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Reliable Information

Does iTunes count as a reliable source? If not, what does, because the Australia EP features both "By The Boab Tree" and "Waltzing Matilda" as performed by Ophelia of the Spirits, who is in fact Angela Little, according to her myspace and webpages. How can I convey this information?

Thanks for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Fern Outside (talk • contribs) 12:55, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

York Park

Is it alright to change the article rating to B-class? I would love to expand the transport section but there doesn't seem to be any info on the net anywhere. Aaroncrick (talk) 00:41, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Northern Territory Tropical Low

That is Cyclone Billy, not the NT Tropical Low. Here is proof that is of Billy --क्षेम्य Tranquility 20:03, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Bidgee, my very best wishes for the festive season stay safe and talk to you in 2009.--VS 11:12, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Melbourne

Good to know. The population figure I cited for Melbourne was an estimate that a demographer friend of mine gave me. I posted it because Melbourne's population is not as low as 3.8 million any more, and wanted the page to reflect that. Apparently it's harder to share information on[REDACTED] than I imagined.

Can I upload photos to the Melbourne page? The "skyline" shot, if one can even call it that, misses most of the 500 skyscrapers in the city. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexWaters89 (talk • contribs) 02:37, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Measurements

Hi. Thanks for the comment that one of my edits "seemed to be" original research. I've found that if a distance measurement is of the type that could be verified by any user or any editor with any atlas or many mapping sites on line, then a large majority of editors, administators, etc. do not classify that in any way as original research (and don't require listing any source such as "Times Atlas" and Times gazetteer.) If they were, then 4/5 of WP geography ("10 miles east of.....border Pacific Ocean for 100 miles.....4 miles off the Northern Territories coast"......etc., etc. would have to be deleted,yes?

As far as the extreme points article, I was surprised a couple (?) years ago when I saw "most remote city" added by someone. ("Perth"....I wasn't sure the category fit in the article at all.) I then added Honolulu. I think you would agree that if Auckland at 1 million pop. had a 900,000 pop. city nearby, then it wouldn't be listed as "remote", right?

So where is the "cut-off?" Common sense (and a dictionary definition of "remote") would dictate that it would be lower than an allowance for "big" cities like Wellington and Christchurch (I got to travel to there and Tasmania...outstanding!) For a long time until a few weeks ago, most readers/potential editors of this remote points article apparently seemed to feel that the proximity of a couple cities nearing half a million to Auckland disqualify Auckland from "remote" status, when Perth and Honolulu have no cities over 50,0000 (!) or so pop. anywhere near them. I think most do. I sure do....makes sense, yes?

Comes down to a definition of "remote", I suppose..... But by any definition, "remote" certainly does not mean nearby(by Perth-Honolulu standards!) 400,000 pop. cities, so I reverted back to the way it has been for the past year or two. Hope you agree, as I've seen how much good work you've done, esp. with maps (I like your NSW & N. Terr. maps!).....There are so few of us professional cartographers around (I'm have only done a couple for WP but have been a prof cartographer in the US for 30 years) that we need to work together! (Fewer cartographers yet in the "not religious, no smoking, recycling category.....loved your descriptions!)DLinth (talk) 01:10, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much for the revert to my talk page on New Year's eve. I only just noticed now when I was checking what Werdna's bot had archived while I was away to make sure I hadn't missed any comments. I do appreciate it very much. I commented on a discussion on the mailing list about dealing with Grawp/Jeremy Hanson and his mother (who refuses to believe her poor little boy would do anything like that) and I guess that made me a target! Thanks again Bidgee and I hope you had a very happy Christmas and New Year. Cheers, Sarah 01:10, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Lone Pine

Welcome back from your break. Like your work here. I think it is correct that the park in Culcairn (just on the right travelling Wagga Wagga to Albury before you take the right turn to cross the railway tracks) has a pine that is descendant of the original lone pine - but I am going by memory not having stopped there for some years.--VS 03:34, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

2008–09 Australian region cyclone season

You maight also enquire as to why Hurricane Katrina, a featured article, is quite comfortable with the use of local time. "Katrina made its second landfall at 6:10 a.m. CDT on Monday, August 29 as a Category 3 hurricane " (my bolding). Watch out for (baseless) accusations of WP:OWN. -- Mattinbgn\ 23:22, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Australian National Airways vs ANA

Hi Bidgee,

I know that the much better known Holyman's Australian National Airways was commonly known as "ANA", but Kingsford Smith's earlier airline was a completely seperate entity, and I've never seen the abbreviation used on any material relating to the earlier airline (here for example). Using the later airline's common name to refer to the earlier airline just makes things even more confusing than they already are. ;) FiggyBee (talk) 06:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Portland High School

Thanks for fixing the image. I asked User:Longhair to fix it, as he fixed the license in 2007 and the uploader has not been back since then. A mate who was brought up in Portland just told me about this. --Bduke (Discussion) 11:53, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

I have reverted your edit on the US HS article now you have restored that image. --Bduke (Discussion) 20:52, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Invite to Canberra Meetup #2

--.../Nemo (talk • Contributions) 16:45, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

MMM

i dont see how a scheduele is a directory... it actually has encyclopaedic merit, as it can be seen as a historical record/table, please don't remove it again, i don't see what the problem is having them on 2mmm or any other mmm wikis.

thanks. Inirapsag (talk) 09:59, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Please Assume Good Faith!

My apologies for what happened yesterday with Tropical Storm Dongo and 2008–09 Australian region cyclone season, I meant in no way, shape, or form for it to be a personal attack or assuming bad faith. I was a bit frustrated in RL at the time and I wasn't really in the mood for a {{fact}} tag on something that had it referenced, despite the reference being in the incorrect place. As for the Australian Region mishap, I meant to hit "rollback" instead of "rollback (vandalism)" and I didn't notice that until after it had completed the task. I know both your edits were good faith as there was nothing wrong with either of them, both incidents were caused by mistakes on my part. That said, for the information you questioned for Dongo, it would have been better if you either placed the {{fact}} at the appropriate place in the main body of the article as the lead is a summary of the article and doesn't need referencing, or left a note on either my talk page or the articles talk page about that statement. Hopefully I caused no harm in this whole thing and we can all just get on with things. Cheers, Cyclonebiskit 20:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Sam Moran

Hello Bidgee, and happy Australia Day! Thanks for your edits to Sam's article, especially the image of he and his wife Lyn. They're just so darn cute! I noticed that you cited an article from The Daily Advertiser, but you didn't provide the URL. I tried looking for it myself, but I couldn't find it. I'd like to see that story, since it may have info that we could use in other Wiggles-related articles. Thanks, --Figureskatingfan (talk) 07:25, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the note; I kinda had the feeling it'd be like that. I try to avoid not-easily-accessible sources, too, but there's no WP policy against it. Does the Daily Advertiser story have an author? If so, we should add it and make all the references on Sam's article consistent. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 16:40, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Creative Commons

What type of images are able to be uploaded to Misplaced Pages? This list is at; http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

• Attribution License
• Attribution-NoDerivs License
• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
• Attribution-ShareAlike License

Thankyou, Aaroncrick (Tassie Talk) 01:32, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up, i didn't want to just upload random ones like i used to. Aaroncrick (Tassie Talk) 01:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Kay Hull

Well done on getting the photo of Kay Hull (and a good one too!) It goes a long way towards demonstrating, contrary to the view of WP:AUSPOL, it is possible to get photographs of serving politicians in Australia. Did you let her know it was for use on Misplaced Pages? I missed our Australia Day celebrations and if I had been there I could have got a picture of Sussan Ley, who was in attendance. -- Mattinbgn\ 05:31, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

There are some times I am glad I work in an air-conditioned office! -- Mattinbgn\ 08:03, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello. I don't know much about WP in so far as structure and I really don't care. however I believe that my website is a "standard" for information related to chasing storms and since its restructuring it will become a repository for life saving information meant for teachers to use in their classrooms. I could care less about the search engine business as well. Our thoughts were that if teachers searched the WP article that they perhaps might visit the site and find the information that they are looking for. I'd rather keep that information on our website, as opposed to another site such as WP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.180.191.239 (talk) 03:56, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Murray cod photo

Hello, I must be blunt and say I do not appreciate you arbitrarily deciding "one picture is enough" and deleting the Murray cod I uploaded TWICE. Please leave the page alone. Codman (talk) 10:13, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

One image of the same fish is enough. I suggest that you read the message (Templated) left and take a look at WP:OWN. Bidgee (talk) 10:24, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

You think unilaterally deleting a picture (no discussion with me) is a 'contribution' to the Murray cod page??? I don't think so. And Wiki ettiquette aside, that page is entirely the work of myself and colleague, so I don't take kindly to such action. And since when is one picture enough? Said you? An article on an animal species can't have too many picture IMHO. Get used to that picture going up again and again until you leave it alone. Codman (talk) 10:36, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Again I suggest that you take sometime and read WP:OWN and WP:AGF which are policies of Misplaced Pages. You don't own the article nor does your colleague and I don't own the article. There is a Commons template located on the bottom of the page for all media of the Murray cod. Adding s photo of the same fish is not needed as there is already a photograph of a Murray cod in a fish tank. Bidgee (talk) 10:40, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Just leave it alone, unless you care to point to a "number of pictures" rule. Codman (talk) 10:47, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

With your current behaviour, I am forced to say you are the kind of person that makes Misplaced Pages suck. No wonder I hardly bother with the place anymore. Codman (talk) 10:50, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

If your not going to listen to what I have said then I see no point in repeating myself. Bidgee (talk) 10:57, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Everyday rewards Woolworths

Hi Tasmania will not be getting the Everydays rewards card how do i know this? I work for woolworths in Tas and have been told that cos of the F$C Card the card would not be rolled out —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xevious dreams (talk • contribs) 01:29, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Harvey Norman.png)

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Per your last removal of bad faith comment

I have noted that User:124.170.211.25 is probably a sock of User:Wizzzzman - please seem immediately corresponding edits at User:Codman. If you concur with my assumption and you have time can you file a report at SSP as I have to go off to a function at this moment.--VS 10:30, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Launceston Airport temperature

Do you really think an Examiner article is as good a reference as the official BOM site? The Examiner must of got the info from the Bureau but things seem to be slightly different. The bureau says Launceston Airport was 39.9°C and says Launceston got to 39.0°C. The Examiner article however decides Launceston got to 38.7° in the article part and then changed to 38.8 in the Extreme hot spots section. The BOM would have to be a more accurate source i'd imagine. Unless it's gone a bit wacko because a guy from the BOM said Launceston Airport got to over 40°C on the radio Aaroncrick (Tassie Talk) 03:18, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Does seem to be, I've emailed the BOM but I don't expect a response. We'll just have to wait for the Tasmania in January report or Tasmanian in Summer report. Aaroncrick (Tassie Talk) 03:55, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

I got a reply from BOM; There are two sites at Launceston Airport. On Friday 30th the old one recorded 39.9 and the new reached 40.4. Launceston did reach a maximum of 39.0. Not the 38.7 or 38.8 that was used in the Examiner Article. Cheers Aaroncrick (Tassie Talk) 05:27, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

SA Heat Wave

Try this link - http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDS60900.shtml - says 40.6 at 5:08 pm. I think the page you're looking at is just the half hourly updates - not what the temperature might have been at any given minute :-)Shim jb (talk) 08:43, 1 February 2009 (UTC)