User talk:Adam.J.W.C./Old newS 2

"You have new messages" in banner is a serious misdirection! - part 2
Thanks for responding to my comment regarding the message bar. However, do bear in mind that my objection is not specifically about which article you linked to but rather the fact that it is mimicking the standard Wikipedia notification. I do not question the legitimacy of the Naked hiking article but do query the notion of being led there under false pretenses. -Deepraj | Talk 09:22, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Not sure what you mean in your second comment/question on my talk page.-Deepraj | Talk 14:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Aha, I believe I came across your talk page after noticing some of the edits by you and Lara Bran in Tourism in India.-Deepraj | Talk 08:33, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Mindys12345, please accept my commendations on a good debate. I believe if more people respond to criticism/observations with logical exchanges like this the Wiki spirit will benefit even further.-Deepraj | Talk 09:42, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thankyou Mindys12345 এই সভ্যজন অসমৰجميع أفراد المجتمع ..

Hill stations
I think you missed my this comment-
 * Maybe its that australians want something to do or some recreation should be there for tourism. But Indians like "idling out" time in hill stations. So hillstations not developed in australia. Indians do more recreation in bedroom i think ;) Lara bran 07:21, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I beleive you dont have hill stations, look at Toutism in India. If you are good in technical things like templates etc, you can make a "Tourism infobox", which can be put in every tourism article. See other infoboxes on various types of articles, and also Infobox. Thanks Lara bran 03:45, 13 July 2007 (UTC) A "Building infobox" will look like this: Lara bran 03:47, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Infobox
Im giving free advices to you, dont mistake. (That article i redirected needs cleanup so i leaved a tag and forgot. why do you put so much effort?). Its easy to create infobox, it is a template itself, you can create it by copying existing infobox like "organisation infobox" in article Microsoft. All you have to do is to decide contents, this is risky because it should be backward compatible later, otherwise difficult to change parameters in all articles used. Do it at your leisure and will. Lara bran 13:14, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

and yea, your infobox in Sydney Coach Terminal is used in single article, but common infobox is used in many article. You can create, tourism is less developed in wikipedia, it should not be tourist guide, rather describe a tourism of some place. Lara bran 13:54, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Two new articles
Hi Mindys12345, Thanks for your comment about help.

I have added two more articles -


 * Flora and fauna of Madhya Pradesh
 * Tribals in Madhya Pradesh

I would like to see them and format if you feel.

Regards, --burdak 12:14, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Look, you are assigned work by many people. NOT JUST ME! Lara bran 06:10, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Rather strange indeed Mindys12345स्वागतम्! ॐ शान्ति ! शान्ति !! शान्ति !!!
 * I donno if you turned serious, that i could not understand last sentence of your comment in my talk page.. Lara bran 07:20, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Im not at all annoyed by your queries, rather it was my pleasure. I feel it little wrong to advice someone to do some work, i was hesitant to ask you for infobox work, certainly not annoyed. Me taking a wikibreak, see you after one week. As for tourism, it should not be "guide", but tone should be "description". Lara bran 07:35, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Spam links
I see that you're dealing with a serial spammer on various articles. You might consider making a spam blacklist request at User:AntiSpamBot/Blacklist requests to automatically remove such spam links. Easier than you watching the page and reverting it manually. =) -- Gogo Dodo 06:54, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

campa cola
haha, i knew the related article(see also in that article). you can find details of campa cola there also:) Lara bran 05:37, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually that means "thumbs up", i chosen easiest work to add information :). how do you find such articles about india, maybe anonymous contributions? Lara bran 05:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Campa cola is closed now, as far by my knowledge, so no competition etc. Thums up is now owned by coca cola, it has little different taste than coca cola cola drink(coke). Coca cola's brands by sale volume is 1. thums ups, 2. Sprite (soft drink) 3. coca cola(coke), where 1 and 3 are colas. But rival pepsi has only one cola product. Lara bran 06:00, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * They were competitors before pepsi and coca cola entered market, you can see in article Thums Up. Since you changed heading leave it, no problem. Lara bran 06:06, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Limca is not cola, it is Sprite (soft drink) like beverage. Also that Schweppes Cola is not in india. I think its better to change to "see also" bacause campa cola no longer exists(im not sure if it exists in some remote place).. and remove that Schweppes Cola. Lara bran 06:20, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * from this i feel  this exists in north india. Lara bran 06:31, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Feel free to edit/update/revert my changes. Its easier to talk through edits(edits to article itself) and edit summaries. Lara bran 07:24, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * also dont you know that im on a wikibreak?? wiki is bloody tempting. Lara bran 07:27, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

No, you should add only articles to "world tourism" by their prominence(like no. of people visit or money spent etc). I created goa because that is one of major tourist places in india, you can notice in first sentence in that article. Lara bran 07:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Have a look at this article Tourism in Australian desert, it is recently created. Lara bran 11:18, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually i erased it from recent changes. As most people wont search for specific term, it may even stay for few years, leave it as it is :) Lara bran 14:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

You missed the code of my earlier comment Tourism in Australian desert on your talk page. Check it out :) Lara bran 03:46, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I saw campa cola, and i leaved a message to their ip. you succeeded in your attempt in creating new template :). If they are authorized people we point to their website in external links, wikipedia is not hosting servie. And you missed class "plainlinks", which hides to external link image like this: . Lara bran 04:10, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I had clicked your you have new messages some 5 times :( how was my revenge? Lara bran 04:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I realised that its good use and then reverted my edits to your talk page. see my old edit and revert. I donno what is hinking yet :) as for campa cola i left a message for spammers which should solve problem in long term. Lara bran

not a problem if somebody comes to article which has "naked" in title that means they are adult. pic is not obscene also.
 * "I think they are scratching their heads in disbelief" :) Campa cola people click "edit this page" link at top, this message will appear right in the front, they should read it i think. Lara bran 04:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Other people's user pages
Hi. I reverted your edit to User:Wayne Neptune. I note your edit summary "If this user dose not like it let him change it. This is not vandalism or and article page". None the less, the practice is generally not to edit other people's User pages (except in unusual circumstances such as inappropriate content). If you have reccomendations for the user, please place it on the user's talk page. Hope this helps. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 15:20, 18 July 2007 (UTC) Mindys12345स्वागतम्! ॐ शान्ति ! शान्ति !! शान्ति !!!تحرير نقاش المستخدمএই সভ্যজন অসমৰ

Hi Mindy
Since the relation between "China & Taiwan" remains ambiguous, and touristic environment is actually quite different between these two places ( language, traveling experience, etc.). I just think that my changes might be more closed to touristic aspects of these two places. But I'm still very willing to know about your opinion of changing it back.

congratualtions!!!
Congratulations on start of new leaf of life. Hope your sign will be more pleasing to eyes. Lara_bran 04:35, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I think its time for, and little tidy up. Lara_bran 04:49, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Information about BASE projects
Dear J.W.C

Please be sure that i think before i'm inserting links. You randomly delete links from BASE - Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy, else you could have deleted the last one too. Actually we could insert for every project a Wiki Entry because they are not at all commercial but are projects worldwide where many parties participate for better energy politics and use. As this is a lot of work i just refered via link.

We are not a commercial organisation but have the task by the UN to promote their work. Can you please be so friendly and not delete my work. If you have questions regarding it, please ask first. Kind regards J

Developments in Dubai
The link i have added is 100% related to the topic and it should be mentiond on the page, how is that you think its not related ? i have even mentioned it in the discussion page.

So you mean to say even if the link is related ... i cant post it.. even tought i know its related and shall benifit the readers.....

well above the link i posted the other link is only a map y dont u remove that...... its just a map where as the link i posted has map + hotels and more info on dubai...

because its related !!!!! isnt it... the person who is intrested in knouwing about dubai... most poissibliy wants to viist and if he wnats to visit he needs the hotel etc info..

30/07/2007 06:32 Adam, Why have you removed my links? How many links have you removed from the Dubai Developments. Isn't it good to add a link with information about that Dutch dredging company creating all the land instead of crediting only Al Nakheel? I'm pretty new to Wikipedia and wonder how I could reply in a different way to you, so I just do it like this. Please let me know how many stuff I edited (and improved) and how many links you have deleted? Thanks

Random Smiley Award
 For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award originated by Pedia-I (Explanation and Disclaimer) ♠  TomasBat   ( @ )  ( Contribs )  ( Sign! ) 21:08, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

TCD
It would appear that you are related to a notable person? Apart from an extra image and a couple of unverified claims the main article seems OK, if lacking in sources.. Please bear WP:COI in mind when editing related articles. In some cases editors have been asked not to edit such articles if they have shown an unquenchable desire to add excessive or unverified biographical information. Thanks man,  Dei z  talk 06:06, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

4 tildes?, TCD
If you're advising others to sign with 4 tildes - - it's good form to do so yourself, seems you're signing with 3 which leaves no timestamp. When warning vandals, timestamps help admins quickly identify when warnings were left and therefore if vandals have re-vandalized after a previous warning. Troy Cassar looks better with the references, nice one.  Dei z  talk 17:19, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll add four to my templates ~ Ad@m.J.W.C. 00:06, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Campa Cola
These folks don't seem to have found new IPs to add the same information to the article from, so blocking the two recent ones seems to have worked. --Geniac 12:41, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I have a feeling that they will continue to be blocked if/when they return and do the same thing. --Geniac 13:40, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Tourist segregation
Please look at the Tourist segregation article, and read my last edit comment very carefully. Thanks. Jayjg (talk) 03:12, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * There is no actual content in either article, aside from what was copied directly from the Allegations of tourist apartheid in Cuba article. Look at it closely; none of it is sourced, and it's mostly just headers. Jayjg (talk) 03:24, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't see how it could be improved. The person who created it only did so because he was trying to delete the Allegations of tourist apartheid in Cuba article, but realized that he would never get it through on an AfD. He doesn't have any actual content in mind, or any sources - it's all original research. Don't forget, he's had two days now, and all he's managed to do is copy the Allegations of tourist apartheid in Cuba article. Jayjg (talk) 03:48, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism
Please remove your warning. I clearly made a mistake and was doing nothing but improving the page, albeit clumsily. Please don't be one of the many other apathetic RC patrollers just looking for their next kill. 128.227.43.42 04:46, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * What are you talking about? Look through all my contributions in the last week. Show me one that is vandalism. 128.227.43.42 04:50, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Just because I have the courtesy of not deleting warnings I am wrongly given does not mean I deserved them all. Check my talk contributions, you are not the first person I have asked to delete wrongly given warnings. Of all I have asked, none has done it. I guess you are another one. 128.227.43.42 04:52, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

checkout my template
i created welcomec after discussion in template talk:welcomeg. it does not leave too much of code in user page, but new user can learn internal linking, signing etc by looking at code. vandalism and spam i dont revert much. Lara_bran 05:38, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Userbox adds me to australian users category, i see no term "jail" in that article. Man, you are cleaning up the whole india :), so many, even i donno places you edited. Lara_bran 06:04, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Nice to know you play solitair and freecell in wikipedia. true, if you find one vandalizing edit, you can go through contributions and revert all. but im not using "popups" nor "tw", so its cumbersome to undo. Lara_bran 06:08, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

i think i should install popups. but im soft on external links, i think all articles should have around 5 external links, wikipedia should be open, not introvert. Lara_bran 06:17, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks this popups is really helpful and saves a lot of time. Lara_bran 07:04, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

4 times ~ ???
Adam, as said I'm pretty new to Wikipedia and wonder how I could reply in a different way to you, so I just do it like this again. Please let me know how much normal text I edited (and improved) you have deleted and why? What do you call a popup as I never inserted a popup, I only have inserted a link. About inserting links I can understand but editing normal text does that have to be discussed always as well, even if you might be 100% sure it is correct? What do you mean with sign with 4 times the ~ symbol? Thanks for helping in advance, still learning in Wikipedia. See what you mean now with 4 times ~ Belanda Gila 07:14, 30 July 2007 (UTC) but this is not reverting to me but to an article I placed accidentally as a test. I already deleted the text for that article, how can I delete the article completely? Thanks in advance Adam.

once more Adam
I am sorry for the confusion, I your discussion page I saw "Civil messgaes" so I changed that to Civil messages. Further could you please help me with the question above about deleting a whole article including the title? About pop-ups, you say just follow instructions, it is not very clear what to do though. Belanda Gila 07:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC) again reverting to the article and not to me as a user...

one more question
Adam, what you wrote here to me does not compute: add  into this link your monobook.js page then save. If I copy the 'navpop' and then click on monobook link it is not possible to paste it into the box shown and there is a warning above as well mentioning I should contact "village pump". Could you explain what this is about and why can I not paste into the box? Even typing in the box is not possible, using Mozilla and when I want to type in the box instead typing occurs in the Quick Find box at the bottom. Belanda Gila 08:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

removing external links
On July 27th, you pruned the list of external links in the Globalization page. While I agree the list had grown out of control, I believe the pruning will affect many readers that would find relevant content there. We must have a good set of criteria to qualify external links before deciding what to leave out. I'm adding the Global Culture link back as I have statistics to prove the Wikipedia readers find my content relevant to the topic and complies with the criteria established by Wikipedia.

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hi
You said its near your house.. nice pics. but area 23km2 looks less. Me currently in city, but my native place is equally beautiful :) Lara_bran 11:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


 * checkout western ghats this is where i lived. Lara_bran 13:21, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually it is 1000km long :) most of it are really beautiful. Lara_bran 13:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

pics
Nice pics, i think you should release them "only for wikipedia use" not under "GFDL", so that copyright will remain with you. A hill station is a "station" nothing like hiking or trekking is done there. There are staying places and leisure places. thats all. Lara_bran 04:54, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

move
I have moved Adam.J.W.C./Images. to User:Adam.J.W.C./Images. Since you are releasing your pics under the GFDL, why don't you upload them to The Commons so all languages can use them? -- RHaworth 13:08, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Revert of Disambiguation
Hello, why did you revert the disambiguation of Bosnian to Bosnia and Herzegovina. WP:DPL states that "Wikipedia articles should not link to disambiguation pages (with rare exceptions where the ambiguity of a term is being discussed)". There are many people tireless working to resolve these terms. In the case of the adjective reffering to a country, the usual disambiguation is toward the country; (i.e. American to American ) If you don't feel that the link was not disambiguated to the right link, don't revert it to point to the disambiguation term, but do another non-disambiguation page. Regards, -- Jeff3000 20:45, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * This one -- Jeff3000 22:36, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * np :) -- Jeff3000 22:40, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Fisheries
Hello, I would like to know why you feel that the link I posted on the "Fishery" page was inappropriate. I admit that I mistakenly put a link to what amounts to an ad for a book on a couple of pages in an attempt to give interested users information about a useful source of more in-depth information, but this wasn't one of them. However, I've stopped using those pages. The links I have posted do contain relavent information and often links to statistics and other documents that I can't put on Wikipeda for copyright reasons. There's a lot of information on those sites. Please review the links you delete more carefully before you delete them. NadiaLala 08:01, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Userproudaussie
Nonfree (fair use) images are not permitted except on articles per WP:NFCC. If I had realized you added the image again, I would have removed it again. Please don't keep adding the image; our policy simply doesn't allow it. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 00:19, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

New messages
I have replied, Navou banter 13:55, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

James Cook
Thanks for adding the image to the James Cook article. The image is also appropriate for inclusion in the article First voyage of James Cook and it would be great if you could add it there in due course Dick G 03:39, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding the image. I moved it slightly within the article just so as it sits in the section referring to Cook's landing in NSW rather than the section re sighting land at Point Hicks. By coincidence I was down at Cronulla myself at the weekend..! Dick G 05:24, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Missed the Cook sites (mainly due to ignorance about the location) and saw the dunes from afar (Elouera beach). Will get back there during the summer now I know where to find them. Cheers Dick G 05:35, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

hi
how doing, it seems me finished with my round of edits in wikipedia. Dont tell anybody, im named after him Lara_bran 06:10, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * But you know, last world cup was not so exiting. I like foreign teams england & WI, australia not as much as they play to win. - Priority should be game, then team, then individual. im feeling like i would leave wikipedia, here not just editing, we should keep watching our edits, feels little more work. I wont be signing in at all for a month. bye. Lara_bran 07:12, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Developing something new is easy, it is more pleasuresome also. Maybe i should improve articles around my place. I saw article, it once reminded me of "tourism in australian dessert" :) Lara_bran 08:02, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Previously removed images are uploaded again
Adam.J.W.C, you left this message on my talk page: "Do you have permission to put these images here. I thought they were deleted once before.--Ad@m.J.W.C. 00:44, 16 August 2007 (UTC)"

I have gotten approval to put the images on Wikipedia. In the summary section of those images, I have added a link to where the approval can be found. To look at that approval, go to Dubai construction update by Imre (Part 7: Page 11). Then move down the page to Post 203. I believe this allows me to put the images on Wikipedia. If there is something that I missed or need to add to the image summary, please let me know. Thank you.

Leitmanp 01:22, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Why Are You Keeping Updated Information From Tourism in Cuba?

Adam, I have added new information to Tourism in Cuba today including that

Cuba has nearly 20000 health tourist visitors. And, the number of visitors from Germany,the UK, and Canada

But, you delete all of the changes. There was nothing commercial there, it was simply providing much more information. Why is this? Are you wanting to keep this boring page sounding as outdated and depressing as possible, because that is what it is. Do you work for the US government and are you trying to make Cuba sound as terrible as it can? I would appreciate an explanation.

Thank you. mpirages —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mpirages (talk • contribs).

User signing
Top line saying "sign your name by clicking" seems not necessary. just button bar and arrow with "this button" is enough. i saw it used in your welcome template. Also in templates, try using "selective collapsible" option, as i did in Template:Aesthetics. You can collapse template in remotely related articles, for template world tourism. Lara_bran 15:47, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Bankstown Bunker
Hi Adam. Why did you revert my edit to this article? I corrected a few typos, moved the only photo to a more prominant position and removed unreferenced trivia in line with two key guidelines. cheers, --Nick Dowling 04:45, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thats where I had the image in the first place then I decided to move it to the location of the site section. I was planning to add some more images of the interior of the bunker when I eventually gain access or get permission to use someones elses images. The trivia section was sourced from an NNA document and was added by someone using an ip in the Bankstown article. I wrote half the article and the ip came along and added most of the history section. I reverted to restore the trivia, which was my main concern. I plan on looking into other tunnels and bunkers around sydney, eventually. Cheers            Adam.J.W.C.
 * Thanks for the response. I've run the article through MS Word for a spellcheck and have re-corrected the typos. I'd suggest that you find citations to replace all references to 'rumors' and anecdotal stories. If you can find citations, the 'trivia' section should be integrated into the article - visits from very notable people are anything but trivia. I very much doubt that MacArthur visited the site, however, as he moved his HQ from Brisbane to New Guinea in 1944 and seems to have paid only occasional visits to Australia after that - especially once the liberation of the Philipines was underway. --Nick Dowling 05:16, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay thanks for that. I'll look into fixing the citations. The info about MacArthur was added by the ip but I have heard about it as well. If I cant find a ref I may remove it some time later on--. Cheers_______Ad@m.J.W.C. 05:35, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think that you really need to upload the article. If you can cite it from a reliable newspaper (eg, one of the main daily newspapers rather than the local Bankstown newspaper) then it's probably correct. On the topic of adding relatively obscure bunkers, make sure that they're in line with Notability. It could be worth creating a Sydney equivalent of Military citadels under London which describes the bunkers in Sydney which aren't individually notable. As a note, please don't add things to very high level categories unless they're particularly important - it's best to drill down to the sub-categories for the kind of topics you're writing about (eg, use history of Sydney rather than history of Australia for articles about bunkers in Sydney). --Nick Dowling 10:16, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't know anything about any bunkers, sorry - but that article is really interesting! Thanks for pointing it out. By the way, I saw your great photos of the Hawkesbury area - are you able to get a proper photo of Hawkesbury River Station for me (or indeed any railway station in that area - Wondabyne would be even better!)? JRG 12:47, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This one is great - just what we need. Thanks very much. JRG 00:30, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * No worrys, next time I am out there I'll try to take more of other stations, probably wont be to soon though. Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. 00:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Bankstown Bunker
Hi, This maybe a bit difficult or maybe even impossible but do you have any images or have you heard of the Bankstown Bunker.. Cheers_______Ad@m.J.W.C. 06:32, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry mate. I had never heard of the Bankstown Bunker before seeing it on wikipedia. I live in the St George area myself and I have a lot of local knowledge and resources, but unfortunately I'm not that familiar with the Bankstown area. J Bar 22:30, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Thats okay. It was an impossible question but I thought I would have a go anyway. But thanks for your reply. Cheers_______Ad@m.J.W.C. 00:51, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I have recieved permission to use images from a website. If you want have a look. Cheers_______Ad@m.J.W.C. 03:51, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Quite interesting. Cheers J Bar 04:10, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Template:Cola
This doesn't seem to be part of any article. Did you have any further plans for it? Pairadox 07:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I came up with the idea for template cola to stop the owners of the company Campa Cola from putting there details in the infobox that is there now. This was an ongoing problem that has now been stopped. I had the template in the article but an admin removed it. The idea of having the template there instead of the infobox worked. When the offenders tried to put there details into the infobox. The text that they were trying to add ran across the page and not in the infobox, when they saw this they removed there own details. But according to an admin this did not work, even though it was plain to see. But I think having it there once worked becuase they have not returned. So it looks as though it has served its purpose. I knew that this would work becuase the offenders did not know how to format properly. I don't have any use for it, so you can either delete or use it for something else. Cheers_______Ad@m.J.W.C. 08:31, 9 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I think the easiest way is for you, as the creator, to put a db-author tag on it. Maybe even use User talk:Adam.J.W.C. in the edit summary so the admin can see your reasoning here. Pairadox 09:13, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I have explained this to the admin and even though it did work on that one occassion and stopped the offenders returning, he still seems to think that it didn't work even when it was plain to see in the edit history of the article. Anyway I am not all that worried about this, I am more concerned about new articles and content to add and gathering info on forgotten war time bunkers that have been buried under Sydney's suburbs. Cheers_______Ad@m.J.W.C. 14:18, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Jogging
Who would worry about this kind of thing. Cheers_______Ad@m.J.W.C.


 * People concerned with the integrity of wikipedia and following policies. Me.  WLU 14:06, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Images on Commons
Hi - could you please name images slightly more specifically when you upload them on wikipedia and give them sharper categories where possible. Fore example Image:2007 0825klklk0019.JPG is I presume Manly (not just my own knowledge, also based on the use of the image on wikipedia and associated caption) - nobody would know from the file name, the category or the description you provided :-( --Golden Wattle talk 23:09, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay I will try to do this in future. I do mean to categorise but I some times forget and I will have to rename the images before uploading again. I do provide a discription in the summary section though. Cheers_______Ad@m.J.W.C. 01:54, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Some of your image descriptions are a bit light on too - just "Sydney" is possibly not quite enough for what is a big city ... :-) Regards--Golden Wattle  talk 02:08, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay I will look into that as well, its just that sometimes I go out take a couple a hundred images then try to download a whole heap at the same time, so I am kind of rushing it a bit. My mayne concern was to get the images uploaded and into a wikpedia article, but I will spend more time categorising and adding discriptions. Thats okay. Cheers_______Ad@m.J.W.C. 02:20, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Image:Bankstown01.jpg
I have amended the license for the image Image:Bankstown01.jpg. I believe it is extremely unlikely this is self-made. It was according to the image itself drawn by the Directorate of Signals RAAF HQ in 1942. If I am wrong, my apologies and please revert my changes. If I am not wrong, please take more care in describing images in future.--Golden Wattle talk 23:50, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for your help. I don't know much about tagging unless I take the images myself. I just need to find out why the tag has come out as a red link. I would fix it if I could. . Cheers_______Ad@m.J.W.C. 00:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

You asked on Commons ''I have actually received piles of RAAF documents marked secret concerning the Bankstown bunker and scans of news paper clippings that state Macarthur visited the bankstown bunker. I am not sure what the copyrite is concerning news paper articles'' In general copyright expires after 50 years. So you could uupload them. However, for the use you probably want to make of the material I don't think you would need to upload newspaper articles. What you would want to do is cite the article - ie put in your own words and give an authority for your assertion. I recommend using this template:


 * title is required, rest is optional.
 * author: Author
 * last works with first to produce
 * publisher: Publisher, if any.
 * accessdate: Date when item was accessed. Use ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format.
 * work: If this item is part of a larger work, name of that work.

You can use the template even if you do not have a web link - ie if you jjust have the hard copy. If you have other things to cite useful templates for the references are at Citation templates. Regards --Golden Wattle talk 03:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks alot for this, this is very helpful and can be put aside for other projects that I may wish to look into in future. I also noticed the work you did to the Bankstown Bunker article. Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. 03:48, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi
Just like to say really like the way you have setup your personal wiki page- very nice.--Sikh historian 02:56, 13 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I was looking through some of the Punjab articles as many Sikhs comes from Punjab. And I saw you did a pretty good job of preventing vandalism on them so I clicked on your user page and saw your personal page - very nice. It would be good and nice to work together with you on some joint articles. Suggest some and lets do some work together.--Sikh historian 04:01, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Reversion of my recent edits
Hi Adam, I'm not sure why you've reverted my recent edits to some of the articles you've been working on. In general, it's better to place articles in categories rather than just using 'see also' sections and the guideline WP:SEEALSO recomends not using such sections if at all possible. Perhaps we need to create Category:Fortifications of Australia so that it can capture more than just the forts in Australia category captures? - as the articles you're working on are on fairly unimportant fortifications, they really don't belong in the top-level categories you're using and people are going to keep removing them. cheers, --Nick Dowling 04:33, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I was planning on linking them up with a navagation box when I have enough material to creat more articles. My idea was to come up with a whole lot of articles of this nature and link them up. Some readers may not even know about the category links at the bottom but they would probably see the see also list. We could probably make up a category as well. Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. 05:10, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Bankstown Bunker
I rated this article as B class. It's well referenced, has a good selection of images and doesn't require much work at all to progress to a good article. Cheers. -- Longhair\talk 20:57, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Sex Tourism and the Boatman
I suggest you check the facts before you rush to judgement. If you check my previous edits to this and other articles you will see that I am a serious contributor. "Boatman" is an actual film about sex tourism which I have seen, and which is listed in the Internet Movie Data Base. Kindly check it out before you accuse me of inserting joke entries. I will revert your reversion. Rodparkes 02:10, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I've replied on User talk:Rodparkes, but just want to add here that a more explanatory edit summary might have made this easier. Silly edits reverted isn't very helpful to (or supportive of) the editor who entered this information in good faith. / edg ☺ ★ 02:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Fisheye lenses
I saw your question on Talk:Fisheye lens. Firstly, wide-angle lenses all have the problem of softening at the edges. It's a difficult optical problem. All you can do is use better materials and a better design, driving up the cost, but it never totally goes away. Stopping down will help, but you will still have an amount of chromatic aberration. See this Hugin tutorial for a method to reduce that: --Imroy 01:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Sydney Explorer
Hi Adam. I've declined the speedy deletion as about eight other editors have contributed to the article. I would recommend you it if you want to get it deleted. Best. Pedro : Chat  13:45, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Adam. Thanks for your note. This is a "grey area" in terms of CSD. The difficulty is the interpretation regarding "substantial" contributions. No one but yourselfhas really contributed much to the article, but equally there have been a number of edits. It's borderline, but it's really not in the spirit of the criteria for speedy deletion. If you prod it (or I will if you want) it will be gone in 5 days anyhow (unless someone contests the prod, and it's best to let the community decide if anyone wants to) Pedro : Chat  08:41, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Sir
Dear Sir,

The message I posted wasn't a joke.

An user erased an image in commons. The user gave a false information so that the image was extinguished.

The problem was clarified. The image already was restituted.

Forgive-me if mine post seemed a joke.

- Was in this article.

--88.157.77.135 18:56, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

William MacDonald (serial killer)
I've upgraded the article assessment for William MacDonald (serial killer) from Stub-class to B-class. A good effort at expanding the article. It's great to see the crime articles progressing... -- Longhair\talk 22:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Sydney Coach Terminal
A template has been added to the article Sydney Coach Terminal, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with db-author. P-BOY 08:44, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Photos
G'Day Adam JWC, I've noticed you've posted some good photos and added info on Sydney suburbs. I noticed you increased the size some of the photos in the Punchbowl article. Just for your information, sometimes a larger photo looks bad on different screen sizes and formats. The changes you made to Punchbowl, left big blank gaps on my screen. It's been suggested to me that it's better to just leave the photos as standard and not specify the size. If a user wants to view the photo larger, they can click on the image and zoom in. Otherwise, keep up the good work. Cheers. J Bar 08:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Peter Dunn's website and Chullora, New South Wales‎
Hi Adam, I'd suggest that you use Peter Dunn's website with great caution. Dunn seems to add just about anything people email him to the site without exercising any real quality control (in my opinion), and as a result, while much of it is very good, it contains a lot of unreliable rumours. The former principal historian at the Australian War Memorial actually went out of his way to criticise this website in 2002 as he judged it to be so misleading: http://www.awm.gov.au/events/conference/2002/stanley_paper.pdf (see page 10). The long and short of it is that anything which Dunn himself labels as "a wild supposition" and "most likely another urban myth!" is almost certainly not accurate. Logically, it seems very unlikely that there's a bunker full of vintage motorbikes and live bombs in a decaying bunker next to a major highway and key rail yard in Sydney. Adding something which you yourself have tagged as needing a reliable source seems to violate the policy Reliable sources and should be removed. By the way, I've re-added the photo of the cannon to the Middle Head article as the caption for the photo on the Australian War Memorial's image database states that it was taken at Middle Head and there's no better photo currently available to illustrate the article. cheers, --Nick Dowling 12:15, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I have changed the unsourced info in the final paragraph until I can find some more information about this. If this place was a large manufacturing plant during WWII, there is a chance that there could be leftovers from the war stored there. There is no proof so I have removed most of what was alleged until either I see it for myself of find an NAA doc. The site must be well secure if that kind of equipment is stored in a decaying bunker near a main hwy. The website states that the steel doors are set in concrete and either locked or welded shut, so its not as though it has been left open to the public. Also I don't think its the kind of thing that State Rail would want to advertise, so I think the information might be hard to come by. I may look into this my self. I know of the drain that leads under the work shop, I plan on checking it out one day, if I find the entrance and all I have to do is cut a padlock then so be it. There might be some photo ops for wikipedia as well. But I think it might be a bit more difficult than just using a pair of bolt cutters. Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. 12:35, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Bankstown Bunker
Have you read the talk page? Those claims are simply impossible and can't be correct. If your source says that they are, then it's clearly wrong. The Battle of the Coral Sea was not fought in 1945, there was no single command structure for the South Pacific under MacArthur and Sydney was not home to any of the major HQs during the war. --Nick Dowling 08:32, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

"New Message" banner
The "New Message" banner on your talk page is quite deceiving. Any chance of removing it? -- Alan Liefting talk 00:22, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Its only a joke, its meant to suck people in, it only takes on click and you realise this. I think there is quite a few others that have this as well, thats where I got the idea from. Also what it leads to is quite tame compared to what it linked to before, a picture of a vagina. Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. 00:34, 16 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Playing jokes on talk pages is not the sort of behaviour I expect on WP. There are plenty of less serious places on the net to do that. We are trying to apend our time to create an online encyclopedia here. -- Alan Liefting talk 00:47, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes I play jokes, but at the same time my work rate is probably ten times higher than yours

Sounds true, but you should go along to all the other people who have this and get them to remove there banner as well. Also if you want to spend time writing articles and adding content of your own, (whilst not removing others) you should spend less time worrying about petty issues that will waist your time and reduce the amount of time you spend contributing. Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. 00:51, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Removing inapprop edits is not a waste of time and is not petty. -- Alan Liefting talk 01:00, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I am talking about you worrying about the banner. Also stop pestering me. Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. 01:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * You are also reducing the amount of time that I have to contribute as well, I am trying to add to this article John Wayne Glover. Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. 00:53, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I could have spent time working on the above article, when I have waisted time with this discussion . Cheers_Ad@m.J.W.C. 01:03, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Civility
Have you read Civility? -- Alan Liefting talk 01:04, 16 October 2007 (UTC)