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on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Whopper 03:24, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments on standardising Roman Catholic and Anglican diocese names. Work commitments limit the time I can spend on Wikipedia and I've been a bit out of the loop so I'm not sure what happens next. Is this something that should be addressed at a Wikiproject level, or in the manual of style, or elsewhere?
Regarding Archdioceses: my understanding is that in Australia, we don't use the word Archdiocese, just Diocese, but the Metropolitan of a Province (roughly corresponding to states in most cases) is the Archbishop of the respective capital city diocese.
Claudine C. (talk) 05:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Sorry. You said to edit it mercilessly so I assumed you meant it was ready for primetime and that people could edit it once it was put up on the Talk Page. Sorry for misinterpreting your intentions. --Richard 07:42, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on the astronomy pronunciation issues. You might be interested in this essay: User:RandomCritic/Sandbox3. If you have the time or inclination to look through it, I'd appreciate any comments you have on the Australian pronunciations indicated in it -- I suspect they are several degrees away from correct.
There was also a discussion of possible phonemic representations of these Anglicized pronunciations at Help talk:Pronunciation_respelling_key. I don't like (at all) the particular system used on the adjoining Help page, but I could see some use for a more phonemic system which would obviate some of the inevitable problems with dialectal variation. RandomCritic 13:22, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
To be honest, I was surprised to see that mistake by the ABS although I know I shouldn't have been. Hopefully, by rigidly applying Wikipedia:Verifiability and other policies, people might eventually realise that the ABS isn't as perfect as they think and may give it a little less credibility in some areas. --AussieLegend (talk) 05:12, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
You're welcome to add a footnote but I think a change to the prose might be better than a footnote. You might care to read the first citation in the article[1], especially the definition for Statistical Divisions and Statistical Districts, which make it fairly clear that the locations don't necessarily relate to a specific physical location. As it stands, the article alludes to this but doesn't make it clear. --AussieLegend (talk) 08:56, 22 September 2008 (UTC)