Welcome

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Lst27 22:18, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. Please make sure you use proper capitalization when making new articles. It's Marian Wilkinson, not Marian wilkinson. RickK 23:37, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)

Hey welcome fellow Queenslander – be sure to check out Australian Wikipedian's Noticeboard and Australian Collaboration of the Week. Hope you enjoy using Wikipedia.--ZayZayEM 02:54, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)


Re Snedden - the sex lives of retired public figures are not the business of encyclopaedias. Adam 08:06, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I would delete such material from the Rockefeller article, too, but I no longer edit non-Australian articles. Adam 23:59, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I edit according to the generally accepted convention of what is encyclopaedic and what is not. The sex lives of retired politicians is not. And I suggest you save your sarcasm for those who appreciate it. Adam 03:29, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

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Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Graeme Richardson?

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I have asked a question at Talk:Graeme Richardson regarding one of your additions to the article. I would appreciate it if you could find time to answer it. --Paul A 04:39, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Jedda

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The article about the movie is now at Jedda and the article about the city is at Jeddah. Both have disambig links to each other. JIP | Talk 18:46, 25 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Murchison Murders

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I am pretty sure it is Rowles - I have picked up a few typos. Thanks--A Y Arktos\talk 00:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Great Barrier Reef peer review?

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Hi Ruszewski, I noticed that you've made some good edits to Great Barrier Reef. I've recently put the article up for peer review. I hope that you'll participate! - Malkinann 04:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

List of Polish companies

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Hi there; in the above article you created, there is listed in the banking section PKO Bank and, as a different company, PEKAO. Aren't they the same? do you know it? If so we should remove PEKAO, right?. Thanks. Mountolive 22:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Henry Morton Stanley

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How could Stanley adopt a child born in 1906 if he died in 1904? Could you check the dates please.Natalieduerinckx 11:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Blackwood or D'Urville?

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Do you have a reference for Blackwood being the discoverer of the Fly? According to the Lonely Planet I referenced, D'Urville discovered the river. Nomadtales 12:04, 27 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

OK, thanks for your reply. It does make sense that a English name like Blackwood, on the HMS Fly would discover and name it. Unfortunately the Lonely Planet guide that I referenced said D'Urville. If you can find a good reference for the Blackwood discovery, make sure you link to it. Nomadtales 09:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Endeavour River National Park within Wet Tropics World Heritage?

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I see from the above stub article's 'history', that you made original edit locating this National Park within the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area.

You will note I have requested verification, as I was a little caught by surprise, not thinking the World Heritage area actually stretched that far north!

Your original listing has now seen Endeavour River National Park tagged and categorised as World Heritage .. so it might be good to clear this up if it's not too much trouble?! Bruceanthro (talk) 02:30, 6 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Brisbane meetup

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  Brisbane Meetup

 
See also: Australian events listed at Wikimedia.org.au (or on Facebook)

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Speedy deletion of Alfred Donné

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Brisbane meetup invitation

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  Brisbane Meetup

 
See also: Australian events listed at Wikimedia.org.au (or on Facebook)

Hey there, you're invited to the second Brisbane Meetup. Please see the page at Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/2 for more details. Hope to see you there!

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Brisbane workshop and meetup invitation

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  Brisbane Meetup

 
See also: Australian events listed at Wikimedia.org.au (or on Facebook)

Hi there! You are cordially invited to a series of Paralympic History workshops and a meetup next Saturday (26 May) and Sunday. In attendance will be University of Queensland faculty members and Australian Paralympic Committee staff. Details and an attendee list are at Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/5. Hope to see you there! John Vandenberg 08:10, 17 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Proposed deletion of Nexus (magazine)

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The article Nexus (magazine) has been proposed for deletion. The proposed deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

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Brisbane meetup with Sue Gardner invitation

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  Brisbane Meetup
Next: 11 February 2013 5-8PM - Drinks and light dinner at SLQ with Sue Gardner
Last: 3 August 2012

Hi there! You are cordially invited to a meetup on 11 Febrary 2013 with Sue Gardner.

Details at Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/7. Hope to see you there! John Vandenberg 10:41, 30 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:51, 23 November 2015 (UTC)Reply


Brisbane meetup - Sunday 10 December 2017 at The Edge, State Library of Queensland

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If you are in or near Brisbane, please join us on Sunday 10 December 2017 any time from noon to 4pm at The Edge at the State Library of Queensland. For more details and to sign up, please go to the meetup page. See you there! Kerry (talk) 22:39, 27 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

 

The article Arthur Morgan (Australian politician, born 1856) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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