Moondyne
My photos of English cricket team
Hello Monkeyman, I see you've been busy. Those photos are amazingly difficult to take aren't they. I do like your Terry Jenner shot. It makes you appreciate prof photographers who manage to get a classy shot seemingly with ease - I wonder what the secret is? When they come over my way in a couple of weeks, I intend to have a go myself. Cheers. — Moondyne 01:36, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, well it's not so easy for those guys either. They were taking multiple shots and then muttering expletives when they didn't work out as they planned either.....The problem is that the bowling nets are protected by a metal wire fence and then another cloth fence. You can poke the lens past the metal fence, but you'll still get the black fuzz of the cloth fence about 1m in front. I used a digital camera with a maximum aperture f=5.6, whereas for the proper family camera, you can get 1.6 - (small f number -> large aperture) and the pros probably have an even larger aperture. Then with a larger aperture, the field of view is smaller, so you the length at which the object is focussed is smaller....that's why the pros can take a picture through the netting and it only looks like a grey cloud. Of course, if I used the family camera, I could have gotten a better pic, but I don't think my parents would be happy, as the "success rate" would probably decrease from about 1/8 for these "pseudo-amateurish" digital snaps to maybe 1/20 for the manual film which requires more discretionary skill......and likely triple figure bills for a few photos. The ones which turned out OK, of Cook, Read and Jones practicing catching were only because there was no netting in the way....and the same goes for the photos of Jenner, Aggers, CMJ and Graham Cornes and Roger Wills (don't have an article for him yet). Most of the journos and pundits were rather bewildered when I took photos of them....And judging by the way Pietersen was training against Panesar, I'm guessing he has a few big hits in mind this summer, as well as attempting reverse-sweep sixes like he did against Murali. England were batting for 2 hours but the Redbacks only trained for 30 minutes so I could only get Cosgrove and not Cullen, Tait, Lehmann and Gillespie...perhaps that explains why they never win anything....Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:13, 17 November 2006 (UTC
LAN gaming center
What is the big deal with using the igames directory? Freakdomination 08:01, 17 November 2006
- Why don't you check this link http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45325 Freakdomination 08:15, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
WA PS
It appears that this year all the private schools have decided teach their students how to edit on wikipedia, I'm working with two who seem to want to learn and follow policy, but there a few out there that have other ideas. anyhow they finish in three of weeks so not long left. Gnangarra 10:36, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- I checked all the other ones out, Yippee they're all on my watch list now, couple of minor edits on most. Scotch College looks almost ready for another run at FA, its improved since I reviewed it during the last attempt. Gnangarra 10:56, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thank god late night wesley watch is no longer a solitary occupation SatuSuro 11:11, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
St Geos Tce
Trying to slowly rebuild this one from a stub :) SatuSuro 15:24, 17 November 2006 (UTC) I wish the front page of austen could be used a pic - it is so evocative of the old terrace. The wise directroiries on the liswa site can help for numbers and tenants bet 1890's and 1940's -maybe we should decise which way to go with this one. I have history as priority to as to not evoke the revert of the past! :) SatuSuro 01:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- BTW I am convinced we need a 'Ports of Western Australia (historic and contemporary) - list, article and category - would be the start of the maritime thingo - what do you think? SatuSuro 02:30, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- It would be very easy for non west oz persons to try >.fd unless the whole lot went up at one go to more or less show the volume - I think I might start a sep sanbox page for this one and in between the millions of other loose ends that vi seem to be pursuing - i really do envy you cricket guys - focused - I must have about 32 separate threads that I am trying to work on - sigh. I was trying to improve the alkimos (shiP) thingo earlier - but couldnt find any specfic ref on the current 720 website about their story - what do you think? delete my bit? SatuSuro 02:52, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for the edit - as for the other - are you sure you should have told me :) ? SatuSuro 04:04, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Jetty
Well there you go. I knew nothing of it; didn't even know it had existed. Hesperian 04:12, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Sandbox
Would you care to endorse/copyedit/completely rewrite this draft? Hesperian 05:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hope you guys didnt mind I joined in :) SatuSuro 07:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
And as for
Just thought I'd reply with
I was having the same thought. Cheers. — Moondyne 10:43, 17 November 2006 (UTC) Added Scotch to my watchlist also. — Moondyne 11:09, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
I think I need to do so - but I do prefer port! SatuSuro 12:53, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- Busy? thats only for threads amongst the other 32 where people bother to respond :) SatuSuro 15:08, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Re Rumours
Hey Ian, thanks for your message. I nearly offered Gn a co-nom, but I hesitated because I noticed a few days ago people on talk:RFA complaining about RfAs with lots of co-noms and some people saying they hold it against the candidate (here). I would hate for that to happen. You don't think it would be too many if I were to add one, too? Maybe I should offer a co-nom and leave it completely up to Gn to add or not. Cheers mate, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 13:24, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks Ian. Gn said he is happy for co-noms, so I will definitely try to put something together. I am sure he will be an excellent admin. Have a good weekend mate. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 14:57, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- P.S. Re your strike, of course, all my opinions are much more valuable than 2c! ;) Sarah Ewart (Talk) 14:57, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
- Serious for a moment? I was being serious, my comments are highly valued! And you can take that to the bank! ;)
- The RfA thing varies a lot. Some times there are only a few running and other times there's a lot, but I don't remember seeing as many as you did, so that was probably just a freak day. You can get an idea here, though. [1] Since October 29, the most active RfAs was 16 and the lowest was 6, I think. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 16:05, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
awaits your endorsement. Hesperian 05:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thankyou for the endorsement, Gnangarra 08:26, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Ashes
No. I'm not over for the Ashes. Too busy saving up for a new house (hopefully to move in in January) and wedding (June 2007). Mind you, I'm not convinced it'll be a contest yet:) jguk 21:49, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Australian Dictionary of Biography pics
Hello Ian. I was googling up for pics of Australian Olympic medalists in Swimming since it is now on FLC and only needs pics and a few sentences about notable performances. I found pics of a few swimmers, which are aged > 50 years, which are theoretically PD-Aus. However, the pic info says that they stilll own the rights to the photo. So are these pics allowed. Those were the ADB pics of Clare Dennis and Frank Beaurepaire respecetively. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 23:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- I looked up Boy Charlton on ADB and saw that it uses the same pic that you uploaded to commons, with the "Reproduction rights owned by the National Archives of Australia"- so PD covers the NAA? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hello Moondyne. While we're on the topic of featured material, could I please ask you for a pair of eyes on the Thorpey FAC. Tony has found some faults and would like a second set of eyes to look at my prose style. As you are familiar with the content somewhat, you may be interested in giving a frank analysis of my writing style. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Another
Chaney
I am pretty sure it was the father SatuSuro 15:48, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- I hope you dont mind but I think I can give an answer, That is if i understood the question correctly.
- Deputy President of the Australian Native Titles Tribunal and co-chairman of Reconciliation Australia, Fred Chaney was fathered by Sir Fred Chaney, a senior minister in the Menzies government. His brother is Michael Chaney, former chief executive of Wesfarmers and chairman of the National Australia Bank.[2]
- I hope that answers you question Moondyne,
- AC Boy 11:41, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Australian Honours System
Thats ok.. I'm slowly getting through the AC awardee's list at the momment. Massively busy with work too. LW77 13:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Keith Watson
I have moved your page to Keith Watson (politician) to make way for a disambiguation page - of the four articles linking to Keith Watson, only one related to the politician. -- Beardo 19:25, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Another
email _ about to SatuSuro 00:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
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Geo. Temple-Poole
- Bailed up perhaps? You have the best user name! Now. Dropped in to advise you, if interested, of this draft at my user subpage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fred.e/George_Temple_Poole. Appreciated your input on his name, more info under dab discussion at aforementioned. Regards Fred.e 18:38, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- George first! Is that why all those lists in WP appear in first name order. Thanks. That would have been a major blunder. His ma had Poole twice as it happens, she married her cousin when Temple died. I said it was complicated. Cheers Fred.e 17:52, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- That is a great tip, thanks. I may be able to fix those I found already. Fred.e 20:09, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- finally got my first page up. Thanks for your time. I made a redirect from no hyphen, was that right thing to do. Maybe C Y O'Connor needs one too. Go button seems inflexible with punctuation and name variations, such as the interesting Talbot Hobbs page you started. Are you, or do you know someone, interested in developing more 19C west aussie pages, I have some ideas. I have also proposed a Wikiproject WA on Perth project page Fred.e 19:17, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
720
Pushed the history back to the top of the art - tried adding some links - I am trying to remember the full am dial from the 1960's - I'll have to check what happened to the ones that disappeared! SatuSuro 15:28, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- Ok I remember -6WF -6WN - 6PR (with 6TZ and 6CI) - 6IX - 6KY - so the one that dissapeared with change was 6KY.
6MD was joined up with one of the others, and I think the Geraldton and Albany ones weren't linked up with the metro stations - not so sure about Bunbury though. A lot of older radios had the stations printed on the dial covers SatuSuro 03:45, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Radio National is transmitted through the old call sign/frequency of 6WN. The thing about all this is that Murray Jennings, the Cranfields (Zenith) and others all have memories of 6IX in Perth in the 1960's - someone needs to download their memories as old radio persons dont simply stay that way (viz frank zappa and jazz - is jazz dead - no it only smells that way) they do pass on to the radio station in the sky. SatuSuro 04:05, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- 6KY 1206 --> 94.5 KY FM -> 94.5 MIX FM Orderinchaos78 06:49, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Beeloo pop in 1837
(Re: Bentley) Very good point you make. I got it from a single source in the Battye Library (Geoff Gallop's book on Vic Park suburbs), and I've seen a similarly ridiculously low count for the northern suburbs Mooro people (Geoffrey Bolton makes a mention of it in his Claremont book while at the same time saying Jane Currie's contemporaneous diary quoting 40 on Matilda Bay alone contradicts it). Will definitely look into this tomorrow as it seems blatantly silly to have unanswered points on there. Orderinchaos78 11:20, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- My guess is that it probably *is* wrong but more an indication of the failure of whatever census methods they had for Aboriginals in 1837 than anything else. :) Orderinchaos78 12:42, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks :) Orderinchaos78 06:11, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Spam
We have a persistent one who has tried Lombok more than once - I've tried a humorous response compared to Indon laying out his sins - would appreciate it on your watchlists just incase, thanks SatuSuro 13:05, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- They are at it again - so far once on Lombok. regards --Merbabu 14:30, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Once again. Someone needs to block this guy - he's had the full suite of warnings. Every one of his edits is spam. [3] --Merbabu 03:11, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Sydney Riot of 1879 is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. As you were one of the major contributors, please help bring this article to current featured article quality. --RelHistBuff 15:22, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I have seen you editing Red Bull Air Race World Series, so this WikiProject may interest you. I am the only member at the moment so it would be great if you would sign up.--HamedogTalk|@ 02:34, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Another one
Could you please have a look at Indonesia and Merbabu talk pages - I think our friend possibly needs and admin watching him! (not Merbabu but the text dumper!) Thanks as always SatuSuro 08:05, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you - I am just about to find the shotgun for the turkey mind you! SatuSuro 00:44, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
List of rail accidents
There is currently a discussion about whether we should set criteria for inlcusion of accients on the List of rail accidents page, and if so what the criteria should be.
The discussion is located at Talk:List of rail accidents/Criteria for inclusion, where your input would be most welcome. Thryduulf 00:38, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
RfA thank you
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I would like to express my appreciation of the time you spent in preparing your co-nomination. I'll endeavour to ensure that my actions uphold the ways of wiki. I would also like to share with you a drop or two of Uisce Beatha, unfortunately the bar is poorly stocked and your efforts deserved the finest drop. Thankyou Gnangarra 14:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC) |
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- Well done Ian! Perth is surprisingly well represented on the Main Page compared to other cities of its size, wouldn't you say? Keep up the good work! :) - Gobeirne 18:11, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Geoplaces
On a hunch, I checked Onslow and Toodyay, and found double entries in both cases. The original townsite of Onslow was repeatedly flooded during cyclones, and in 1925 it was flooded so badly that they up and moved the town away from the river. The original site of Toodyay also was prone to flooding, and in 1860 was relocated to higher ground.
Therefore I propose that one of the causes of a double entry of the same town name at proximate locations, is a town relocating at some point, leaving us with a LOCB for the town, and a LOCB for the unoccupied former townsite.
Hesperian 11:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Blocking of 194.83.84.15
Hi Moondyne!
I believe on Friday, you blocked 194.83.84.15 from editing Wikipedia after repeated vandalism. Okay this is a fair point after looking at the contributions, but is a 7-day block on a proxy server IP address really compulsory? The IP address belongs to Yale College, Wrexham, which currently posesses over 2500 machines using the server, with many thousands of users (plus hundreds of staff) - is it really fair to the non-vandalising community? Okay looking at the contributions there seems to be a lot of vandalism, but I know of many users who contribute to Wikipedia at college and mainly edit pages on local things. I believe a similar thing happens with AOL users and their IP addresses, but there are measures there to prevent innocent users recieving irrelevant treatment - so why does this static IP serving so many users get blocked for seven days?
Excuse me if I sounded patronising insulting or anything, but I would like to know why such a long duration ban? However, I fully understand your reason for blocking and I am not suggesting for the IP to be unblocked. Best wishes Marbles333 18:53, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Roberta Beach Jacobson
Article is not yet finished, there are at least 10 more books, several more critiques and so on of which I have a weak reference, looking for data. The point is that at the end the notability will be mostly Kafenio (just take a look how many noted Travelwriters got their start there).— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rough (talk • contribs)
- There is more, I just have digged out an old membership of tha American Poets Ass., looks llike she also won some national poetry awards, the problem is she does not mention these things anywhere. Rough 14:34, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
CWA
Sorry to say, I traced how you found Jacobson and discovered that you had deleted a definition for CWA, it is REAL. Most authors of American speciality magazines about cats (I Love Cats, Cats Magazine and so on) are member of this association. The amount of members does not make it notable, else we would have to take out Iceland's Journalist Union too ... they have only 50 members. Rough 15:17, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I understand, sorry to have assumed it was about CWA Rough 23:30, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
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Hi,
Thanks for the welcome. Do you know if/how I can reply to your note from my area, without writing in your area?
I started looking for some info about a few explorers on the Project Gutenberg of Australia site and one thing led to another with the WA stuff. I don't spend a lot of time on Wikipedia stuff, but sometimes have a dabble.
There might be some things of interest to you in the introduction to this book: Early Explorers in Australia
Regards
Collywolly 00:36, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Kafenio
I saw your comments on the discussion page and I hope the whole thing goes, the last thing I need is to have the old Kafenio fans filling up my e-mail box with complaints about shutting the darn thing down. In 2003 I had to get a new ISP. Alf photoman 15:37, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Perth Street Article Titles
We've had an unconsulted change of street names - looks like we need a re-statement of what Perth street names constitute! SatuSuro 06:21, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- Also - thinking it through I have put a message in Perth Project talk page - and also the editors talk page - and assume that the issues is best kept to the project page - so much for doing some of this while watching tora tora tora on the box at the same time SatuSuro 07:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
re:time
can we assume that you dont agree with the change from WST to WDT last night Gnangarra 06:41, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Cricket photos
Hi there Moondyne. Unfortunately it was 38 degrees the day of the training session, and seeing as it was an optional training session for the Australians, I decided it would not be a good idea to go to Adelaide Oval and take some photos for of the Australian team...So you're next in line now. And Thorpe passed FAC...hooray...Thanks for your support on the FLC. All the best, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:28, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Signature
Thanks for the tip, mate. i know this was a useless comment, but i figure people need to be aknowledged for their efforts, regardless of how minor or major they are. Kiran90 00:56, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
I think you can safely ask the next question. --Dweller 14:30, 4 December 2006 (UTC)