User talk:J Bar

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WikiProject Sydney

Join us at WikiProject Sydney, a collaborative effort to enhance wikipedia coverage of the Sydney area. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 01:04, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for your recent report at the administrators' noticeboard about a vandal user. You did an excellent job reverting the vandalism and restoring the integrity of the articles. If you encounter a similar situation again, you should do a couple of things differently.

Instead of warning a user "by hand", as you did, you should provide a formal [[WP:WARN|user warning template such as {{subst:uw-vandalism1}}, which gives you the following message:

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although we invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, at least one of your recent edit, such as the one you made to Dee Why, New South Wales]], was not constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

If the user does not stop, you can escalate to uw-vandalism2, 3, and 4, and after that you should file a report at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism to block the user. Sometimes you can start the warnings at a number higher than 1 if the vandalism is already severe for multiple edits. In rare cases it is appropriate to block vandals without any warning at all. The general advice is to use your judgment, don't bite the newcomers, and ask the administrators if you need any help (just like you did this time, though I'm actually not an administrator). Let me know if you have any questions. Shalom ^Hello 06:51, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Packed to the Rafters

A tag has been placed on Packed to the Rafters, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Realkyhick 23:30, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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AfD nomination of Packed to the Rafters

Packed to the Rafters, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Packed to the Rafters satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Packed to the Rafters and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Packed to the Rafters during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Remy B 14:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Architecture Styles

Hi. are you any sort of expert on architectural styles? Am trying to learn to recognise them but it's more complicated than I thought.Especially trying to learn Edwardian style at the moment. Do you know anything about it or books on the subject? It's not that easy to find books with pix etc that show these things. If you know any articles that need pix, let me know; I might have something. Sardaka 09:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I found a great site on Oz architectural styles, if you're interested in boning up on them: www.sydneyarchitecture.com/STYLES/search-style.htm. It has all the styles and photos of examples. Just what I was looking for.Sardaka 12:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see you took some photos in Point Piper and the surrounds. Did you get a picture of Kilmory (the large mansion on the top of the hill in Point Piper)? JRG 10:06, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spam in The Good Guys (Australia)

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West Maling

Do you know that house West Maling at Penshurst? Fabulous. I've just put a shot of it in the Federation Arch. article. Will also put it in my Sydney Architecture gallery. Are you aware of the latter? You might be able to use some of the shots some time. Feel free.

Sardaka 10:21, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Twinkle

Hello. If you upload Mozilla Firefox and then install Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Twinkle you won't have to copy and paste warnings into vandals talk pages, its automatic. It also has many other benefits. Also check out the pics in this article - Malabar Battery . Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. (talk) 09:02, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. I plan on finding more places like Malabar Battery. I know there is one at La Parouse not far from the Malabar one and there are even more at Watsons bay, Vaucluse and the Chullora Railyards that need looking into. The one at Chullora might be the most difficult to access and a night in jail if you get caught doing so, or even longer. With the Mozilla FF you can bring up an entire menu of warnings, so after reverting vandalism by an ip or user, you are automatically directed to the offenders talk page, after this you click warn at the top of the screen then select the appropriate warning for the occasion. Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. (talk) 06:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Message-

fuck off you old mull i'l fuckin find ya and terrorise ya.

Mabuhay,

--767-249ER (talk) 05:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]