User talk:28421u2232nfenfcenc/Archive 1

-2007

M5 Motorway Pic.
Hi, i just want to ask you how did you take that pic of the M5 South Western Motorway. You couldn't have taken it from the overpass because there is a fence there, and im pretty sure its been there for a while. Did you take it from a back of a truck or did you trespass your way to a vantage point? Can you answer? Im eager to know! Roadrunnerz45 04:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC) Nothing shonky. Beaconsfield Street overpass. If there's a fence, I stick the camera lens through the gaps. J Bar 04:47, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that
Sorry about that I knew before hand that the Oak Flats to Dunmore is fully NSW Government hands with four lanes to be provided to end a nortorious bottleneck in that area!

It must of been a mistake of me to put two of the same source, sorry about that.

The Herons Creek (2km north of Kew) to Coopernook Project on the Pacific Highway has a cost blow-out to $300 million Contruction to start in mid-2007 with 'approval back in January 2007. SIS and EIS reports on the RTA website.

Road distances
We tend to use road distances - any method is fair, I tend to use whereis.com but there is the caveat that a reasonableness check is required, as sometimes it does not choose the best or most obvious route. With distances between towns, any decent road atlas marks distances and they rarely disagree with each other by more than a km or two. It's not the *most* encyclopaedic way (per WP:NOR) but I'd maintain that a distance is a distance and it's not going to matter who measures it, it's still an actual distance on the ground that any other person can come along and check. Orderinchaos 08:42, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Karuah (and other) population figures
The ABS figures for whole LGAs are fairly accurate but once you get down to areas within an LGA the ABS Quickstats figures tend to lose relevance as the ABS defined statistical areas often don't match the geographical areas defined by organisations such as the Geographical Names Board, Department of Lands, Department of Local Government or individual councils. This is very true in the case of Karuah.

If you have a look at a map of the localities within the Port Stephens LGA and compare that to the ABS website you'll see what I mean. A map of the Port Stephens LGA showing localities in the Port Stephens LGA is available from the Port Stephens Council website. This is the same information you'll find at the Geographical Names Board website but in a more convenient form. When you look at Karuah on the ABS website the difference should be obvious. The ABS data covers part of the town itself as well as some surrounding areas to the west. The fact that the data doesn't include the parts of Karuah on the eastern side of the river (yes, those houses are part of the town) means that it's not even an accurate representation of just the township itself. If you consider also that areas to the west, which extend right out to the Karuah bypass, are well outside what most people would consider to be the actual town of Karuah then the figure becomes even less representative of just the township and when you examine the Port Stephens Wards & Localities map you'll see that the area that the ABS figures are concerned with represents only a small area within what is actually Karuah.

You can see the discrepancies in other areas within the LGA as well. Take, for example, East Seaham. On the ABS website you see that the data for "East Seaham" covers all of East Seaham, Balickera, Eagleton, parts of Raymond Terrace and Twelve Mile Creek and a tiny section of Ferodale. Another example is Anna Bay which, according to the ABS, covers parts of Williamtown, Salt Ash, Bobs Farm, Anna Bay, One Mile, Nelson Bay and Fingal Bay.

In short, ABS Quickstats is not a good source for population data within the Port Stephens LGA, and probably other areas as well. You need to look at more detailed data within the ABS site or approach Port Stephens Council directly since PSC has already used the ABS data to compile more representative statistics in many areas. There is an option within Quickstats to locate data by CCD which gives you a more accurate result but I find it a bit cumbersome to use.

As for the population figure of 2,000, that was supplied by somebody else. I did make a quick call to the Council and the person I spoke to said that it is probably a better estimate given that geographical Karuah is a lot larger than the area covered by the ABS Quickstats data although it still isn't accurate. For example, he said that it's common for many members of the large Aboriginal community at Karuah not to appear in the census data at all so the actual figure can be hard to pin down. That's why I haven't gotten around to including population figures in the Port Stephens Council articles. --AussieLegend 08:00, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Singleton population
There doesn't seem to be a single figure for the actual town of Singleton. The population is a combination of the figures for multiple areas such as Hunterview (2,087), Singleton - Balance (5,783), Glenridding (174), part of Warkworth (551), part of Camberwell (379), Singleton Heights - Balance (4,776) and Darlington-Singleton (846). It may even include the Singleton Military Area (153). There seems to be some overlap between Darington-Singleton and Warkworth so I don't think you can simply add all the figures together. You'll probably need to look at individual CCDs. The Singleton Council website only seems to give a figure for the whole LGA which extends well beyond the town itself. --AussieLegend 07:07, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Raleigh, New South Wales
Now created.--Grahamec 11:09, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Tenders
Some tenders are not listed by saying "NOT AN OPEN TENDER" on some projects (eg Sheehan Bridge duplication) I was doing reference checks (in the project field investigations).

It will be EXCELLENT that in 2009; 50% of the Pacific Highway and 96% of the Hume Highway will be dual carriageway!

Do you know of any plans of F3 widening north of Kariong to Somersby, currently only 4 lanes (2 in each direction) when their should be at least 3 in each direction from Wahroonga to Tuggerah interchange????

I am pleased that the F5 widening works will be going ahead in 2009, widening works worth over $150 million south of Brooks Road to Raby Road, then all the way to Narellan Road. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.216.138.134 (talk) 11:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: National Highway
I've been dabbling with SVG maps recently, so I'll probably in the next couple of weeks make a scalable, editable map of the highway network. I knew that current map was outdated as soon as I edited it, because it pre-dates the "AusLink" term. - Mark 10:04, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Sheehan Bridge
The tender was "awarded" to and the winner is FRH Group Group Pty Ltd. (Source: RTA Sheehan Bridge - Last updated: 25 September 2007) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.216.138.134 (talk) 10:22, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

New England Hwy
Has the Halcombe Hill realignment completed and open to vehicelar traffic yet??

If 'yes' > I will remove it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.216.138.134 (talk) 08:26, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

new websites
Two "New websites" are now provided for you regarding the northern and southern sections on the Hume highway.

NBA Central
Done. I hope this solves your problem  Soxrock Talk/Edits 13:26, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Why make a template for just two divisions (Central and Pacific) and ignore the others? If you make a change, you should make it uniform for all pages. 65.6.108.7 (talk) 18:56, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Hunting down vandalism
Thanks - I only had the BOM article on my watchlist, reverted the vandalism there, then checked the user's other contribs. About 70% of the time a user or IP will vandalise only one article, but I find it always pays to check the user's contribs just in case. The user I'm most proud of catching, although it was a while after making the vandalism, was 211.29.234.85|this user - check out my contribs at the time. I am paranoid about my watchlist and have significantly reduced it recently because I used to check every single diff in a 700-page watchlist; this and this caused me to become much more paranoid. I'll try not to tell you to stuff too many beans up your nose. Graham 87 04:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Standings template
Just a note; whenever you change their position, you must include the coloring bar. You made a mistake with simply switching the Cavs and Bucks, you must include the formula above them. The reason the Bucks were highlighted in the Cavs article was because the formula above the Cavs was the Bucks formula. Remember these for next time, Ok? Thanks  Soxrock Talk/Edits 02:39, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

RE:Sydney Airport
Hi Roadrunner. The edits that I have made the Sydney Airport page was the airlines and destinations section. I do not know any about the runway closures at SYD and I have never flown or have been to Sydney. Bucs2004 (talk) 04:54, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

about the standings template
really your stadings template is better, but when I enter in lakers page isn't updated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leeeeoo (talk • contribs) 12:03, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

ok. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leeeeoo (talk • contribs) 12:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

nba standings
to up date the lakers page I have to update the season\divison page? how update the date? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leeeeoo (talk • contribs) 14:54, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Edit stats
I check that page out all the time, to see how I'm going on Wikipedia. It's pretty cool. In September 2005, I was doing spelling corrections of "offical" which dragged my edit count up to unbelievable levels. I actually didn't have Internet access in two days in that month. I think the most number of edits I've made in a day was on a day in August 2006 when I added template:Selected anniversary to the talk pages of all the days. See this contribution list for that. I have sometimes not used edit summaries by accident - my estimate is that I didn't use an edit summary 50 times at most. My earliest edits didn't have an edit summary and this edit didn't have one either (thow I the next one certainly did. I think edit summaries make it so much easier to review a page history - particularly because I can't see changes in diffs as easily as sighted people. Graham 87 05:21, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: NBA season 2007-08
Well, you are right. Being the youngest to score 20,000 is probably not a notable occurrence when we look at the season as a whole. So, feel free to remove it. Chris! c t 01:28, 26 December 2007 (UTC)