User talk:Nickj

Archive from Aug 2004 - Nov 2005.

Summer Hill

Any chance of seeing this resurrected for FAC? Now we've got Waterfall Gully, South Australia as a clear example of what suburb articles should look like in order to be featured, it'd be great to see Summer Hill joining Yarralumla as our third suburb FA. Ambi 02:56, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very interested in seeing Summer Hill make featured... Give me a yell if you want me to proof-read, etc. It's got great potential and was (until a short while ago) #1. Cheers, -

>>michaelg | talk 00:50, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Top Ryde merge

I've merged Top Ryde into Ryde, New South Wales. m.e. 08:27, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Australian postcodes references

In case you haven't seen it, Australia Post has a comprehensive downloadable CSV spreadsheet of postcodes. Surpisingly, some suburbs have multiple postcodes, and a postcode can cover multiple suburbs!

I wonder if there's a way to add that information to suburb articles automatically? Maybe I should try my hand at writing a bot! 8)

--Peter bertok 05:00, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for link help

Thanks for fixing up the SuggestBot links, I should read directions more often.

Also, I didn't realize you were the LinkBot master. I bumped into it when I was thinking about my project and thought it was a very cool idea. Kudos to you.

-- ForteTuba 13:20, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Help with Five Dock

Hi, loved your work on Summer Hill - it served as a great model for me when I was working on Five Dock!! I've got a bit of a problem with the Five Dock article at the moment. Something rather strange has happened to the formatting under the Notable Citizens heading. There are 4 edit links appearing there for no reason I can discern. If you have any time to have a quick look, I thought you might be able to work out what's going on. I think it must have something to do with inserting those 4 images in a row... Thanks a million! --Alexxx1 ^{(talk/contribs)} 00:56, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for the suggestions! I'm flat out busy at the moment but I'm going to attempt to fix that formatting as soon as I can. --Alexxx1 ^{(talk/contribs)} 12:16, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Style test page

Hey,

Sorry, I didn't realise that temp page survived. A set of them was created to test a proposed template which users were voting to adopt. After the vote I thought I had deleted them all but obviously missed that one. I've deleted it. If you spot any others in that series they don't need to be voted on or anything, just automatically deleted. They were copies of the articles that existed at that time (August 2005) with one change: styles which Wikipedia was then using but was about to drop were moved as a test to a style template. (WP decided to use templates with them rather than have them in styles on the basis of that vote, and how those temp pages showed they could be used.)

Thanks for alerting me. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 19:18, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Commonsgallery

Though I agree that the template needs to be kept I think you might be missing something about why we need to 'fork' - it's not because the original is useless but protected, because if the central template had a camera and said 'image gallery' it would be wrong in the case of galleries that had audio, video or more than one type of media. There aren't many but I'm sure there are at least some composers that have samples of their work at Commons. Perhaps you know this already, but your last comment to the TfD debate implied that you wanted to change the central template.

P.S. If it survives TfD (which it will on current trend) I'm thinking it should be moved to {{commonsimage}} - {{commonsgallery}} is too general (if it had been named properly its purpose might have been more clear and it might not have been nominated). --Malthusian (talk) 09:17, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if that works, it sounds like it should please everyone. I don't have any programming knowledge so can't really say any more than that. I'd certainly add your suggestion to Template_talk:Commons. --Malthusian (talk) 23:58, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lilli Pilli

With reference to your comment at Talk:Lilli Pilli, New South Wales- both the text and the images appear to be significant copyright violations of http://www.ourshire.com.au/suburbs/ the Lilli Pilli page. Is that who you are following up? Dolans Bay looks to have the same problem. :-( --A Y Arktos 10:45, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jannali East

There is a suburb and region referred to as Jannali East which has its own primary school by that name. I will look for references to it on the internet but I doubt they will be forthcoming due to the general scarcity of information on such things.

09:14, 4 February 2006 (UTC)60.225.202.61

Sydney

Hi Nickj. Thanks for the Barnstar - I often wonder if anybody ever notices anything I do as I rarely get pulled over for doing things correctly or incorrectly. I think you should take a look at the LGA templates for Ku-ring-gai and Lane Cove because the suburbs on them differ significantly to those listed on the articles for the respective councils. I changed the Ku-ring-gai to the list of suburbs on the article Ku-ring-gai Council, but did not do this to the ones on the Municipality of Lane Cove. You may want to have a look to see which is correct. Regards, Blnguyen 04:55, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

football

The Victorian Rules folk ar trying to claim that Aussie Rules is an Australian variety of the game when it is very distinctly a Victorian variation of the football and was codified in Victoria many years before the beginning of Australia. If you share the same opinion I would love for you to come to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Football and give your opinion.

All the best

03:55, 12 February 2006 (UTC)Licinius

html2wiki wishlist

Sorry for such a delayed reply. Your suggestions are good ones, but it'll take some work before they make their way into the H::WC code. I'll keep you posted. Cheers, David Iberri (talk) 00:25, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well Done

I have just been looking through your contributions to the Sydney Suburbs and wish to commend you on the work you have done. I wish I knew a more formal means of honouring your contributions, but they are terrific nonetheless. All the best

10:53, 26 February 2006 (UTC)Licinius

Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 35% for major edits and 97% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 01:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, saw you over on SuggestBot's requests page

Hey there. Thanks for all the useful comments on SuggestBot during its infancy, it was super-helpful to have some positive feedback that this might be good for Wikipedia. It'll be grinding out some more suggestions soon, hope you like yours when they get here. -- ForteTuba 03:54, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

Stubs: Dancin' Thru the Dark; Kinchega National Park; Blacktown, New South Wales; Steve Lukather; Norm Fieldgate Trophy; Dave Dryburgh Memorial Trophy; Jude Watson; Cnicht; Fan Brycheiniog; South-western Sydney; Steve Holy; Manorbier Castle; Wolli Creek; Marrickville, New South Wales; Belfield, New South Wales; Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian; Dr. Beattie Martin Trophy; Lew Hayman Trophy; Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player

Cleanup: Quetzalmon; Dishwashing; Cranbrook School Sydney
Merge: Freestyle battle; Tendulkar's recent form; Disability etiquette
Add Sources: Luna Park, Sydney; Melanie Williams; Birmingham military history
Wikify: DeVito's and Knapp's Model of Relational Development; COBIT; Karen Horney
Expand: Attiki Odos; Barry Paskin; Playground games

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P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on the SuggestBot request page. If this was in error, sorry about the confusion. -- SuggestBot 04:01, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Results of interesting ("Yes") / not interesting ("No") to me are shown below. Note however that I am probably one of the most difficult people to make suggestions for, because the stuff I do for the wiki syntax project means that I frequently edit articles that need to have their syntax cleaned up, but which are not particularly interesting to me. I try to mark these edits as minor, but I'm sure I often forget! So, probably far more for me than for most people, my minor edits should be ignored / downweighted. Given this, I'm impressed it did as well as it did! -- All the best, Nickj (t) 01:10, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stubs: No Dancin' Thru the Dark; Yes Kinchega National Park; Yes Blacktown, New South Wales; No Steve Lukather; No Norm Fieldgate Trophy; No Dave Dryburgh Memorial Trophy; No Jude Watson; No Cnicht; No Fan Brycheiniog; Yes South-western Sydney; No Steve Holy; No Manorbier Castle; Yes Wolli Creek; Yes Marrickville, New South Wales; Yes Belfield, New South Wales; No Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian; No Dr. Beattie Martin Trophy; No Lew Hayman Trophy; No Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player

Cleanup: No Quetzalmon; No Dishwashing; Yes Cranbrook School Sydney
Merge: No Freestyle battle; No Tendulkar's recent form; No Disability etiquette
Add Sources: Yes Luna Park, Sydney; No Melanie Williams; No Birmingham military history
Wikify: No DeVito's and Knapp's Model of Relational Development; No COBIT; No Karen Horney
Expand: No Attiki Odos; No Barry Paskin; No Playground games

Strawberry Dream cocktail

The cocktail in question on wikibooks has been moved by someone there to Wikibooks:Bartending/Cocktails/Glossary#Strawberry_Dream. The cocktails at wikibooks have all been combined into one enormous article, and now all the links here to cocktails at wikibooks are broken. --Xyzzyplugh 13:57, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lilli Pilli again

Did you ever hear back for the email you sent to the www.ourshire.com.au site that you discussed at Talk:Lilli Pilli, New South Wales ? Regards--A Y Arktos\^talk 08:59, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

City of Blacktown

You left a comment there regarding Indigenous Population. I followed it up a little bit. I am working on the Blacktown suburbs so I don't want to be too heavy on any of the content but would you mind having a look at the Wiki article, comparing it to Blacktown's official website - I think that all the Blacktown articles (that is every suburb plus the city page itself) ALL qualifie for a copyvio flag. But I don't want to be the one to do it.... Also, seems like one of those claims - city of blacktown website says Blacktown has the largest indigenous population in Australia yet the 2001 Census results clearly show, City of Sydney has a greater NUMBER of Indigenous Australians then City of Blacktown. What a suprise? Garrie 00:18, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

let me retract the bit re: idigenous australians I was comparing to Sydney Statistical division...Oops!Garrie 00:25, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]