User talk:Ben shelto

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Hello, Ben shelto, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Charlton, Queensland. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Welcome
G'day Ben shelto, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions; they have helped improve Wikipedia and made it more informative. I hope you enjoy using Wikipedia and decide to make additional contributions.

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Infobox: suburb vs locality
Hi, Ben! While you are correct that Charlton is a locality and not a suburb, unfortunately the infobox (the box on the top right of the article) isn't programmed to expect "locality" instead of "suburb" for the "type" so it doesn't work properly if you change it. Your choices are listed here at the Template:Infobox Australian place. Basically the choice you make for "type" determines what other fields are presented to the reader. As we present the same fields for suburbs and localities, that's why you have to call it a suburb. In an ideal world, it might have been done differently, but that's how it is. Anyhow I have turned it back into a suburb so it is working OK again If you are wanting to start a new article for a suburb or locality in your area, just ask me to help get it started. Then you can focus with adding the content about the place without the worry of dealing with the mysteries of the infobox. Kerry (talk) 08:36, 8 November 2018 (UTC)