User talk:Knobbly

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Welcome!

Hello, Knobbly, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Please read all the above very carefully SatuSuro 01:09, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks SatuSuro,Knobbly 05:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

No problems SatuSuro 07:58, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

1 Bios
2 License tagging for Image:Dec 06 cover of the Briefing.jpg
3 Nkayesmith says "Sign your posts"
4 Category:National parks of Australia
5 Christmas
6 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot
7 New Page Creation
8 wow
9 Ridley College
10 Image tagging for Image:Ridley map.jpg
11 AFD
12 Fair use rationale for Image:Brfg344_200.jpg
13 Fair use disputed for Image:Brfg344 200.jpg
14 Fair use disputed for Image:Original Sin.gif
15 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Rubon179.jpg
16 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Brfg344 200.jpg
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[edit] Bios

Best way to do this is to look at a few bios first. I would recommend C.Y. O'Connor, then try Bob Brown - you need to look at ones of living persons and the not so living ones, as well as contentious ones and the mild stubs like the one I started on Thomas Bather Moore - its best to see what mess editors can get up to - and usually on their talk pages there are links to other places to look at. Hope that helps. Please dont hesitate to ask anything. If I cant help there are plenty of places to go to...SatuSuro 07:56, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons might be what you're looking for... -- Longhair\^talk 08:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Nkayesmith says "Sign your posts"

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Hi Nkayesmith, I am fairly fanatical about doing this, is there a place I forgot to?Knobbly 20:10, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, at User_talk:212.159.75.221. --nkayesmith 01:41, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:National parks of Australia

Are you aware of this category? I was wondering whether with this new box you are putting at the bottom of national parks in Tasmania - are you aware of the earlier category? It might be worth checking very carefully before you go much further.... SatuSuro 05:27, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, and categories are good for organising articles but lousy when it comes to aesthetics and ease of use. I was thinking of the info box used at the bottom of an article for British national parks (eg Brecon Beacons) or American national parks. (egYosemite National Park) What is your opinion about info boxes? --Knobbly 07:54, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I am trying to check with someone else about whether such an info box is actually workable - each state has a huge number of national parks and pre-existing boxes in most cases - I suspect the new one might be duplicating info. will get back to you on this one. SatuSuro 12:40, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome SatuSuro ask me to stop by and look at the template, I like it. You might like to look at how Serpentine National Park has addressed the use of a box. Including every state would be very large box and too easy for errors/ommisions to creep in. Gnangarra 13:36, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I forget how few national parks the UK has compared to Australia, a per state info box probably works better.--Knobbly 20:50, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

YES that is the case. - and in most cases each state has a box already... SatuSuro 22:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

We might be talking about two different things SatuSuro. Each Tasmanian National Park article now has a little info box on the right and a green Tasmanian national parks box at the end of the article, which 'Me' fixed up. I don't understand how anything is going wrong with that set of articles. In fact I'd say the articles now look pretty good, albeit a few need some more words, but at a good standard. --Knobbly 21:54, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

My apologies - yes you are going well! excellent. What I had confused the other day was boxes and categories - somehow I thought there was another category added, not the box. No need to worry about me - keep up the good work! SatuSuro 00:01, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Christmas

Hope you had a good one - all the best for the new year! SatuSuro 03:43, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] New Page Creation

You must find a category for it poste haste (if I dont beat you to it - and also give it a Tas project tag on the discussion page - otherwise the recent change mob can paste more tags on it than the average politically challenged can put stickers all over their car rear windows) - also if you dont know about it its worth putting on the australia project new page - and also extract something from it for a DYK candidate. Satu Suro 03:37, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

You have a couple with no cats! arrgh sin of sins, wash your mouth out - they become orphans and even more tags if you leave them like that!!! Satu Suro 03:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Take a long and very hard look at Category:Tasmania - look all around it and in the nooks and crannies there - and find something for the list of events - and dont assess your own articles by the way! Satu Suro 03:46, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh well that should be enough harrasment for the day - trust you are not fazed by a bit of online terror - have a good sunday - cheers! Satu Suro 03:49, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Satu, trying to fix the categories in haste turned into a bit of a dogsbreakfest, thanks for cleaning up after me! Knobbly 03:51, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Category:Festivals in Australia - hey anytime - feel free to ask - best to use the main tas cat for anything tas - and then try to find something australian rather than wikipedia wide generic - looks good so far - might come back and fiddle with your tas lit sometime - if you havent seen it (I have my own copy) Alexander, Alison The companion to Tasmanian History is very good reading - and could help on some stuff I just havent got around to workng it with the tas project anyways - enjoy and leave a message at my talk page if you ever get stumped - cheers (again - gotta get off to do things) seeya soon Satu Suro 03:57, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wow

I think we might be of similar vintage cultural type i just checked all your userboxes (I retired my user boxes long ago - but thats another story)I can relate to most of them (small diffs here and there - my father was the pipe smoker) - there is an australian literature project in the offing...will keep you posted Satu Suro 01:38, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

You mentioned Alison Alexander, she was one of tutors at the Uni. We've probably crossed paths before in Tassie! I think the Tasmanian page is equal to the other states but I'd love to see it as a featured article one day. Anyway I should be working but Wikipedia so addictive!Knobbly 01:46, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

(Although I've just had a look at the Western Australian article and admit it looks pretty good. The Tassie article looks a bit fragmented and the photos at WA seem brighter.)Knobbly 01:48, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I lived in queenstown in mid 1970's but regularly commuted to Hobart - dad rels from fathers side in lonnie, my mothers brother family lived near burnie, and still have one old school friend up mt stewart, and an old uni friend of my wife and i at lower sandy bay - (and long lost friends on the east coast near those bad fires) and so it goes on Satu Suro 02:04, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Probably should be for your recent edits - no rush - but 'tighter fit' as some eds call them :) Satu Suro 09:34, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

You don't think all Tasmania articles should be in the Tasmania category as well 'tighter' topic relevant catagories? Knobbly 07:00, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

See WP:Overcategorization for that - also your Tas lit has been moved to correct upper/lower denomination Satu Suro 07:11, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi Knobbly, generally if a more suitable subcategory exists, an article should be placed in the most specific category. The existence of articles in Category:Tasmania means that either it is an article which does not have a suitable sub-category, or that the user who created the article was not aware of the sub-category, and therefore put it in a more generic category, and no-one has gone through and recategorised it yet. (I do it occasionally, such as here) -- Chuq (talk) 04:57, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

So the idea is that all Tasmania articles should eventually go into a sub-category inside the Tasmania category unless they don't have a sub-category? (There is no opposition to this policy?)Knobbly 10:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Looks right to me (well wait for him as well) Satu Suro 10:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ridley College

Hi Knobbly. Do you go to Ridley? I see you've edited the page a lot. I know a lot of people at Ridley. Tonicthebrown 11:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] AFD

Cheers. I note that the one who listed the article has done just under 200 edits to the Wikipedia namespace and 85 edits to the main article namespace. My personal opinion is we should ban anyone who has under 1000 main namespace edits from submitting AFDs. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:13, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

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