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Casino
Just wondering what your association is with this town and why you feel the need to remove postings on the town? i live there and i know for a fact the integrity of this article is unquestionable. in addition, i hope to continue to further update this entry. perhaps you could supply me with some guidelines as to how i can meet your venerable standards so i dont waste my time writing an article about my hometown only to have it deleted. Thankyou in advance. Example name (talk) 04:15, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Back from O/S for a couple of days now. Thanks for maintaining a watch. Cheers and best wishes.-- VS talk 01:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Happy to help but to be honest it was fairly quiet. I hope you enjoyed your trip and it's good to see you back.  Cheers, Mattinbgn\talk 02:07, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

WrestleMania X
Thanks for the review. I went through and addressed your concerns. Please look it over when you have a chance and let me know if more needs to be done. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 03:03, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Riverina and African Australia

 * I really have to say that I disagree that Riverina breaches WP:Synth in the same way African Australian does. Riverina is well acknowledged as a region, the issue we had was finding an authoratative definition that was agreed universally. I do not think that you can show the term African Australian is well agreed by anybody except a couple of ill defined non profit organisations and one researcher who used it as an umbrella term before going on to be more specific.  To put together an article on African Australians any editor will have to do his or her own research and can not refer to even many diverse sources using the term to assist with that (as we did with the Riverina article) - I think that is beyond the bounds allowable by Wikipedia for article formation. --Matilda talk 03:38, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I would not be averse at all to deletion without prejudice to recreation should someone be interested in writing a valid stub --Matilda talk 05:38, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I think DRV is as good a forum as any. I have modified my !vote there :-) --Matilda talk 05:53, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Trumble PR
Just a note - where my comments are opinions and are not about factual errors (as the comments 1 and 3), I don't have a problem if you disagree with or ignore them. Tintin 05:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Wisden list
Hey Mattinbgn, thanks for your comments and your support. Hopefully we're nearly there! The Rambling Man (talk) 08:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

User_talk:Lankiveil
1) Once again? Haha...I don't think you were in any hurry to self-nom yourself ;)

2) Notice that peer review he did for me?... ;)

Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 08:38, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

quants
atleast wait before I explain why the subject matter is notable...now I have to write the whole thing again along with the whole explanation...geez, Now don't delete articles without giving the author a chanceJacknote (talk) 04:39, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't get it. what more do you want????Jacknote (talk) 07:38, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I mean what guidelines are you speaking....I think I clarified on the notability and I put references as well. Could you please elaborate as to what more is expected???

Quants is basically a shortening of the term Quantitative analyst. These quants are not "wall street legends", The legends are Long Term Capital Management, Salomon Brothers and John Meriwether......But they were significant employees in salomon as one of the first quants, Also they were principals in Long Term Capital Management which means they are often mentioned in a lot of wikipedia articles....not to mention excessive mention and praise in books.....Wikipedia has lots of articles on way more obscure stuff.....I think you might have noted the obscurity of JWM Partners LLC and thought why on earth there should be articles on their employees....

Now since I have clarified and wanna do articles on the other quants....I think I should be allowed to...Whaddya think????Jacknote (talk) 08:23, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

And did I mention that they were all connected with the noble-winning Robert Merton, Myron Scholes and Fischer BlackJacknote (talk) 08:30, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

PROD tag
If you google "Joee Guilas", it's definitely not a hoax. Did you even try? Tan  |   39  04:43, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

User boxes & West Albury
Great, thanks. The Bush Bear (talk) 02:28, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your help and guidance.
User:Redders380 11:17, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

And thanks also for the heads up and tidying up. &mdash;Moondyne click! 12:21, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Narooma - Things to see and do
Hi Matt,

Thanks for your advice regarding the "Things to do and see" topic on Narooma. I didn't actually create it, I simply edited it with additional information. I added the paragraph about Australia Rock and a couple of pictures. Everything above Australia Rock was already there. I also added two external links, one to the Narooma Online web site which is for both locals and visitors. The other was for a scuba diving web site run by local divers that film the underwater world of Montague Island just off the coast of Narooma.

The self promotion you mentioned is kind of obvious regarding Charter Operators and such, but it wasn't me.

Thanks again for your advice, wiki is a fantastic source of information.

Craigedgar (talk) 22:34, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Ipodsrus
Would you mind taking a look at this unblock request? I can't seem to find any evidence that proves he's a sockpuppet, but since you made the block, I thought you may be able to provide some more insight. Thanks. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 01:13, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've declined it. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 01:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Hugh Trumble
Thanks for the kind words. I'll try to find time to take a look at the article. JH (talk page) 08:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Me too. Slightly busy in real life; will go through it this weekend. Tintin 04:40, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I appreciate anything you can do. -- Mattinbgn\talk 04:58, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Maryborough
Ah cool, you anticipated where I was going with that :) Orderinchaos 16:04, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Colin McCool
I've added a couple of bits to this and have some more about his personality that I can add from the same source; there's also some stuff about his batting style. But I've run out of time tonight IRL and am now away until the weekend. Johnlp (talk) 22:38, 16 April 2008 (UTC) Thanks for fixing the ref. It for some reason kept deleting subheads and other bits I was inserting, so I went away for an hour to improve my temper and when I came back you done it! Johnlp (talk) 10:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I knew I had it somewhere... just found my copy of the 1958-59 Somerset County Cricket Club Year Book (price two shillings and sixpence, paid for out of my pocket money, as I remember!). Hoped it might provide Mrs McCool's name: no such luck. But it does have an appreciation of the man by Bradman in advance of his testimonial season in 1959, which mentions the "Groundbowlers" and which I've inserted as a footnote. Also put in a small mention of the testimonial (which maybe ought to be positioned elsewhere?) Johnlp (talk) 20:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The mysterious Mrs McCool! Well done. Johnlp (talk) 13:02, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * No probs. I'm working on Harold Stephenson at present: McCool's wicketkeeping colleague at Somerset and the man picked to captain the side in 1960 when they had, if I remember rightly, to choose between McCool and Bill Alley as captain and decided to have neither of them. Johnlp (talk) 20:22, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Trott
After v v brief review, the article looks comprehensive, will review in the next couple of days - major point that I can see is that the lead is too short. To generalise on your articles: they are excellent but the one criticism I offer is that you need to decide (when writing a biog) the player's place in the pantheon and point this out in the intro, so for eg. Trott was the Aus capt who revived the team after many years of poor results and paved the way for Darling, Noble & Hill. Rather than do long-winded peer reviews, I prefer to just do a ce, it's easier that way?? Saves on my over-worked fingers...lol. I was going to suggest I do same for Trumble, if that's ok just msg me. Re: images, I had been working toward getting a pic for every Aus Test player pre-1960 as a personal project, but wasn't overly impressed with this edit so my enthusiasm has waned a bit, along with the Bradman thing. I haven't shaken my initial opinion that WP is a very cliquey enterprise.

Phanto282 (talk) 14:17, 21 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, I'll do a ce tomorrow, but first of all, a style thing. I like your use of quotes in the article, but my understanding is that all direct quotes that are longer than one complete sentence must appear blocked, according to MOS. There are a number of quotes longer than one sentence that are part of the text, but not blocked.

Phanto282 (talk) 06:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Invincibles template...
... has gone a bit ape on WP:CRIQ, and perhaps elsewhere. I'm not quite sure how these things work! Johnlp (talk) 22:24, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Someone has tackled it on this page by removing it. Which isn't really a solution... Johnlp (talk) 22:36, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

SMH Article
I have Factiva access if you want me to help - the SMH only starts in 1986, so we may be lucky in geting the article you want. If it doesn't have it, you'll have to go to your State Library, I'm afraid. Give me the article title and I'll have a look. JRG (talk) 05:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * No luck unfortunately - Factiva starts in September 1986. JRG (talk) 11:18, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

DYK
A typo there. 1897-"08" Tintin 06:21, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

FT of the Invincibles
I don't mind taking a crack at getting Ron Saggers to FA, if you don't mind? (Since you last updated the FT drive on the project talk page I guess it's your project?) I'll try to find time to do it along with my FA drive for Geoffrey Boycott (I mention it because you might have a photo!!!!! :D ) regards, SGGH speak! 15:23, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

LGAs
Thanks for the missing towns in BM ... For some strange reason I did not get the town lists for Bacchus Marsh, Ballan, Bungaree, Buninyong or Grenville - had to go from the descriptors and the RACV Vicroads - so if you see any others clearly missing in those feel free to add. The others I had lists for from the Municipal Directory from 1992 from a previous trip to Melbourne. Orderinchaos 11:29, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Australian Aborigine
I'm glad there are people like you 'watching' the page and monitoring for vandalism and, even, racism/racist intent!

I'm also glad you are OK with what I'd done with the linking to Australian Aborigines. Responding to your first request that I contextualised the Lowitja O'Donoghue AC, CBE quote, I've now expanded the Australian Aborigines article here to include context plus exact quote, as taken from yesterday's Australian (also found in yesterday's Age and Sydney Herald!)  :-) Bruceanthro (talk) 05:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Trumble
A great read. Sorry for the Oppose. Looking forward to coming back and supporting. --Dweller (talk) 13:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Big Banana
I see that you've tanek some previous interest in the Big Banana article, and have reverted some vandalism in the past. It seems that recent edits have changed the names of the people associated with the History of the Big Banana.

The correct information is found on The Big Banana web site About page

Can the Big Banana article be somehow protected or patrolled ? I guess it's a bunch of fools who want to insert the names of their friends into this article for a laugh - maybe this is going on across other Wikipedia articles too ?

OZ_Rhett (talk) 16:52, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Wollongong
Most likely. I must admit I'd reverted on principle more than anything - had a few people removing strange things from articles under IP addresses today, and this particular one had been adding opinion to other articles. If a good faith user made the decision to remove I certainly would not oppose (or likely even have noticed). Orderinchaos 15:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Note Michellecrisp's reply on my talk page, too. Orderinchaos 00:10, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

RE: Requests for adminship/Kakofonous
Hey. I in no way thought you intentions where by any means malicious, and instead I thought you just made a simple mistake and one I have made myself. Cheers, Tiptoety  talk 00:24, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh well, it happens to the best of us. :) Tiptoety  talk 00:39, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Judy Moran
I saw your comments on the closing admins talk page. Yes I'm busy with real life too. I was suprised with the decision to delete? Consensus was a pretty clear keep. Poor admin decision in my opinion.--Sting au  Buzz Me...   22:40, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Shark bay
Ta - its a long slog - idea is to create another art again to try to separate the long standing conflation of the world heritage area info from the various localities - in my characteristically slap dash edit style -= cf with hesps abrolhos - single minded an a lot done - mine - in between dogs breakfast etc - cheers SatuSuro 02:12, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Gotta love it...
...when obscure international disputes end up getting played out on even more obscure Victorian country town articles. :) Orderinchaos 14:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Template:OzTestCaptain Advert
I hope you don't mind that I was WP:BOLD and updated the above for you, do you? SGGH speak! 11:10, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

How to say thanks like Blowers
Oh I say! Good man! --Dweller (talk) 10:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

heheh
unravel my recent west tas and south west tas stubs and they need more than info box : | - heaps to add over time - a very neglected corner of the oz regions and some very poorly written rubbish as well (mine included) - it gets lonely there as no one ever seems to visit - so thanks for popping in :) SatuSuro 01:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC) Looks like a very worthy project will keep that in mind though some of the west coast townsites are no longer townsites but ghost towns - like the gormanston (still inhabited but much reduced), linda, lake dora (maybe a camp more than a town), crotty, darwin, lynchford, teepookana, and pillinger sites are no longer what we would call towns - similarly dundas and williamsford (stub not started yet) are but shadows of them 1900-1920 selves - probably all in one way or other could be ghosts of ghost towns if we are very technical... will consider all this once i have got through my highway chaos - cheers SatuSuro 01:37, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Ooops I think I added some to the mainspace front of art - rather than the talk page - hope that doesnt muck things up too much :( SatuSuro 05:21, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Railway station images
No, I don't - and I'd suspected for a while this might be problematic. It might pay to write to the photographer and see if he's willing for them to be used under a free license; otherwise they'll all have to go, which is really crap. Rebecca (talk) 03:25, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I have sent an email to him - more about it on Rebecca's page. Wongm (talk) 02:59, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Jack Marsh
Thanks for those comments. I think that the SCC referred to by the book and the old BCC in the wiki article might be referring to the same thing somehow. As for the theories, Whimpress didn't attribute that specific part to anyone. But feel free to change the wording if necessary to make it look less suspicious. Thanks again,  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 03:29, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks again for your help.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 02:07, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Ron Hamence
I have expanded the above for the FT on the Invincibles too, if you want to check it over. SGGH speak! 12:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Not with the team one, which I have replaced, but the Bradman link had been linked earlier with "Don Bradman's XI" SGGH speak! 11:26, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

My fault not yours, I can't work this bloody AWB thing. SGGH speak! 11:38, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Joel Selwood Peer Review
Hi, thanks for taking the time and effort to provide a peer review for the Joel Selwood article. Much appreciated. I've addressed your concerns with the article to date, do feel free to look over them. Cheers. Boomtish (talk) 09:33, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks once again for the swift response and additional recommendations. I've addressed the latest concerns to the best of my ability, and will look at following up the tip of inquiring through WP:FOOTY and WP:NFL. Thanks once again, hope you can make an appearance should I get the article up for FA consideration. Cheers. Boomtish (talk) 03:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Re your request
Leave Booth (and Trott) with me for a couple of days, see what we can do, I don't have a lot of time at the mo. You are making it very hard for me to retire ... lol.

Phanto282 (talk) 09:59, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:BalranaldSCLogo.png
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WA Politics
Well said - re it - anything could indeed happen - id never debate that :) SatuSuro 02:28, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hat wearing - my wife has issues with potential skin cancer - I endorse big hats anytime - not just for the horse race days - but Tasmanian politics outdoes us all - the pockets of the pollies and the current fashionable invisible dictator, the tydro - or hunns etc - outdoes wa everytime - its just that the mainland doesnt get to hear the nitty gritty so much - our family accountant is a splitting image of the current tas prem - it bothers me at times :) SatuSuro 02:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yr last message leaves me stumped - anyways enough bias on my part about to jump out into reality - cheers SatuSuro 02:39, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Fairy's - now there is a dammed good subject with which the current premie and journos of the worst aka west possibly all belong to that species - but i digress - another time another place i think SatuSuro

Tania Zaetta
Thanks for the thorough explanation. I won't re-insert the material - I'd just point out that the media attention is credible and not celeb gossip. Perhaps the word "allegations" would need to be inserted, as it would seem to me that this news is important enough for inclusion in the encyclopedia (most likely after the investigation concludes). Cheers, Harr o 5 07:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks so much for your support in myRfA, which closed successfully this morning. PS, everytime I see something from you, I think Don Mattingly, and that's a very good thing. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 19:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Survivor Series (1994) GAN
Hello, I have nominated this article for a Good Article review. I found your review of WrestleMania X very helpful, and it would be great if you could find time to review this article as well. If not, please don't worry about it. I'm not in a hurry, and I know it will get reviewed at some point. If you are able, though, I would really appreciate it. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 03:30, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Zarah
Seems to be a little hotbed of the unciteds - when you werent on yesterday there was some fun - there seems to be something about blp's - :( My current ditty for all this - a day away from the fray, is enough to bring back to black the hair of gray - not that anyone in their right mind would accept anything but the ravings of a demented wikiholic SatuSuro 02:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Z Garde-Wilson
What is your problem with my sources???

please explain what you do want. If you don't like the format then do say how to do it differently

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try reading the page about not biting newcomers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers). It's on your own user page.

FA Review Brian Close
Brian Close has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Brianboulton (talk) 09:19, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

History of cricket: peer review
Hello again. Thanks for your inputs to this review. I'm going to do some work on the article this weekend to make use of the feedback received. I'll report back when I've made some progress. All the best. BlackJack | talk page 19:44, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi
I'm finally beginning to make some headway at Bradman's PR. I'd like to bowdlerise (sp?) User_talk:Dweller to the relevant PR. I hope you don't mind. Please keep an eye on the PR a) in case you feel I miscontrue your comments and b) for my (eventual) responses. --Dweller (talk) 10:49, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Mind your language, please
Hi Mattinbgn: You comments on Featured article review/Harbhajan Singh borderlines personal attack. I have been fully specific with numerous examples - why I requested FAR on the article. The significant changes made to the article since the FAR nomination at least proves one thing - the article had significant scope of improvement and FAR has facilitated that process. If you have any question / comment / issues with my actions you should give me a message or even request for admin action against me. I am 100% confident to defend my action at any forum. But bad-mouthing other editors at improper forum does not suit a seemingly experienced editor like you. Best regards,  Arman  ( Talk ) 02:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * This criticism is incorrect Armanaziz - a review by me (independent of the actual article and never having come across you before) shows that you are in fact attacking all the previous editors who disagree with you continuing the process of review for this article through FAR. Indeed I have made comment on this at the FAR page and I suggest that you at the very least refrain from edits such as the one above and the edit you made detailing that all your detractors should consult a high school grammar teacher in the future.  Please note that I continue to remain independent of the article itself.-- VS  talk 03:05, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I note that Arman has now agreed to closure of this FAR - I see that as a step in the right direction. I suggest that the appropriate process is requested to have that closure effected. Best wishes.-- VS  talk 03:52, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually have had a few extra minutes so have requested close myself here. Cheers to all. -- VS talk 04:01, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks VS. Arman, No-one disagreed with you that the article could be improved; most articles can. My point is, and I stand by it, is that any faults with the article could have be dealt with outside the FAR process, given that there was zero chance that the article would be delisted. Your nomination was vindictive in nature and designed to act as a deterrent to other editors who comment in FACs and FARs that you have an interest in. Raising the problem of your abuse of process at the FAR was entirely appropriate and transparent. Your comments above deepen my concern with your actions and attitude; wiki-lawyering and forum-shopping are generally frowned upon. I have no interest in taking further action in this matter, my opinion of your nomination has been made clear. Regards, 11:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)