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Pembroke School, Adelaide

Hi, I changed the motto as I personally attend Pembroke and have been told the motto many times. The motto, as I’ve been told by our principle Mr Thompson, is "Unity is Strength". As such I will now edit the motto again, please leave it that way. Excharlie (talk) 00:25, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

I've had to revert your change again, to the actual wording on the school's website. We can't go with a translation based on your personal interpretation or opinion. Wikipedia just doesn't work that way - see the policy on verifiability. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 02:40, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

I’m not going on personal opinion. I actually go to Pembroke and this is what we are told the motto is. Plus, the direct translation is “Unity is Strength”. The principal gives speeches at assemblies and says the motto is “Unity is Strength”. Excharlie (talk) 04:21, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

That is just hearsay, and for Wikipedia, that is not considered a reliable source. The school website is considered a reliable source. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 11:42, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

not just pollies

corporate assistants get told by their bosses update our wikipedia page - they create usernames with the business/organisation and behave as if they are sanitising a wp article to look or sound like the corporate web page - at least one a month on my oversized watchlist, sometimes as much as once a week - in most cases they ignore messages, or give up... or in some cases persist before they are blocked...

there is one that keeps coming like a bad smell... [1] the edit history has more quacking ducks thsn a well stocked farm yard, it is like they never give up, regardless... JarrahTree 07:34, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I am aware of it, and that particular page was already on my watchist. Corporate spin is one thing, but I find it more egregious when pollies' flacks do it, and those messianic halos were particularly objectionable. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 07:46, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

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Old photo

Hi Bahudhara I just came across an OK B&W snap I took in the late 1950s of the duty policeman on the steps of Parliament House, Adelaide, and thought it might be of some interest. For at least five years he acted as a sort of concierge for MP's and parliamentary staff, and was a minor Adelaide celebrity. I'm pretty sure his name was Roy, but have forgotten his surname. Can you help? Doug butler (talk) 00:23, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Doug, I can't help directly, but I've passed on your request to someone who is very good at this sort of sleuthing. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 03:07, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

It's good to have friends. Doug butler (talk) 05:22, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

I removed again the politically biased accusations in the Tree Planting article

apparently you don't get notifications when somebody is writing something to you on some talk page so I am telling you here that I removed again those controversial claims in the article. Why you think that people like Susan Nathan or some other person are a real and reliable sources for claims like "trees have been planted to restrict Bedouin herding" just because they made those claims in a book?. Israel definitely doesn't need trees to prevent bedouins from herding and they already need permissions for herding anyway. Israel also doesn't need trees to "erase traces of the Arab presence prior to 1948", may be some trees were planted on some land that was belonged to some village according to the ottoman or british rule but those lands weren't an actual part of the village and probably contained some trees and wild vegetation even before 1948. Why planting an entire forest if you can just bulldoze some abandoned buildings?. Those accusations doesn't make sense and are completely ridiculous --ThunderheadX (talk) 20:01, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Deleted my post on the Pavement talk board

Hello, I saw you deleted my post there, any reason to why? Yourlocallordandsavior (talk) 03:27, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

There were several reasons for deleting your edit to Talk:Pavement. Pavement is a disambiguation page (also known as a dab' page, used "as a process of resolving conflicts in article titles that occur when a single term can be associated with more than one topic"). Dab pages typically consist of a list of linked article titles, and are not articles in themselves. A dab page's associated talk page should be used for that purpose only. Talk pages associated with specific articles are used for discussing improvements to those articles (see the guidelines). Your edit had nothing to do with "Pavement" in the general sense (as part of a roadway, "sidewalk", or geological feature). This dab page does have an entry for an article on Pavement (band), which in turn links to other articles on the band's studio albums aand individual songs, so you should have posted your question there (where you'd have a much better chance of getting a response), rather than on this dab page. Please note also that Wikipedia is not a social media site. Bahudhara (talk) 05:27, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Sorry about that, my humble apologies. Yourlocallordandsavior (talk) 02:34, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Soccer dad?

Hi Bahudhara. I've just reverted a huge slab of info added by one Special:Contributions/Crooga on Mike Tyler (that I know to be quite accurate) as unreferenced and part at least copied and pasted. User:Crooga has only edited one other article, on a South Australian soccer player named Martyn Crook. Could you please check it out ? Doug butler (talk) 13:16, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

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Adelaidepedia

Hi, I seem to remember https://adelaidepedia.com.au/wiki/Main_Page being brought up at a meetup. The site has been down since about March. Do you know who runs it or if the content has been preserved somewhere? Also aren't there a series of these, e.g. Gawler etc? Alex Sims (talk) 00:08, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi Alex, see Meetup 11 and Meetup 16 for some discussion on these wikis - the links there to the other wikis are still valid. The original ones - Mallala, Gawler and Willunga - were set up at the instigation of Dr Darren Peacock. AFAIK he was also the driving force behind Adelaidepedia, but I haven't followed its development or demise - it may have been archived - see archive.org Wiki - Adelaidepedia . Darren was also involved with the collaboration with the City of Adelaide which created the Adelaide City Explorer mobile app. Around this time Darren also became CEO of the National Trust of SA, which meant that he was no longer able to devote much time to continue his personal involvement with wiki development as such. This meant that I had to rely on others to create and maintain the backend for the Port Adelaide wiki that I was trying to create; this ended up being hosted on a server owned by a community organisation, which was crashed by a bitcoin-mining bot. The Port Adelaide wiki is no longer online, but I have the backup files. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 05:29, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

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bailiwick?

That sounds suspiciously like a suburb of Adelaide. As for the RSWA article, I always try to avoid the web pages of such adroit institutions - like government hacks invading articles about their institutions with usernames the same... As for the state of the article - I agree it is very short of the old coke bottle, but I have only peered in with a few trove articles...

Nah, the only one which is even remotely close is Keswick. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 04:24, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

As for the publications being invalid sources - gah.

the only reason that the RSSA from RSWA is different is the long lists of office bearers with red links.... JarrahTree 04:21, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm going through those redlinks at the moment, and turning a couple blue. Bahudhara (talk) 04:28, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

At least the RSSA article has a "See also" section - the RSWA article is orphaned in that respect. I see that the RSNSW has an infobox that could be emulated. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 04:28, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

All of the state RS's need work - they are sorely neglected, like most oz articles of a certain vintage - the ever shrinking cohort doesnt help. Thank you for checking JarrahTree 04:31, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

The more that I look - at each state article has a range of issues, and like so many oz articles about similar subjects - are inconsistent in the larger picture - and as exceptionalist for each state - (as so many things are) - the RS cleanup, and consistency is indeed a project in itself! Thanks for your original reference, the bonnet is certainly mixed up with the bee... I am sure most of the states could have one like Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Queensland it would help to affirm the relevance and importance - in the face of any further misunderstandings (sic) JarrahTree 04:57, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Yes, the more I look, the more I find, including as a president of the RSSA one József Gyula Hubertus Szent-Ivány - who would have thought, just from his article? I'm thinking that there should be a category for "President of the RSSA" (along with all the others), as a way to link these otherwise disparate subject articles. Bahudhara (talk) 05:11, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Would love your thoughts on a draft I've finished

Hi @Bahudhara,

Noticed you've contributed a lot to articles on Australians. Thought I'd try a BLP on a working woman behavioural scientist and would appreciate any suggestions from you: Draft:Jemma B King

Kind regards

Matthew MatthewDalhousie (talk) 05:27, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

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