Franz T. Speeling

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Hello, Franz T. Speeling, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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• Hi, in response to your userboxes question I think your page looks just fine as it is!--Edchilvers 08:10, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Yongala

Hi Franz. I see that you have started work on an article on Yongala, South Australia and that it has been nominated for speedy deletion. Wikiproject Australian Places has plenty of great resources to help you improve your article and bring it up to speed. Feel free to have a look around or if you have any questions let me know on my talk page and I will try and help. In the meantime, I will ask the speedy delete nominator if he/she will withdraw. Happy editing! --Mattinbgn/ ^talk 08:39, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

• I am also very happy to help - and have added some more material to Matt's and your work. Please note a suggestion for an image that I have detailed at Talk:Yongala, South Australia which will be enough to get it from a mere stub classification to a 'start' classification. Keep editing! Be bold! --VS ^talk 10:45, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Userbox

About that Alice userbox, what exactly do you want it to say? Any colour preferences? I'll make one ASAP once I've got the information though I'm only online sporadically. On holidays (right...) Happy Editing! Yuanchosaan^Salutations! 10:23, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

• Oh wow! That would be super duper sweet :D! Ummm.... I don't have any real colour preference, as long as the fill and the text contrast fairly well so it's easy to read it'll be fine. As for what it would say... hmmmm... maybe, "This user just gets curiouser and curiouser!" maybe... anyways yeah, that would be the greatest, thanks in advance! Franz T. Speeling 15:11, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Done! (Sorry it took so long, hope you don't mind). Anyway it looks like this:

This user just gets curiouser and curiouser!

at User:Yuanchosaan/Userbox/User Wonderland. Tell me if you like it. I made it blue and white for Alice's dress but I can change the colour scheme if you want. Happy Editing! Yuanchosaan^Salutations! 23:51, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

That is SWEEEEEEEEEEET! Big kudos to you! This is really the greatest, thanks a million! I owe you one! Have a good one mate. And thanks again! :P Great idea for the colour btw!

Franz T. Speeling 07:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Freesound project

Although you can't use the Freesound Project's Icon (as that is cc-by-nd [non-free]) you can use sampling.png (see below) which is almost identical but is covered by cc-by-3.0 ( = good). See Non-free Creative Commons licenses for more info.

File:Cc-sampling.pngThis user assists The Freesound Project.

or as a flat userbox

This user supports the SVT

Thanks, Monkeyblue 11:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks for this userbox, It's great! I owe you one. Peace. Franz T. Speeling 07:22, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

uploading pictures for Yongala, South Australia

Hi Ken/Franz. I saw your request for help. I suggest that if possible, you upload your pictures to the Wikimedia Commons, a sister project of Wikipedia that facilitates using free images in all of the different language wikipedias. You need to separately register as a user at http://commons.wikimedia.org/ then click on upload and follow the instructions there. You can release your pictures to the public domain, and relinquish all rights. I choose to licence my photos with CC-BY-SA and GFDL, so that if someone else wants to copy it and use it somewhere else, they have to give credit to me as the photographer. Put it in commons:Category:Regions of South Australia or a subcategory. If you upload it as filename "Yongala.jpg" for example, you can refer to it in the Yongala, South Australia article as [[Image:Yongala.jpg|thumb|right|Scene from the hill overlooking Yongala]] or add it to the infobox by filling in the image (just put "Yongala.jpg" as the template adds the "Image:" bit) and caption fields. I'd just put one picture in the infobox for now, until there's more text in the article to balance more pictures. You can upload the extras to Commons straight away if you wish. Thanks. --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:52, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Done! Thankyou so much, your help is highly appreciated. The article looks better already! :D Now... I've just got to find some free time to expand the contents... *sigh* damn school! Take it easy mate. Thanks again. Peace. Franz T. Speeling 08:03, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Extra text could talk about the dominant silos in the picture and the railway history - it currently says the railway went to Peterborough instead. Did a later line come to Yongala? Are the silos operated by ABB Grain, AWB Limited, someone else, or nobody? What grain is collected there? Where does it go? How often is "common" winter snowfall? When long enough, extra pictures could be scenes from the same point at different times of year (I expect it will be green in a month or so), and a main street scene. --Scott Davis ^Talk 08:19, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Excellent. Okay... this is great, thanks. I can ask some people who live here about the history... But how would I cite primary information like that? Or wouldn't I need to at all? Franz T. Speeling 08:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

You're right that what you find out from the older residents cannot be properly cited. I'm not sure if WP:CITE gives any help. I'd be inclined to insert what seems obvious without cite, and anything that sounds like it needs a reference, tag with {{fact}} and hope someone else can find a reference if you can't. Often just knowing what to look for makes finding a reference easier, either online or in the local library, council archives or museum. Maybe someone has already collected the history and published a history book of the town or area. If you get a lot of interesting information and it sounds like it needs sources, but you don't have any, put it on the talk page to start with and see what other people can pick out of it. --Scott Davis ^Talk 15:17, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't see your message on the Yongala talk page. I see your images are now up at Commons. I have taken the liberty of categorising your uploaded images and creating a gallery page. This has also been linked to the Yongala, South Australia article. Please let me know if I can help in any other way. Cheers, Mattinbgn/ ^talk 05:53, 1 June 2007 (UTC)