User talk:Rangasyd/Archive 7

Dwayne Bravo incident - reference and link

Hi Rangasyd, I added Mel McLaughlin's question, and the reference to the Dwayne Bravo incident earlier today. Can you explain to me why you decided to edit them out? Thank you.

Hello DjangoCricket. Thanks for your edits to Wikipedia. In the absence of clear evidence, the reference to the Dwayne Bravo interview certainly has nothing to do with Chris Gayle and has been removed from his entry to Wikipedia. If it does have any place, it may be at Mel McLaughlin, yet even that is debatable. The question that McLaughlin asked and that you included added no real value to the Wikipedia entry of the incident. Did it really matter what question McLaughlin asked? Surely it was Gayle's answer/comments that are most relevant for his profile. And the fact that his comments were considered as inappropriate and that he was fined. By the way, use of terms such as from all corners, including social media were also removed, as they also added no real value. Sometimes with Wikipedia, brevity is better. Finally, please sign all your posts to other users pages with the use of four tildes. Happy editing. Rangasyd (talk) 08:56, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Copying material available under license requires proper attribution

Hi Rangasyd. I see with this edit you included material from a Govt of Australia website that is available under a Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU) license. That's okay, but you have to give attribution. I've added it for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this legal requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. -- — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 03:23, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Abandoned Towns in Tasmania

Hey I was just letting you know that I will be using your info in a project on abandoned towns in Tasmania. The info is really useful and will help. Thanks for your work. Tassie Boy21 (talk) 23:40, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the thanks. What info? Where? Rangasyd (talk) 02:20, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Local government review

Gday Rangasyd, I see you have been actively updating all the NSW LGA articles. I have a couple of thoughts about this. Firstly your edits are all being added to the lead. The normal practice is to add content to the body of the article with details and cites. The lead is for summaries of key content in the article. The lead should also be able to stand the test of time. Do you think these lead edits will be relevant in 12 months? Or would they be better suited elsewhere. Secondly your edits are also replication of the 2015 review of local government boundaries article. Why repeat all this. Let me clarify something I don't have issue with the content. I do have issue with it being copy and pasted to every NSW LGA article, when perhaps a wikilink to the Local government areas of New South Wales article would do the job. Not to mention updating the content when the government makes up it mind. Regards CamV8 (talk) 06:18, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Howdy. Thanks for bringing the discussion here, instead of reverting edits. Firstly, not all NSW LGAs are merging; see Penrith, Blacktown, etc. So, I'm progressively updating those only where a merger is proposed. There are two scenarios - merger or no merger.

1. If these is a merger, the article will become categorised as a former local government area and the tense changed from present to past. A new article will be written for the newly formed LGA. The 'test of time' will be relevant here following the LGAs abolition.
2. If these is no merger, the article remains and the fact that a merger was proposed in 2015/16 may become relevant at some time in the future. Who knows?

As to placement in the lead or elsewhere, I'm open to suggestions. Perhaps it's timely to leave it there right now and review following conclusion of the merger processes. The proposal to merge one LGA with another is relevant in the context of that LGA (e.g. the situation with Pittwater, Warringah, and Manly is relevant for those three LGAs, and any other LGAs where a merger with one of those LGAs is proposed). As to the repetition from the website established for the LGA review. After the review is completed, it's likely that the website will be archived and there will be limited access to the history of what was proposed. Rangasyd (talk) 15:59, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Is there a typo here? "However, following the lodging of an alternate proposal by Gloucester Shire Council to amalgamate the Gloucester, Great Lakes and Greater Taree councils, the NSW Minister for Local Government proposed a merger between the Dungog Shire with the City of Maitland." The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:10, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

If the content is incorrect then either fix it or delete it.WP:BOLD If this is a cut and paste error then I suggest a wl to the 2015 review process, this may be an easier way to manage the 153 (yes this is a guess) versions of this content. Regards CamV8 (talk) 09:18, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Typo fixed, The Drover's Wife. Thanks for the pick up. Rangasyd (talk) 09:42, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

I noticed some errors in lower Hunter LGA articles. City of Lake Macquarie was originally supposed to merge with City of Newcastle but managed to successfully oppose that so, in December, the minister made a surprise announcement that Newcastle would instead merge with Port Stephens, which had not been recommended for merge as IPART found it was fit for the future. I've fixed these errors, with citations, but I note you're including "[[Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales|IPART]]" in articles. Per MOS:ACRO, an acronym should be written out in full the first time it is used on a page, so the link should actually be "[[Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales|Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal]]". --AussieLegend (✉) 11:34, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Keith Pitt

Hi Rangasyd, I cannot work out why there seems to be repetition at Keith Pitt. I am not very familiar with info boxes yet. Can you please check why for me? Thanks. JennyOz (talk) 03:48, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi JennyOz, I've fixed it. Click here to see the difference between versions. Rangasyd (talk) 15:29, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Shire templates

Hi Rangasyd. I pitched in to help with the NSW LGA mergers, and created Snowy Monaro Regional Council. I made the new navbox for the combined shire, just showing the towns and localities gleaned from the three articles on the prior shires. Two of the old navboxes only contained the towns, and have been replaced in those articles. the {{Snowy River Shire}} template has a lot of other items in it. I am not familiar enough with the area to find things from the other old councils to give a balance in a large navbox like that. I'm contacting you as it looks like you made the original template, so you might either know what to add from the others, or suggest either removing the obsolete shire template from the non-towns, or renaming/repurposing it to not be about the shire. Any thoughts? --Scott Davis ^Talk 22:57, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi there, Scott Davis. Fixed and done. Well done on chipping in :-) Cheers. Rangasyd (talk) 08:52, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Volcanic Plugs

Hi, Please refer to your paragraph on the article Volcanic Plugs:

In Australia, the The Nut, in Tasmania is a further example; along with Mount Warning and a number of peaks in the Greater Blue Mountains Area, including Mount Banks, Mount Hay, Mount Wilson, Mount Irvine, and Mount Tomah.

You are correct in describing Mount Warning and the Nut as volcanic plugs. They are vertical volcanic relics. However, the basalt remnants of the Blue Mountains mentioned are not plugs. But relics of a horizontal volcanic lava flow. With respect, I think this may be an error which needs to be adjusted. The reference you quoted "Blue Mountains Overview" names these basalt areas as flows, not plugs. Please check the geological texts. A plug is a remnant of a volcanic neck. But a lava flow is a related but different thing. kind regards, Filikovalo (talk) 09:37, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Birthday honours list

Hey, I thought I'd just let you know, that I've had to revert some of your changes to that list. The rank abbreviations you added were almost entirely wrong. I've changed them back to the full ranks, since it reads better anyway. But, you can find a list of the actal abbreviations on the DoD website, if your interested on their actual abbreviations. Regards Nford24 (PE121 Personnel Request Form) 06:18, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

WA Metro LGAs

Just confused what you've done to the list of the WA metro local government areas, you've removed all the links to their respective websites, so they're now only available on the regional LGAs. Any reason for this? I'm looking at undoing the edit. JWPJ (talk) 07:50, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi there. I assume you mean Local government areas of Western Australia. I am trying to bring all the local government areas in each state and territory into some form of uniformity. WA was the only state to list the URL. I started on the metros and got distracted and did not get back to the rural/regional. I see no need for the list to have the URL. The URL is located at each LGA wikipage. What do you think? Rangasyd (talk) 07:37, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Well, I wouldn't say it inherently *needs* to be on the page, but I don't think it harmed the list in any way having the links there, given the effort had been taken by someone at some stage to add them. I just had found it an easy one-stop-shop for going to all the LGA websites (for assignments, job vacancies, policies) in the past which is why I noticed it. JWPJ (talk) 12:00, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you

For all the great work on Tasmanian rivers JarrahTree 10:57, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Ta. Getting back to a project I started ages ago. Rangasyd (talk) 10:58, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

much appreciated JarrahTree 11:00, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Newman College (University of Melbourne)

I have removed part of your addition to the above article, as it appears to have been directly copied from http://architecture.com.au/docs/default-source/act-notable-buildings/newman_college.pdf?sfvrsn=2, a copyright web page. All content you add to Wikipedia must be written in your own words. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you think I may have made a mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 20:47, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of requests for adminship

Hi there, AussieLegend and Frickeg. I am interested in seeking nomination for adminship. I'd value your consideration and views to see if you think that I'm ready. Please let me know your thoughts. Cheers. Rangasyd (talk) 11:17, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Rangasyd, sorry for the delay in replying. I'm flattered that you'd think of me here, but I don't know that I'm the best person to ask. I've taken very little part in the whole RfA process (I think I've participated in precisely one RfA, and a very atypically uncontroversial one) - in fact I've actively avoided it - and I really don't know much about it. I can't think of any reason you wouldn't make a great admin, but the place is notoriously unpleasant so make sure you're prepared. It's definitely worth asking someone who participates a lot more in the process though - from what I understand there are all sorts of red flags and things that your average editor would never even notice (I'm pretty sure I'd be insta-failed because I have never participated in RfA, for example, among a whole host of other reasons). You probably know more about that than I do, to be honest! Good luck, though - you can count on a support !vote from me! Frickeg (talk) 08:26, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

LOL. Frickeg. I've thought about it for a while. I'm not too sure that I want to. Thanks for the general discouragement! Rangasyd (talk) 08:33, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

hahah believe me discouragement is always the best way to go, I could tell you heaps that would put you off - I know quite a few in real life, and have watched too many RFAs to think it is worth any energy or stress - your contribs are far more valuable to wikipedia than any efforts to get a few tools - these days the possible tools sitting inside prefs more or less make the process a terrible waste of time JarrahTree 12:40, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

While I'm on your page, I spotted this recent query. If you want to dip your little toe in first to check things out rather than jump straight in, I suggest you ask at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll. Having a thick skin will certainly a bonus for the real thing, but even WP:RFACP can be quite brutal. If you survive that test, you'll probably get asked by some of the sysops there whether you'd like to get nominated by them, so it solves one of your problems. Schwede66 05:52, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

n or not to n

I think the non australian creation of this is wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tasmania_society. Your comment thoughts would be appreciated JarrahTree 12:37, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Rename as Society in Tasmania. Removes any confusion and is grammatically correct. Rangasyd (talk) 12:44, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Ta JarrahTree 13:12, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

reminded

yeah I know about the bare urls in the energy crisis article, thanks for reminding me. also fyi I put up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_July_15 - cheers JarrahTree 14:12, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

It's terrible. I'll continue with my Tassie Govt articles. I just happened across it and it needed tagging. Well done re Discussion Log. Rangasyd (talk) 14:55, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Please look at your edits after you make them

Regarding this edit:
Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to The World's Billionaires, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits have been or will be reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Sundayclose (talk) 16:44, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi there Sundayclose. Thank you for your message of thanks and encouragement for participating in Wikipedia, a volunteer-driven organisation. Your heading implied that I do not preview any of my draft edits, prior to saving them. How you came to such a conclusion I cannot understand. I am sure that making such a comment was made after careful review of my 30,000+ edits to Wikipedia. In relation to your specific feedback on The World's Billionaires, when the edit is viewed on the screen of my large desktop monitor, it appears perfectly, laid out as desired. I then tested the edit on various other screen resolutions and noticed that there was an overlap of the legend and the table. Most editors, especially those with an experience spanning so many many years of editing, seeing the value of the legend, would have amended the column layout so that the legend was retained, without the overlap. The editor(s) may also have dropped a message on the talk page of the contributing editor letting them know about the change and offering suggestions or help for the continual improvement of Wikipedia. Regrettably, this is not the path that was followed on this occasion. Thank you again for your feedback. It is always welcome, especially when offered in a constructive spirit. Happy editing. Rangasyd (talk) 10:14, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

NZ parlbox

Thank you for adding an infobox to the Joseph Hatch article. With the same edit, you unfortunately removed the parlbox. You may think that the infobox replaces the parlbox and I'm sure you were well-meaning, but consensus by the politics task force of Wikiproject New Zealand is that every member of parliament article should have a parlbox, and we achieved that in December 2012. And yes, we have pages for all of our 1,400 MPs (past and present). Could you please have a think whether you've removed other parlboxes, and restore them accordingly? Much appreciated. Schwede66 05:44, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I'm pretty sure that Hatch was the only NZ MPs where the {{NZ parlbox header}} was removed. Cheers. Rangasyd (talk) 10:01, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

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New Challenge for Oceania and Australia

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Geobox locator Australia Australian Capital Territory

Template:Geobox locator Australia Australian Capital Territory has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 16:03, 8 December 2016 (UTC)