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COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales
Hello, T of the G of the W

Are you sure about your edits here? The figures are published for 9 September to 8pm, on 10 September.
 * Your update disagrees with the figures I recently added to the September section text, here. I had not got up to updating the infobox yet, or the lede text.
 * I haven't been able to find a source for the recovered cases!

I put the data in as for 9 September ("By 10 September …"), date the references 10 September, & accessed on 10 September, which could be confusing to new editors (is to me too at times!)
 * The big 'shifting' of data you appear to have done should not have been necessary, IMHO. Even if the day a is shifted by a day, it makes little difference to the plots' appearance.

I have been updating from the NSW Health department daily press releases at https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2021-nsw-health.aspx. You already have the plots dated to 10 September, but that days data will not be published till 11 September in New South Wales?

Have you used another NSW State Government source? (There are several NSW Govt. Pages that give similar 'official' figures.)

Regards, 220  of  ßorg 16:57, 10 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Sorry, but I ended up reverting your edits. Mainly due to the inconsistencies with the NSW Health statistics in the cited sources they introduced. Apparently, I was editing at the same time you were too. That's how I became aware of it, when suddenly my diff preview showed a lot of changes I hadn't made.


 * I strongly suggest editing a section at a time, not the whole page as this can cause edit conflicts. And it makes recovery of your edit easier if you're reverted. Regard, 220  of  ßorg 17:35, 10 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Again, you are changing to figures that are not consistent with NSW Health official stats. There have been 645 'official' deaths in NSW since 17 Dec see that days stats published on 18 Dec.Where are you figures coming from? And I was in the middle of updating the infobox & lede text, so they would be the same, when you edited it. :-(


 * NSW Health is the source I have been using in the body text, yours are apparently not cited. Please explain? 220  of  ßorg 14:43, 20 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi User:220 of Borg, sorry for the lack of communication, I've seen conflicting data and found that two deaths that were reported in NSW have also been reported in Queensland.


 * Because I didn't think that there should be two deaths which are reported in both state COVID pages, I looked at third-party information to see which state the two deaths are usually reported under. All other sources apart from NSW Health place these two deaths under Queensland's jurisdiction, but I'll leave it up to you now to decide which figure should be used.


 * Sorry for any frustration :)
 * - User:T of the G of the W


 * I was aware of the 2 death discrepancy, maybe a footnote, as done elsewhere, is needed?
 * Don't let my ... grumpiness?... dissuade you from your edits. If you could update more pages, charts etc. it would be fantastic, so long as there's consistency, as far as possible, between infoboxes, text, tables/graphs/charts/plots and it's cited to reliable sources. There are several Oz COVID-19 related graphs, tables and templates and text that are months out of date. Take a look at the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia (statistics) page for example.


 * I was almost the only editor on NSWs COVID page for months (~August to October?) doing daily updates, and thus got Wikibonked, plus real life required my attention. I basically just stopped major daily NSW COVID-19 updates for months, and instead did some lesser editing in other areas.


 * BTW, the NSW new cases figure for yesterday (20th), released today (21st) by NSW Health was way up to an Oz/NSW record high of 3,057!  Happy .... updating! 220  of  ßorg 03:58, 21 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Hey User:220 of Borg, your idea was great so I've added a footnote in the infobox now, you can change the text if you see fit.


 * I'll try have a look at updating more pages, although at some point I understand it can be pretty overwhelming to do everyday, so I'll at least stick with updating the NSW, SA, and Victoria pages for now. Might try and dedicate some time to updating the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia (statistics) page. For NSW in the recoveries column, do you reckon leaving it with a dash would suit because of the unavailable data, or perhaps just saying 'unavailable' would do?


 * Those case numbers are insane too, they don't seem to be slowing down any time soon!
 * Thanks for the help, User: T of the G of the W

I have added indents using leading to this thread as is usual on WP. Hopefully an improvement. Per WP:INDENT. Undo if you wish. 220  of  ßorg 23:03, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

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