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Hi Rangasyd. Thanks for your edits, but I created the list according to List of Star Wars cast members and List of Harry Potter cast members, in which "Principal cast" is a section, "Main characters" is a section, etc. Don't you think is better to put "Main characters", "Secondary characters" and "Minor characters" as sections? Greetings. Tajotep (talk) 19:02, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Thanks so much for creating that page - it'd been on my to-do list forever but I'd always struggled to come up with the sources to put together a useful list. The Drover's Wife (talk) 00:26, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you had removed the photo I added of the First Impression Sculpture from The Rocks, Sydney page, from my visit there in 2006 (see here). Can you provide an explanation for that edit? I realize it was only a small part of your edit but I thought it was a worthwhile image to have in that gallery... --Egpetersen (talk) 21:54, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
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You have rolled out many hundreds of articles and taken many photos to illustrate them! Thank you! Kerry (talk) 07:32, 21 March 2019 (UTC) |
There are 3 Wikipedia pages covering these street numbers 149-151 George Street, The Rocks. You have added your image to 147 and 149-151 but not to 145. Since I was in the city I thought that I would take a photo of 145. However, I now see that your photo seems to cover 145, and in fact has the same properties as are covered in the old photo on 145. So I have added your photo to 145. I believe that 145 is the property on the corner, then 147-149 is in the centre and 151 on the left. These numbers are also shown on the awning in the old photo. You show in your caption for your photo on 147 that "147 George Street is located at right, pictured in 2019." I believe that 147 is to the right of 145, which is on the corner. You might also want to look at your caption for 149-151. I am not making an issue of this, but just suggesting that you to take another look at it. I might have confused myself with it all. By the way, I notice that you are doing some great things with this heritage stuff. I myself decided to take some heritage photos when I saw the banner at Wikipedia asking for people to take photos of heritage buildings, etc. Collywolly (talk) 10:39, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
I have noticed that you have updated the wikis of abolished and new NSW agencies and departments. The problem is, legally, the abolition does not occur until 1 July 2019. See:
So for now, I suggest we stop updating dates to 2 April. If possible, we should change the dates from 2 April to 1 July for abolition and establishment dates. Since the changes on wiki are extensive and have been done, I reckon we should keep the tense (past tense for the soon-to-be abolished agencies and present tense for future agencies), otherwise it will be extremely troublesome. Marcnut1996 (talk) 07:30, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
fyi - lies in an unassessed category or two https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rangasyd/sandbox/Template:Rivers_of_the_Murray%E2%80%93Darling_basin JarrahTree 08:43, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for info re categorising and describing images. I will start by revisitng all of the categories that I have created while adding heritage photos and add more relevant categories. I will also change the category, where I have included it as "New South Wales State Heritage Register" to one of the sub categories which reflects the locality that the property is in. Thanks for your help. Collywolly (talk) 02:23, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
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sorry to bother https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Grammar_School is a combined primary and secondary anglican school - maybe you havent got to secondary (as opposed to high) yet in your thorough checking everything (very good work there) -just when i saw removal of high - thought I'd drop a note - keep up the hard work, !! JarrahTree 14:11, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
This edit appears to introduce a error in the ((coord)) (look at how it displays in the title) but it's not immediately obvious to me how to fix it. Mitch Ames (talk) 10:02, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
In syd at this moment, keep seeing buildings in cbd that look like candidates for articles even if they arent heritage, but hell.. so little time... JarrahTree 13:53, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
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Template:Infobox high court has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox court. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Colin M (talk) 17:25, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi, just letting you know that I've restored the table of descriptions that I suggested. I certainly have no problem with you publishing your own suggestions. Cheers. Onetwothreeip (talk) 11:04, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
It would be unnecessary for someone to say their child was in a "private independent" school, just as it would be unnecessary for them to use any lead sentence to describe their child's education. We don't write lead sentences, or any part of the article, in order to be repeated as part of casual conversation. We write to make content as encyclopaedic as possible, giving readers information. You seem to be stuck on describing non-government schools as concurrently both independent and private.
On the contrary, Catholic schools are private and not independent, while non-Catholic private schools are independent (and private). It seems like you're pleading that there are a few Catholic schools which are not part of what you are considering to be the mainstream Catholic system, and I have no problem with describing that as such. I don't think what I'm saying is at all controversial but I can get sources for you if you wish. Onetwothreeip (talk) 09:18, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
Schools in Australia may be classified as either government or non-government schools. Government schools are the direct responsibility of the Director-General of Education (or equivalent) in each state or territory and receive funding from the relevant state or territory government. Non-government schools can be further classified, based on self-identification of the school’s affiliation. Non-government schools are grouped for reporting as Catholic (including Catholic affiliated independent schools) or independent (other non-government schools, including Anglican). Non-government schools operate under conditions determined by state and territory government regulatory authorities and receive funding from the Australian Government and relevant state or territory government.
Non-government schools are grouped for reporting as Catholic (including Catholic affiliated independent schools) or independent (other non-government schools, including Anglican).Furthermore, "private schools" and "non-government schools" are interchangeable terms, but "government school" is a very uncommon term for what is more often known as a public school, or somewhat often as a state school. Onetwothreeip (talk) 22:57, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
Please see recent two tags for clarification. Help? --LilHelpa (talk) 20:00, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
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I can sort-of produce Wikipedia articles from these. See User:Kerry Raymond/sandbox for St Johns at Wollombi (note it looks scrappy because the NSW HD entry is scrappy). The tool I built was for the purpose of generating additional text for NSW SHR entries that were minimal but there was better content for that site in one of the other NSW HD entries. That is, the goal was to produce history, description and significance content rather than infoboxes, categories etc. Having said that, I think the main thing my tool does not do is state which heritage register it is coming from (in this case it is the Hunter Heritage Regional Environmental Plan -- whatever that is) as that wasn't needed for the NSW SHR purpose. I probably could extract the name of the heritage register from the NSW HD if needed. I assume my photo extracting tool would work too again with a little tweaking (noting I have yet to extract and upload about half the photos from the NSW SHR which is probably more of a priority for me). The main question is whether the arbitrary NSW HD entries are notable under WP:GNG. If they are, then tell me the database ID (which appears in the NSW HD URL) and I can email you the draft article. Kerry (talk) 00:56, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, I am the person who nominated the St Johns Anglican Church Precinct for the NSW SHR and the Australian National Heritage List. As part of the project I added the Heritage Section to the Camden Wiki page. (I am also a member of the Camden Historical Society which has just created a working group to promote the nomination of some part of the Macarthur Legacy for inclusion on the Australian National Heritage List.) I have undone your last set of changes to the Camden wiki page to reflect the content of the SHR and local knowledge. I think it important to acknowledge Camden Park House & Gardens are no longer attached to Camden Park Estate and Belegenny Farm. They are physically separate, have different owners and are operated separately. This is reflected by their individual listings in the SHR. Also, I think it is important to understand the St Johns Anglican Church Precinct and the St John's the Evangelist Church building are not the same thing. Precinct is remnant of the original Macarthur gifts. The Church is only one small part of the Precinct. I had started on a wiki page for the St Johns Anglican Church Precinct, but you have beaten me to it, good work! The problem I found is the Heritage Conservation Management Plan contains many errors and omissions. I corrected the pertinent ones in the documents accompanying my SHR nomination. Over the next little would like to add corrections (with references) to your wiki page. Do you want to work with me on this or is it ok for me to modify the page? There is a great deal of local community interest the precinct at present. The local church is planning to sell over 60% of the precinct for development (aged care facility), this plan is not popular with the community. Fletcher User:Fj42 21:24, 18 November 2019.
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Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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1 | Rosguill (talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Onel5969 (talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | JTtheOG (talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Arthistorian1977 (talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | DannyS712 (talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Boleyn (talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Ymblanter (talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Cwmhiraeth (talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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