not know that I am in conflict with anyone over the Noel Gray article other than ensuring that wikipedia policies of verifiability and no original research are adhered to. I do this by ensuring that all statements can be sourced to reliable sources and that those sources do not express a conflict of interest . All my knowledge on Noel Gray comes only from reliable sources and also some obituary articles which are not quite as reliable as I would like in the sense that they of course show a bias. I am not an employee of Telectronics, never have been, never benefited from any of their products - I am an outsider! I have no axe to grind.--Matilda talk 10:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
OK well you should know that all the media stories about Telectronics are full of misleading lies writen by journalists relying on information provided to them by Trainor, Wickham, and Jeffcoat. At no time was Noel Gray interviewed by a journalist who published an article. The conclusion of this fact is that all published material about Telectronics is unreliable when it relates to the contribution of Noel Gray (Managing Director and founding Chairman) and his family. It is sad that Geoffrey Wickham is obsessed with demeaning Noel Gray and his seminal role at Telectronics and now slandering his son. To say that sucess has many fathers failure none is a truism and it applies here. To edit Noel Gray's page in the disparaging way that it has been by Wickham and QRS (whom I suggest is not a cardio thoracic surgeon but is in fact Jeffcoat) is ingratitude at it's ugly best. The articles that you at W wish to use are ok to use but you should acknowledge that there has been a great injustice done by them in not atributing some acknowledgement of Noel Gray and his family for there sacrifice and loyalty to the man who created the company from his vision to make Australia's first sucessfull high-tech medical electronics company. (XYZ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.164.10.3 (talk) 09:38, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Red links
Dont let me start on that - it leaves it open to hoaxes and a few other issues - I honestly think they should not be on a list unless there is a linking article - but have left my comment will leave it for the moment - its a serious issue in the indonesian project where the list thing and red links causes some grief for the prject SatuSuro 02:33, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
My sincerest apologies - if I came over friday grumpy abut the red link list - somehow in the near future I will have to face the inevitable wrath of the ad hoc indonesian speaking and not native english speaking adders of red links to lists in the Indonesian project - and by any standard I'm gonna get a whallop for sure - I am sorry If I seemed to intimidate you on this - having been involved in a few quieter projects where red links are never touched at all or developed - I remain unconvinced about follow up - I cannot even follow up on my own inadequate stubs created in my sporadic editing :( SatuSuro 07:48, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
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Your thoughts needed.
Hi Matilda. I removed links which I feel break WP:ELNO (one site has a lot of advertising with popups and also a external wiki) which was added [1] by the User:Daniel99091 who also reverted with out a reason [2]. I wanting to see whether if I'm in the wrong or if we (Myself and Daniel99091) are both are. -- Bidgee (talk) 07:59, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hesp and adam - how could i have forgotten to mention :) SatuSuro 05:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
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G'day. I will contest the PROD for the Gympie Pyramid on the grounds that several well known authors, such as Gavin Menzies make references to the Pyramid in their books. I completely agree that the "Pyramid" does not exist, but some people believe it does and thus having an article about it that debunks it is important. I'll do some more work on it now. Gillyweed (talk) 23:19, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- What do you think with the rewrite? Okay? Cheers, Gillyweed (talk) 23:30, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Regarding Tall Poppy Syndrome
Firstly, I would like to say thank you Matilda, for the welcome and the helpful advice. When first reading the article, it did not make much sense to me. I was not aware of the international English grammatical differences and I'll be aware of that next time I'm making an edit. If I ever have a question in the future on editing or creating an article, I would definitely appreciate your help, considering I'm rather new to the etiquette of Wikipedia. However, I feel confident currently, and look forward to contributing to Wikipedia! Thank you again, Blank Noise (talk) 03:10, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
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The Anon returned again today adding the same attack as last time [3]. I just hope this anon isn't going to be like the Gundagai anon/editor.
PS. Thanks for the reply with the Underbelly links question :) -- Bidgee (talk) 10:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
African Australians
Hi Matilda. I don't think our positions are all that far apart. I agree at the moment the article has elements of WP:SYNTH in it and needs a major rewrite. However I do think a valid article can be written on the topic and the issues on content dealt with outside the deletion process. If it used as an umbrella term then the content can reflect that.
Perhaps deletion without prejudice to recreation should someone be interested in writing a valid stub would be a compromise? -- Mattinbgn\talk 05:34, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- Good, now how do we convince others? :-) -Cheers, Mattinbgn\talk 05:40, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- <edit conflict>Sorry butting in....What I ask is that the copyvio(Afro-Australian) gets speedy deleted as such by an independent admin, the article African Australian be deleted without prejudice. Gnangarra 18:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC) was what I said in the DRV nomination. I think we are all close to some agreement, suggest maybe a deletion then create a stub saying;
- There is no clear definition of what constitutes being an "African Australian", the term could encompass people as disparate as Caribbean British, African Americans or Cape Malays who with an African upbringing or family background have chosen Australia as their new home. The Australian Bureau of Statistics records people according to their birthplace and their self-described ancestry, although aggregated data for Africa is split between "Sub-Saharan" and "North Africa and the Middle East". Gnangarra 06:03, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- further comment with a hidden comment at the end of the article requesting a reliably sourced definition be provided, prior to any further expansion. Gnangarra 06:08, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Quants
I have clarified on User talk:Mattinbgn talk page... Please allow me to write articles on other quants...Jacknote (talk) 08:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Yeah they are mentioned only in passing (everybody wants to not mention failure, you see...) But they were the first quants and these guys were famous on the street for being very rich and for getting insane bonuses (not to mention the mystique they carried, They used pHD level maths which very few people at that time understood.....It gave them a 'exotic' air...)
Personally I don't beleve in this notability bullshit, what is notable for you might not be notable for me and vice-versa, what I'm trying to say is that notability of a person is entirely subjective and trying to define notabilty in rigid objective terms is a pointless excercise........
Also, there's little point in writing articles if it immediately gets deleted.
I don't think it is impractical to include them on the articles of the firms they work simply because they are so many.....I can remember four or five and there must be more...... Awaiting your reply-Jacknote (talk) 06:18, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, thanks....I get ur point and understand what the articles were missing (now at least).....mattingbn sent me an article that according to him was a quality article --> Myron Scholes. I understand now and I hope to be making a rewrite soon....Thanks for being so patient
P.S- sorry for the late reply...I had problems with my internet Jacknote (talk) 06:25, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Matilda and thanks for cleaning up the Narooma, New South Wales article. You just beat me to it! Cheers, Mattinbgn\talk 23:47, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
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I had a kind and helpful message from you in 2006 and found you are an administrator of Wikipedia. May I have some questions about images in Wikipedia articles?
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Re Talk: Noel Desmond Gray
Hello Matilda. I have tried to relocate (from the top of the page to the proper place at the bottom) the unsigned edit of 30th April by 203.164.10.40, "Why Noel...etc", but couldn't achieve it. I'm not lazy, just could not find the clues in several hrs of searching Wikipedia's pages. Could you please give me a clue on where to find the proper procedure? For your research info, the photo of the P1 pacer which I inserted into the article Telectronics Pty Ltd is of exactly the same first model as shown on the Powerhouse Museum's display board (but on the board is incorrectly dated as 1963 not 1964). It was certainly not produced in the 1950's by Noel as inferred by Chris Gray in his edit. Thank you for your patience with this subject.QRS (talk) 08:24, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
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Gawd - i realise having added nugnle bungle it should have been place no towns - any objections to the change (again) sigh ? SatuSuro 07:38, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Re - your message - I thought I was coming in on an issue that had baggage with it :( - tricky I have stuff on watch but cannot dablle in all of it unfortunately - I have not yet learned to trilocate or bilocate for that matter - one of my javanese fieldwork subjects (long since passed away and an inhabitant of my research site) was thought to have bilocated while he was still mortal - half his luck - perhaps SatuSuro 09:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
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I have balanced out discussion on Chilean Australian so go to the talkpage and view my comments please. Thankyou TeePee-20.7 (talk) 16:26, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Chilean-Australian. Resolution sought
ATTN: PelleSmith, Pippu d'angelo, Itsmejudith, Blnguyen, Angusmclellan, SQL, Matilda, Ned Scott and AussieLegend
I think it is in all our interests that we resolve the debate on the cited number of Chilean-Australians.
TeePee and myself have presented our arguments and rebuttals for some days now.
I thank you for your attention to the issues, and especially for bearing with us in this challenging debate. While I can not speak for TeePee, I would assume he is equally grateful.
But now is the time to get this debate finally finished.
I have drafted a comprimise version here (15:58, 17 May 2008 ) which provides references to the Jupp 2001 estimate and the ABS 2006 ancestry estimate, with caveats attached which explain their respective difficiencies.
Now I respectfully ask if you could pass judgement on my text for this version, with a support or oppose provided on Talk:Chilean Australian. If you have not responded by 20 May I will presume you have elected not to take part.
I myself, and I would hope and expect TeePee, will abide by your ruling.
Thank you. Kransky (talk) 16:32, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- "Although I do think it is in all our interest that we resolve the debate, I still think there are some issues needed to be addressed. I am equally as grateful as Kransky for all your time and effort but do not agree with his revision especially since it still contains information which has been referenced by an invalid reference which has been the major issues I have had with him throughout the whole history of this article. My version here provides references to the Embassy 2006 estimate and the ABS 2006 ancestory estimate. I respectfully ask you view my edit first as I asked first and tell me what problems you have with it before viewing Kransky's revision. (This was the terms I agreed to Kransky before promising I would not revert your revision, as you did not respect my request and want your revision to be viewed first I do not see why I should respect your request and let the article remain in it's current revision especially since you have provided that invalid reference which you have been doing for months). Thankyou TeePee-20.7 (talk) 17:28, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Good work on tidying the page. It makes it a LOT easier to follow the conversation. Now, if only you could do something about making certain comments easier to understand. ;-) --AussieLegend (talk) 00:52, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
No you will not! You have no right bulllying me with threats just because you choose not to read everything.
- ''You would not find my comments unclear had you taken the time to read them thoroughly: No you have not quite evident in you continued claims that the reference was provided by Nadine the intern and not the Embassy. I obviously do need to quote myself! "The ABS statistics are quite clearly provided and included in the revision which I have been reverting to. If you saw my comment on Talk:Geography, Talk:Australi and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chile, you would see this "I am not referring to the essay written by the intern who was at the Chilean Embassy. I am referring to the data published by the Chilean Embassy on their website! There is no indication that the intern provided this information as she is not credited to it on the page but Kransky fails to fathom this.". She wrote the paper on "An Investigation of Latin American Migration to Australia" and then you can see underneath that summary of her paper, links to her whole paper and appendixes. Then there are two new section provided by the Chilean Embassy not the intern. The following quote is provided by the website: The 2001 distribution of this population by State and Territory revealed the largest numbers were situated in New South Wales with 12 630, followed by Victoria with 6670, Queensland with 1310 and Western Australia with 1220. Adding to this second and third generation Chileans living in Australia, we arrive at a Chilean-Australian population of around 45 000 persons. it is not provided by her and you can verify this by reading her full paper. The data provided by the Embassy does not conflict with the ABS data and provides futher information. I have only kept the revision which is best from both worlds in that it clearly provides the ABS data and also the Embassy of Chile to Australia's data. Also if you read the dispute you can see what data I am opposed to Kransky adding, data which is unreferenced. Simple. TeePee-20.7 (talk) 15:21, 16 May 2008". I am not assuming bad faith at all I am merely stating was has already happened, this is the past and is not bad faith as it already happened numerous times. "Your edits seem to me to quite frequently not meet the guideline" this statement is a statement of bad faith and is against Wikipedia policy - see Wikipedia:No personal attacks and the guideline Wikipedia:Assume good faith.
- you missing keypoints to my argument" is exactly because of the full quote "you missing keypoints to my argument is what happens when you do not make sure you aquaint yourself with the full facts.". This has nothing to do with me and is entirely on you. You are also breaching civility by saying "You have also not listened to others and just ploughed on and made edits" I have quite clearly listened to others in that I have relied to every user with every comment they left on the talkpage! I have also incorporated any newly found information such as "residents" into my further revisions and you are once again going against policy by assuming bad faith. You are also displaying an arrogant attitude with "I also just happen to disagree with you and I think I can state quite fairly that I am a much more experienced editor than you are when it comes to Wikipedia policies about reliable sources", this has no relevance whatsoever and you are once again displaying you have chosen to comment based on editor and not the information and points I am raising. Moreover, it is not an issue of me believing you, it's an issue of you all commenting before becoming aware of the full facts by need I say once more not thoroughly reading what was discussed. Once again you are assuming bad faith. Again you have breached civility "But you even you confess that you hadn't even got around to reading the guidelines and policies before entering into the debate". I did not confess to this at all I only said I had not read the policy and guidline at the particular time of me commenting as it was 5am in the morning and this is the sacrifices I was making for you editors in posting my replies after I had gotten back from my real life. This is not to say I have not read them in the past, I was merely re-reading them to make certain the Embassy was a unreliable source, which I found to be incorrect as there is nothing to suggest this. I suggest you do the same and re-read the policy and guideline for yourself as you seem not to understand. Once again I challenge you with respect to the guideline on reliable sources - see WP:RS - how doesn't the Embassy of Chile in Australia meet that guideline? - quote me some words from that guideline to substantiate your claim.
- Yes I do understand do you not understand how to read - "but now you know for sure that an expert who is the most reliable source in every sense of the word is agreeing with the Embassy's estimates" - my replies I have been posting.
- There is no indication the Embassy is not a RS per reading of the policy, the estimate and methodolgy is further supported by Jeff Jupp's own estimate, and moreover they qualify the figure as they state:
"Adding to this second and third generation Chileans living in Australia, the total Chilean-Australian population is around 45,000 persons."
- As per my reply to him at 15:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC): I'm sorry if I come across ungrateful or disrespectful about Matilda finding that reference. But it has the exact same issues that the Embassy's figure has. I did not need this reference Matilda provided to convince me of the number of Chilean Australians as I was well aware that 45,000 is correct as seems you Pippu, Itsmejudith and maybe PelleSmith of this fact. About the only thing this reference does is explain it simpler in less formal language by using the word "children". The embassy does the exact same thing except it says "second and third generation". If people will just realise the Embassy has provided this and not the intern which I have already said in my replies, then there would be no issues as the Embassy's information does not conflict with the ABS data at all and instead quoting Itsmejudith, "adds another dimension". The reason for the 5,000 number difference is the reference provided by matilda was published in 2001 where as the Embassy published their data in 2006, something else which I alluded to in my previous comment. At least now all this other people who don't understand will have an easier time understanding as there are now two valid references saying the same things.
- I can indeed read but I find your excessive comments (review the edit history and see how many times you have contributed) unclear - I regard this as commenting on contributors and not content and thus breaching guidelines. I think in fact you will find that Pippu actually does agree with me more than you three I made mention of. As he aknowledges the data to be provided by the Embassy, and it being very realistic especially since it is now supported by Jeff Jupp's own estimate. Yes, PelleSmith had the same problem with understanding that the information was infact supplied by the Embassy and not the intern, but now he has aknowledged his misunderstanding something which you three I made mention of have still failed to do. I have already provided to his comments so go read them.
- I do not need to learn how to cite properly there is nothing wrong with my citation. Once again I do not need to just because you three say I do doesn't mean I don't! This comment on me also once again breached civility. So once again read and thoroughly and there will be no problems. If you don't understand let one of your people explain to you, go and ask PelleSmith.
- You need to learn how to read properly and thoroughly and not have such a quick tongue in this matters - sorry but the person who does not read properly and and has a quick tongue, needs to study every aspect of this dispute before commenting and making themselves sound ignorant.
At this point I have to say that I find your editing disruptive. For example every edit you have made where you do not understand the information is provided by the Embassy and not Nadine the intern, so if not all your comment the great majority. You have actually reached consensus on the talk page - ie all but a majority - based on your limited knowledge on the matter. You have supported a revision with many flaws which I have already pointed out, and it is only you, PelleSmith, AussieLegend and of course Kransky who provided the flaw-full revision you were supporting. Pippu said he would not vote (and then you go and say he says he supports, even though he specifically said he wouldn't), I have yet to hear from Itsmejudith, Seleccione de la Vida and Confusing Manifestation showing their support for the flaw-full revision posted by Kransky in his asking of support. Even if you all agreed upon it, does not mean you are right and majority does not rule! You can't simply brush this under the carpet and be done with it, it has to be dealt with in the appropriate manner. You are not the owner of this article and have no right in thinking that way. This article is still open to discussion and I feel my revision is much better then the once provided by Kransky in his wishing to close discussions on this page to get his way. And if abuse your power by blocking me for your own fault in not thoroughly reading all facts in this subject I will make sure you get you Administrator privileges removed and have appropriate discipline brought upon you. I have not made disruptive edits to this article and in fact have only contributed to improve it. If you choose to disregard this and behave inappropriately you will suffer the consequences for your own actions. TeePee-20.7 (talk) 07:39, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
You added Pippu in to support you own agenda!
Even after he clearly makes this comment "I'll be honest, I'm not going to vote because everything we need to finish off this debate is actually all sitting there before our very eyes. πιππίνυ δ - (dica) 05:46, 18 May 2008 (UTC) "
This is a breach of Wikipedia:Civility as you delibrately violated dot point 9 and 10 and you being an Administrator should be well aware of this! You are not doing yourself any favours Matilda. TeePee-20.7 (talk) 07:45, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Do not warn me again or you will be reported. TeePee-20.7 (talk) 07:46, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
AN/I
I've posted it on AN/I but no response from any Admins[4]. I'm starting to see double standards with me being hit with edit warring in the past yet a user who has been uncivil, not assuming good faith just to name a few isn't banned? If I get banned for saying this so be it, I'm just so frustrated! I'm getting to the point at not sticking around for a project that seems to have a different policies set by some admins for each user rather then having a policy across the board. Bidgee (talk) 20:41, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the update! :) I've been busy in between making Image:NTRoads.png and Image:The Ghan route map.png during the whole saga. Bidgee (talk) 10:27, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Clarification
I believe all 4 diffs show removal of a recently added content.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:00, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- You are quite correct it's easy when it all concerns the same piece of info. However here we have three different pieces of info removed. A good rule of thumb is to ask: if a single editor was to undue all of those four edits, would he break 3RR? If the answer is yes, the edits of the first editor can be a 3RR violation.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:13, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
3RR
Before you block me, please note that I did not break 3RR. Check yourself. Wednesday Next (talk) 21:01, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Also please note these personal attacks by User:Wfgh66. Gwen Gale (talk) 21:23, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I saw you had blocked him. I only wanted to point out the PAs in case there was an unblock request. Gwen Gale (talk) 21:31, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about the edit conflicts. I was hoping I could get a promise from Wednesday Next not to edit war in the future but another admin unblocked first. Gwen Gale (talk) 21:47, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi - Would you like to cast your eye over my comment at the bottom of their page? I think this editor was actually trying to do the right thing here, even though it looks like edit-warring at first glance. The admin who denied the RFU has said he has no objections to an unblock. Black Kite 22:02, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- As you appeared to have gone offline, and it looked as though you were amenable to a second look, I have unblocked. Thanks, Black Kite 22:23, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- Apologies; I think the problem here is that the user's "edit-warring" reverts are mixed up with their "correct" reverts - (i.e. removing the image - 3RR doesn't apply if you're enforcing policy). If they'd got to 3RR and stopped I'd have probably left them blocked, but there were only two actual "edit-warring" reverts and to be honest I'd argue that placing that reference tag was correct too; this together with the personal attacks they recieved from the other editor and the fact they've have promised not to repeat it changed my mind. Black Kite 22:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- The other editor had already been unblocked - let's see if they can play nicely. Black Kite 22:47, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- Yes agreed, but at least they are using the talkpage now. Black Kite 05:24, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Please note that this page is listed at Category:Wikipedia shortcut box first parameter needs fixing. --DRoll (talk) 05:15, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Edmund Rice Camps
Hey Matilda,
Sorry about the Sydney Harbour Bridge page. we had to make radical changes to a page for a Uni project so that we could then discuss the effectiveness of Wikipedia. Just out of interest, how do you come across people who are vandalising Wiki usually?
Also, I see that you made deleted the info I put up on the Edmund Rice Camps page. I am unsure of why you did this, becuase I didnt think that this was vandalism.
Cheers
petridish01