User talk:Ta bu shi da yu/Archive3

Citing references
I note your recent edit to dog such as. I wonder if you have an ideal form in mind for citing references and organizing the reference section? Fred Bauder 14:06, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC)

History of Australia before 1901
The stuff on aboriginal history I got through a uni course I once did; but I can cite Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore as corroboration. It would of course, be useful for the article generally, if I can (a) find it and (b) plough through it again. Lacrimosus 20:32, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Copyright
I spoke again to Auspic this morning. They again told me that these images are available for non-commercial use. They said they would prefer that the pictures were tagged "photo courtesy Auspic" but this is not a legal requirement. They are sending me a written statement to this effect and I will post this when I get it. What is your source of information? Adam 08:23, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

So it is your position, from wherever on the other side of the world you are, that you know better about the status of Auspic's photos than they do themselves? Adam 11:40, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

My apologies for assuming you are American, as are 90% of people here. My comments in this discussion have been about the Auspic photos, not copyright law in general. I don't dispute that you know a lot about copyright law. My only point has been that Auspic have twice told me, in person, that the images of MPs and Senators from the aph website may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes. Unless and until someone contradicts that, I am entitled to assume it is true. Adam 00:14, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Triple J
I haven't heard back from them yet! Maybe my email wasn't legalese enough for them. Perhaps I'd have better luck emailing the individual people and asking if they could send me pictures of themselves :P -- Chuq 03:21, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Australian wikipedians' message board
I've created a page (with an idea blatantly plagiarised from our Irish counterparts) where any interested Australians can get together and coordinate efforts to fill some of the (rather large) holes in Australian content. If you're interested, it's at Australian wikipedians' notice board. Any assistance you could give would be appreciated. Ambi 06:02, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I've been thinking about the need for something like this for a while, and then someone pointed out the Irish example the other day. What I think could work is having subpages listing all the articles that need doing, categorised by topic/state/whatever, and then having the main page for those that most need doing. That way, we can highlight attention to some of the horrible, horrible gaping holes, like Charles Kingsford-Smith, and still have records of everything else that needs doing in one place for when we're feeling like working on something more obscure. Ambi 07:28, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Adam is scawwy. But I'll go let him know anyway. ;) Ambi 07:30, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Scawwy? Moi? Surely not. Thanks for your last message. I am happy to help with Australian articles in any way I am asked to, although the election campaign is keeping me fairly busy at present. I will try to be nice. Adam 13:14, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Quick answer...
COTW=Collaboration of the week; I've gotten so used to all these acronymns I forget they stand for something else!

Now how can I help with the WikiProject Sydney (bearing in mind I know nothing about the city :P )? I've taken the liberty to fill in some of the gaps on the page (and I added you as a member), I hope you don't mind. Some things you might want to do are to add a message to the talk pages of people at Wikipedians/Australia who list themselves as Sydneysiders to get people to take notice, it's how Ambi and I got people to join up to the WikiProject Melbourne. Then you might want to add some broad goals or areas (like suburbs, stations, local politics/people, etc.) as a starting point, and as people come aboard things will start to develop. Other things to do could be a template for talk pages associated with the project (Talk:Sydney for starters), similar to Template:WPMNotice and an open tasks box (Template:WikiProjectMelbourneTasks is ours). If you want I can do things like make templates and the like, you might also want to ask Ambi, who has done a lot of Projecteering too. There are some things like layout/content conventions that we're (a lot of it is Chuq) fiddling with that we could work together on, so that the cities have standarized articles across the board; well, one day... Anyways, I hope I've been at least partially helpful, and good luck!

T.P.K. 13:11, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Water
I think I have covered all the issues raised in the FAC discussion. What do you think of it ? Should I submit it to peer review / FAC again ? Pcarbonn 21:41, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Sydney
Hiya! Actually, I don't go to Macquarie University, I went there - I graduated in 1994. :-)

But I'll certainly take a look at the 'Project, and hope to be able to help out with it! &mdash;Stormie 06:34, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)


 * Same same same ..... and ditto the next remark. Living in China now your nick is quite interesting.  &#20182;&#19981;&#26159;&#22823;&#40060;&#65292;&#26159;&#19981;&#26159;.  Are you part Chinese?   prat 14:20, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Nah, I'm all Caucasian... I just live in a part of Sydney where there are heaps of Chinese and Koreans, and I'm kind of interested in Mandarin :) Thanks for your help though! - Ta bu shi da yu 14:22, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

- You aren't a big fish? m.e. 10:58, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Invitation to discuss
On Templates for deletion the deletion of Template:Footer Olympic Champions 100 m Women and some other Olympic disciplines is discussed. Maybe you would like to contribute. -- 141.40.169.148 01:22, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Invite on wikiproject sydney
Thx for the invite, but no go, sorry. I live in Gosford (ish) have never lived in Sydney and barely know enough about it to get to the airport and back safely. Waaaay too busy too! Good luck however. Andrew Kepert 07:53, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Cyclone Tracy links

 * http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/html/hurricanes/indian98.htm