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


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Great job

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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 fireFlank speed 21:01, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

  • 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)[reply]

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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)[reply]

Wikimedians to the Games

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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. VEOonefive 03:28, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Peveril...

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Brisbane Valley Highway

Hi Downsize43, I have responded to a comment you made in 2013 on the talk page of the above article. You may be interested in reading it. Cheers, Summerdrought (talk) 03:03, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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National Route, State Route

Hi Downsize43. Can I ask why, in edits such as [2], you are removing "National Route" and "State Route" from those route types in RJLs? - Evad37 [talk] 23:33, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The MOS says "route name or number or both". This is the form I have used in most of the RJL that I have done in the last 2 years, as it is less clutter and just as meaningful, especially when read in conjunction with Notes. All I was doing here was applying the same "standard" to some that I did years ago. Downsize43 (talk) 02:04, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
That part of MOS:RJL doesn't mean stripping the route to the bare numerals – it's about giving both a route designation and a road name when a road has both, and the order in which they are given. The MOS does have provision for abbreviating route type (I- instead of Interstate), but not for ommiting route type entirely. And it's not really "just as meaningful", since you're loosing the distinction between route types – especially for readers with a screen-reader or images turned off, but also for readers not familiar with what the shapes and symbols mean. There was a whole discussion on text labels for icons at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Australian_Roads/Archive_1#Other_considerations which you may want to review - Evad37 [talk] 03:34, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
No problem to revert recent changes. Fixing the rest may take a little longer. Downsize43 (talk) 04:32, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for understanding, and thank you for your work on improving road articles - Evad37 [talk] 05:47, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Many thanks, and happy new year to you. Downsize43 (talk) 11:52, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mail

Hi Downsize43,

A request for assistance please. I am about to begin a new article for the Thomson Developmental Road and have uploaded a map for it to Commons [3]. However, I have noticed that National Route 79 and State Route 14 which I have added to my map, no longer appear on the List of Roads in Queensland. Can you advise if these numbers are correct, and if not let me know what they should be, so that I can make the necessary amendments before I write the article. Also, if you have noticed any errors on my maps, please let me know as I will be more than happy to correct them.

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Surat Developmental Road

Hi John, I have begun a new article Surat Developmental Road, and I think I have it mostly correct. The Hema map I have been using dated 2007, shows the road differently at the eastern end, where it goes from Tara to Kogan instead of Tara to Kumbarilla. It was also numbered as State Route 71 on my map. Google maps and the Dept. of Transport and Main Roads show it as I have now depicted. Do you know when the change to State Route 87 and re-alignment occurred? Cheers, Graham Summerdrought (talk) 01:21, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No idea of earlier history or plans for this road. The article and map both look good to me. John Downsize43 (talk) 02:16, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ok no worries, thank you John. Summerdrought (talk) 02:30, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

1873 Roma Street railway station building and Dalby

What was written about Dalby was actually correct, but you are right that Dalby is not on the Warwick line and the way it was written leads to the impression that it was. I've rewritten those first few paragraphs of the history in the hope it makes the story more coherent. I also got rid of the red herring about Brisbane Central railway station (which played no role in the events being discussed). If you have a moment, could you re-read those paras and see if that's a better explanation of events. Thanks Kerry (talk) 02:54, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Kerry, All good. While I have your attention, I am not comfortable with the phrase "built from 1873 to 1940s circa by John Petrie" in the lede (Petrie died in 1892). Care to rephrase it somehow? Downsize43 (talk) 03:32, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Good catch. Thanks Kerry (talk) 03:54, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cavendish Road, Brisbane

Thanks for putting that material into RJL format (something I can edit at a pinch but not create in the first place). Kerry (talk) 07:30, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Philip Frederic Sellheim

If you are keen to write about him, remember that pre-1955 newspaper articles are out of copyright so you can copy text directly from them that you can't copy from ADB which is a copyright source. I often use pre-1955 obituaries from newspapers as the initial basis for a biography. For Sellheim, here are a number of newspaper obituaries (but because of the use of the telegraph, many newspapers will carry more-or-less similar versions of the obituary). [4] Have fun! Kerry (talk) 22:21, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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