User talk:Pjbarber

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Welcome!

Hello, Pjbarber, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Pastoral runs

Please find a usage somewhere - i have never heard of such a usage in WA - and if you dont have a ref - we need to revert that addition - as such a claim in a lead sentence that is meant to apply for australia is clearly not 100% - cheers Satu Suro 11:09, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just checked - Gooogle has victoria and queensland having this usage - but that does not make australia make - if you dont fix it i will at some later time Satu Suro 11:43, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello SatuSuro, yes I am new to Wikipedia and have an interest in the establishment of simmilar references to pastoral leases/runs simmilar to the WA pages for Victoria. Through my general knowledge I know that the term run was used in the early years of land settlement. As squatters moved out from Sydney, Melbourne and Portland the aquired land just by staking claim to it or squatting on it (hence squatters) and this land became known as a "run" and later as it was surveyed and given title, then they became known as leases, but still the term run carried on. Later in the cases where land was fertile it was further subdivided for closer settlement. Times dates names for this would be plentiful in the history books. I just need time to put something together.

Also I need to research how to put in citations and references. But thanks for your comments, and more than happy for you to edit my contributions. (Pjbarber (talk) 03:01, 3 November 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Hi, welcome. Pardon me for butting in. You can add a citation by putting something like

<ref>Excel For Dummies, First Edition, Hungry Minds, Inc., 1980.</ref>

where you want the citation to go, and

<references/>

or

{{reflist}}

in the references section, if it isn't already there.

For example, the page code

The first human habitation of Australia is estimated to have
occurred between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago.<ref>Gillespie, R. (2002).
"Dating the first Australians", ''Radiocarbon'' '''44''':455–72</ref>
 
====References====
{{reflist}}

will give you

The first human habitation of Australia is estimated to have occurred between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago.^[1]
References

^ Gillespie, R. (2002). "Dating the first Australians", Radiocarbon 44:455–72

There is more information at Help:Footnotes. Hesperian 05:12, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please

Do not address a talk page like a letter - the user talk page yes, but not an article talk page - we do not WP:OWN anything on this damned fishbowl - so if I address you on your talk page that is fine - but it can take a bit to get used to the place - best of luck with it all Satu Suro 23:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Gillespie, R. (2002). "Dating the first Australians", Radiocarbon 44:455–72

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