User talk:JarrahTree/Archive09

Darlington
No problem i'll grab some next time i'm in the area. 3 kid, 7days in singapore recovery time 7x7x7 days see ya in six months :-) Gnangarra 01:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back
Glad to see you back. Never been to Singapore but may someday. -- Dakota ~ 14:54, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

And from me
Sats, Its good to see that the scarcity of oxygen up in the high country hasn't affected your wordsmithing powers. As for us down in the flats, its a jungle out there, with street fighting and visiting television shows to contend with - God help us all. Peace and all that. -- I@n &equiv; talk 01:08, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Strahan Airport
Hey. Welcome back from your wikibreak. Referring to the short debate on this article I think I would like an explanation as to how the Strahan Airport is geography-related, as you suggested on the discussion page. ~oh esteemed one. :) (Ben Tibbetts 19:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC))

Thank you for your explanation on the talk page. I still don't understand though; you mean merely because it is a geographical feature that it should be located under the "Geography" category? For that matter every city and every building in Wikipedia should be under that category? Maybe I'm just misunderstanding your meaning. Ben Tibbetts 00:58, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Sure, sounds reasonable. I'll be happy to revert. Thanks. Ben Tibbetts 01:30, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

You said: Please explain: the need to re post a message to an editor talk to the art talk? anyreason?

Certainly. The discussion that took place on my talk page was relevant to the discussion that was initiated on the article's discussion page. Following the train of events it was only logical to me that the rationale that was worked out should be made obvious to anyone else who looks at the article, instead of seeing what would have been a seemingly unresolved issue. Ben Tibbetts 10:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: earthquake etc
''And I havent forgotten I promised you an ephemeral piece of history in the past. Will get around to moving on from the malaise of my fieldwork location (destroyed literally by the earthquake on saturday) and other javanese things to get back to good ole west aussie!SatuSuro''
 * Welcome back. I'm looking forward to seeing you getting busy around the place again. I tried not to do anything while you were gone but I couldn't resist the temptation to fiddle with a few little things. Wow; I bet there's an interesting story behind that. No-one hurt and nothing priceless lost, I hope? So what's this ephemeral piece of history you've got for me? Snottygobble 08:41, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh! I thought you were talking about an obscure article you were about to write!
 * Hey, I'm toying with the idea of pushing Moondyne Joe through WP:FA. Do you know anything about "the man and the myth" that's missing from the article? Snottygobble 23:03, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking we need to follow Elliot in documenting the myths as well as the facts. e.g. stories associating Joe with the Old Mahogany Inn are so persistent that they are worth documenting. Snottygobble 00:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The other one is The Life and Times of Moondyne Joe, Swan River COlony Convict Joseph Bolitho Johns by W. J. Edgar. I've got them both.  Elliot's is the better written, but Edgar's is twelve years later with a lot of new information on Joe's early life and conviction details.
 * SlimVirgin appears to have left Wikipedia. It's a very long story that's impossible to cut short. Mistress Selina Kyle and Blu Aardvark are both banned users who are now staff members of Wikipedia Review, a website established by Daniel Brandt to attack Wikipedia and its editors. A number of admins have been seriously attacked and harassed by these guys. Widely respected admin Katefan0 was driven out of the project by them. SV has suffered just about the worst attacks, but has stuck around until now. I won't repeat the garbage that SV has had to put up with here; take it from me she been most terribly abused and harassed. A couple of days ago Linuxbeak unblocked both users with no discussion (or perhaps a small amount on the IRC channels) with a view to rehabilitating them. This created a storm of controversy on WP:ANI, with some users supporting Linuxbeak but most users opposing the unblock. Yesterday, in the midst of a heated discussion, FloNight wrote "I’m not a fool. I’m not going to volunteer for an organization that welcomes people that are harassing me for protecting the organization.", to which SV responded "Me neither. I've had enough". She then blanked and protected her user page, and hasn't edited since. Snottygobble 01:41, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Redirects
I know about that one but it's not the same as the one you told me about. Most likely the other got deleted but no way of finding it now. It is no surprise really. Thanks. Hope all is well with you.-- Dakota ~ 04:46, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I see now. Someone else redirected my page today also. It is an old vandalism overlooked fixed now. Thanks so much. [[Image:Smiley.png|20px]]-- Dakota ~ 05:06, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Pardon me? Redwolf24 (talk) 05:14, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Clean-ups
Hi Vcxlor, I remove stub tags only when recommended to by AWB: when it says the article is already pretty long. :) Cheers! --Firsfron 00:58, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

WAGR
I was just trying to park it somewhere, as it's rather undeveloped, and I did't think it deserved its own page. And most of the history does relate WAGR (but it should have private railways in it. Some states have an eg  Rail transport in South Australia page but there isn't one for WA.  Anyway I have moved it to History of rail transport in Western Australia.  It would be useful for sombody more familar with WA to develop it or at least point me to some useful website.--Grahamec 14:15, 3 June 2006 (UTC) No worries.--Grahamec 14:40, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Re:My talk page
Hi SatuVcxlor, Thanks for the compliments regarding my new talk page, but to be honest I only used a template modified from another user's page. I felt a change was needed because I had the butt-ugliest talk page on WP for a while there. Take care! :) --Firsfron 20:36, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Re:WAY 79
''There's gotta be more than just a building at the showgrounds and a painting and "re-enactment" as a legacy, cant wait till i get my hands on some other things as reminders. Also think that the 2004 event needs an art as well. Really 1929 needs an art (once i've got my stuff) and 2004 needs one. Yes ?05:09, 4 June 2006 (UTC)''
 * Absolutely. Details of the 1929 and 2004 celebrations don't really belong in the WAY 1979 article. It would be great to write separate articles especially for 1929 but I guess for 2004 too. I like your idea of comparing the different ways of celebrating over the years, but I suspect you won't have much luck finding a reference for it. Snottygobble 08:31, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 1929 they did build the Lynch gate and with the stone at All Saints Church, Henley Brook, theres an image of it in the commons catGnangarra 10:18, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


 * You got me thinking, have to check out Town Bassendean records, in 79 there was a hut built near the tennis courts by students at Ashfield, Bassendean, and Eden Hill Primary schools. Also ToB had an event at Success Hill reserve. Gnangarra 11:02, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


 * sounds like the right time frame but they are on opposite sides of the tennis courts, also the water play ground that was there went around the same time. Gnangarra


 * Also with 1929 article if you got an original research that needs some additional references let me know detail I have some spare time available over the next couple months I can go read newspapers in Battye library. Gnangarra 11:14, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I've started a similar thread on the project perth talk page, maybe we'll get more information Gnangarra 11:25, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Some starting points. A quick google reveals:
 * Western Australia's oldest existing aircraft, the Silver Centenary was build in 1929 to celebrate the State's 100 year anniversity
 * Fremantle was declared a city on June 3 1929 as part of that city's state centennial celebrations - photo of the event here: here (except that LISWA is down at the moment so can't be viewed).
 * The white arch at the gateway to Soldier's Park in Collie has "State Centenary" on it because it was built in 1929 as part of the celebrations.
 * "Reminders of Western Australia as a British colony were everywhere in the lead up to the centenary of settlement in 1929. Street parades, balls, Punch and Judy shows, cricket matches and church services were all part of the celebrations." from here.
 * this page reproduces an image from the "Centenary of Perth souvenir booklet, 1929"
 * a reference to the book "Wilson, J. G. (ed.) (1929). Western Australia's centenary 1829-1929. Perth: Historic Press."
 * a reference to the "W.A. centennial march", a vocal march composed in 1929 by Laszlo Schwartz.

I also noticed an assertion that Edith Cowan had been involved in preparations for the the centennial celebrations, so I pulled out "A Unique Position" and found that chapter 18 is entitled "Centenary". Peter Cowan does have an (endearing) habit of digressing somewhat from his main subject, so I wouldn't be too surprised if this chapter provides a good overview of the centenary.

Snottygobble 11:55, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Jarrah
''Stuffed if I can make out how the vandalism got in, or how the argument is going. It must be cold! SatuSuro 10:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)''
 * How embarrassing! It had been there since 16 May (diff). Unfortunately one minutes after it was vandalised by Jarrah123, it was further vandalised by 195.195.161.3 (diff). Someone then accidentally reverted the latter vandalism back to the former vandalism, and the former vandalism has been there ever since. How sad. Snottygobble 12:12, 7 June 2006 (UTC)