The article Yellagonga says he was a person, but the reference to "the Yellagonga" in Perth#Indigenous history implies a group. (See also my recent edit to that sentence, in case I got it wrong.)
the source used in Perth#Indigenous history states Yellowgonga himself is recorded as regarding the area north of the Swan River as his own to articles in one sentence referring to Yellagonga as a person, Gnangarra06:14, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Hold on, this the problem of poor piecemeal changes. You asked a question I read the sourced used highlighted a single point which goes towards answering you question Is/was Yellagonga a person or a group or both? but the source itself doesnt necessarly support the construct and divisions of the areas nor naming of them as describe now in the section. Personally I thinks it s very poor source to use for an overview of the indigenous history of Perth area especially if look into the appeal to decisions taken and then why such a piece of legal documentation and it appeal are used implying that the Noongars relationship with the region has been dis-proven. Gnangarra12:16, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
I feel that these recent edits [1][2] by Mvpo666 contain too much detailed information about the services (e.g. exactly which days of the week services run) and are contrary to WP:NOTDIRECTORY - even for an article about a railway station. A quick look at Mvpo666's contributions shows many more similar edits.
The edits are expressed very badly with little understanding of what constitutes clear explanation, the reading from timetables that might be current and can be changed at short notice, as a consequence, due to the potential fluidity of the operations, is not encyclopdiac in the way that it has been expressed, and the potential to be dated information within a short duration of time. I have a different opinion about TMI (Too much information) on such items, but in this case do agree with Mitch in current form it is, but if edited, can be reduced to services, not the specific days, and I then consider it ok. JarrahTree09:20, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Considering the area of interest, what are the odds that it's he-of-ten-million-sockpuppets anyway? I don't have a problem with mentioning how many days a week it runs (and think that's probably important), but once it gets down to how often and which days it gets a bit too open to change without us noticing, especially in an article on a small rural town. The Drover's Wife (talk) 10:16, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
My thoughts exactly. Someone that ridiculously dedicated to sockpuppeting is easily capable of changing up their IP, and the succession of similar accounts across Australian railways post the original ban suggests to me that he hasn't gone anywhere. The Drover's Wife (talk) 12:49, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
But, not resolved - the too much information aspect is a problem. There is no need of obtuse 'up and down every day detail' added by the sock (I am, sure it is), as there is the issue of transitory and 'temporary' nature of timetables. However, where services are identified in the article already, it should be checked that the specific station has the named service identified already somewhere, if possible without the detail of timetable reading. JarrahTree11:47, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
I've gone through and done the rest out to Kalgoorlie (per the ref Prospector, AvonLink, MerredinLink timetables) - copy/paste is a wonderful thing. Of course copy/paste errors are a risk. Someone should probably check my edits. Mitch Ames (talk) 13:33, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
Not a problem when used individually here: {{transperth stations|station=Midland}}, {{transperth stations|station=East Guildford}} --> {{transperth stations|station=Midland}}, {{transperth stations|station=East Guildford}}. Will have to investigate further - Evad37[talk]
Should be okay now (after fixing typo [6]): {{transperth stations|station=Woodbridge}} --> {{transperth stations|station=Woodbridge}} - Evad37[talk]
Old Mandurah Traffic bridge
HI Folks... short notice today 24 Aug the old traffic bridge is being torn down today I cant get there to take photos until this evening 6ish at the earliest suspect it'll be gone then if anyone can get there to day it'd be great lat opportunity to get some photos... Gnangarra23:57, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
I did get down there and take some photos... Didn't look like it was going to be demolished, are you sure you've got the date right? Will upload pics later. - Evad37[talk]07:38, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
came thru via friend of friend, so not really sure on the details maybe they are just going to close it to traffic today .... Gnangarra08:39, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Noongar WikiBomb
Hi Folks
At it again, more activity taking place to coincide with our meetup on the 19th we will have a WikiBomb beforehand;
With all the AGF in the world, if you have the energy to post this, that is the same as doing some research yourself ion trove to find that both usages prevail, and this is really a no-brainer for this venue.
Save the date: Wikipedia Takes Open House Perth 2015, 7–8 November
Open House Perth is on again this year, 7–8 November 2015. The event allows public access to areas which are usually restricted, and is a good opportunity to take photographs for upload to Commons and inclusion in Wikipedia articles. Once the Open House destinations for 2015 are released in October, we can organise a target list at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Open House Perth 2015. Hopefully with a bit more notice than last year, we might get more participation. Thanks, - Evad37[talk]08:42, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
UPDATE: 2015 destinations details have been updated on the OHP website (and I've added them to the wiki takes page). We should probably start planning for the Wiki Takes now... any thoughts on how we should organise it? - Evad37[talk]07:27, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Wikimania 2017 bid
Hi Folks as discussed at the meetup the bid page is now live m:Wikimania 2017 bids/Perth I still havent seen anything to say bidding is open but I'm about to be over run by WMAU and RL commitments for the next couple of weeks and didnt want to miss the process start. Please chime in with additional information and changes as you see fit, I have been speaking with the PCEC since the meetup and the date is the only set in July/August that the whole of venue is available. Gnangarra04:19, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Per Signpost coverage, it looks like Wikimania 2017 will be Montreal, Canada; 2018 somewhere in South Asia; 2019 somewhere in Europe; 2020 somewhere in US/Canada... if it does end up going like this (a three-yearly rotation between Europe, US/Canada, and rest of the world) then our next opportunities would be 2021, 2024, 2027. - Evad37[talk]03:06, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
The folks of Toodyay have been wuietly working behind the scenes gathering information and help Historian & Author Robyn Taylor research 25 people who's lives have had an impact in the Toodyay area... The people do meet the requirements of GNG over the next few days I will create stubs for each one so that we can stabilize the urls in preparation for the creation of artworks for plaques, if anyone has an interest and wants to assist as Robyn send me the text I can forward it across to you for article creation. The process will be a copy & paste with the addition of a template to note the origins of the text, you will then need to Wikify and tidy up the article, if you can source free licensed images that would be a bonus, the list of people are;
the template {{CC-notice|cc=by25au|url=|author=Robyn Taylor}} need to be included in the reference section of each of these articles as per OTRS Ticket:2015100110014114
where a reference is needed you can also use {{cite journal|last1=Taylor|first1=Robyn|title={{subst:pagename}}|journal=Toodyaypedia|date=2015|issue=draft|accessdate=1 October 2015|series=Lotterywest Toodyaypedia - Part II|publisher=[[Shire of Toodyay]]|location=[[Newcastle Gaol Museum|Newcastle Gaol Museum Collection]]}} crediting the text to author.
most drafts include a section notes by author these will need to removed once the article is completed.
I'll do a few - create article, wikify and/or copy-edit as necessary. It's not clear how the worksheet is going to work though. Are you going to send the text to someone after they add their name to the Editor column? Or might it be easier for you to just to dump the plain text into the article (or subpage of Wikipedia:WikiTown/Toodyaypedia or Draft space), then editors can pick an existing article that doesn't have an "editor", put their name in the column and work on the article until its done? Mitch Ames (talk) 13:55, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Update you have noticed that I have started posting the draft articles to a sub pages of the list, I'll continue to expand this as I recieve more... all the draft articles are as I received them the next stage is to Wikify... copy edit and generally tidy them each up to suitable as articles.. If you want to work on a specific article please just add your username to the list in the field provided that way we dont have everyone trippin gover each other... when your ready either just move them to article space your drop me I'll do it. There is also a notes field in the table Wikipedia:WikiTown/Toodyaypedia/stage II worksheet if you an issue you can note it there as well so others can help resolve it... if its complex just say Issue see talk page Gnangarra14:10, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
My (german) girlfriend is visiting Perth for the next two weeks. Is there anything worth visiting especially that time? She'd like to have contact with some locals. -- Cherubino (talk) 07:39, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
Added a few refs and did some tidying. Added a comment that the article meets notability, would appreciate if others could add there thoughts.Hughesdarren (talk) 13:01, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
@The Drover's Wife:, you can bypass the process by moving it to mainspace any time if you think it's notable. A lot of AFC reviewer take a pretty hard line, despite the actual AFC acceptance criteria being quite loose. Hack (talk) 14:45, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for raising this. As part of the work, we would like to redevelop the List of newspapers in Western Australia article. Ideally we would like to make it more user friendly and more comprehensive. We're trying to think about the best ways to do this and would appreciate your input and ideas. At a minimum the table will need to include publication years and masthead. User:Gnangarra (who has been very generous with his time) suggested the inclusion of distribution, frequency and style. My concerns are that this would make the list unwieldy since the frequency and style often change over the course of a newspaper's run and they are often distributed to many, many suburbs and areas. Any further ideas about how we could manage this would be appreciated. Since the list will become quite long, we were thinking of having two tables in the article, one with current newspapers and one with defunct newspapers. LOTE newspapers will continue to be included on the List of non-English-language newspapers in Western Australia. Many thanks. RenegadeStormie (talk) 07:29, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
Somehow missed this post in 3 weeks, odd.
The best way to reduce crowding in templates/lists/articles - is to separate information into regions - either similar to Regions of Western Australia or approximations of this.
You may or may not be aware of Pilbara_newspapers, as a means of regionalising the lists and details.
I suggest that the recently created Category:Islands of the Wheatbelt (Western Australia) is not appropriate and ought to be deleted. In particular, WP:NON-DEFINING applies. Do "reliable sources commonly and consistently define the [island(s)] as having ... [that] location or region"?
WP:OCLOCATION also applies - "avoid subcategorizing subjects by geographical boundary if that boundary does not have any relevant bearing on the subjects' other characteristics." Is wheat grown on the islands? Are there ports on the island used to ship wheat? Is there anything - other than the accident of location - that links the islands to the wheatbelt?
Always good to hear your version Mitch, I am sorry but I strongly disagree
reliable source define the islands as being related to the location or region. yes.
what grown - ports for wheat - accident of location. missing the point see below
Your mate pdfpdf etc created a whole lot of islands of land based regions some time back, and this was the one that got left out.
If you are going to do that sort of logic and questioning above, why are island categories of all the other regions being unquestioned?
Islands of the Gascoyne (Western Australia) (1 C, 6 P)
Islands of the Goldfields-Esperance region (Western Australia) (1 C, 4 P)
Islands of the Great Southern (Western Australia) (14 P)
Islands of the Wheatbelt (Western Australia) (1 P)
Islands of the Kimberley (Western Australia) (3 C, 62 P)
Islands of the Mid West (Western Australia) (1 C, 9 P)
Islands of the Perth region (Western Australia) (1 C, 6 P)
Islands of the Pilbara (Western Australia) (4 C, 19 P)
Islands of the South West (Western Australia) (4 P)
The land regions of the state have coastlines - the coastline has islands - the islands can also be determined by coastal regions as well, but suprise, western australia is a big state, and very specifically land based region geology and geomorphology actually affects the nature of the islands that lie on the coast... JarrahTree14:46, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
"what grown - ports for wheat - accident of location. missing the point" These were obviously rhetorical questions. I was making the point that there is nothing in the article that suggests that there is any connection between the wheatbelt region and the island, other than its location. WP:OCLOCATION seems fairly clear on this: "avoid subcategorizing subjects by geographical boundary if that boundary does not have any relevant bearing on the subjects' other characteristics".
"why are island categories of all the other regions being unquestioned?" Because I wasn't aware of those categories. But now that you mention it, I suspect that the same arguments may apply to some or all of the other categories. (Although I note that there is an article Islands of the Kimberley (Western Australia), which cites references that apparently refer to them as "Kimberley Islands", so there may be some merit in that category - but that's the only one with its own article.)
"very specifically land based region geology and geomorphology actually affects the nature of the islands that lie on the coast..." Land based geology and geomorphology may well affect the nature of the islands, but the regions in question are socio-economic not geological or geomorphic. Again, I quote OCLOCATION: "boundary does not have any relevant bearing on the subjects' other characteristics".
OMG, not another one of these. I strongly disagree with your arguments, and remain somewhat perturbed that the categories nowreceive your attention despite having existed for quite a while, they serve a good purpose by breaking down the rather large range of features into a regional framework, and regardless of the nit picking, I would rather at least another 3 or 4 editors make comment, rather than this be a drawn out on wiki conversation between 2 eds. JarrahTree14:27, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
"somewhat perturbed that the categories nowreceive your attention despite having existed for quite a while" The one category that I mentioned in the first instance – Category:Islands of the Wheatbelt (Western Australia) – was created two days ago. The others - perhaps I wasn't aware of them, perhaps I missed them when they were created, or didn't pay much attention at the time. I don't believe that longevity makes any difference to whether or not they are consistent with WP:CAT.
"regardless of the nit picking" Feel free to point out exactly what's wrong with my specific references to the relevant MOS guidelines. If you think I've misinterpreted those words that I quoted from the guidelines, feel free to explain how you interpret them. If you think that those guidelines should not apply, please explain why. Feel free to actually refute my individual points with something more specific that "I disagree".
I asked for this not to be a conversation between you and myself over issues that lengthen this page to a runner carpet of diffs and issues,
but for other editors to look and offer their position on the issue. One has arrived, if we have at least another two, then if they have issues, as well as ours , then will be the time to further discuss. If they agree with the position of keep, or not, so be it.
I do not wish to argue re MOS guidelines or essays, the categories as they stand are useful and I do not see where deleting them benefits anyone in the long run JarrahTree12:58, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
Applying the regions to the coastline is the logical choice for mind. At least most West Australians have a reasonably good understanding of the regions and they have good supporting information on the wiki pages created for them. It seems unlikely that a better alternative exists. Hughesdarren (talk) 23:20, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
Prompted by an edit by another new rail editor, I notice that the station layout at the Perth railway station article is a little out of date. It is generated by {{Perth Rail Yard}}. Just wondering if someone could take a look at this. Hack (talk) 09:42, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Categories: Islands of the Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Turquoise Coast (Western Australia)
A little bit of confusion settled in in this morning, it has been a complicated process, planning and organising the schedule for Perth, made even more so by Wikimedia Indonesia inviting him yesterday to detour to Jakarta, after leaving Perth, throwing the final day out of whack so I'm still waiting their confirmation before I can finalise the last event in Perth.
It will be open to the public, all are welcome to attend, also please invite anyone who you think might find it interesting to know more about what we have been doing in Wikidata and Wikipedia.
Then on the Saturday 20th February 2016, we have a hands on workshop at the SLWA in the Geographe room starting at 14:00.
The room will be available from 13:00 but this will give you a chance to have a chat and get setup beforehand.
After the workshop which can run until we get kicked out (when the library closes); if people want to head out for dinner, we can organise that on the day.
Finally there will be chance to join us before Andy is carted away on the silver bird, this is awaiting the result of WMID decision it either be 24th or 25th. Gnangarra08:30, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Just a note: some of these apparently wanted articles, such as Hopman Cup (tennis) are on this list due to a "feature/bug" in the infobox template coding. Apparently if a template uses the "#ifexist:" function to test if a page exists, that is included in the "what links here" test, and hence shows up in these lists, even though the template code does not result in an actual redlink being printed. In this Hopman Cup case, the generic tennis infobox tests for the existence of the Hopman Cup (tennis) disambiguated page but as it doesn't exist, prints links to Hopman Cup instead. Not sure if we need to push the tennis project to change their infobox to avoid this, push the mediawiki people to not detect phantom #ifexist: links in the "what links here" function, find a way to get the missing topics tool to ignore them, or just ignore the issue as a minor distraction. The-Pope (talk) 04:29, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Seems more like a mediawiki/developer bug rather than a template design issue... but they can be removed from the wanted lists by creating redirects from the disambiguated titles to the actual titles. - Evad37[talk]05:11, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
That's what I did for the Commonwealth Games medal list links, but for the tennis one, I wonder if that would cause more grief? Would it then make the template think that the qualified format of the link exists, and use the redirect for the link, not the direct link? To me, it seems like a bit of a shortcut/hack in the coding, but my template coding skills are not enough to be sure of how it all works. The-Pope (talk) 05:36, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Creating such redirects isn't the most elegant solution, but I don't think there's anything really wrong with having them. I can't see how it would cause a problem – all that should happen is that the link produced by the template would be of the form [[Foo (Bar)|Foo]] instead of [[Foo]]. E.g. Bendigo, Victoria is an existing disambiguated redirect to Bendigo, and [[{{#ifexist:Bendigo, Victoria|Bendigo, Victoria|Bendigo}}|Bendigo]] produces Bendigo - Evad37[talk]10:20, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
As you may have noticed both the Esplanade railway station and the Esplanade busport have had a name change as of 31st January 2016 both have become Elizabeth Quay foo's. Any way at around midnight I had a burst of energy and made all the moves changed all the links but the old what links here needs some time to update templates and refresh its lists I think I have most of them already obviously I left the redirects in place because no doubt we will still use Esplanade more frequently than EQ for sometime to come. I'll check back tomorrow to see if there are any more more to be done. Gnangarra16:35, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
I think I have got them all, but I notice other editors have been changing the Esplanade to Elizabeth Quay ignoring the fact it was the Esplanade at the time and now if someone else attempts to verify without knowing the name change has occurred they will tag as not in source. Please keep the name in context dependent on the information being told. Gnangarra04:41, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
I had read that they were changing the "Esplande" to Elizabeth Quay which was also written on the notices from the PTA that have been adorning all the bus stops out this way for a month because they are changing all the time tables today as well. Wasnt aware they were also changing the Busport to bus station Gnangarra05:27, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
As you all know there will be a WikiData workshop with a meetup on the 20th Febraury in the Geographe room of the Library... Before this the Noongarpedia people will be holding their regular monthly WikiBomb in the same room as lead up event. I normally attend these WikiBombs to be available to assist new editors with any problems that arise, but for this one I need someone to take on that role as I'll be escorting Andy to an Ornithological activity elsewhere. Given this mean an all day commitment I'm happy to make arrangements to reimburse two people the cost of their lunch at the Aroma Cafe between events, who is interested in helping out the Noongarpedia WikiBomb? Gnangarra06:14, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
A little bit of confusion settled in in this morning, it has been a complicated process, planning and organising the schedule for Perth, made even more so by Wikimedia Indonesia inviting him yesterday to detour to Jakarta, after leaving Perth, throwing the final day out of whack so I'm still waiting their confirmation before I can finalise the last event in Perth.
It will be open to the public, all are welcome to attend, also please invite anyone who you think might find it interesting to know more about what we have been doing in Wikidata and Wikipedia.
Then on the Saturday 20th February 2016, we have a hands on workshop at the SLWA in the Geographe room starting at 13:00
After the workshop which can run until we get kicked out (when the library closes); if people want to head out for dinner, we can organise that on the day.
Finally there will be chance to join us before Andy is carted away on the silver bird, this is awaiting the result of WMID decision it either be 24th or 25th. Gnangarra08:30, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
I've restored this section after it was archived by a bot. We haven't actually had the tour yet, so archiving's a bit premature. Mitch Ames (talk) 11:52, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
WikiData Down under tour 2016
Please note this is a repeated message... please let anyone know who might be interested
that is not a necessary connection, and if you want to go friday, better to register, so that organizers are prepared... JarrahTree13:01, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
'brick on the doorstep of Fremantle'
At Wadjemup Lighthouse there's a plaque that reads "Since the early days of Australia, Rottnest Island has been the 'brick on the doorstep of Fremantle' which trips up any drunken or unwary captain" (includes the single quotes). Does anyone know from where the phrase is sourced? Moondyne (talk) 10:46, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
31 January public transport changes
As a result of the changes on Sunday, a lot of Perth public transport articles now have an out-of-date colour scheme for buses. Previously routes were categorised by geographical region and assigned a corresponding colour (for example, see the bus listing at Elizabeth Quay Bus Station). Now there is no distinction except for high-frequency routes. There needs to be a discussion about how to more effectively display this information without going overboard with colour. Hack (talk) 05:34, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
How about changing the formatting to a more standard wikitable, and effectively doing away with colours (and the associated MOS:COLOUR/WP:COLOUR issues)? Wikipedia articles are encyclopaedia articles, not Transperth publications. I'm thinking something like this:
Stop
Route
Destination / description
Notes
[12223] Stand A2
41
to Bayswater via Lord Street, Eight Avenue, Maylands, Caledonian Street, Stone Street & Frington Street[1]
to Morley bus station via William Street, North Street, Dundas Road & Walter Road West[4]
etc. Info such as high-frequency or limited stops can be put in the notes column. We can make templates so that formatting is easy and consistent across articles (similar to the road junction list templates {{AUSinttop}} (headings), {{AUS-WAint}} (each row), {{Jctbtm}} (footer)). - Evad37[talk]06:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
Great improvement if there is a move away from colour coding - all transperth timetables since the elizabeh quay re-arrangement of the whole of perth public transport information are now white ok there are some still coloured, but not many . Any getting away from what looks like an extension of transperth publications that treads into WP:NOTGUIDE is to be encouraged wholeheartedly JarrahTree06:36, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
What Jarrah Tree said. I see someone also beat me to taking photos of the new Elizabeth Quay Bus Station signage - I did a detour on my way home to do it and just checked and it was already done. The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:41, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
Just wondering if the stop number could be after or below the stand number as it isn't particularly meaningful for most people. Hack (talk) 16:22, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
that is debatable, with the removal of many timetables from stop sign posts, the unique number of the stop can be phoned in to enquire about to transperths enquiry number to find out when the next bus is due. People do use the number, I have seen them do it. JarrahTree23:41, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
The colour coding is a little meaningful, is there some relatively minimalist way to include the line colour? Hack (talk) 05:46, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
The small colour box is minimal, and would be reasonable if it were useful. But if we remove all the other colour from the tables (which I think we should do) then what value does the small colour box add? It might match Transperth timetables and maps, but I don't think we need to do that - it needs to match something in the Wikipedia article. The colour would be useful if, for example, we had a map showing multiple lines, colour coded, eg http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/Tickets-Fares/Zone-Map. Is it appropriate and feasible to colour-code the tracks in {{Perth Rail Yard}}? Mitch Ames (talk) 00:57, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
I don't know if it's really appropriate to use Transperth colours rather than Wikipedia's own style (described at WP:RDT/C, Template:Railway track legend, and related pages). Like I said further up re the bus routes, Wikipedia articles are encyclopaedia articles, not Transperth publications. (As for feasability, it is possible, but would take some effort: all the little images that make up the {{Perth Rail Yard}} map would need to be recreated with Transperth colours.) - Evad37[talk]07:21, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
The Western Australian project is now, or about to have 10k articles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Western_Australia_articles - thanks to all the hard working editors over the last 10 years + who have got the project to this stage, and it is as much to the editors who have real life and other things who reduce their edits at various stages, but who nevertheless with their contributions, have made the project what it is
compared to other state projects - Tasmania hasnt even got to 4k yet
Queensland have cleared 11k but have a semi-active tag on their project page
Victoria dont even have assessment tables on their project page
New South Wales hasnt even got to 9k yet
South Australia hasnt even got to 5k yet
Northern Territory is still on the way to 2k...
In considering the actual real life populations and potential subjects/topics for each project, and proportion of active editors on the various state projects, it would appear that WA really has done well. Keep up the good work!! JarrahTree14:17, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Not to take away from anything, but the total articles figures are for all pages including categories, templates, project pages etc. 10k total pages is still an achievement for WA, but a more accurate figure for articles would subtract the pages in Category:NA-importance Western Australia articles, resulting in 21219 articles for WA (and similar calculations could be done for other states) - Evad37[talk]14:36, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Fair enough, but when you realise that the Australian gross figures are 160k, then even state specific projects are somewhat diminished in proportion by other sub projects JarrahTree23:29, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
HI Folks havent forgotten that we have a meetup scheduled for this saturday, still trying to find a venue that suits the needs of one of our guests. Watch this space will have the answer shortly and see you all at 18:00 Gnangarra23:44, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
If its raining we'll be inside, if its cold we'll be inside, if the sun is shining and its 40degs then we'll be outside. Inside near the front to start with but there will enough of us to find each other. Gnangarra12:55, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
I just created a stub for The Northam Advertiser newspaper since I was citing some articles from it. I struggled a bit to find out much about it, so thought I might mention it here in case anyone here has some better info. I did not add it to the List of newspapers in Australia or List of newspapers published in Western Australia as I was not sure how to position it in either structure. I think it is a defunct regional newspaper and I have no idea if it's a major/minor title. Thanks in advance for anything you can do to improve it. Kerry (talk) 02:36, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Geraldton vandalism
There has been a fair bit of adding non-notable residents to the notable resident section of Geraldton. The edits have been reverted each time but the IP has now taken to personal attacks. It might pay for other WA editors to keep a bit of an eye on the page. Regards, Calistemon (talk) 02:02, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
The news article has absolutely no mention of the judge's reasoning. The published decision is here; the table of contents starts on page 5. To sum it up very briefly, the Judge found that Main Roads consulted with Cockburn Aboriginal Advisory Committee (CAAC) through its Chairman, Rev Sealin Garlett, and there was no requirement for them to consult with Abraham personally, either in her role as a custodian for her people, a co-chair of the CAAC, or as an individual with a personal connection to the land. The basis for this is mainly covered in pages 25-33. I'll copy this over to the article's talk page. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 00:12, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
I'd like to get some opinions on article titles for our bus and train station articles. The current naming scheme is generally "Foo railway station" for train stations, including bus/train interchanges, and "Foo bus station" for bus-only stations (with ", Perth" for disambiguation when required). The names that Transperth uses, per [10] (also per signs at stations, example), are generally "Foo Station" for train stations, including bus/train interchanges, and "Foo Bus Station" for bus-only stations. Is there any reason not to use these names, disambiguating with ", Perth" when required (and keeping the existing titles as redirects)? They seem to match the WP:NAMINGCRITERIA goals of recognisability, naturalness, precision, and conciseness (and if done as a group they would be consistent). Dropping "railway" better matches the scope of articles on interchanges (more precise and more recognisable), is shorter (more concise), is already used in piped links to articles e.g. with bus routes (more natural). WP:NCCAPS allows for capitalisation of proper names. - Evad37[talk]08:33, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
All of the Australian articles use "railway station", and it is really helpful for consistency. "Station" is vague (what station?), whereas the present usage is unambiguous. The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:50, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
Maybe, but parts of the government systems have insisted on train station usage. I agree with what Drovers' says, but there are usages around that do run in the face of common sense JarrahTree08:55, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
... parts of the government systems have insisted on train station ... there are usages around that do run in the face of common sense Government systems don't dictate Wikipedia policies - unless, of course, they dictate the names of the stations, which we then use for our article titles. When you said "there are usages around..." do you mean that we have existing train stations and/or Wikipedia articles named "Foo train station"? Examples would probably be helpful here. Mitch Ames (talk) 10:00, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
Consistency may be nice, but is not the only criterion to be considered. That the word "station" can refer to other types of things isn't necessarily relevant, given that these stations would be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and/or only topic for "Foo Station"/"Foo Station, Perth", and other potential uses, if any, can be dealt with as per disambiguation guideline (i.e. hatnotes or dab pages). The present situation results in the rather odd and non-natural constructs of interchanges being titled as railway stations, and the scope covered (bus and train) being beyond the implied scope from the title. - Evad37[talk]09:42, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
It's bizarre to move a bunch of articles from obvious, unambiguous names to ones that are going to need a bunch of hatnotes and other disambiguation just because you don't like the word "railway" to refer to a railway station. The Drover's Wife (talk) 10:54, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
Its not about what I like or don't like, but rather about what the sources use, what the naming guidelines say, and what the consensus turns out to be. A hatnote or two for the few that really (not just theoretically) need it is hardly a big deal. - Evad37[talk]01:07, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" [Transperth's] name ...; it generally prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in ... reliable sources.
What do term is used by most sources to refer to the stations? (I realise this is not a simple question to answer, and the answer may vary between stations, but we need to a least consider it.) Mitch Ames (talk) 11:47, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
The snippets Google showed for the next few pages of results had "Butler station", "Butler Station", "Butler train station", "Butler Train Station", and [27] (Expo Trade) with "Butler rail station".
By comparison, a Google search for "butler railway station" -wiki -wikipedia (country:Australia) brings up the Rail Express page from above, various real estate/property websites (which look like they may have used the wikipedia article, or an old version of it, as a source), and by the second page of results is bringing up totally unrelated websites such as [28].
Other stations, particularly older stations, may have different results, and may have a high proportion of offline sources. - Evad37[talk]02:00, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for going to the trouble to show the issue as it stands. In the case of trove - one can see the historical pressure of the traditional naming
for operating locations Would it not be what the PTA calls the location that defines its name, for closed it would need to be what was known as by the site operator when it closed unless a case can be made for it being known as something else, for every thing else we have redirects. Gnangarra05:49, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
There seems to be a bit of interest in public transport here, just wondering if it was worth creating a task force for WA public transport or even transport generally. Hack (talk) 05:00, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
For a broader context - there has been at least one suggestion for railways in Australia task force in the past but nothing came of the proposal (some states transport categories/articles are better than others - the undue balance being part of an issue why the national focus could be better than the state level from some perspectives)
With all proposals like this it is always worth seeing how other ventures have fared, and it is worth looking at examples of task forces/projects for transport in much smaller geographical areas but more complex systems:
For a larger area focus, Canada do not seem to have gone any further than the article Transportation_in_Canada
Having looked at all these, I believe a WA trasnport taskforce is ok as long as the precedents of the other ventures is considered JarrahTree10:22, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
I don't know, I'm kind of on the fence about this. I mean, how much benefit is there going to be from having a formal task force compared to the informal collaboration that happens on this page? And there are definite time costs associated with setting it up, including getting project banners set up, creating all those assessment categories, tagging all relevant pages, and the almost inevitable deletion discussion that occurs when new stub templates/cats are created. - Evad37[talk]00:32, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Very good point raised. The parent Australian project hardly has a critical mass of diverse editors to sustain the larger project across the full range of project maintenance, and all the rest that goes with keeping it from having semi active tag from some bright spark from elsewhere. On that basis the freakish coincidence of a few eds on this project being interested in transport issues at the one time hardly justifies the effort. Good idea though. JarrahTree00:42, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
The discussion doesn't have to go anywhere else, just thought it might be useful to have some more coordination eg todo/task lists, tagging of articles, etc. Hack (talk) 03:06, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Wednesday the 1 Febraury 2017 will be the tenth anniversary of in person activities in Western Australia, we cant let this pass by without some fanfare any thoughts. Gnangarra12:31, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
There are likely page watchers/ low edit editors who need to be reminded regularly that this is an opportunity not to be lost JarrahTree07:17, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
St John the Baptist Church
Hi Folks, please becareful about deleting redirects that are potentially linked to QR codes as this actions breaks those links and affects the project. I have restored 2 redirects today related to St John the Baptist Church (Toodyay ) as it will need to be checked out in person as to which is the correct link, unfortunately I dont have a car for 2 weeks to drive the necessary 200km round trip if any one else has the time please do. Gnangarra07:10, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
Perhaps we need a template that we can put on such redirect pages, saying something like "this page is the target of a QR code, please don't delete it". Mitch Ames (talk) 08:42, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
they did have the toodyaypedia template on the talk page, and previously attempts to put template and categories in articles just ends up in them being removed because its noa notable factor related to the subject Gnangarra08:56, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
Presumably the problem is people deleting redirects rather than articles. Putting a notice on the redirect ought not be a problem, because readers don't normally see them - and we already do it, eg {{R from move}}. WP:RFD requires putting something on the (normally not seen) redirect page, so an editor doing that would see the "please don't delete - QR target" notice, as would an admin deleting the redirect.
Perhaps also add an explicit mention of QR codes to WP:RFD#KEEP, if there are enough of them. (It's actually a specific case of 4 "You risk breaking incoming ... links", but without a notice to say so it's probably not feasible to determine that the redirect is QR target.) Mitch Ames (talk) 09:09, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
if the categories are too small or the template not used enough it gets deleted, yes redirects are rare on qrcodes but they do happen, in case I'm not sure that either is used it just needs to be checked and there is only so many things that can get done at one time in this I'm particularly hamstrung without a car Gnangarra09:24, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
It needs any editor who has edited or dealt with locality or lga articles in the state - as it seems to be bogged down in mind numbing distinctions. JarrahTree07:59, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
Some additional coverage on the ABC today prompted me to start a draft article at Draft:Noongarpedia. Any help would be appreciated, at the moment its not much more than a couple of sentences and a bunch of refs. - Evad37[talk]03:31, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge and the wider Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge for the UK which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. If you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Australia and Oceania like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1600 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for Australia but fuelled by a contest if desirable to really get articles on every state/territory and subject mass improved. After every 100 articles done for Australia this would feed into the main Oceania one. I will start a 1000 one for your state if there is the support. I would like some support from wikipedians here to get the Challenge off to a start anyway with some articles to make doing a Destubathon for Australia and Oceania worthwhile! Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld21:14, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
Greetings WikiProject Western Australia/Archive 9 Members!
This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:
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For the Perth and Wa project - a new year suprise: -
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19:00, 1 January 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+303) . . Category:Writers from Perth, Western Australia (Up for renaming using AWB) (current) [rollback: 1 edit] [rollback] [vandalism
19:00, 1 January 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+304) . . Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Perth, Western Australia (Up for renaming using AWB) (current) [rollback: 1 edit] [rollback] [vandalism]
19:00, 1 January 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+303) . . Category:Transport in Perth, Western Australia (Up for renaming using AWB) (current) [rollback: 1 edit] [rollback] [vandalism]
19:00, 1 January 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+302) . . Category:Tourist attractions in Perth, Western Australia (Up for renaming using AWB) (current) [rollback: 1 edit] [rollback] [vandalism
19:00, 1 January 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+303) . . Category:Theatres in Perth, Western Australia (Up for renaming using AWB) (current)
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And so on. There are other editors who are in the WA or Perth projects who might wish to comment (most CFDs like this usually never get mentioned at the project talk pages that are relative to the change...)
