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Hi, I see you made Mount Pleasant, Queensland into a disambiguation page, which looks like a good thing. I see it though because I am participating in wp:DPL group that works to eliminate ambiguous terms, and the change transformed a number of inbound links to become ambiguous links. I am not at all familiar with which ones should be edited to link to Mount Pleasant, Queensland (Moreton Bay Region) vs. Mount Pleasant, Queensland (Mackay Region). Could you possibly please edit them?
The links to fix are most of the inbound links.
An easy way to fix them (if you are familiar with the facts and can identify which target is intended) is to use this "dab fix list" report. Just click on "Fix" for each of them and select the proper target.
Maybe too much info? or you know it?
Anyhow, thanks for improving Wikipedia already. -- do ncr am 02:48, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Kerry, thanks for adding links to articles about Queensland people, but sometimes you're adding too many, which goes against the manual of style's guidance about linking. According to the above-linked section, links shouldn't be repeated in the body of an article (but an extra link in the lead section, an image caption, etc) is fine. I've fixed your edits at Townsville twice. Graham 87 13:09, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
There is an RfC at Template talk:Infobox#RfC: Religion in infoboxes concerning what should be allowed in the religion entry in infoboxes. Please join the discussion and help us to arrive at a consensus on this issue. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 22:29, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks Kerry!
Be good if I got the correct company name per the source though
[1].
About time
Queensland Nickel has its own page perhaps? Or is the
Palmer Nickel and Cobalt Refinery all it runs?
220
of
Borg
03:38, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kerry, I'm grateful for your "thank-you" for South African War Memorial...the flowers are for you (I like them too!). SethWhales talk 13:27, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello Kerry,
I hope you will not mind if I revert your edits to Eremophila cordatisepala, Melaleuca formosa and M. groveana. There was a link to Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland which in turn has a link to Royal Society of Queensland. Your edits unfortunately produce: "[[Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland]]" (including the [[ ]]). Gderrin ( talk) 00:43, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
This replaces User:Peter Horn of which I lost the password. Peter Horn.2 ( talk) 04:09, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Eg William Salkeld (politician) and others ...
Perhaps it would be better/safer to create them as subpages of your sandbox, and move them at the start of the training class, rather than relying on editors reading the edit summary. Mitch Ames ( talk) 01:16, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
See George Davenport (Queensland politician). The various users with almost identical user pages that are apparently participating in this training are attracting some attention. As a CheckUser, I was contacted about this privately. It would be better if each user had a short note on their user page about their participation in the training. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 02:08, 8 February 2016 (UTC)\
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Kerry,
Thank you for your interest. You may recall I am a member of Fort Lytton Historical Association. Let me summarise some of the issues behind the changes.
First, we have found there is considerable confusion between the national park and the historic fort. Up until now there have been two pages on Wiki: Fort Lytton and Fort Lytton National Park. Fort Lytton (FL) redirected to Fort Lytton National Park (FLNP). FLNP was inconsistent. It said a little about the national park, and a lot about the fort. However, it did not say an equal amount about the Quarantine Station, which for practical purposes has the same status as the fort. (FYI: A small part of the Quarantine Station will be open to the public for the first time in Brisbane Open House this year). Instead, there is a separate page about the Quarantine Station. It seems reasonable to create a separate page for the fort also. Futhermore, the national park is an interesting entity in its own right, being Queensland's first historic park, and deserves its own page. Hence the major structural change has been to separate the fort from the national park.
The other major change has been in the structure of the Fort Lytton page. The original page focused on two major aspects of the fort's history, the colonial era and what happened after the fort was closed down. The Fort Lytton complex was of major defensive importance during WW2 and this is arguably as significant as its colonial role. The story of what happened after the fort was closed down is arguably not appropriate for this page and might be more appropriate in the FLNP page (note: FLHA's Secretary, Harry Linas, is one of the two authors of that section of the page, and he is comfortable with its removal for the moment). The original material on the colonial fort has been substantially maintained but shortened to create a balance with the new WW2 section. The new gallery is expected to be expanded substantially.
I would be happy to discuss this further.
Regards,
Mike MightDo ( talk) 03:09, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Kerry,
My father is wondering if there is any chance you can help him with the following:
Re: Your entry on the "Mornington Standard" "... last modified on the 23 July 2015, at 23.54."
I live in hope that your contributor who provided this article on the "Mornington Standard" will be able to help me. This newspaper firm also published the "Frankston and Somerville Standard" as part of their enterprise.
One of the contributors who wrote for the "Frankston and Somerville Standard" in the early 1920s was an individual who signed himself as "Strathmore." His contributions covered a range of subjects, but especially local football, racing and other subjects including one on an Sikh hawker called Pollah Singh. The article appeared on the 15 August 1923 with the title: "Only a Hawker But a Man at That." (Reviewed by 'Strathmore')."
Pollah Singh was well known in our family, as he was a hawker in the Victorian Upper Murray and stayed at the pastoral station, called Thologolong , for a week each year. My mother and her brothers and sisters remembered his visits as memorable events. It would add to the veracity of what "Strathmore" wrote, if I knew who he was. It would be an added bonus if there was some information on his life.
Hoping that you will be able to assist me.
Thanks
Kate — Preceding
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10:10, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kerry, I was wondering if you knew who owned the selwyn house in Mackay? Or if you knew who I could contact about it? Thanks in advance Bec — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bec1973 ( talk • contribs) 07:44, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I visited Port Douglas for a few days last year on a family holiday. It was the first time I'd been there for just over 20 years. Although Port Douglas is quite a high profile place, Wikimedia Commons didn't have many images of it, so I decided to do something about that problem. I'm glad you like the FDA Carstens Memorial image. Some of the other places I photographed while in North Queensland are also on the Queensland Heritage Register, eg St Mary's by the Sea. Bahnfrend ( talk) 05:54, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
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Hi there. I recently came across User:Kerry Raymond/State Library of Queensland/First World War Wikipedian in Residence (it was through the notifications system, as someone linked from Roma War Memorial and Heroes Avenue to an article I created and I then looked up who created that article). It is really good to see an example of a Wikipedian-in-residence programme established specifically to increase coverage of World War I (in this case in Queensland). I have wanted for a while to try and get an overview of the work being done on Wikipedia on WW1 topics and to make more people aware of what is being done (and what has been done), but have not had much time to do that recently. Do you know specifically of any other Wikipedians in Residence who are specifically focused on WW1? Carcharoth ( talk) 06:55, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Kerry, Many thanks for the recent thanks. I'm really enjoying dabbling in Wikipedia again and am fiercely determined not to become disheartened this time. While I'm grateful to receive helpful advice and constructive criticism, I'm puzzled as to why some new articles are declined in Articles of Creation while others will fly through in a matter of days. I appreciate that every editor generously brings their own unique knowledge and specialist subject areas to the review process but, is there a process that directs regional content to editors with a greater understanding of Queensland or Australian subject matters? There are a number of significant local people and places I wish to create articles for but am hesitant to proceed. C ( talk) 10:29, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hey, just so you know - Atherton Chinese Temple already had an article at Hou Wang Temple, which is what the National Trust calls it. Any thoughts on how to solve that one? I think I'd be inclined to go with "Hou Wang Temple" - lots more Google hits and it's what I remember it as. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 10:05, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
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Ooh, good catch. That just looks to be wrong to me - Labor was ousted in 1929 and returned in 1932, not from 1923 to 1926, and it's a very odd date range for a typo. Both the Labor Premiers in those years (Ted Theodore in 1923 and William McCormack in 1926) were friends who had their careers ended by the Mungana affair over their dealings with state-owned enterprises in far North Queensland, so I would find it highly unlikely there was any ideological difference there. Arthur Edward Moore, the CPNP leader who came to power in 1929, was the one who kicked off the Mungana affair inquiry, so I would imagine he was anti-state enterprises - but that's well off date-wise. I have no idea whether the QHR has the years of closure wrong or has the reasons for the closure wrong, but it seems as if one of them has to be.
I don't have any plans for this afternoon so I'll jump on Trove and see if I can turn up any explanation. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 07:42, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Kerry, here's a good one for you. It has me puzzled and I am really not sure which is which. Charles Victor Watson Brown was the member for Gregory from 1939 until 1941.
In the Courier Mail he is called Dr C.V. Watson Brown and just Dr Brown. "CLOSE GREGORY VOTE". The Courier-mail. No. 1790. Queensland, Australia. 29 May 1939. p. 1. Retrieved 3 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
His birth announcement in the Sydney Morning Herald has him as plain Brown. "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 17, 850. New South Wales, Australia. 4 June 1895. p. 1. Retrieved 3 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
The Queensland Government Births, deaths, marriages and divorces describes his name as Watson-Brown for his death https://www.bdm.qld.gov.au/IndexSearch/querySubmit.m?ReportName=MarriageSearch
Gordon Chalk called him Dr Watson Brown at the motion of condolence in Hansard http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/1970/1970_07_23.pdf (Page 67)
And finally, this is Charles' brother's marker at Mt Thompson Memorial Gardens http://www.heavenaddress.com/restingplace/l-watson--brown/398841
Now the question is of course, what do you think his name should be on Wikipedia?
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I assumed as much (I've been doing a bunch of work on the Wallaroo SA area) but didn't know enough about the linked NSW town to definitively correct it - so absolutely reasonable. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 09:40, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, I see you made Mount Pleasant, Queensland into a disambiguation page, which looks like a good thing. I see it though because I am participating in wp:DPL group that works to eliminate ambiguous terms, and the change transformed a number of inbound links to become ambiguous links. I am not at all familiar with which ones should be edited to link to Mount Pleasant, Queensland (Moreton Bay Region) vs. Mount Pleasant, Queensland (Mackay Region). Could you possibly please edit them?
The links to fix are most of the inbound links.
An easy way to fix them (if you are familiar with the facts and can identify which target is intended) is to use this "dab fix list" report. Just click on "Fix" for each of them and select the proper target.
Maybe too much info? or you know it?
Anyhow, thanks for improving Wikipedia already. -- do ncr am 02:48, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Kerry, thanks for adding links to articles about Queensland people, but sometimes you're adding too many, which goes against the manual of style's guidance about linking. According to the above-linked section, links shouldn't be repeated in the body of an article (but an extra link in the lead section, an image caption, etc) is fine. I've fixed your edits at Townsville twice. Graham 87 13:09, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks Kerry!
Be good if I got the correct company name per the source though
[1].
About time
Queensland Nickel has its own page perhaps? Or is the
Palmer Nickel and Cobalt Refinery all it runs?
220
of
Borg
03:38, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kerry, I'm grateful for your "thank-you" for South African War Memorial...the flowers are for you (I like them too!). SethWhales talk 13:27, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello Kerry,
I hope you will not mind if I revert your edits to Eremophila cordatisepala, Melaleuca formosa and M. groveana. There was a link to Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland which in turn has a link to Royal Society of Queensland. Your edits unfortunately produce: "[[Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland]]" (including the [[ ]]). Gderrin ( talk) 00:43, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
This replaces User:Peter Horn of which I lost the password. Peter Horn.2 ( talk) 04:09, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
Eg William Salkeld (politician) and others ...
Perhaps it would be better/safer to create them as subpages of your sandbox, and move them at the start of the training class, rather than relying on editors reading the edit summary. Mitch Ames ( talk) 01:16, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
See George Davenport (Queensland politician). The various users with almost identical user pages that are apparently participating in this training are attracting some attention. As a CheckUser, I was contacted about this privately. It would be better if each user had a short note on their user page about their participation in the training. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 02:08, 8 February 2016 (UTC)\
Hi. This roll back was an accident: [3]. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 06:52, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
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Kerry,
Thank you for your interest. You may recall I am a member of Fort Lytton Historical Association. Let me summarise some of the issues behind the changes.
First, we have found there is considerable confusion between the national park and the historic fort. Up until now there have been two pages on Wiki: Fort Lytton and Fort Lytton National Park. Fort Lytton (FL) redirected to Fort Lytton National Park (FLNP). FLNP was inconsistent. It said a little about the national park, and a lot about the fort. However, it did not say an equal amount about the Quarantine Station, which for practical purposes has the same status as the fort. (FYI: A small part of the Quarantine Station will be open to the public for the first time in Brisbane Open House this year). Instead, there is a separate page about the Quarantine Station. It seems reasonable to create a separate page for the fort also. Futhermore, the national park is an interesting entity in its own right, being Queensland's first historic park, and deserves its own page. Hence the major structural change has been to separate the fort from the national park.
The other major change has been in the structure of the Fort Lytton page. The original page focused on two major aspects of the fort's history, the colonial era and what happened after the fort was closed down. The Fort Lytton complex was of major defensive importance during WW2 and this is arguably as significant as its colonial role. The story of what happened after the fort was closed down is arguably not appropriate for this page and might be more appropriate in the FLNP page (note: FLHA's Secretary, Harry Linas, is one of the two authors of that section of the page, and he is comfortable with its removal for the moment). The original material on the colonial fort has been substantially maintained but shortened to create a balance with the new WW2 section. The new gallery is expected to be expanded substantially.
I would be happy to discuss this further.
Regards,
Mike MightDo ( talk) 03:09, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Kerry,
My father is wondering if there is any chance you can help him with the following:
Re: Your entry on the "Mornington Standard" "... last modified on the 23 July 2015, at 23.54."
I live in hope that your contributor who provided this article on the "Mornington Standard" will be able to help me. This newspaper firm also published the "Frankston and Somerville Standard" as part of their enterprise.
One of the contributors who wrote for the "Frankston and Somerville Standard" in the early 1920s was an individual who signed himself as "Strathmore." His contributions covered a range of subjects, but especially local football, racing and other subjects including one on an Sikh hawker called Pollah Singh. The article appeared on the 15 August 1923 with the title: "Only a Hawker But a Man at That." (Reviewed by 'Strathmore')."
Pollah Singh was well known in our family, as he was a hawker in the Victorian Upper Murray and stayed at the pastoral station, called Thologolong , for a week each year. My mother and her brothers and sisters remembered his visits as memorable events. It would add to the veracity of what "Strathmore" wrote, if I knew who he was. It would be an added bonus if there was some information on his life.
Hoping that you will be able to assist me.
Thanks
Kate — Preceding
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10:10, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kerry, I was wondering if you knew who owned the selwyn house in Mackay? Or if you knew who I could contact about it? Thanks in advance Bec — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bec1973 ( talk • contribs) 07:44, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I visited Port Douglas for a few days last year on a family holiday. It was the first time I'd been there for just over 20 years. Although Port Douglas is quite a high profile place, Wikimedia Commons didn't have many images of it, so I decided to do something about that problem. I'm glad you like the FDA Carstens Memorial image. Some of the other places I photographed while in North Queensland are also on the Queensland Heritage Register, eg St Mary's by the Sea. Bahnfrend ( talk) 05:54, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
"Page view statistics" no longer works for me. Could this be due to "browser no longer supports..." syndrome, or something else? Qexigator ( talk) 09:09, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hi there. I recently came across User:Kerry Raymond/State Library of Queensland/First World War Wikipedian in Residence (it was through the notifications system, as someone linked from Roma War Memorial and Heroes Avenue to an article I created and I then looked up who created that article). It is really good to see an example of a Wikipedian-in-residence programme established specifically to increase coverage of World War I (in this case in Queensland). I have wanted for a while to try and get an overview of the work being done on Wikipedia on WW1 topics and to make more people aware of what is being done (and what has been done), but have not had much time to do that recently. Do you know specifically of any other Wikipedians in Residence who are specifically focused on WW1? Carcharoth ( talk) 06:55, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
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that changing the name of your article Vincent Price (railway architect) to Vincent Price (architect) would be a good thing because mostly on wikipedia, architects are not named or identified by the type of work or design that they did/do, industrial, residential, apartments, commercial, etc., unless there are more than one architects with the same name and no examples come to mind of that. What do you think? Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 01:13, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Kerry, Many thanks for the recent thanks. I'm really enjoying dabbling in Wikipedia again and am fiercely determined not to become disheartened this time. While I'm grateful to receive helpful advice and constructive criticism, I'm puzzled as to why some new articles are declined in Articles of Creation while others will fly through in a matter of days. I appreciate that every editor generously brings their own unique knowledge and specialist subject areas to the review process but, is there a process that directs regional content to editors with a greater understanding of Queensland or Australian subject matters? There are a number of significant local people and places I wish to create articles for but am hesitant to proceed. C ( talk) 10:29, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Xx236 ( talk) 12:04, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
Hey, just so you know - Atherton Chinese Temple already had an article at Hou Wang Temple, which is what the National Trust calls it. Any thoughts on how to solve that one? I think I'd be inclined to go with "Hou Wang Temple" - lots more Google hits and it's what I remember it as. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 10:05, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
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Ooh, good catch. That just looks to be wrong to me - Labor was ousted in 1929 and returned in 1932, not from 1923 to 1926, and it's a very odd date range for a typo. Both the Labor Premiers in those years (Ted Theodore in 1923 and William McCormack in 1926) were friends who had their careers ended by the Mungana affair over their dealings with state-owned enterprises in far North Queensland, so I would find it highly unlikely there was any ideological difference there. Arthur Edward Moore, the CPNP leader who came to power in 1929, was the one who kicked off the Mungana affair inquiry, so I would imagine he was anti-state enterprises - but that's well off date-wise. I have no idea whether the QHR has the years of closure wrong or has the reasons for the closure wrong, but it seems as if one of them has to be.
I don't have any plans for this afternoon so I'll jump on Trove and see if I can turn up any explanation. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 07:42, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Kerry, here's a good one for you. It has me puzzled and I am really not sure which is which. Charles Victor Watson Brown was the member for Gregory from 1939 until 1941.
In the Courier Mail he is called Dr C.V. Watson Brown and just Dr Brown. "CLOSE GREGORY VOTE". The Courier-mail. No. 1790. Queensland, Australia. 29 May 1939. p. 1. Retrieved 3 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
His birth announcement in the Sydney Morning Herald has him as plain Brown. "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 17, 850. New South Wales, Australia. 4 June 1895. p. 1. Retrieved 3 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
The Queensland Government Births, deaths, marriages and divorces describes his name as Watson-Brown for his death https://www.bdm.qld.gov.au/IndexSearch/querySubmit.m?ReportName=MarriageSearch
Gordon Chalk called him Dr Watson Brown at the motion of condolence in Hansard http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/1970/1970_07_23.pdf (Page 67)
And finally, this is Charles' brother's marker at Mt Thompson Memorial Gardens http://www.heavenaddress.com/restingplace/l-watson--brown/398841
Now the question is of course, what do you think his name should be on Wikipedia?
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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
I assumed as much (I've been doing a bunch of work on the Wallaroo SA area) but didn't know enough about the linked NSW town to definitively correct it - so absolutely reasonable. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 09:40, 8 July 2016 (UTC)