Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Townsville
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[edit] Questions
I'm not sure, but have you contancted the people at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia about trying to get your project included in their banner and as a recognized member of their project? I think it might be a lot easier for you to gain members, and help spread awareness of your group faster, if you did so. Badbilltucker 15:04, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 16:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Townsville/Thuringowa
Hi Gertzy, are you saying in talk:Townsville, Queensland that you feel the LGA issue shouldn't be a focus at all in the article? WikiTownsvillian 13:16, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:17, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Photos
I have taken pics of signs for Mike Reynolds, Lindey Nelson Car, Peter Lindsay and George Colbran, also the Court complex and Townsville City Council admin building. Now just need to work out how to upload them :) maybe Thuringowacityrep can take a pic of the sign outside Craig Wallace's office and the Thur. Council Chambers on Thuringowa Drive? Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 07:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
hi WikiTownsvillian i have teken a lot of photo's of places in and around Townsville and Thuringowa but i have the same prob as you ...how to upload them... when you have worked it out could you let me know please and if i work it out i will let you know Thuringowacityrep 07:59, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Ha Ha hA, All you two have to do is just find Upload File in toolbox on the left bar, and its simple, self-explanitory in a way, just include URL's, Author, Tags, Copyright (if there is/or isn't) etc etc. -- Gertzy 13:46, 12th January 2007 (UTC).
Ah, but if only life was that simple, I can't find the cord that connects the *$#% camera to the computer! It'll turn up. WikiTownsvillian 11:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rating
Townsville, Queensland has now been rated as being of high importance to WikiProject Australia and of B Class quality which is only one below good!
"Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a completed article. Nonetheless, it has significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing for English language usage and/or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, NPOV or NOR. With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles."
Congrats! WikiTownsvillian 10:08, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
I think we can use the following as examples of what to aim for:
GA or Good classed city articles are only one step higher than Townsville:
Townsville is currently rated as high or higher than all other Queensland cities. WikiTownsvillian 04:58, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
- Geez, Congrats to all of us, especially alec for the notable changes which have resulted in our Rating. -- Gertzy 13:40, 12th January 2007 (UTC)
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- No way Gertzy, you've put in the long term hard yards on this article, respect. Feature article by 2008!!! WikiTownsvillian (a little drunk)1:15, 13th January 2007 (AEST)
Congratulations to Thuringowacityrep who, through a lot of work, has brought the City of Thuringowa article up to a B class! This whole project is starting to get into gear :) just need one or two more active members, WikiTownsvillian 07:49, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Suburbs
I have added the Suburbs template to all the existing suburb articles, thank you Getzy for creating the new ones in the last few days! WikiTownsvillian 07:06, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
- I'm planning to start a few more articles for some of the suburbs on the list, mainly to create more articles relating to the cities, and to give me something to do over the remainding part of the school holidays, so keep an eye out over the next week or two - Gertzy 13:51 (UTC) 12th April, 2007.
[edit] Stubs
If you think that there are roughly 60 Townsville stubs, you can contact the Stub-sorting WikiProject, and add a proposal to create {{Townsville-stub}} on their proposals page. Especially since their is a WikiProject to support the stubs, there should be any trouble with the proposal, as long as can meet their minimum number of articles for stub creation. BlankVerse 09:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Pretty much all the articles which could be considered within the scope of Wikiproject Townsville are stubs or not yet rated:
AFL Townsville, Aitkenvale, Queensland, Annandale, Queensland, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Belgian Gardens, Queensland, Bushland Beach, Queensland, Castletown Shoppingworld, Dancenorth australia, Deeragun, Queensland, Douglas, Queensland, Garbutt, Queensland, Hermit Park, Queensland, Hyde Park, Queensland, Idalia, Queensland, Ignatius Park College, Kirwan, Queensland, Lavarack Barracks, The Marian School, Macair Airlines, Tony Mooney, Mt Louisa, Queensland, Mundingburra, Queensland, Museum of Tropical Queensland, Mysterton, Queensland, North Ward, Queensland, Oonoonba, Queensland, Paluma, Queensland, Pimlico State High School, Pimlico, Queensland, Port of Townsville, Railway Estate, Queensland, Riverway, Thuringowa, Ross River (Queensland), Ross River Dam, Rowes Bay, Queensland, Ryan Catholic College, The Strand, Townsville, Shopping in Townsville, Signals, 5th Australian Division, South Townsville, Queensland, St Joseph's Mundingburra Catholic School, Stockland Townsville, Stuart, Queensland, Sunbus Townsville, Suburbs of Townsville, Thuringowa Central, Queensland, Townsville Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre, Townsville Bulletin, Townsville CBD, Queensland, Townsville Hospital, Tropic Sun Theatre Company, Vincent, Queensland, West End, Queensland (Townsville), William Ross State High School, Wulguru, Queensland
maybes: The Cathedral School, Townsville, Castle Hill, Townsville, Douglas Arterial Road
I think there are roughly 60 so I will make the proposal. WikiTownsvillian 11:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- I see that you've already made the proposal. You should add a link to this section so that they know that you've already created a list of stubs. You should also tell them what the 'parent' stub and stub category would be. That looks like it should be {{Queensland-geo-stub}} / Category:Queensland geography stubs (or {{FarNorthQueensland-geo-stub}} / Category:Far North Queensland geography stubs. I don't know that area of Australia at all). BlankVerse 13:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Separate State for North Queensland
What do you guys think of ? WikiTownsvillian 08:53, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Go for it mate maybe if it is a good artical someone from the goverenment will look at making North QLD a State of it's own like they did some years ago Thuringowacityrep 09:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Not my article actually, just wanted to hear some thoughts on it. WikiTownsvillian 10:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] history
Just a message that Peter DUNN http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/ has excellent history of Townsville and I wrote to him and although he is very busy, he would love the idea of wikipedia refelcting his work. I started to but ran out of time and I kept getting messages that all teh images I used with permission were removed.--Phenss 11:28, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ratings for Townsville Wikiproject
I've rated about half of the articles:
It would be great if you guys could have a look at what I've done and see if you agree with the ratings of importance to this wikiproject. Also I have not yet rated (see here) the suburb articles (which I think should probably be rated Mid, but would like to hear your thoughts) or the culture articles which I have written because I'm too close to them to be objective, also I haven't rated some of the Thuringowa specific ones as I'm not sure where to rate them under this wikiproject. Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 08:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Question regarding WP Townsville auto-categorisation
I note that (because I am a member of both of these also) if I place the WP Australia or WP Riverina template on my user page it automatically denotes at the foot of the page that I am a WikiProject Australia and/or Riverina member. This does not occur (for me or any other member) when the template WP Townsville is uploaded. Should this be adjusted as it seems to me that would be another way of attracting interest and members?--VS talk 09:04, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hi Everyone!
Just thought I'd mention that I am going to try and fill out some of the suburb articles... thought I'd start with Pallarenda, Queensland since that is where I live. There was an interesting debate not that long ago about part of Cape Pallarenda being rezoned for development... anyone know anything about it? I am a lemon 10:38, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
- Hi I am a lemon, welcome!
- Thanks for starting the article, I've seen a bit about that issue in the news and I'd be happy to add some material about the Pallarenda land being developed and the surrounding controversy, will get onto it over the next few days. Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 12:16, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ACOTF
please support the nomination of Townsville for the Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight. Cheers, WikiTownsvillian 12:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cyclone Althea
I recently referred to CA in the JCU article and clicked on the link to see where it goes. Now, if you have a look, you'll notice that it's not actually a page for CA. Shouldn't CA have it's own seperate page or is it a Wikipedia convention that it be only referenced in that list? Niël 15:16, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
