User talk:Adam.J.W.C./Archive1

Edits
Hi Mindys12345, I didn't think to mention the spelling corrections that I've made, including for the Sydney Coach Terminal - I love the work that you've done on that page, it's very comprehensive, and is a lot more informative than the last time I visited there (prettier, too!). Brilliant job. Lou 02:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I knew that you would have had the inside track! The information is way to complete for someone that just walks past it regularly. I think I could learn a bit about hyperlinking by looking at that page (I'm crap for that, but a whiz at spelling). Thanks again, Adam Lou 22:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Preview
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thanks again. --Geniac 17:53, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Transferring photos
Could you please give me some advice on transfering photos from my computor and into wiki articles
 * See Help:Contents/Images and media. --Geniac 13:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

How many hits
is there a way to check how many hits my page has had apart from my own
 * What page do you mean? --Geniac 13:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't know of any way to see how many people have viewed a particular article. Try asking at Village pump (technical). Are you an employee of the Sydney Coach Terminal? Please see Conflict of interest. You asked me if there was a way to check how many hits "my" page has had; please see Ownership of articles. --Geniac 12:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Blanking
It is always better to edit what is already in an article rather than blanking it then re-posting new content. --Geniac 12:33, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

What happened? Where did it all go?? Adam, say it ain't so! Lou 04:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Please do not delete content from articles on Wikipedia, as you did to Sydney Coach Terminal. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. --Geniac 05:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

"Hi I thought that if I created an article then I could deleted it." - Yes, you could, but why would you want to? The Sydney Coach Terminal article has good information and is nicely formatted. - "...nobrainer comment about the article..." - That comment was made at Talk:List of long-distance trails in Australia. Please re-read what was said. Bduke said "The merge looks like a no-brainer". That comment has nothing to do with the quality of the Sydney Coach Terminal article. Also, please do not remove parts of other people's comments like you just did in this edit. Thank you. --Geniac 05:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Sydney Coach Terminal do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Novalis 01:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Sydney Coach Terminal
Hi Adam, I originally found this as a " random article" but I have an interest because I work for one of the other companies in that group!! Lou 23:32, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

YHA

 * (cur) (last) 08:54, 18 March 2007 Mindys12345 (Talk | contribs) (Foot-and-mouth crisis - added some infor about foot and mouth, if you don't think this should be here please delete)

Ouch. Yes, since it looks like a copy of the first part of the Foot and mouth disease, it is not needed. And since I was reading an article about YHA, coming across a long section on a disease had me wondering if some mistake had copied part of one article into another. Anyway, I think the most important is simply "the disease is highly contagious and tourism and travel were very restricted during the quarantine time" which is I think why it hurt the organization, right? Shenme 06:46, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Cumberland Plain
Cumberland Plain exists today mainly as an ecological concept, a group of plant communities indigenous to the area. Cumberland County has, I think, different borders (though there's clearly plenty of overlap) and is relevant to town planning. Joestella 05:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I am not sure that cumberland county & plain should be merged as they cover different locations. The map of the plain does not include parts in the east which are part of the county. --Astrokey 44 10:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Image tagging for Image:TROY.jpg
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Use of hangon
Greetings! I'm a bit confused as to your use of the "hangon" template on newly created pages. There has been no speedy deletion template used on those pages so the hangon template doesn't apply. Are you planning on creating these articles (such as Sydney Pass, Bondi Explorer, etc.)? If so, you might want to first flesh out the article in a subpage, perhaps User:Mindys12345/sandbox or User:Mindys12345/Bondi Explorer instead of creating these empty pages. Cheers, --Rkitko (talk) 06:42, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

All those See Alsos
It's not appropriate to add Sydney Explorer to every attraction that the bus stops at! "See also" is for related articles. If people want to know about the Explorer they'll go to the article and see the destinations there. --Steve (Stephen)talk 08:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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'See also' links on Troy Cassar-Daley
Hello, the 'See also' section is only for links to articles which which are (a) not already included in the article and (b) directly related to the topic of the article.

I removed these links, and I notice you re-add, so I thought I would explain my reasoning:
 * The following were already linked in the article: ARIA Music Awards, Australian country music, Tamworth Country Music Festival
 * The following were already mentioned in the article but not linked - they are now: Tamworth, New South Wales
 * The following are not specifically related to Troy Cassar-Daley: Australian rock, Bluegrass music
 * The following was removed because a more specific link was included: Country music (the more specific link is Australian country music)
 * The following still need to be worded into the article: Guitar, Mildura Country Music Festival

Guitar would be best linked in the intro paragraph where it should be mentioned that he is a guitarist. Mildura Country Music Festival would be best included in a paragraph/section describing when he performed there (assuming he did, of course!) If you have any questions let me know! -- Chuq 02:13, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Scanned maps
All those maps you have uploaded are copyright Gregorys. Copyright extends for 70 years in Australia so you cannot simply scan them and release them as GFDL! --Steve (Stephen)talk 03:57, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I've asked for administrative help, as I don't want you to waste your work. You won't be able to delete them yourself without admin privileges, but let's see what others say. --Steve (Stephen)talk 04:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Did you get clarification that scanned copyright maps were OK? I notice you've started adding them back --Steve (Stephen)talk 05:44, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Given that they are copyright, not GFDL, and scanning them to display in articles does not constitute fair use I think you should tag them all for deletion. --Steve (Stephen)talk 09:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Ezek. 26: 1-11; 29:17-20
I have tagged an article you authored with db-nocontext. While I understand that you have every intention of finishing it when you next can, I cannot see how this article can be developed. Wikipedia does not simply host bible verses; these verses must have a place in society or have sources describing its meaning and implications. Please consider adding attributed content to Book of Ezekiel instead. Thanks. -  SpL o T  // 11:19, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Archive
Regarding user talk pages, it is best to not delete notices, but instead, to archive them. You can find how to do this at How to archive a talk page. Actively erasing non-harassing personal messages is often interpreted as hostile. In the past, this kind of behavior has been viewed as uncivil. For this reason, if your deletion of notices and concerns on your user talk page is to keep the "clutter" down, I suggest that you instead create archives for these messages. --Geniac 18:53, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Kingsgrove, New South Wales
Please do not revert to previous edits of this article because it contains vandalism. I spent a lot of time deleting vandalism that had built up over time and put a lot of work creating the new info box. J Bar 05:57, 16 April 2007 (UTC) Mindys12345 06:02, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
 * why don't you simply remove the vandalism whilst keeping the same format
 * What's wrong with the new format? All the suburbs in the Sydney area are slowly being updated to this new format with Info boxes. This is a Sydney wikiproject. The boxes contain a lot of useful information and there's field for more information to be added. J Bar 06:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Sydney Maps
Hi Mindys12345, thanks for your message on my talk page. Although I actually removed a copyrighted photograph, not a map, I've had a look at the maps you've uploaded and I'm afraid you'll definitely need to tag them all for speedy deletion as they are in violation of copyright law. Unless we can find confirmation that the author of the maps died before 1954 (which seems unlikely if they were published in 1945) then they won't become public domain until 70 years after the date of the author's death, which is therefore likely to be 2024 at the absolute earliest. At that point, the maps will become public domain, so the GFDL tag you've applied is inappropriate. You can read about the reasons for these dates in our article on Australian copyright law. Hope that helps, --YFB ¿  03:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Scanned maps
I'm tagging all the uploaded maps for deletion, per our discussions --Steve (Stephen)talk 05:53, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * And the Sydney Explorer route map is a copyright image too. --Steve (Stephen)talk 06:13, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Australia maps
The problem is that it's not enough for the copyright owner to grant permission for use of images on Wikipedia. There also has to be permission for the images to be reused free by anyone. See GFDL and WP:COPYRIGHT. NawlinWiki 12:17, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I mean reused by anyone, for anything. That includes someone publishing the maps and selling them. Again, read WP:COPYRIGHT for a fuller explanation. If your source doesn't want other people reprinting his maps and selling them, he shouldn't be giving permission for them to be used here. NawlinWiki 00:38, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, if it has the proper license. People do post copyrighted images here without permission, and we do our best to remove them. NawlinWiki 01:11, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Civility
What got you so annoyed that you had to use this edit summary? --Steve (Stephen)talk 22:56, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism warnings
Please just leave one warning for an instance of vandalism, and please don't make legal threats as you did here or --Steve (Stephen)talk 23:17, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Personal Attacks
Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. DXRAW 01:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Lion Island
Hi! I removed the see also list, as a list of related islands is better served by a category.

To make a category, you type  in the search box at the left and hit "Go". If the category exists you will get its page, else you will get a blank page. If you get a blank page, edit it and add a link to the category to which your new category belongs (Every category should be a subcategory of some other). Your category now exists and you can add things like  to articles to add them to your category.

The best way to learn is to look at the source for an existing example. You can hit the 'edit' button to look at the source, use the preview button to see the effects of changes and just not hit the save button when you have finished experimenting (use the back button on your browser instead).

I've since found the category Category:Islands of New South Wales and added Lion Island to it. Use it as an example to learn from! If you did want to create a category for the Hawkesbury you would it by editing the page and inserting the line. This would make the category Islands of the Hawkesbury River as a subcategory of Islands of New South Wales. Before doing this, think carefully though:
 * Are the enough islands or articles about such islands to justify a category?
 * What exactly is meant by the name fo the category? Does it include the Nepean, Pittwater, Broken Bay, ...?  Possibly the name I plucked out of the air (Islands of the Hawkesbury River) is not the best name for such a category.

I hope the above is useful. Happy Editing. John Dalton 00:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Hint: A good way to find existing categories is to look at existing articles about similar things and see what their categories are. I found the Islands of New South Wales category by looking at the Shark Island (Port Jackson) article. John Dalton 00:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

dude
Spiny things. --Wayne Neptune 03:16, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes the globes
I like the globes they remind me I'm on Earth sometimes I forget. Do you have a favorite flavor of Danish? If so I would include a picture on your page it would be awesome. I'm watching the Golden Girls right now bye.--Wayne Neptune 03:33, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Finland Right now
I kind of wander. I love Australia it is awesome! Talk to you soon mate.--Wayne Neptune 03:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about the random questions.
I'm bored. I'm a writer with writers block and I found some random person to talk to. If I'm annoying I'll stop. A danish pastry is a type of dessert but it doesn't matter. You don't have to answer. I'm going to talk to a friend about his favorite Sydney attractions and see if I can contribute to any articles. Wonderful town.--Wayne Neptune 03:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm new if you can't tell
I am just getting used to editing and writing articles. I don't know much about what people are talking about on the discussion pages. Not a fan of other social web sites I'd rather read random wiki articles and discuss interesting stuff.--Wayne Neptune 04:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC) Sydney seems so clean compared to cities I used to. Have you been to all these attractions you write about? Drugs aren't cool, yea!--Wayne Neptune 04:34, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

nav box
The problem with such a box is that it is cluttering the Lion Island article with information that isn't really about Lion Island. How about writing an article on the Hawkesbury region? It can contain all the data in the proposed box and better still summarise all the data on the Hawkesbury region. The Lion Island article can mention that it is in the region, along with a wikilink to the region article. John Dalton 05:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heathcote High School
Hi, I wonder if I may ask you to add your opinion to Articles for deletion/Heathcote High School, please? BlueValour 00:13, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Sydney CBD
Good idea. Go ahead and change the link, I wouldn't want to take credit for it. Tiefighter 10:45, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

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Pittwater
pittwater comes up as pittwater council. i have checked. Mindys12345 23:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I reverted that change when I noticed that too. Strange that such a large body of water doesn't have its own article? --Steve (Stephen)talk 23:28, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

are you trying to say that i should write one
 * If you want to. I think the current Pittwater Council contains much that could be split into a geographical Pittwater article. --Steve (Stephen)talk 00:00, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

vandalism
CAN SOMEONE FIX A BIT OF VANDALISM IN THE Team article
 * Fixed it, no need to create a warning here lest someone think you were warned yourself! --Steve (Stephen)talk 05:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Milson Island, New South Wales sounds awesome!
Thanks for all those locations in Australia I enjoyed reading about I place I wish to visit for a long time someday--Wayne Neptune 05:09, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

RFC
Could you please explain your edits to Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras? It seems disruptive to me.--cj | talk 14:43, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * And this also?--cj | talk 14:47, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Please don't insert your personal biases into articles again, as doing so may ultimately result in your being blocked from editing for disruption. Thanks,--cj | talk 02:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * With Gay tourism, I cannot see how that addition would be disruptive, I mean what is the main pupose of gay tourism, what are they seeking, whats the ultimate goal and what kind of article would these people be interested in reading. If the article is not linked to other articles then how are people going to find it, unless they deside to type in the key words. I do think my addition to the mardi gra article may have been in-appropiate, but I thought that the kind of people that would read an article like this would be interested in that sor a thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mindys12345 (talk • contribs) 03:22 13 May 2007


 * "With Gay tourism, I cannot see how that addition would be disruptive"
 * If you can't see how adding See also links to Anal sex in irrelevant gay-related articles is not appropriate, perhaps you should avoid editing such subjects. Edits of that nature may considered vandalism, and (trust me) they are not ipso facto needed in gay-related articles any more than Patriarchy or Pregnancy (for example) would be in every heterosexuality-relevant article.
 * In another matter, thank you for reverting your recent change to the Sex tourism article. / edgarde 03:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I reverted the wrong revision the first time, may have been half asleep in the office this morning Mindys12345 03:28, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Gregcolour 4.5 width.jpg
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"Archiving some comments"
Some Talk page comments you deleted from a fairly current discussion are described as being moved to an archive. Where can we read your archive? I can find no link for it on your User page or Talk page.

Talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments from a current discussion is considered bad practice, even if you meant well.

If you need instructions for making an archive, there's How to archive a talk page. / edgarde 07:28, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * There is a link at the top of my page in the form of a full stop, just above the contents box

AdamCassar 05:05, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

"Recent addition to User talk:138.130.190.73"
Re your message:

User talk:138.130.190.73 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Female sex tourism. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Thank you. Mindys12345 04:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

The link added did not fall into the categories cited by you, it was a topical news article of the same nature as those included in the external links section for that Wikipedia article. Further, it provided relevant independent accounts of the practices discussed in the article. Please review any linked material added to a Wikipedia article carefully before deleting it. Wikipedia policy does not require submission of additions or minor modifications to Wikipedia articles (as opposed to significant deletions) to be moderated through the talk pages. Indeed, a proposed deletion is something you probably should have raised on the talk page for this article. Thank you. Taking time to acquaint yourself with the way Wikipedia works - especially when it comes to the issue of making deletions - will help build a better, more objective, and in this case more verifiable, Wikipedia for everyone to enjoy.--138.130.190.73 10:32, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Fatso the Fat-Ass Wombat
Please stop adding this one, random mascot to the mascot article. Your blind reverting also eliminated completely unrelated content to this dispute, such as a Wikimedia Commons link, and a paragraph on a mascot who became so by chance. -- Zanimum 14:25, 30 May 2007 (UTC)