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W. Herbert Phillipps
Me again! Do you have anything on these residences? ... "Lyndhurst" in Somerton (the nearby Tarlton Road and Phillipps Street, Somerton Park may be named for him.) and "Craigmellan" at Gilberton.Doug butler (talk) 22:50, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
- Not much yet, though when I was looking for stuff about The Briars, I came across page 3 of Heritage Plan Amendment Reports, Walkerville News, April-June 2007, The Corporation of the Town of Walkerville, so it won't be long before I'm looking at Edwin Terrace, Gilberton! Pdfpdf (talk) 02:33, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
- Drove past there yesterday, and again today. Very impressive! (A bit like Victoria Ave, Hyde Park, but older and without the traffic.) Pdfpdf (talk) 11:08, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Urrbrae
Another diversion: Urrbrae, originally Urr Brae, was built by Robert MacGeorge (whose daughter Eliza married F. H. Faulding) sometime before 1850.Doug butler (talk) 17:41, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
- LOL. Oh dear me. Adelaide is a small town, isn't it ...
- (I've been messing around with Oz mathematicians, Essendine and Category:Stuart expedition (1861-1862) this week.) Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 02:12, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Category:Mayors of Toowoomba with fur
Sorry, I meant possum, in German the is same word for possum and opossum. But it is definively no mink, to long hair, other colour of the ground hair than the upper hair. But thank you for help. --Kürschner (talk) 17:11, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
F A Chapman didn't seem to warrant an article, but have started page on the company he worked for for 50 years, and Oakbank Brewery to which it is related. Quite interesting and a long way to go. Any contribution would be welcome.
- OK, I'll have a look. However, as you can see from the top of this page, my list of active articles is becoming unmanageable and now contains articles I haven't touched for months.
BTW Oliver Young was nicknamed "Cocky". Any idea what his deformity might have been? Hunchback perhaps? Doug butler (talk) 02:06, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
- I haven't been able to find anything useful - he seems to be rather "low profile". e.g. The only mention of him I have found between his departure from Adelaide and his death, is the family's visit to England. Pdfpdf (talk) 01:55, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Moved to Talk:6 star rank Pdfpdf (talk) 00:37, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Comment on your reversion of my edit to to South Australia
Hi Pdfpdf, I see that you have reverted my effort to improve the earlier edit by Shurlocksam86 (which you had also reverted). No skin off my nose really, I was just trying to do the kid a favour by adding the additional reference, based on my experience of having worked for 10 years in the ABS 20-odd years ago (with two years spent in the Publications Section, where I had to proof-read the SA Yearbook as well as all the other State office publications, including Labour Force). I certainly have no interest in trying to write an encyclopaedic article on the economy of South Australia - my interests lie elsewhere and there are too many other calls on my limited time. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 16:30, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
- Greetings Bahudhara. Your improvements are appreciated, but as I have said several times, the raw material (although accurate and well cited) was out of place and out of context. You improved the situation notably by putting the comment in an appropriate section of the article. However, I gather you agree that reporting one quarterly statistic from over a hundred years history, and probably at least 200 quarters of statistics, is not encyclopaedic. It's unfortunate that you don't have the interest to write it - it would appear that you are more than "well qualified" to do so. Perhaps we can ask you to review it if it ever does get written? Again, thanks for your contributions. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 23:12, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Another change of mind. I reckon this page would be better titled "Bean Brothers" or possibly "Bean Brothers Ltd". If you concur, could you please do the move? Doug butler (talk) 14:06, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello again. I saw you created the above article and thought you might be interested in this little navbox. Perhaps the basic laws of the various territories could be added (assuming they have any such thing). -- LordVetinari (talk) 07:02, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
- G'day! Thanks for that. I found it hard to believe that "South Australian Constitution" was still a red link, but your navbox provides the explanation!! Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 07:10, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hi! I've been thinking about the John Lavington Bonython article. At the moment, especially with all the subheadings, the article isn't really about John Lavington Bonython so much as his family - more time is spent discussing each of his children then is spent discussing him. :) This seems a bit off balance, but I'm not sure of the best fix. However, looking at them, it seems that Elizabeth Bonython may be important enough to warrant her own article, especialy as she has a CBE. Do you think it is viable to spin her out into her own article, which would leave just Ada and Katherine as only redirects? Given that neither of them stands out, we could then kill their redirects and reduce the focus on all of the children to just a line on each, drop the subheadings, and let their articles explain their relevant histories? - Bilby (talk) 07:43, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
- I should add, Lady Bonython would also warrant her own article. :) - Bilby (talk) 07:45, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
- At the moment, especially with all the subheadings, the article isn't really about John Lavington Bonython so much as his family - Agreed. I'm working on expanding it.
- At the moment I'm beefing up Keith Wilson - I have at last found a brief bio at http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4925297
- This seems a bit off balance - Agreed. I'm working on expanding it.
- it seems that Elizabeth Bonython may be important enough to warrant her own article, especialy as she has a CBE. - Yes, either that or a joint article with Keith Wilson - I think I prefer two articles, but I'll get Keith finished first.
- which would leave just Ada and Katherine as only redirects? - No, Lady Jean is still a redirect, too.
- Given that neither of them stands out - Given that they were Bonythons, I wouldn't be to surprised to find them worthy of their own articles, so let's hold off on them until we've got the other four kids and Lady Jean sorted out.
- I should add, Lady Bonython would also warrant her own article. :) - Perhaps two! (She was as least as active as Lady Wilson) Pdfpdf (talk) 08:11, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Parsons
Thanks for helping with the Herbert Angas Parsons page, I felt that it was long overdue for him and his father to get articles.Bodrugan (talk) 15:28, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
- No worries. Anybody who "spent many hours at the Adelaide Club, preferring its convivial atmosphere to his wife's Methodism" can't be all bad ... Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 01:45, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Page move
- I admit it - I'm confused ...
Hi. Regarding your move
- (Move log); 17:47 . . Bearcat (Talk | contribs) moved Sortname2 to User:Pdfpdf/Sortname2 [redirect suppressed] (sandbox pages belong in sandbox space)
I thought that had already been done. i.e.
- 22:59, 24 March 2011 (diff | hist) N User:Pdfpdf/Sortname2 (sandbox)
- (Deletion log); 23:16 . . JohnCD (Talk | contribs) deleted "Template:Sortname2" (G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page)
I can't work out what's going on. Can you? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 08:14, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
- The page I moved wasn't sitting at the title Template:Sortname2 — it was at Sortname2 with no prefix. Bearcat (talk) 08:17, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
- Riiight. So now I'm even more confused. How/when did Sortname2 get created? There's nothing in my http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pdfpdf referring to Sortname2 ... Pdfpdf (talk) 08:24, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
- When a page gets moved, all of the edits to that page in your contribution history "move" to the new page title too. According to the edit histories, though, you created the deleted template at 12:25, then db-tagged it at 12:28, and then created the page I moved at 12:29 — so my best guess would be that most likely you intended to create it in sandbox space but something went wrong and it got saved at the plain title "sortname2" for some reason. Bearcat (talk) 08:33, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
- That's logical. Thanks for sorting that out. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 08:35, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
- When a page gets moved, all of the edits to that page in your contribution history "move" to the new page title too. According to the edit histories, though, you created the deleted template at 12:25, then db-tagged it at 12:28, and then created the page I moved at 12:29 — so my best guess would be that most likely you intended to create it in sandbox space but something went wrong and it got saved at the plain title "sortname2" for some reason. Bearcat (talk) 08:33, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
- Riiight. So now I'm even more confused. How/when did Sortname2 get created? There's nothing in my http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pdfpdf referring to Sortname2 ... Pdfpdf (talk) 08:24, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Military ranks template
I'm interested in your POV. If the template is not going to contain every sub-rank of Admiral/General/Air marshal, then to me it seems inconsistent to include LtCol, LCdr, Sub-Lt and 2Lt. Your thoughts? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 01:26, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
- To be honest I am not totally against expanding out the star officer ranks but I am happy to go with the consensus which appears to have been against it. The reason why both Lt-Col/Col and Cdr/Lt-Cdr need to be expanded out is because otherwise the generic equivalences would not be clear. I.e. Col = Capt = Gp Capt but Lt-Col != Lt-Capt !=Lt-Gp Capt (fictional ranks used for illustration). It this were the case then the entire Lt-Col, Lt-Capt, Lt-Gp Capt row could be eliminated. Greenshed (talk) 13:54, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'm ambivalent about what's in and what's out, but I'm a little pedantic about consistency. Yes, I agree that an "entire Lt-Col, Lt-Capt, Lt-Gp Capt row could be eliminated". However, although Admiral & General are 4*, Air Marshal is 3*. I guess I should take it up on the talk page. But perhaps not - there are more interesting things to do! Cheers, and thanks for your time, Pdfpdf (talk) 00:39, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
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Major and linkspam
Hello Pdfpdf! I don't really care if the link stays or goes, but I don't want someone trying to abuse Wikipedia to achieve his wish. Would you mind to share your thoughts? --ElComandanteChe (talk) 21:42, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
- Hmmm. A well presented, well argued and convincing line of reasoning. OK. I agree. Pdfpdf (talk) 01:43, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for the kind words, you've made my day :) --ElComandanteChe (talk) 12:44, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
I apologize if I was unclear in my edit summary when I cleaned up the AO disambiguation page yesterday. It seems you may have mistook my phrasing to mean that I only intended to remove entries that did not appear to be referred to as "AO", and that the rest of my edits were in error, and you took it upon yourself to undo those latter changes. I assure you that the entirety of my cleanup was to bring the page closer in line with the Manual of Style guideline at WP:MOSDAB, and so I have reinstated my other revisions, unless or until you wish to express disagreement with my application of Wikipedia guidelines. Thank you. 63.104.174.146 (talk) 18:30, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
- I really love the irony that you undid my changes with the one-word explanation "However", and then you accuse me of providing no rationale for my edits beyond WP:I don't like it. Do you see the irony there? Can I spell it out further for you? 63.104.174.146 (talk) 16:18, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Do whatever you like, but do it on the article talk page please.Pdfpdf (talk) 16:22, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- The content of the disambiguation page is a separate issue from your stunning rudeness in how you've chosen to address the matter so far. This seemed a better venue to address the latter. 63.104.174.146 (talk) 20:19, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Do whatever you like, but do it on the article talk page please.Pdfpdf (talk) 16:22, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
My bad
Sorry about the ADL ADF mix-up. Thank you for catching it. Jnast1 (talk) 21:37, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Yattalunga
Hi. I was wondering if you might be able to help with this. If you can't do you have any suggestions of where else I can search. Thank you. LordVetinari (talk) 04:47, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Rear admiral
Lol! You can always trust us Wikipedians to spend more time arguing about titles that content! Actually military practice I gather is to use "Rear Admiral" when referring to an individual and "rear admirals" when referring to them generically or collectively. But of course if the latter begins a sentence you get "Rear admirals are very senior naval officers". Ideally Wikipedia should enable full lower case so that e.g. "Ford" and "ford" were different articles, but that's a big software and cultural change! --Bermicourt (talk) 16:37, 11 April 2011 (UTC)