User talk:Elitism

Jimbo is coming to Sydney
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Planet of the Ood
Thanks for the Spectator review on Planet of the Ood; I disagree strongly with the sentiment and claims, making this all the more provocative! MartinSFSA (talk) 04:18, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Sydney edit-a-thon invitation
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Sydney edit-a-thon invitation
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Sydney meetup invitation: January 2013
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Sydney September 2013 edit-a-thon invite
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Invitation
There is a backstage pass coming up to be followed by an editathon in the State Library of New South Wales on 23 November. This is the first time that an Australian cultural institution has opened its doors to us in this way and will be a special opportunity because the Library is providing: one of its best rooms; its expert curators (along with their expertise and their white gloves); a newly launched website (containing new resources); and of course, items from its collection (including rare and usually unavailable material) which we can look at, learn from, and use, to improve WP articles. For example, on the chosen topic (Australia and WWI), the Library holds many diaries and manuscripts from the period.

As you can see from the Library's project page, they have connected this editathon with their own work. They have already set out a wide range of resources to make things easier for us. Please sign up on the editathon project page if you can participate either online or in person with other Wikipedians. Hope to see you there! Lankiveil (speak to me) 07:19, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

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Betoota Advocate
It has been repeatedly deleted by consensus through Wikipedia's deletion processes, because the community doesn't agree and every time one of you has attempted to spam us it's been in the guise of a hoax article with a faux-history for the "newspaper". Deletion review is that way. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 02:04, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

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Ways to improve WEA Sydney
Hello, Elitism,

Thanks for creating WEA Sydney! I edit here too, under the username Hughesdarren and it's nice to meet you :-)

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Hughesdarren (talk) 11:44, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments. I thought that, while many of the sources are closely associated with the subject, there was really no alternative but to use them if I was to create an article from scratch that would give users a meaningful outline of WEA Sydney's history and (in particular) present operations. If I can find more reliable, independent, third-party sources I will happily add them. While I do draw extensively on WEA Sydney's 2017 Annual Report, I haven't found any other source that provides the necessary information. David Morgan

Elitism (talk) 10:10, 2 March 2019 (UTC)


 * No worries, The sources weren't the biggest problem, it was the copyright issues. I contacted another editor who has a better grasp on the copyvio issue who came in and cleaned the article up. In future it may be useful to you to run the article name through Earwig to see if what you have written is free from any copyright problems. The link is here . I've made the same mistake myself a few times but whenever I create new article I always run them through Earwig just to be sure. Thanks for your contributions and keep up the good work. Hughesdarren (talk) 10:21, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Copyright problem on WEA Sydney
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