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[edit] Image:FremantleTownHall1 gobeirne.jpg

The above image inspired me to do a little research. After all, we cant have a good pic with no article, can we? Just a note to say I have included it on the newly created Fremantle Town Hall. Thanks! --Ali K 08:04, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Great stuff! :) Cheers! - Gobeirne 04:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Forgot

To put up a toast for absent friends at the Perth meetup last night - next one you will deffinitely be on the list! SatuSuro 23:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind thoughts! :) Cheers! - Gobeirne 00:43, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sunlight001 RFC

I've opened up an RFC in light of this user's attacks on the Cancer article among others. In light of your contact with this user, could you provide input? Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Sunlight001 Mdwyer 04:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fine monorail picture

I wrote a monorail article in the Norwegian WP (it got recommended), and I am writing more. I like your picture showing how a monorail can go in narrow city streets, but it isn't accessible for the Norwegian WP nor Wikinfo. Would be nice if it were in the Commons. Or could I just copy it to the other wikis? Is it enough that your name is in the filename? I don't know how photographer crediting is done for such copying. OlavN 20:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi OlavN. Firstly, congratulations on the monorail article. The pictures I took of the Sydney Monorail are indeed available at Wikimedia Commons.

Thanks for wanting to include one of them! :) Cheers - Gobeirne 22:59, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re User:Jessica93

Sheesh. I'm not sure what to add to that. He sure is persistent. I've also reported him at Commons. I'm not sure what advice to give except to intercept and block when found. Anything you can think of that I can do to help I'll be more than glad. I do monitor Child and some other articles where he might lurk. I must say that for your fine detective work you deserve this:

		The Original Barnstar
		To Gobeirne for dogged detective work against the scourge of sockpuppetry Herostratus 04:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your question

I can't determine a user's IP address, only a checkuser can do that. If that's really his IP, it's blocked now anyway, the system will autoblock any IP addresses recently used by the accounts which were blocked for 24 hours. He's got a pretty obvious vandalism pattern, so if the problem does recur (from an anonymous editor or another sock account), please let me know. The edits from the anonymous editor didn't reveal any names, so that may have been a different editor using the same picture, but I'll keep an eye on it. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 11:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I removed your message from WP:AIV because it didn't seem like the kind of clear cut vandalism I expected after reading your description, so I thought you were referring to another IP address. I understand it a bit better now, however, I do not think an indefinite block is called for. Those blocks are very, very rarely issued, as an IP almost never stays the same for ever. The IP appears to have gone quiet over the last couple of hours, if he starts again, I'll block. --Joanne B 11:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Joanne - Gobeirne 11:52, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanx...

...from The Netherlands for adding the data about Belginusanl on Wikipedia-en on the pages we keep on this problem. I could identify thanx to you another sockpuppet used on Wiki-nl and add to the general page found here. If new names / clues appear please contact me if you want at my Dutch talk page here. Best wishes, MoiraMoira 13:47, 30 April 2007 (UTC) (sysop Wikipedia-nl)

Will do! Thanks - Gobeirne 20:44, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] image moving etc

I just came back to review your behaviour about images after several months and I'm wondering why it appears so different now to what it was back then. I thought consistency was important, and my views havent changed much, to me a pic is still worth a thousand words, and just becuase you have a pov about whether a pic is suitable or not is a bit of a lame reason to cut it out with discussion.

"CGI is lightweight and easily transported. It was and still is widely used especially in rural and military buildings such as sheds and water tanks. It's very unique properties were used in the development of countries like Australia from the 1840's, and it is still helping developing countries today."

it seems to me that that pic illustrates at least TWO points in that statement from the article, both added by the same user.

It seems to me that who ever places a pic in an article usually has good intent and for you to mess with that without reference to that person, is inviting an edit conflict. Fortunately i cant be bothered with that, I have a lot more activity an dmy own spaces to fill and share my awesome pics so i'm not giving any more to the wikipedia currently, its mainly cause i cant be bothered with the overhead to do it, and the conflict to keep them in the position that I, as an illustrator, see fit. My view is that if I'm generous enough to gift the image then some consideration could be taken into account when deciding to surgically remove or transplant them.. I wonder how the people who silently vote by never coming back think? I like that pic with the sheets on the bike trailer. I think it adds nice texture to the article. I cant help but wonder why you didnt push ALL the pics down into a 'gallery' that I personally find ugly and non useful, I cant understand why people like that. The other part of this that perplexes me, is why WASTE your editing energy in such ways, given the HUGE tasks out there, the VAST field of articles needing real and urgent work to clean up and add to? thats bugged me for nearly two years now, it seems much more obvious to fix up clearly needful articles, why pick on the articles that are only slightly in need? Its not about you, my pondering is about many editors. I'm also trying to assess how wikipedia may have progressed since i got a bit of bad taste from the surgical processes that i felt were unnecessary and unfair. The purpose of that is to try and ensure that my own contribution is useful and sustainable, I cant bear waste, and i want to add stuff that is likely to stick for a while. another point is that while youre in an article you could fix the other obvious errors for instance the three red links in that article? moza 11:21, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Belginusanl

Thanks for the note you left on my talk page! It's nice to know that the bit of sleuthing I did was appreciated :-) I also saw the note you made and then deleted from that page and I have to admit, I agree on both points... One, that this guy's pattern of vandalism is seriously creepy, and two, that at this point there's really nothing to report. I hope most of all that he's just creepy and not actually doing anything harmful, but if it is worse than that, then I hope that he slips up some time and posts an image that's bad enough that there IS something to report to authorities somewhere. So, for what it's worth, you're not the only one who's picked up on the disturbing nature of this case. --Icarus ^(Hi!) 06:45, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and if you follow today's link-spam, you'll find the vandals real-life name. Rklawton 04:22, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Cheers Robert, I'm well aware of his name :) He's a dodgy character alright! Thanks - Gobeirne 04:25, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania 2008

Hey! I'm contacting all the members of wikiproject Perth because, I have put in an incomplete bid for Perth to hold Wikimania 2008. Please show your support by adding your name to the list and help contribute by improving our bid which is incomplete and located here - thanks Talk to symode09's or How's my driving? 17:59, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LabVIEW Wiki

You are invited to collaborate in an ambitious new MediaWiki project.
The LabVIEW Wiki. -- Michael Aivaliotis 06:53, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Benjamin Mountfort

Brilliant foto now in place - thanks. Is there any way you could find out if that wing was later the the great hall etc. It would fit very neatly into what I'm saying about him if it was a later addition. Sorry to ask, but all my Mountfort books went back to the library years ago, and they were a job to borrow even then. Libraries in England and Italy are abysmal in the NZ architecture section! Giano (talk) 18:56, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On 30 November 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Robert Shields (diarist), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 21:41, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:CiteDover

Hi there; you are welcome. That was, I think, the most offensive image I have come across in wiki. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 15:49, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] svg logos

Thing about svg logos is that they can be stretched without losing quality (which is important for fair use, that image is of high quality which does depict the subject in true manner) but that they are also in their original upload form of low resolution (not like 800px stretch you showed). --Avala (talk) 00:02, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Buon Natale e buon anno! Giano (talk) 17:35, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fremantle Markets

Just wanted to let you know that I've been doing new pages patrol, and that Fremantle Markets is one of the best-written, best-referenced new articles I've seen in some time. Thanks for being awesome. SaveThePoint (talk) 22:30, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Wow, cheers! - Gobeirne (talk) 22:31, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I've nominated Fremantle Markets, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on December 28, where you can improve it if you see fit. Gnan garra 01:44, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

On 3 January 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fremantle Markets, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 14:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Aust Barnstar

		The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
		for your efforts with Australian articles Gnan garra 00:53, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:AUK

This is an invitation to WikiProject Auckland, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles on Auckland. Please feel free to join us.

Taifar ious1 09:30, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kosovo term

Thanks for the input. In Kosovo they have huge problem with the name, they are now teaching in schools that it was Kosova before and then changed to Kosovo by Serbs. Also they are now insisting on new term Dardania (Roman name for the area around today's Kosovo). Of course it makes sense as much as saying New Zealand name is not based on Dutch province but on (insert random fantasy here). Regards, --Avala (talk) 10:58, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sister city signs

Just out of my own curiosity, where did you find those sister city signs in Phoenix, Arizona? I'm a native and I never knew anything about them. ONEder Boy (talk) 16:37, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. It's at 33°26′51.3″N 112°4′34.5″W / 33.447583, -112.07625. Maybe it's fairly new? Cheers - Gobeirne (talk) 19:20, 8 April 2008 (UTC)