User talk:Machina.sapiens

Centre/center
Oh, not at all. Chilling out certainly has its place, but we must all remain vigilant about our precious spelling. As you correctly pointed out, there's no such thing as a "center" in Australia, but we have to deal with the fact that our article on performing arts centres is spelled in the American way (and it would be silly to have separate articles for "performing arts centres" and "performing arts centers"). It's easily addressed, fortunately. Cheers. -- JackofOz (talk) 20:47, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Sydney Opera House
I just read your message - I haven't been online for a long time! I will have a look at the article. Tkn20 (talk) 19:33, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Delink vs disambig
Hi, noticed you unlinked the names of several politicians (including former Queensland opposition leader John Duggan) because they pointed to the wrong article. The articles linking them were written well before the present article's creation. It's generally more advisable to disambiguate as it's almost impossible for project maintainers to find delinked text through automated tools such as AWB once the article is created. Thanks. Orderinchaos 11:02, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * No worries :) Yay for having AWB, I guess. (It's a useful tool for mass changes of a particular type) Orderinchaos 11:53, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Bluestone
Hi Machina.sapiens

Yes, a lot of the slate being sold to dress up walls in South Australia these days is imported from South Africa, too.

I thought I'd tidy up the reference to SA bluestone, which is utterly different from the stone given that name in Victoria. The thing I left unanswered because I don't know, is why "blue"? The stone is usually the colour of rust - orange-brown - because that's exactly what colours it. Sometimes there are other colours from greenish to purplish in it. I think the name was originally a joke along the lines of Australians calling someone with red hair Bluey, but I haven't got any evidence for that. Peter Bell (talk) 04:17, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Hamer Hall
It really is notable on its own account. For one thing, there's an ongoing heritage campaign surrounding the planned changes because of the significance of the concert hall itself, not just as part of the Arts Centre. Rebecca (talk) 06:54, 11 July 2010 (UTC)


 * The Arts Centre is a large complex, and a huge landmark in Melbourne - I think there's well enough that could be said about the rest of it that merging an article on Hamer Hall (even at the current length) would create undue weight. Rebecca (talk) 07:47, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

User:81.18.248.106
This unregistered user, whom you cautioned in August 2010, appears to be at it again on the Swiss Guard page.--Gaarmyvet (talk) 20:03, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

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