User talk:Aflumpire

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This is my new talk page. For anything said on or before 10 October 2007 should be in my Archive. Thankyou.

Reply to your question

No, having been blocked does not disqualify you forever from being an admin, but most people will expect several months to pass after the block so they can be reasonably confident that the incident was a one-off. WjBscribe 14:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Move of Australian federal election article

Please note that moving a page which is undergoing heavy editing without discussion is considered to be highly disruptive. With the federal election now called, the page is likely getting several thousand hits per day, and worldwide standards on Wikipedia have "Location jurisdiction election, year" as the title. See for example Category:Canadian federal elections, Category:Elections in France and Category:United States House of Representatives elections for just three examples, quite apart from the extensive number of Australian federal and state elections already using similar nomenclature. If you want to change the standard, propose it at the village pump and notify talk pages/projects such as WikiProject Australian Politics or other politics projects as needed. Orderinchaos 09:51, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

nutshell template

Hi Aflumpire! It looked like you were trying to add an empty nutshell template to your user page. If you want an empty nutshell template on your user page, try this: {{nutshell|}}. (By the way, that's not three letter L's in "nutshell," the final one is a vertical bar.)
Here's an example of what this will look like.

If you want the template to describe your user page, you would do it something like this: {{nutshell|i like the AFL|i like arcohol|i hate vandals}}. (Notice that each item is preceded by a vertical bar.)
Here's an example of what this will look like.
Hope this helps. Jecowa 12:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Patel

A disambiguation of one person with that surname is not appopriate, more so because of the WP:BLP problem inherent in your labeling of the person in question. I suggest you take that to heart. Carlossuarez46 18:00, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Christopher best

May I suggest you actually read the article before claiming it not to be nonsense and removing my CSD tag? Are you an admin? B1atv 22:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

As you have replied on my user talk page I have responded there to prevent the conversation becoming truncated. B1atv 22:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. On many keyboards, the tilde is entered by holding the Shift key, and pressing the key with the tilde pictured. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot 22:26, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Thanks for voting on my RFA! Although ultimately it was unsuccessful, I do appreciate the feedback. As to the lack of involvement issue you raised - I think the only way I can respond is to say that if I run again I'll hopefully have enough experience to gain your support. Again, thank you so much for voting, and I look forward to seeing you around Wikipedia --danielfolsom 21:32, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi, Aflumpire. I guess my comment on your teacher correcting "thank you" to "thankyou" is that teachers are human and sometimes make mistakes. I'd be very interested to see some evidence that Australians with decent writing skills (a rapidly diminishing breed going by what kids are taught in Aussie schools these days) generally write "thankyou" and not "thank you". Does "thankyou" appear in any dictionary? Cheers. -- JackofOz 02:13, 21 October 2007 (UTC). PS. Thank you for the invitation to chat about this.

"Australians are getting worse at spelling every day!" - oh, tell me about it, mate. There are various major factors at work. Firstly, the lack of quality teaching these days. I don't mean that teachers don't do their job well, but what they teach leaves a lot to be desired. It's not the teachers' fault, but the fault of governments who allow basic concepts such as nouns, verbs and apostrophes to be glossed over, if mentioned at all. Ever since kids started coming out of high school functionally illiterate - and this was first commented on at least 30 years ago - alarm bells should have been going off and changes should have been made in primary and secondary schools. This was one of the few things I agreed with John Howard about in the leaders debate last night. What a disgrace that English ever became an optional subject in schools. What a disgrace that a person can do 12 years of school, and still have to do a remedial English class before being accepted into university. Then there's the internet, which, for all its great benefits, has dumbed down language. People used to know the difference between "affect" and "effect", and "its" and "it's", and "your" and "you're", and "to", "too" and "two", etc ad nauseam - but the numbers are rapidly diminishing. Websites, TV ads, newspapers, you name it, now get these things wrong all the time. People are writing "a lot" as one word "alot". The tragedy is that they're unaware they're making a mistake in the first place, and if the error is pointed out, they don't seem to care. It's become uncool to ever correct anyone's spelling or grammar - as long as the intended meaning can somehow be deciphered, that seems to be sufficient. I do some professional editing, and I've often been told "Why change it - it gets the message across". I live near the Princes Highway, which is so often misspelled - and mispronounced - "Princess" Highway - by the locals, and in websites and ads. If they paid me for the amount of time I spend cringing and weeping, I'd be a millionaire. And American spelling is starting to dominate. We've always used "practice" as a noun and "practise" as a verb, but the Americans for some strange reason have reversed this. I see you wrote "defense", whereas the Aussie way is still "defence" (I'm not having a go at you, just noticing what's happening). Then there's SMS, which has resulted in many people now writing abbreviated SMS-code in contexts where it's completely inappropriate. Anyway, enough of my ranting, because if left unchecked I could go on literally forever. -- JackofOz 00:37, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Second Ostend Raid

Thankyou for your comments and support at the above successful FAC.--Jackyd101 18:34, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

RfA thank-spam

Thank you! Thank you for your help in my RfA. It hammered home a few things I need to keep in mind while admining and passed with a final tally of 40/0/4; two people forgot to vote in time, leaving me short of that exquisite number :-(, but I'll just have to fudge the next vote about me. Adminship feels slightly august but not particularily exalted, so I shall endeavour to consider it a toolkit and make sincere efforts to know what I'm doing before using it. If you later on have something to say or want to ask for -- MESSAGE EATEN BY BEARS --Kizor 10:24, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Ethiopian crash

I re-organized it with a subheading :)

I would love to find a total list of passengers AND a total list of dead. Preferably both lists would have nationalities. If the lists also had planned destinations, that would be good too (Singapore Airlines 006 lists have nationality AND origin, as the flight was SIN-TPE-LAX and crashed after takeoff for the 2nd leg) WhisperToMe 09:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Australian rules football

I've left a few comments on this FAC - hope they help. — H₂O —  09:38, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Qantas

I understand you are dedicated and all but how long does this last the FAC? Sparrowman980 06:44, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

If you are unsure if an article meets one of the speedy deletion criteria, it's better not to be bold and use another method instead. I'd recommend AFD so more people than just the deleting admin would have input in the process. Speedy deletion is only for clearcut cases. - Mgm|^(talk) 05:42, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Apology

I apologize. I was in a hurry... I appreciate your tolerance though.--Getoar (talk) 04:24, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

A O E 3

No problem. I think it would be deleted under either one. Also, don't forget to sign your comments. KnightLago (talk) 01:15, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Brisbane Meetup

	Brisbane Meetup Next: To be decided (watch) Last: Saturday 13 January 2018
See also: Australian events listed at Wikimedia.org.au (or on Facebook)

Delivered on behalf of Dihydrogen Monoxide. Sorry you got this later than some other people - took the lazy botop 2 days to run :) Giggabot (talk) 07:56, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Air New Zealand

Look at the route map here: [1] and do a timetable search here: [2]. Look at the press release on this page near the bottom, note that it says year-round service. [3] I think you'll find that you had trouble booking because in the off-season, the flight only operates twice a week. That can be confirmed here by doing a search: [4]. Just because you aren't able to book a direct flight does not mean it doesn't exist. Zeus1234 (talk) 06:26, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

RE:Huggle Whitelist

The huggle whitelist is the whitelist of users that the relatively new anti-vandalism application Huggle uses. If you're on it, that means huggle will ignore all edits that you do, assuming that, because you're whitelisted, you won't vandalize. Therefore there's nothing bad about being on it (or off it, for that matter). Calvin 1998 ^(t-c) 00:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

How did you find out you were on this whitelist? Ideally, whatever you saw that informed you of this should also have contained some link explaining what it means. If the link is not there, then we should fix that if possible. Since Wikipedia is a do it yourself project (and probably the world's largest one), we need to make everything on Wikipedia as self-explanatory as possible. --Teratornis (talk) 04:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Brisbane meetup invitation

	Brisbane Meetup Next: To be decided (watch) Last: Saturday 13 January 2018
See also: Australian events listed at Wikimedia.org.au (or on Facebook)

Hey there, you're invited to the second Brisbane Meetup. Please see the page at Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/2 for more details. Hope to see you there!

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Answered your helpdesk question

I did... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 22:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

You may want to try some of these Google searches:

They use the {{Google custom}} template, which is an easy way to create "Google custom" searches on particular Web sites (such as Wikipedia) or on particular parts of Wikipedia (such as particular namespaces or even on subpage trees). --Teratornis (talk) 00:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Survey for new page patrollers

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Brisbane meetup with Sue Gardner invitation

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More details can be found at Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/7. I hope to see you there! John Vandenberg 02:26, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

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Quixotic plea

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:01, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

New deal for page patrollers

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New Challenge for Oceania and Australia

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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