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WP Australian Politics in the Signpost
"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject Australian Politics for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Other editors will also have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 16:44, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Steve Wundke
Started his article, there for you to add more to! AssociateAffiliate (talk) 19:56, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Steele Hall's date of birth
Hi Roisterer. You haven't been active at Steele Hall so you may not have him watchlisted.

Please see Talk:Steele Hall for my query about the source of the DOB you inserted in October 2005. Cheers. --  Jack of Oz   [your turn]  11:04, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

(Poltpalingada Booboorowie)
What gave you both the right & where's your evidence that "(Poltpalingada Booboorowie)" was in any way, shape or form Ramindjeri!? Have you in actual fact spoken with Ramindjeri Sovereign Spokesman Karno Walker!? If not, why!? How can "(Poltpalingada Booboorowie)" be born by "Lake Albert" & be Ramindjeri!? Especially when Poltpalingada Booboorowie states he isn't, wasn't Ramindjeri!?Mifren (talk) 22:30, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Ramindjeri fun
I see you're having fun with our friend User:Mifren as well. --Roisterer (talk) 13:47, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sometimes I just can't help myself.--Yeti Hunter (talk) 00:04, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
 * mmm cruelty, (malice?) perpetrated thus perpetuated against respecting, recognising, resourcing Ramindjeri pre-eminent enduring Original Sovereignty with --Roisterer allowing 'evil to happen while good people say & do nothing'?Mifren (talk) 02:54, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Now that you've all had your little fun, let's get onto the harsh reality that that legal fiction Kaurna was 2000 Native Title Registered for descendents of 8 apical ancestors, one of which includes the current Ramindjeri Callover so called "Ngarrindjeri" - "Kaurna". The point being here is that there is another "Princess" Con aka Sally lifepartner or wife or mother of William Walker's two sons ... there's a lot going on here and clearly you've both been born & bred South Australians seem amazingly ignorant or at best, lacking in awareness!? Please, let's civilly discuss this thus seek truth from which justice & consensus naturally flows?Mifren (talk) 05:36, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Further YH as it seems you have "fun" removing Contributions placed in good faith, I now simply seek to address your apparent concern/s Boyle Finniss' Account here:

From Adelaide City Council Records: "At this time I was a witness of a fight on the banks of the Torrens in front of Morphett Street. Seeing a number of blacks assembling at that point, I repaired to the spot and was met by my old friend Peter, of Rapid Bay, and his tribe. The tribe was in their war paint, each man carrying shield and spear. Peter endeavoured to explain to me that they came to prevent the northern blacks entering their territory, which seems to have been bounded by the River Torrens. However, Captain Jack, of northern celebrity, had already, with the northern tribes, crossed the river and were engaged in various tactical movements which threatened war. There must have been at least a hundred blacks preparing for the fight. I saw Captain Jack, spear in hand, capering up and down the river flat in front of his myrmidons, talking very loudly and gesticulating violently. Captain Peter retorted in language which I did not comprehend. At last Captain Jack shook his spear, not at any one, but at a pretended foe, and after a few exclamations threw his spear into the ground, apparently in a great rage. This seemed the signal for combat. Captain Peter warned me to retire as the enemy were about to throw their spears. A few spears came. I stood out of the way of the combatants and watched the result. My friend Peter was captain of the southern hosts, evidently the chosen warrior of his tribe.

Rushed to the front and threw himself on one knee, covering himself with his shield in the left hand and balancing his spear at arm's length in the right hand, His warriors followed his example and ranged themselves on his right and left, receding so as to form a wedge, of which Peter was the front and apex. It recalled to mind my school-boy recollections of the Grecian phalanx, described in Polybius, and the Greek wedge formation. A shower of spears came from Captain Jack's party and the wedge grew restive. I could not see if any fell in this short contest, but I presume the northern tribes yielded to their fear of the southern prowess and began to disperse, while Peter rose up with his warriors and again entered into conversation with me, the result being that he was the victor. The northern blacks were tall, lanky figures, very lean and covered with white scales of a scorbutic appearance. I cannot say that they carried shields or that they fought like practised warriors. They were but a mob, while Peter's army were powerful, well-fed blacks, armed with shield and spear, and apparently well trained to use them."Mifren (talk) 07:09, 26 June 2010 (UTC) PLEASE! NOW Let's discuss!? Sincerely Mifren (talk) 05:58, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Tasmanian cricketers
Emboldened by your List of South Australian representative cricketers, I've been gently updating the Tasmanian equivalent over the past few weeks, borrowing heavily from your style and format, but putting them in order of debut (in all forms of cricket) rather than alphabetically. There's probably some tidying still to be done on it, but I wondered if you'd care to see if I've missed anything obvious. Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 12:35, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

There is no "priority" in WikiProject Biography
FYI... In [Talk:Brendon Goddard]], Talk:Danny Del-Re, etc. There hasn't been a "priority" parameter in WP Biography for a couple of years. It has been replaced by sports-priority, politician-priority, musician-priority, etc. Bgwhite (talk) 06:58, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Cellini
With your recent deletion, although the date of the commencement of the biography had already been given, and was thus repetitive, the other information in the sentence was not. The two sets of information needed reconciling rather than simply deleting the second sentence. Amandajm (talk) 09:32, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Isaac Selby
Thanks! Glad to know people are finding these articles - Selby was a lot of fun to write about. Good luck with that source! Frickeg (talk) 06:34, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Taman Shud Case
Are you still involved in efforts to throw light on this case? Do you know of some web site or blog where I can read and contribute? I found https://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/wiki/index.php/Final_report_2009:_Who_killed_the_Somerton_man%3F but it seems that is closed and over. Still, I'd like to find some site where I could contribute and discuss the case. Thanks GS3 (talk) 00:50, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I am sorry to say I am not on Facebook nor would I consider going through the trouble just for this issue. I do not consider myself a genius in any way and I'm sure anything I can think of has already come to the minds of others anyway.

Now that there's evidence that the unknown man and Jestyn's son shared some very unusual genetic traits which would make it almost certain that the unknown man was the father and, therefore, known to the nurse "Jestyn".

It also seems very improbable that two copies of the same Rubaiyat book would be connected like this by chance. My guess would be that it was a favorite book of Jestyn and she had presented a copy to the unknown man and another to Boxall.

My guess would be that the unknown man had an affair with Jestyn, however brief, and after the death she denied knowing him, probably because she did not want the facts of the affair exposed or that he was the father of her son. Now that she and her son are dead I suppose the detective who knows their names should consider making arrangements so that her name is not lost to history forever. I am sure she knew something about him. Maybe just a little if their relationship was brief. The cause of his death could be related to his affair with Jestyn and the son they had. Whatever she knew is lost forever.

Regarding the "code", I believe it is too short and unclear to try direct attacks and I would first concentrate on *how* it was written. Does it look like it was written on a moving vehicle? It seems to me like it is most likely that the crossed out line was deleted because it was a mistake and the correct line is the following similar one. He wrote O and started the vertical stroke of the B and then realized he had transposed the correct BO to OB so he crossed it out, did another line and then again the crossed-out line correctly. So I would ask the experts under what conditions is this type of mistake most likely to happen?

For example, if my code is the first letter of every word or every line of a poem I know by memory it seems like this error is unlikely. If I am doing some kind of computing, like with a Vignere cypher, the probability goes up exponentially. How about listening to characters being broadcast over radio and they are later repeated as a group? (Like trying to write down the lirics to a song by leaving the line when you fall behind and then going over the entire song again.) Given the text is so short it may be that it can never be decyphered but I believe a lot of information could be deduced without cracking the message itself.

Even if the message was cracked it would be so short that it may shed little light on the case. It may be that the code was not a message but a key in which case it is useless without the cyphertext.

It seems to me the authorities left a lot to be desired in their proceedings. The loss or destruction of evidence over the years, the deference given to Jestyn, etc. Jestyn was the person who could have told us something about the man but she is gone and that information is probably lost forever. GS3 (talk) 10:59, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

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