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Happy New Year

sigh, hope its a good one SatuSuro 02:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Low-level assessment

I don't have any hard and fast rules on assessments. Assessments are subjective anyway really and opinions on article quality will differ no matter who you ask.

Articles that are merely a few lines of text and are unreferenced I'd assess as a Stub. When an editor has gone part of the way towards expanding the article, perhaps into a few sections or more beyond a leading paragraph, I'd classify that particular article as Start class.

Of course, that leaves a huge gap between Start class and B-class but that's an inherent problem passed down from the original WP:1.0 assessment specs which WP:AUS works within. An example of an article which is borderline Stub/Start class would be Barwon Heads, Victoria. I'd consider it a stub-class article, but it's almost a Start-class if that helps. -- Longhair\ 06:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Mooroolbark

Yes, I believe it. Fourth week of school holidays. The kiddies are getting bored. Hesperian 10:25, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I know what you mean; it drives me bananas when the ANBG Flora of Australian "Online" isn't, sometimes for days at a time. Hesperian 10:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Nice work on the "Five ways" plan, I can see a new article in the future "Tricky Intersections of Australia" featuring your diagrams :) --Melburnian 05:36, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

POV forks

I'm not particularly active in XfD. I probably wouldn't get through RfA these days, given how standards have evolved in the last year or so. ;-) So I'm not the best person to ask this question. But here's my two cents:

I would first trying overwriting the POV fork with a redirect to the original article, with an edit summary something like "Merging duplicate articles per WP:POVFORK". This is minimally offensive, minimally adversarial; you'd be surprised how often it works. Hesperian 10:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Done, and a fairly strongly worded message left. Hesperian 11:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

By the way, the people who contributed to the original Mooroolbark article (e.g. you) did so under the terms of the GFDL, which permits the making of derivative works but requires authorship to be acknowledged. This is achieved through the provision of an article history. When our recalcitrant editor copy-pasted their version of the article to a new location with no article history, they essentially passed off a multi-authored derivative work as their own work. This was a violation of the other authors' (e.g. your) copyright. In my opinion, speedy deletion as a copyright violation would be warranted in this case.

(Yes, I know that by this logic the common practice of splitting an article section off into a new article is a copyright violation. This has been acknowledged as a problem for the MediaWiki software. The devs have been thinking about history splitting or referring mechanisms for a while now. Until it is dealt with, remember to give an informative edit summary whenever you split an article)

Hesperian 11:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Yep, your origin of Hamersley narrative is coming along nicely. Great research.

I actually quite like the one answer to seven questions situation. It leads me down all sorts of bizarre garden paths. I'm currently burning with curiosity about phytogeography, having never taken the slightest interest in it previously, simply because a question about Banksia epica#Distribution and habitat led to an answer, led to seven more questions.

Where possible I now photocopy everything even vaguely relevant, and bugger the cost, then turf the crud later. Having never set foot in the State Records Office myself (burning with shame to admit it), I don't know if that is an option.

Hesperian 12:11, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Courtesy note

I won't be around until 11:30 UTC (20:30 WDT; 22:30 EDT) on 2 Jan so leave any comments on my talk page. Thanks! :) Orderinchaos78 14:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Rict

User talk:Rict I'd be interested in your opinion of what I did this morning, additionally you may find the links useful anyway Gnangarra 02:13, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah i had seen the notice I was really just interested in your thoughts both on the link content and the users actions. Gnangarra

Citing the Government Gazette

I would treat it as a newspaper and use {{cite news}}. Hesperian 23:21, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Eskimo Joe

I've noted that each of the members of Eskimo Joe have been allocated their own stub however the lead singer, Kavyen 'Kav' Temperley is incorrect in that the page is Kavyen Temperly which is not the correct spelling of his name - should be corrected Dan arndt

Perth/Metro

I really think following on from a non native speakers nomination incorrectly titled and showing limited understanding of the distinction between article and category shows we're suckers!  :( As for the Perth thingy - the Govt Dept and WALGA show a pref for metropolitan. What do you think? SatuSuro 02:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Yep bit like the earliername for geographic names :) the nomenclature advisory board of western australia - yippee! I agree metropolitan is a tuff one - we'll have to nut it out SatuSuro 02:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hamersley

I would keep the history section in chronological order. If it gets really long you could write a summary paragraph to open the section, but other than that chronological works best for history sections I think. If it helps, there are two featured articles on Australian suburbs: Waterfall Gully, South Australia and Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory. Hesperian 12:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Do you want a map? We could ask Astrokey44; he makes excellent maps. I haven't seen him around much lately, but his contributions says he's still active. Hesperian 12:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I think we just cross-posted. What help do you need? Sounds like you should:

1. Write an article on the Mooro people. If it is a bit stubby, so be it.
2. Reduce your aboriginal history section to something along the lines of "Before European settlement, the land that is now Hamersley fell within a larger area of land that was occupied by the Mooro people, an Indigenous Australian people...." and finishing with a one phrase summary of the Mooro.
3. If there's nothing else to say about Hamersley pre-invasion, then bite the bullet and go straight on to white arrival, exploration and settlement.

Hesperian 12:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: crowding: my attitude is that FAs should contain everything, and I mean everything, notable and directly relevant to the subject. If you put everything into the article, and find the history section has grown too big, why, you just roll out a History of Hamersley, Western Australia article, and rewrite your history section in summary style. Does that sound insane? I assure you I'm deadly serious. Before taking Yagan to FA, I rolled out separate articles on the process by which his skull was exhumed, and on a cartoon in which he featured. But then again, I probably am insane to enjoy writing on such obscure topics. Hesperian 12:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Apologies; lately I seem to have gotten old man syndrome - constantly telling anecdotes from my past to anyone who'll listen. Pretty soon I'll hit the next stage of dementia and start repeating the same stories over and over and over again. Hesperian 12:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey I can relate to that! SatuSuro 12:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey I don't mind :P And you're talking to someone who recently edited 400 Melbourne articles for the sole purpose of changing an infobox. So maybe we're all a bit insane :P Orderinchaos78 12:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Apologies for intruding on youse guys ) was trying to check something and I kept seeing you both talking - so the more the merrier I thought! (ok not always - but when it comes to admitting either age or insanity - I'm in! 12:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Dont forget there is an article for the building - also I think I have jpegs of the bronze plaques - somewhere in the middle of the collection! SatuSuro 13:16, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey thread 5,432 on hold - same with me... :) SatuSuro 13:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Dong I cannot find my 'can we help' humour things from christmas time I think some humourless person has deleted it SatuSuro 13:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Been on too much I have thousands of edits I cannot even have good perspective on - Misplaced Pages:Can we help you? is still there SatuSuro 13:53, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Shire Info Boxes

Hi Orderinchaos78 - I put this request on User:Mattinbgn earlier on but then remembered that you have offered similar assistance....?

Howdy Mattinbgn - it looks like we have some similar interests. If you have the know-how and time can you please add the appropriate Shire Info box at the bottom of the Yenda, New South Wales & Cookardinia, New South Wales articles that I have started in the last day or two - and perhaps also to Mangoplah, New South Wales? I do not know what the info (Template:Ref's) for these towns are. VirtualSteve 08:35, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Wonga Park

Thanks, I only got that image because I took a wrong turn! The water looked very inviting, the last couple of days were in the mid-thirties here. That's a good suggestion of yours re images, I'm starting to lose track of them all. --Melburnian 09:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the suburb articles have been a playground for jokesters for a long time, here's a suburb article that was started as a joke which was freely added to for nearly a year(!). Check the links too. --Melburnian 13:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Ich bin ein Winthroper :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Melburnian (talk • contribs) 23:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC).

Bris notice

It's quite a ride! I've also phased out {{WPAL}}, {{AusSportsNotice}} and {{WPANotice}}. {{WP Geelong notice}} and {{WP Adelaide notice}} have also been deprecated. There's still {{afl-project}} and {{NBL-project}} to go. More tricky are {{WPGoldCoast}}, {{WP Australian crime}}, {{WPFootballinAus}}, {{Australian Baseball-WikiProject}} and {{WP Banksia}}, which may require discussion before deprecation. Thanks, --cj | talk 12:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm happy to let Banksia stand, though I do think we could satisfy any objections to its removal with changes to {{WP Australia}} (perhaps in the collaborative fashion of WP:IAP).--cj | talk 13:08, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

AS the Banksia (Banksia dentata} is also found outside of Australia I does need to be a seperate box Gnangarra 13:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Success

I got some attention to project today. Look forward to another picture. Just populating a new cat Category:Amphibians of Western Australia and I thought it would fill the gap. Glad it is not my upload, with your stinging criticism :) I have seen better photos of other amphibs since. What are you attending to today? Fred 09:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I think i really chose it for the caption. A deliquent frog? Do you have any leads on candidates for election to this category? Unique to WA is best, may get into trouble for poaching. How far North? Too late for requests anyway, unless you want to snap a memorial by any town hall. Future WA culture agenda item. Regards Fred

All this talk of frogs, and I had no idea! Since you seem interested in frogs, and are in Western Australia, I was wondering whether you would be able to upload any photos of species Wiki dosn't have. WA is the worst represented in that respect. I am willing to create the article for any new species.

Check out this list for all Australian frog species, it lists articles with photos, articles without photos and frogs without articles. If you want all the WA species, here is one, you can create it in Wiki if you like. Thanks. --liquidGhoul 11:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Lymnodynastes dorsalis is the other very common one around Perth. it is the one with a chorus that goes "bonk!". Hesperian 11:28, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Just left a message on hesp's page about pobblebonk. Currently redirect t'otherside. Fred 11:36, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflict)That'd be great if someone could get a Limnodynastes dorsalis photo, we only need 4 more Limnodynastes frogs (3 of which are in WA) before we have photos of them all. --liquidGhoul 11:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

That's a very darkly coloured Litoria moorei. --liquidGhoul 11:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I was about to say the same thing. Hesperian 11:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

On the up side at least we're getting lots of GFDL pictures of Litoria moorei :D The banjo ones are very secretive in my area. I wish I knew what the ones down at Busselton were (no photos, sadly, and only a very poor camera recording of their call - they were up a tree at the intersection of Vasse Highway and Bussell Highway about 11pm one night.) Link to (pretty much sound-only) movie (506k) Orderinchaos78 12:02, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I'll take a listen, I have sent you an email, just reply with the sound attached. Thanks. --liquidGhoul 12:08, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

This really doesn't match with the "up the tree" story, but there are only three tree frog species in south-western WA, and none sound like that. It sounds very much like Heleioporus eyrei, check out the call here. --liquidGhoul 12:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm weird - it got louder as I approached the tree, and quieter as I passed it - maybe it was on the ground near the tree somewhere. The one you linked to sounds awfully like what I remember. Orderinchaos78 12:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Just as well as I dont put my sound thingy here - I have three varieties of frog at the same time here:) SatuSuro 14:47, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The little bikies are going nuts at my place. :) Orderinchaos78 14:49, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The bonk ones are on tonight - but its so loud with the range of sounds - its better than eno and music for airports! (the slowest rendition of the d major chord in the history of music) SatuSuro 14:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Good to see youre gatekeeper at the WP WA and also a conjurer for the reviatlising 'West' article - may the sore on the wide bottom of the west be cauterised soon! SatuSuro 06:43, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

BEWARE the perpetual copyright issue and 'The West' - I am sure theres a trick or catch 22 in there somewhere - I am not a hundred percent sure! SatuSuro 13:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

When I was doing a long research project or two (etc) in battye and sro in the deep dark past (dont let me aver start relating the details on wiki or email - I'll be up all night) - the repoduction of anything from the w required formality and great care to protect - like if anyone does a piccie or quote longer than etc there was always the suggestion to contact them - and any repoduction in journal arts or books even required further nose work SatuSuro 13:48, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Early paper trail - it should be a separate article - watcha think? SatuSuro 14:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I used to go to school with moonface - at least he responded to emails a few times while he was ed :) SatuSuro 14:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah he seemed that way then - but I am not that impressed by his recent opinion artcles though - the reasoning is up the creek on most issues imho SatuSuro 14:56, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

On Hesps talk page my ref to dubysspeak and the canadian mexican borer problems might help on that one! SatuSuro 15:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Good luck to you too

I notice some of your contributions are Victorian locations - a lot of familiar names there, having spent the best two weeks of my life on holiday in Melbourne! I especially recall the name Tarniet (entire trip took 7 hours by car on a single tank of premium petrol with 50km to spare!). West Gate bridge is good too. I'm already missing it :( Enough about my adventures, good luck with your FA! Timeshift 14:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Emailed. Timeshift 14:45, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Articles

Do you know any good articles that really need someone to work on? Preferably country ones I might be able to do? DanielT5 12:25, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Amusing note re Hamersley

Data collection finishes tomorrow. Want to know why I couldn't find the last piece of the puzzle? Whoever put the structure plan on file at State Records (not the SR staff themselves, probably a department staffer) can't spell Hamersley. :) I'm starting to get to a point where I understand the story and now just have to figure out a way of telling it with the reasonably extensive list of sources I now have. (Not even sure where to put them for collaborative purposes - it's ended up as 50k of text files on my hard drive!) Orderinchaos78 14:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Shame, shame.

I suppose they're all still in copyright? If any are out of copyright, and you're a sucker for punishment, you could keyboard them into Wikisource. I like to do so when I use public domain primary sources e.g. see Wikisource:Category:Convictism in Western Australia. But then again, my sources are not as boring as yours. ;-)

Would you consider lodging the lot in the Battye library? They would stick it in a stack somewhere, and you'd get an entry in their catalogue like this one, making it much easies for anyone too snobby to trust Misplaced Pages to repeat your research.

Hesperian 00:23, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Mooroolbark

There was an obvious behavioural pattern, so I made a point of occasionally checking Special:Allpages&from=Mooroolbark&namespace=0 Hesperian 03:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Battye

Well, good for you! If the OR bit is a good length and decent material, you might look at getting it published somewhere. Then you could cite your own work in the article :-)

I had been planning on asking my library to get me in a copy of Diversity's Challenge, because I noticed it was under-referenced and assumed you hadn't looked at it yet. I should have known you'd be all over it. Bugger, now I'll have to find some other way to contribute.

Hesperian 03:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Imagery

Are any of these of any use?

Unfortunately the data is too low res to support a closup of the suburb. Hesperian 05:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Grats on GA

Well done getting Hamersley to GA; nice to get that first one, now the down side GA is still a long way from FA <insert smart comment re:GA here>. Eyes kinda hanging out tonight I'll have a look at this article and Culla tomorrow. Gnangarra 14:17, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Take a look

If you need a break for a few minutes - very closely at the Misplaced Pages talk:Places of local interest/ railway station debate. I am not asking you to get involved -but just see what happens - (actually there are heaps of other similar debates elsewhere but I thought this one is close to my heart -as you will see) I think its of note as rebecca is one of our canberra based admins - a good one...SatuSuro 23:37, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Gawd I dont know whether I'm making a fool of myself there - or whether I'm missing something :0 SatuSuro 00:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Very impressed by your checking the railway station name things - thanks for that - I'd put up the satusuro geographically challenged villain - but suspect poor critter is sort of redundant for what I am not sure - but well done! SatuSuro 01:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

You don't want a talk page like mine I think :)

Thanks for the, well, thanks, but unless you like a whole lot of controversial topics, you might not want the sort of things on my talk page so quickly :). Homestarmy 00:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey I've seen that editors name in the strangest of places in my time on wp - :-0 SatuSuro 00:59, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

There are some editors in the states whose talk pages and user pages would be enough to break every bone in a psychic body without uttering a single sound :( SatuSuro 01:04, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Why?

. Hesperian 02:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Righto, carry on. Hesperian 02:46, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

. Hesperian 03:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Category:Local Government Areas of Perth was formerly in Category:Perth. Should articles removed from the former be put in the latter? At the very least, I should think that City of Perth belongs in Category:Perth. Hesperian 03:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

DanielT5 made a pretty good argument. I was seriously considering changing my position. That considered, it probably wasn't quite time to close the debate. But you've gotta close it some time. This is the problem with doing these things through a formal process; methinks these things are nearly always better handled informally. Hesperian 04:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Cydebot was rolling out the recategorisation but pointing to the wrong log page, so I shut it off. Things will be hanging in a messy, half-done state until Cyde comes back to his computer. Hesperian 04:38, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

It is permitted for admins to be absolutely brutal to bots. An indefinite block for a minor inconvenience! For future reference, WP:AN/I is the place to take such issues. Hesperian 04:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Daniel's argument was well put and I also was reconsidering. Too bad. —Moondyne 10:09, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice comments guys :) DanielT5 10:33, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Yek, that's one horrific piece of spaghetti code!

This:

{{#ifexist:List of {{{city}}} suburbs| ] | {{ #ifexist:Category:{{{city}}} suburbs| ] | Suburbs }}}} around '''{{{name|}}}'''

looks like a bug to me. I read it as saying

IF there's a ] THEN link "Suburbs" to ]

ELSE

IF there's a ] THEN link "Suburbs" to ] <-- WTF???

ELSE don't link "Suburbs" at all.

That aside, there's a bucket of code at the end that checks for various forms of city and/or state categories. I wouldn't be surprised if it all worked fine.

Hesperian 04:12, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Shire Boxes

ta mate, I will get onto them on Friday probably... DanielT5 10:33, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

wow that is a lot of links, was wondering where I was going to find all that info!! hey if the population of a town isn't in that list is there another way to find it? DanielT5 12:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

excellent, pity about little Nungarin hey :( nice place if you ever get out that way. I'll probably give you a shout when I've done my first one to make sure I haven't screwed it up! DanielT5 12:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Aquinas College, Perth

Hey Ord =) you seem to be pretty with it, so i was wondering if you could review my article on Aquinas College, Perth at Misplaced Pages:Peer review/Aquinas College, Perth , I have spent a considerable amount of time on this article and have been lacking in the feedback dept. Thanks =) Smbarnzy 12:55, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Story updates

Thanks for filling in the additional information about the plagiarism story. --Michael Snow 16:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Ta

You got one back SatuSuro 14:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

good one got to get off! SatuSuro 15:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

check recent talk. :( SatuSuro 14:21, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Murdoch if he ever finished it SatuSuro 09:55, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I gotta go - but its an Australian thing - I reckon Australian Place project or Australian Project noticeboard is where it should be going on - not in that cruddy little corner - its atrocious what soert of precedent that might set! -speak to ya later SatuSuro 15:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Checkout the sunset coast one - another argh! SatuSuro 15:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

And my response - the attempt at hijacking it to notability - seems to be a classic afd tactic these days! I dont have a problem with your response - its the others! SatuSuro 02:36, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

The whole rail system has holes in it - done most I think... SatuSuro 11:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Bus stations and other dsitractions as always :) SatuSuro 11:54, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Probably disappear to tassie and indonesia for a while - back later SatuSuro 11:57, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Mukinbudin

okay I did what you said about copying the info box across from Wandering so now I've filled that in. how do you do the distances in it? I did the first one but don't know how to put in Merredin. Also how do I get the map coordinates? And sorry but one final thing could you do the page for Shire of Mukinbudin because it's showing up red. Thanks. Night for now!! DanielT5 16:14, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Week

		The Original Barnstar
		Thank you for your work to WP:VIC. Punk Boi 8 09:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Glen Eira Councillors

Hi, Thanks for informing me of your actions to delete the articles I created. I have placed my response. Please do read it. I disagree with you and I think we dod need a page about each councillor because they are apart of history and have made headlines. CatonB 11:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestions. But I still think we need in the Glen Eira page to mention events and issues that occurred in Glen Eira eg mayoralty votes, sacking (which you've started on), brawls, and catergorise them. How about that in the page, but no biographies? CatonB 12:08, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Can I make a suggestion that all articles that will be deleted be merged into the same article. But this time it will be part of an article called History of Glen Eira Council and one of the subheadings would be Glen Eira Councillors. How about that? CatonB 00:11, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Ta for the warm welcome

I not long here but like lots and is amazing !!!!! DDO you ?? I make pokemon article more betta and now i FIX up Hamersley where i live during now school. also Template:Infobox Australian Place but need make not broken soon !!!!!! No Wories mate

... and how are you? Fred

I had just built up an interesting talk page, full of legit italics and stung bot-jockies and sats dropped that there! Speakin of fires and devils, there was a spot fire Woodside today. Fred 12:25, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Punk boi gave me a barnstar too. Curious to know why. I'm sure you deserve yours, have mine too.Fred

WP:ADOPT

Hi there,

As a user looking to Adopt with the Adopt-a-User program, there has been some ongoing developments that we would like to bring to your attention, as well as request help with the backlog at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user.

You should know that the way the adoption process works has changed slightly. To decrease workload at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user on offering adoption please change the {{Adoptme}} template to {{Adoptoffer}} on the user's user page, and this will add the user to Category:Wikipedians having been offered adoption. Users that have already been offered adoption can always have a second or third offer, but by separating out those users that have not had an adoption offer yet, it is hoped that no one will go lacking. Once adoption is complete please use the templates found here on the Adoptee's and your user page.

Also numerous Adopters have been adding their details to a list of users available for adopting, to offer a more personalised service and allow new users to browse through and pick their own Adopter. The quickest way to adopt though, is still to contact users at the Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user.

Furthermore a new Adopter's Area has been created where you can find useful resources and other Adopter's experiences. Please feel free to add any resources you have and if you know of any useful resources for new users / Adoptees then you can add them here.

So I hope you get adopting soon - and if you have any general questions or suggestions about the further development of Misplaced Pages:Adopt-a-User please bring them to our talk page. Cheers Lethaniol 15:21, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Stubs

Will have a look for what it is worth. Fred

They

will do nothing unless we let them. Fred

hey I saw the SFD on the project page, man that is dumb. Is there like a list of ones that need to be created, I could may be help if you tell me what is needed. DanielT5 17:27, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

um I did Safety Bay Road is that the way you do them? I can do more DanielT5 17:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

ok no worries I'll get started on those :) DanielT5 06:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

ah thanks for that, didn't know it mattered if it was minor DanielT5 12:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

that's cool I will remember that. always good to get it right! by the way should I keep going with the rockingham ones? if you want any different ones just change the list on my talk page. DanielT5 12:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

thanks, should I do Garden Island Highway, Rockingham too? must be the only highway in Australia to be a cul de sac :) Orderinchaos78 13:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)