September 2017

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  Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 02:37, 7 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

Help me! - please remember seasons are reversed in the two hemispheres.

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Please discourage the use of seasonal references in articles. The 'Spring' of 2017 is a very different time in the northern and southern hemispheres yet we constantly find such references on Wikipedia. Using specific months is the only way to unambiguously specify a particular time. The added bonus is that it removes the assumed 'northern-centricity (mainly USA but also Europe) that so irritates those of us south of the equator. Please help me with...

203.27.62.92 (talk) 21:31, 5 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Context is important. There are many instances where referring to "spring" is entirely appropriate, ranging from the biological (the Spring Crocus flowers in spring) to the military (the spring campaign in some war, such as the Spring Campaign). In many cases there's a reason things happen in spring, and that reason depends more on the season than on the particular time. If spring comes early, crocuses will flower early. If spring had come late, the spring campaign would have been delayed. Huon (talk) 22:08, 5 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Mater Group

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Generally it's better to add information than remove it. So we should retain info about any of the closed Mater hospitals rather than remove them. Kerry (talk) 08:40, 11 July 2022 (UTC)Reply