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Post Office

Hi, I'm not sure why you have redirected Post Office to that specific post office? This should direct to the generic Post office article. - ҉ Randwicked ҉ 07:31, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I take your point about why an name ought to point to one article, as in 'the post office you find in any neighbourhood'. However, to the best of my knowledge, no other Postal Service, or organisation of Post Offices in the world is known as 'The Post Office', except in the UK; although technically no longer used for postal service, many people still use the name and the brand name does still refer to Post Offices.

Maybe include a disambiguation?? I have created Post Office UK as a redirect. (RM21 21:59, 18 May 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Hey, you still about?

I was wondering if you have the original files you used to create the regional infobox... Ta bu shi da yu 14:23, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks mate :-) I hope you don't mind, but I uploaded it as Image:SydLGAs.png. What license can I put on it? Is GFDL OK? - Ta bu shi da yu 23:21, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

List of metro systems#Oceania

This list is accreting entries (recently Perth). I strongly doubt if there are any legitimate entries here, and I am inclined to delete the section. Susvolans (pigs can fly) 09:02, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

thanks!

thanks for removing that bit of trash about Sydney being far away from Linton. i actually created an account specifically to get rid of it, as it got on my nerves, but found someone (ie: you) had beaten me to it. nice one!

Y're welcome, Anon. Randwicked 11:53, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of Sovereign states

Will you also cast a vote on the move to List of countries? Electionworld 07:59, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Australian metropolitan areas

Thanks for correcting the area definitions for Sydney and Melbourne in the List of metropolitan areas by population article. The numbers are from the UN World Urbanization Prospects 2003 report (projection for 2005). I have also added the land areas for the Sydney and Melbourne statistical divisions in the article. Polaron 02:14, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"Ok, I laughed..."

It's even better if you read it out loud. Joyous | Talk 02:09, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You win. Joyous | Talk 02:17, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

reply about db-copyvio

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Evolution discusion Reply

It is defining the process, not the theory of the process.

Yes the orginal phrase incorrectly implies that Evolution is Fact. No where in the article does it mention or imply that Evolution is a theory, as the whole POV in the Evolution article make it sound like Fact, which is incorrect. I was trying to righ this wrong, by simply showing in the first page that is indeed a theory, and should not be implied to be fact.

Gingerfield articles

Hi there,

I notice that you marked a number of Gingerfield articles as vandalism. I do not see how they qualify as vandalism at this time. Could you perhaps explain either in your edit summary or on the articles' talk pages? Stifle 11:42, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I found out. :) Stifle 11:43, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Aetherometry

Would you please do the favor of participating substantially in the Talk page for this subject? Your latest revert came with no edit summary.Pgio 08:07, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ya...

... thanks mate :-) The original is at http://www.perverted-justice.com/opinions/?article=11 which Perverted Justice have modified! I just got an email from the administrator of official wire, hopefully they will see where the error is!

Hey, where have you been? You missed the Wikipedia Sydney meetup! - Ta bu shi da yu 13:46, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it was a few weekends ago. I was incredibly slack and didn't message anyone I knew... :( Keep an eye on the Wikipedia:Meetup page! Ta bu shi da yu 13:52, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice people, some are more eccentric than others :-) I had a blast! You've got to come to the next one! - Ta bu shi da yu 14:00, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

Yeah, got myself an account. Look at my userpage for all my geeky contributions

AnthonyJohnson (Australian politician

what's with removing space from the name? I thought I was doing things right... ? btw still working on it but if I wait too long my proxy stuffs things up. was worried I might have missed finding this guy and created a stub when a good page already exists!

Garrie 23:56, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sydney trains: Inner West line

Trains on the inner west line do not run every 15 minnnutes outside peak hours.

The inner west line is the train line that runs from Central to Liverpool. Outside of peak hours, there are only shuttle services that serve the inner stations. From Lidcombe to Liverpool there are no trains between 9:30 am and 2:30 pm.

You're thinking of the "inner west" as opposed to the "inner west line"

--Sumple 04:17, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Polytechnic School

Not disagreeing, but what is your source for the Paw Print?Kiwidude 06:15, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Australian English

Thanks for watching and reverting I chose poor words in the note, I should have said vandalism as it had nothing to do with the article Gnangarra 03:42, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sydney Meetup - Sunday 5th Feb 2006

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We're planning a Wikipedia meetup in Sydney, on this Sunday, the 5th February. 
This follows on from the successful first Sydney meetup in November of 2005.
We are planning on meeting at either Darling Harbour, or the Town Hall steps.
As someone listed at 
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Sydney WikiProject!

All the best,
Nick.

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Melbourne Ranked First!

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What

Why are you people dicking with my talk page? - Randwicked Alex B 06:25, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seidler

Wasn't quite sure from the initial reports that he died today hence the missing date. Good riddance I say. The edit recording his passing was the most satisfying I have made to Wp. I can't wait till they bury him and I can go have a long piss. Albatross2147 02:43, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yet another date links proposal

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Peak oil page

Why did you revert the part about the logistic curve and the hubbert curve? the logistic curve is obviously not the rate at which oil is extracted because that would imply that the amount of oil is infinite. And they say the rate of extraxtion is both a logistic curve and the hubbert curve - but those curves are different. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert_curve

Your edits stated that the cumulative oil extraction resembled a bell curve. This is logically impossible. (P.S., you can sign your name with four tildes at the end of your message.) - Randwicked Alex B 15:29, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No it didn't. It said cumulative oil extracted followed a logistic curve. Rate of extraction is the derivative of that logistic curve, which is a bell shaped curve. Logistic curve is not bell shaped, the hubbert curve is. Logistic curve is not the hubbert curve.

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Suburbs statistics

If I were to make a script to extract relevant statistics from the chunky ABS census data, what should it include? jnothman ^talk 09:40, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I'm in the middle of downloading 2024 excel spreadsheets. For some reason there's no suburb data for Qld or ACT...? But what there is, I might as well do the whole lot in one go. Let's list the sheets and the data we want to extract:

B01 - Population, area, pop density. So is ATSI percentage.
B03 - top (two?) age brackets
B05 - is this where you wanted me to extract most common nationalities from? ancestry based on parent? I'm a little confused about how to understand these tables: just use the last column? When I calculate percentages, does it include "not stated"? Does "most common" mean top 5, or all those above a certain percentage?
B06 - or did you want me to extract nationalities from here?
B07 - or is this where I should take nationality from??
B10 - get the top few religions- top by perccentage, or top 4? Count Christianity as one group or as individual sects, or both?
B18 - dwelling structure? percentage totals?
B22 - unemployment rate
B23 - non-school qualifications? percentages?
B33 - median weekly household income? median weekly individual income? mean household size?

If you could let me know what you think of the need for each of these statistics, and in complex situations how they should be calculated, that would be fantastic. jnothman ^talk 00:29, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Woollen-Gong

Take another look at the article.

--Amandajm 13:15, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reads better now. - ҉҉ Randwicked ҉҉ 06:09, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Sydney meetup

Hi, I got your name from this list, and thought you might be interested in a meetup in Sydney at the Alexandria Hotel tomorrow. I hope you can join us. Sorry for the late notice. --99of9 (talk) 10:51, 18 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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How do you define what is the metropolitan area of a Capital City in Australia?

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Proof on those fanfiction routes

Hi Randwicked

Sorry to bother you but when you removed the "Unofficial Routes" on the NSW Road Routes page, was State Route 266 even a route or was the editor who edited that put that as a meme? was and even I went to Corowa to check it out and it's not an error. But I can't see where 266 is, I've even been to Albion Park and saw no signs of it. Was there just a former sign or someone (Thegwh32 who is blocked) who tried to trick us?

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Edit: This is mainly due to the fact that I am creating an article on that as it doesn't make sense to me, hence why I want to knwo.

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Gadi and Sydney

Hello Randwicked.

I hope you don’t mind if I continue our discussion here, as I would like to more fully explain my position. My intention isn’t to remove Indigenous place names from articles, but to add them whenever they are well attested in the most reliable sources and unlikely to be successfully challenged. I started working on the Sydney article because I followed a link to it and saw that the entire article needs to be improved in a lot of areas. We disagree over whether the current statement that Gadi is the Dharug word for Sydney is reliably sourced. Fair enough. But another issue is that there are many highly reliable sources which show that other clans in the Sydney area had other names for their territories and none of them fully equate to Sydney, however defined. There is no doubt that the original settlement was on a part of Gadigal land, but Gadigal territory was larger than the initial settlement and their word for that territory existed for thousands of years before Sydney, for over 230 years since Sydney has existed, and will probably continue after Sydney sinks under the rising sea. I don’t think it should be reduced to a mere name for Sydney. The Sydney metropolis now covers the land of about 29 clans. Only including the Gadigal word in the lead might be seen as presumptuous. My intention is to move the word Cadi from the lead and place it in an expanded section on the First Inhabitants of the Region in order to give a summary of the clans of Sydney, their known territories, and their names for these territories. This is in line with [[WP:OTHERNAMES]] which states. “If there are three or more alternative names – including alternative spellings, longer or shorter forms, historic names, and significant names in other languages – or there is something notable about the names themselves, a separate name section is recommended.” If you are interested, I can work on a draft of my proposed new section and copy it to your for your comment. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 03:24, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As discussed, I'd be grateful if you had the time to look over my draft of the changes to the Sydney article. I've added a section of the name for Sydney and have expanded the section on First Inhabitants of the Region to give more information on the known clans and their territories. Off course, this isn't a complete descripion of the first inhabitants, but I think it's better than what we currently have and it can be improved over time. Any comments you might have would be very welcome. (Please let me know if the link doesn't work, my technical competence is in the bottom decile.) User:Aemilius Adolphin/Sandbox2#History Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 06:11, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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