User talk:Nickj

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• Archive from Aug 2004 - Nov 2005.

Contents 1 Summer Hill 2 Top Ryde merge 3 Australian postcodes references 4 Thanks for link help 5 Help with Five Dock 6 Style test page 7 Commonsgallery 8 Lilli Pilli 9 Jannali East 10 Sydney 11 football 12 html2wiki wishlist 13 Well Done 14 Request for edit summary 15 Heh, saw you over on SuggestBot's requests page 16 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 17 Strawberry Dream cocktail 18 Lilli Pilli again 19 City of Blacktown 20 broken coordinate display 21 Summer Hill railway station 22 Titles in electorates 23 Your subpage 24 Your Ride Of Choice IS... 25 Brighton le Sand 26 LinkBot 27 Speedy deletion requests on WP:SD 28 Deleted vanity page in your userspace 29 PHP tutorial 30 Summer Hill 31 Can we link it 32 Your edit to my userpage 33 Can we link it

[edit] Summer Hill

Any chance of seeing this resurrected for FAC? Now we've got Waterfall Gully, South Australia as a clear example of what suburb articles should look like in order to be featured, it'd be great to see Summer Hill joining Yarralumla as our third suburb FA. Ambi 02:56, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm very interested in seeing Summer Hill make featured... Give me a yell if you want me to proof-read, etc. It's got great potential and was (until a short while ago) #1. Cheers, - >>michaelg | talk 00:50, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Top Ryde merge

I've merged Top Ryde into Ryde, New South Wales. m.e. 08:27, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Australian postcodes references

In case you haven't seen it, Australia Post has a comprehensive downloadable CSV spreadsheet of postcodes. Surpisingly, some suburbs have multiple postcodes, and a postcode can cover multiple suburbs!

I wonder if there's a way to add that information to suburb articles automatically? Maybe I should try my hand at writing a bot! 8)

--Peter bertok 05:00, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for link help

Thanks for fixing up the SuggestBot links, I should read directions more often.

Also, I didn't realize you were the LinkBot master. I bumped into it when I was thinking about my project and thought it was a very cool idea. Kudos to you.

-- ForteTuba 13:20, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Help with Five Dock

Hi, loved your work on Summer Hill - it served as a great model for me when I was working on Five Dock!! I've got a bit of a problem with the Five Dock article at the moment. Something rather strange has happened to the formatting under the Notable Citizens heading. There are 4 edit links appearing there for no reason I can discern. If you have any time to have a quick look, I thought you might be able to work out what's going on. I think it must have something to do with inserting those 4 images in a row... Thanks a million! --Alexxx1 ^{(talk/contribs)} 00:56, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the suggestions! I'm flat out busy at the moment but I'm going to attempt to fix that formatting as soon as I can. --Alexxx1 ^{(talk/contribs)} 12:16, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Style test page

Hey,

Sorry, I didn't realise that temp page survived. A set of them was created to test a proposed template which users were voting to adopt. After the vote I thought I had deleted them all but obviously missed that one. I've deleted it. If you spot any others in that series they don't need to be voted on or anything, just automatically deleted. They were copies of the articles that existed at that time (August 2005) with one change: styles which Wikipedia was then using but was about to drop were moved as a test to a style template. (WP decided to use templates with them rather than have them in styles on the basis of that vote, and how those temp pages showed they could be used.)

Thanks for alerting me. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 19:18, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Commonsgallery

Though I agree that the template needs to be kept I think you might be missing something about why we need to 'fork' - it's not because the original is useless but protected, because if the central template had a camera and said 'image gallery' it would be wrong in the case of galleries that had audio, video or more than one type of media. There aren't many but I'm sure there are at least some composers that have samples of their work at Commons. Perhaps you know this already, but your last comment to the TfD debate implied that you wanted to change the central template.

P.S. If it survives TfD (which it will on current trend) I'm thinking it should be moved to {{commonsimage}} - {{commonsgallery}} is too general (if it had been named properly its purpose might have been more clear and it might not have been nominated). --Malthusian (talk) 09:17, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, if that works, it sounds like it should please everyone. I don't have any programming knowledge so can't really say any more than that. I'd certainly add your suggestion to Template_talk:Commons. --Malthusian (talk) 23:58, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lilli Pilli

With reference to your comment at Talk:Lilli Pilli, New South Wales- both the text and the images appear to be significant copyright violations of http://www.ourshire.com.au/suburbs/ the Lilli Pilli page. Is that who you are following up? Dolans Bay looks to have the same problem. :-( --A Y Arktos 10:45, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jannali East

There is a suburb and region referred to as Jannali East which has its own primary school by that name. I will look for references to it on the internet but I doubt they will be forthcoming due to the general scarcity of information on such things.

09:14, 4 February 2006 (UTC)60.225.202.61

[edit] Sydney

Hi Nickj. Thanks for the Barnstar - I often wonder if anybody ever notices anything I do as I rarely get pulled over for doing things correctly or incorrectly. I think you should take a look at the LGA templates for Ku-ring-gai and Lane Cove because the suburbs on them differ significantly to those listed on the articles for the respective councils. I changed the Ku-ring-gai to the list of suburbs on the article Ku-ring-gai Council, but did not do this to the ones on the Municipality of Lane Cove. You may want to have a look to see which is correct. Regards, Blnguyen 04:55, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] football

The Victorian Rules folk ar trying to claim that Aussie Rules is an Australian variety of the game when it is very distinctly a Victorian variation of the football and was codified in Victoria many years before the beginning of Australia. If you share the same opinion I would love for you to come to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Football and give your opinion.

All the best

03:55, 12 February 2006 (UTC)Licinius

[edit] html2wiki wishlist

Sorry for such a delayed reply. Your suggestions are good ones, but it'll take some work before they make their way into the H::WC code. I'll keep you posted. Cheers, David Iberri (talk) 00:25, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Well Done

I have just been looking through your contributions to the Sydney Suburbs and wish to commend you on the work you have done. I wish I knew a more formal means of honouring your contributions, but they are terrific nonetheless. All the best

10:53, 26 February 2006 (UTC)Licinius

[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 35% for major edits and 97% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 01:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heh, saw you over on SuggestBot's requests page

Hey there. Thanks for all the useful comments on SuggestBot during its infancy, it was super-helpful to have some positive feedback that this might be good for Wikipedia. It'll be grinding out some more suggestions soon, hope you like yours when they get here. -- ForteTuba 03:54, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

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Cleanup Quetzalmon Dishwashing Cranbrook School Sydney Merge Freestyle battle Tendulkar's recent form Disability etiquette Add Sources Luna Park, Sydney Melanie Williams Birmingham military history Wikify DeVito's and Knapp's Model of Relational Development COBIT Karen Horney Expand Attiki Odos Barry Paskin Playground games

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Results of interesting ("Yes") / not interesting ("No") to me are shown below. Note however that I am probably one of the most difficult people to make suggestions for, because the stuff I do for the wiki syntax project means that I frequently edit articles that need to have their syntax cleaned up, but which are not particularly interesting to me. I try to mark these edits as minor, but I'm sure I often forget! So, probably far more for me than for most people, my minor edits should be ignored / downweighted. Given this, I'm impressed it did as well as it did! -- All the best, Nickj (t) 01:10, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Stubs No Dancin' Thru the Dark Yes Kinchega National Park Yes Blacktown, New South Wales No Steve Lukather No Norm Fieldgate Trophy No Dave Dryburgh Memorial Trophy No Jude Watson No Cnicht No Fan Brycheiniog Yes South-western Sydney No Steve Holy No Manorbier Castle Yes Wolli Creek Yes Marrickville, New South Wales Yes Belfield, New South Wales No Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian No Dr. Beattie Martin Trophy No Lew Hayman Trophy No Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player

Cleanup No Quetzalmon No Dishwashing Yes Cranbrook School Sydney Merge No Freestyle battle No Tendulkar's recent form No Disability etiquette Add Sources Yes Luna Park, Sydney No Melanie Williams No Birmingham military history Wikify No DeVito's and Knapp's Model of Relational Development No COBIT No Karen Horney Expand No Attiki Odos No Barry Paskin No Playground games

[edit] Strawberry Dream cocktail

The cocktail in question on wikibooks has been moved by someone there to Wikibooks:Bartending/Cocktails/Glossary#Strawberry_Dream. The cocktails at wikibooks have all been combined into one enormous article, and now all the links here to cocktails at wikibooks are broken. --Xyzzyplugh 13:57, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

They're not supposed to do that. Let me know if you have this sort of problem in the future (I am a wikibooks admin). --SB_Johnny | ^talk 12:21, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lilli Pilli again

Did you ever hear back for the email you sent to the www.ourshire.com.au site that you discussed at Talk:Lilli Pilli, New South Wales ? Regards--A Y Arktos\^talk 08:59, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] City of Blacktown

You left a comment there regarding Indigenous Population. I followed it up a little bit. I am working on the Blacktown suburbs so I don't want to be too heavy on any of the content but would you mind having a look at the Wiki article, comparing it to Blacktown's official website - I think that all the Blacktown articles (that is every suburb plus the city page itself) ALL qualifie for a copyvio flag. But I don't want to be the one to do it.... Also, seems like one of those claims - city of blacktown website says Blacktown has the largest indigenous population in Australia yet the 2001 Census results clearly show, City of Sydney has a greater NUMBER of Indigenous Australians then City of Blacktown. What a suprise? Garrie 00:18, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

let me retract the bit re: idigenous australians I was comparing to Sydney Statistical division...Oops!Garrie 00:25, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] broken coordinate display

Please see Template talk:Geolinks-AUS-suburbscale#Broken display. --Scott Davis ^Talk 09:59, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Summer Hill railway station

Hi - I've been reading and looking at your great work on Summer Hill, and since you've done a fair few of the photos I was wondering whether you had a photo or two of the railway station? A platform shot or a a shot of the front (from Carlton Crescent) would be good if you have them. You could add it to the "Transport" section of your Summer Hill article as well if there was a bit more text (?) (JROBBO 05:07, 6 May 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Titles in electorates

Hi,

Would you like to give feedback on the use of titles in electorates?

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian politics/Electorates#Titles in member lists

-- Newhoggy | Talk 04:46, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your subpage

Greetings, Nick! I've deleted your user subpage with the js because it's somewhat of a bad idea to post onwiki before a fix is found. Usually best to email vulnerabilities straight to Brion first especially if they're proven working... Anyhow, I've deleted it as a precaution; in case you haven't gotten several emails about it already, you might want to take down your off-WP examples also. Thanks, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:29, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your Ride Of Choice IS...

The Joy Wheel (alternately the Wheel of Death if populated by male teenagers with saberwyn driving); installed in 1935, maybe-removed in 1981, maybe-reinstalled in 1995, and still operating in 2006. The only difference between then and now is the addition of a microphone, automatic transmission, and a passenger limit.

As an aside, I love driving this thing. -- saberwyn 11:34, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

• Why do you think I call i it the Wheel of Death in that situation? ( :P ) -- saberwyn 21:05, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brighton le Sand

Hi Nick. I've done the move for you. I became an admin on Monday. Anyway, a reason to become admin, even though so stated at WP:NA that you had no reason to. Thanks, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 06:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LinkBot

Is your bot no longer working? I noticed it hasn't contributed since 2004! Kilo-Lima|^(talk) 18:19, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion requests on WP:SD

I noticed that you wanted many of your subpages deleted. The admins seem to not have noticed them. Since I am not an admin, I am tempted to add {{Db-owner}} to the top of all of the pages you are requesting to have deleted. However, that could make me look like a vandal. If you want the admins to remove them, add {{Db-owner}} including the braces to them. Thanks. Jesse Viviano 02:11, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I had to edit my above post to fix some syntax errors. Sorry about the bad advice from before. Jesse Viviano 16:48, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Done now. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted vanity page in your userspace

Hi Nickj, I speedy deleted User:Nickj/Redirects/redirects-047.txt, which was created by User:BloRd as a vanity page about himself. You can see basically the same info at BloRd's userpage, but if you happen to be amused that someone else created a vanity page in your userspace and want to preserve it, please let me know so I can undelete it. Thanks! Kimchi.sg 13:48, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PHP tutorial

Where is a good PHP tutorial? GangstaEB help me improve! 00:07, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Summer Hill

Just letting you know, if you don't have it on your watchlist, that Summer Hill got promoted to Good Article status. That's a good step on the way to Featured Article. Hopefully with a few more references and so on it should qualify in the near future. (JROBBO 23:22, 3 August 2006 (UTC))

Hi JROBBO, Just a quick note to say thank you for the successful Good Article Nomination for Summer Hill. I've been meaning to say thank you for about 2 months now, and have just been too slack to get around to it :-( So this is both a "sorry", and a "thank you"! -- All the best, Nickj (t) 04:46, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem - I hope you can get it to FA status soon. Let me know if I can help in any way. JROBBO 05:09, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can we link it

Hi! I think this is a great tool. I would be interested in a limited test on other Wikipedias (I don't know if the suggestion service you use works on other projects), to see if their languages are compatible. I would like to help testing on huwiki, and the Croatian wikipedia if it works. Even if it is half as great as it is on the enwiki, it would still be pretty good. --Dami 12:49, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Re [1], you should endeavour to make sure that when you make a link substitution, that the casing is appropriate. Thanks Dysprosia 14:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to my userpage

Please stop adding unwanted edits to other users' user pages without their permission. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thanks. Just kidding. Thanks for fixing that up for me. — Werdna talk criticism 12:21, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can we link it

Hi, I recently discovered through wikitech "Can we link it". I just tested it and it works great. Can I already put a link to it on Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify (it would be great for that) or do you want to wait with that? Since I read you only are temporarily putting out. Cheers, Garion96 (talk) 11:23, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for putting it up on the page. I hope the site stays up or that it will move to somewhere else. Can't help you with that btw, I am not remotely technical enough in that regard. :) Garion96 (talk) 12:04, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Nice tool... it seems to do exactly what is needed for articles tagged w/ {{wikify}}.  ALKIVAR™ 20:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone know of an extension, to make a list of words, you would like to be automatically linked to a specific page(internal, external)? ehyal@yahoo.com

Well the can-we-link-it thing will use redirects - so if you have a number of pages that redirect to a page, then it'll suggest linking to that page. So if you have a fishes → fish redirect, then it will automatically suggest linking "fishes" in the article text to fish (or rather, it can do - in the default configuration it won't because the "fishes" link is too short, so but after changing one line to enable exhaustive mode, it will). However: A) can-we-link-it is not an extension, it's a separate tool currently B) It won't suggest external links, only internal C) It's not automatic in that it won't add the links for you (it will suggest them, and show you them in a preview, but you still have to tick a box to accept the suggestion, and you have to save the page). However, I'm not aware of a tool or extension which does do these things ... sorry :-( -- All the best, Nickj (t) 06:36, 1 November 2006 (UTC)