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Billingd, good luck, and have fun. -- arun talk 09:10, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits

Hello, you will have noticed that I have applied the knobby-ended stick to some of your edits! Late at night now so I will be back with a proper explanation within a couple of days. However, a good effort so far and pretty close so keep it up and accept a welcome as above; just a couple of things you haven't got the hang of yet Cheers (Crusoe8181 (talk) 12:02, 12 September 2010 (UTC)).[reply]

Fair enough. Always willing to learn. Billingd (talk) 01:55, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here we go- placenames in Australia no longer have apostrophes and have sometimes dropped an s recently (whatever some of the references may suggest!) - hence Donnelly -here is the place to check

-when we give article a category we don't usually add parent cats as well- Tributaries of the Yarra doesn't require Yarra River and Rivers of Victoria as the first category carries through as a subcat

-Tagging projects on talk page of new articles- as I have done for Watts River- copy/paste from a similar article is the usual way

-No article-type text belongs on category pages or their talk pages (this was what I deleted, you can retrieve the text back by using the History tab and look back at your edit). I understood your drift, but the text belongs elsewhere

-References (these are done inline)-I will do one for you on one of your articles; external links are for links about the article, but which you haven't specifically used to create the article; the VICNAMES link is not considered necessary, once you have entered coords it will show up on a map as existing, we should hope

and you can always ask for help, directly from those of us who have taken an interest or at Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board‎

Cheers again (Crusoe8181 (talk) 10:11, 13 September 2010 (UTC)).[reply]

Hi

Hope youre enjoying the place - over time maybe you might like to get an idea about adding the project tag on the talk page and some categories on the new articles ? It would help - best to look at some existing articles wih similar topics and copy from them - thats one way at least Satu Suro 11:35, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. Will try. Billingd (talk) 11:39, 13 September 2010 (UTC) No big deal - no rush - if you are enjoying what you are doing - welcome on board - I think there is a lot of stuff about the cultural hertiage issues of the goldrushes over here in wa we havent even started with yet Satu Suro 11:43, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

and I've just gone and moved a page! takes a while to get used to all these bloody wiki conventions!(Crusoe8181 (talk) 12:10, 13 September 2010 (UTC)).[reply]

DYK for Port Phillip District Special Surveys

On 30 September 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Port Phillip District Special Surveys, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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South Melbourne College

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Some text was copied from another WP article. Have removed it. Billingd (talk) 09:04, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The problematic text is PD, from the Dictionary of Australian Biography. Billingd (talk) 05:03, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	For a quiet, uncontroversial performance creating and adding to articles about Victoria, Australia. Cheers, (Crusoe8181 (talk) 09:09, 8 March 2011 (UTC)).[reply]

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Victorian Heritage Register sites

Category:Victorian Heritage Register sites, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Muhandes (talk) 09:49, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cats

Hello, soon as you get a barnstar you become embroiled in controversy! I would go with your naming, as soon as you mount a defence.Cheers (Crusoe8181 (talk) 10:22, 8 March 2011 (UTC)).[reply]

Talkback

I have no problem with "X sites", perhaps you should voice your opinion here. Muhandes (talk) 11:05, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Victorian Heritage Register sites

Category:Victorian Heritage Register sites, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.--Muhandes (talk) 01:21, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Billingd (talk) 05:02, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	Thank you for fixing Template:Australian Dictionary of Biography Nick-D (talk) 10:32, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Edgar Ritchie (engineer)

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Ritchie has a Australian Dictionary of Biography entry. This is generally sufficient. Billingd (talk) 08:47, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gold Rush diversion tunnels

I didn't realize there were so many diversion tunnels made for goldmining! But it makes sense. Thanks for your work on this forgotten bit of engineering during the Victorian gold rushes. I am glad my panorama photo of the Howgua River at tunnel bend showing the tunnel entrance added to the article on the diversion and on the river. I don't do as much editing or contributing to Wikipedia as once I did! Takver (talk) 10:00, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

May be of use to you

There are various tools to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to Wikipedians like ....Google book tool that coverts bare Goggle book urls into {{cite book}} format for you. See Wikipedia:Tools for more...Moxy (talk) 04:50, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'll have a look at it Billingd (talk) 10:51, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Reformatting refs

Hi, do you use a special tool for building/reformatting references? The reason that I ask is because I have just been through Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters and fixed up all the errors that occurred on article pages. While doing this, I always check on how the error was introduced: and I noticed that several of them were caused by citations which you had added (the problem is that the parameter |access-date= is deprecated, and the parameter |accessdate= should be used instead). Since then, you have amended one of these pages again, reintroducing exactly the same problem. Since the documentation for {{Citation}} doesn't mention |access-date=, I can only imagine that you are using an external tool. Which tool is this? --Redrose64 (talk) 21:45, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Aah. Thanks for pointing this out. I have been taking them from the National Library of Australia website http://trove.nla.gov.au/, which provides wikipedia formatted citations for books, etc in the catalog. It is particularly good for older maps and newspapers with online copies in the NLA collection. If you look at http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10730585, then click "Cite this" for one of the items you can see the source of the problem. I will try to watch out for this in future. I will also drop them a line and see if they can fix it. Billingd (talk) 01:11, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Just provided feedback to the NLA - Reference RSref33601. Billingd (talk) 01:29, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you --Redrose64 (talk) 13:25, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The National Library of Australia replied: Thank you for contacting us about the citation generator for Wikipedia. We're aware of the problem and it's actually going to be fixed in the next release of Trove. I'm sorry I can't tell you exactly when this will be but hopefully it won't be too long. Billingd (talk) 22:27, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

and to follow up, I can confirm that the change has been made Billingd (talk) 23:34, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

One day too late... I suspect that we gave up at this end, because this edit from two days ago (third non-blank line) means that |access-date= is now recognised as valid, and this edit from much the same time means that |access-date= is now treated as an alias for |accessdate=. Oh well. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:11, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oi and eh

Interesting how we end up at the same pages. I actually transcribed it at Wikisource s:An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait on the south coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4. I have a heap of others done (see s:User:Billinghurst), and I do mean to get to his Zaire book, which interestingly is the first source that puts out the mistake about his name. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:16, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hadn't heard of him until earlier today. I thought I would spend some of Australia Day looking at primary sources from the era. I'm collecting some references with online copies User:Billingd/History of Victoria and doing some cut and paste. Billingd (talk) 10:31, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have started Shillinglaw's records however, it gets tedious, so I pop in and pop out of fixing it; and a few other early Victorian pieces, and I a couple of works for Ballarat. If there is anything you find in your travels and is a full work, we can look to get it into Commons, and look to a transcription. Generally I find that archive.org has far better quality scans, those by Google often were done in low bit and their OCR is crap, and really crap for extracting images.

Re Tuckey, I have amounts of genie information that I need to write up and have published, so that it can then be used here in line with the requirements, and not snuck in quietly. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:31, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agree on archive.org vs google books. I prefer an Open Library reference to an archive.org book. Billingd (talk)

A kitten for you!

For working to fix the Australia year in template.

LauraHale (talk) 20:24, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

March 2012

Stop vandalizing Seconds from Disaster. Qantasplanes (talk) 23:01, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism is a nasty word to throw around. Details please. Which of my edits specifically do you have a problem with? The last change I made was to fix careless formatting errors that YOU made. (You really should preview and proofread your edits.) Prior to that I fixed some other formatting errors and added some wlinks. However, I will refrain from making further changes to that page as I don't wish to offend. Billingd (talk) 23:11, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your accusing me now? Hey I have more experience than you on the Wiki so please don't accuse me of not proofreading, I did but didn't see that I made a error. I aplogize for the inconvinience caused. Now shouldn't you aplogize ? Qantasplanes (talk) 00:07, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mate. I asked you to back the vandalism claim up with examples, or to withdraw it. Look at the edit history. Someone may be having an edit war with you, but it isn't me. Lets just agree to differ. As I said above, I won't make any more edits to Seconds from Disaster. Billingd (talk) 01:14, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. Qantasplanes (talk) 03:38, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

May 2012

Hi... I'd love to make the gillen page public for editing, but I don't have time to clean it up and maintain it because of other work. If I put it up, could you 'whiz' on it a bit? --Jasonnolan (talk) 13:06, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Melbourne meetup

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Richard Pitt

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The text in question was copied from the WP article Ocean (1794). I have removed the offending paragraph. Billingd (talk) 01:34, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguating Charles Robbins

Hi. I see that you've disambiguated the page Charles Robbins with the edit summary that Charles Robbins (Royal Navy officer) was a new article and that disambiguation was needed. Per WP:DAB, a disambiguation page should be created if 'there is more than one existing Wikipedia article to which that word or phrase might be expected to lead.' Do you have any other entries you wish to enter into the page? If not, I am inclined to WP:G6 the DAB page for a move. KJ^Discuss? 08:11, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Problem solved. I have added a brief page for Charles Robbins (athlete), who caused heaps of ambiguous links as he appears in Template:Footer WBYP Marathon Men Billingd (talk) 11:20, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

James Scott (marine)

Hi, hope you don't mind - after adding some material I've nominated James Scott (marine) for DYK as a joint project. Nom is visible here. -- Euryalus (talk) 03:49, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I that's fine by me. You did all the work. All I did was create a stub and wlink it in a couple of places. I have been doing this for a few Australian Dictionary of Biography entries. Billingd (talk) 07:14, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

James Scott (marine) has been nominated for Did You Know

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DYK for James Scott (marine)

On 17 October 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article James Scott (marine), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that New South Wales Marine sergeant James Scott was commander of the first quarter guard in Australia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/James Scott (marine). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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