User talk:Tarka

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Yes, welcome to the 'pedia. Your interest in Newtown is explained by your resume. Arno 07:58 10 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks both. Yep, I wanted to fill out Newtown and surrounds with some info. I might take some pictures of Newtown, Sydney Uni and Pyrmont for upload. What's the feeling on promiscuously adding images to articles? -- Tarka


 * No policy restricting pictures on this site exists that I am aware of, aside from ensuring that there are no copyright problems - which does not seem to apply here.


 * My own feeling is that one should not to go overboard with images - as they can be distracting to an article. Arno 11:32 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * Yep, my thoughts are to pick one good image that 'captures' Newtown on the page, and then stick any other good ones on an 'Images of Newtown' page. Tarka 03:43 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

G'day Tarka. Do you have any idea how many crest images there are in Wikipedia? See Image use policy under "image titles".-- Tim Starling 07:45 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I forgot to say: there's no way to rename an image, so you've just got to re-upload it and list the old one on Votes for deletion. -- Tim Starling 07:49 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks Do you want me to delete the original, while I'm hanging around? -- Tim Starling

I've stuck it on the deletion page, although if you could check I've done it the right way that would be appreciated; I think I made a hash of it :) -- Tarka

PS. Thanks for the help Tim, I'm still finding my way around things. -- Tarka 08:09 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * No problem, it's all fixed now. I hope I don't get accused of blatant abuse of sysop rights :) Did you see what happened with Zoe recently when she didn't wait a week? Anyway, it's time for me to go home and have dinner. CYA. -- Tim Starling 08:21 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * All-right for some; I just got back from a military range in the Mornington peninsula. Nice weather you're having down there :)  But I start at Sydney University next week; it'll be a nice change of pace.


 * What's the story with Zoe anyway, she seems to wind everyone up? Tarka 03:59 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * No, others excel at that. Some of these have been banned, others ought to be. Arno 05:03 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * Actually, one such banned user seems to have scared Zoe away by a series of off-color edits to user pages. Arno 07:49 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Tarka, what do you think about Cecropia's nominations for adminship? Get-back-world-respect 14:02, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Sydney
Want to join? I'm still formulating policy. Besides which, you live in Newtown - you could contribute to the suburbs page! And you go to Sydney Uni... maybe something on this :-) Interested? Incidently, there is a message board Australian wikipedians' notice board - Ta bu shi da yu 06:09, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hi there!
Just popping by to say hi. :) enochlau (talk) 06:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Cool. enochlau (talk) 10:58, 22 January 2006 (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 08:48, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

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