Byford being a railway connected location, and woodman point likewise will probably end up in some way in some sort of article, but most of the material I have about woodman is all WP:OR or primary, unfortunately - interesting some aspects of byford were still intact in mid 1960s... JarrahTree15:02, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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10 years ago you were editing Vosper - and Hesp came along and lost the Sunday Times connection...[[1]] and it never has been put back in, despite the dubious lead to the sunday times... weird and weird JarrahTree10:37, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
fair enough. when i was looking at the article about Vosper, I could not find any reference to his founding the sunday times in the current recent format of the article - I went back to the edit of 2006 and that is where it seemed to be the loss of any reference to the sunday times.. as far as I read the diffs. JarrahTree14:29, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Ian, you may or may not have seen the activity at that article, but his daughter Leigh has tried to make some corrections to it and they've been reverted. See the sections entitled "changes to article Arnold Cook" and "edit to Arnold Cook article" at User talk:Oshwah. I think you'd be best positioned to handle this, if you have the time and inclination. I'll leave a message at Leigh's talk page. Graham8715:01, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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your patience and style is sorely missed - we need a good floods article for wa - the current wa floods is not even anywhere, and the 1926 never got written up - bah, give us your time why dont you!! JarrahTree00:01, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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You may well have responded elsewhere - but if you at all interested - not the slightest bother if you are not - please feel free to contact on or off wiki - thanks JarrahTree06:38, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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As a member of the "WikiProject Australian rules football" it would be good to hear your opinion on a current debate occurring on the 2018 AFL season talk page.
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I suspect a lot of this is B/S or "interpreted". There's daily readership vs monthly readership vs actual sales and so on. Plenty of vested interests. Would be interested to know how the data is collected and verified but that'd be commercially sensitive no doubt :). Moondyne (talk) 10:22, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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I fear you may be correct: Percy Trompf died in 1964 and copyright for such works only expires if author died before 1955. Good luck. Moondyne (talk) 12:58, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi mate, all good. Hope you're keeping well also, while avoiding the worst of the heat. I don't seem to come here too often these days due to life. I retired a couple of years ago and the days seem to fly by. Its weird. Moondyne (talk) 07:23, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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