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--Bduke (Discussion) 09:57, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Further

Further to my response at my talk page I note that both Longhair and Brian have come to your page to welcome you. Both are great participants here and you have some fundamental links to get you started in terms of understanding. If you need more help please ask at any time.--VirtualSteve 07:31, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

David Hodgett

Well, the disambiguation page does say that "registrar" is a keeper of records, and that's about as much as I know. The page was created as part of a sweep to have articles for all current Australian politicians, and my source was the Victorian Parliament's member bio. It says that he worked as a registrar for various immigration authorities, and when I created the article I was unsure as to which would best suit, so I left it as the link to the disambig. I agree this isn't ideal, but it's the best I could come up with, not being overly familiar with immigration procedures. Frickeg (talk) 22:58, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Reviewer and rollback

Hi, I've added a couple of flags to your account: reviewer and rollback. I hope you find them useful. Let me know if you have any questions. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:07, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

For keeping the baddies at bay...

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for keeping an eye out for damaging edits. bodnotbod (talk) 10:13, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Feel free to move this barnstar to wherever in your user space you'd prefer to have it. bodnotbod (talk) 10:13, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Humor at Protected Pages

As someone who lives on an island (granted its a VERY large island) perhaps you are unaware of what the rules are on the Mainland (thats what we call it) for articles that may be considered political in nature;

1. Any cross-party hugfest can only be initiated by the right,
2. Any internal hugfest (or support of one another) within the right should NOT be constued as anything more than friendliness and cheerful banter,
3. Any internal hugfest (or support of one another) within the left could, should and will result in immediate blocks and bans to the active participants and severe reprimands to any editors that were seen smiling in the general vicinity.

These are just some basic guidelines to assure the safety and sanity of your fellow editors. A good rule of thumb to follow is that if the right is obviously humorous 3 times in a row, some humor from the left will be tolerated since the conversation will be ended via "shrink wrap" at any moment. BTW, sorry about the spelling of humour. Buster Seven Talk 20:25, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for information

Compliments on your sang froid

I can't help but admire your reaction the other day to the namecalling you were subjected to by Encyclopedia91. You must have the patience and forbearance of a saint! I know I would have reacted quite differently. You are a model for us all. Sincerely, --Kenatipo 21:59, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Nice Koekjes

Buster7 has given you a Nice Koekjes which promote fellowship, goodwill and WikiLove. Hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the good flavor of Nice Koekjes around Wiki World by giving someone else one. Maybe to a friend or, better yet, to someone you have had disagreements with in the past. Nice Biscuits are very tasty and have been known to calm even the most savage beast. Enjoy! Buster Seven Talk

I just gave a koekje to an Aussie friend, User:Alastair Haines and I thought of you. It's fresh. I made it last night. Buster Seven Talk 14:27, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Some words I'm working on

Been thinking about this criticism issue for a while. Probably not the ideal place to say this, but I want to try putting the words together. I think criticism sections are almost always going to be inappropriate in Misplaced Pages. Just about everyone has somebody who disagrees with them about something. Some, like outspoken atheists, will have more than many from conservative religious parts of society who disagree. That's a given. We cannot possibly list all the criticism, so what's the point of listing any? We should just describe what's significant about someone (i.e. why they have an article here) and let others decide on the merits of their actions and views. The same goes for people significant for their strong religious views. List those views, and let it stand. Going any further will inevitably create the debate of "how much further?" So, no criticism. OK?

I agree with you 90+%. Criticism sections are lazy writing, often places for sneaking in their point-of-view. They are often a way of taking an obscure critic and giving them promotion by adding their opinions. I often get the impression that some editors start with a point of view and then web search until they find some obscure opinion piece and add it to the article. In these cases, only reliable sources and notable ones will do. Instead of putting criticism in its own ghetto, if legit it belongs next to the ideas being presented. Thank you for bringing up an important issue. --Javaweb (talk) 00:10, 15 July 2011 (UTC)Javaweb

You two might want to check out Misplaced Pages:Criticism, an essay that discourages the existence of criticism sections and goes over the main points against them.AerobicFox (talk) 22:20, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

I support you

You were right in the Pregnancy talk page. The image you wanted in the lead has a much more "medical", serious and informative tone than the one that the scores of probably American nipple-o-phobic prudes finally forced there. Actually, even from a purely aesthetic point of view the bare breasted image is superior because of the more "charming" expression of the woman in the picture, rather than the a bit like "whatcha lookin' at" expression of the Asian woman. --Cerlomin (talk) 22:01, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Australian National Flag Day

I think all the Flag of Australia article needs now is one more additional reference that 3 September has been proclaimed Australian National Flag Day or two. Then it will be just right.

58.164.34.60 (talk) 12:36, 2 December 2011 (UTC) —moved from your userpage. Jenks24 (talk) 12:53, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

For your sport work. :)

LauraHale (talk) 01:59, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much

Thanks for catching and reverting the Wobbly edit on the mother Teresa talkpage. I need to be more vigilant, actually I need more time to be more vigilant, oh stuff it, I need more time for RL! hehe, but in the meantime I need to be more careful of what I am doing with my browser windows. THANK YOU HiLo48 !!! Penyulap _talk 01:45, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Happy Australia Day! Thank you for contributing to Australian content!

	Australian Wikimedian Recognition (AWR)
	Thank you for your contributions on English Misplaced Pages that have helped improve Australian related content. :D It is very much appreciated. :D Enjoy your Australia Day and please continue your good work! LauraHale (talk) 02:46, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Scouting sex abuse cases?

Might I ask you (with all your badges!) to perhaps take another look at Scouting sex abuse cases? I can't seem to interest responsible editors in the issue of parity across abuse articles: the example I use, as it seems so egregious, is that any Catholic abuse case gets detailed coverage (often in more than one article), whereas a number of pro-scout editors systematically do what they can to play down any abuse case related to the scouts. This seems prima facie wrong.

I started the scouting abuse page - and was immediately called a WP:Troll for doing so. This was rapidly followed by several (perhaps organised, perhaps not) calls for the page to be deleted. The article has survived, but only barely: any old editing (so long as it is pro scout) passes. Another bunch of minimising edits have just been applied: their equivalents would be attacked by editors around the world if they were tried on, e.g., one of the Catholic abuse pages.

This is a disgrace but from past experience, I know I don't have the energy to take on the dib dib dob fraternity (indeed their behaviour drove me away from editing for a long time). I am writing in the hope you might know a forum for drawing attention to these asymmetries. Cordially. Testbed (talk) 17:05, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks for your interest (and apologies for any grumpiness on my part - if you read through the is-it-really-five-years history, you'll see why I am rather jaded - as I said before I have no line on scouting as such, it's parity across comparable articles which is the issue for me)

Most of those willing to edit this article seem to be actively involved in scouting (and indeed a lot of them give one another awards for great editing) - that is also a POV issue, if you'll allow me the comment. Again a comparison with the edit history of (just as one example ) Catholic sex abuse cases is instructive.

Testbed (talk) 11:44, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello sport loving Aussie ;)

I've nominated a few articles about members of the Australia women's national water polo team for Good Article. :) If you get a chance, can you do a grammar/spelling/general check on the articles? My prose can sometimes be… well… meh. Articles needing an edit so far include Bronwen Knox, Glencora Ralph, Victoria Brown (water polo), Zoe Arancini, Ashleigh Southern, Kelsey Wakefield. I'm thinking of possibly a good topic around this set. I'm working on a the rest of them. They all have information boxes. They include most of their important matches that have received significant press coverage, include their major water polo awards, and the important biographical background information. They also all have formatted information boxes and pictures. I think this would be harder to do AFTER the Olympics, so now is the best chance. :) (Conversely, if you would rather review any of these articles, that would be okay too. ) --LauraHale (talk) 11:54, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Metrication in the United Kingdom

Hi HiLo48

Would you please look at my page User:Martinvl/MitUK and review my comments in preparation for posting at Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/User conduct/Assistance. Also, once posted, would you be good enough to certify DeFcto's behaviour.

Regards Martinvl (talk) 06:41, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Civility issue

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at Talk:Metrication in the United Kingdom. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you.

Also, I think you need to read Misplaced Pages:Indentation as referred to in Misplaced Pages:Talk page guidelines in the 'Good practices' section under the heading "Keep the layout clear", and specifically item 2: "If two replies are made to one specific comment, they should be at the same level of indentation with the later reply at the bottom:". -- de Facto (talk). 07:07, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

DeFacto, maybe you are just the type of person who attracts this sort of language. Your persistance in adding irelevant and unwanted comments takes a lot of effort to put right and many editors just do not have that sort of time. I, for one, certainly agree with HiLo48's sentiments. Martinvl (talk) 07:27, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

I agree with those sentiments as well, but not with the particular expression thereof. HiLo, please clean it up, for a couple of reasons--civility, of course, but consider also that in a dispute your opponent should not be given any more ammunition than they already have. Don't give them an excuse to get you rapped on the fingers; it weakens your argument. Good luck. Drmies (talk) 18:49, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Redaction

I removed your post which replied on to the IP with a lot of Fucks. While I share the emotion, it's a pointless waste of electricity to bother replying like that, and the IP will find another excuse to splurge more text. Please let's avoid this getting even more annoying. CMD (talk) 21:50, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

You think there's an approach that will work? I don't. Good luck, sincerely. CMD (talk) 21:57, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

• Ahh...I see CMD has already mentioned the reason for my visit. No reason for me to bother you further, HiLo. See ya 'round Tiderolls 23:28, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Except to inform of the ANI against HiLo48 which doesn't appear to have been done...till now:

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. --Racerx11 (talk) 00:05, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Notification of DRN submission

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Metrication in the United Kingdom". Thank you. -- de Facto (talk). 19:43, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

ANI

There is a discussion on ANI about a topic you have been involved in relating to DeFacto. You are welcome to bring your experience to that discussion. Toddst1 (talk) 15:47, 13 March 2012 (UTC)