User talk:Wikirowdy

Hi
When creating things like the Kenwick cemetery - there are few things worth knowing about

The effort to find parallel examples to give you an idea what you have missed for instance

Try looking at Guildford Cemetery, Western Australia for what is on the talk page as well

Also if you are local in any sense there is always the opportunity to meetup with wikipedians in July at the State Reference Library - JarrahTree 02:40, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

If you are indeed a new editor
One thing also to consider is that we have a fairly strict understanding of WP:SUBCAT - which means, if the suburb is already a sub category of the shire of mundaring category - you will find that the subcat will be removed... JarrahTree 02:58, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Just started yesterday
I'm just learning about subcats. They don't seem to make much sense. Some articles seem to be missing obvious subcats and some have wrong ones. i.e. The Mundaring Weir article had a subcat for the suburb Mundaring even though while its in the Shire Mundaring its in the suburb Sawyers Valley?Wikirowdy (talk) 03:14, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Yes a bit of a mess - gets awkward when swan view is in both shire of swan and mundaring... JarrahTree 04:50, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

creating new articles
Please note that good practice can be had by reverse engineering

Have a look at what happens when the talk page gets its tabs

Have a look at what gets added after your initial attempt - it helps in the long run|

Keep up the good work... JarrahTree 06:53, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Also when citing

please make sure reflist is at the bottom of the article

when utilisrng Tove - note that at the bottom of the information area is standard format referencing from trove - please use !!!

JarrahTree 06:57, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

trove
I can get the wikipedia citation from the details box from trove. What do I do with it then? Where do I put it to get the citation to show correctly in the text? Wikirowdy (talk) 08:20, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * copy and paste in between either at the end of the sentence (preferred) or adjacent to the point being made JarrahTree 08:48, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * as always - reverse engineering works marvels - find an article that has a good set of refs - try Lower Helena Pumpback Dam - open up in edit and look at how they are in there JarrahTree 08:49, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * as a former resident in the hills it is great to see some expansion of articles JarrahTree 10:03, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Can you have a look at this entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkerville_Hotel ? Is that the way the referencing should look? Somehow it just seems busier than most pages? I've been reverse engineering pages I like and had a watch of a couple of tutorials. Slowly getting there Wikirowdy (talk) 09:42, 11 July 2017 (UTC)


 * excellent if you dont mind me saying so.. well done - having had a few drops there in my long lost youth... JarrahTree 09:51, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

another
see how you can beef up the weir pub? - started... JarrahTree 01:28, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

I'm slowly working through the Mundaring pubs :) They're all over 100 years old and really are the social centres for hills towns that had dispersed populations and little more than a pub and a train station. Wikirowdy (talk) 14:30, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

You missed one vital element the halls - the old greenmount hall came down a few weeks back - the halls are as important - and dont forget the churches... or the vanished shops, or vanished hotels (not many but...) I challenge you to name 2 hotels that existed with no trace now - and if you're very enterprising the known guesthouses of the 1930s and 1950s... (I do have clues on all of that if youre at all interested ) JarrahTree 14:46, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

edit while logged out?
the john forrest tavern addition is .... - have reverted - need better quality than that - regardless of using elliot - reads like a travel blog - not a wp article... JarrahTree 07:33, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Yep, didn't realise I was logged out till I pressed save. Wikirowdy (talk) 07:36, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Also police award article could get prodded if you're not careful - again try Trove or some RS to save it - I have tagged it for refs - those sort of articles are not inherently 'keepable' if there are no items to be able to WP:V, WP:N from WP:RS JarrahTree 07:48, 18 August 2017 (UTC)