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::I agree with what Graham has said. As far as I know, JarrahTree didn't have any particular favourite articles, just general topics he was interested in, which can be seen from the userboxes on his page. If you had to choose an article to improve in his memory, I recommend ], also known as jarrah. ] (]) 15:41, 5 December 2024 (UTC) ::I agree with what Graham has said. As far as I know, JarrahTree didn't have any particular favourite articles, just general topics he was interested in, which can be seen from the userboxes on his page. If you had to choose an article to improve in his memory, I recommend ], also known as jarrah. ] (]) 15:41, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
:Not sure it was a favourite, but one article that he mentioned to me the other day in Adelaide was ]. He mentioned Greaves to me a bunch of times over the years, getting me to help transcribe ]. ] ] 01:31, 6 December 2024 (UTC) :Not sure it was a favourite, but one article that he mentioned to me the other day in Adelaide was ]. He mentioned Greaves to me a bunch of times over the years, getting me to help transcribe ]. ] ] 01:31, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
::Last year JarrahTree and I had ] on my talk page over the state of the article on the ], which is still only a stub, and a poor comparison to the equivalent articles on the learned societies in other states such as the ] or the ] (though, as he wrote, they could all do with more work!). I'm currently doing a deep dive, via Trove, into the history of the Adelaide Philosophical Society, which later became the ]; there must be lots of people with WP articles who played a role in the formation of the RSWA, or who were members, or award recipients. The (APS/)RSSA article also has a lot of redlinks, which points to a dearth of articles on notable scientists, a topic I've been exploring in relation to the recent ] controversy; this may also be true for WA. ] (]) 02:03, 6 December 2024 (UTC).

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  • You were the glue that kept the Western Australian and Australian Misplaced Pages communities together and a personal friend to me for many years. You will be missed but your contributions will live on. Graham87 (talk) 07:39, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
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On the user page, please change {{user admin Wikicommons}} to {{user admin Wikicommons|nocat=true}} to suppress the category, as JarrahTree has been desysopped due to his passing. I've checked in my sandbox and this works, because it uses {{userbox}}; also see info about the nocat parameter. Graham87 (talk) 14:28, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Done. - Bilby (talk) 14:30, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

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My apologies for adding this here, but most of my interactions with JarrahTree on-wiki were in regard to COI editing, which was my focus rather than his. (Off-wiki we had a lot of discussions, but they were more general than what I am looking for now). I have finally got a bit of time on my side, and I would love to work on bringing an article that JarrahTree cared about to FA (or whatever I can actually achieve). For those who knew what articles JarrahTree really cared about, is there something that I should be working on? JarrahTree meant a lot to all of us, so I would like to do some work that respects what he wanted to see done on Misplaced Pages. Normally this would be fairly easy to determine, but JarrahTree edited so much and so widely that I am having trouble identifying the right article, and thus I am hoping that someone else knows what direction I could go in. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide. - Bilby (talk) 13:50, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

@Bilby: The thing is that he had such a wide variety of interests; I'd say the top 50 or so of the articles listed in his topedits report reflected his priorities. The problem is that he probably had the most expertise and widest reading list (!) in those particular subjects out of anyone here. I don't think he was that concerned about raising articles to good/featured status; he never commented on a featured article candidacy, for example. He was more concerned with offering a helping hand to colleagues (both on- and off-wiki), maintaining/organising WikiProjects, and keeping articles free of bad edits. I don't want my response here to be the final word; other people who knew him might have different views. Graham87 (talk) 14:56, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
I agree with what Graham has said. As far as I know, JarrahTree didn't have any particular favourite articles, just general topics he was interested in, which can be seen from the userboxes on his page. If you had to choose an article to improve in his memory, I recommend Eucalyptus marginata, also known as jarrah. Steelkamp (talk) 15:41, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
Not sure it was a favourite, but one article that he mentioned to me the other day in Adelaide was Lilian Wooster Greaves. He mentioned Greaves to me a bunch of times over the years, getting me to help transcribe her poetry on Wikisource. Sam Wilson 01:31, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
Last year JarrahTree and I had a brief exchange on my talk page over the state of the article on the Royal Society of Western Australia, which is still only a stub, and a poor comparison to the equivalent articles on the learned societies in other states such as the Royal Society of New South Wales or the Royal Society of Victoria (though, as he wrote, they could all do with more work!). I'm currently doing a deep dive, via Trove, into the history of the Adelaide Philosophical Society, which later became the Royal Society of South Australia; there must be lots of people with WP articles who played a role in the formation of the RSWA, or who were members, or award recipients. The (APS/)RSSA article also has a lot of redlinks, which points to a dearth of articles on notable scientists, a topic I've been exploring in relation to the recent South Australian Museum controversy; this may also be true for WA. Bahudhara (talk) 02:03, 6 December 2024 (UTC).
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