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Special:Contributions/AYArktos edit counts using "Kate's tool": [http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits.cgi?user=AYArktos&dbname=enwiki 1001] as at 122 June 2005 1000th edit 22 June - reformatted some links within List of interesting or unusual place names in accordance with Aust wiki place name policy :16 new articles, 13 new images, 412 minor edits, 58 entries on user talk, 7 entries on category pages [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_Maria_Pertl_Mozart&oldid=13192406 500th edit - Anna Maria Pertl Mozart]2 May 1st edit 17 Feb - spelling: Mount Kosciuszko New articles I have created (not redirects or renaming) Places Bagdad, Tasmania Bega Valley Doo Town, Tasmania Ovens River, Victoria Terry Hie Hie, New South Wales Tittybong, Victoria Upotipotpon, Victoria Unnamed Conservation Park Whitmore, Staffordshire People Russell Drysdale Vida Goldstein Sara Henderson Michael Matteson Adela Pankhurst Thomas Twyford Other Mobile soap opera Roadside memorial ---- ==''My reminders ...''== User:AYArktos/images link to templates page: Wikipedia:Template messages :Category:Australia-related_stubs :Category:Australia_biography_stubs :Category:School_stubs WP:AWNB Wikipedia:WikiProject Canberra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Canberra/Suburbs Wikipedia:Deadend pages Wikipedia:Cite sources ===Geography stubs=== :Category:Australia_geography_stubs newstub=Australia-geo-stub find other stub categories at Wikipedia:Stub categories no longer a stub: >250 words; correctly categorised; LGA, Lat & Long; pop stats; historical info criteria for destubbing, to destub the article should satisfy most of the following: 1. Article is 250 words plus. 2. Article is correctly categorised 3. Article mentions which local government area it falls within and/or nearby towns/highways, longitude and latitude (?) 4. Article describes basic stats, like population at census 1996 or 2001 5. Article mentions historical information and/or activites in the town now that make it interesting. coordinates from: [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] example of use in Hawker article: (postcode: 2614, ) (postcode: 2614, ) [http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@census.nsf/Census_BCP_ASGC_ViewTemplate?ReadForm&Expand=1 Population statistics] (can be found from the Bureau of Statistics Office). Tip: The ABS website is a very hard to navigate - so to find the right document, search google for POA2234 (replace "2234" with the right postcode for your suburb). Then you can either download the data for AUS$10, or the ABS site will let you download it for free if the computer you are using is in a University or a library. :: using [http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@census.nsf/Census_BCP_Free_ASGC_ViewTemplate!ReadForm&Start=1&Count=1000&Expand=1.8.1 this Australian Bureau of Statistics page] you can navigate to free statistical local area information. For example, [http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@census.nsf/4079a1bbd2a04b80ca256b9d00208f92/fa1d1548eafd4cceca256bbf0001d228!OpenDocument snapshot of Red Hill]. You can compare your suburb with [http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@census.nsf/ddc9b4f92657325cca256c3e000bdbaf/c14016d789559de7ca256bbf0001c9f0!OpenDocument#Dwellings Canberra figures]. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names) Local government area Note to comment nb places names on Aust War Memorial in London [http://www.dva.gov.au/commem/oawg/memorials/london/index.htm] ==To Do== Bermagui - part of Bega Valley Shire also Eden, New South Wales == Crowd disasters == Crowd disasters have resulted in the deaths of many people. In 1989 (April 15) 96 people were crushed to death at Hillsborough, Sheffield, England. The police opened gates to alleviate crowding outside the Stadium and a resulting rush of people onto the already filled terrace sections trapped fans against riot control fences ringing the field. See Battle of Agincourt for application .... == External reference == * == See also == * Crowd psychology =War Memorials in Australia= == Monuments == Most World War 1 monuments in Victoria and New South Wales cost between �100 and �1000, one in five between �1000 and �2000, and a few more than that. (It has been estimated that �100 in the 1920s was roughly equivalent to $8000 (Australian) in 1998.) Types of monuments: === buildings === for example, hall, clock tower, swimming pool Clock tower in Boorowa === structure === for example, rotunda, gate Rotunda in Avoca, Victoria === scupture === for example, soldier, representation of peace Braidwood, New South Wales: soldier Myrtleford, Victoria: [[Image:MemorialMyrtlefordVic20050421d.JPG|thumb|Memorial - Myrtleford, Victoria|200px|left|Myrtleford, Victoria, April 2005: statue of soldier on war memorial.]] [[Image:MemorialMyrtlefordVic20050421b.JPG|thumb|Memorial - Myrtleford, Victoria|200px|centre|Myrtleford, Victoria, April 2005: war memorial.]] === obelisk === Tilba Tilba === Major municipal monuments === for example Sydney: ANZAC War Memorial completed in 1934 Melbourne: Shrine of Remembrance dedicated in 1934 Australian War Memorial the national memorial located in Canberra == Honor boards and rolls == == War trophies == == External references == * [http://www.anzac.dpc.wa.gov.au/ Register of war memorials in WA] * [http://www.warmemorialsnsw.asn.au/ Register of war memorials in NSW] * [http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/tff/memorials/queensland2.html An overview of Queensland memorials] * [http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/tff/warmemorials.html information about major war memorials] * * == Errors discovered in Australian wikipedia articles == * Boxing Kangaroo attributed wrongly to Commonwelath Games with wrong year being given for Brisbane Commonwealth Games - anon user one-off contribution * The Story of the Kelly Gang -anon user - quite possibly a prank * Canberra bushfires of 2003 In the early hours of the morning, a helicopter that had been waterbombing the fires crashed, and ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope, who was among those fighting the fires, was one of the rescuers. - edit by Ambi * Jon Stanhope Stanhope's handling of the 2003 bushfires was lauded from many sectors of the community. He made headlines later in the year when he personally jumped from a helicopter into a dam to save the pilot of another helicopter which had crashed into the water. - in article when created by anon user * Seldom Seen Roadhouseplaced in Blue Mountains rather than the Snowy's by User:Tobin Richard = Done = Roadside memorials created 27 April for me: see also http://pobox.une.edu.au/pipermail/memorialculturenetwork/2004-November/000016.html

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