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Dampier burrup and flying foam

The burrup art is the more developed (if not over) the flying foam is the recent stub and the dampier is the indequately expanded (probaby should have more geog stuff in it) - so id have a close look at the burrup one imho for the anthrop material SatuSuro 01:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually the burrup art was kept separate from the dampier for reason of the issues it raises - and the dampier is left skeletal and the flying foam could have been merged into either but they are three sep arts at the mo - SatuSuro 01:32, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

We have these huge imposing not very helpful lists of islands for western australia - and maias did a great job on the islands of tasmania some time back - i have a very very distant fantasy to say the least to do an art of the fiction writing and islands in oz some time - maybe when all the other loose threads are finished :( SatuSuro 01:35, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Borges - you have pushed a button there - maybe some emails on some issues there - actually fictional and real could make a real good article - the whole thing of novels about rottnest here in perth - and i am sure all the larger islands off the south and east coast have novels written and or associated with ... SatuSuro 01:43, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

The thing is west australia has a substratum of very poorly known novels and stories that may well exist in the nla (was there too short time in january) and maybe the battye - about all of those - however the problem is finding em SatuSuro 01:51, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

islands

Hi Meredyth,

You rock. However, I put it to you that: Australia has a hell of a lot of islands; that List of islands of Australia is currently a crap list, and that it will never be complete, and nor indeed would we want it to be complete, because it would be astronomically large; that the only way List of islands of Australia could ever be considered a high quality list is if it is carefully scoped in such a way as to contain only prominent islands, while excluding boring two-bit islands, in which case two-bit islands like Pigeon Island (Houtman Abrolhos) would not be on it; that it therefore doesn't make sense to be linking to List of islands of Australia from every two-bit island; and that if you really really wanted to link to a list of islands from every two-bit island, the Western Australian islands would be better off linked to List of islands of Western Australia, which is complete; or better still, in the case of Pigeon Island, to List of islands in the Houtman Abrolhos. But you still rock.

Hesperian 06:14, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

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List of fictional characters ... pending deletion

Hello,

You may be interested in the discussion regarding deleting a list article regarding fictional Carpenters. You have in the past created a List of surname Burgess. I created a list of real and fictional Carpenter because other editors/admins told me to do so from the Carpenter surname page. Now others want to delete it. I was happy with the way it was and would be happy to merge the fictional Carpenters with the list of surname Carpenters. Any input, pro or con would be welcome.

See: List_of_fictional_characters_with_surname_Carpenter

Jrcrin001 (talk) 22:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

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Cruciferous vegetable

Your work on Vitamin U wuz moved to a section in another article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.152.116.193 (talk) 13:05, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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Canberra meetup invitation

Hi, you're invited to the Canberra meetup which will take place at King O'Malley's Irish Pub in Civic on 17 February 2016. Bidgee (talk) 02:29, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Canberra meetup invitation (August 2016)

I'll be in Canberra from the 29-30 August, there is a planned meet-up at King O'Malley's (though I'm open to suggestions) from 6pm on the 29 August. Sorry for the short noticed, only had the trip confirmed this afternoon. Bidgee (talk) 11:46, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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Paper released in Nature for you to add to the wiki

Paper released [1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05781-7 Mike J Hebblethwaite hydro-gen.co.uk 2A00:23C8:A6E9:BC01:1C8C:A7FF:FED9:8BEF (talk) 08:45, 9 March 2023 (UTC)