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Tom Tate needs considerable work

Hi there, I have stumbled upon the Mayor of the Gold Coast's wikipedia, and I feel that it needs a lot of work. There are a number of unsupported claims, and some of the edit history seems suspect in my opinion. Any help would be appreciated. Nauseous Man (talk) 07:46, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, to say this page has issues would be an understatement... I'll see what I can do. It also looks like a lot of information was removed by this biased editor as well. Viatori (talk) Viatori (talk) 09:23, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Groan. The Crime and Corruption Commission become weaponised a few years back. Because the complaints were make public, it became a great way to make an untrue claim about someone, and then use its status as being investigated by the commission as a "media story" e.g. "CCC investigates corruption by Whoever". When eventually investigated, most of these complaints were never substantiated and no adverse findings were made, but of course "nothing happened" doesn't get into the media as a story. The CCC were being flooded with these complaints particularly during election campaigns and suspected most of them were just abuses of the process. See what the CCC said about them. It wasn't just Tom Tate that it happened to but many other politicians. Given that, I don't think we should include any CCC "investigations" in any bios, as "reliable sources", only actual findings of something significant. Kerry (talk) 04:38, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Talk:Monique Ryan: Requesting input on a Talk Discussion

Requesting input on a content dispute at Talk:Monique Ryan#Corflute removal. GMH Melbourne (talk) 01:43, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

The European Destubathon

Running the European Destubathon in April, nearly $3000 dollars to be won. Hopefully at some point I'll be able to do one for Oceania and Asia. Sign up if you feel like working on a few European articles during the month! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:28, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Alan Dale

Alan Dale 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) 22:53, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Automatic citations

Is it just me or are automatic citations not working? Websites that usually work fine with it seem to be failing today. Kerry (talk) 04:42, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

OK, the problem appears to be in Web2Cit. If you are not a Web2Cit user, everything should be ok. If you are a Web2Cit user, then untick the Web2Cit box in the "Cite Automatic" form and you will get normal Citoid behaviour (but without added benefit of your Web2Cit rules). I am trying to contact the developer to see what has changed with Web2Cit in the last day or so. Kerry (talk) 05:10, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

NB You have to actively turn on Web2Cit, so if you haven't heard of Web2Cit, then you probably aren't using it, so there is nothing to worry about. Kerry (talk) 05:12, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Good news! Web2Cit is working again. There was a MediaWiki update which broke it, but all is fixed now. Enjoy! If you are not a Web2Cit user, Web2Cit enables you to "train" Cite Automatic in how to cite your favourite websites (if plain old Citoid isn't working well enough for you). While it has some limitations (you can't get it to do everything you might want), it can do a lot of websites perfectly well or significantly reduce the effort for you by doing most of the citation fields for you. Kerry (talk) 22:37, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin 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) 01:53, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Mosman, New South Wales#Requested move March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Mosman, New South Wales#Requested move March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 11:12, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Aberfeldie, Victoria#Requested move 31 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Aberfeldie, Victoria#Requested move 31 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 07:27, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:75 Years of Friendship through Cricket Event#Requested move 7 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:75 Years of Friendship through Cricket Event#Requested move 7 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 07:31, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Infigen Energy#Requested move 31 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Infigen Energy#Requested move 31 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 08:56, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Ben Hunt (rugby league)#Requested move, 20, March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ben Hunt (rugby league)#Requested move, 20, March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 09:26, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Cherrybrook, New South Wales#RM, 20 March, 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Cherrybrook, New South Wales#RM, 20 March, 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 09:30, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Scar tree at Wireless Hill

Editorial opinions are requested at Talk:Wireless Hill Park#and/or on the wording of the usage of the scar tree. Mitch Ames (talk) 13:32, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Adelaide Lead, Victoria#Requested move 2 April 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Adelaide Lead, Victoria#Requested move 2 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. GMH Melbourne (talk) 00:50, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Bakery Hill, Victoria#Requested move 2 April 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Bakery Hill, Victoria#Requested move 2 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. GMH Melbourne (talk) 01:22, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Adams Estate, Victoria#Requested move 2 April 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Adams Estate, Victoria#Requested move 2 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. GMH Melbourne (talk) 02:40, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested moves per WP:NCAUST and [[WP::PRIMARYTOPIC]]

I have significant concerns with the above requested moves relating to Victorian place names. While I have no objection to removing unnecessary disambiguation where there is clearly no place with the same or similar names, the nominations include far too many articles to allow for proper consideration and consensus where there is any doubt. Cases in point would be Badger Creek (disambiguation) and Smiths Beach, Western Australia, a relatively famous surf break in the Margaret River region which is at least as notable as Smiths Beach, Victoria. I have recommended withdrawal of these nominations and resubmission omitting any possibly contentious places in several of these discussions on the grounds that trying to discuss which to move and which to keep in such broad nominations will likely become a WP:TRAINWRECK and result in procedural keeps anyway. There may be a case here for broader discussion of WP:NCAUST? Dfadden (talk) 06:53, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Dfadden I agree. They should be done by people whose editing is focused on Victoria. Within the last 6 Weeks, I successfully requested a bunch of articles about places on Sydney's North Shore (And Northern Sydney) have unnecessary state names at the end removed and I did them all seperately just by copying pasting from previous RMS, and then correcting it for that RM. (A lot of my edits are on articles related to Sydney's North Shore, is there someone who is the same with country Victoria?) Servite et contribuere (talk) 17:02, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

I might be that person. Viatori (talk) 01:04, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Asking a quick favour of someone for whom Wayback Machine is working properly

I still haven't got to the bottom of why WM has not been working for me for months (and too busy moving house at the moment to investigate). I can now see the pages , but every time I try to save something myself, it just says "save failed". If anyone would be so kind as to do a save of this Adelaide Fringe page, just to have a record of newly-published info, I would appreciate it. Not urgent. TIA! Laterthanyouthink (talk) 08:03, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

@Laterthanyouthink:  Done: [1] Fork99 (talk) 08:23, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks very much Fork99 - much appreciated. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 09:00, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Acacia Gardens, New South Wales#Requested move 8 April 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Acacia Gardens, New South Wales#Requested move 8 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. GMH Melbourne (talk) 07:11, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Similar discussion are also taking place at:

• Talk:Acacia Gardens, New South Wales
• Talk:Airds, New South Wales
• Talk:Allawah, New South Wales (20 listings)
• Talk:Cambridge Gardens, New South Wales
• Talk:Bringelly, New South Wales (20 listings)
• Talk:Concord West, New South Wales

• Talk:Dundas Valley, New South Wales
• Talk:Dural, New South Wales
• Talk:Eastlakes, New South Wales
• Talk:Eastern Creek, New South Wales
• Talk:Cobbitty, New South Wales (20 listings)
• Talk:Ellis Lane, New South Wales (20 listings)

GMH Melbourne (talk) 07:13, 8 April 2025 (UTC)