User talk:ScottDavis/Archive 12

Wikipedia Geographical Coordinates project
Hi.

I got your contact details from the Wikipedia Geographical Coordinates project page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates) and hope you don't mind that I am contacting you out of the blue. I am an Internet Geographer based at the University of Oxford, and would like to start a mapping project that examines the geography of Wikipedia articles. To do this, I would like to start by looking at how many articles are tagged to each country of the world.

I see that projects like Geonames (http://www.geonames.org/maps/wikipedia.html) allow you to browse this information, but I am wondering if there is any way to obtain a list or database of geotagged articles by country so that I can map the data? If you have any hints or ideas, I would be very grateful if you could let me know. Also if you know of anyone that may be likely to have this information please pass along their contact details. My contact details are mark.graham@oii.ax.ac.uk

Thanks in advance for your help.

Mark Graham www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.cfm?id=165 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucidwave (talk • contribs) 18:47, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Hey do you think you can redo The Los Banos Unified School District Wiki Page —Preceding unsigned comment added by KRW Godfather (talk • contribs) 19:28, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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1971 lincoln
Hi Scott. I am new to wiki and not very computer literate. I hope I am reaching out to the right person. There is a picture of a 1971 Lincoln Continental, 2 door, white in color. Did you take this picture, if so do you know who owns the car. Should you not know the owner could you tell me what city it is located in. The reason being I would like to contact the owner about purchasing this car. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thx. David


 * I don't recall taking a picture like that. If you post the link, I might be able to help you read the data at the bottom that should say who took it. --Scott Davis Talk 11:36, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

new to wiki and would like some help
G'day Scott, I am new to wiki and would like some help in certain areas such as getting pic links to work, templates for geographical stubs, editing pages, creating pages etc as I'm not too sure of where to start. Once I am started I should be fine. Can you please leave a message on my page if you are able to help. Cheers, Fairv8 Fairv8 (talk) 19:51, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

can't find your email address
G'day Scott, I can't seem to find your email address on the LHS of your user page, just main wiki stuff, neither can I find it in all the text throughout the page, maybe I'm blind?. Anyway I live in Angle Vale. Fairv8 (talk) 11:52, 2 October 2010 (UTC)


 * There's an "E-mail this user" link in the toolbox section. I'm a few suburbs east of you. --Scott Davis Talk 06:37, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Serviceton photos
I edit a newsletter for a small retired group and we like to challenge their memories and create a bit of interest by including a photo or two of an unamed building or similar recognisable object, preferably in Victoria. I would like to use your Serviceton photos and perhaps others for this purpose. Regards, Photomisty (talk) 00:57, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Photomisty. I think I have published all the photos I have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as CC-BY-SA - you are welcome to use them, as long as you give me credit for having taken the photograph, and allow others to do likewise. I would be interested to know where my photos end up, but do not actually require that you seek permission. I like to be able to use others' photos this way, so contribute my own with a similar license to what I like consuming. I hope the newsletter works for its purpose. I'll be impressed if anyone recognises those places! --Scott Davis Talk 13:58, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:Towns of the Clare Valley
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Proposal to shut down WP Geographic Coordinates & ban coordinates on wikipedia articles
This means you. --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:48, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

First former SA Premier Boyle Finniss
G'day Scott

I see that you were an early contributor to what's become Boyle Finniss' Article. I was given a copy of Finniss' witness account I've reproduced at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mifren/Sandbox & wondered what you either know or could learn more about it from Adelaide City Council Archives as I'm on Bali & unable to visit directly. Kind regards, Matthew (talk) 06:44, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Matthew. I'm afraid that I have slowed down my contributions to Wikipedia to rather less than a crawl lately. I don't live or work in the city, so it is difficult for me to get in to talk to the council, too. Sorry. --Scott Davis Talk 22:00, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear ScottDavis,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk — Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned comment added by 35.9.34.167 (talk) 21:30, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Jonathan. I'm afraid that life issues have slowed down my recent involvement in Wikipedia. I wish you luck with your class's project, but I don't feel I would be very helpful, as I have not been active as an administrator for several years. --Scott Davis Talk 22:05, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Jean Herbert
Hi! I saw that u had edited the article about Jean Herbert. I'm making a study on his biography and his work as interpreter.. do u know other books or links where i can find more informations?? thank u in advance for the attention! hope to hear u soon! Ila. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilalaix (talk • contribs) 07:59, 10 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry. My only edit on Jean Herbert was a drive-by disambiguation of one of the links in the article. I don't think I even read it at the time other than the sentence or two around where I changed it. I know nothing about him at all. --Scott Davis Talk 15:02, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Alinta
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RfC:Infobox Road proposal
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Proposed deletion of List of postcodes in South Australia/numeric sort


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FYI - Adelaide meetup on Wednesday next week
More info here. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:40, 10 April 2014 (UTC)


 * RSVP appreciated. Pdfpdf (talk) 13:47, 14 April 2014 (UTC)


 * It sounds enticing now that I have started contributing to Wikipedia again, but I think my week feels full enough without adding the meetup to it. Thanks for thinking of me. --Scott Davis Talk 13:55, 14 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks. (Maybe next time.) Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 14:08, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment
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Invitation to Adelaide Wikipedia Users Group meetings
Hi, in case you're not already aware of it, a group of Adelaide Wikipedians has been meeting on a monthly basis since April, with the aim of improving the scope and quality of articles on South Australian topics. We meet at UniSA's City West campus, and our 23 July meeting will have a guest speaker from the National Trust of SA.

This coming Sunday, 6 July, we will be holding our first Edit-a-thon. This will be an opportunity for new editors to come and learn either basic or more advanced editing from very experienced wikipedians, so if you know anyone who would like to get some practice, please let them know - and beginners will be very welcome. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 06:30, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you. I didn't think I'd done that much on roads yet, but I'm intending to do some more when time and resources allow. Scott Davis Talk

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 * Fixed. Disambiguated to John Whyte (pastoralist), added that link to the disambiguation page, created the article and made a few more links to it from references to him in other articles. --Scott Davis Talk 14:01, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you . I enjoy learning about how technology (including transportation) has influenced development in South Australia, so I have been gradually completing coverage of highways and railways so that if anything interesting comes up, there is a page to hang it from. There are still a few of each to create, and then I'll need to go round and bring the earlier ones up to the standards of the later ones as I've learned more of style and sources. --Scott Davis Talk 03:18, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

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 * Australia in South Australia. It is being developed by Rex Minerals {convert|12|km} south of Ardrossan on Yorke Peninsula. Point-to-point speed cameras have been installed on
 * --Scott Davis Talk 03:04, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

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 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Fixed --Scott Davis Talk 12:37, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Wine
Hi ScottDavis, Thanks for your edits to Fleurieu zone (wine) and the additions to Kangaroo Island. I am just writing to advise that I have just uploaded a stub class article for the Mount Gambier wine region and have stub class articles in preparation for the Southern Fleurieu wine zone and the Limestone Coast zone (wine). FYI, I am not directly interested in wine but in this instance, my interest is with matters associated with the use of geographical place names. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 23:18, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the work you are doing on the wine regions and zones. It doesn't matter if your interest is the wine, geography or nomenclature. I think it should be Southern Fleurieu wine region (not zone) though. What do you think about a couple of other thoughts I've had about these articles?
 * Rename the articles that end with "(wine)" to be "blah wine region" (or zone or whatever) instead?
 * split out articles about a town that has the same name as a wine region and have separate town (blah, South Australia) and wine region (blah wine region) articles? The regions are generally much larger than one town.
 * Thanks again. --Scott Davis Talk 23:28, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi ScottDavis, I agree with both of your thoughts. I also think it may be helpful to have an article about the Australian Geographical Indication.Cowdy001 (talk) 01:42, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi ScottDavis, the status at this point in time is that all of the zones, regions and (official) sub-regions now have specific articles of at least 'start class'. I have also renamed the Clare Valley article as 'Clare Valley wine region' and populated the 'redirect' with a 'stub class' article about the valley itself.  Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 00:25, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Well done and thank you . I haven't looked at them all yet, but the ones I've noticed have been great. Keep up the good work on whichever aspect of Wikipedia you choose to expand next.
 * Further followup to a comment above, I made Australian geographical indication redirect to geographical indication with the intent that we could start linking to it now, and write the article later, when we have time to find suitable references for why it's "special". --Scott Davis Talk 03:08, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Scots Church, Adelaide
On-the-other-hand, it appears to be a red link. Were you aware of that? Pdfpdf (talk) 13:01, 8 December 2014 (UTC) (i.e. Just checking in case I've mis-understood something.) Pdfpdf (talk) 13:01, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi . Yes, I know that Scots Church, Adelaide is a red link at the moment. I believe the building has enough history that it should have an article (it claims to be the second-oldest continually-used church building in SA). If nobody else get in first, I've added it to my mental list to have a go at starting it "sometime soon" (but not tonight). There seem to be several references to the building in Wikipedia, but generally not wikilinked. I haven't found any references to the historic or current widths of the surrounding terraces yet (nor Hutt Street), and have been trying to work out when King William Road was extended past St Peter's Cathedral. I found a reference to when John and Poole Streets were widened, and since neither of those are on current maps, I wonder if they are what was previously where King William Road now passes north of Pennington Terrace across Kermode Street to Brougham Place, but I haven't confirmed it yet. --Scott Davis Talk 13:28, 8 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks! (As I said, just checking in case I'd mis-understood something.)
 * Re: other matter: Thanks on those fronts, too.
 * Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 09:20, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * there's an article at Scots Church, Adelaide now :-) --Scott Davis Talk 11:56, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Faster than a speeding bullet? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:59, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Rev. Ian B. Tanner at Scots Church
see Ian B. Tanner Paul foord (talk) 13:28, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Bushfires
"the 1980 bushfires were in 1980, not 1981!" - Really? Are you sure about that? ;-) (Thanks for the laugh.) Pdfpdf (talk) 13:40, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * LOL seemed like the most appropriate edit summary for what I changed given the title immediately above, and how long that text had been there. Scott Davis Talk 22:17, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Hayborough, South Australia
Hi, I removed Southern Ocean (sic) because it is not a suburb. The following is what I put in the edit box - "infbox - remove Southern Ocean as it is not a 'suburb'". Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 02:12, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi . I put it back into Hayborough with the comment  italics are often used in nearby boxes for parks and water bodies. On reflection, I probably should have used Encounter Bay. I have just realised that the infobox labels that section as "Suburbs around.." if the place type is suburb, and as "Localities around..." if the type is town. I don't think that distinction is important for deciding whether to identify what is on the wet side of the coastline though. I did not intend any offence, my apologies if it caused some. Thanks. --Scott Davis Talk 05:52, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Country Party of Australia (founded 2014)
Hi - out of interest, you added "(revised to userfy)" to the template on the talk page here. I haven't been able to find that "decision" and was wondering if you could point me in the right direction. Frickeg (talk) 12:21, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Umm. I saw the deletion log showed that it was undeleted and moved to a draft page. What I didn't notice until you asked was that it was undeleted by someone who chose to be involved, and became a general Draft page, not a user page. I'll remove the extra bit. Thanks for noticing. --Scott Davis Talk 13:32, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'm kind of horrified at the way this whole thing has played out, to be honest; although I haven't been able to find any actual policies that were broken, the whole thing was done pretty underhandedly. Frickeg (talk) 19:39, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Barnstar
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Olympic Dam, South Australia -> Olympic Dam mine merger
Hey Scott, I -think- I've just successfully completed my first merger. First, I integrated content from the 'mine' page into the 'South Australia' page (keeping the two refs), then did a full-text copy/paste replace from the 'South Australia' page into the destination page, Olympic Dam mine. Could you please check it out and see if I've accomplished what we discussed? Thanks! Danimations (talk) 07:12, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. That looks good. --Scott Davis Talk 08:21, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Predecessor parties
I've noticed that you're still redirecting predecessor parties to their successors, and I really wish you wouldn't. We've been having a lot of conversations at the Australian politics WikiProject page about how to more adequately cover these early years, and I'm definitely not the only person who has suggested that we really quite badly need distinct articles on these separate organisations. Redirecting them is lazy and it's bad history.

In the case of the last two, the Farmers and Settlers' Association was not the same thing as the Country Party. The Country Party formed out of it, but there's a featured-article-length worth of content on the F&SA itself, and that it and its interstate counterparts keep being redirected is creating gaps in our coverage of these areas. The Progressive Country Party is not the same as the National Party either: it was a weird union of the NP and a splinter faction of prominent Liberals with a contentious relationship with the F&SA, and we can't adequately tell the history of the Country Party without an article on it either.

These need to be flagged as things we desperately need people to sit down and write articles on, especially because they're fairly research-intensive topics, and redirecting them is the opposite of helpful. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 14:43, 17 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree that we need articles for distinct organisations, and it was me that started the most recent conversation at the AusPolitics project page. My purpose last night was to make a start on a page about the Country Party of the early 2-th century in SA, and to try to disentangle the many links in other articles that were piped to display "Country Party", but actually linked to National Party of Australia. I much prefer to have a target when I am making links in related articles, so I can detect spelling errors and variants that all look the same as red links. In the process, I discovered that there was also a National Party (South Australia) at that time which was not related to the National Party of Australia, and there was a Progressive Country Party which was not related to the Country Party of approximately the same period. I didn't have time to try to find information for an article on that as well, so I made a redirect to an article for a party that said it grew from it, allowing links to be accurate, and information to grow as available. I found several articles that named the Farmers' and Settlers' Party (with various combinations of apostrophes) and a reference that indicated the Country Party formed from the F&SA which had members who didn't wish to be involved directly with a political party. I'm happy that they all become separate articles, but until such time as I or someone else finds the time and inclination to start them, I think that aggregating related organisations into a smaller number of articles, but making the wikilinks through redirects so that they work properly if the articles are separated in future is best. Until yesterday evening, a reader of South Australian state election, 1918 found "Farmers and Settlers Party" was not linked at all. It is now linked to a redirect which can be developed if required.
 * I have now also seen your comments at Talk:Country Party (South Australia) and will try to find and use more sources. At the time, I was really aiming to address the wikilinks that point to National Party of Australia for SA politics of the early 20th century, and provided a simple target, based on what I thought I had discovered in the process. I think we agree that the end-state should be a complete article for each distinct entity; the disagreement is in the process of getting there. Thank you for your expertise and guidance. --Scott Davis Talk 04:45, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Harry Medlin
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 * That obituary was the major source I used for the article, however I believed I had written it myself. Unfortunately for Wikipedia, the author of the obituary uses a very similar writing style to what I use, so I was often writing new text and finding it looked very similar except for the changes required for a slightly different audience. I'll allow someone else to assess if I did it well enough, since one tool says there are lots of organisation names in common and the other says probably not a violation. --Scott Davis Talk 12:59, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Regions of South Australia
Hi ScottDavis, Firstly, thanks for starting which I believe is a much needed article. Secondly, I have added what I was going to include in my own proposed version of the article which I was going to launch at a later time. FYI, I have added a section to the TALK page in respect to the section called "Informal divisions" which I think needs further development. Please respond here if you choose to respond Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 04:29, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you I've also commented on the talk page and made a bit of a change to the informal divisions tonight. --Scott Davis Talk 15:11, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon
Would you be willing to help me with Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon? news.google.com and news.google.com/newspapers have a lot of results when putting in Joanne and Kirste's names. I just need help fleshing out the article. I'm not the world's best editor or writer. Paul Austin (talk) 09:22, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I could be, but I have been very busy for the last week, and unlikely to be doing a lot of editing in the next three weeks either, so if you are hoping for a quick response, it won't be from me. --Scott Davis Talk 13:14, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry. I'm not from Adelaide or South Australia, but I understand that the Ratcliffe-Gordon disappearance is second only to the Beaumont children disappearance when it comes to popular memory of crimes against children in South Australia. I was hoping to find an Adelaide/SA expert. Paul Austin (talk) 13:25, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is significant in SA criminal history, and probably shaped my childhood (if subconsciously) by my parents, as I am a similar age to Kirste Gordon. --Scott Davis Talk 13:50, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Polling place data
Thanks so much for adding this. I was wondering if you might be okay with adding some of the older polling place data from here. This gets important with some of the shifts to single-member electorates: describing Newcastle as a Flinders Ranges seat is perfectly accurate post-1938, but ignores the fact that it was a safe Labor seat prior to that due to the inclusion of Port Pirie and surrounds. I feel like the easy way if you're short on time would just be to list the polling places at recreation without context, but describing the general geography in 1938 as if that's representative probably does tend to wonder where all the Labor voters magically disappeared to in the 1938 redistribution. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 17:06, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm open to doing more of these, and for more times, but probably not much in the next few weeks, as I'm travelling around again. I think the best way to convey the locations to readers might be maps at each redistribution, but I do not have the equipment to do them properly yet, so haven't put much effort into learning to do Wikipedia maps well. I did a couple of LGA maps, but found them extremely time-consuming due to inexperience and inadequate hardware. --Scott Davis Talk 14:10, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

So I see that the articles about the subdivisions of Australia...
So I see that the articles about the subdivisions of Australia has started a conversation about how to best resolve the conflict, however which one seems to be the right course of action? I feel like redirects to whether it be the "Territorial organization of Australia" if that is the version of one language should also get a redirection from a query that says "States and territories of Australia" and visa-versa just like the EN wikipedia article seems to do. -- sion8 talk page  04:15, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Parafield Airport
Dear Scott,

about your recent statement:

"If these things have been worthy of study and are notable enough to report in Wikipedia, we need references - newspaper articles and the scientific reports (perhaps PhDs from the nearby University of South Australia). Are you able to provide links to these? WP:RS policy does not allow us to cite from blogs. Thank you. --Scott Davis Talk 07:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)"

They are very worthy of study, unfortunately not many interested in South Australia. The long-term effects of a editorially biased media upon a relatively isolated population like Adelaide, is also worth a study. It explains the small-minded and arrogant attitude towards warped concepts of 'progress,' becoming endemic in many societies bent towards rapid, unsustainable growth.

I presume you realise that the nearby University of South Australia engages in flight training. There are plenty scientific reports freely available about the adverse effects of noise on human health. UniSA should be aware of FTA's operations, which is by far the source of almost all complaint, and realise their operations are additive to it.

If you lived or witnessed the reality over parts of Salisbury, or studied some of the submissions to our Senate, you probably wouldn't have bothered making such an elitist statement insensitive to the people suffering from unmonitored noise & pollution. No PhD's are required to witness the obvious. Besides most PhD researchers are usually sponsored by vested interests. I don't think the nearby UniSA is too involved with researching public health, if so, let me know if they measure repetitive flight training noise.

I do not intend to use Wikipedia as a forum for debate, but respect it as a tool for further research, for anybody interested.

Foreign flight training is a very relevant part of Parafield Airport's recent history. It is what kept Parafield Airport as an airport, an unforeseen disaster for surrounding residents that had no say in the matter. It has only been the recent past two years the racket has somewhat alleviated, but we do not fully understand what happened to cause that, or why it took decades. Many still living in the dread that it could start up again any time.

I hope this helps a better understanding what goes/went on at Parafield Airport. We bear witness the past 60 years.

I an a bit new to Wikpedia, but the blog has an extensive local newspaper archive, but again very little in the mainstream media, even though they are both owned by Newscorp. That is another study, and another story.

www.stopparafieldairnoise.blogspot.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.151.67.87 (talk) 08:13, 22 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you I live in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, and have friends who live in suburbs near Parafield Airport. I was not being elitist. My comments at talk:Parafield Airport were pointing out that Wikipedia is not a forum for original research, it is for recording and summarising the published and verified results of research originally performed and published elsewhere. --Scott Davis Talk 13:33, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Chowilla Dam
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Thanks, ThisGuyIsGreat (talk) 00:51, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi ScottDavis, here is a list of links that I recently gathered as preparation to write my own article about the Chowilla Dam:

Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 06:50, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * http://www.sahistorians.org.au/175/chronology/april/21-april-1960-chowilla-dam-project.shtml
 * http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/49212/obit_jack_seekamp.pdf
 * http://www.railpage.com.au/f-p961976.htm Paringa - Chowilla Railway, S.A
 * http://www.railpage.com.au/f-t11310946-0-asc-s0.htm Chowilla branch
 * http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=360
 * https://archive.org/details/MemoirsNational34Nati (i.e. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria re a study of the area to be flooded by the Chowilla Dam)
 * http://www.geosociety.org/egd/newsletters/1960/1967Jan%201967%20V2%20No%201.pdf (an American engineering newsletter with an article describing the engineering works proposed for the dam).


 * Hi Which of the reasons at DEL-REASON do you think the Chowilla Dam article has failed to pass yet? I was surprised there was not already an article for me to link other articles to.
 * Thank you for the links Cowdy001. I've already used a few of them and intend to do some more in the next day or two. You and I both see it as an infrastructure project. I think the article should have more about the politics as well, as The Drover's Wife has noted in AFD, that is what makes it notable. --Scott Davis Talk 09:50, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Tom Stott is the place to start there, because he made the dam's construction a condition of bringing Steele Hall to power and brought his government down when he cancelled it - it's intrinsically associated with both ends of the gap between the two Dunstan premierships. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 10:12, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Elizabeth South


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 * Thank you Sionk. I have recreated it as the redirect to Elizabeth South, South Australia that I would have created in the first place if I had not found the now-deleted singer article there. Since I'm looking at it, I will expand that page, too. --Scott Davis Talk 10:47, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Tod Highway infobox
Hi ScottDavis, while doing an edit for the Eyre Highway, I noticed that the route of the Tod Highway looks a bit short, i.e. the north end looks like it stops at Lock rather at Kyancutta which is about the same latitude as Port Pirie. A comparison of the coordinates used for the north end in the infobox with these nominated for Kyancutta and those published on the Property Location Browser confirms that those used in the infobox should be correct. The only error cause that I can think of is that the Property Location Browser is wrong. Do you have nay suggestions? Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 01:44, 5 October 2015 (UTC)


 * It looks like the north end/end_a coordinates are wrong - they're not actually as far north as Lock, and not on the Tod Highway at all. I'll find a better set - Kyancutta itself is not far off the mark for the purpose as the intersection is on the edge of the town. --Scott Davis Talk 02:28, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Murray River
Hi Scott, I do not want to vandalize the page But what I just want is to make the first line of the page more descriptive about it's location and flow direction. Please accordingly modify the introductory line.User: Deepanshu1707 Talk —Preceding undated comment added 10:26, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi Scott, I have read the most recent edits done by you and I must say that they are good and accurate. Thanks Deepanshu M. (talk) 14:24, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

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Re: Mid North local help request
Sorry I can't help you. I've never paid attention to the historic stations along that historic line. If I remember right, the rail crossing at Blyth had been completely dismantled by the time I was old enough to notice. It looks like your historic source is correct. It seems perfectly plausible in 1910 that the station and wider locality be named after a farm/estate (Anama, HMSD) located 10km east if there were few other noteworthy landmarks at the time. Then when today's localities were gazetted to use the name of the local (cadastral) hundred name to label the smaller bounded locality and rename the rail station at the same time. I don't have the dates for any of this. The article on Hart, South Australia doesn't exist yet but I'd put money on it being named for John Hart who had holdings "North of Kapunda" and some interest in the Burra mines among others. Let's get the Hart article up and perhaps that could further elucidate? :) Donama (talk) 23:56, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Trains Portal and Railways Portal Merger Proposal
You seem to be well acquainted with rail transport material, so I'd like your input on this proposal I made here: Portal talk:Railways.  Jackdude 101  ( Talk ) 19:33, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * Note to anyone else reading this page - I found the postnominal RFD on the page, and wikilinked it. The most likely target is Reserve Force Decoration, but there is nothing else in the article to suggest Millhouse had been in the Reserve forces. I tagged it as "clarification required" hoping that another editor will know or find the right answer, as I have not found a reference for Robin Millhouse RFD that explains the RFD. Two sources that do not appear to be derived from the Wikipedia article are http://anjoupublications.com/book-thm.php and http://cefa.org.au/australian-way-campaign-roll-honour which both just use it as postnominals without explanation. --Scott Davis Talk 11:05, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

interesting railway info
Thanks Scott. I will have to upload some of my historical photos of the mallee and hills lines to supplement your work.

Cmjl
 * That'd be great thanks Christian. You also probably have more offline resources than I do to expand stories and dates for the railways and the towns they supported. --Scott Davis Talk 22:15, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Pinery bushfire help
Hi Scott. Could you please help out moving 2015 Pinery bushfires to 2015 Pinery bushfire. See Talk:2015 Pinery bushfires. Thanks Donama (talk) 01:42, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Scott Davis Talk 02:08, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Fort Largs help
Thanks for the help with the Pinery bushfire article. We have the same problem with Fort Largs. Can you please move Fort Largs Police Academy over this redirect. See the small consensus on this at Talk:Fort Largs Police Academy. Donama (talk) 00:38, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Scott Davis Talk 03:47, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

O-Bahn Busway
Thanks. It seems that User:SandyGeorgia has become inactive. I think User:Nikkimaria is now responsible for closing this.--Grahame (talk) 22:23, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Re Whitwarta
Re: Local advice request
 * No doubting it. If you drove through and had a microsleep you'd miss it! Although don't do that as the bridge is near a tricky curve. Then there's the Balaklava Gliding Club at Whitwarta which is slightly notable, but I didn't see it mentioned in the article. Someone has done a remarkable job with this. I'm inclusionist so feel that we shouldn't remove information just because a tiny locality article has more detail than the Balaklava article. Obviously it needs work. I'm going to mentally put this on my things to do list. Donama (talk) 01:03, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I don't know if I've ever been there, but apparently one of my wife's 3-great grandmothers lived there when she died, so I have a family connection too. I agree about not removing stuff just because there is more of it. I do have concerns that it's more of a story than an encyclopaedia article, but don't know where else it should be. I've just edited out an entire newspaper article that broadly said "the bridge had an official opening and politicians made speeches about the issues of the day". --Scott Davis Talk 03:09, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The district council in question in Whitwarta in 1914 is almost certainly Hall DC (see A HISTORY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COUNCILS to 1936 (2012) and search for "Hall DC") since it was later split between Balaklava DC and Blyth DC but I couldn't find ironclad proof. Donama (talk) 04:30, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I am done with Whitwarta for today. I suspect that District Council of Balaklava possibly was the council on the south bank, at least. Your reference shows that council already existed in 1911 when it annexed part of the Hundred of Hall. The Wakefield River is the boundary of the Hundred of Balaklava and the Hundred of Stow, which does not appear to have had its own district council. --Scott Davis Talk 05:31, 2 February 2016 (UTC)