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I usually move any sentences about the previous sentence into the appropriate chronological spot in the History section. I think it's useful if people want to compare the most recent population data with early data to get a sense of whether the population of the area is rising or falling or whatever. My longer term desire is to construct a population table using both recent census data available online and this historic data. Kerry ( talk) 06:01, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
While it's great that you're taking the time to update census figures, it appears as if you're using the wrong figures. The Australian locality articles have always been done on the basis that any figures, etc, refer to the gazetted locality, rather than any larger urban area (since we have other articles on those places). For census purposes, this equates to the SSC (State Suburb) boundaries and figures. As a result, it gets really confusing if you've got people picking random other population figures from the ABS instead of the figures consistently used everywhere else. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 06:55, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
The ABS regularly releases population estimates between official Censuses. Are these figures able to be used in the Infobox - Population or should the official last Census figures remain?
Could you not use what ever tool you're using to create them? Since it puts a red border around everything and isn't 100% correct with its conversions from jpg/png. Bidgee ( talk) 22:11, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for all the populating you are doing!
Kerry (
talk)
11:23, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
I see you've been updating electorate articles and thought I'd point out that commas aren't needed in the population figures as the infobox formats numbers automatically. That's if you use the field properly and don't add the year, which belongs in |electors_year=
, which you called |electors_name=
in some articles, causing the articles to be added to
Category:Pages using infobox Australian Electorate with unknown parameters. I'm pointing this out because of
this edit, which resulted in "Electors" being displayed as "55,476 (2017) (2015)" because the contents of |electors_year=
always appears after |electors=
. Regarding
this edit, we agreed that "near" electorates shouldn't be used on large electorates, as they tend to vary in shape and size and the near electorates can get out of date very quickly and be a maintenance nightmare. This is not such a problem with smaller electorates, which is why the template documentation says "Do NOT use on large electorates" and why
Category:Australian Electorate articles using near parameters was created. --
AussieLegend (
✉)
05:50, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Just one small comment though. You should not mark them as "minor" edits. A minor edit is something that does not change the information content of an article, say, fixing spelling/grammar or formatting. Anything which changes the information content of an article is generally not minor. Kerry ( talk) 05:36, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Just an FYI, you don't need to upload a completely new file when logos change. Just upload a new version over the existing one, update the FUR and tag the file with {{[[Template:{Orphaned non-free revisions|{Orphaned non-free revisions]]}}. That way the only changes you need to do are on the file page itself. When you upload a logo under a new filename the old one needs to be tagged with needing deletion under CSD F5 if it is no longer used. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 11:34, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for the logos of local authorities etc. which you have been uploading. Just a small point - I've had to correct quite a number of your rationales recently, where you have put a URL or a link in the "Article = "
parameter of the template, where it should just be the name of the article, in plain text, with no mark up. One example is
File:Leicester City Council Logo.png, but there have been quite a few others. When you do that the files go into
Category:Wikipedia non-free files with red backlink for checking, and someone needs to correct them to prevent them being accidentally deleted. No big deal, just thought I'd let you know, so that you can do it "right" in future.
Additionally, you might be interested in {{
Non-free use rationale logo}}
which enables you to use much briefer file description pages - for instance,
File:York City Council.svg could be achieved with just:
== Summary == {{Non-free use rationale logo | Description = Official City of York Council Logo | Source = City of York Council | Article = City of York Council | Use = Infobox }} == Licensing == {{Non-free logo|image has rationale=yes}}
As you'll see if you examine that file page a lot of the fields where you've been pasting long portions of text are automatically provided by that template - which might save you some work... Keep up the good work. Thanks. -- Begoon 08:10, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing— City of Swan Hill—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Jonathan O'Donnell ( talk) 23:56, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Adelaide Hills Council Logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. -- B-bot ( talk) 17:03, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
G'day Greenguytroy, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions; they have helped improve Wikipedia and made it more informative. I hope you enjoy using Wikipedia and decide to make additional contributions. Some resources to help new Wikipedians include:
As a contributor to Australian articles, you may like to connect with other Australian Wikipedians through the Australian Wikipedians' notice board and take a look at the activities in WikiProject Australia and associated sub-projects. Wikimedia Australia your local chapter organises editor training workshops, meetups and other events. If you would like to know more, email help@wikimedia.org.au.
If you are living in Australia and want to subscribe to location based notices, you can add location userboxes to your userpage.
Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ~~~~; this will automatically produce your name and the date.
If you have any questions, please see
Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, try the
Wikipedia:Help desk, or ask me on my talk page. Or you can just type {{helpme}}
on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Thank you for signing up! JarrahTree 10:40, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
I usually move any sentences about the previous sentence into the appropriate chronological spot in the History section. I think it's useful if people want to compare the most recent population data with early data to get a sense of whether the population of the area is rising or falling or whatever. My longer term desire is to construct a population table using both recent census data available online and this historic data. Kerry ( talk) 06:01, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
While it's great that you're taking the time to update census figures, it appears as if you're using the wrong figures. The Australian locality articles have always been done on the basis that any figures, etc, refer to the gazetted locality, rather than any larger urban area (since we have other articles on those places). For census purposes, this equates to the SSC (State Suburb) boundaries and figures. As a result, it gets really confusing if you've got people picking random other population figures from the ABS instead of the figures consistently used everywhere else. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 06:55, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
The ABS regularly releases population estimates between official Censuses. Are these figures able to be used in the Infobox - Population or should the official last Census figures remain?
Could you not use what ever tool you're using to create them? Since it puts a red border around everything and isn't 100% correct with its conversions from jpg/png. Bidgee ( talk) 22:11, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for all the populating you are doing!
Kerry (
talk)
11:23, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
I see you've been updating electorate articles and thought I'd point out that commas aren't needed in the population figures as the infobox formats numbers automatically. That's if you use the field properly and don't add the year, which belongs in |electors_year=
, which you called |electors_name=
in some articles, causing the articles to be added to
Category:Pages using infobox Australian Electorate with unknown parameters. I'm pointing this out because of
this edit, which resulted in "Electors" being displayed as "55,476 (2017) (2015)" because the contents of |electors_year=
always appears after |electors=
. Regarding
this edit, we agreed that "near" electorates shouldn't be used on large electorates, as they tend to vary in shape and size and the near electorates can get out of date very quickly and be a maintenance nightmare. This is not such a problem with smaller electorates, which is why the template documentation says "Do NOT use on large electorates" and why
Category:Australian Electorate articles using near parameters was created. --
AussieLegend (
✉)
05:50, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Just one small comment though. You should not mark them as "minor" edits. A minor edit is something that does not change the information content of an article, say, fixing spelling/grammar or formatting. Anything which changes the information content of an article is generally not minor. Kerry ( talk) 05:36, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Just an FYI, you don't need to upload a completely new file when logos change. Just upload a new version over the existing one, update the FUR and tag the file with {{[[Template:{Orphaned non-free revisions|{Orphaned non-free revisions]]}}. That way the only changes you need to do are on the file page itself. When you upload a logo under a new filename the old one needs to be tagged with needing deletion under CSD F5 if it is no longer used. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 11:34, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for the logos of local authorities etc. which you have been uploading. Just a small point - I've had to correct quite a number of your rationales recently, where you have put a URL or a link in the "Article = "
parameter of the template, where it should just be the name of the article, in plain text, with no mark up. One example is
File:Leicester City Council Logo.png, but there have been quite a few others. When you do that the files go into
Category:Wikipedia non-free files with red backlink for checking, and someone needs to correct them to prevent them being accidentally deleted. No big deal, just thought I'd let you know, so that you can do it "right" in future.
Additionally, you might be interested in {{
Non-free use rationale logo}}
which enables you to use much briefer file description pages - for instance,
File:York City Council.svg could be achieved with just:
== Summary == {{Non-free use rationale logo | Description = Official City of York Council Logo | Source = City of York Council | Article = City of York Council | Use = Infobox }} == Licensing == {{Non-free logo|image has rationale=yes}}
As you'll see if you examine that file page a lot of the fields where you've been pasting long portions of text are automatically provided by that template - which might save you some work... Keep up the good work. Thanks. -- Begoon 08:10, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing— City of Swan Hill—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Jonathan O'Donnell ( talk) 23:56, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Adelaide Hills Council Logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. -- B-bot ( talk) 17:03, 20 July 2024 (UTC)