User talk:Glen Dillon

Wanting to quickly forget my first serious stuff-up (albeit accidental) on Wikipedia, I felt compelled to send the previous contents of this page to archive-land. At least I've learned how to archive a talk page.

Don't let an almost empty page stop you from leaving a message here for me--Glen Dillon (talk) 09:01, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Dec officer eh? well youre pretty close to the mark on most of the stuff on the talk page - I had an almost country town booth - and I must say the feds are usualy better (AEC) at their stickler for detail attitude in conduct - the WAEC seems to have been caught out a bit by carps - will be very interesting to see what happens about the provisional issues - but hey off wiki talk for that - cheers SatuSuro 03:28, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

I think the stress on some DO and RO's is showing - from what I have observed in my neck of the woods - all you need is one booth/polling place to have had a major cockup - and if its in a district that is on the wire - I think the lack of backup that the waec gives these days will really see some guys want to walk away from the mess without cleaning up - and some very clever use of smoke and sand and archiving where possible :P SatuSuro 13:29, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

responding via email--Glen Dillon (talk) 13:38, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

signature test --Glen Dillon 02:05, 9 September 2008 (UTC) test--user:Glen Dillon 02:07, 9 September 2008 (UTC) test--Glen Dillon 02:08, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Nah youre doin fine aint need approval from anyone - youre one of us now no big deal - just make sure you put it up at the wa project page to let us know youve started it and our fine troop of tweakers can give it a once over - hy very important art - thanks for starting it (ex seismic processor speaking here) SatuSuro 13:52, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Cats are important to give a sense of what oyu know you are doing - at least Category:Petroleum stubs and western australia - cn do with hot cat which you can enable in your pref if you look SatuSuro 14:09, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

ok. I had enabled that sometime ago and but I've only used it when uploading images on Commons. So by clicking at the bottom of an existing page and selecting a category and clicking the 'tick', that action then adds the article to the category for all to see, huh? So modifying an article's category parameters is kind of pseudo-editing then? One other thing - I added the article to the new artcle list as you suggested but it didn't seem approporiate to sign my post because it was list. Gone back to look and a bot has signed my post but something 'doesn't look right'. Does the template code 'hide' the signature in such sections? like Sorry to be a bother! GlenDillon 14:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Dont be so bloody polite - hey we dont sign at new arts - i went in and cleaned up - gnangarra and moondyne will look at yours and mine (vegetation publications) - my thing is that to get through aggressive recent change patrollers you need to have more than one ref - some categories (stubcats are always the best when starting an art) - the tags at the back tying it into a project (my bias as i have tagged thousands) - and anything that might ward off geographically challenged oggle obsessed humourless nerds - so regional or national contexts always important for places - broader subjects - tie in the whole state stuff - broad categories (Western australia) and cites and refs - and links with others arts SatuSuro 14:35, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Bravo!

Your first barnstar. Awarded to Glen Dillon in recognition of his excellent contributions relating to the petroleum industry in WA. Moondyne 14:55, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Bravo! The first wikipedia rule for new and good faith contributors is Be Bold!. There's virtually nothing that can't be undone and you're going fine. Sats' asked me to comment re the tie-in's, but I'm not too worried about that at this time. We have so few articles with good content, they can easily be merged later if necessary. Economy of Western Australia is my bug bear but I just can't get myself motivated enough to jump in and finish it. Feel free if you'd like to make a contribution (please).

As for tagging your own articles, I do it all the time. Its technically not the done thing but as long as you stay fairly conservative there's not going to be any problem. A typical small garden variety WA article is tagged like this:

{{WP Australia|class=stub|importance=low|WA=yes|WA-importance=low}}. The ratings are subjective but you'll feel your way around I'm sure.

Sing out if you need a hand, or someone is always around at WT:WA. Moondyne 14:48, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Awesome! Thought something like that might've have been a year away...even though I don't know that it is deserved, I accept it graciously and I'll do my best to keep contributing not only on petroleum but WA-related articles generally. Appreciated enormously and same goes for the support generally from you and the other 3/4 WA editors I've connected/collaborated with so far (and they know who they are!). Its been fun. Cheers.GlenDillon 15:26, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

A well deserved barnstart as i call em - possibly the use of a sub page might be a good idea (I await a moondyne contradiction on this :) where you create most of the extra stuff with the headings on a sub page of your user page - if you look at the bottom of moondynes or i contribs pages the system now identifies our sub pages - (all you need is to expand the heading parts on that - keeping the main space article clean until you add the stuff with the text - just a suggestion - cheers SatuSuro 01:35, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Just a quick note - welcome to Wikiproject WA! :) Somno (talk) 03:23, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

re: last two posts above - thanks. Good advice re: headers and creating a 'working copy' which I've now done. Even before seeing your post I thought 'gotta get rid of all those headers' - apart from wanting to keep within conventions for new articles, I thought that it would be offputting to potential editors seeing the article as it stood. It's one thing for me to have ideas for the page but it 'aint MY page' & not up to me to prescribe the structure for others which is an impression some might have formed already! Somno: -thanks- just noticed from your contribs. the article on Varanus incident. pretty comprehensive treatment. Will read it in detail tonight & work up a two-sentence summary & linkback from the petroleum articleGlenDillon 07:34, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

I work on articles in a subpage or offline in a text or Word file - I second (or "third") the suggestion to do that with the headings you're still working on. Feel free to improve the gas crisis article - there are parts that need updating, and it needs a better lead section! Haha, just thought I'd add that as Moondyne's already added a plea for the Economy of WA article - all trying to shorten our to-do lists! If you don't have a to-do list yet, don't worry, you'll have one soon enough... Then you can just ignore it, like I do with mine most of the time. ;) Somno (talk) 10:09, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

When you have thousands of loose threads like me to do lists get in the way :) SatuSuro 10:13, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Sandgropers

In all my life I've never seen one (as far as I know). I understood that they were fairly difficult to find and lived most of the time underground. I suppose that I should make a point of rectifying this. Moondyne 12:49, 15 September 2008 (UTC)