User talk:Fiftyfires
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Great to see someone interested in the history of Brisbane
Great to see your interest in the History of Brisbane has persuaded you to "come in from the the cold" and create an account. I write a lot of material about Queensland history so always pleased to see someone else interested in the topic. I notice that you have been adding the category History of Brisbane to a lot of articles. One advantage of having a user account is that you can add categories more efficiently by enabling special features in your preferences.
If you click on Preferences (top right of screen), then click on the tab called "Gadgets", then scroll down to the heading called "Editing", you will see a checkbox list. One of the items is HotCat. If you click on the checkbox for HotCat, you will find it much easier to add categories to articles. When you are *reading* an article (not in Edit mode), you will see little "-" and "+/-" symbols against each category which allow you to remove or modify them. At the end of the list of categories, you will see a lone "+" sign which allows you to add additional categories. This gadget is "smart" and will try to guess what category you are looking for as you type it. It makes manipulating categories much faster than going into Edit mode.
If I can be of any help, please don't hesitate to ask me, either on my Talk page or by emailing me at kerry.raymond@wikimedia.org.au Kerry (talk) 23:46, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
- So sorry for replying so late!!! Yes I am a big fan of Brisbane history, it is so often neglected and Melbourne/Sydney's history is much more well known and focused upon than Brisbane. I realize you write predominantly about Brisbane's heritage buildings, while that is awesome, I think you could also expand to some historical events of Brisbane, etc; Great Fire of Brisbane, Anti-Chinese Riots, Bread and Blood Riots, various Aboriginal conflicts in the 19th century specifically the 1829 conflict in South Brisbane, the Pineapple Rebellion (One of Australia's least known about civilian incursions when armed civilians seized control of the Queensland Parliament House and held hostage the Premier and the senate).--Fiftyfires (talk) 07:34, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
- I have written little bits and pieces on some of these, but I don't have a lot of sources to work from (it certainly sounds like you know more about them than I do - I've never heard of a couple of them). Happy to collaborate though. The Qld Heritage Register is a specific project I am doing (having negotiated CC-BY access to the information) with several hundred articles still to go statewide, so that's my current focus for the next few/several months, but I do take a break from it from time to time and work on other things. Kerry (talk) 06:13, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
- Haha I messaged you on facebook :P--Fiftyfires (talk) 23:07, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
- I have written little bits and pieces on some of these, but I don't have a lot of sources to work from (it certainly sounds like you know more about them than I do - I've never heard of a couple of them). Happy to collaborate though. The Qld Heritage Register is a specific project I am doing (having negotiated CC-BY access to the information) with several hundred articles still to go statewide, so that's my current focus for the next few/several months, but I do take a break from it from time to time and work on other things. Kerry (talk) 06:13, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
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Adelaide city centre (2005),
St Peter's Cathedral & the Botanic Gardens,
Elder Park rotunda & UniSA's Brookman Blding,
Montage
Tsk tsk! Well if certain IP editors wish to continue messing things up under the guise of "fixing grammatical errors" unilaterally without going to the talk page, I guess we will have to keep putting them back to how they were :) Actually, that picture of the Shrine of Remembrance looks okay, probably better than the South Bank from the river one, what do you think? --Saruman-the-white (talk) 01:22, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
- Some of his edits weren't too bad, but they really irk me when they just decide to do it after we had just worked out a montage. It really annoyed me how he removed the Queenslander house in favour of another park image (Roma Street Parkland). So I just decided to find the original images and restore them, I couldn't find the South Bank image you were using so I just left that one. For the time being, (until we get some good images of Parliament House) or some other city landmark I think we should just leave the Shrine in there. Perhaps the South Bank image could be changed, but really up to you.
I'm planning on redoing the entire infobox, which will mean I will use a "standard city infobox", and I'm worried that might piss off the "Australian template infobox users". Ours is so ordinary though, I want to include things on there like the Coat of Arms, City Flag, Historical bits and pieces like past countries and colonies, latin mottos and city nicknames, and much more.--Fiftyfires (talk) 01:36, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
- Oh actually your idea of using the Treasury Building is probably better than the Shrine of Remembrance, come to think of it .... If we can find a decent image of it that is ....
Ahh, yes. I had wondered about the infobox format too, and at some point years ago I changed it to include the city flag and coat of arms too. It turns out though that it is no accident that the Australian infoboxes are different. The reason is this. See there is a note in italics at the top of the article saying that the subject matter of the article is the metro area, not the city? (ie the LGA - the local government area). You'll then see that it links you to the article on City of Brisbane (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Brisbane) which has its own separate article. In America and other places, the articles are actually about the cities proper (ie New York City is about the city of New York, same goes for LA - so they have the flags of those cities and you'll also see that eg NYC is listed as having 8 million, LA as about 3.5 and Chicago as 2.5 million!) When Australians talk about their cities, we talk about the whole metro areas - that is why in our conception, Bondi is "in Sydney" (even though it doesnt fall within the city of Sydney), St Kilda is "in Melbourne" even though it isn't actually in the City of Melbourne. In fact, the City of Sydney (the LGA with its own flag, motto, etc) has a very small population of less than 200 000! Smaller than Townsville! The City of Melbourne has only about 170 000! Smaller than Geelong! See articles on City of Sydney, City of Melbourne, City of Brisbane, City of Perth, etc. But the articles that are just on Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, etc are about the whole metro areas which are made up of many LGAs ("cities") - so Brisbane includes Cities of Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, Moreton Bay, Redland, among others ... Sydney includes about 40 LGAs!) As such, if our infoboxes were to include flags, etc, they would have to include a shitload of flags because you can't just choose one flag out of all those LGAs that make up the metro area. I do believe its all included in the actual article about Brisbane City though, same goes for Logan City, Ipswich City, etc --- but the Greater Brisbane metro area as defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics doesn't have a flag or motto, etc. There definitely are benefits to the Australian way of talking about our cities though (ie talking about the metro areas rather than just the city proper) --- think about it --- in our conception NYC would have 22 mill, LA 17 mill, Chicago 9 mill, etc! London would have 20 mill instead of 8 mill! And if we talked about cities proper rather than metro areas in our main articles, our cities would all be tiny! I imagine no one bothered explaining it..... I do think that the flag of Brisbane City Council in particular (and C of Arms) is very aesthetic though, and I always like that kind of info about historic county, etc - I wonder if we can have a sidebar in the history section like on the Qld article? Must be some way to include some of this stuff--Saruman-the-white (talk) 03:02, 5 July 2015 (UTC) Also I have to say regarding the Queenslander in the montage, it is one of the better ideas anyone has had so I definitely think it should be retained given it is something really iconic to Brisbane--Saruman-the-white (talk) 03:16, 5 July 2015 (UTC)