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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
[edit]Hello Nford24,
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The Bugle: Issue 224, December 2024
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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:42, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
About 2025 Australia Day Honours - I must admit I'm not really sure about what to do with this
[edit]Hi mate,
It's only 2 Jan 2025 where we are, so Australia Day 2025 is still (Shirt58 counts on his fingers) 25 days away.
So: what to do here?
- send it to a notional Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2025 Australia Day Honours with a WP:TOOSOON rationale?
- move it to Draft:2025 Australia Day Honours and wait until 2025 Australia Day actually happens?
- I guess it could possibly also attract a speedy deletion notification following WP:CRYSTALBALL and/or living people - yeah, the awards are going to happen, but who knows which living people they are going to awarded to?
I seek your opinions about this.
Pete AU aka Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:30, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- I don't believe there is anything you need to do here, unless your suggesting the world is going to end before 25 January? I have an extensive history of making quality honours lists here. These specific (Australia Day) articles have been started at about the same time since 2010, with no complaint or issue raised, If anything only praise has come from setting up an easy to use template which resulted in this two years ago. I however won't object to it being moved to draft space, though I believe it's unnecessary. Nford24 (PE121 Personnel Request Form) 17:33, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
The article 2025 Special Honours has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
As per WP:CRYSTAL. Speculation as there haven't been any yet, nor does the article mention any are forthcoming.
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. The C of E God Save the King! (talk) 20:13, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue 225, January 2025
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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 07:17, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
Unsure why edit was undone?
[edit]Hey there, just wondering why the postnominal was removed from my edit for the Australian of the Year recipients? Other people listed have their postnominals shown and there's plenty of supporting evidence. Such as https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Category:Companions_of_the_Order_of_Australia&from=S and https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/dick-smith-named-a-companion-of-the/6528942 Maybe I didn't set it up right? If I'm not authorised to edit that page maybe someone who is authorised could correct it? Thanks very much! SunCamper (talk) 21:45, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hello SunCamper, at the top of the article, immediately above the table is the line, "The post-nominals listed for each individual are as they were on the day they were named the Australian of the Year". Dick Smith was made the Australian of the Year in 1986 and then a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2015. Nford24 (PE121 Personnel Request Form) 03:09, 24 January 2025 (UTC)