Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Queensland/Archive 1

Link from former Wikiproject:Gold Coast
Perhaps something should be put onto this page to let people know that this project is now covering its scope. Nicholas Perkins (T•C) 10:07, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * If you have a change in mind, my advice is just make it then put it up for discussion if you think it might be controversial. Chances are it probably won't be. This goes for just about any change in here - in creating this I really just copied what we'd done at WP:NSW to make sure we wouldn't reinvent the wheel, but nothing's set in stone. As for scope - one big reason for incorporation is that I felt that the Sunshine Coast, Pine Rivers, Logan etc needed the same attention as the Gold Coast and in a larger sense are quire able to be grouped with it as urban entities near or impinging on Brisbane. Orderinchaos 14:18, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Brisbane articles
I'm thinking articles from WikiProject Brisbane should also be tagged for this project - it's one extra parameter in WP Australia, and my bot could get it done relatively fast. Opinions? Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 07:03, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you do that for WikiProject Townsville articles? It would save a bit of work. WikiTownsvillian 10:44, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm running the Brisbane one now, and I'll do Townsville afterwards (I didn't know there was a project). Could I get a link to the main category (a la Category:WikiProject Brisbane articles)? Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 09:39, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Category:WikiProject Townsville articles. WikiTownsvillian 09:43, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Cheers. I'll run it next time I get the chance; it's about halfway through Brisbane now.  If you like, you can request another bot do it.   runs one that can do this sort of thing.  Or you can wait for me :) Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 09:57, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, forget about CO - but yeah, you can ask for someone else to do it if you're inpatient. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 09:58, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Who is CO? WikiTownsvillian 10:40, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * A Botop. The bot is running now. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 08:53, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ - All Brisbane articles done, I'll do Townsville now. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 06:50, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Federation Walk
I just completed a substantive re-write of Federation Walk, which had been seemingly abandoned for some time. I'm no longer local having relocated back to the US so I'm sure there's some information I've missed so I'd appreciate any other eyes interested to have a look at it. I realise it's only "supported" by WP Queensland, but I'm assuming some locals might have some information to add. Thanks! Travellingcari (talk) 04:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

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Creating "North West Queensland" category.
I've just created this, and I'm slowing adding this category to applicable articles. I'll probably eventually add subcategories as other region categories do, but at this point I'm not rushing. :-) I also don't quite agree with the NW Qld region article being named Gulf Country, but that's another issue altogether.  If anyone notices me doing anything obviously stupid in regards to the new category, feel free to slap me about and point me in the right direction.Johnmc (talk) 10:33, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Good job, looks fine. There might be more electoral divisions to add. If you want to change the name start a discussion on the Gulf Country talk page about moving it. A name change to North West Queensland might be best so that the overlap into NT can be excluded from the article.- Shiftchange (talk) 23:41, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

John Paul Langbroek
This article was created by User:Johnpaullangbroek -- not the actual politician, but almost certainly another sockpuppet of Universe Daily (see Long term abuse/Universe Daily for details). I've cut this article back to a stub because of reliability concerns; I invited editors here to have a go at expanding it into a useful, reliable article. -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 21:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * redirected to John-Paul Langbroek. -- Mattinbgn\talk 21:53, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Priorities
I was wondering what other project members believed were this projects 5 highest priority tasks. I would list getting the following done. - Shiftchange (talk) 22:06, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Queensland to Good Article
 * 2) Economy of Queensland to B class ✅
 * 3) Mary River to B class History of Queensland to B class
 * 4) Geography of Queensland to B class
 * 5) Mackay, Queensland to B class

I second shiftchange with the exception of the Mary and Mackay, i think with our Q150 celebrations currently underway it would be an appropriate time to consider Queensland from a historical standpoint, incorporating the pioneering rail and aviation industry, Sugar, Electricity, etc. 203.39.51.116 (talk) 03:30, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Over-categorisation
Last month I tried to fix Brisbane Busway stations that were listed in both a parent category and a subcategory. I found in that case there was another overlap with the Category:Public transport in Brisbane that has to be fixed. Earlier this month I found many Queensland power stations listed in both a parent category and a sub-category. I fixed that only to discover another overlap with the Category:Buildings and structures in Queensland. I have just discovered many Category:Indigenous Australian communities are listed in subcategories as well. I wanted to bring this to the attention of editors because correcting this over-categorisation is a tiresome task and seems to be systemic. I don't know why this is happening because categories have always been hierarchical. - Shiftchange (talk) 03:15, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Page layout
I was trying to fix the bad layout that has occurred since the Assessment Table was expanded, but I wasn't successful. Could someone else fix it? - Shiftchange (talk) 13:29, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

GLNG
There is a discussion about the article's name of GLNG, a Santos-led Gladstone-based LNG project. Your input is appreciated. Beagel (talk) 16:59, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Assessing importance
I have been assessing the importance of WP:QLD article for a few months now. It is down from 1500 to around 320 with only biographical articles remaining to be assessed. It would be great if some other WikiProject participants helped with the rest so we can join Western Australia (24 un-assessed articles) as the only other state or territory with assessment complete. - Shiftchange (talk) 10:20, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Big thanks to Commander Keane and anyone else who demolished this backlog. I'm going to continue rating Brisbane articles and ensure the backlog is tended to from now on. - Shiftchange (talk) 07:30, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

John Harbin
I've done a bit of work on the article of rugby league and association football coach John Harbin. I'm trying to find out some information on his playing career as well as (presumably) his academic life. One of the refs in his article suggests he studied a teaching degree and he is referred to as a sports psychologist, which seems to suggest he had some sort of tertiary education. Any help would be appreciated. Hack (talk) 15:45, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

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 * Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast clearly need inclusion and maybe Bundaberg as well. What do actual Queenslanders think? -- Mattinbgn (talk) 00:15, 20 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Toowoomba - definitely, Sunshine Coast - yes, shame it is still start class, Bundaberg - possibly, though the article is a bit of a mess. I would suggest Economy of Queensland as well. In the meantime I will work on Bundaberg, Sunshine Coast, Coral Sea and Q1 to get them towards B class. I notice Torres Strait Islands needs references too. - Shiftchange (talk) 01:01, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

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Petrie Terrace State School
G'day Guys,

Yeah you won the State of Origin. Yeah Lockyer's a legend. Time to move on. I suppose I have to watch AFL or Soccer or something (Lacrosse? Bah).

Can someone please have a look at Petrie Terrace State School? It's an old public school that desperately needs expansion to satisfy notability requirements. If anyone can have a go, that'd be fantastic. - danjel  (talk to me) 07:23, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * No evidence of notability provided or likely. I suggest deletion. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 07:30, 7 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Hmmm positive attitude! The notability can be provided for, because the school is one of the oldest in the state. If anyone else would like to have a go, that'd be great. - danjel  (talk to me) 08:24, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Template:cite CHIMS
I noticed many articles were citing CHIMS incorrectly (using sessionid, not mentioning the publisher or work, etc.) so I created cite CHIMS, very similarly to cite AHD and cite AHPI to ease referencing. I'm going to apply it to the 90ish articles citing this source. I'd be happy to hear any comments. Cheers. --Muhandes (talk) 08:56, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * This is handy, thanks for setting it up. Is it possible to add Retrieved on date to this template? - Shiftchange (talk) 06:07, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Help wanted
There is a list of articles that need or might need to be tagged with |QLD=yes|QLD-importance=low on their discussion pages. The list started at 3,422 entries and I have done about a quarter of them over the last 5 months. Could some other participants in the WikiProject help? - Shiftchange (talk) 14:04, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedians to the Games
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 * Disability football
 * Sunday 8 April National Championships TBA Rockhampton


 * Wheelchair basketball
 * Sat 10/Mar 	 	  	RSL Queensland Spinning Bullets 	vs 	Sydney Uni WheelKings 	  	  	State Sports Centre, Brisbane Entertainment Centre
 * Sat 12/May 	 	  	RSL Queensland Spinning Bullets 	vs 	Wollongong Roller Hawks 	  	  	State Sports Centre, Brisbane Entertainment Centre
 * Sat 12/May 	 	  	RSL Queensland Spinning Bullets 	vs 	Wollongong Roller Hawks 	  	  	State Sports Centre, Brisbane Entertainment Centre
 * Sat 28/Apr 	 	  	RSL Queensland Spinning Bullets 	vs 	The Be Active Perth Wheelcats 	  	  	State Sports Centre, Brisbane Entertainment Centre
 * Sun 11/Mar 	 	  	RSL Queensland Spinning Bullets 	vs 	Sydney Uni WheelKings 	  	  	State Sports Centre, Brisbane Entertainment Centre
 * Sun 13/May 	 	  	RSL Queensland Spinning Bullets 	vs 	Wollongong Roller Hawks 	  	  	State Sports Centre, Brisbane Entertainment Centre

Overdue work
Bus transport in Queensland has a huge number of proposed mergers going back to 2010. Ewe blokes should sort it out. Cheers mate. Al from NZ. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 09:29, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Better to take this to WP:AWNB. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 22:16, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, consensus may be achieved that way. - Shiftchange (talk) 23:49, 23 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Yep.Ok. Can do. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 00:14, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Continuing self-promotion of the University of the Sunshine Coast
The University of the Sunshine Coast (together with its previous VC/President) has been given a rosy write-up by. . . an employee of the University of the Sunshine Coast. Perhaps some disinterested people here could keep their eyes on this article, whose spam-encrusting has been going on for years. (Cross-posted from WP Education in Australia.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:59, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Australian Roads
Hi folks - anyone with any interest - there is a new Australian project WikiProject Australian Roads - please have a look. sats 02:02, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

National parks ext. links
There are still many Queensland national park articles with derm.qld.gov.au ext. links in infoboxes, references and ext. links sections which need updating to nprsr.qld.gov.au. Central Queensland parks have been done as well as various other ones. Help with this would be great. - Shiftchange (talk) 05:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

AfC submission
G'day there! Mind having a look at this submission? Cheers, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:13, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Toondah Harbour. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 15:58, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

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WikiConfererence Australia 2015 - Save the date 3-5 October 2015
Our first Australian conference for Wikipedians/Wikimedians will be held 3-5 October 2015. Organised by Wikimedia Australia, there will be a 2-day conference (Saturday 3 October and Sunday 4 October) with an optional 3rd day (Monday 5 October) for specialist topics (unconference discussions, training sessions, etc). The venue is the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane. So put those dates in your diary! Note: Monday is a public holiday is some states but not others. Read about it here: WikiConference Australia 2015

As part of that page, there are now sections for you to: It would really help our planning if you could let us know about possible attendance and the kind of topics that would make you want to come. If you don’t want to express your views on-wiki, please email me at kerry.raymond@wikimedia.org.au or committee@wikimedia.org.au
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We are hoping to have travel subsidies available to assist active Australasian Wikipedians to attend the conference, although we are not currently in a position to provide details, but be assured we are doing everything we can to make it possible for active Australian Wikipedians to come to the conference. Kerry (talk) 00:19, 20 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Folks, just letting you know we will not be proceeding with Wikiconference Australia 2015 originally proposed for 3-5 October 2015. Thanks to those of you who expressed your support. You are free to attend the football finals instead :-) Kerry (talk) 08:12, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Brisbane meetup
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Brisbane meetup
Come along! Kerry (talk) 20:30, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

New 5000 Challenge for Australia
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drum line program to kill sharks
Queensland editors' opinions are requested at Talk:Queensland. Mitch Ames (talk) 11:00, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

anyone?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Queensland_Alumina_Limited - any enterprising patriotic QLD editor able to save this from AFD ? JarrahTree 00:20, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Brisbane meetup - Sunday 10 December 2017 at The Edge, State Library of Queensland
If you are in or near Brisbane, please join us on Sunday 10 December 2017 any time from noon to 4pm at The Edge at the State Library of Queensland. For more details and to sign up, please go to the meetup page. See you there! Kerry (talk) 21:56, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Brisbane meetup: Saturday 13 January 2018 at The Edge, State Library of Queensland
If you are in or near Brisbane, please join us on Saturday 13 January 2018 any time from noon to 4pm at The Edge at the State Library of Queensland. For more details and to sign up, please go to the meetup page. See you there! Kerry (talk) 05:26, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

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River Van-Diemen
Hallo

just south of Staaten River there might be this other river. I ask you to investigate a bit about this neighbour (see map). It might be wishful thinking by the explorers or this river has disappeared since then. --Bahnmoeller (talk) 22:31, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Is anyone here from Mackay
Hello everyone, I created a template and created a category called, Wikipedians in Mackay. However, since it's empty and unpopulated, it has been proposed for deletion. If anyone here is from Mackay, could someone please add the category.

Your help is very much appreciated. AussieCoinCollector (talk) 20:47, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Gympie Pyramid photograph vs. maps
I've had a look at the Google Maps 3D imagery for the area indicated by the coordinates for the Gympie Pyramid article, and compared them to the photo. I can't see anything even vaguely resembling the photo. What gives? -- The Anome (talk) 09:49, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * The photo concerned is of Walsh's Pyramid, near Cairns.Nickm57 (talk) 10:27, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * This strikes me as really peculiar; there really isn't any way someone could confuse the two if they shot the image themselves, as the two sites are over 1400 km away from one another. I've nominated the image on Commons for deletion: see here. -- The Anome (talk) 18:38, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Student Assignment
Hi everyone, I am a student currently enrolled in a subject which requires the improvement of a stub article. I am writing on 'Hetty Johnston', a Queensland politician and child sexual abuse advocate. I would really appreciate your advice and feedback over the coming weeks as our edits and contributions will make up our final grades for the subject. Thank you so much!Husseyp (talk) 10:49, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * ok, but you might need to ping me (what I just did to you) to take a look at it from time to time. Which uni? Which subject? Kerry (talk) 11:31, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (Queensland) is now Department of Environment and Science
Hi all. Some time in |in 2018 the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (Queensland) got "MoG"-d and is now under a name that I can see has never been created as an English language Wikipedia article. What do you think we should do here? Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 12:38, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Simply WP:MOVE "Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (Queensland)" to "Department of Environment and Science"?
 * Keep "Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (Queensland)" as a historically important agency with stand-alone article and create Department of Environment and Science with mention of it in that article?
 * Add all the history of "Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (Queensland)" to a new article Department of Environment and Science?


 * Our approach federally has been your suggestion #2, but our coverage of state government departments has been fairly limited and IME people have just done #1. Ideally it would be good if we expanded to cover state departments in the same way we do federally, but we're so far from that that it'd be a bit of an oddity if you did #1 here - I'd just move the article. I would suggest that it's not helpful to move extremely generically titled departments to undisambiguated titles - there are a bunch of extremely similarly named government departments in other jurisdictions, it's pure coincidence that there is not already one with that title with a Wikipedia article, and unnecessarily making editors read the article to work out the jurisdiction has always seemed pointless to me (because the title gives no hints whatsoever what the subject is without disambiguation). The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 16:38, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree. Option 2 is the best way to go. If the new article for the current department uses Infobox government agency, then it can use the preceeding1 field to point to Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (Queensland) which can have an added superseding1 field to point to the new article, so the two are properly related to one another. I note there are preceeding2, preceeding3 up to preceeding6 is there are multiple predecessor departments, and similarly for sucessor departments. Kerry (talk) 01:17, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Before finding this discussion, I did option 1, originally moving it to the undisambiguated title before reading this section and moving the article to Department of Environment and Science (Queensland). Per the referenced annual report, it appears to have been just a straight rename and reconfiguration. I have no connection to Queensland whatsoever. I found out about this situation because of my edits to Proserpine River, which were inspired by this edit to Proserpine, Queensland. That page is only on my watchlist because of boosterism that also affected the Townsville [page, which I'm only watching because of this (much of the text relevant to that edit was later removed). I've had to do updates long after the fact to Western Australian articles, too. Graham 87  16:42, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef
If nobody comments at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Environmental_threats_to_the_Great_Barrier_Reef#Good_article_reassessment

in the next few days I am going to delist the article as no longer good. Chidgk1 (talk) 12:39, 12 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Duh I forgot I cannot because it is community reassessment. Please could someone decide and close this. Chidgk1 (talk) 08:45, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Feedback on draft
Hello. I was wondering if someone from this WikiProject could provide feedback on this rough draft User:Sydneycastle/sandbox. I am an employee of the company and would like independent feedback as to whether the draft can be improved. Any comments would be very much appreciated. The strongest sources that I believe establish notability are | The Australian August 2021, | Courier-Mail September 2021, | Australian Financial Review August 2021, |Australian Financial Review July 2021, | Australian Financial Review November 2020, and | Money Magazine (AU) July 2021.

Thanks very much in advance for your thoughts. Sydneycastle (talk) 22:15, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Bernard Fanning
I have nominated Bernard Fanning for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 18:32, 6 April 2022 (UTC)