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In addition to my comment below, I just wanted to welcome you to Wikipedia. Be sure to check out Australian resources, like The Australia Wikiportal, Australian Wikipedians' Notice Board, Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight, New Australian Articles and Australian stub articles. Also, you can list yourself at Australian Wikipedians. Happy editing! --Cyberjunkie | Talk 16:03, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Commonwealth template

Hi Anubis. Yes, there is quite an extensive background to the issue of not only the Commonwealth Realm template, but also the Commonwealth of Nations template. Unfortunately most of the discussion regarding them is now archived or no longer active. Long story short, Astrotrain and SimonP have been engaged in a vicious cycle of adding and removing them. A while back, Astrotrain began adding the Commonwealths Realm template to all related articles and SimonP began removing both it and the already established Commonwealth of Nations template as per WikiProject Country guidelines. I saw the Commonwealth Realms template as an unnecesary duplication of the Commonwealth of Nations template, and after SimonP removed both, I and other editors returned CoN. Eventually, we at the Australia article reconciled to remove both templates and place them in relevant sub-articles (CR went to Queen of Australia and CoN to Foreign relations of Australia). It appears that Astrotrain is still popping up every now and then to re-add it to various articles. I lost track of the discussion and assumed (as you would) it had been resolved. Apparently not. Still, the issues' persistence isn't really of any great consequence in the grand scheme of Wikipedia things. Here are some links to the various places discussion has occurred: this link, in particular, shows a compilation of links to discussion; this link takes you to the template talk-page; and this link is to my entrance into the fray. Some links may no longer be current, so you'll have to refer to archives. --Cyberjunkie | Talk 15:53, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

References

Hi Anubis: Thank you for your interest in Athenaeum (band). I can think of no circumstances when it is appropriate to delete a reference. The reference was used to write the article and remains so even if that source document subsequently becomes unavailable. In this case, the reference exists on an internet archive and may be consulted there. I have edited the article to taht effect. Even were that not the case, it should remain (albeit annotated) in case some archive does make it available. This particular example was also a web version of a published paper document so at the very least, the reference to that original source should survive. —Theo (Talk) 00:13, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm..thanks Theo, OK, so I am new enough to this process that I won't argue too much. The only thing I would be concerned about is the internet is a very living thing. Yes a site might be here today, but gone tomorrow. At what point will invalid links get deleted? And if we take your approach, who is going to go around finding archived versions of the link, and how do we really know that it is the real archived version, and not a "guess" as we don't have the original to compare it with?

As a reader of Wikipedia articles, I know it annoys me that the link doesn't work. If you have some definitive (Wikipedia) guides on the subject, I'd be interested in the reading them. Thanks for setting me straight. --Anubis1975 06:35, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anubis: Inactive links to reference sources should never be deleted (although, I suppose that they could be unlinked). As for who is going to identify archive copies? We are: the many editors of the encyclopedia. The great thing about a wiki is that anyone who finds a problem can fix it. Sites like Internet Archive work by using the original URL as a search string; we have to rely on the integrity of the Internet Archive spiders. For more about references see Wikipedia:Cite sources. —Theo (Talk) 09:43, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your message (and stickybeaking)

I removed the reviews because I took them to be inappropriate for an encyclopæ (though they'd be fine for a sports journal or the like). Leaving aside the sports journalism style, a question to ask when thinking of adding something is: "Would I expect to find this in an encyclopædia?" I'm not saying that that's the end of it (for one thing, different people might expect dufferent things; for another, we're trying to be better than other encyclopædias, and we can offer more, being less constrained by space). In this case, though, I couldn't see that detailed accounts of individual games were appropriate. (Another, less important, consideration was that the article was already oversized, and there were still a couple of reviews to come.)

I couldn't help seeing your discussion with Theo, above; on that issue I was inclined to agree with you, but Theo's someone whose views I respect, so I've asked a question about this at Wikipedia talk:Cite sources. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:47, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As you suggest, Wikipedia can be much better than a traditional encylopedia. I'd like to see the reviews kept for historical reasons. Just knowing the result of a game does not tell the whole picture of a match. I could image that I will look back at these reviews in a few years to relive the games, and for me some of them would be reliving, as I attended a couple of the games. So, I vote to put the reviews back in. Anubis1975 11:44, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point, but I still think that the reviews belong somewhere other than Wikipedia. You could place the article at Wikipedia:Requests for comment and see if others agree with you against me. I'd go along with consensus. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:07, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Anubis on this one. An encyclopedia does not just include information on the final results of a game, but it usually contains some sort of description. MEA ETNING or whatever your name is, I recommend you spend your time adding and contributing to Wikipedia than worrying about trivial little deletions of useful information. Rogerthat 03:37, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey... please be friendly and respect all views put forward. We are all friends and can work together.. Anubis1975 11:44, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject AFL

G'day Anubis, noticed you have a nice piece of work going on with the Sydney Swans 2006 Season page, good job. I suggest you check out WikiProject AFL and perhaps we can join forces on some projects together. By the way, where are these match reviews you have written (Re: the above message)? Keep up the good work, Rogerthat 03:45, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

G'day to you too... thanks for compliments on the 2006 sesason page. I'll slowly get it altogether before the season starts. I have been keeping an eye on the AFl project. At this time, I'll just dabble here and there. Don't have time to do much else. The reviews (weren't mine) were in the 2005 AFL Finals Series. Check out the Revision as of 01:28, 20 September 2005 version. Anubis1975 11:37, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

New ACOTF

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