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Hi Melburnian. Thanks for your information on Claytons which I have now rewritten and moved to the correct spelling. If you have access to a digital camera, it would be great if you could photograph the bottles in your possession and add that to the article. I can do any graphics preparation if you need help. dramatic 08:23, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian). Get it, I'm a strict Australian wikipedian and I am senstive about wikipedia policies and language used in my talk and I am quite prepered to have big talks with administrators and even get a consensus (how do I get a consensus) for being able to enforce my requirements. Anyway, I'll leave you to it.
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Hi, Welcome from me too. I really liked Image:Beaconsfield Tasmania Location Map 2.png. Since it is GFDL, you might like to consider uploading it to commons where it will be available for other wikimedia projects such as other language wikipedias and wikinews. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on my talk page. Regards-- A Y Arktos\ talk 01:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the terrific picture :-) -- Arktos talk 08:32, 30 August 2006 (UTC) It is a beautiful spring day and I am changing my user name to Golden Wattle. I hope you don't mind if I use your terrific picture to illustrate my new user name. I haven't got a good reason for Arktos and it is too indicative of the northern hemisphere and means bear in greek or or apparently the goddess of last light - too gloomy for me. Regards-- Arktos talk 23:50, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Great stuff ... I'm also trying to contribute myself. I've been working mostly through the south eastern suburbs you look like you're doing the northern suburbs, which is even better in terms of coverage ! -- Biatch 09:48, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Dear Melburnian Much appreciate the excellent photos. Have suggested to editor MPF that the cultivar listings are restricted to their respective species pages, otherwise the main page will be overwhelmed. There are literally dozens of American, Chinese, Japanese and Siberian Elm cultivars raised in North America. Best wishes Ptelea 10:26, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Just thought I'd say your work referencing and improving the Melbourne articles following the mass infobox upgrade has been noticed and appreciated. Orderinchaos78 12:04, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Love the images! You're doing a good job there. The Wonga Park one in particular is really nice. Re:Commons - you should create a category "Pictures by Melburnian" or something and put that in each of your shots so that you can keep them all together, and others can see your work :) Orderinchaos78 08:52, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Many thanks for your advice on copying, regret still on a learning curve here. Merry Christmas, Ptelea 13:50, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Somebody has seen fit to redirect the Morton Accolade page in order to remove the trademark TM from the name, on the rather dubious pretext that it makes it look like spam. (A) I think this is nonsense. (B) He, or she, has only done it to this one tradename. (C) I don't know how to cancel the redirect! Would much appreciate your help. Ptelea 18:10, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
-- Yomangani talk 11:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 08:38, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks very much for flying the Aussie flag at DYK! Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 05:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
G'day,
I appreciate your fixing of my attempt to revert the vandalism throughout the Eucalypt entry. I had tried to revert to the previous 'clean' version of the article, but I'm still a newb at Wiki. Any advice toward combatting the vandals would be gratefully accepted, regards, Jugurtha3 02:15, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment. I love it when someone opens up a friendly discussion then waits patiently for a response instead of leaping in and making a change. So very rare. I must practice that more myself.
You are of course absolutely right. I've made the change. [12] Hesperian 03:53, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I notice you blanked vandalism on Talk:Euan cummings. The page did not have an article associated with it, so I deleted it.
The next time you blank a talk page with only vandalism edits, do check whether the accompanying article exists; if there's no article, add {{ db-talk}} to the talk page so a sysop can delete it (per CSD criteria G8. Thanks! Awyong J. M. Salleh 01:41, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
In re this edit, can you identify the plant, in that case? Jkelly 19:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words on my RfA! It's hard to believe that was over 3 months ago now... And as always the pictures on your user page are brilliant. I shall have to put up some of my own, although I don't think I'll be taking any today - 42°C heat :| Orderinchaos78 13:25, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I would like to license this image for use as a still on a television show. Is there a way I can contact you?
Hi Melburnian! I think you might be interested in
Colchicum 23:53, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your support on my
Request for adminship, which was successful, with votes of 49/0/0.
Lemme know if you need help on something I might know a little something about....( check my userpage). | |
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cheers, Casliber | talk | contribs 14:03, 28 March 2007 (UTC) |
Thanks for the copyedit to Brian Grieve; much appreciated. There's plenty of evidence to suggest that the 1831 Exhibition Scholarship is notable, so I'll probably eventually write a stub on it and revert the link back. Hesperian 04:25, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
G'day Melburnian,
I suspected as much; sorry about that. I wish that next to the "hide my edits" buttons on my watchlist, there was a "hide that other bloke's edits" button. I often wish for it when Orderinchaos is on his article ratings rampages.
I'm sure you'll agree that {{ Flora of Western Australia}} was a rather obtuse name for that template, and that {{ FloraBase}} is much more appropriate. For the life of me I can't think why I chose such a stupid title. It had been bugging me for ages, and today I finally snapped. I think you and I are the only contributors who routinely use that template; since we're both aware of the move, do you think it would be safe to delete the redirect?
I cleared my user page to make some room for a troll who promised that "your user page is getting destroyed". It was my way of saying "like I give a f*ck". I haven't got around to posting something new yet, but I will eventually.
Hesperian 11:01, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
-- Yomangani talk 13:45, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi :) Glad to see you're able to make use of the template... I've done a parallel set, Census 2001 AUS and Census 2006 AUS, because the ABS are probably going to do this to us again and at least next time one just has to tweak a template to get all the articles working. Orderinchaos 10:51, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
I noticed your signature is a normal signature. Would you like me to make you a new 2 colored signature? RuneWiki 777 15:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Melburnian. You are off to such a great start on the article Pfalz (ship) that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. Appearing on the Main Page may help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created and if you haven't already done so, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. If you do nominate the article for DYK, please cross out the article name on the "Good" articles proposed by bot list. Again, great job on the article. -- Jreferee ( Talk) 02:28, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
I guess you don't check your Wikipedia-linked email account very often. Unless there was a delivery failure, you have a two-week-old email from me. Hesperian 13:34, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
-- Carabinieri 10:12, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey, To link to a site like commons, you can use interwiki links, like this commons: (link to commons). The wikimarkup for that is [[commons:]]. Similarily, you can link to a page on commons like this: commons:Main_Page ([[commons:Main_Page]]). That way you don't have to use external links, and it'll update them if the sites ever move URL.
Just noticed you were using external links to commons etc, so I thought I would point this out. Thanks! Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 21:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
A good idea, ... sometimes :P But seriously, I'm glad you started that discussion. I can see the merit in both, however my ratio is one to five blue links in my stubby articles. Two redlinks if I intend to write it one day. Thanks for the reply. Regards, ☻ Fred| ☝ discussion| ✍ contributions 23:37, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Melburnian, thanks for the work on helping to revert the vandalism some idiot's been putting on my user page. I'd never even seen it until I went to update it today and happened to look at the history to see how long since I last updated and saw the edit war. So thanks again. -- jjron 06:47, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
If I'm not much mistaken, your RFA is due to finish up in about five minutes, with 87% support, making this a fairly straightforward and uncontroversial promotion case (although of course it is not a vote and the actioning bureaucrat must use xis discretion). I'm about to log off for the night, so I hope the actioning bureaucrat will forgive me if I preempt the apparently obvious result and congratulate you on the promotion. Well-deserved. Hesperian 13:17, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm happy to inform you that, due to your successful request for adminship, you have now been promoted to an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or stop by the administrators' noticeboard. Congrats! Andre ( talk) 13:27, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Congrats and commiserations. Just try to keep editing and not get too bogged down with the crap. — Moondyne 13:40, 16 July 2007 (UTC) Indeed there will no doubt be a lot more of what all they are alluding to - well done Satu Suro 15:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to give a big THANK YOU here, in lieu of spamming everyone, to all who supported me in my recent rfa, which has ended succesfully. In addition I am appreciative of the consideration that went in to comments and deliberation of comments by all who participated in the discussion. If you have any comments, questions or advice regarding my upcoming admin actions, feel free to drop a line on my talk page. Thanks again. Melburnian 14:31, 16 July 2007 (UTC) |
Yeah skittles maybe, but under the feet and the beer over the head while in motion :/ Satu Suro 07:09, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Re : I was a bit embarrased to have it receive the attention. Your expansion of the 'bushtucker' aspect is very good, I was going to emphasise that point tonight. This is from Smith in 1793,
Thanks for rescuing it, very nicely done. I notice congratulations are in order, good on you for taking up the role. Regards, Fred ☻ 08:23, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello Melburnian & many thanks for your response of 02.40 28 August. Have followed your instructions which resulted in a page in Wikimedia Commons titled Image:Experimental vortex.JPG (I registered as User Gwickau)but can't work out how to place the image into the Wikipedia article Vortex engine. Additionally I went to the Wikipedia article 'Vortex engine', 'Edit' then inserted Image:NameofImage.jpg|right|thumb|Caption, with double [[ (as recommended by Administrator Longhair), then clicked 'Upload file' and followed your instructions but this resulted in a new Wikipedia page (can be viewed by looking at my talk page). If you could help further I would be most appreciative. Best wishes Geoffrey Wickham 00:28, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Apologies for being a nuisance. I followed your instructions. If you go to Vortex engine, History, it shows the result. Geoffrey Wickham 01:50, 29 August 2007 (UTC)--- Finally got there ! "one small step for he who knows, a big step for an old bloke". Many thanks Geoff Geoffrey Wickham 02:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Despite typing up the image upload procedure still having a problem. I endevoured to insert an image into article Telectronics. Image box inserted but not image. Would you be so kind as to have a look & tell me what I did wrong ? Hope this is the last. Geoffrey Wickham 01:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, you're a mate. I'll bone up on copy & paste. Geoffrey Wickham 01:37, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Please take me to your source - my sources would suggest gastrolobium bilobium heart leaf - cheers Satu Suro 23:40, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Crisps excellent website will solve all in time - havent got go through it systematically yet. I have at least two species within 100 metres of my letter box - will get around to check it all against up to 5 diff refs in the shed for practice, sigh - thats before the web based info Satu Suro 04:46, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for that - some useful hints from that - I have a copy of gardner and bennetts and am using Paczowska and Chapman as my main template for the list - though the wandering between the various changing desicrptions I am trying to make my mind up on that - cheers and thanks! Satu Suro 12:20, 15 September 2007 (UTC) btw - i think we need to do an art on crisp - do you have much on him? Satu Suro 12:21, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for chipping in. You realise, I hope, that the ids have stayed the same only for species. For genera they have changed. Not sure about subspecies and varieties yet. Hesperian 03:02, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
What do you reckon? Hesperian 03:19, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Should Robert Brown "R.Br." be indexed under 'R' rather than 'B'? —
Moondyne 08:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC) Nah, forget it. —
Moondyne 09:01, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Melburnian, great user name! :D Wiki Townsvillia n 03:52, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Evidently my bizarre decision to create the FloraBase citation template at {{ Flora of Western Australia}} is contagious. Someone has created a PlantNET citation template at {{ NSW Flora Online}}. I was thinking I might move that template to {{ PlantNET}}, fix it up a bit, then push it into these pages. Any comments, suggestions, words of advice before I begin? Hesperian 00:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
If you still have Wrigley and Fagg to hand (as I have not), can you please check if it gives a common name, and indicate on the talk page. Hesperian 13:08, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Hey there, saw your revert and 100% agree, I had a guided wildflower tour and didn't check my assumption of what I'd heard it been called(Grevillea bipinnatifida).
I've just been through every(!) Grevillea photo in florabase for this, unfortunately there are a few pics there that are seemingly close matches but nothing I'd bet the house on, for example this but it doesn't seem spiky enough.
Any chance you would be able to help identify it? I'll have to delete it from commons though as it is wrongly named - the only thing worse that no picture is a wrong picture... I have a picture from further back of the complete plant if that would help?
If anyone is interested in helping or can identify WA wildflowers precisely, I have a few more to upload that I'm not 100% about also, if you're game? Any watchers of this page feel free to jump in...
I think I identifed this correctly but now I'm doubting myself...
Cheers SeanMack 12:55, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
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Good luck & Cheers SeanMack 15:23, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Very nice, thankyou; I shall make it a priority to bring that article to a state worthy of the image.
In 1980 a "living collection" of dryandras was started at Cranbourne by Alf Salkin, to complement the collection of banksias that was already there. At one point there were over a hundred dryandra taxa growing there. Some never really established, lack of water killed some, P. cinn. killed some others, some died of old age without recruiting any seedlings, but they say there are still plenty there if you look hard enough.
Hesperian 12:26, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Tonight when exercising the dogs just noticed there is a very smaller pink variety that has followed weeks and weeks after the 'some sort' above on your page - will try to get a close up and/or id in next day or so Satu Suro 13:25, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
You're ill-advised to ask me when you've got access to the editor of the Banksia Study Group, the one and only Cas Liber. Actually, perhaps I'm short-selling myself, as he confesses himself not all that great with not-much-cultivated western species, and I was able to identify this one immediately. It is Banksia praemorsa (Cut-leaf Banksia). We do have an image of the species, but it is of the yellow-flowered form, which is actually quite rare. Red-maroon inflorescences are far more common, so your image is a better exemplar. Hesperian 12:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
I was about to add this to the imageless Grevillea bipinnatifida article, but was stopped in my tracks by the fact that the leaves are not at all bipinnatifid. Can you identify? Hesperian 00:50, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks again. Hesperian 11:14, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
For reverting the vandalism to my user talk page. Cheers! de Bivort 18:07, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Can you id a banksia I photographed at Lakes Entrance, Victoria, at [16]? (Pic of the whole tree and a closeup of one flower)
I may try to improve on the tree one, but it is 35 out here and I'm feeling it :P Orderinchaos 02:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Turn on the TV dipstick —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.209.160.51 ( talk) 11:22, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Ha! No it's not, it's complete canvassed support for your editors! Have your little support if you so wish, there's no beating the australien cabal. Ryan Postlethwaite 10:38, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Belated Merry Christmas btw :) I saw some mention that you're doing stuff with town halls - I'm finally getting all the old LGAs done, do you have any information (other than location, which I have from the 1993 Melway) about these? Orderinchaos 07:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to say that you're doing a fantastic job with getting photos of some of these rural town halls. It adds a nice touch to the article. Rebecca ( talk) 11:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind words and the copyedit. Making lists is trivial - it taxes nothing but my gumption. The hard bit is writing nice prose, especially on subjects about which I know next to nothing. As a result, the main article is a patchwork of thorough sections, half-cut sections, and stubby one sentence sections. Learning about oceanography was fun, but I confess to being too terrified to make a start on the geology section yet. I'll get there eventually. Hesperian 02:28, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Nice of you to volunteer for the plant project. They evaluate articles without reading them. Can you provide me a list of articles in which you evaluated without reading so I know that you are one of them before I revert your edits? -- Carol 23:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
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Although absent in every sense of the word for some time now - i must say that some months down the line and I'll be back to haunt you and others over the issue of some stray gastrolobiums and other thingimies - have a good new year! Satu Suro 09:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the links - Yeah well the greyhound bus got through (with no mention of floods or delays) and the the younger two of the intrepid family clan on travel across australia in two cars just as the fuel prices rises, the northern rivers flood, and the younger one discovers he dosnt like cbds of busy cities etc etc, stays stuck in sydney and the eldest driver of the clan rediscovers sydney driving style after many many years etc etc - etc etc oh well trust your new year is going well cheers Satu Suro 05:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
The two sections you just re-added to the talk page have already been moved to the archive by the bot. [18] 68.220.222.29 ( talk) 01:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Very nice Photo! Well done. MickMacNee ( talk) 10:36, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
If you ever run out of things to do (as if), I just discovered, to my great surprise, that Stackhousia is a red link. Hesperian 12:07, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
With the understanding that you can start to ignore me at any time, I thought I'd point out an even more outrageous redlink: Ptilotus! What the hell is going on, man? At a guess, this would be the most species-diverse Australian genus not to have an article. Hesperian 13:24, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
"blued one red link but created 17 new ones in the process". How many you say? Over a hundred this time I think. :-) It would be interesting to plot unique redlinks by time. Logic says it should peak at some point, but I suspect we haven't reached that point yet. Thanks again; you're a dynamo. Hesperian 12:05, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that...I probably should've done a quick search myself...but yeah, FAs are much more fun to work on! Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide ( H20) 08:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, thanks alot for changing the article title to its official name :). Davido321 ( talk) 11:44, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
G'day,
Just thought I'd share my discovery for today. Here you can download a dictionary file containing all names of WA plant species, the idea being that you can add the file as a custom dictionary to Word, and terms like "argyrophylla" will no longer come up as spelling errors. If you're running Firefox, as I am, you can achieve the same by copy-pasting the contents of the file into persdict.dat in your Mozilla profile directory. Of course it would be better if it covered all of Australia, but I suspect this will get you 90% of the way.
And while I've got you, here's a mystery for you. Today I heard mention of a plant recently discovered in WA, which turns out to be the most basal flowering plant yet discovered, preceding even the split between monocots and dicots. Amazingly, it was found growing in a Kenwick truck yard. So far about a hundred of the world's leading plant taxonomists have made the pilgrimage to the sacred truck yard to view the plant. I wrote down the genus on a scrap of paper, but now I can't find it. Google has failed me. :-(
Hesperian 11:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that userpage cleanup. The culprit has been blocked. -- Longhair\ talk 07:16, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Finally got the last 6 done today - they've been outstanding for a while. Now at uni so I have a lot less time than before - trying to get the WA Politics stuff going :) Orderinchaos 08:05, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Crop away ! I'm a bit disappointed though - I was there while the firefighting was going and almost got a shot from 30m of Elvis refilling from the reservoir - Was shooting while the car was moving and a blasted tree got in the way - Peripitus (Talk) 01:35, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
No sighted here yet (darling range) - but maybe one day - grastrolubium seems far away in one sense - about to start again soon - have been trawling various arts in euc and others that dont have very good regional locality identification in lead sentences - some eucalypts are abysmal - the south west i am choosing is a good link for the wiki user not geographically ept in the western australian sense - but my system of editing on this is closer to chaos theory than heisenberg - distraction and real life assisting Satu Suro 06:42, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
64kB, my friend. I think it's time you bit the bullet. Hesperian 10:54, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you are helping to remove spam on Houseplant. I have notified the offending editor, but in the process of expanding the houseplant list, I noticed the two large photos in that section have very prominent tags for this very same Florero product that spammers have been advertising on Houseplant. Not that a commercial product can't have photos taken of it, but I am almost positive that the uploaders of these photos (some months ago) were also involved in spamming. Is this a conflict of interest, and should some sort of action be taken concerning these not-so-good faith photos? The photos are very clear, but it irks me to see people seemingly taking advantage of this system.-- ♦♦♦Vlmastra♦♦♦ ( talk) 02:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Just wishing you a wonderful First Day of Spring {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}! ~~~~
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Hi Melburnian. Thanks for your information on Claytons which I have now rewritten and moved to the correct spelling. If you have access to a digital camera, it would be great if you could photograph the bottles in your possession and add that to the article. I can do any graphics preparation if you need help. dramatic 08:23, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian). Get it, I'm a strict Australian wikipedian and I am senstive about wikipedia policies and language used in my talk and I am quite prepered to have big talks with administrators and even get a consensus (how do I get a consensus) for being able to enforce my requirements. Anyway, I'll leave you to it.
Do you have a favourite Foreign destination? Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian) (talk)
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Hi, Welcome from me too. I really liked Image:Beaconsfield Tasmania Location Map 2.png. Since it is GFDL, you might like to consider uploading it to commons where it will be available for other wikimedia projects such as other language wikipedias and wikinews. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on my talk page. Regards-- A Y Arktos\ talk 01:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the terrific picture :-) -- Arktos talk 08:32, 30 August 2006 (UTC) It is a beautiful spring day and I am changing my user name to Golden Wattle. I hope you don't mind if I use your terrific picture to illustrate my new user name. I haven't got a good reason for Arktos and it is too indicative of the northern hemisphere and means bear in greek or or apparently the goddess of last light - too gloomy for me. Regards-- Arktos talk 23:50, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Great stuff ... I'm also trying to contribute myself. I've been working mostly through the south eastern suburbs you look like you're doing the northern suburbs, which is even better in terms of coverage ! -- Biatch 09:48, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Dear Melburnian Much appreciate the excellent photos. Have suggested to editor MPF that the cultivar listings are restricted to their respective species pages, otherwise the main page will be overwhelmed. There are literally dozens of American, Chinese, Japanese and Siberian Elm cultivars raised in North America. Best wishes Ptelea 10:26, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Just thought I'd say your work referencing and improving the Melbourne articles following the mass infobox upgrade has been noticed and appreciated. Orderinchaos78 12:04, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Love the images! You're doing a good job there. The Wonga Park one in particular is really nice. Re:Commons - you should create a category "Pictures by Melburnian" or something and put that in each of your shots so that you can keep them all together, and others can see your work :) Orderinchaos78 08:52, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Many thanks for your advice on copying, regret still on a learning curve here. Merry Christmas, Ptelea 13:50, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Somebody has seen fit to redirect the Morton Accolade page in order to remove the trademark TM from the name, on the rather dubious pretext that it makes it look like spam. (A) I think this is nonsense. (B) He, or she, has only done it to this one tradename. (C) I don't know how to cancel the redirect! Would much appreciate your help. Ptelea 18:10, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
-- Yomangani talk 11:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 08:38, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks very much for flying the Aussie flag at DYK! Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 05:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
G'day,
I appreciate your fixing of my attempt to revert the vandalism throughout the Eucalypt entry. I had tried to revert to the previous 'clean' version of the article, but I'm still a newb at Wiki. Any advice toward combatting the vandals would be gratefully accepted, regards, Jugurtha3 02:15, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment. I love it when someone opens up a friendly discussion then waits patiently for a response instead of leaping in and making a change. So very rare. I must practice that more myself.
You are of course absolutely right. I've made the change. [12] Hesperian 03:53, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I notice you blanked vandalism on Talk:Euan cummings. The page did not have an article associated with it, so I deleted it.
The next time you blank a talk page with only vandalism edits, do check whether the accompanying article exists; if there's no article, add {{ db-talk}} to the talk page so a sysop can delete it (per CSD criteria G8. Thanks! Awyong J. M. Salleh 01:41, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
In re this edit, can you identify the plant, in that case? Jkelly 19:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words on my RfA! It's hard to believe that was over 3 months ago now... And as always the pictures on your user page are brilliant. I shall have to put up some of my own, although I don't think I'll be taking any today - 42°C heat :| Orderinchaos78 13:25, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I would like to license this image for use as a still on a television show. Is there a way I can contact you?
Hi Melburnian! I think you might be interested in
Colchicum 23:53, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your support on my
Request for adminship, which was successful, with votes of 49/0/0.
Lemme know if you need help on something I might know a little something about....( check my userpage). | |
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cheers, Casliber | talk | contribs 14:03, 28 March 2007 (UTC) |
Thanks for the copyedit to Brian Grieve; much appreciated. There's plenty of evidence to suggest that the 1831 Exhibition Scholarship is notable, so I'll probably eventually write a stub on it and revert the link back. Hesperian 04:25, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
G'day Melburnian,
I suspected as much; sorry about that. I wish that next to the "hide my edits" buttons on my watchlist, there was a "hide that other bloke's edits" button. I often wish for it when Orderinchaos is on his article ratings rampages.
I'm sure you'll agree that {{ Flora of Western Australia}} was a rather obtuse name for that template, and that {{ FloraBase}} is much more appropriate. For the life of me I can't think why I chose such a stupid title. It had been bugging me for ages, and today I finally snapped. I think you and I are the only contributors who routinely use that template; since we're both aware of the move, do you think it would be safe to delete the redirect?
I cleared my user page to make some room for a troll who promised that "your user page is getting destroyed". It was my way of saying "like I give a f*ck". I haven't got around to posting something new yet, but I will eventually.
Hesperian 11:01, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
-- Yomangani talk 13:45, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi :) Glad to see you're able to make use of the template... I've done a parallel set, Census 2001 AUS and Census 2006 AUS, because the ABS are probably going to do this to us again and at least next time one just has to tweak a template to get all the articles working. Orderinchaos 10:51, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
I noticed your signature is a normal signature. Would you like me to make you a new 2 colored signature? RuneWiki 777 15:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Melburnian. You are off to such a great start on the article Pfalz (ship) that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. Appearing on the Main Page may help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created and if you haven't already done so, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. If you do nominate the article for DYK, please cross out the article name on the "Good" articles proposed by bot list. Again, great job on the article. -- Jreferee ( Talk) 02:28, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
I guess you don't check your Wikipedia-linked email account very often. Unless there was a delivery failure, you have a two-week-old email from me. Hesperian 13:34, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
-- Carabinieri 10:12, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey, To link to a site like commons, you can use interwiki links, like this commons: (link to commons). The wikimarkup for that is [[commons:]]. Similarily, you can link to a page on commons like this: commons:Main_Page ([[commons:Main_Page]]). That way you don't have to use external links, and it'll update them if the sites ever move URL.
Just noticed you were using external links to commons etc, so I thought I would point this out. Thanks! Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 21:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
A good idea, ... sometimes :P But seriously, I'm glad you started that discussion. I can see the merit in both, however my ratio is one to five blue links in my stubby articles. Two redlinks if I intend to write it one day. Thanks for the reply. Regards, ☻ Fred| ☝ discussion| ✍ contributions 23:37, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Melburnian, thanks for the work on helping to revert the vandalism some idiot's been putting on my user page. I'd never even seen it until I went to update it today and happened to look at the history to see how long since I last updated and saw the edit war. So thanks again. -- jjron 06:47, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
If I'm not much mistaken, your RFA is due to finish up in about five minutes, with 87% support, making this a fairly straightforward and uncontroversial promotion case (although of course it is not a vote and the actioning bureaucrat must use xis discretion). I'm about to log off for the night, so I hope the actioning bureaucrat will forgive me if I preempt the apparently obvious result and congratulate you on the promotion. Well-deserved. Hesperian 13:17, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm happy to inform you that, due to your successful request for adminship, you have now been promoted to an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or stop by the administrators' noticeboard. Congrats! Andre ( talk) 13:27, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Congrats and commiserations. Just try to keep editing and not get too bogged down with the crap. — Moondyne 13:40, 16 July 2007 (UTC) Indeed there will no doubt be a lot more of what all they are alluding to - well done Satu Suro 15:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to give a big THANK YOU here, in lieu of spamming everyone, to all who supported me in my recent rfa, which has ended succesfully. In addition I am appreciative of the consideration that went in to comments and deliberation of comments by all who participated in the discussion. If you have any comments, questions or advice regarding my upcoming admin actions, feel free to drop a line on my talk page. Thanks again. Melburnian 14:31, 16 July 2007 (UTC) |
Yeah skittles maybe, but under the feet and the beer over the head while in motion :/ Satu Suro 07:09, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Re : I was a bit embarrased to have it receive the attention. Your expansion of the 'bushtucker' aspect is very good, I was going to emphasise that point tonight. This is from Smith in 1793,
Thanks for rescuing it, very nicely done. I notice congratulations are in order, good on you for taking up the role. Regards, Fred ☻ 08:23, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello Melburnian & many thanks for your response of 02.40 28 August. Have followed your instructions which resulted in a page in Wikimedia Commons titled Image:Experimental vortex.JPG (I registered as User Gwickau)but can't work out how to place the image into the Wikipedia article Vortex engine. Additionally I went to the Wikipedia article 'Vortex engine', 'Edit' then inserted Image:NameofImage.jpg|right|thumb|Caption, with double [[ (as recommended by Administrator Longhair), then clicked 'Upload file' and followed your instructions but this resulted in a new Wikipedia page (can be viewed by looking at my talk page). If you could help further I would be most appreciative. Best wishes Geoffrey Wickham 00:28, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Apologies for being a nuisance. I followed your instructions. If you go to Vortex engine, History, it shows the result. Geoffrey Wickham 01:50, 29 August 2007 (UTC)--- Finally got there ! "one small step for he who knows, a big step for an old bloke". Many thanks Geoff Geoffrey Wickham 02:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Despite typing up the image upload procedure still having a problem. I endevoured to insert an image into article Telectronics. Image box inserted but not image. Would you be so kind as to have a look & tell me what I did wrong ? Hope this is the last. Geoffrey Wickham 01:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, you're a mate. I'll bone up on copy & paste. Geoffrey Wickham 01:37, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Please take me to your source - my sources would suggest gastrolobium bilobium heart leaf - cheers Satu Suro 23:40, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Crisps excellent website will solve all in time - havent got go through it systematically yet. I have at least two species within 100 metres of my letter box - will get around to check it all against up to 5 diff refs in the shed for practice, sigh - thats before the web based info Satu Suro 04:46, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for that - some useful hints from that - I have a copy of gardner and bennetts and am using Paczowska and Chapman as my main template for the list - though the wandering between the various changing desicrptions I am trying to make my mind up on that - cheers and thanks! Satu Suro 12:20, 15 September 2007 (UTC) btw - i think we need to do an art on crisp - do you have much on him? Satu Suro 12:21, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for chipping in. You realise, I hope, that the ids have stayed the same only for species. For genera they have changed. Not sure about subspecies and varieties yet. Hesperian 03:02, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
What do you reckon? Hesperian 03:19, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Should Robert Brown "R.Br." be indexed under 'R' rather than 'B'? —
Moondyne 08:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC) Nah, forget it. —
Moondyne 09:01, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Melburnian, great user name! :D Wiki Townsvillia n 03:52, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Evidently my bizarre decision to create the FloraBase citation template at {{ Flora of Western Australia}} is contagious. Someone has created a PlantNET citation template at {{ NSW Flora Online}}. I was thinking I might move that template to {{ PlantNET}}, fix it up a bit, then push it into these pages. Any comments, suggestions, words of advice before I begin? Hesperian 00:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
If you still have Wrigley and Fagg to hand (as I have not), can you please check if it gives a common name, and indicate on the talk page. Hesperian 13:08, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Hey there, saw your revert and 100% agree, I had a guided wildflower tour and didn't check my assumption of what I'd heard it been called(Grevillea bipinnatifida).
I've just been through every(!) Grevillea photo in florabase for this, unfortunately there are a few pics there that are seemingly close matches but nothing I'd bet the house on, for example this but it doesn't seem spiky enough.
Any chance you would be able to help identify it? I'll have to delete it from commons though as it is wrongly named - the only thing worse that no picture is a wrong picture... I have a picture from further back of the complete plant if that would help?
If anyone is interested in helping or can identify WA wildflowers precisely, I have a few more to upload that I'm not 100% about also, if you're game? Any watchers of this page feel free to jump in...
I think I identifed this correctly but now I'm doubting myself...
Cheers SeanMack 12:55, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
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Good luck & Cheers SeanMack 15:23, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Very nice, thankyou; I shall make it a priority to bring that article to a state worthy of the image.
In 1980 a "living collection" of dryandras was started at Cranbourne by Alf Salkin, to complement the collection of banksias that was already there. At one point there were over a hundred dryandra taxa growing there. Some never really established, lack of water killed some, P. cinn. killed some others, some died of old age without recruiting any seedlings, but they say there are still plenty there if you look hard enough.
Hesperian 12:26, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Tonight when exercising the dogs just noticed there is a very smaller pink variety that has followed weeks and weeks after the 'some sort' above on your page - will try to get a close up and/or id in next day or so Satu Suro 13:25, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
You're ill-advised to ask me when you've got access to the editor of the Banksia Study Group, the one and only Cas Liber. Actually, perhaps I'm short-selling myself, as he confesses himself not all that great with not-much-cultivated western species, and I was able to identify this one immediately. It is Banksia praemorsa (Cut-leaf Banksia). We do have an image of the species, but it is of the yellow-flowered form, which is actually quite rare. Red-maroon inflorescences are far more common, so your image is a better exemplar. Hesperian 12:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
I was about to add this to the imageless Grevillea bipinnatifida article, but was stopped in my tracks by the fact that the leaves are not at all bipinnatifid. Can you identify? Hesperian 00:50, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks again. Hesperian 11:14, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
For reverting the vandalism to my user talk page. Cheers! de Bivort 18:07, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Can you id a banksia I photographed at Lakes Entrance, Victoria, at [16]? (Pic of the whole tree and a closeup of one flower)
I may try to improve on the tree one, but it is 35 out here and I'm feeling it :P Orderinchaos 02:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Turn on the TV dipstick —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.209.160.51 ( talk) 11:22, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Ha! No it's not, it's complete canvassed support for your editors! Have your little support if you so wish, there's no beating the australien cabal. Ryan Postlethwaite 10:38, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Belated Merry Christmas btw :) I saw some mention that you're doing stuff with town halls - I'm finally getting all the old LGAs done, do you have any information (other than location, which I have from the 1993 Melway) about these? Orderinchaos 07:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to say that you're doing a fantastic job with getting photos of some of these rural town halls. It adds a nice touch to the article. Rebecca ( talk) 11:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind words and the copyedit. Making lists is trivial - it taxes nothing but my gumption. The hard bit is writing nice prose, especially on subjects about which I know next to nothing. As a result, the main article is a patchwork of thorough sections, half-cut sections, and stubby one sentence sections. Learning about oceanography was fun, but I confess to being too terrified to make a start on the geology section yet. I'll get there eventually. Hesperian 02:28, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Nice of you to volunteer for the plant project. They evaluate articles without reading them. Can you provide me a list of articles in which you evaluated without reading so I know that you are one of them before I revert your edits? -- Carol 23:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
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Although absent in every sense of the word for some time now - i must say that some months down the line and I'll be back to haunt you and others over the issue of some stray gastrolobiums and other thingimies - have a good new year! Satu Suro 09:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the links - Yeah well the greyhound bus got through (with no mention of floods or delays) and the the younger two of the intrepid family clan on travel across australia in two cars just as the fuel prices rises, the northern rivers flood, and the younger one discovers he dosnt like cbds of busy cities etc etc, stays stuck in sydney and the eldest driver of the clan rediscovers sydney driving style after many many years etc etc - etc etc oh well trust your new year is going well cheers Satu Suro 05:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
The two sections you just re-added to the talk page have already been moved to the archive by the bot. [18] 68.220.222.29 ( talk) 01:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Very nice Photo! Well done. MickMacNee ( talk) 10:36, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
If you ever run out of things to do (as if), I just discovered, to my great surprise, that Stackhousia is a red link. Hesperian 12:07, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
With the understanding that you can start to ignore me at any time, I thought I'd point out an even more outrageous redlink: Ptilotus! What the hell is going on, man? At a guess, this would be the most species-diverse Australian genus not to have an article. Hesperian 13:24, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
"blued one red link but created 17 new ones in the process". How many you say? Over a hundred this time I think. :-) It would be interesting to plot unique redlinks by time. Logic says it should peak at some point, but I suspect we haven't reached that point yet. Thanks again; you're a dynamo. Hesperian 12:05, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that...I probably should've done a quick search myself...but yeah, FAs are much more fun to work on! Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide ( H20) 08:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, thanks alot for changing the article title to its official name :). Davido321 ( talk) 11:44, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
G'day,
Just thought I'd share my discovery for today. Here you can download a dictionary file containing all names of WA plant species, the idea being that you can add the file as a custom dictionary to Word, and terms like "argyrophylla" will no longer come up as spelling errors. If you're running Firefox, as I am, you can achieve the same by copy-pasting the contents of the file into persdict.dat in your Mozilla profile directory. Of course it would be better if it covered all of Australia, but I suspect this will get you 90% of the way.
And while I've got you, here's a mystery for you. Today I heard mention of a plant recently discovered in WA, which turns out to be the most basal flowering plant yet discovered, preceding even the split between monocots and dicots. Amazingly, it was found growing in a Kenwick truck yard. So far about a hundred of the world's leading plant taxonomists have made the pilgrimage to the sacred truck yard to view the plant. I wrote down the genus on a scrap of paper, but now I can't find it. Google has failed me. :-(
Hesperian 11:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that userpage cleanup. The culprit has been blocked. -- Longhair\ talk 07:16, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Finally got the last 6 done today - they've been outstanding for a while. Now at uni so I have a lot less time than before - trying to get the WA Politics stuff going :) Orderinchaos 08:05, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Crop away ! I'm a bit disappointed though - I was there while the firefighting was going and almost got a shot from 30m of Elvis refilling from the reservoir - Was shooting while the car was moving and a blasted tree got in the way - Peripitus (Talk) 01:35, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
No sighted here yet (darling range) - but maybe one day - grastrolubium seems far away in one sense - about to start again soon - have been trawling various arts in euc and others that dont have very good regional locality identification in lead sentences - some eucalypts are abysmal - the south west i am choosing is a good link for the wiki user not geographically ept in the western australian sense - but my system of editing on this is closer to chaos theory than heisenberg - distraction and real life assisting Satu Suro 06:42, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
64kB, my friend. I think it's time you bit the bullet. Hesperian 10:54, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you are helping to remove spam on Houseplant. I have notified the offending editor, but in the process of expanding the houseplant list, I noticed the two large photos in that section have very prominent tags for this very same Florero product that spammers have been advertising on Houseplant. Not that a commercial product can't have photos taken of it, but I am almost positive that the uploaders of these photos (some months ago) were also involved in spamming. Is this a conflict of interest, and should some sort of action be taken concerning these not-so-good faith photos? The photos are very clear, but it irks me to see people seemingly taking advantage of this system.-- ♦♦♦Vlmastra♦♦♦ ( talk) 02:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
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