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Template:AustraliaPM

Sir, I must once again state my disagreement with your removal of a second mention of Menzies from the template. While I see your point, my own argument is based on consistency. Are you willing to remove a second mention of Arvid Lindman from Template:SwedishPrimeMinisters? Of Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ from Template:NigerianPresidents? Of Grover Cleveland from Template:USPresidents? Of Wilhelm Marx from Template:GermanChancellors? Of Jacques Chirac from Template:FrenchPrimeMinisters? Of Alexandru Averescu from Template:RomanianPrimeMinisters? Of William Lyon Mackenzie King and Pierre Trudeau from Template:CanPM? If so, that would be somewhat drastic. If not, why not? What makes Australia special in this regard? Biruitorul 22:22, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really mind about those other templates, but it just happens that this is the way all of the Australian templates have been done for a long time (cf {{VictoriaPremiers}}), and I think it works better. If you mentioned Menzies' second term, you'd have to mention Deakin's second and third terms, and Fisher's second and third terms, plus Hughes' second and third terms, which would get very complicated since they were consecutive, but are actually separate terms since he was leading three different parties.

It seems much easier to keep all that information at Prime Minister of Australia#List of Prime Ministers, where there's space to fit it all in, and keep the template as a simple list. --bainer (talk) 01:22, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're right that it could get quite messy, but I do think there's reason to back my idea. However, if this is the stable consensus that exists for Australian templates, I suppose we can live with that. Thank you for your explanation. Biruitorul 06:00, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Wr

With all due respect I think I'll have to dispute your speedy of this one. Removing warnings is considered vandalism per VAND and it is a well known and accepted practice to block / protect user talk pages of users who constantly remove it. I must ask that you restore it..... -- Tawker 05:13, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eagle has undeleted them. As I said to him, I'm not going to delete them again, I'll just let my reasoning stand for itself and someone else can act if they like. I will have to disagree with you about these templates. I'm sure that blocking and protection can be used in many cases where a user is removing warnings, for example if a vandal is blanking warnings to confuse future RC patrollers (I'd block them myself in that case). But the problem with the templates is that they imply a universal approach, and policy status, when that is simply not the case. I've expressed these reasons here and here. How would you respond to those arguments? --bainer (talk) 06:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Undeleted the wr templates

I am sorry, but I undeleted these templates according to restoring ... speedy not in sych with this discussion. I don't think CSD was the proper avenue to get these deleted. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 05:21, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to delete them again, I'll just let my reasoning stand for itself and someone else can act if they like. I've done my best to explain my reasons here and here (including why I disregarded the outcomes of the TfD debates). How do you respond to those reasons? --bainer (talk) 06:02, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bainer, I also agree with your reasoning, and have left a note to that effect on ANI and DRV, but I also want to mention that I think your actions in this have been exemplary, both by showing a perfect example of why IAR is offical policy, and then by just letting the reasoning stand, which I hope it will, given the ANI discussion. So this is just a short note to say well done, as I feel wikipedia has a tendency to be too negative, where people are quick to tell you when you've done wrong, but are silent when you do well, which is a pity. Regards, MartinRe 13:25, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Status of Victorian election campaign

Thanks for your thoughts Stephen, the article hasn't been altered considerably since my message on your talk page though. The consensus at the moment is to wait until after the election before taking a surgeon's knife to it, although how that knife will be wielded has yet to be decided. Grumpyyoungman01 07:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ty for your advice!

Thanks for the advice! Now, can i ask you if there's any way to keep anyone except you, the administrators from editing my user pages? I'll try to write as many articles as i'll be able to, but i want my user page to be clean and under any circumstances, i'd like to keep it clean. I doesn't bother me if you, the administrators are gonna edit it, but i'd like to keep it clean from any other registered / unregistered user..

Thanks in advance, BC

Thanks

I wanted to use a preload in :fr, but I didn't know the includeonly trick, and didn't manage to do it.

Now, it works perfectly :

Jmfayard 10:40, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Parton v Milk Board (Vic)

Hi Stephen, as you're a law student, as I was wondering what you thought of the discussion at this article - the issue is about the inclusion of a category. I'm seeking third opinions because I don't think either of us are budging either way. Thanks. enochlau (talk) 12:36, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, posted my view to the talk page. --bainer (talk) 02:12, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

UNFanatic

He was warned a few times, http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk:UNFanatic&oldid=86593621

He also made sure to keep all the user pages that used the image up to date. see today's history on these pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Joseph_Sanderson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rubena http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jewbask http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geam9111 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Caligvla (talk • contribs) .

I'm not sure this necessarily counts as a proper warning. He has a warning now from an impartial admin, so that should suffice. If he continues to upload the image he will be blocked.

Don't forget to sign your posts on talk pages by the way. --bainer (talk) 02:01, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Humourous"

Hi. I was interested that you reverted my edit to Robert Garran with the edit summary "not a spelling mistake - Australian English in Australian articles". I'd like to reassure you that I am entirely sensitive to national varieties of English, and that "humorous" is considered the correct spelling worldwide. The most recent occasion this was queried was at Talk:Cane Toad, and I think I was able to convince the objector on that occasion that this is correct (see User talk:Malkinann for details). Best wishes, and thanks for your interest. --Spellmaster 11:14, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake, I seem to have misread the diff as changing "humour" to "humor", and missed the "ous" :) I've changed it once again. I'm sure you know how it is when people see bot or AWB edits, there's a tendency to get parochial and revert without completely reading what the change is! For your reference, by the way, the typical standard for Australian English is the Macquarie Dictionary, and that gives "humorous" as expected (although some editions of the Collins Australian dictionary give either as acceptable) so that would be the reference to give other people. --bainer (talk) 15:07, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indigenous Australians

Thank you for posting a suitable response to the KW mention. I couldn't think of anything meaningful to say in response to seeing a polemist being referred as a "good read". :P Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 14:44, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've blanked it all anyway after finding where those quotes come from. As I said on the talk page, I think it's safe to simply remove further comments if they cannot provide anything beyond that material. I don't like to completely dismiss users, but they've shown an unwillingness to engage in a discussion about the reliability of sources and simply continue to post more of the same material. --bainer (talk) 14:51, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I saw that. And I agree - the person had a very arrogant attitude with regards to the enforcement of their own views, regardless of the fact they didn't even sign half their posts or used an IP: "wasn't discussed to my satisfaction, I'll certainly bring that back. And I'll keep on bringing it back too." Most sections I work on are not nearly this controversial :) Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 15:22, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Geez, they don't give up. And they've in the meantime created Walter Roth and edited it as both Premier and IP address. While I've got no objection to such an article existing, the reason for its creation appears to be to further his(?) argument. Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 19:15, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

congrats on the 'sources'! (never thought i'd be amused by a n-nazi site) shld be more effective thn our attempts to rebut at least for other readers. on the persistance. reported him as sock, & he/they kindly used the ip i claimed is the sock on the roth page! so fingers crossed, just maybe... → bsnowball 10:34, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

guy with a grudge

You think that's Zordrac? I thought that Zordrac had a pretty consistent style, and this guy isn't following it. But then again, I think my sockpuppet-radar is a little out of whack lately. Zordrac did have a problem with Longhair, anyway. Hm. FreplySpang 01:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zordrac was Internodeuser before he was Zordrac. Internodeuser was initially banned for legal threats (towards Longhair and others) during a dispute about Port Arthur massacre. I can't imagine how many vandals there are out there on Internode with a grudge against Longhair. Although all of Internodeuser's socks did eventually gravitate to the subject area which got him into trouble, which these haven't seemed to.

I just saw that Longhair himself thinks they are separate so that's ok. Internodeuser was never computer savvy enough to do something like open proxy vandalism, so he's probably right. --bainer (talk) 02:35, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Mate, check your history - I've just reverted your userpage from some nasty vandalism by a user who clearly takes issue with moderators.

cheers Sambo 12:03, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]