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re Australia's 6.30 Current Affairs 'War' edit

This article prominently states "ALL INFORMATION IS COPYRIGHT OF OZTAM". Wikipedia cannot use copyrighted material, therefore this article has been deleted. Herostratus 03:12, 17 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

AfD nomination of Australia's 6.30pm current affairs ratings war edit

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Image:Melbourne's TT 1998.jpg edit

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List of Sea Patrol Episodes edit

Regarding your edits of approximately one week ago to the List of Sea Patrol episodes list:

I see that you have revised the format of the ratings table, it looks much better now. I also see that you have started to re-enter the data and have stopped. I have re-entered all the data which you deleted into the new table format.

I also notice that, when I checked some of the ratings data via [www.oztam.com.au OzTAM] it was very inconsistent with the data in the table and this did not appear to correspond with the OzTAM data (OzTAM data just takes into account metropolitern ratings data, btw). Is the data in the table completely wrong or am I looking at the wrong source? Is there another website that I should be looking at for more correct data, perhaps data from all over the country, not just the cities?

Thanks, Daniel99091 (talk) 07:08, 29 March 2008 (UTC).Reply

Sea Patrol Ratings edit

Hello Bortholomew,

Just a quick question: I'm wanting to add some references to the ratings for Sea Patrol. I see that most can be referenced from the OzTAM top 20 but, for any episode that wasn't in the weekly top 20, I don't know where the data came from. I would appreciate it if you could perhaps tell me where I could find the data.

Thanks, Daniel99091 (talk) 08:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC).Reply

Thanks, Bortholemew :) Daniel99091 (talk) 06:04, 6 May 2008 (UTC).Reply

Referencing of Ratings edit

Hi Bortholomew,

I notice your work with the ratings in the All Saints article; it looks great!

Just wondering if you could maybe add references to the ratings so everyone knows where you got them and so they can be verified? After all, adding references sources is the only way Wikipedia will come to be a respected source of information.

Thanks, Daniel99091 (talk) 11:03, 6 June 2008 (UTC).Reply

Hi Bortholomew, and thanks for your response,
I'm not concerned about the accuracy of the data, I'm sure it's all right, I just think that data such as ratings look much better with a reference next to it, even if the reference is to a hardcopy source. Plus, if the article ever goes to G.A. or F.A., it will need references to every fact such as these. Check out Wikipedia:Citation templates for templates citing online and hardcover stuff.
Thanks, Daniel99091 (talk) 07:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC).Reply

AfD nomination of List of Australian television ratings for 2008 edit

 

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Thanks for fixing up the References it would of been terrible to see the page go. --Ingleburn (talk) 13:34, 27 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

ANI edit

There is a thread regarding this comment at WP:ANI#Threats made by user. In the future, please choose your words more carefully and please comment on the articles, not about an editor specifically. Thanks, seicer | talk | contribs 13:52, 27 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Ratings edit

Hi Mate, the weekly ratings - it doesn't matter when they're on - as long as they're the highest? So they can even be shown at 4am in the morning, have over 2 million viewers and still count as the top? I thought it was Primetime only, but anyway..Alltrainzfan (talk) 00:07, 29 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

File:Melbourne's TT 1996.jpg listed for deletion edit

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File:Brisbane's TT 2002.jpg listed for deletion edit

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Content removed edit

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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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