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How are ya bro??? See you soon!!! :D The2017 (talk) 11:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Jondaryan population

If you want to see some data on the population of Jondaryan over time, the Qld Govt has published some spreadsheets of population data for various parts of Queensland. See here where there is one for cities/towns and one for local government areas. I think your belief that there were over 5000 people in Jondaryan in the 1950s is not true for the town but is true for the Shire of Jondaryan. And I can't find any evidence in the spreadsheet that population of Jondaryan or the Shire dropped off in the post Vietnam War era. So this is why I removed these pieces of information from the Jondaryan article.

Generally, with Wikipedia, we need to say where we have found the information we are adding, so people can feel confident that the information they are reading in Wikipedia is likely to be correct. I appreciate that, as a resident of Jondaryan, you do have the "evidence of your own eyes" when it comes to present day facilities like the pub, the Caltex servo, etc. But our memories are somewhat unreliable which is why we definitely like historical information to be supplied with the source of that information. Kerry (talk) 23:34, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

List of Pokémon (722-802) Formatting

Sorry about changing that formatting thing. I had no idea... But I'm pretty sure it was The1337Gamer who changed most of that... I responded to you on my talk page. Paintspot (talk) 18:09, 22 November 2016 (UTC) Ok, Sorry. -The2016

Australian Border English

Hi. I am nominating Australian Border English for deletion as a hoax. You are right there is no references, and searching finds none at all. So I am suspecting that you may have made this up, or it is WP:Original research. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:54, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

November 2016

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on others again, as you did at User talk:Bbb23, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 09:42, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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November 2016

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use talk pages for inappropriate discussion, as you did at Talk:List of proposed state mergers, you may be blocked from editing. Iryna Harpy (talk) 20:54, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Seriously??? This is why I don't visit Wikipedia, people can vandalise sites and not know what they're doing, and I get blamed. This is the worst experience I've ever had with a wiki, and I will destroy this one day. Mark my words.

What are you proposing to 'destroy'? --Iryna Harpy (talk) 21:07, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Infobox Australia state or territory

I'm not sure what you were trying to do with {{Infobox Australia state or territory}}, but I don't think it worked, so I reverted it as it was mucking up the articles that use that template. If you aren't sure, as on the talk page or WP:AWNB for help. --Scott Davis ^Talk 10:03, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

So sorry, I was trying to add a most spoken languages and largest cities label. The US States template is much more detailed and I hope that my home country [Australia] can get a more detailed template. I guess they work differently to Wikia Templates, again, sorry for mucking it up. If you could help out, it would be great, thanks -The2016

I guess neither of those are considered useful for Australian states and territories. The capital cities are all teh largest cities in each state as far as I know, and the most spoken language is English. It's possible the second and third languages differ, but they would all be much smaller. I'm not strong on how the infobox templates work either, so suggest you ask at the talk page and see if anyone else has opinions. There are a couple of good template editors hang round the Australian pages. The two states I have looked at so far don't have languages in the text either, so you'd need to add cited info to the text first to add it to the infobox. Do you have the information sources for that? --Scott Davis ^Talk 12:49, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

I can't access it on my mobile (I'm on it, and don't have pc) but it should be on the ABS website.

My advice is to add a well-source paragraph about most-common languages to each of the 8 articles that use the infobox, then revisit trying to summarise it into the infobox, using the USA states as a model. There's little point if the text is exactly the same for each state, or if the concepts become too complex to summarise to a couple of lines, but it could be helpful if each state and territory has reliable information for different languages. All of the Australian ones will end up more like Wyoming than Louisiana for the city, but the languages could be more like Louisiana as I doubt any state or territory has an official language. I think NT has accepted indigenous languages in parliament (it's possible SA used to accept German too, but I haven't found a reference either way). The data might support the stereotypes, or present entirely different views than we expect. --Scott Davis ^Talk 14:12, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Sorry, but it's an exercise in futility. While there are multiple enclaves of diasporic communities in the major cities, there are no 'official' languages, and using stats from ABS is a contravention of WP:NOR. Yes, there are translators provided by councils/regions/the Federal government, as well as translations provided for various legal documentation, medical, and voting brochures, but the primary language still remains English, so these are short term exceptions to the rule as new migrant populations arrive in Australia. An 'at a glance' parameter in infoboxes is not useful as we don't have regions where Spanish, for example, is virtually a regional language (as per the USA), and it would be misleading to create the impression that there are LOTE examples of the acceptance of other languages as being the norm. Such information should be carried in the body of the article. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 21:13, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Ok, sorry -The2016

Please, don't be sorry. Wikipedia isn't going to improve articles unless editors think about how they could potentially improved. Cheers, and welcome aboard! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:02, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Whether it fits in the infobox or not, there is potential for an interesting paragraph/section on other languages in each state article. As Iryna says, this could have varied over time (for example German-language in SA has declined since the first world war). Parts of NT and northern SA definitely have significant non-English (indigenous) enclaves surviving today. I would be interested to read how that compares with Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Tongan etc language use in other parts of the country. --Scott Davis ^Talk 10:57, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Agreed. As an example, in Melbourne, there are a large number of 2nd generation Greeks who still speak Greek (albeit not terribly well), as well as various Slavic communities where the native language, as well as culture, have been retained to a substantial degree. This is also true of various Asian languages in the Australian diasporas (Chinese market gardeners whose predecessors arrived in the late 19th century still speak Chinese generations on). It would involve some research, but there is reliably sourced information out there. Unfortunately, I haven't been directly involved in such research since the early 90s, so I'm not going to be of much assistance in developing such content. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 21:53, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

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Languages of Australia

If you keep acting like a whiny little brat you're definitely not going to get your way. Please behave like an adult, even if you're not one. IgnorantArmies (talk) 17:56, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry. See talk page. I also don't want to start a fight over this, but I think the page needed an update. -The2016

As a general rule, anything above 1 is considered to be 1+. With many recent immigrants, the number of speakers of a language can be marked with + at the end.M.K.Dan (talk) 21:30, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes, but, there's no point in going "Spanish: 117,000+" Hindi: 111,000+ Etc....

What's with people thinking Tamil is the national language of Australia?

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Ah, my bad. I should’ve checked but I just saw the specific colors used and immediately thought it was a tweaked variant of the state election pendulums. The2016 (talk) 02:51, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

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