User talk:Downsize43

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Welcome to my talk page. Downsize43 (talk) 07:12, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

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Great job

Welcome and thanks for including the link from Dangersleigh. (talk) 07:13, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Left justified images

Hi, I see you are removing images from the infobox. While I agree that including the image in the infobox makes the infobox look a little long, I am not sure left justifying the images and squeezing the text between the image and the infobox is an improvement. It may be worth seeing what other think. Cheers, Mattinbgn\^talk 11:52, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

WP:BOLD is a good policy to adopt—especially on articles about Australian country towns, where there is not a huge amount of interest. I am not particularly upset or bothered by the changes, I just have a personal dislike of squashed text. Others dislike long infoboxes without accompanying text. Different strokes, etc. I am certainly not wedded to any particular model and was genuinely interested in what others thought (or if anyone else really cared ...). Cheers, Mattinbgn\^talk 11:08, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Acheron class torpedo boat.

Somebody screwed up when the chose the hook. There was an ALT1 that was much better, and the ALT1 - not the hook that ran - was the one that was approved. But somebody grabbed the original hook anyway. Sigh! - The Bushranger _{Return fire}^{Flank speed} 21:01, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Dorrigo Plateau

Unfortunately no. If I had used a book it would definitely of been sourced. Since I am not that familiar with the subject I most probably used Google but wasn't sure enough if the source or sources were reliable enough but having found similar information elsewhere online, I assumed it would be ok to add the basic details without citations. It could of been this Dorrigo.com page or something similar. This article from the Sydney Morning Herald may be useful. Are you challenging the claims? - Shiftchange (talk) 03:55, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Jug Tavern

Your edits to the article were generally improvements. However*, I reverted your change to spaced en dashes. MOS:EMDASH says we can use either that or (what I prefer) unspaced em dashes to indicate an interruption, as long as we use them consistently within the article. Where there are two ways to do something (and no clear consensus on which way is better), such as whether to list categories alphabetically or in decreasing order of relevance, the rule is generally to respect the way the original editor did it. Daniel Case (talk) 14:12, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

• A word that I still like to avoid since it suggests a point of view more often than people realize.

I personally like spaced em dashes better, but the MOS says unspaced so that's what we use. Daniel Case (talk) 15:03, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

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Cobby

Hi, I was just wondering about your rationale for moving the image a little while ago. I don't have an issue with it per se, but I think that passage read more logically as it was, as one paragraph rather than two (quite short) ones. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 08:22, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedians to the Games

Hey. :) You're an Australian… so I thought I would ping you. :D Wikimedians to the Games is part of an effort to write the history of the Parlaympic Movement in Australia. (Your user page indicates you like Australian history…) The goal is to improve Australian Paralympic related content and two people will get an opportunity to fly to London for the 2012 Summer Paralympics and cover the Games for Wikinews, Wikipedia and Commons. :) If you're interested, please sign up. If you know anyone else who might be interested, that would also be fantastic. :D --LauraHale (talk) 11:24, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

List of expatriate Irish populations

Sorry for the late reply but if that article is about the Irish in the United Kingdom (full name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), then the Northern Irish can fall into that category. Yes such a subject can be a political hot potato but technically – personal preferences aside – they are Irish geographically and British politically. People from the UK are British because it's easy for the government and everyone else to class us as that, rather than British and Northern Irish. VEO^onefive 03:28, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Peveril...

...just to say that I've left you a message on the talk page of Peveril Castle. Hchc2009 (talk) 06:24, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

RfC:Infobox Road proposal

WP:AURD (Australian Roads), is inviting comment on a proposal to convert Australian road articles to {{infobox road}}. Please come and discuss. The vote will be after concerns have been looked into.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Roads/RfC:Infobox Road proposal

You are being contacted as a user who participated in previous discussions proposing the deletion of {{infobox Australian road}}, this RfC does not propose that.

Nbound (talk) 07:10, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

October 2013

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Google maps refs

Re [1]: The best way to format Google maps references is to use the {{Google maps}} template (which is built off the cite map template). To get the proper url leading to search results, including for directions (which can be used to measure distances), click the link icon at the top-right of the search results pane. Cheers, and thanks for the work you are doing on Australian road articles - Evad37 (talk) 02:00, 15 October 2013 (UTC)