Jump to content

Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Australian Wikipedians' notice board

Portal | Project | Board | Alerts | Deletions | To-Do | Category | Related | Help


    WikiProjects edit | watch
    In the news edit | watch
    Read and edit Wikinews


    24 December 2024 – 2024–25 Australian bushfire season
    Residents of the Grampians region of Victoria state are evacuated with over 41,000 hectares (101,000 acres) already burnt. (BBC)
    23 December 2024 –
    A man is arrested and charged with animal cruelty for shooting and killing 98 kangaroos on a military base in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia. (news.com.au)
    20 December 2024 – Australia–Solomon Islands relations
    Australia agrees to provide Solomon Islands with financing, training, and infrastructure support worth AU$190 million (US$118 million) over four years to strengthen its police force as part of a renewed security partnership between the two countries. (France 24)
    16 December 2024 – 2024 Australia heat wave
    Walpeup, Victoria, Australia, reports a temperature of 47.1 °C (116.8 °F), the hottest temperature reported in the state since 2019. Extreme heat wave warnings and fire risk warnings are also issued for areas across Australia. (The Guardian) (ABC News Australia)
    15 December 2024 – Australia–Indonesia relations
    Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces that the remaining five members of the Bali Nine drug-trafficking group, who were serving life sentences in Indonesia, have returned to Australia following an agreement between the two countries to end their imprisonment. (CNN)
    9 December 2024 – Australia–Nauru relations
    Australia and Nauru announce a joint security treaty that will see Australia sending Nauru AU$100 million (US$64 million) in direct support over five years in exchange for Nauru consulting Australia before signing any bilateral agreements with other countries. (DW) (Nikkei Asia)


    Categories edit | watch
    On this day in Australia edit | watch

    Australia · Arts · Architecture · Cities · Communications · Culture · Economy · Education · Environment · Geography · Government · Healthcare · History · Law · Language · Lists · Media · Military · Music · Organisations · People · Politics · Religion · Science · Society · Sport · Subdivisions · Transport · Tourism

    Australian states and territories · Australian Capital Territory · New South Wales · Northern Territory · Queensland · South Australia · Tasmania · Victoria · Western Australia

    Capital cities · Adelaide · Brisbane · Canberra · Darwin · Hobart · Melbourne · Perth · Sydney

    Australia stubs · AFL stubs · Geography stubs · Government stubs · Law stubs · People stubs · Paralympic medalists stubs · Television stubs

    25 December:



    To-Do edit | watch
    Announcements edit | watch

    Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Australia:


    Requests · Ariadne Australia · Awakenings Festival · Drought Force · Electoral reform in Australia · Fossils of Australia · Landforms of Australia · Sculpture of Australia

    Articles needing attention · Australian contemporary dance · Crime in Australia · Environment of Australia · Gender inequality in Australia · Privacy in Australian law · Secession in Australia · Tourism in Australia

    Images requested · Cheryl Kernot · MV Pacific Adventurer · Poppy King · Rosemary Goldie · James Moore · OneAustralia · Australian major cricket venues

    Verification needed · Architecture of Australia · Australian performance poetry · FreeTV Australia · Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission · List of political controversies in Australia · Punk rock in Australia


    Quality watch:

    About Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation - I don't really know what to make of this - your opinions about this?

    [edit]

    Hi all,

    I created this article because I saw a redlink somewhere in an editing session, looked it up, and then created it, quite possibly without due regard to its notability as an organisation, and also potentially a misuse of my Wikipedia:Autopatrolled privileges.

    Should this possibly be (among other options)

    I seek your opinions about this.

    Pete AU aka 10:07, 10 December 2024 (UTC) Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:07, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I think it's a good idea for an article, but needs some more references. All the good ones I could find are behind paywalls, so hopefully someone else jumps in who has access. Jimmyjrg (talk) 16:34, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you, @Shirt58, for creating the page. I found some more information in an article by Mike Jones and Alana Piper. Gavan McCarthy has been with the project since the beginning, working with Tim Sherratt on Bright Sparcs. McCarthy welcomes updates and corrections, with references to back them up of course. I consider it a useful and reliable source and use it frequently. Oronsay (talk) 19:40, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    There are sources online, but I don't know how reliable they are. It's either the best and holiest school down under, or a den of vipers and bullies, depending on the POV. Please source this! Bearian (talk) 21:03, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Source what exactly? There is very little that would make this school notable within the article! The namespace also doesn't match the article lead or infobox. Dfadden (talk) 11:51, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The issue with determining notability for this school is that there are other schools with similar or same names. A quick search locates a Valley Harvest Christian School in Dublin (Ireland), another Harvest Christian School (which at some point appears to have changed its name to Frontline Christian School and most of my hits seem to be about this school) in South Africa and other schools with similar names (there's even a Global Harvest Christian School in Oklahoma, USA).
    The only secondary source that I'm sure is about the school in South Australia is this.
    Given what I could find I'm not sure this meets WP:NSCHOOL. TarnishedPathtalk 12:29, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Postnominal letters and infoboxes

    [edit]

    See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography#MOS:POSTNOM for discussion. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:22, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Good article reassessment for Melbourne Airport

    [edit]

    Melbourne Airport has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 17:30, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Should National Socialist Network rallies be included in Mount Warning and Corowa articles?

    [edit]

    Editors are invited to comment at Talk:Mount_Warning#historical_irrelevance and Talk:Corowa#If_the_rally_is_historically_insignificant_why_was_it_all_over_the_news_for_weeks_then? as to whether or not to include the National Socialist Network rallies in those articles. Mitch Ames (talk) 02:05, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Sorry but I dont think a lack of "historical relevance" is a sound argument for or against the inclusion of events that otherwise meet the WP:GNG and are readily verifiable because of WP:CRYSTAL. We also need to be careful about WP:NPOV if we arent telling the whole story. See my comments at the Mount Warning talk page discussion. Dfadden (talk) 12:19, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]