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I created {{ User WPWA}}. It is functional but desperately needs attention from someone with a sense of style. As it stands I'm not even willing to put it on my own user page! Hesperian 10:49, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
I think its inevitable that this WikiProject will be involved in article assessments. I've been involved in projects that run "their own" article assessment, and I've been involved in projects that piggyback on their parent WikiProjects for article assessment (e.g. WikiProject Australia) Personally, I very much prefer the former. What does everyone else think? Hesperian 11:14, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Before joining the project, I am interested to know how articles relating to this wikiproject and the WikiProject Perth will differentiate. Will there be criteria to follow to make sure people do not confuse the two? Is anything place/area outside the metropolitan area of Perth considered a part of this wikiproject? Thanks, -- Ali K 12:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
The answer to Ali K's question - all Perth project articles must be based on things in Perth metro area (as defined) andything 'outside' must default to wa project maybe - unless there can be susbtantial parts of an article that relate to a Perth metro area issue place or Person. Any border issues need to be ascertained - the weather is too muggy for lengthy debate about what constitutes Perth - we've been through it before... SatuSuro 12:25, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Not sure whether these belong under the new project, or under Australian Places. Should we have a section for such entities in this project? Things that fall into this category are:
Orderinchaos 12:41, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Should we create a portal for the new project. There is more than enough information on Wikipedia to warrant the creation. Hossen27 00:49, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
One thing I admire about you WA blokes (apologies to any sheilas here :) is your close bond, your high communication rate, and apparent real life wiki-friendships which you carry over into real life. Other states just don't seem to have that kind of collaborative and inspiring effect happening, ie, most us us only interact when we step into each others' areas of expertise and need to clarify matters via talk pages. Perhaps this is why WA has become the first state to fly the WikiProject flag? Another reason I guess is that us easterners are a little more spread out. You guys are all somewhat local to each other I assume? – Longhair\ talk 01:59, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Anyone interested in getting on with the real stuff or sorting through articles - and establishing some policies and rules on that? SatuSuro 02:48, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I've cleared out Towns in Western Australia, Suburbs of Bunbury, Suburbs of Albany and Local Government Areas of Western Australia, and added WA numerous unrelated article talk pages on the way. If anyone wants a challenge - bays, headlands, national parks need to be done :) Off to bed for me. Orderinchaos 16:29, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I just tag the article with WA=yes, but noticed this has been rated as "start" class, I think its more a "B" class article either way this should be targeted/focused on/collaborative efforted whatever you want to call it and get it to at least A class. I think FA and front page in June should also be possible. Gnangarra 08:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Great picture. What season was that? How about a image of the day to inspire the project crew. Fred.e 13:10, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Can someone with more knowledge than me of these matters have a look at this article? For an article about a WA primary industries company there seems to be an awful lot about some comparatively minor incident in Mauritania Orderinchaos 14:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Gn seems to have fixed this. Still pretty slight. Ah! Shall we call a section "Stubbies" short, embarrassing and hopefully on the way out! Fred.e 16:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Attended to this article again today. Fred 09:43, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Whilst adding wa=yes to the electorial district articles I nopticed that this or similar The seat in 2009 is expected to be retained by the Liberal Party. speculation is mentioned in the articles. As its speculation of public opinion in 2/3 years time should it be sourced or removed. Obviously if a retired premier wishes to provide me with campaign contributions and a telephone in case further consultations are needed I quite happily pretend I didnt notice these statements. Gnangarra 14:52, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Should we create a commons cat for shared images belonging to this project? Orderinchaos 16:31, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I think that would be useful. I'm still learning about that stuff and assume other novice editors would benefit. Fred.e 16:44, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I've added the link to the commons category here. I have done a bit of reorganising lately to get it back to one page. Nachoman-au 02:22, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
If someone creates these, they second the motion to start articles and I will contribute. Add yr own or move to front page. Fred.e 10:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Frank Wise and Ross McLarty are the two glaring ommisions from {{ WesternAustraliaPremiers}}. Someone here may wish to create new articles. âThe preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.164.240.69 ( talk) 12:14, 19 December 2006 (UTC).
. For those that have missed previous notices. I'm spending the school holidays wandering around the Perth metro area if you have an desired images add them to the list at User:Gnangarra/Photo wish list, Today Maylands was the area, more uploads tonight. Gnangarra 09:41, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
On behalf of us at the WA project I have welcomed and wished luck to the Victoria project - I am sure we all wish them well! SatuSuro 13:53, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Heritage refers to something which is inherited from one's ancestors. It has several different senses, including:
Substituting state for nation, of course! Themes like this could be a good way to develop high value links between articles. A new Heading? Fred 14:08, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
We now have another state project up and running - so its:-
SatuSuro 02:48, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
The template is in - its now a process of trying to come to agreement where and when is most convenient for those daring to meet face to face those strange names... SatuSuro 18:01, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Should our project be looking at articles on Western Australian subjects on other Wikipedias (at least, the ones we can read, anyway)? I just saw the articles for Perth and Western Australia on the Simple English wikipedia, one is, shall we say, a bit deficient while the other seems decent (although is only a lead sentence and history section) but has no referencing whatsoever, and looks to have been written by a very patriotic Hesperian (not our one). Orderinchaos 09:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
support simple.en is still developing and this project can help boost a worthy sister wiki. Fred 16:08, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
"support' simple.en looks good! SatuSuro 13:07, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
The frogs of Australia are well represented with photos in respect to most of Australia's fauna, with 35% represented with photos. However, a majority of these are from the eastern states, especially NSW, Vic and Tasmania. Western Australia has the lowest number of frog species with photos. Could everyone in WA with a camera be on the lookout for your local frogs, and upload them if it is a species we don't have, or you can't identify. Have a look through the new WA frog category to see if you can match your frog to any already there so we don't get a bunch of Motorbike Frogs to identify.
The three species I would really love photos of are the Turtle Frog (Myobatrachus gouldi), the Sandhill Frog (Arenophryne rotunda) and the Western Spotted Frog (Heleioporus albopunctatus). Thanks -- liquidGhoul 12:46, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I've raised a proposal to fix this article ( link), which is in a sad state. I think this should be one of our project's tasks, considering it is our state's premier newspaper (for better or worse). If you have any ideas or thoughts on what should be in this article, feel free to raise comment. Orderinchaos 03:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey I am keen to do what I can, I didnt even know this one existed I thought there was only Perth. how do I sign up?? DanielT5 05:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
I think this would be a good idea, I saw it on a few other projects and also here and talked to Orderinchaos about it who thought it was worthwhile too. I suppose what you guys are doing with the West Australian is kind of the first one but should we make it a regular thing after that maybe? DanielT5 13:07, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
[1] - The edit seems very POV (pro-Alcoa) to me but being quite close to the article (I wrote the original wording three months ago), I'd rather someone else make the call on what to do with it. A back trace of the user's IP [2] suggests it may be an Alcoa employee. This is the only article they've edited apart from changing "town" to "city" (correctly) on the Transwa Australind article. Edits on this IP months ago were probably an unrelated user. Orderinchaos 10:20, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Got a bit of a problem. SFD log - someone has nominated Template:Perth-road-stub and Category:Perth, Western Australia road stubs for deletion. Problem is, all the usual road editors are seemingly off on holidays :/ Seems like we hop from one deletion debate to the next. Anyone got any ideas? Orderinchaos 14:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Proposed date, time and location has been suggested at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Western Australia/WA Meetup#Proposed date/time location Gnangarra 12:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Just had to do a cross-tag between Indonesia and New Zealand - and very impressed by the Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand project page - well worth a look! There are a couple of items we might take example from SatuSuro 14:54, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
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Happy one-month birthday to WikiProject Western Australia! |
Just occurred to me that the day had clicked over. I am amazed how much we have achieved in such a short time, it's a testament to all the great people here. Orderinchaos 16:10, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
As a handy byproduct of the stub sorting debate (see debate here) we now have a road stub category for all of WA, located at {{ WesternAustralia-road-stub}}. Orderinchaos 15:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
The edits [3] [4] to Wagerup, Western Australia from the Alcoa IP address was mentioned in a lengthy piece in todays West Inside Cover column. Nachoman-au 11:06, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I've seriously given up reading that rag! But I guess I'll have to go out tomorrow and find a copy :( — Moondyne 14:53, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I was watching the SBS News tonight and they said the funniest and most stupid thing, apparently Western Australia has just passed South Australia in population. We had better change all article to reflect this, oh wait they already show this because it happened about 15 years ago (the story might be repeated at 9:30 if you want to have a look). Anther perfect example of lack of research and knowledge in the media. But it also got me thinking could we have an article on the bias in Australia towards the Eastern States, I cant count the number of times I have watched a show such as the 7:30 Report and politicians have listed states for some reason or another and always seem to stop at VIC, NSW and QLD. Any thoughts Hossen27 12:01, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Howdy sandgropers! I'm a geologist currently working and living in WA. Aside from the usual struggle against vandals and whatnot, and general geology related problems, I've been steadily adding to WA related geology articles, such as;
I'll be trying to keep the ball rolling, but its a lot of work, but if you need anything spruced up or a geology related opinion on something in the WA project, drop a hoi on my talk page. Cheers, Rolinator 13:34, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
An editor has just ran into the railway station xxxx. Perth naming system - and started converting only to find the whole metro area station names have this moniker ( even the freo one which reads weird to say the least) - after the rather awkard re-name from a sock (which bothers me that such can happen) regarding all Perth arts - the issue that arises - what do we do with a whole heap of Perth railway stations? Are they in Perth? Western Australia? or are they stand alone unless the need to disambiguate occcurs? I eagerly await responses SatuSuro 13:29, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks - but we have almost all the railway stations with the Perth moniker - should we continue the removal? viz – Fremantle railway station, Perth to Fremantle railway station ? BTW Wikipedia talk:Places of local interest has an interesting take on railway station articles :( SatuSuro 00:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
But in the end - maybe we need to decide which precedent we follow in WA as there are quite a few existing and potential station articles to establish the convention for... SatuSuro 01:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Haha oh dear, my liddle map of Hamersley is today's picture :) Makes up for having my power knocked out for two hours. It could be worse - most of the Wheatbelt has been out all late afternoon and evening and Mandurah and the western suburbs have been all over the place all day. Western Power and heat don't seem to be terribly compatible. Pity there wasn't a non-OR way to do a Major service disruptions in Western Australia article, starting with mid-May 1994 when most of Perth and the southwest lost power for 5 days. Orderinchaos 13:18, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
What do you call an unenclosed grassed oval laid out for AFL with night lights around it? It's probably something *very* obvious but it is not coming to me right now. Orderinchaos 14:33, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone have any information on the background of the so called "Convict fence" in the Canning River between Salter Point and Mumms Point, Shelley? I haven't been able to find anything firm. Local folklore when I was a kid in those parts was that it was built by convicts and used to assist with the floating of logs downstream from the mills in Kalamunda. I have no idea on the truth of this and would love to find out. — Moondyne 14:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Fred Carden's book, Along the Canning details some of it. [1] and so does McQueen in her 1963 thesis [2] and the City of Canning heritage inventory [3] and Hutchison and Davidson book on the convict fence. [4] and I almost forgot LePage's book too. [5] Good Luck! petedavo 10:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Listening to the radio(6PR) the Perth BOM has a collection of all official and unofficial recordings of snow falls in WA, According to the interview Wongan Hills is the furtherest north town with official recordings of Snow, and Coolgardie is the furtherest East. The falls have been recorded from April thru to November, I done some scrounging through the BOM site but theres no online information. Given that snow falls are unusual for most places in WA the event will be covered by Newspapers, or mentioned in LGA records if you come across any please list them on Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/Snow Falls in WA Gnangarra 10:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
It seems when new users ( and red link users) find their favourite music/band not mentioned in the western australia, or perth western australia articles , they feel a great need to include it in the articles - consequently there is a regular change to the music sections in the mentioned articles - I am suggesting that in hidden text we have instructions to divert these enthusiasts to the music in wa article - any thoughts on this one? SatuSuro 23:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Anyone up on surf culture in the south west - have collected some info - and am contemplating some of the info pages on some web pages - but would be very interested if any west aust project members have the residual bleach in their hair, or wax between their toes to help iron out some ponderous information glitches between maps/ websites and surf break names - or any possible alternative info sources apart from the dreaded google first page - or the maps brought out by margaret river .com - I suspect a deafening silence but any clues would be appreciated... SatuSuro 14:00, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Right - somewhat later than I'd hoped, I have finally got the first draft of the prose for Hamersley, Western Australia done (the pictures have largely been removed to the talk page until I can decide on appropriate placement once the prose is a good size). The initial comments coming back are that it is quite verbose - 50k with 69 references - the intention was to do more rather than less, then edit it down. Parts of it - especially the history - were written as short blocks, so may not flow or be in the wrong logical order. I'm not entirely happy with the prose in Demographics either, as it was necessary to keep comparing three or more different areas on the various statistics and got a bit tangled. Unfortunately I think I've got to the point where having written most of it, I am seeing what I was thinking, not what is actually there from an outsider point of view.
So if you see anything that could do with some snipping, reduction or rewriting, any obviously missing parts, etc, feel free to let me know on my talk page or that of the article. I'm hoping to be able to get it to second draft stage in a few days and then bring in a few of the other Australian editors before taking it to FAC. Orderinchaos 16:00, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
An article on the Bibulmun Track would be a good one here too. I cannot find it on wikipedia John D. Croft 13:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Have we missed any? — Moondyne 15:58, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
However (part 357) :
Government of Western Australia – Government departments of Western Australia \\ // || Authorities of Western Australia || \\ || Government agencies of Western Australia
My thought would be something like this in structure, each with a main article that cover the way in which these are created and define. Gnan garra 02:12, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
In reality it is very simple - (1) Govt depts (2) Agencies and all else - with known dept affiliations (3) Stand alone agencies - (ok someone is going to ask how to distinguish between 2 and 3, I can hear that) Satu Suro 23:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Why not follow what's already been done at the federal level? That is, Category:Government entities of Western Australia as a subcat of Category:Government departments of Western Australia as equivalent to Category:Government entities of Australia and Category:Government departments of Australia. "Entities" covers all manner of executive bodies which are not departments.- cj | talk 23:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone have an photo of Karri forest they would be prepared to upload? I need something to illustrate an article on Warren (biogeographic region) (currently an unfinished draft. Hesperian 10:59, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
I was thinking of converting the "Specific goals" section of the project page into a "Vital articles" section (or subpage), a la WP:VITAL. What do you think? Hesperian 01:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
This discussion is now partially actioned at Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/100 Most Influential Western Australians. — Moondyne 04:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I've added substantial content to the Mount Barker, WA page. There's still work to do including formatting, linking and images but the basics are there. More content will be added soon - but It's 2am now so I'm off to bed :) -- AndrewD MBarker 17:13, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Back in '05 I created articles on each of the nine regions, titling them according to an utterly ridiculous naming convention, e.g. Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. Today I finally got around to moving them to new titles per convention: the article titles are now: Gascoyne (Western Australia), Goldfields-Esperance, Great Southern (Western Australia), Kimberley (Western Australia), Mid West (Western Australia), Peel (Western Australia), Pilbara, South West (Western Australia) and Wheatbelt (Western Australia). I have fixed all double redirects, but haven't tackled the single redirects or any link text, other than at regions of Western Australia. As you come across links to the old titles, you may like to correct them. Hesperian 23:49, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Placed here and at the article talk page as well... The range of groups relative to environmental issues in western australia fromthe 1970s to the present is non-existent on wikipedia - and I have privately signalled to a number of other editors that articles that are needed - however this group is one of about up to 10 that are notable - but they all lack a good overview history (although there might be one completed phd at murdoch that might cover aspects of the issues) and also the groups themselves tend to hand over their records to the state ref library (battye) and few if any members ever have either the interest to write reviews of their decades or attempt to provide adequate summaried of activities within the western australian political and social context... the w.a. conservation council even has had a professional historian as an office bearer - but I am unaware of any of the groups being sufficiently resourced or reflexive of their place in wa society.... I'd only hope that it was otherwise - but knowing the rang of knowledge of most of fellow wa editors on their history of environmental issues here- I will not hold my breath waiting for someone to come up with any good seccondary sources that would give good overviews of the member groups of the wa conservation council over the last thirty years, sigh... Satu Suro 09:42, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Next year there is a fair chance that approval will be given for this remote little place to house the US$1.6Bn Square Kilometre Array. This will be seriously HUGE. Hop to it. — Moondyne 03:46, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Recently, some changes were made to Rockingham-area articles and an article created for Mark McGowan MLA. I would fix it up myself but full time uni will have my full time attention for the rest of the week, so thought I'd raise it here. Orderinchaos 15:06, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Orderinchaos is about to put in the images and send it to FAC. I've done a bit of work on it today. if anyone can think of anything else and also review my images list on the talk page and see if it's excessive or not then we can put them on and list it - thanks! DanielT5 12:11, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
I see 78 Records was speedied today [5] despite passing AfD a few months ago... is this legit? Nachoman-au 11:42, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Follow up – I've notified both the nominator and the admin who deleted the article that I have restored it. Gnan garra 12:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/78 Records (2nd nomination) It has been nominated at AfD Gnan garra 05:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Anyone know any more about this area than I do? (i.e. next to nothing beyond where they are, postcode, etc) Orderinchaos 17:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Please note that some editors are discussing our one and only - at the main Australian project notice board -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board
He is of course one of our own - so we need to be kept up with this! Maybe WA project persons might be interested to join in. Satu Suro 10:43, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Done a bit of a touch up today. See what you think. It6 has to be relevant to the man of course. petedavo 09:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
If anyone is going over soon, I need photos of:
Thanks — Moondyne 12:55, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Someone has written a vaguely adequate but substandard election article at Western Australian election, 2005 (I had to move it to the correct spelling as they had "West Australian")... my biggest problem with it is it wears a strong bias about the prospects of the Liberals going into the election. Noone ever thought they had a hope of winning but thought they might win some marginals, but the Feds came in and blew up the coalition so they wasted their time fighting the Nats. I think the extreme right agenda didnt help in the city either, that was announced in October or November well before the election. DanielT5 13:56, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Good changes Daniel :) I've put in minor changes to the 1993-2005 elections to bring them into line with MOS and other stuff. They're all very basic but at least we've managed to steer around the problems identified above. When I get time after doing the geography stuff, I'll do what I can to bring these up to B class or higher, although sourcing will be a problem. If anyone knows any good sources about these four elections (or has anything to add) I'd love to know - I really want to use News Ltd and the West as sources as little as possible, as both were identifiably inaccurate during at least two of the polls. I remember browsing a good book about 2001 which delved into the Bloffwitch car deal and Kingstream in some depth, I'd love to find that again. Orderinchaos 03:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
go to the talk page for more ... (Date added for archiving) 13:55, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Most of the Wikipedia links to www.calm.wa.gov.au are broken with the website change from CALM to Naturebase. As many of these broken links are listed in Wikipedia:Dead_external_links#Downloads, there is a danger that well meaning editors will simply go through the article list and remove the broken links. The articles need to be gone through manually and relinked by searching naturebase.net. — Moondyne 01:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
41 of 41 links fixed
Signing here too so that the bot knows to archive this section. Hesperian 04:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
The last award currently listed is for 2005 and refers to a presentation in January 2006. Was there a 2006 award? — Moondyne 04:37, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Please see the main project page for the potential immanent deletion of the Musician List - perhaps as a project we need to decide what to do with this! Satu Suro 01:37, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Category:Histories of cities in Australia does not have such for Perth - admittedly other states havent populated their categories - but nothing for Perth? Interesting to see whether anyone is interested in either articles for - or tying in - with such a category - seeing that the other cities have one . Satu Suro 02:03, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
We're now debating what to name the election articles for WA. Please see main project page. Orderinchaos 11:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Out of curiosity - do we have/have we had separate articles on any of the w.a. cyclones at all? - or is it for australia? Satu Suro 12:56, 10 March 2007 (UTC) OOps - just found Category:Cyclones in Australia clearly unedrpopulated and not linked to either an article or list of substance Satu Suro 13:03, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
What a groovy map! — Moondyne 15:35, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
crikey says he "... ran for Labor in the seat of Forrest during the 1984 state election". - ?? - Forrest is a Federal division - Division of Forrest. Any ideas? — Moondyne 13:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
BTW anyone got any idea what the Swan Location K or Cockburn Sound Location 16 or Ninghan Location 23 would be called (as in the bit italicised), or where I would find out? It'd be a region of some sort but I think region has a different meaning (eg Gascoyne, Pilbara etc). They don't conform with the counties but they were used from the colony's earliest days and are still used today - recent council documents from any I can find use them consistently. I wouldn't mind doing an SVG map of them and then linking to a series of articles - it seems there's about 30 of them.
There's an interesting thing too where when they resume a lot from a big location as crown land, they create a new location number for it - so many of the higher-numbered locations are actually parks, drains, schools or buildings, and even "trig stations" whatever they are, while the lower ones are often huge tracts of land - eg Swan 1370 covers from around 1km north of Hepburn Avenue all the way out to Yanchep, with some bits cut out of it here and there (including almost the entire coastline past Burns, Quinns etc, which is Reserve 20561, first gazetted in 1930.) And now I really am rabbiting on. :P Orderinchaos 16:33, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Never...(actually trig stations are vital reference points for surveyors/cartographers to identify set points within the landscape they are working in) Satu Suro 12:29, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Whilst we have something on Noongar, there is nothing on Yamatji, Wangka, or other Aboriginal groups in Western Australia. There is also a huge gap in a number of local history articles about Abioriginal presence in locations, for example there was no mention of the Aboriginal occupation of Albany, and I suspect the same is true of most other country towns in the Western Australian section. John D. Croft 13:49, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Since the trial with WP:ADEL articles worked, and seeing as though this project tends to be something of a beehive, I've introduced an assessment capability for WP:WA to {{ WP Australia}}. Here's the intitial statistics: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Western Australia articles by quality statistics. The only change to existing assessment practice is the introduction of a "WA-importance=" parameter (which functions in addition to the general "importance=" parameter) so that you can rank WA-related articles in the context of this project's scope. Have fun, -- cj | talk 13:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Currently it's a coupl eof paragraphs in 2006-07 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season. Since 4 deaths have now been attributed directly to George, and there building storm over mining conditions I think this may be an article in the building Gnan garra 07:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
http://www.educationau.edu.au/jahia/Jahia/challenging. Hesperian 02:16, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Whats the bet that no-one in the wiki heirarchy/ jimbo minder dept even looks at the wa project or its trappings before coming here - 1 round at the next meetup i make it on that ! Satu Suro 08:03, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
As a reminder to all WP WA participants, the next WP Perth project meetup is currently being proposed to coincide with a visit to Perth by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, a breakfast with himself is being mooted.
For more information on the meetup, plans, and to register your attendance, please visit Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Perth#Meetup_2. thewinchester 07:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghost towns was previously scoped as US only, but has rescoped to world-wide. We have lots of ghost towns, mostly gold rush towns that were abandoned after the gold played out. So I thought some of you might find this interesting or relevant. Now I'm going to go do my bit by putting {{ WikiProject Ghost towns}} on Talk:Wittenoom, Western Australia. Hesperian 12:15, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Just to advise I sent Template:Local Government Areas of Western Australia to TFD - reason being that we have been using the region ones (Gascoyne, South West etc) since before when I can remember. Orderinchaos 15:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
The venue has been booked for Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth/2 Jimbo will be there so it'll be a fantastic opportunity. Gnan garra 10:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
If anyone can think of a way to improve the order/flow of the lead on Shire of Kondinin or Shire of Kulin - go for it. They're looking a bit clumsy and the first sentence is overly long. Orderinchaos 01:18, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
List of islands of Western Australia has over 1,000 entries! I plan to sub-divide it, sooner or later, unless someone else does so first; not least because it will break when the new {{ coord}} replaces the existing coordinate templates, but mainly because it's simply unwieldy and not user-friendly. I suggest 200 should be the approximate maximum; 240 the hard limit (coord breaks at ~247 on that page). Like wise List of lakes in Western Australia. Andy Mabbett 10:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
In December 2006, the West Australian published a list entitled the 100 Most Influential Western Australians. The list was developed by a committee including several eminent Western Australian historians. It is considered that articles for each of the 100 people be considered as 'vital articles' for WikiProject Western Australia. Missing, Stub and Start class articles should be created or improved.
A discussion was held previously and archived at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Western_Australia/Archive1#Vital_articles. A scanned image of the list is here.
The list has now been transcribed into a table at Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/100 Most Influential Western Australians. Participation and contributions are invited. I've added a link to the sub-page on this project's main page. Thanks — Moondyne 10:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
I notice today a user as removed GA status from this article. After all the work that went into it I`m not inclined to bother with GA again, it seems too abitary. With a concerted effort however I would be willing to aim for FA status. If anyone is willing to help please comment Ghostieguide 10:00, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
This article has been bugging me for a few days since I saw the extremely poor state it's history section was in (only a single line). Since then I've given it a massive kick in the bum, and after collecting what I knew about the station and matching it up to information found at LISWA this afternoon, the section has been totally re-written from scratch including appropriate referencing and whatever else was warranted. While the article is within the scope of WP Perth, I know the WP:WA talk page is read by a lot more execellent and competant editors - so if anyone has the time, i'd really appreciate any feedback you'd feel like passing on on the improvments. Cheers, – Thewinchester (talk) 17:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Further to all of this, I have decided to make some serious efforts to improve the information on the Northern Suburbs Transit System project and connected infrastructure. You'll see that previous link to the NSTS article which is the kick start to it, and I'm hoping to spend some serious time getting further information and compiling it into a greatly improved set of articles. My goal would be to at least get the NSTS article up to an FA status at some point in the next six to nine months, and if we could take the stations with it to FA at the same time it would be that much more special. Thewinchester (talk) 16:48, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
I've cleaned it up, but it is likely to need some WP:BLP monitoring over the next few days, until the fuss dies down. Hesperian 06:49, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
I've just contributed to Talk on Feral Cats and I think that the proceeding dialogue has only been POV of American and European bias and is not based in scientific fact. Of course in Western Australia we do have numerous studies by CSIRO and CALM so maybe some of us should get together on putting the rest of the world straight on what is known, not what is POV. petedavo 14:58, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Just as an FYI, I've taken the liberty of cleaning up this category to make a bit more sense to the structure in regards to rail transport. Previously, Railway stations in Perth, Western Australia was at the top of this category, and was causing a number of Perth rail transport related articles to be left all on their own without any mapping back to the main category. I have since created Rail transport in Perth, and moved Railway stations in Perth, Western Australia underneath it. All other rail articles which were hanging on their own have now been re-categorised accordingly so they relate back to the core subject tree. Drop me a line if there's any questions, comments, or issues. Thewinchester (talk) 18:47, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
The {{ WP Australia}} template has had a WA-importance argument for a while now. But it appears that this parameter has only ever been used twice. Perhaps this is because no-one knows about it? Or is it because everyone (including me) keeps forgetting to make use of it?
Well, anyhow, if you're assessing article importance for WP Australia, please take a moment to ascribe a WA-importance too. Hesperian 01:35, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Western Australia articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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9 | 17 | 58 | 84 | |||
B | 6 | 39 | 100 | 424 | 569 | ||
C | 16 | 92 | 338 | 1,977 | 2,423 | ||
Start | 9 | 72 | 502 | 8,606 | 9,189 | ||
Stub | 10 | 82 | 5,220 | 5,312 | |||
List | 9 | 65 | 803 | 1 | 878 | ||
Category | 1 | 25 | 1,965 | 1,991 | |||
Disambig | 1 | 4 | 35 | 40 | |||
File | 48 | 48 | |||||
Portal | 6 | 6 | |||||
Project | 3 | 134 | 137 | ||||
Redirect | 2 | 7 | 128 | 654 | 791 | ||
Template | 252 | 252 | |||||
NA | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Other | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Assessed | 31 | 235 | 1,120 | 17,296 | 3,097 | 21,779 | |
Total | 31 | 235 | 1,120 | 17,296 | 3,097 | 21,779 | |
WikiWork factors ( ?) | ω = 89,386 | Ω = 5.07 |
For geography I'm going to go for:
Note this is only a proposed hierarchy so if you disagree let me know, I'm not ultra-committed to the above and more interested in getting it right :) Orderinchaos 07:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
"Hey, buddy. You forgot your change." "Thanks. Makes the world go 'round." "What's that?" "Gold." "Some people say love." "Well, they're right too. It is love. Love of gold."
David Mamet,
Heist
Anyway, the amount of gold to have come Western Australia makes the
gold rushes look like a lucky dip. Substantial enough that the british crown maintained control of it well past federation. There was at least one royal commission regarding associated corruption in WA. The effect on pop. was enormous and tipped the gender balance of the state yet again. This started at a time when 'Australia' (read: Eastern States) was in a depression. I too can't believe we don't have an article on the
Gold boom(redirect) as it is often called. Importance = top, anyone who disagrees will get another Mamet quote :P
Fred
17:33, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
I read somewhere that 80% of the gold held at Fort Knox was mined in Kalgoorlie and that upto 45% of all the gold ever mined in the world is from Kalgoorlie. Is this true? 203.59.157.42 13:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure Fancyfootwork 13:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Can the info in the articles Mundaring Weir Branch Railway and Mundaring Branch Railway be merged in anyway to cut it back to one article? âThe preceding unsigned comment was added by Fancyfootwork ( talk ⢠contribs) 15:49, 27 April 2007 (UTC).
Not really - no need - two very different items - I plan to expand both with info I am in the process of uncovering Satu Suro 15:52, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
One of Scott's early bands in Perth was The Spektors which later merged with another Perth band called 'The Winstons' to form The Valentines. My question is, what is the correct spelling of the Winstons? I've seen variously 'Wynztons', 'Winstones' and the 'Winstons' - all in external webpages. My best bet is the latter, but I'd like to get to the bottom of this and in theory it shouldn't be too difficult. Does anyone have any original source material or solid references? — Moondyne 01:23, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
The esidents of both the Shire and Town of Northam go to the polls tody to decide on the merging of the two entities. We should keep an eye on this. Hossen27 05:28, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I have started the portal that will run alongside this project. It is obviously still under construction so feel free to contribute to it. Hossen27 15:08, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
If anyone is visiting, there is apparently an historical photo of the City of York (barque) on the rocks at Rottnest at the Battye Library which could be tagged {{ PD-Australia}}. here's a low-res version If anyone can access I'll buy you a beer. — Moondyne 01:46, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
I've come across this bot on WP in the last few days. Nice idea in principal, but it removes article stubs, replaces them section stub tags. However, this method removes it's link to the relevant stub category and IMHO makes it much harder for people who are interested in cleaning the relevant stub categories finding relevant articles. I have actually taken the step of reverting it's changes to articles on my watch list and have left a not on the bot's discussion page flagging this issue. If anyone has any thoughts or comments on this please speak now. Thewinchester (talk) 06:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Just thought I'd log here that every LGA in Western Australia now has an article documenting its basic statistics, history (formation/amalgamations etc), wards, component towns/suburbs, and thanks to User:Astrokey44, completed neighbour boxes and maps. Some are slightly non standard - the City of South Perth, Town of Kwinana and Shire of Shark Bay come to mind. I'll be looking to upgrade these in a few months with economic data and indicators (NRPs, AgStats and SEIFA), the 2006 census figures which will be out in 7 or so weeks, historic population figures, and any other info (suggestions are welcome :)) Orderinchaos 06:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
[13] Just keeping us all in the loop. ;-) — Moondyne 02:49, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Boolardy is now up. — Moondyne 04:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Any idea if any of these prisons or centres should be anything other than Low / Low?
Boronia Pre-release Centre for Women, Broome Regional Prison, Bunbury Regional Prison, Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison, Greenough Regional Prison, Karnet Prison, Lake Disappointment, Nyandi Women's Prison, Pardelup Prison, Roebourne Regional Prison, Rangeview Juvenile Remand Centre, Wooroloo Prison
Orderinchaos 12:50, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Having just died - the article is a mess - in respect to the late George Seddon we should clean it up! Satu Suro 04:10, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm flagging this for everyone's awareness and attention. While checked in on the Aus Del Sort list, I saw that one article related to the Principality of Hutt River had been moved to AfD. Taking a wander through linked articles, I spotted the inclusion of a document [14] [15] in the aforementioned article.
The document in question purports to be a copy of/text of what some unnamed person saw in communication from the then Commonwealth Department of the Territories to an unnamed minister. My first concern that regardless of the contents, the graphic in question containing the letter had an Australian security classification within its text, and as the letter was undated it was not possible to determine if the security clearance had expired or been released under the 30yr rule. Further to this, no citation was made as to the source of the document and AFAIC fell into the category of Original Research. It also from examination seemed to be a concoction and not the original document, I immediately set about to remove all links to the item in question, and after discussion with OIC placed a aw-hoax warning on the user's page in question. Regardless if the document was fake or not, I was concerned enough that it warranted my making a call to ASIO to inform them that a document purporting to be classified was in the public realm.
Some discussion has taken place on both the user in question and my talk pages, to which after some discussion with persons and those with friends 'in the know' on these matters, I was reasonably convinced that the document was indeed a fake for a number of reasons. Despite the issues being clearly laid out, the user has failed to understand the WP:NOR and WP:V issues in this matter and persists to push the tried and true I believe that the public have a right to see this document and will be fighting for them to do so line. The user in question has indicated their desire to take the matter to third opinion dispute resolution. I'd be open to here what some of the more experienced project members think about this issue, and the manner in which it was handled. Thewinchester (talk) 12:40, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
For the interest of WA editors, i've opened up discussion on AWNB on consolidation of Australia's transport navboxes. This has been prompted by the creation of yet another transport-related navbox this morning which has infested a number of Perth transport articles. Your thoughts and input on the matter before I go ahead with this would be appreciated. Thewinchester (talk) 04:23, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Im about to fill in the first 10 entries of the biography section of the WA portal. I thought I'd get some suggestions first. Any ideas Hossen27 08:06, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
— Moondyne 08:24, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi all. This article may be of some interest to this project - Ghost Towns Western Australia. It probably needs a little bit of TLC but the topic sounds interesting. – Mattinbgn/ talk 05:59, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi all... I've just started editing under a username, I was previously known as all sorts of little number groups making small corrections to articles. I'm just dropping a note here regarding the Culture categories. I have created a new category "Culture in Western Australia" to house the cultural sections of the WA and Perth Wikipedia projects, as they all seemed to be floating around ekeing out their own separate existences and were thoroughly tangled! Also sorted out the 100% redundancy between "Media in Perth, Western Australia" and "Radio stations in Perth" (the latter seems a more logical place, and it is a subset of Media in Western Australia anyway). If anyone has any suggestions or requests or ideas I'm all ears! Zivko85 11:49, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Ok, after stumbling upon the German railway template this afternoon which is nearly complete in migration from de.wp, i've decided to have a crack at implementing it. Joondalup railway line, Perth is my first crack at the beast, and i'd be pleased to hear your feedback as to what you think about it's use in the Perth rail line articles. Cheers, Thewinchester (talk) 08:24, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Ok, just as an FYI I have now made my third revert this month to the above article. There are a number of anon ip's who seem to have this odd beleif that Virgin Atlantic had committed to use the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner to fly PER-LHR non-stop. I've had to look into this, and the airline only ever indicated that the plane in question could enable non-stop flights on this and outer long haul routes. If you have Perth Airport on your watchlist and see edits similar to this crop up, please remove them as vandalism. I've also addressed this issue on the article's talk page. Cheers, Thewinchester (talk) 10:25, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
After a conversation with Orderinchaos this evening, I've decided to create an essay on Aquinascruft. It was first coined by Hesperian in this AfD. Considering the sheer number of school related issues which I see day in day out in AfD, it was high time someone got round to writing an essay which can be used to quickly cover the policy issues relating to them. Enjoy. Thewinchester (talk) 12:30, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Northern_Suburbs_Transit_System#Crackpot_ideas. I don't think Crackpot Ideas is a good section title, particularly since it likely doesn't meet WP:NPOV. Any ideas? Thewinchester (talk) 10:58, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Ok, this article finally deserves it's B-High rating now particularly after some major work this evening having added about 10k. Literally by chance I stumbled across two documents on their own website which gave a pretty detailed account of the airport's history. I've made my way through the FAC document in it's entirety, and i'm still not even a few pages into the book published by Graylands Teachers College. Needless to say, all possible improvements and ideas you can think of are welcomed and valued, particularly since after I've done with this second reference I'd like to consider taking to GAC for review. Cheers, Thewinchester (talk) 16:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
I have started pages on Wangai, Yamatji and Aboriginal History of Western Australia. There is still much to be done on Aboriginal History and other matters here. Any help would be gratefully received. John D. Croft 04:48, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
215 edits later and having finally finished cleaning up melbourne public transport last night, it's time to give Perth a good kick in the pants. First order of business is a new navbox for the topic, which I have drafted up here. If you could take a look and pass on your comments it would be appreciated.
Second order of business is the listing of a speedy rename of Category:Transperth to Category:Public transport in Perth, Western Australia. Hopefully this should be processed shortly and remove a category that to people outside of perth wouldn't make a whole lot of sense when browsing through Category:Transport in Australia. Thewinchester (talk) 01:59, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
I failed to overcome my apathy with respect to Ellis Guitars, and now I'm wondering if I have let it get out of hand; see the ridiculously overdone backlink at Corymbia calophylla for example. Perhaps someone else feels inspired to tag-n-bag the article. Hesperian 12:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Eucalyptus marginata, Casuarinaceae, Melia azedarach, Grevillea robusta, Xylomelum, Banksia ilicifolia and Eucryphia lucida have also joined Category:stompbox flora Melburnian 13:14, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
I'll be up around Dongara, Geraldton, Northampton and Kalbarri in a couple of weeks, if anyone has any requests for photos (noting I do not have a car) additionally to Geraldton suburbs, please let me know. Orderinchaos 17:30, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Hamersley, Western Australia has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:06, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
I jave established a backbone for the article on the Geopgraphy of Western Australia. I welcome all you WA Wikipedians to contribute. Regards John D. Croft 01:45, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know if we have something like this for the WA project to produce a relative location map? Thewinchester (talk) 05:22, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Looks good Astrokey, love your work. Now for the mapping challenged like myself I just need to work on some conversion issues to impliment it correctly. Thewinchester (talk) 11:45, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Ok, i've just started off Norman Brearley from the requested articles list. It's a little light on detail at the moment, so all information for expansion would be appreciated. If anyone knows where to source an appropriate free image, also appreciated. Thewinchester (talk) 13:16, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
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The article Kevin Reynolds (unionist) appears to have been created. Anyone want to have a go at filling this out? Orderinchaos 15:57, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
I've started an article on Tjyllyungoo (Lance Chadd) who is a top indigenous landscape painter based at Bunbury, I understand. Would appreciate contributions from anyone with knowledge. I have one of his tree paintings which probably gives me the right to copy and release a jpg. -- Bjenks 17:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
This article has just been increased 14x over, so if you've not said your piece on this AfD, would you please take the time to review it and pass your considered comments in due course. Thewinchester (talk) 13:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be a large discrepancy between the names of articles about schools in Perth and the guidelines for disambiguation and WP:NC(S). Specifically, that these articles should use parenthetical disambiguation not comma (ie School Name (Perth, Western Australia) not School Name, Perth, Western Australia). If you have a good reason not to follow the guideline, please register your concern at WT:NC(S) Adam McCormick 15:41, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
I recall reading that Peter is a nephew of Mary and Elizabeth but can't verify this. Does anyone know or know differently? —
Moondyne
02:39, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Anyone have any objection converting the project main page into this format? (Which was incidently copied from WP:NT sans colour scheme). Thewinchester (talk) 12:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
I like our current working mans version we dont need anything pretty its just for communicating and noting changes/issues, with that format you end up 6 different templates that need constant monitoring and updating. And worse still someone got to spend a lot of useful time doing it. Gnan garra 12:18, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
If I may explain, the original format of the suggested page is not from the NT WikiProject, but from Sydney's Wikiproject. The original WikiProject Sydney page didn't have a lot of information on it, so I thought it might be better to move it to a page that consolidated all the information in a couple of templates. Yes, the Australia-wide news section is a bit out of place, but no one was going to spend the time on writing a Sydney-wide or NSW-wide news bulletin - there just isn't enough notable news to be covered. My only other idea was to merge the talk page with the main page, like the Aus Wikipedians' notice board. My efforts were a big improvement on the Sydney page, but the WA is quite advanced in its own way, so there's no need to do any work on it here if you don't want to. JRG 05:30, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Someone has asked me today why we don't have an article for the Perth CBD. On looking around, I can see the following articles:
Given that "downtown" is never used in an Australian context, and the suburb of Perth is a very strange and inconsistent shape - Hyde Park on Vincent Street is in Perth, as is the back of the East Perth train station, and the suburb bends and stretches around Northbridge and Highgate - what should we call ours? Factors similar to ours were a reason why Melbourne deviated from the norm in their naming, as the suburb name extends well beyond the "Hoddle grid" and even across the river and down St Kilda Road for several kilometres. Orderinchaos 03:25, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Interesting no Adelaide or Hobart (which are far more definable in space than some others). As potential sub sections the malls and arcades (current and historic) could be sections which would get around the issues of notability that 78s had to bear. It would also need to be appraised against the stubs/articles of the roads that exist within it (maybe they need to merge into it) - and be defined very carefully. So with care, and caution. Satu Suro 05:53, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Since I hit a nerve earlier on today with Moondyne, I owe him some images for the article. Anyhow between now and then I'd like to find some old images, which I could then retake now showing the difference over time. Post any links to the talk page of the article. Gnan garra 08:32, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Anyone know if images are supposed to be project tagged? (Either class=NA or not at all I'd gather, but I'm wondering if we should actually bother at all.) Due to the new u-beaut features on AWB (i.e. recursive category searching) I've been able to mine Geography of Western Australia and surprisingly only found 61 pages which weren't tagged, some of which had talk page redirects. Orderinchaos 02:14, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Government agency, a new baby infobox template weighing in a 3.25kb, born to proud parent Thewinchester and delivered in the birthing suite by Orderinchaos. Infobox and parent are doing well, and the parent is already showing off the newborn in locations as far away as the United States. We look forward to watching this infobox grow into into a healthy template. Thewinchester (talk) 14:35, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
While experimenting with some templates, I have made an attempt to combine the multiple userboxes that this project has - having a single template is always the way to go. I have combined them all into the one template {{ User WPWA}} where you can choose from a couple of options what you wish to display, and add extra ones without having to make a new template every time. See the template page for the syntax. This way, the other templates can be redirected to this one and eventually deleted. If you've got any questions or comments, please leave them at my talk page. Thanks. - 52 Pickup 08:15, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
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I created {{ User WPWA}}. It is functional but desperately needs attention from someone with a sense of style. As it stands I'm not even willing to put it on my own user page! Hesperian 10:49, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
I think its inevitable that this WikiProject will be involved in article assessments. I've been involved in projects that run "their own" article assessment, and I've been involved in projects that piggyback on their parent WikiProjects for article assessment (e.g. WikiProject Australia) Personally, I very much prefer the former. What does everyone else think? Hesperian 11:14, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Before joining the project, I am interested to know how articles relating to this wikiproject and the WikiProject Perth will differentiate. Will there be criteria to follow to make sure people do not confuse the two? Is anything place/area outside the metropolitan area of Perth considered a part of this wikiproject? Thanks, -- Ali K 12:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
The answer to Ali K's question - all Perth project articles must be based on things in Perth metro area (as defined) andything 'outside' must default to wa project maybe - unless there can be susbtantial parts of an article that relate to a Perth metro area issue place or Person. Any border issues need to be ascertained - the weather is too muggy for lengthy debate about what constitutes Perth - we've been through it before... SatuSuro 12:25, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Not sure whether these belong under the new project, or under Australian Places. Should we have a section for such entities in this project? Things that fall into this category are:
Orderinchaos 12:41, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Should we create a portal for the new project. There is more than enough information on Wikipedia to warrant the creation. Hossen27 00:49, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
One thing I admire about you WA blokes (apologies to any sheilas here :) is your close bond, your high communication rate, and apparent real life wiki-friendships which you carry over into real life. Other states just don't seem to have that kind of collaborative and inspiring effect happening, ie, most us us only interact when we step into each others' areas of expertise and need to clarify matters via talk pages. Perhaps this is why WA has become the first state to fly the WikiProject flag? Another reason I guess is that us easterners are a little more spread out. You guys are all somewhat local to each other I assume? – Longhair\ talk 01:59, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Anyone interested in getting on with the real stuff or sorting through articles - and establishing some policies and rules on that? SatuSuro 02:48, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I've cleared out Towns in Western Australia, Suburbs of Bunbury, Suburbs of Albany and Local Government Areas of Western Australia, and added WA numerous unrelated article talk pages on the way. If anyone wants a challenge - bays, headlands, national parks need to be done :) Off to bed for me. Orderinchaos 16:29, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I just tag the article with WA=yes, but noticed this has been rated as "start" class, I think its more a "B" class article either way this should be targeted/focused on/collaborative efforted whatever you want to call it and get it to at least A class. I think FA and front page in June should also be possible. Gnangarra 08:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Great picture. What season was that? How about a image of the day to inspire the project crew. Fred.e 13:10, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Can someone with more knowledge than me of these matters have a look at this article? For an article about a WA primary industries company there seems to be an awful lot about some comparatively minor incident in Mauritania Orderinchaos 14:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Gn seems to have fixed this. Still pretty slight. Ah! Shall we call a section "Stubbies" short, embarrassing and hopefully on the way out! Fred.e 16:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Attended to this article again today. Fred 09:43, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Whilst adding wa=yes to the electorial district articles I nopticed that this or similar The seat in 2009 is expected to be retained by the Liberal Party. speculation is mentioned in the articles. As its speculation of public opinion in 2/3 years time should it be sourced or removed. Obviously if a retired premier wishes to provide me with campaign contributions and a telephone in case further consultations are needed I quite happily pretend I didnt notice these statements. Gnangarra 14:52, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Should we create a commons cat for shared images belonging to this project? Orderinchaos 16:31, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I think that would be useful. I'm still learning about that stuff and assume other novice editors would benefit. Fred.e 16:44, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I've added the link to the commons category here. I have done a bit of reorganising lately to get it back to one page. Nachoman-au 02:22, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
If someone creates these, they second the motion to start articles and I will contribute. Add yr own or move to front page. Fred.e 10:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Frank Wise and Ross McLarty are the two glaring ommisions from {{ WesternAustraliaPremiers}}. Someone here may wish to create new articles. âThe preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.164.240.69 ( talk) 12:14, 19 December 2006 (UTC).
. For those that have missed previous notices. I'm spending the school holidays wandering around the Perth metro area if you have an desired images add them to the list at User:Gnangarra/Photo wish list, Today Maylands was the area, more uploads tonight. Gnangarra 09:41, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
On behalf of us at the WA project I have welcomed and wished luck to the Victoria project - I am sure we all wish them well! SatuSuro 13:53, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Heritage refers to something which is inherited from one's ancestors. It has several different senses, including:
Substituting state for nation, of course! Themes like this could be a good way to develop high value links between articles. A new Heading? Fred 14:08, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
We now have another state project up and running - so its:-
SatuSuro 02:48, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
The template is in - its now a process of trying to come to agreement where and when is most convenient for those daring to meet face to face those strange names... SatuSuro 18:01, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Should our project be looking at articles on Western Australian subjects on other Wikipedias (at least, the ones we can read, anyway)? I just saw the articles for Perth and Western Australia on the Simple English wikipedia, one is, shall we say, a bit deficient while the other seems decent (although is only a lead sentence and history section) but has no referencing whatsoever, and looks to have been written by a very patriotic Hesperian (not our one). Orderinchaos 09:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
support simple.en is still developing and this project can help boost a worthy sister wiki. Fred 16:08, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
"support' simple.en looks good! SatuSuro 13:07, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
The frogs of Australia are well represented with photos in respect to most of Australia's fauna, with 35% represented with photos. However, a majority of these are from the eastern states, especially NSW, Vic and Tasmania. Western Australia has the lowest number of frog species with photos. Could everyone in WA with a camera be on the lookout for your local frogs, and upload them if it is a species we don't have, or you can't identify. Have a look through the new WA frog category to see if you can match your frog to any already there so we don't get a bunch of Motorbike Frogs to identify.
The three species I would really love photos of are the Turtle Frog (Myobatrachus gouldi), the Sandhill Frog (Arenophryne rotunda) and the Western Spotted Frog (Heleioporus albopunctatus). Thanks -- liquidGhoul 12:46, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I've raised a proposal to fix this article ( link), which is in a sad state. I think this should be one of our project's tasks, considering it is our state's premier newspaper (for better or worse). If you have any ideas or thoughts on what should be in this article, feel free to raise comment. Orderinchaos 03:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey I am keen to do what I can, I didnt even know this one existed I thought there was only Perth. how do I sign up?? DanielT5 05:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
I think this would be a good idea, I saw it on a few other projects and also here and talked to Orderinchaos about it who thought it was worthwhile too. I suppose what you guys are doing with the West Australian is kind of the first one but should we make it a regular thing after that maybe? DanielT5 13:07, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
[1] - The edit seems very POV (pro-Alcoa) to me but being quite close to the article (I wrote the original wording three months ago), I'd rather someone else make the call on what to do with it. A back trace of the user's IP [2] suggests it may be an Alcoa employee. This is the only article they've edited apart from changing "town" to "city" (correctly) on the Transwa Australind article. Edits on this IP months ago were probably an unrelated user. Orderinchaos 10:20, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Got a bit of a problem. SFD log - someone has nominated Template:Perth-road-stub and Category:Perth, Western Australia road stubs for deletion. Problem is, all the usual road editors are seemingly off on holidays :/ Seems like we hop from one deletion debate to the next. Anyone got any ideas? Orderinchaos 14:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Proposed date, time and location has been suggested at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Western Australia/WA Meetup#Proposed date/time location Gnangarra 12:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Just had to do a cross-tag between Indonesia and New Zealand - and very impressed by the Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand project page - well worth a look! There are a couple of items we might take example from SatuSuro 14:54, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
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Just occurred to me that the day had clicked over. I am amazed how much we have achieved in such a short time, it's a testament to all the great people here. Orderinchaos 16:10, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
As a handy byproduct of the stub sorting debate (see debate here) we now have a road stub category for all of WA, located at {{ WesternAustralia-road-stub}}. Orderinchaos 15:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
The edits [3] [4] to Wagerup, Western Australia from the Alcoa IP address was mentioned in a lengthy piece in todays West Inside Cover column. Nachoman-au 11:06, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I've seriously given up reading that rag! But I guess I'll have to go out tomorrow and find a copy :( — Moondyne 14:53, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I was watching the SBS News tonight and they said the funniest and most stupid thing, apparently Western Australia has just passed South Australia in population. We had better change all article to reflect this, oh wait they already show this because it happened about 15 years ago (the story might be repeated at 9:30 if you want to have a look). Anther perfect example of lack of research and knowledge in the media. But it also got me thinking could we have an article on the bias in Australia towards the Eastern States, I cant count the number of times I have watched a show such as the 7:30 Report and politicians have listed states for some reason or another and always seem to stop at VIC, NSW and QLD. Any thoughts Hossen27 12:01, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Howdy sandgropers! I'm a geologist currently working and living in WA. Aside from the usual struggle against vandals and whatnot, and general geology related problems, I've been steadily adding to WA related geology articles, such as;
I'll be trying to keep the ball rolling, but its a lot of work, but if you need anything spruced up or a geology related opinion on something in the WA project, drop a hoi on my talk page. Cheers, Rolinator 13:34, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
An editor has just ran into the railway station xxxx. Perth naming system - and started converting only to find the whole metro area station names have this moniker ( even the freo one which reads weird to say the least) - after the rather awkard re-name from a sock (which bothers me that such can happen) regarding all Perth arts - the issue that arises - what do we do with a whole heap of Perth railway stations? Are they in Perth? Western Australia? or are they stand alone unless the need to disambiguate occcurs? I eagerly await responses SatuSuro 13:29, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks - but we have almost all the railway stations with the Perth moniker - should we continue the removal? viz – Fremantle railway station, Perth to Fremantle railway station ? BTW Wikipedia talk:Places of local interest has an interesting take on railway station articles :( SatuSuro 00:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
But in the end - maybe we need to decide which precedent we follow in WA as there are quite a few existing and potential station articles to establish the convention for... SatuSuro 01:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Haha oh dear, my liddle map of Hamersley is today's picture :) Makes up for having my power knocked out for two hours. It could be worse - most of the Wheatbelt has been out all late afternoon and evening and Mandurah and the western suburbs have been all over the place all day. Western Power and heat don't seem to be terribly compatible. Pity there wasn't a non-OR way to do a Major service disruptions in Western Australia article, starting with mid-May 1994 when most of Perth and the southwest lost power for 5 days. Orderinchaos 13:18, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
What do you call an unenclosed grassed oval laid out for AFL with night lights around it? It's probably something *very* obvious but it is not coming to me right now. Orderinchaos 14:33, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone have any information on the background of the so called "Convict fence" in the Canning River between Salter Point and Mumms Point, Shelley? I haven't been able to find anything firm. Local folklore when I was a kid in those parts was that it was built by convicts and used to assist with the floating of logs downstream from the mills in Kalamunda. I have no idea on the truth of this and would love to find out. — Moondyne 14:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Fred Carden's book, Along the Canning details some of it. [1] and so does McQueen in her 1963 thesis [2] and the City of Canning heritage inventory [3] and Hutchison and Davidson book on the convict fence. [4] and I almost forgot LePage's book too. [5] Good Luck! petedavo 10:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Listening to the radio(6PR) the Perth BOM has a collection of all official and unofficial recordings of snow falls in WA, According to the interview Wongan Hills is the furtherest north town with official recordings of Snow, and Coolgardie is the furtherest East. The falls have been recorded from April thru to November, I done some scrounging through the BOM site but theres no online information. Given that snow falls are unusual for most places in WA the event will be covered by Newspapers, or mentioned in LGA records if you come across any please list them on Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/Snow Falls in WA Gnangarra 10:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
It seems when new users ( and red link users) find their favourite music/band not mentioned in the western australia, or perth western australia articles , they feel a great need to include it in the articles - consequently there is a regular change to the music sections in the mentioned articles - I am suggesting that in hidden text we have instructions to divert these enthusiasts to the music in wa article - any thoughts on this one? SatuSuro 23:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Anyone up on surf culture in the south west - have collected some info - and am contemplating some of the info pages on some web pages - but would be very interested if any west aust project members have the residual bleach in their hair, or wax between their toes to help iron out some ponderous information glitches between maps/ websites and surf break names - or any possible alternative info sources apart from the dreaded google first page - or the maps brought out by margaret river .com - I suspect a deafening silence but any clues would be appreciated... SatuSuro 14:00, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Right - somewhat later than I'd hoped, I have finally got the first draft of the prose for Hamersley, Western Australia done (the pictures have largely been removed to the talk page until I can decide on appropriate placement once the prose is a good size). The initial comments coming back are that it is quite verbose - 50k with 69 references - the intention was to do more rather than less, then edit it down. Parts of it - especially the history - were written as short blocks, so may not flow or be in the wrong logical order. I'm not entirely happy with the prose in Demographics either, as it was necessary to keep comparing three or more different areas on the various statistics and got a bit tangled. Unfortunately I think I've got to the point where having written most of it, I am seeing what I was thinking, not what is actually there from an outsider point of view.
So if you see anything that could do with some snipping, reduction or rewriting, any obviously missing parts, etc, feel free to let me know on my talk page or that of the article. I'm hoping to be able to get it to second draft stage in a few days and then bring in a few of the other Australian editors before taking it to FAC. Orderinchaos 16:00, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
An article on the Bibulmun Track would be a good one here too. I cannot find it on wikipedia John D. Croft 13:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Have we missed any? — Moondyne 15:58, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
However (part 357) :
Government of Western Australia – Government departments of Western Australia \\ // || Authorities of Western Australia || \\ || Government agencies of Western Australia
My thought would be something like this in structure, each with a main article that cover the way in which these are created and define. Gnan garra 02:12, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
In reality it is very simple - (1) Govt depts (2) Agencies and all else - with known dept affiliations (3) Stand alone agencies - (ok someone is going to ask how to distinguish between 2 and 3, I can hear that) Satu Suro 23:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Why not follow what's already been done at the federal level? That is, Category:Government entities of Western Australia as a subcat of Category:Government departments of Western Australia as equivalent to Category:Government entities of Australia and Category:Government departments of Australia. "Entities" covers all manner of executive bodies which are not departments.- cj | talk 23:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone have an photo of Karri forest they would be prepared to upload? I need something to illustrate an article on Warren (biogeographic region) (currently an unfinished draft. Hesperian 10:59, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
I was thinking of converting the "Specific goals" section of the project page into a "Vital articles" section (or subpage), a la WP:VITAL. What do you think? Hesperian 01:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
This discussion is now partially actioned at Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/100 Most Influential Western Australians. — Moondyne 04:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I've added substantial content to the Mount Barker, WA page. There's still work to do including formatting, linking and images but the basics are there. More content will be added soon - but It's 2am now so I'm off to bed :) -- AndrewD MBarker 17:13, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Back in '05 I created articles on each of the nine regions, titling them according to an utterly ridiculous naming convention, e.g. Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. Today I finally got around to moving them to new titles per convention: the article titles are now: Gascoyne (Western Australia), Goldfields-Esperance, Great Southern (Western Australia), Kimberley (Western Australia), Mid West (Western Australia), Peel (Western Australia), Pilbara, South West (Western Australia) and Wheatbelt (Western Australia). I have fixed all double redirects, but haven't tackled the single redirects or any link text, other than at regions of Western Australia. As you come across links to the old titles, you may like to correct them. Hesperian 23:49, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Placed here and at the article talk page as well... The range of groups relative to environmental issues in western australia fromthe 1970s to the present is non-existent on wikipedia - and I have privately signalled to a number of other editors that articles that are needed - however this group is one of about up to 10 that are notable - but they all lack a good overview history (although there might be one completed phd at murdoch that might cover aspects of the issues) and also the groups themselves tend to hand over their records to the state ref library (battye) and few if any members ever have either the interest to write reviews of their decades or attempt to provide adequate summaried of activities within the western australian political and social context... the w.a. conservation council even has had a professional historian as an office bearer - but I am unaware of any of the groups being sufficiently resourced or reflexive of their place in wa society.... I'd only hope that it was otherwise - but knowing the rang of knowledge of most of fellow wa editors on their history of environmental issues here- I will not hold my breath waiting for someone to come up with any good seccondary sources that would give good overviews of the member groups of the wa conservation council over the last thirty years, sigh... Satu Suro 09:42, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Next year there is a fair chance that approval will be given for this remote little place to house the US$1.6Bn Square Kilometre Array. This will be seriously HUGE. Hop to it. — Moondyne 03:46, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Recently, some changes were made to Rockingham-area articles and an article created for Mark McGowan MLA. I would fix it up myself but full time uni will have my full time attention for the rest of the week, so thought I'd raise it here. Orderinchaos 15:06, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Orderinchaos is about to put in the images and send it to FAC. I've done a bit of work on it today. if anyone can think of anything else and also review my images list on the talk page and see if it's excessive or not then we can put them on and list it - thanks! DanielT5 12:11, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
I see 78 Records was speedied today [5] despite passing AfD a few months ago... is this legit? Nachoman-au 11:42, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Follow up – I've notified both the nominator and the admin who deleted the article that I have restored it. Gnan garra 12:20, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/78 Records (2nd nomination) It has been nominated at AfD Gnan garra 05:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Anyone know any more about this area than I do? (i.e. next to nothing beyond where they are, postcode, etc) Orderinchaos 17:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Please note that some editors are discussing our one and only - at the main Australian project notice board -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board
He is of course one of our own - so we need to be kept up with this! Maybe WA project persons might be interested to join in. Satu Suro 10:43, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Done a bit of a touch up today. See what you think. It6 has to be relevant to the man of course. petedavo 09:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
If anyone is going over soon, I need photos of:
Thanks — Moondyne 12:55, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Someone has written a vaguely adequate but substandard election article at Western Australian election, 2005 (I had to move it to the correct spelling as they had "West Australian")... my biggest problem with it is it wears a strong bias about the prospects of the Liberals going into the election. Noone ever thought they had a hope of winning but thought they might win some marginals, but the Feds came in and blew up the coalition so they wasted their time fighting the Nats. I think the extreme right agenda didnt help in the city either, that was announced in October or November well before the election. DanielT5 13:56, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Good changes Daniel :) I've put in minor changes to the 1993-2005 elections to bring them into line with MOS and other stuff. They're all very basic but at least we've managed to steer around the problems identified above. When I get time after doing the geography stuff, I'll do what I can to bring these up to B class or higher, although sourcing will be a problem. If anyone knows any good sources about these four elections (or has anything to add) I'd love to know - I really want to use News Ltd and the West as sources as little as possible, as both were identifiably inaccurate during at least two of the polls. I remember browsing a good book about 2001 which delved into the Bloffwitch car deal and Kingstream in some depth, I'd love to find that again. Orderinchaos 03:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
go to the talk page for more ... (Date added for archiving) 13:55, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Most of the Wikipedia links to www.calm.wa.gov.au are broken with the website change from CALM to Naturebase. As many of these broken links are listed in Wikipedia:Dead_external_links#Downloads, there is a danger that well meaning editors will simply go through the article list and remove the broken links. The articles need to be gone through manually and relinked by searching naturebase.net. — Moondyne 01:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
41 of 41 links fixed
Signing here too so that the bot knows to archive this section. Hesperian 04:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
The last award currently listed is for 2005 and refers to a presentation in January 2006. Was there a 2006 award? — Moondyne 04:37, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Please see the main project page for the potential immanent deletion of the Musician List - perhaps as a project we need to decide what to do with this! Satu Suro 01:37, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Category:Histories of cities in Australia does not have such for Perth - admittedly other states havent populated their categories - but nothing for Perth? Interesting to see whether anyone is interested in either articles for - or tying in - with such a category - seeing that the other cities have one . Satu Suro 02:03, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
We're now debating what to name the election articles for WA. Please see main project page. Orderinchaos 11:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Out of curiosity - do we have/have we had separate articles on any of the w.a. cyclones at all? - or is it for australia? Satu Suro 12:56, 10 March 2007 (UTC) OOps - just found Category:Cyclones in Australia clearly unedrpopulated and not linked to either an article or list of substance Satu Suro 13:03, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
What a groovy map! — Moondyne 15:35, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
crikey says he "... ran for Labor in the seat of Forrest during the 1984 state election". - ?? - Forrest is a Federal division - Division of Forrest. Any ideas? — Moondyne 13:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
BTW anyone got any idea what the Swan Location K or Cockburn Sound Location 16 or Ninghan Location 23 would be called (as in the bit italicised), or where I would find out? It'd be a region of some sort but I think region has a different meaning (eg Gascoyne, Pilbara etc). They don't conform with the counties but they were used from the colony's earliest days and are still used today - recent council documents from any I can find use them consistently. I wouldn't mind doing an SVG map of them and then linking to a series of articles - it seems there's about 30 of them.
There's an interesting thing too where when they resume a lot from a big location as crown land, they create a new location number for it - so many of the higher-numbered locations are actually parks, drains, schools or buildings, and even "trig stations" whatever they are, while the lower ones are often huge tracts of land - eg Swan 1370 covers from around 1km north of Hepburn Avenue all the way out to Yanchep, with some bits cut out of it here and there (including almost the entire coastline past Burns, Quinns etc, which is Reserve 20561, first gazetted in 1930.) And now I really am rabbiting on. :P Orderinchaos 16:33, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Never...(actually trig stations are vital reference points for surveyors/cartographers to identify set points within the landscape they are working in) Satu Suro 12:29, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Whilst we have something on Noongar, there is nothing on Yamatji, Wangka, or other Aboriginal groups in Western Australia. There is also a huge gap in a number of local history articles about Abioriginal presence in locations, for example there was no mention of the Aboriginal occupation of Albany, and I suspect the same is true of most other country towns in the Western Australian section. John D. Croft 13:49, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Since the trial with WP:ADEL articles worked, and seeing as though this project tends to be something of a beehive, I've introduced an assessment capability for WP:WA to {{ WP Australia}}. Here's the intitial statistics: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Western Australia articles by quality statistics. The only change to existing assessment practice is the introduction of a "WA-importance=" parameter (which functions in addition to the general "importance=" parameter) so that you can rank WA-related articles in the context of this project's scope. Have fun, -- cj | talk 13:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Currently it's a coupl eof paragraphs in 2006-07 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season. Since 4 deaths have now been attributed directly to George, and there building storm over mining conditions I think this may be an article in the building Gnan garra 07:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
http://www.educationau.edu.au/jahia/Jahia/challenging. Hesperian 02:16, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Whats the bet that no-one in the wiki heirarchy/ jimbo minder dept even looks at the wa project or its trappings before coming here - 1 round at the next meetup i make it on that ! Satu Suro 08:03, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
As a reminder to all WP WA participants, the next WP Perth project meetup is currently being proposed to coincide with a visit to Perth by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, a breakfast with himself is being mooted.
For more information on the meetup, plans, and to register your attendance, please visit Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Perth#Meetup_2. thewinchester 07:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghost towns was previously scoped as US only, but has rescoped to world-wide. We have lots of ghost towns, mostly gold rush towns that were abandoned after the gold played out. So I thought some of you might find this interesting or relevant. Now I'm going to go do my bit by putting {{ WikiProject Ghost towns}} on Talk:Wittenoom, Western Australia. Hesperian 12:15, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Just to advise I sent Template:Local Government Areas of Western Australia to TFD - reason being that we have been using the region ones (Gascoyne, South West etc) since before when I can remember. Orderinchaos 15:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
The venue has been booked for Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth/2 Jimbo will be there so it'll be a fantastic opportunity. Gnan garra 10:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
If anyone can think of a way to improve the order/flow of the lead on Shire of Kondinin or Shire of Kulin - go for it. They're looking a bit clumsy and the first sentence is overly long. Orderinchaos 01:18, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
List of islands of Western Australia has over 1,000 entries! I plan to sub-divide it, sooner or later, unless someone else does so first; not least because it will break when the new {{ coord}} replaces the existing coordinate templates, but mainly because it's simply unwieldy and not user-friendly. I suggest 200 should be the approximate maximum; 240 the hard limit (coord breaks at ~247 on that page). Like wise List of lakes in Western Australia. Andy Mabbett 10:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
In December 2006, the West Australian published a list entitled the 100 Most Influential Western Australians. The list was developed by a committee including several eminent Western Australian historians. It is considered that articles for each of the 100 people be considered as 'vital articles' for WikiProject Western Australia. Missing, Stub and Start class articles should be created or improved.
A discussion was held previously and archived at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Western_Australia/Archive1#Vital_articles. A scanned image of the list is here.
The list has now been transcribed into a table at Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/100 Most Influential Western Australians. Participation and contributions are invited. I've added a link to the sub-page on this project's main page. Thanks — Moondyne 10:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
I notice today a user as removed GA status from this article. After all the work that went into it I`m not inclined to bother with GA again, it seems too abitary. With a concerted effort however I would be willing to aim for FA status. If anyone is willing to help please comment Ghostieguide 10:00, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
This article has been bugging me for a few days since I saw the extremely poor state it's history section was in (only a single line). Since then I've given it a massive kick in the bum, and after collecting what I knew about the station and matching it up to information found at LISWA this afternoon, the section has been totally re-written from scratch including appropriate referencing and whatever else was warranted. While the article is within the scope of WP Perth, I know the WP:WA talk page is read by a lot more execellent and competant editors - so if anyone has the time, i'd really appreciate any feedback you'd feel like passing on on the improvments. Cheers, – Thewinchester (talk) 17:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Further to all of this, I have decided to make some serious efforts to improve the information on the Northern Suburbs Transit System project and connected infrastructure. You'll see that previous link to the NSTS article which is the kick start to it, and I'm hoping to spend some serious time getting further information and compiling it into a greatly improved set of articles. My goal would be to at least get the NSTS article up to an FA status at some point in the next six to nine months, and if we could take the stations with it to FA at the same time it would be that much more special. Thewinchester (talk) 16:48, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
I've cleaned it up, but it is likely to need some WP:BLP monitoring over the next few days, until the fuss dies down. Hesperian 06:49, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
I've just contributed to Talk on Feral Cats and I think that the proceeding dialogue has only been POV of American and European bias and is not based in scientific fact. Of course in Western Australia we do have numerous studies by CSIRO and CALM so maybe some of us should get together on putting the rest of the world straight on what is known, not what is POV. petedavo 14:58, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Just as an FYI, I've taken the liberty of cleaning up this category to make a bit more sense to the structure in regards to rail transport. Previously, Railway stations in Perth, Western Australia was at the top of this category, and was causing a number of Perth rail transport related articles to be left all on their own without any mapping back to the main category. I have since created Rail transport in Perth, and moved Railway stations in Perth, Western Australia underneath it. All other rail articles which were hanging on their own have now been re-categorised accordingly so they relate back to the core subject tree. Drop me a line if there's any questions, comments, or issues. Thewinchester (talk) 18:47, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
The {{ WP Australia}} template has had a WA-importance argument for a while now. But it appears that this parameter has only ever been used twice. Perhaps this is because no-one knows about it? Or is it because everyone (including me) keeps forgetting to make use of it?
Well, anyhow, if you're assessing article importance for WP Australia, please take a moment to ascribe a WA-importance too. Hesperian 01:35, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Western Australia articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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2 | 2 | |||||
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9 | 17 | 58 | 84 | |||
B | 6 | 39 | 100 | 424 | 569 | ||
C | 16 | 92 | 338 | 1,977 | 2,423 | ||
Start | 9 | 72 | 502 | 8,606 | 9,189 | ||
Stub | 10 | 82 | 5,220 | 5,312 | |||
List | 9 | 65 | 803 | 1 | 878 | ||
Category | 1 | 25 | 1,965 | 1,991 | |||
Disambig | 1 | 4 | 35 | 40 | |||
File | 48 | 48 | |||||
Portal | 6 | 6 | |||||
Project | 3 | 134 | 137 | ||||
Redirect | 2 | 7 | 128 | 654 | 791 | ||
Template | 252 | 252 | |||||
NA | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Other | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Assessed | 31 | 235 | 1,120 | 17,296 | 3,097 | 21,779 | |
Total | 31 | 235 | 1,120 | 17,296 | 3,097 | 21,779 | |
WikiWork factors ( ?) | ω = 89,386 | Ω = 5.07 |
For geography I'm going to go for:
Note this is only a proposed hierarchy so if you disagree let me know, I'm not ultra-committed to the above and more interested in getting it right :) Orderinchaos 07:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
"Hey, buddy. You forgot your change." "Thanks. Makes the world go 'round." "What's that?" "Gold." "Some people say love." "Well, they're right too. It is love. Love of gold."
David Mamet,
Heist
Anyway, the amount of gold to have come Western Australia makes the
gold rushes look like a lucky dip. Substantial enough that the british crown maintained control of it well past federation. There was at least one royal commission regarding associated corruption in WA. The effect on pop. was enormous and tipped the gender balance of the state yet again. This started at a time when 'Australia' (read: Eastern States) was in a depression. I too can't believe we don't have an article on the
Gold boom(redirect) as it is often called. Importance = top, anyone who disagrees will get another Mamet quote :P
Fred
17:33, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
I read somewhere that 80% of the gold held at Fort Knox was mined in Kalgoorlie and that upto 45% of all the gold ever mined in the world is from Kalgoorlie. Is this true? 203.59.157.42 13:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure Fancyfootwork 13:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Can the info in the articles Mundaring Weir Branch Railway and Mundaring Branch Railway be merged in anyway to cut it back to one article? âThe preceding unsigned comment was added by Fancyfootwork ( talk ⢠contribs) 15:49, 27 April 2007 (UTC).
Not really - no need - two very different items - I plan to expand both with info I am in the process of uncovering Satu Suro 15:52, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
One of Scott's early bands in Perth was The Spektors which later merged with another Perth band called 'The Winstons' to form The Valentines. My question is, what is the correct spelling of the Winstons? I've seen variously 'Wynztons', 'Winstones' and the 'Winstons' - all in external webpages. My best bet is the latter, but I'd like to get to the bottom of this and in theory it shouldn't be too difficult. Does anyone have any original source material or solid references? — Moondyne 01:23, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
The esidents of both the Shire and Town of Northam go to the polls tody to decide on the merging of the two entities. We should keep an eye on this. Hossen27 05:28, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I have started the portal that will run alongside this project. It is obviously still under construction so feel free to contribute to it. Hossen27 15:08, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
If anyone is visiting, there is apparently an historical photo of the City of York (barque) on the rocks at Rottnest at the Battye Library which could be tagged {{ PD-Australia}}. here's a low-res version If anyone can access I'll buy you a beer. — Moondyne 01:46, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
I've come across this bot on WP in the last few days. Nice idea in principal, but it removes article stubs, replaces them section stub tags. However, this method removes it's link to the relevant stub category and IMHO makes it much harder for people who are interested in cleaning the relevant stub categories finding relevant articles. I have actually taken the step of reverting it's changes to articles on my watch list and have left a not on the bot's discussion page flagging this issue. If anyone has any thoughts or comments on this please speak now. Thewinchester (talk) 06:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Just thought I'd log here that every LGA in Western Australia now has an article documenting its basic statistics, history (formation/amalgamations etc), wards, component towns/suburbs, and thanks to User:Astrokey44, completed neighbour boxes and maps. Some are slightly non standard - the City of South Perth, Town of Kwinana and Shire of Shark Bay come to mind. I'll be looking to upgrade these in a few months with economic data and indicators (NRPs, AgStats and SEIFA), the 2006 census figures which will be out in 7 or so weeks, historic population figures, and any other info (suggestions are welcome :)) Orderinchaos 06:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
[13] Just keeping us all in the loop. ;-) — Moondyne 02:49, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Boolardy is now up. — Moondyne 04:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Any idea if any of these prisons or centres should be anything other than Low / Low?
Boronia Pre-release Centre for Women, Broome Regional Prison, Bunbury Regional Prison, Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison, Greenough Regional Prison, Karnet Prison, Lake Disappointment, Nyandi Women's Prison, Pardelup Prison, Roebourne Regional Prison, Rangeview Juvenile Remand Centre, Wooroloo Prison
Orderinchaos 12:50, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Having just died - the article is a mess - in respect to the late George Seddon we should clean it up! Satu Suro 04:10, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm flagging this for everyone's awareness and attention. While checked in on the Aus Del Sort list, I saw that one article related to the Principality of Hutt River had been moved to AfD. Taking a wander through linked articles, I spotted the inclusion of a document [14] [15] in the aforementioned article.
The document in question purports to be a copy of/text of what some unnamed person saw in communication from the then Commonwealth Department of the Territories to an unnamed minister. My first concern that regardless of the contents, the graphic in question containing the letter had an Australian security classification within its text, and as the letter was undated it was not possible to determine if the security clearance had expired or been released under the 30yr rule. Further to this, no citation was made as to the source of the document and AFAIC fell into the category of Original Research. It also from examination seemed to be a concoction and not the original document, I immediately set about to remove all links to the item in question, and after discussion with OIC placed a aw-hoax warning on the user's page in question. Regardless if the document was fake or not, I was concerned enough that it warranted my making a call to ASIO to inform them that a document purporting to be classified was in the public realm.
Some discussion has taken place on both the user in question and my talk pages, to which after some discussion with persons and those with friends 'in the know' on these matters, I was reasonably convinced that the document was indeed a fake for a number of reasons. Despite the issues being clearly laid out, the user has failed to understand the WP:NOR and WP:V issues in this matter and persists to push the tried and true I believe that the public have a right to see this document and will be fighting for them to do so line. The user in question has indicated their desire to take the matter to third opinion dispute resolution. I'd be open to here what some of the more experienced project members think about this issue, and the manner in which it was handled. Thewinchester (talk) 12:40, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
For the interest of WA editors, i've opened up discussion on AWNB on consolidation of Australia's transport navboxes. This has been prompted by the creation of yet another transport-related navbox this morning which has infested a number of Perth transport articles. Your thoughts and input on the matter before I go ahead with this would be appreciated. Thewinchester (talk) 04:23, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Im about to fill in the first 10 entries of the biography section of the WA portal. I thought I'd get some suggestions first. Any ideas Hossen27 08:06, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
— Moondyne 08:24, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi all. This article may be of some interest to this project - Ghost Towns Western Australia. It probably needs a little bit of TLC but the topic sounds interesting. – Mattinbgn/ talk 05:59, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi all... I've just started editing under a username, I was previously known as all sorts of little number groups making small corrections to articles. I'm just dropping a note here regarding the Culture categories. I have created a new category "Culture in Western Australia" to house the cultural sections of the WA and Perth Wikipedia projects, as they all seemed to be floating around ekeing out their own separate existences and were thoroughly tangled! Also sorted out the 100% redundancy between "Media in Perth, Western Australia" and "Radio stations in Perth" (the latter seems a more logical place, and it is a subset of Media in Western Australia anyway). If anyone has any suggestions or requests or ideas I'm all ears! Zivko85 11:49, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Ok, after stumbling upon the German railway template this afternoon which is nearly complete in migration from de.wp, i've decided to have a crack at implementing it. Joondalup railway line, Perth is my first crack at the beast, and i'd be pleased to hear your feedback as to what you think about it's use in the Perth rail line articles. Cheers, Thewinchester (talk) 08:24, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Ok, just as an FYI I have now made my third revert this month to the above article. There are a number of anon ip's who seem to have this odd beleif that Virgin Atlantic had committed to use the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner to fly PER-LHR non-stop. I've had to look into this, and the airline only ever indicated that the plane in question could enable non-stop flights on this and outer long haul routes. If you have Perth Airport on your watchlist and see edits similar to this crop up, please remove them as vandalism. I've also addressed this issue on the article's talk page. Cheers, Thewinchester (talk) 10:25, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
After a conversation with Orderinchaos this evening, I've decided to create an essay on Aquinascruft. It was first coined by Hesperian in this AfD. Considering the sheer number of school related issues which I see day in day out in AfD, it was high time someone got round to writing an essay which can be used to quickly cover the policy issues relating to them. Enjoy. Thewinchester (talk) 12:30, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Northern_Suburbs_Transit_System#Crackpot_ideas. I don't think Crackpot Ideas is a good section title, particularly since it likely doesn't meet WP:NPOV. Any ideas? Thewinchester (talk) 10:58, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Ok, this article finally deserves it's B-High rating now particularly after some major work this evening having added about 10k. Literally by chance I stumbled across two documents on their own website which gave a pretty detailed account of the airport's history. I've made my way through the FAC document in it's entirety, and i'm still not even a few pages into the book published by Graylands Teachers College. Needless to say, all possible improvements and ideas you can think of are welcomed and valued, particularly since after I've done with this second reference I'd like to consider taking to GAC for review. Cheers, Thewinchester (talk) 16:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
I have started pages on Wangai, Yamatji and Aboriginal History of Western Australia. There is still much to be done on Aboriginal History and other matters here. Any help would be gratefully received. John D. Croft 04:48, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
215 edits later and having finally finished cleaning up melbourne public transport last night, it's time to give Perth a good kick in the pants. First order of business is a new navbox for the topic, which I have drafted up here. If you could take a look and pass on your comments it would be appreciated.
Second order of business is the listing of a speedy rename of Category:Transperth to Category:Public transport in Perth, Western Australia. Hopefully this should be processed shortly and remove a category that to people outside of perth wouldn't make a whole lot of sense when browsing through Category:Transport in Australia. Thewinchester (talk) 01:59, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
I failed to overcome my apathy with respect to Ellis Guitars, and now I'm wondering if I have let it get out of hand; see the ridiculously overdone backlink at Corymbia calophylla for example. Perhaps someone else feels inspired to tag-n-bag the article. Hesperian 12:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Eucalyptus marginata, Casuarinaceae, Melia azedarach, Grevillea robusta, Xylomelum, Banksia ilicifolia and Eucryphia lucida have also joined Category:stompbox flora Melburnian 13:14, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
I'll be up around Dongara, Geraldton, Northampton and Kalbarri in a couple of weeks, if anyone has any requests for photos (noting I do not have a car) additionally to Geraldton suburbs, please let me know. Orderinchaos 17:30, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Hamersley, Western Australia has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:06, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
I jave established a backbone for the article on the Geopgraphy of Western Australia. I welcome all you WA Wikipedians to contribute. Regards John D. Croft 01:45, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know if we have something like this for the WA project to produce a relative location map? Thewinchester (talk) 05:22, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Looks good Astrokey, love your work. Now for the mapping challenged like myself I just need to work on some conversion issues to impliment it correctly. Thewinchester (talk) 11:45, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Ok, i've just started off Norman Brearley from the requested articles list. It's a little light on detail at the moment, so all information for expansion would be appreciated. If anyone knows where to source an appropriate free image, also appreciated. Thewinchester (talk) 13:16, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
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The article Kevin Reynolds (unionist) appears to have been created. Anyone want to have a go at filling this out? Orderinchaos 15:57, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
I've started an article on Tjyllyungoo (Lance Chadd) who is a top indigenous landscape painter based at Bunbury, I understand. Would appreciate contributions from anyone with knowledge. I have one of his tree paintings which probably gives me the right to copy and release a jpg. -- Bjenks 17:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
This article has just been increased 14x over, so if you've not said your piece on this AfD, would you please take the time to review it and pass your considered comments in due course. Thewinchester (talk) 13:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be a large discrepancy between the names of articles about schools in Perth and the guidelines for disambiguation and WP:NC(S). Specifically, that these articles should use parenthetical disambiguation not comma (ie School Name (Perth, Western Australia) not School Name, Perth, Western Australia). If you have a good reason not to follow the guideline, please register your concern at WT:NC(S) Adam McCormick 15:41, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
I recall reading that Peter is a nephew of Mary and Elizabeth but can't verify this. Does anyone know or know differently? —
Moondyne
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Anyone have any objection converting the project main page into this format? (Which was incidently copied from WP:NT sans colour scheme). Thewinchester (talk) 12:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
I like our current working mans version we dont need anything pretty its just for communicating and noting changes/issues, with that format you end up 6 different templates that need constant monitoring and updating. And worse still someone got to spend a lot of useful time doing it. Gnan garra 12:18, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
If I may explain, the original format of the suggested page is not from the NT WikiProject, but from Sydney's Wikiproject. The original WikiProject Sydney page didn't have a lot of information on it, so I thought it might be better to move it to a page that consolidated all the information in a couple of templates. Yes, the Australia-wide news section is a bit out of place, but no one was going to spend the time on writing a Sydney-wide or NSW-wide news bulletin - there just isn't enough notable news to be covered. My only other idea was to merge the talk page with the main page, like the Aus Wikipedians' notice board. My efforts were a big improvement on the Sydney page, but the WA is quite advanced in its own way, so there's no need to do any work on it here if you don't want to. JRG 05:30, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Someone has asked me today why we don't have an article for the Perth CBD. On looking around, I can see the following articles:
Given that "downtown" is never used in an Australian context, and the suburb of Perth is a very strange and inconsistent shape - Hyde Park on Vincent Street is in Perth, as is the back of the East Perth train station, and the suburb bends and stretches around Northbridge and Highgate - what should we call ours? Factors similar to ours were a reason why Melbourne deviated from the norm in their naming, as the suburb name extends well beyond the "Hoddle grid" and even across the river and down St Kilda Road for several kilometres. Orderinchaos 03:25, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Interesting no Adelaide or Hobart (which are far more definable in space than some others). As potential sub sections the malls and arcades (current and historic) could be sections which would get around the issues of notability that 78s had to bear. It would also need to be appraised against the stubs/articles of the roads that exist within it (maybe they need to merge into it) - and be defined very carefully. So with care, and caution. Satu Suro 05:53, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Since I hit a nerve earlier on today with Moondyne, I owe him some images for the article. Anyhow between now and then I'd like to find some old images, which I could then retake now showing the difference over time. Post any links to the talk page of the article. Gnan garra 08:32, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Anyone know if images are supposed to be project tagged? (Either class=NA or not at all I'd gather, but I'm wondering if we should actually bother at all.) Due to the new u-beaut features on AWB (i.e. recursive category searching) I've been able to mine Geography of Western Australia and surprisingly only found 61 pages which weren't tagged, some of which had talk page redirects. Orderinchaos 02:14, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Government agency, a new baby infobox template weighing in a 3.25kb, born to proud parent Thewinchester and delivered in the birthing suite by Orderinchaos. Infobox and parent are doing well, and the parent is already showing off the newborn in locations as far away as the United States. We look forward to watching this infobox grow into into a healthy template. Thewinchester (talk) 14:35, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
While experimenting with some templates, I have made an attempt to combine the multiple userboxes that this project has - having a single template is always the way to go. I have combined them all into the one template {{ User WPWA}} where you can choose from a couple of options what you wish to display, and add extra ones without having to make a new template every time. See the template page for the syntax. This way, the other templates can be redirected to this one and eventually deleted. If you've got any questions or comments, please leave them at my talk page. Thanks. - 52 Pickup 08:15, 8 August 2007 (UTC)