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 Support All criteria met --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 12:35, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

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Koorawatha Regional Rooms

Just found some information on the building. Quote of the from the report since it is rather long and hard to find.

The Koorawatha Regional Rooms is representative of Schools of Arts and literary institutes built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is also representative of the endeavour of the people of Koorawatha who worked towards its construction. Christison, Ray. (24 November 2008). Young Shire Community-Based Heritage Study. p.59

Bidgee (talk) 04:13, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Nice work on the NZ photos!

Loving the photos you're uploading! I do also apologise for the comment I made on the deletion on the photograph of the Chrysler CL Valiant Charger, it wasn't directing it at you but the nomitator (IP). I also have a question regarding this building which is located in Kincaid Street, to me it looks like a former post office or police station but I've drawn a blank on finding the history of the building. Bidgee (talk) 10:13, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Bidgee. The best is yet to come, I think. No worries about the comment - I thought it was a little strange. About the building, it is certainly a public building of some sort. City of Wagga Wagga would have a property file with rating details etc. that they might let you access. Cheers, Mattinbgn (talk) 11:34, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Haven't had a chance to ask the council yet but they have asked to use something of mind, so I'll see if they will be willing to find out. I see your still busy uploading! Still got a few to go on Queanbeyan (though I'll make another trip there in the next few weeks for more photos and reshoot a few) but a big backlog with Canberra and some of Wagga. Bidgee (talk) 14:59, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

NZ photos done - now have a decent backlog from Ballarat to work my way through ... -- Mattinbgn (talk) 11:44, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Follow up

Dear Mattinbgn,

I would like to follow up the email in regards of image categorisation of SLQ Wikimedia project. Please contact me by email to confirm your availability at bekti.mulatiningsih@student.qut.edu.au

Kind regards,

Bekti Mulatiningsih Information Systems Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology bekti.mulatiningsih@student.qut.edu.au

--Bmulatiningsih (talk) 03:04, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks heaps for helping with cats and such on the images - it's a massive clearout of my hard drive which still isn't complete, but is great to have the images up here rather than lurking around offline. Have a couple of questions regarding images still in the temp category - any idea what cats these should go in?

• File:OIC baby dove in hanging basket.jpg
• The HMAS Sydney memorial ones
• File:OIC waterbird at lake carine.jpg

Orderinchaos (talk) 05:50, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

No problem - happy to help Great to see a lot of WA images uploaded. WA has great content on Wikipedia but until recently lagged on the Commons. Good to see that turning around.

Added some cats to the baby dove image. The HMAS Sydney memorial should have its own cat of course. The waterbird one looks like it has the appropriate cats added.

When adding categories - I tend to think "Where", then "What" - breaking that down to "purpose", "style", "history" (if known), features etc. - and finally "when".

Unlike Wikipedia, the Commons encourages the creation of new categories so create as many as you like. If you have two or more shots of a building, a park or a street - create a category. It does make it easier for you and others in the long run. Consider adding [[Category:(Year)in Australia]] to your images to help editors using catscan. You should also consider using your creator category: Category:Photographs by Orderinchaos. It will make life a little easier for you down the track. The camera aficionadoes would probably appreciate using a Category:Taken with Canon PowerShot A80 or the equivalent as well. Where you know a year of construction add a cat for that too i.e. [[Category:Built in Australia in (year)]].

Hope this helps. Happy to wander through your uploads and add cats as I see them. Cheers, Mattinbgn (talk) 23:06, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks once again. And yes, the ironic thing was I went to many of these places with the specific aim of taking photos for Wikimedia, then they sat on my hard drive for upwards of 5 years! I'm also trying to address a deficit in suburban Adelaide (took 300 last trip, will probably take the same again in different areas when I'm there soon), and I still have the Melbourne and Newcastle pics to upload, as well as some from Bunbury and Dongara in Western Australia. One other good thing about sorting out the images is that it gives me an idea what is needed to take to complete various collections. Orderinchaos (talk) 00:45, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Quick question - a problem I've hit with categorisation is cultural things - e.g. Italian clubs and such things. The Italy category seems to only pertain to things *in* Italy, and there doesn't seem to be a "by country" category scheme which applies (e.g. Italian culture in Australia or somesuch). It's not limited to just Italian, but I give it as an example. Any idea what to do with these ones? Orderinchaos (talk) 09:53, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

On the iPad which is a bit awkward so will be brief. Try Category:Italian diaspora in Australia as a parent category. As always free free to create sub cats as you feel necessary -- Italian clubs in Australia -- under this parent cat. Same principle for other nationalities etc. Mattinbgn (talk) 12:25, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

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Bidgee (talk) 01:16, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Ray Warren statue

Well long last there is a photo (or three) on Commons, I have more that I've yet to edit and upload. Did get photos of it in March but was heavy rain at the time which I'll upload once I start clearing my backlog (not helped by the floods). Bidgee (talk) 14:41, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Looks good. I would give it its own cat. With the floods and rain I am amazed you have had time to take any photographs. I have been trawling Flickr for photographs for northern and western Queensland articles at the moment but took some more photos today - mostly bridges over the Goulburn River. Cheers, Mattinbgn (talk) 11:04, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Cheers for that, wasn't sure what the cat should be. With the floods, I wished I could have got more photos! If I wasn't stress and ill, I would have got some photos on the Holbrook-Mangoplah and Burrandana roads. Burrandana Rd is interesting on the best of days but after record rainfall it is just mind blowing! Parts of the road was days before at least 2m deep maybe more. Even could have got a photo of Westby Station (end of the Westby branch line and has been disused for sometime). You beat me to this, shame to see another pub lost. Nice work on the Goulburn region of Vic. Bidgee (talk) 13:42, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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Mundaring

Ta for the category cleanup - cheers - SatuSuro (talk) 11:37, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Not a problem. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 21:59, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

I do not want to bring over the toxicity of wp;En on the subject but I find the presence of the Indian ocean as having something to do with bass strait a bit much,

I am not going to act on my hunches strait off (sic) - but what do you think? SatuSuro (talk) 14:05, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Funnily enough I am holidaying in en:Port Campbell, Victoria at the moment. Yesterday I visited the 12 Apostles and looked out over what I consider to be the Southern Ocean. I agree with you on this matter. Howeve I am pragmatic when it comes to categorisation on Commons. The working definition of the Indian Ocean supported by Commons editors shows the Indian Ocean extending to Gabo Island - no matter how ridiculous this sounds to you me. The best course of action I see if I want to comprehensively categorise Aust. river categories is to use the existing consensus and hope common sense reestablishes itself in time. Then it is just a matter of changing the cats over. Setting up my own preferences as an alternative seems needlessly confrontational. Cheers, Mattinbgn (talk) 21:02, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

yup wait and see... sounds the best way...SatuSuro (talk) 12:46, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Bight

Unfortuantely WP:AGF, common sense and a sense of civility while on the net refrain me from expressing my true feelings about the IHO - I think that a cumulative collection of swear words fromn croation, Spanish, arabic, indonesian, and javanese would not be enough even if they involved copious amounts of allusions to daughters, wives and successive generations would be inadequate, so to speak SatuSuro (talk) 10:07, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Advice again :)

Hey... Have a peculiar problem arising from my own efforts years ago and a successful Wiki Takes event - two suburb categories (Kinross and Tamala Park) have an awful lot of photos taken of, from and along a boundary fence (mainly from a single location on it: [1]), which also happens to mark the City of Joondalup/City of Wanneroo boundary. The fence is completely non-notable, it more amounts to the fact we got great pictures from this location! What's the best way of handling this from a category point of view, given the fence does not have a name? Orderinchaos (talk) 08:52, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

I reckon creating a category for this feature would be fine. I have gone as far as making categories such as Category:Bills horse trough, Berrigan! I would try and use a reasonably short by descriptive name if possible but use the description field {{en|The '''Kinross-Tamala Park''' boundary fence is a unnamed wire fence built along the border of the Perth suburbs of {{en|Kinross, Western Australia}} in the {{en:City of Joondalup}} and ... }} That should be enough to uniquely identify this feature. Remember to add categories. Hope this helps. Mattinbgn (talk) 09:22, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Cool thanks :) Category:Kinross–Tamala Park boundary fence is now possibly the most photo-documented non-notable fence in Australia :P Orderinchaos (talk) 14:53, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

It's funny that while only a guideline, WP:N is one of the hardest things to unlearn here on Commons. It also takes a bit of time to develop a bit of confidence that creating categories is actually encouraged here rather than frowned upon as it is an enwiki. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 22:26, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

True - thanks for your help once again :) And another oddity - a forest in the middle of a ridiculously oversized median strip on Highway 1 in Perth's southern suburbs! Orderinchaos (talk) 23:36, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

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Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 20:46, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Massively lazy tag. Would have been easier to fix yourself that tag for deletion. Is the Commons going the way of enwiki? Let's hope not. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 20:53, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

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Stefan4 (talk) 08:39, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

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AussieLegend (talk) 13:33, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Categorisation of former banks

Not too sure how we should categorises the former bank buildings, just that we will fill the categories up with a heap of former banks such as Category:Former banks in Junee. Bidgee (talk) 11:42, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

If there are enough that categorising them makes sense, then I think we should. The only change I would make now is renaming the cats to "bank buildings" to avoid confusion with "banking companies". -- Mattinbgn (talk) 21:23, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

I guess we should change the whole category structure to "Former bank buildings in Foo (Country, State/Territory or location)"? Bidgee (talk) 00:26, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

I think so - big job though. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 19:14, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

FoP-Australia

Hi, every image within FoP-Countries showing potentialy copyrightes objects lika culptures, buildings should get tagged with the corresponding template to clarify the situation. I'm currently starting with Australia and will continue with it... Cheers --JuTa 23:51, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

I disagree, templating structures (buildings, bridges and objects [such as a petrol bowser]) is not necessary. Statues, memorials and the like do need the FoP tag but not in all cases. Bidgee (talk) 00:11, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Holbrook bypass

Didn't realise you were down there as well! Got a few photos to edit but need to get some study done before I can get to them. Bidgee (talk) 23:16, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Got plenty of photographs - those are just the ones from the iPhone. I am still working through my backlog from the Southern Tablelands, followed by some from West Gippsland before I even get to the Holbrook ones! Will be interesting to see what you managed to get. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 23:39, 23 June 2013 (UTC)