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War memorials

Hi, I noticed you editing the war memorial article in my sandbox (User:AYArktos/sandbox/War Memorials in Australia). A bit of a desultry effort that I haven't got back to. Do you think it isworth developing as a topic? Would you be interesyed in helping? Regards--A Y Arktos 03:39, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't think you should take the shifts to the Shrine of Remembrance disambiguation as a slight. The disambigution prioriteis are that if some article is likely to be the first one most readers think of it has priority over a primary link to a diambiguaton page. If there is more than one with similar priorities then disambiguation is the primary page. See for example, Christchurch (disambiguation) and Christchurch, the dab page should be formatted better according to the manual of style, but the 1st Christchurch I thought of was NZ. Rum Jungle though goes stright to disambiguation. Regards--A Y Arktos 10:02, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I have reformatted the Shrine of remembrance page and referred to the manual of style. I htink the "actively removing links to the Shrine of Remembrance, Brisbane, from various War Memorial pages" was a roll back of your edits. He has admin powers and it can undo a lot of edits at once. Please don't be discouraged but ensure your edits are in accordance with the key wikipedia policies, especially that any fact is verifiable and expressed in a netral way, ... Just take a deep breath :-) and don't take it personally.--A Y Arktos 10:30, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

War memorials

I too was unimpressed with the indiscriminate use of the roll-back button and full reversion of an edit I had made when partial reversion would have been appropriate. I would still like to progress the theme of war memorials across Australia. Have you read

Inglis, K.S. assisted by Jan Brazier (1998). Sacred places : war memorials in the Australian landscape. Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-5228-4752-8.

or

Billett, R.S. (Bill) (1999). War trophies : from the First World War 1914-1918. Kangaroo Press, East Roseville, NSW, Australia. ISBN 0-8641-7977-4.

or any of Inglis's other works? There was also a really good book on Queensland memorials. Regards--A Y Arktos 09:54, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

drafting a war memorial article

Please feel free to treat my sandbox as your own:-) - add pictures, add content ... when it is somewhat progressed we can move it in to the main space. I wanted to sort out my own ideas before doing so.

The concept is caught up with Anzac day.

There are a lot of myths about the number of Australian war dead as a proportion of casualties. For example, the assertion at Talk:ANZAC_Day#Death_toll and I had previously discussed the issue at Talk:Australia/Archive_6#World_War_1_Casualties. I don't think anybody is well served by inaccurate representations.

I am interested in the resurgence of interest in WW1 - both Keating and Howard leading the charge. Despite the coins and so on there is not much interest in WW2 - do we have to wait til the veterans are dead?

Regards--A Y Arktos 21:47, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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Updated Copyright on File:Australian-2-cent-coin-both-sides.JPG

Hi Figaro, I've just updated File:Australian-2-cent-coin-both-sides.JPG with an Australian Coin-specific copyright template. I'd encourage you to check your free-use rationale, and apply for permission for the image from the Royal Australian Mint. twilsonb (talk) 04:18, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

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Please check this article

Hi, I have noticed that you were and early contributor to Stockman and you might like to check it out. There are now plans to merge it with an American article.Cgoodwin (talk) 05:26, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

There are no plans to merge Stockman with an American article. The proposal is to move the article to a new page name, and move the disambiguation page to Stockman. This proposal is intended to ensure that this very nice article about the Australian stockman does not attract (more) largely irrelevant content about the word "stockman" as used in the United States. 69.3.72.9 (talk) 17:51, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Figaro, anon 69 got someone to make the move at Stockman. Against consensus. See the talk page of the article, the talk page of the innocent closer (Born2Cycle) and Wikipedia talk:Requested moves#Question for closers. You may want to weigh in, but beware, my words got twisted to say that I favored something I actually opposed... (grin) Montanabw^(talk) 00:07, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Figaro, I completely support your removal of tangents re stock keeping in the United States. After all, the United States is merely one among many cultures that keep stock. 69.3.72.249 (talk) 20:15, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

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I did not copy the text from the above mentioned website. I did not even know of the existence of the http://www.worldofwodehouse.com website until it was mentioned here. Figaro (talk) 15:29, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

I named Jeeves and Wooster and Blandings Castle based on the characters mentioned on the back covers of the books concerned. Figaro (talk) 15:40, 2 December 2010 (UTC)