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Qantas Flight 30
Yes do you also have a photo of this plane where it say Boeing 747-438 on the side? I have looked at many photos of numerous Qantas 747's they all say Boeing 747-400, or Boeing 747-400ER. Furthermore Boeing's wikipage doesn't have anything about constructing a Boeing 747-438. And when you click the highlighted link on wiki it does not take you to a Boeing 747-438 page, it takes you to the Boeing 747-400 page. So I feel you need to provide proof of the existence of this so called Boeing 747-438, otherwise I will change the page back, and keep changing it back.--Subman758 (talk) 20:32, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

QF30
Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but we regretfully cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses novel, unpublished syntheses of previously published material. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your information.

--The preceeding unsigned comment was left by Socrates2008 (talk) 21:20, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * As a courtesy, please note WP:DTTR and sign your comments on talk pages. Also please read through WP:V - the status of explosive decompression comes from a reliable source - the pilot - quoted in numerous reliable publications.  At this stage it is merely your opinion that this was not the case. -- Rob.au (talk) 11:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Take a read at verifiability before making uncited edits, which in this case linked a main article which also did not back up your assertion. This is an enyclopedia, not a blog or newspaper, so opinions don't count.  The official investigation has not been concluded or published yet, so the reliable source that Wikipedia requires does not exist yet.  PS: Your comment about signing is knit-picking as I usually do; also the edit history shows who added the comment.   Socrates2008 (  Talk  )   22:31, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Slapping an 'unreferenced' tag on explosive decompression when the article had references is immature to say the least. Also, please take the time read up on the differences between explosive depressurisation and rapid depressurisation before contributing more original research to that article (in form of your non-expert opinion that they are one and the same thing).   Socrates2008 (  Talk  )   13:39, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The majority of the article had no citations - there's no reason for you to take the application of a cleanup tag personally and turn it into an uncivil attack on me.  I'm not enterting into further discussion unless you check your attitude... and your liberal use of the accusation "original research" is a pretty amusing way to twist around my pointing out the lack of citations in that article... I can no longer assume good faith in your edits and arguments... I think you're just throwing that around for the sake of argument.  I am not going to be bullied, sorry. -- Rob.au (talk) 15:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Edit query
Rob, this edit puzzles me. The url http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24078132-2,00.html is titled "Qantas boss 'horrified' by hole in Boeing 747-400", not "Qantas plane has history of corrosion" as your edit implies. It seems News Limited changes story titles after publication. Could you comment? Moondyne 12:40, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation. I was surprised and in my naive way couldn't believe such a thing happened!  Cheeky buggers. Moondyne 13:35, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Mistakenly edited your comment in Qantas Flight 30 Discussion
Greetings. I want to apologize for mistakenly editing your comment while editing mine... It's not intentional and I thought that portion is part of my comment until Bidgee notified me about the incident. Sorry. {Howardchu (talk) 05:09, 29 July 2008 (UTC)}

Serious business
To avoid adding yet more to that AFD, I thought I'd respond here...

Yep, that was me getting my ATSB orders of magnitude mixed up. Apologies. :D

OBM | blah blah blah 08:03, 9 October 2008 (UTC)


 * No worries! :) -- Rob.au (talk) 10:13, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

QF72
You now have my support (You've done a good job on improving User:Rob.au/Qantas Flight 72). Bidgee (talk) 11:48, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Qantas Flight 72
Hi Rob.au. I was recently searching to see what Wikipedia had on Qantas Flight 72, and was very surprised to find that there is no article at all. After some searching, I see that it has been deleted. I think the deletion was the wrong decision. Anyway, I see you have kept a version of the article. I think the article should be kept up to date on your userpage, as I feel certain that it will have long-term significance. I think when some new information is added, the article should be restored to Wikipedia mainspace. Let me know if it gets restored, as I will support it's retention. Cheers, -- Lester  23:54, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The article you have been working on is looking much better - well done.  Socrates2008 (  Talk  )   12:53, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Alphabetization and collation
I am inviting you to comment, in your capacity as an informatician, at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. -- Wavelength (talk) 05:19, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Connex Melbourne page
Hi Rob, just to give you a heads up on this page. You have already flagged one series of edits by the user name random 12347. I have made some factual additions to this page from the connex media releases into the Melbourne media, last week. In my humble opinion random 12347 is possibly a connex bod..gut feeling. Can you please keep tabs on this page..I will and if necessary do what you have to do!! RegardsZippomk2 (talk) 11:14, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

William Ellis Green
Hi Rob, thanks for your advice in the past, someone beat me to the clarification on Connex! Regards the above page. Am well aware of the edit guidelines 3 strikes to paraphrase! The edits to the External References are at 2. The External Reference I added has been undone. Under Wiki rules imho the External Refs should be an ODP? My reference is factual not POV or inflammatory. As you check the history its the same IP each time. Any chance you can put this up to the Australian Wiki moderators, this is a bit over my head. Appreciate your help in advance Zippomk2 (talk) 10:21, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm really not here to get involved in other people's concerns or disputes. There are plenty of Wikipedians who are ready and willing to do so, but my main interest in Wikipedia is contributing content in which I have an interest and understanding.  When there concerns and disputes about that then I'll dive into the relevant meta-discussions... and I don't mind giving the odd bit of help, but I'm sorry... I really don't want to start trawling through edit histories of articles I have no interest in.  You should be discussing these things on the relevant article talk pages so that people with an interest in the topic can contribute to the discussion. -- Rob.au (talk) 08:53, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Sydney suburbs = Towns of New South Wales?
I am sorry that I made assumptions which do not apply. I was obviously being too inclusive. This was not an idea I didn't consider. I was simply curious about Australian places and found that there wasn't a place in which all of the localities, towns, etc. could be seen. I also noticed other suberbs listed in the towns category. Thanks for correcting me, I am but an amateur. I will try to show more discipline in the future. Hows that for polite:) Frankie816 15:20, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Sydney Boys High School
Regarding your revert on the Sydney Boys High School page, I've undid your changes and cited the source for the concerned peice of infomation. Citation of the souce means that the process of arriving at the rankings is irrelevant. As for your arguement about larger canditure, I don't think people would feel the same if their respective schools were topping the long established SMH ranks, but not the Telegraph polls, established last year?

--Sharz 01:34, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I'd just like to apoligise for that post ^^ I've been embroiled in what is essentially a competition of verbal abuse with another user in and around Wiki which is pretty fustrating but it's no escuse to assume bad faith with you nor have snarky comments like the one formentioned. --Sharz 12:38, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Optus Headquaters and CEO
The article already says "Headquaters" then you are saying it again. That's stupid and its not on any other telco's page.

Chief Executive is CEO, those terms are interchangable. If you believe that they are not, point me to a single page on the web where it says they are different.

My point exactly is that foreign members in a management team can and does bring benefits to an organization. If you disagree with the wikipedia policy on the use of flagicons, that's your problem. It offers a quick glance at the origins of the management team, as on many other pages, especially if there is nothing written about the management team. Tri400 01:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Jimbo is coming to Sydney
Sorry to spam you if you aren't interested. See Meetup/Sydney for more info if you are interested. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Photo of CityRail map
Don't know what I was thinking, guess I wasn't. I've removed the image from the pages it was on, it was quite a poor photo too. RP Bravo 00:42, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Flag Icons
Do you own the Telstra page also? Tri400 00:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * There's clearly no point me responding to this other than here - nobody owns anything. Tri400 (talk) was discussing the content of the Optus page on Talk:Telstra and I observed it was best discussed on Talk:Optus.  End of story. --Rob.au 12:52, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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Kangaroo Route
I have started a vote on the discussion page of this article to remove content that is irrelevant to Qantas's operations flight. Seriously this article needs a rewrite! Please add your vote. Kransky (talk) 12:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: South Durras Article
I have taken a number of photos which I will add in the upcoming weeks. I have been too busy to upload them now. Thanks for your suggestions so far.

Cheers,

--Loy Wong (talk) 03:43, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Your edit summary
Are you trying to tell me that I can't rename citation ? Reason why I changed it was to reduce the title's size (I'm not the only person due do so) and it's at the top of the report. Bidgee (talk) 18:18, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Optus outsourcing
I've tried to find some sources for you and this is what I've found so far. Optus confirms offshoring plans (Reliability unknown), Optus starts lay offs (Reliability unknown), Telstra sends 500 jobs offshore (Has a section with Optus outsourcing in the Philippines). Bidgee (talk) 13:55, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

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CityRail Distances
Hi Rob! researching stuff about altitudes of Sydney railway stations and line-gradients, found a few anomalies in "Distance from Central", as below. Have checked using mapping software, but don't necessarily claim Wiki-level authenticity for this info. Cheers Laurie Power Loftus	wrongly reported as 11.61 km from Central. More like	26.92 Bombo	wrongly reported as 140.84 km from Central. More like	117.44 Flemington wrongly reported as 28.997 from Central. More like	14.33 Croydon	wrongly reported as (same as Burwood) 10.62 from Central. More like 9.65 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.30.203.43 (talk) 12:49, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Most of the distances I have seen on Wikipedia (which aren't clearly wonky - and I've seen a lot of those) appear to be sourced from CityRail's Fare Calculator. Accoridng to that, the distances would be Loftus 26.27 km, Bombo 117.54 km, Flemington 14.32 km, Croydon 9.44 km, Burwood 10.62 km.  It looks like your figures are pretty much on the money, but using the Fare Calculator's figures would give you something to reference as the source of the data without being WP:OR. -- Rob.au (talk) 13:24, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually the CityRail Passenger Fares and Coaching Rates Handbook is probably even better as a source, refer to Section 5 (page 93 of 120 in the PDF). -- Rob.au (talk) 13:32, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

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Bennelong by-election
You've added after the decimal point, whereas I had rounded to match earlier polls, which is fine. But how do you get to 16.9% for Others? I made it AC 6.2 + Others(SMH) 3.4 = 9.6 (10)%. SMH confuses me, though, because it gives a figure for ON, which according to the AEC isn't standing (at least in its own name). Even so, ON+AC+CD+Others(SMH) is only 14.5% The poll isn't on ReachTEL's site. Wikiain (talk) 02:22, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm slightly concerned about the subsequent edits to the article because they rely on a third-party source rather than the SMH article  given Fairfax commissioned the poll and it's not clear where the third party is getting it from and indeed the third party has gone on to provide different data again (supposedly pressing the undecideds to give some kind of answer).  Most of the previous polls in the table have shown all results tallying to 100% inclusive of undecideds, although that was only 2.4% in this case so there was still a discrepancy in your figures from the SMH data I couldn't account for (but didn't try to, I just copied the figures across, I figured maybe you made a typo or something... I didn't dwell on it, just double checked my tally added up to 100).  This said, SMH seems to have now removed the full results from their site which I saw this morning, so now I'm unable to reference it, which makes me uncomfortable making further edits.
 * It's true that One Nation isn't standing, but ReachTEL may have allowed respondents to provide their own answer and it's possible this many actually said One Nation (we saw in the Queensland election many voters getting upset that they couldn't vote for Hanson in electorates where ON didn't run). It was surprisingly high given that One Nation has traditionally tanked in Bennelong, but it's possible that's changed since ON switched focus from Asians to Islam.  In any case, they certainly are not running, so that's another extremely problematic aspect of the poll.
 * To be honest, I'm not that big a fan of this table being in the article because of the issues with the sourcing of the data which it seems the propriety owners of are being a bit cagey about... and that's before consideration of the other question marks, not to mention the issue of by-election polling being notoriously problematic due to how hard it is to accurately and consistently reach genuinely eligible voters for polling. -- Rob.au (talk) 13:31, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The ReachTEL poll was by robocall and I don't remember whether there was an option for adding to its list.  To my recollection of the original SMH story (I'm working from incomplete notes of it), it correctly had ON from November (when they might have been going to stand) for comparison.  But I also recall that CD was included in the same way although they are standing.  You will see that I have reverted to the original SMH story and have taken up the third-party question in Talk.  That source is also used here for earlier polls, so there might be similar problems with those entries.  It's stormy weather here in Bennelong - which BTW barely exists outside of federal election times (Sydney, the "city of villages"). Wikiain (talk) 22:54, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Very helpful info on the Boeing 737 MAX 9
@Rob.au, thank you very much for the video "737 Technical Aspects of AS1282 FAQs" and sharing your insight. If you don't mind sharing, what experience do you have in the industry? I'm curious to ask more questions. Dw31415 (talk) 12:40, 14 January 2024 (UTC)


 * @Dw31415 Literally none. Interested outsider only. Rob.au (talk) 09:32, 15 January 2024 (UTC)