Welcome edit

Hello Gertzy,

Welcome and enjoy Wikipedia. Your edits are much appreciated.

These links might help you with your contributions:

For Wikipedia-wide involvement, visit the Community Portal and the Village Pump.

Be sure to check out Australian resources, like The Australia Wikiportal, Australian Wikipedians' Notice Board, Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight, New Australian Articles and Australian stub articles. You can list yourself at Australian Wikipedians.

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Again, welcome.--Cyberjunkie | Talk 13:16, 18 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Image copyright problem with Image:YBTL.gif edit

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Image copyright problem with Image:TownsvilleSkylineDec05.jpg edit

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Image Tagging edit

These images also require source and/or license information.


Maybe have a look at

for some background on image usage, copyright and tagging on Wikipedia

Regards, Dethomas 01:56, 14 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

License tagging for Image:MtIsaairport.jpg edit

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Image warning edit

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Suburbs edit

Hi Gertzy,

What do you think of Template:Suburbs of Townsville/Thuringowa as a template? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WikiTownsvillian 04:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC). Reply

Hi WikiTownsvillian. I had a look at the template and i think that it is great, definetly something that should be used on the Townsville pages. Cheers -- Gertzy 30th of December, 2006: 13:10 (UTC).
Thanks for the feedback Gertzy, will start to get into in upon my return to Townsville, Happy New Year! WikiTownsvillian 07:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Vandalism edit

That's cool, it was pretty silly and very immature vandalism, I actually figured it was a little kid doing it, but just goes to show there are big children out there too. Keep up the good work. WikiTownsvillian 16:45, 3 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

cultural issue edit

Hi Gertzy. I don't know if you have much experience in Indigenous issues (I know a vast majority of Australians are not very culturally competent through no fault of their own) but if you have any cultural experience or training could you please help me out at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Cultural_Sensitivity_vs_Accuracy.2FClarity Policy Village pump. Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 15:08, 25 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Welcome back edit

Welcome back, hope the year's going well for you. WikiTownsvillian 13:31, 12 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wow grade 12, big year for you. Well good luck with it and look forward to when you have more time next year when you're at uni {bludge in comparison :)} WikiTownsvillian 14:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Logo Townsvillecitycouncil.gif) edit

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:Donutkinglogo.gif) edit

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File permission problem with File:Dairyfarmers2.jpg edit

 

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Townsville meetup edit

Hi there! You are cordially invited to the first meetup in Townsville on Saturday 21 April. Details and an attendee list are at Wikipedia:Meetup/Townsville. I hope to see you there! John Vandenberg (chat) 03:30, 4 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Replaceable fair use File:AnnastaciaPalaszczuk.jpg edit

 

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File:Strandpark.jpg listed for deletion edit

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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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Please claim your upload(s): File:CBDTSVsth.jpg edit

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Please claim your upload(s): File:TsvCBDport.jpg edit

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New Challenge for Oceania and Australia edit

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image File:MtIsaairport.jpg edit

 

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Proposed deletion of File:TSVairport logo.jpg edit

 

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