User talk:Aliaretiree
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[edit]Thanks for participating in today's workshop. Please could you take a few minutes to provide feedback at Wikipedia talk:GLAM/SLNSW? --99of9 (talk) 11:32, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thank-you for your excellent presentation! Great to see innovation from our libraries. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk 04:32, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

The article DIY rainbow crossing has been proposed for deletion. The proposed deletion notice added to the article should explain why.
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- I've made a suggestion for what should be done about this article on the the article's talk page. Wittylama 11:22, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]| The Barnstar of Diligence | |
| Awarded to Aliaretiree for persistence with List of newspapers in New South Wales in the face of a daunting combination of expanding scope and a need for great precision. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 11:04, 3 June 2013 (UTC) |
Wikipedia trainers requested in New South Wales
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Wikimedia Australia is looking for experienced Wikipedians to help out at training sessions across New South Wales, in particular in Newcastle, Wollongong, Port Macquarie and in Parkes. If you're interested, the details are at the following link:
We'd love to see you there! Lankiveil (speak to me) 12:58, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Journals of the First Fleet
[edit]| On 5 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Journals of the First Fleet, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a collection of diaries by sailors and soldiers has been listed on the UNESCO-associated Australian Memory of the World Register? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Journals of the First Fleet. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Orlady (talk) 08:02, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
A cup of coffee for you!
[edit]| Thanks for your commitment to developing the world's body of information on 19th century homemaking books. Blue Rasberry (talk) 23:40, 16 March 2014 (UTC) |
A barnstar for you!
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| thankyou for expanding the Eva Johnson article Richard Bruce Bradford (talk) 01:27, 6 August 2014 (UTC) |
DYK for Trove
[edit]| On 21 December 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Trove, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that thousands of volunteers have corrected millions of lines of digitised Australian newspapers on Trove? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Harrias talk 00:03, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
what christmas...
[edit]Hi, the sands and wise directories need lots of work - I had only started the wise for wa, but in the geneaology section of what is left in the wa state library (shrinking like a harvest of violets, shelves reduced, stock reduced, staff reduced, and even leaks about the whole service being on the block so to speak) there are victorian and tasmanian live copies of old wise directories.. but time is in the way - good on you for starting the sands one anyways - the wise (and I am sure there are others as well) - cheers satusuro 11:11, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
- With the wise article - I noticed the habit of links in the first sentence - sorry to be a stickler, but really, lead sentences and paras are meant to be summaries with no links - per MOS. Not sure where the links in the first line thing has come from, but unless I see otherwise that is what I have expected... WP:LEAD satusuro 09:27, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for participating
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Thank you for your participation in the Women in Science Virtual Edit-a-thon, 8 to 29 November 2015, hosted by Women in Red together with Women scientists. It was held in parallel with a meet up at the New York Academy of Sciences on 22 November. In addition to improvements, we created well over 300 new articles. Your contributions are appreciated!
Hope you will also join us for the WiR Women in Religion Virtual Edit-a-thon from 5 to 15 December.--Ipigott (talk) 10:51, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
DYK for Sydney Jewish Museum
[edit]| On 27 January 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sydney Jewish Museum, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the Sydney Jewish Museum records the contribution that Holocaust survivors made to Australia, which has more survivors per capita than any country except Israel? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sydney Jewish Museum. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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A beer for you!
[edit]| Good work on the Thancoupie article. Jschnur (talk) 07:28, 13 April 2016 (UTC) |
List of NSW newspapers
[edit]Is now too big and too long. Something needs to be done. An average user of wikipedia could not easily access. Strongly suggest it is broken up into regions and Sydney. JarrahTree 05:51, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
I am quite concerned that effort is put in by someone to specifically take it on as a task, at some stage, so it would be very useful to have a conversation on wiki or off, as to how it is done - as the size is beyond a usual user of wikipedia to deal with. Rather than go to noticeboards and other similar exposed locations that can invoke the usual suspects, I was hoping you might offer some suggestions or criterion. In western australia we have gone to regions. Your comment(s) would be appreciated JarrahTree 01:18, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- JarrahTree I appreciate your input, we will review it and try to make it more user friendly, but for now it is the most complete list of newspapers published in NSW that exists in any source. The history of settlement in NSW and the history of newspaper publishing in NSW, which seems to have had a golden age in the late 1800's - WWI, make dividing into Sydney and regional areas an unworkable solution as the greater Sydney region is now quite extensive but was not when many of the historical newspaper titles were published. As you can tell from the history, this list article is constantly being updated and referenced by a lot of people creating articles about the newspapers themselves as they are digitised in the national digitisation program so any major changes will need to be consultative. Aliaretiree (talk) 01:30, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- If only completeness was an aspect of what it is all WP:ABOUT.
I really think that the task solver doesnt necessarily have be you, I, or any one particular editor, but somehow even a taskforce aka group of interested eds in discussion about newspaper lists for australia - in other words the consultative process amongst editors that you raise is very important.
At this stage, considering your response, perhaps alpha or era breakups. If you have a look at the Western Australia project geographical lists - there are singular completeness collections that have been broken up into separate alpha components simply to make them manageable, as anything otherwise is well beyond a users capacity to load on mobiles, or older and lower power computers.
It would be good to think there is a positive forward thinking process that might resolve the issue of the size, and that there is a recognition of a definite need for the item to be made more amenable to users who are not on high capacity broadband crunchers JarrahTree 08:46, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Categories
[edit]Please note that parent and child cats (some confuse the issue by referring to subcat and supercat) are not needed on the articles you edited today - and most have been removed. 'Literary awards' are generic for all, 'Australian literary awards' is a 'child' and the parent does not get added. Thanks. JarrahTree 13:58, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Robert Merlini
[edit]Hello Aliaretiree,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Robert Merlini for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.
Snickers2686 (talk) 02:12, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
Autopatrolled granted
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Hi Aliaretiree, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! — xaosflux Talk 16:37, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
Your March editathon
[edit]As you are arranging an editathon on March 10, you might be interested in Women in Red's plans for Women's History Month. We have also developed Ten Simple Rules for new editors interested in creating biographies, which might be useful. We also have redlists on architecture: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Architecture and Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Architects.
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--Ipigott (talk) 17:36, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Ipigott: many thanks, I'll add those links.Aliaretiree (talk) 01:21, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for January 11
[edit]An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Balmoral, New South Wales, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page The Sun (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).
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Usernames
[edit]Quite concerned that the new batch of user names are actually using SLNSW in their usernames - please help them understand the problems of having usernames that include where they edit from - specifically WP:COI thanks JarrahTree 10:54, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
- it is really great to see that people have changed their usernames - great! Trust the training goes well !! JarrahTree 03:04, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for keeping an eye out for our newbie editors. The SLNSW accounts are ones I set up to use in training under supervision and then they get their own unique ones set up. 8 new editors introduced to the wiki world today! Aliaretiree (talk) 03:27, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- Excellent - I do hope they get good positive responses to their work! Please let them know that there are always Australian editors who really want to help if they ever get stuck! JarrahTree 04:22, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for keeping an eye out for our newbie editors. The SLNSW accounts are ones I set up to use in training under supervision and then they get their own unique ones set up. 8 new editors introduced to the wiki world today! Aliaretiree (talk) 03:27, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
Thank you!
[edit]Thank you for coming today and sharing your skills and expertise with our attendees - your support was very much appreciated and made a big difference! Rubicon49bce (talk) 11:45, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Thank you!
[edit]I just saw you wrote most of the Eirene Mort article - great work! I’ve been going through the list of missing articles of ADB women and slowly trying to them written. I was really happy about Zara Aronson in case you are interested 😀 anyway, I just wanted to thank you for your contributions and I am genuinely grateful for your high quality work on that article! - Chris.sherlock (talk) 01:55, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks
[edit]Thanks for your contributions to the City of Sydney Picture This editathon. --99of9 (talk) 03:58, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
1Lib1Ref 2021
[edit]Hi Aliaretiree
Queensland Memory is participating in Wikipedia’s 1Lib1Ref campaign again this year.
I found your name in the project pages for previous years and wanted to know if you would like to do some editing again this year?
Tania Schafer and I have scheduled 2 pop in sessions in the Edge’s Digital Media Lab, 10am-12noon Thursday 27th May or Wednesday 2nd June but the great thing about Wikipedia is you can do it wherever and whenever suits you! T
If you’re interested in helping us get the number of State Library edits up this year please read the 2021 project page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/State_Library_of_Queensland/1Lib1Ref_2021.
Before you get started please sign up to the Dashboard so we can keep track of the number of edits SLQ has made. Or send me your Wiki name I can sign you up.
This year we are focusing on getting our JOL Blogs referenced or added as External Links on relevant Wikipedia pages, I can email you a document for blog content ideas. However if this doesn’t interest you see our project page for other ideas.
Let Tania Schafer or myself know if you have any questions.
Thanks
Troykeith85 (talk) 05:23, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Proposal to collaborate on an article
[edit]Hey @Aliaretiree, Your contributions to article of John Metcalfe (librarian) and William Herbert Ifould helped me quite a bit in drafting an article about the Free Library Movement in Australia and New South Wales so i was inclined to ask if you'd be interested in adding to the 'history' section and the 'people' section of the article. Thank you.
Here is the draft: Free Library Movement Avast rumali (talk) 10:19, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
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