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Cnwb's RfA

Scott,

Thanks so very much for supporting my Request for Admin. The final result was 38/0/0. I'm looking forward to spending my summer holidays shut away in a darkened room, drinking G&Ts and playing with my new tools ;-) Please accept this Tim Tam as a token of my gratitude. Cnwb 22:34, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Ti Tree

I thought that I would let you know that I just created a page for Ti Tree and when I moved the name from Ti tree to Ti Tree (I initially got the capitalisation wrong) it had a link to your page here User:ScottDavis/plain_town_names/Northern_Territory, so I thought that I would let you know that I have filled it in. Please feel free to add content to the article. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 04:59, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh, should I rename it to Ti Tree, Northern Territory? I didn't realise that that was necessary, since its the only place anywhere that's called that. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 05:00, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Edit: I just did it, upon checking it myself. By the way, should there be an article for communities such as Utopia, Northern Territory? It is quite a famous community, because of its art. It is known as "the" community for aboriginal art. I think it has about 1,000-1,500 people there (not sure on that one). Do communities get to have articles made about them? Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 05:04, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

All towns/cities (except some capitals) in Australia should have the state/territory added to the article name, with a redirect or disambig at the plain name. Utopia is not in List of postcodes in the Northern Territory, which I normally use as a guide. If it has over 1000 people and is famous for its art, it probably deserves an article.
I have redirected Ti Tree to Tea tree, as that's what I thought of first of the name. I of course added Ti Tree, Northern Territory to the things in the disambig list at Tea tree. --Scott Davis Talk 03:08, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I am not sure if it is a good idea to redirect Ti Tree to Tea tree, since Ti Tree is a place, and, for people in the Northern Territory, Australia, it is quite well known. A lot of people would type in Ti Tree, as I did, and want to go to the place. Perhaps a better option is to put a note in the Ti Tree, Northern Territory page to say that if they are looking for Tea Tree, then click here. That being said, I don't think that anyone outside of NT would have heard of NT. Like most states, it is pretty localised to know of places of that size. By the way, Utopia is an aboriginal community, it is not a town. You are required to get a special permit to enter there. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 03:14, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

If I entered "Ti Tree", I'd expect to be redirected to Leptospermum, as that's how I thought the plant was spelt. As Tea tree is already a disambig page, I figured the best solution was to put all meanings of Ti Tree, Tea Tree, Tea tree and Ti tree together there. --Scott Davis Talk 02:53, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Yes, you are right. I noticed when I read the article (the stuff I'd written!) that in fact the town was called "Tea Tree" as well as "Ti Tree" at different points. I know, I'd done a lot of copy and pastes to make the article, although I did combine all of the resouces in to one. So I guess that it is okay to call it "Tea Tree" since at one point historically that was its name. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 05:19, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Scott, thanks for your support and your comment on my RfA. The final count was 46/0/0. I hope I'll live up to your faith in me in my use of the mop and bucket. Please accept this wikithanks as a token of my gratitude ;) --bainer (talk) 00:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Elliston

Scott,

I have edited the entry on Elliston and noted your change made by you regarding the mural on the town hall. I have corrected the information using the placard in front of the hall as a source - this placard states that the mural is 'the largest of its type in Australia' 'Depicts the historical life of Elliston and covers more than 500 square metres in area.' The placard was erected by the District Council of Elliston.

I previously removed the information stating that Elliston was formerly known as Ellis Town. There are no references to this in any of the books about Elliston. My references to be used in updating the entry are: 'Across the Bar to Waterloo Bay' published by the Elliston Centenary Committee ISBN 0959617809 and 'The Custodians' by Dianne Gillman ISBN 0731633636. —the preceding unsigned comment is by 210.50.5.252 (talk • contribs) 16:13, 16 December 2005

Thanks - I've added the references to the article. Part of my confusion is poor reading - the article says the hall, but has a picture of a clearly much smaller mural! --Scott Davis Talk 23:49, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Hello there. You have the above category listed on your userpage, so I thought you might like to know that it has been renamed to Category:Oceania stubs by WP:SFD. --TheParanoidOne 13:26, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy WikiBirthday!

Two days late in this, but I wanted to congratulate you on your first year with Wikipedia. Just over a year ago, you made your first (registered) edit to DSTO! Happy editing, --cj | talk 03:06, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is also celebrating its fifth birthday this month!!!! Happy birthday Wikipedia!!! :D

Adelaide suburb stubs

I was wondering if the suburb articles that I've created at the moment are classifyable as stubs, because I saw similar articles which are not I haven't stubbed mine. (I have listed them on my user page)They are not complete really - the history is unknown to me so I will have to look it up somewhere eventually - where do you go get local history books in Adelaide? Thanks, Blnguyen 05:00, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

TRL closure

Hi Scott,

I have seen you edited the page on Telstra Research Labs to remove the closure comment. I worked at TRL for the past 3 years and it has positively closed on 31/12/2005, Dr. Hugh Bradlow, the managing director announced this internally. The media report you have cited is positively false.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email me at simonmittag@gmail.com

Regards,

Simon

Simon, if possible please find a citation at either the Telstra website or a news article about the closure. Wikipedia policy is that it is a secondary source, citing primary sources, and where possible should not rely simply on what we "know". I hope I did not offend you by removing your addition, and welcome it back with a reference. --Scott Davis Talk 00:15, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Removing an account

Hi, I've had an email from Adrian Appleyard, administrator of BigFooty. He is telling me someone has created the account User:Adrian Appleyard pretending to be him. How would we get this user to change his username to something other than Adrian Appleyard, or perhaps giving the real Adrian a right to use his username? Rogerthat 05:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I've placed a request for info on the Administrators' noticeboard as I'm not quite sure either. --Scott Davis Talk 06:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for my delay in responding. See Wikipedia:Doppelganger account - not quite the same thing, but the guideline does say Any imposter account may be blocked on sight by any administrator. I would suggest the first thing to do is to open dialog with User:Adrian Appleyard and make a request for him to change his user name on his talk page. I note the user only has a few edits. -- Ian ≡ talk 12:30, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


It's okay, we forgive you. ^.^ ----Joejoejoe

Images

What licence would apply to the scanning of football cards? See Peter Burgoyne and Darren Mead for the images. Rogerthat 09:27, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I am not a lawyer, but I expect it's the same as the copyright of the card/sticker itself. Copyright is likely to be held by either the photographer or his/her employer, also the graphic artist. The photographer also has a moral right to be acknowledged. I'd be surprised if these have a licence suitable for Wikipedia. Sorry. --Scott Davis Talk 10:13, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Vote whether to split Newcastle airport article

Hi. Since you have contributed to the Newcastle airport article, I thought you might be interested in the discussion at Talk:RAAF Base Williamtown on whether or not to split the article. -- Adz|talk 11:54, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Esperanto grammar

Scott: Why did you remove the background template to this article? I imagine there's a good reason, but I can't see it.--Chris 16:04, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I am attempting to help clear backlog at WP:TFD - specificaly according to the vote at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 January 13#Template:Background. It seems I may have stumbled into something potentially contentious, as there's a deletion review call. As it stands, I've removed it from all the articles listed on "What links here", but not deleted the template yet. I think the Esperanto Grammar is one of the first few before I started linking to the TFD in the edit summary - sorry. Almost every article that used it linked to the same page in the next sentence anyway. I hope this clears things up. There's also discussion in the deletion holding cell. --Scott Davis Talk 21:43, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
As a simple WP editor, I try stay out of this kind of issue, but I'd honestly prefer to keep the template in use. In my view, it marks the fact the article as a subarticle of some other article, which a simple link does not do.--Chris 22:44, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I see that sub-articles themselves are a fraught issue. Well, I'm all for informal hierarchies and tangled hierarchies. The each-article-stands-alone position strikes me as dogmatic. --Chris 22:58, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
The Esperanto articles are all tied together by a comprehensive {{Esperanto}} topics box that includes the link back to Esperanto. I also removed the template from a number of Autism topics that could be connected by a similar box (all now link to autism in their first paragraph). In most cases, the italic text at the top looks more like the {{otheruses}} text, and actually appeared to detract rather than add to readability of the article. I'm trying to follow the consensus, not impose my opinion, but in this case, I think I agree with it (but not stongly enough to have voted either way). --Scott Davis Talk 07:16, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm willing to go with the consensus, whatever that may be. I do have reservations about it (even with options like the topics boxes), but I won't detain you with a long debate. --Chris 15:45, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
In my observations, the introductory paragraph needs rewriting for clarity in almost every case where the background topic is not already mentioned there. --Scott Davis Talk 11:17, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

your welcome to me

Hi Scott. You may yet live to regret offering your help and describing your skills/experience :-)

What you may have gathered, if you followed the link to our Brinkworth website, is that I and my co-editor are complete newbies with writing wiki. (I'd used Wikipedia for reference a few times).We got into it when Communitywebs chose it as the medium for creating the framework for our site (which is being hosted by UniSA at no charge for one year). Writing of the web site started in November last year so we're quite happy to have got this far but we still have a few issues, mainly with the main page and with getting "found' by search engines.

We're currently messaging Phil Marriot (our community webs contact person) but if he's too busy to help us "fiddle' with things, perhaps I could get back to you?

In the meantime, thanks for your kind words. AnneAnne Green 03:53, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Brinkworth edits

Scott, I'm sorry for what was probably a breach of etiquette in not letting you know I'd edited the Brinkworth page. Please put it down to my newness in the Wikipedia community. It won't happen again!Anne Green 04:06, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

You certainly don't have to let me (or anyone else) know if you're editing pages in Wikipedia. You will certainly get noticed if you behave badly. In fact, you'll get noticed if you behave well, too, but may not get told about it. On the whole, most Wikipedians are nice people. I hope I haven't offended you or put you off contributing more by cutting down on the emphasis of the new website. I tried to keep all the info you added, and also took some more from that website to expand the article slightly. Feel free to expand the Brinkworth, South Australia article in any way you see fit. We like to keep Wikipedia in an encyclopaedic style, not a travel agent's brochure, so you may find that your early edits are heavily edited by other people. Another missing article from that area is Clare, South Australia if you want to write one from scratch (we do have Clare Valley, but no article on the town itself). Also, drop in to the Adelaide Wikiproject - the people who frequent that are interested in the whole state, and there's at least one other mid-north person too. --Scott Davis Talk 04:34, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Town of Morgan

Me again!Anne Green 04:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC) I used to live and work at Morgan until 2002 so if you check the author of the external link "Morgan website" you'll notice the name is that of my husband. (Yes, he does html, not wiki - yet!) It may be worth noting on the wiki page that some of the business info on the external link is now out of date. Apart from ours (Atriplex Services)others may have changed hands, moved or closed since the web site was handed over to Riverland.net.au who now maintain it as a community resource. I suppose, like most things on the Internet, its a case of "user beware". The historical and geographic info is, of course, still valid Anne Green 04:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Phil Redmond

Hi Scott. I'm looking for an admin who is online atm. Could you do me a favour and block the idiot who is vandalising Phil Redmond. I've reverted him twice in the last ten minutes, and experience of him tells me he'll keep going... There's a history! The JPS 13:00, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

done --Scott Davis Talk 13:02, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you! The JPS 13:06, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

JEFF CAMACHO

Hi Scott i am awaiting an answer about kusaie island. When i type it in korsea comes up. Can u please shed some light? I want to know about Kusaie Island and did they change the name to KORSEA? Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.26.176.34 (talk • contribs) 04:27, 31 January 2006

If you have questions that Wikipedia does not currently answer, I suggest that you do your own research, and when you find references that answer your question, add them and the results to the proper article. I see that someone has previously moved the article from Kusaie to Kosrae. Google results for both terms suggests they are the same place, perhaps in different languages or at different times. I don't have the time to read the results and write a good article now. If you are really stuck for information, you can ask for help at the Wikipedia reference desk. --Scott Davis Talk 23:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

RE: defence of edit

Aha... I noticed the link to the Seatbelts in the body of the text a few moments after I had readded the link. No need to defend the edit! Sorry about that. — Ambush Commander(Talk) 20:23, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

No problems. --Scott Davis Talk 10:55, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading Image:Whisper_history.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images on Wikipedia is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. You can get help on image copyright tagging from Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags. -- Carnildo 08:12, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I am prepared to release the image to the public domain, but I don't know if I have the authority, as it is an image of somebody else's sign (graphic art and information). It is OK to delete the image if required - it was uploaded to assist in settling an issue in the Barossa Reservoir article, which has now been resolved. Image:Barossa dam engineers plaque.jpg was used for the same purpose and has the same issues. --Scott Davis Talk 08:23, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Go ahead and tag as PD -- I wouldn't worry about the copyright status of the sign. --Carnildo 08:57, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Done. --Scott Davis Talk 09:04, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: It's Time

I was thinking this myself. It is larger than what would usually be eligible for ACOTF, but it would be a shame to not go ahead after so many indicated they'd be willing to co-operate. I personally would like to see ACOTF become broader - perhaps similar to a feature workshop. Perhaps this question should be posed to AWNB?--cj | talk 10:16, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism of my user page

Hi Scott. I just noticed you caught a vandal on my page. Thanks for cleaning things up. Cnwb 11:46, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

No problems - you'd do the same for me. --Scott Davis Talk 11:48, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

JEWOSU

Thanks for your input on JEWOSU. I was aware of that and actually changed the main RAAF structure before I saw your comment. The original AOSG list I had was out of date and I got an updated one whilst at work yesterday. Actually, one of my best mates is an ENGO at JEWOSU.

I've had to make a few changes to the structure page (mostly CSG and Training Command) and I still have to update the individual base pages. Justinbrett 15:03, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Completeness of Adelaide suburbs

Hi Scott. I was wondering if you have a list of the 85 suburbs which are complete and could put in on the suburbs subpage. Perhaps we should tighten the criteria for completeness?? Blnguyen 04:54, 8 February 2006 (UTC).

I confess I didn't count them properly - I set the preference "Threshold for stub display" (in the Misc prefs tab) to 800 which seems like a good number, then looked at the category and estimated that about half the articles in the category fell over that line. A very loose estimation, but I wanted to show that progress is being made. --Scott Davis Talk 05:18, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Sir Henry Parkes

Scott, I note your contribution to the entry on Sir Henry Parkes. Being one of his great great grandchildren, I have done considerable reading and research on Henry. I read with interest you reference to him owning several newspapers. I am of course aware of the Empire but had not read or come across any prior reference to him owning the "The People's Advocate" and " The New South Wales Vindicator". Would you be kind enough to point me towards your references so that I can research this further. Thanks in advance. Regards Ian Thom ianthom@sydney.net PS Henry and Clarinda had a daughter, Clarinda Sarah, born at sea, 23 JUL 1839, on the way to Sydney. Clarinda Sarah married my great grandfather, Rev. William Thom on 30 MAR 1869. 220.239.172.36 02:10, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it was not me who added the newspaper information. It appears to have been User:Maustrauser. There is also a very brief article at The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator, which also has no external reference. Sorry I'm no more use. --Scott Davis Talk 05:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Tassie West Coast

Thanks for your edits, good to see, am in frozen mode( lurking but not adding but not wikibreak either) for a few months, we're shifting - (family home for 42 years) and trying to sort things within a two month frame of time, heheh  :) . Probably back seriously may/june. cheers SatuSuro 06:50, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for your vote
My request for adminship passed with a final result of 78/2/0. Hopefully I will live up to everyone's expectations. Please ask if I can ever help out with anything in the future.
Martyman - 09:22, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Exchange Rates

"On polling day, the Australian Dollar was worth US$1.93, 362 yen and 1.97 pounds sterling."

Taken from here. (count 4 collumns to the right, then four paragraphs from the bottom.)

I was struck by those figures as well, which was a factor in my decision to include them. It's somewhat suprising that you were the first one to ask about them.

On another note, this was the first time that I have participated in an Aussie Collaboration from start to finish, and I was somewhat disappointed at the lack of contributions. It seems that Australians are more interested in getting their ideas chosen, than in getting some work on improving an article done. I don't like to just ramble on about how much I do or how great I am or anything, but I've basicly written that article myself save some minor copyediting and details. Is there not much of a movement to get some more involvment on the part of the Aussies? 13 users put their names down in support of It's Time, but most did little to back it up. Not exactly awe-inspiring.

I hope we can make a better go of the Order of Australia. Happy editing, Bobby1011 14:17, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

That's certainly what it says! I wonder if they got the edits the wrong way round, or whether reducing the value of the Australian dollar that far was a deliberate government policy. I guess it's also possible that "20 years after Gough" is wrong or mislead by a Gold standard.
On the ACOTF, some have had lots of editors, some a few. I guess if everyone htinks the article needs work, but doesn't know the info to add, some might hope to contribute copyedit and verification activities to someone else's text additions. You did a great jobe before and during the ACOTF of adding info to the article, others might have found it difficult to add stuff not already there. Or perhaps people thought they'd have time, and then things changed when it was actally selected. Sometimes I've gone through the list and posted a reminder to each user's talk page that voted. I haven't done that for a while though. Cheers. --Scott Davis Talk 00:56, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your voting!

Thanks!
Thanks!

Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.

If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very mach, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)