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Good creation of FSAI

Nice you created a page on FSAI, makes it possible shove all details on that agency somewhere else ;-) btw, perhaps you should archive your talk page? Electron9 (talk) 01:10, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, thanks, good idea! Done. --Canley (talk) 01:16, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Elizabeth Chifley

Hi Canley. After noticing your contribution to the Joseph Potaski page with the reference sourced from the NLA, I went and had a look at your user page. Given your listed interests I thought I would let you know (that as a very new Wiki person) I have been doing some very preliminary work on an article about Elizabeth Chifley - wife of the PM Ben Chifley. It is in response to entry made sometime ago on the To Do List. Probably inappropriately - I have put some very sketchy info in my sandbox - if you want to take a look and perhaps start an article?? --PinkAechFas (talk) 05:55, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Canley Thanks for the message and your interest in the article. I'm very new to Wiki and what I have put together on Elizabeth Chifley is very preliminary. My sandbox is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PinkAechFas/sandbox. Regards --PinkAechFas (talk) 21:09, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Canley. Shall do. Regards --PinkAechFas (talk) 06:05, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Canley.Good work on the Elizabeth Chifley page. I've also added in a few bits. Thanks. Regards --PinkAechFas (talk) 03:34, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your effort on the graphs. Somedifferentstuff (talk) 11:15, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dick Stabile article

Hi. In February 2011, you put a {{disputed}} tag on the Dick Stabile article. However, no details regarding the possible problem were ever added to the article's talk page. Is the accuracy of this article still in question? If so, can you elaborate on the talk page? If not, can the tag be removed now? — Richwales (no relation to Jimbo) 16:18, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I have removed the tag. I didn't remember the article or why I would have added the tag, but looking at it is seems an anonymous user had added a line "NB: There are many inaccurate statements in the text above." in May 2010, so I replaced the line with a disputed tag. The article certainly needs better referencing anyway, there is one book referencing the line "Contrary to popular opinion..." but nothing else. --Canley (talk) 20:15, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Tas LC

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Tas LegCo elections, which I only just noticed! Frickeg (talk) 02:20, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply
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Frank McGuire (Australian politician) article. I have no real idea how I came to type Carlton, I'm very aware that Eddie is president of Collingwood, not Carlton. My only explanation is that I am still haunted by the fact that Carlton tipped my team (Tigers) out of the finals! Cheers Melbourne3163 (talk) 04:49, 16 September 2013 (UTC)[reply
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Comprehensive stubs

Thanks for that! A bit disturbing though that only one editor (you) had anything to contribute on a by-election until 2 days before it is to be held. Disappointing wiki times I guess. Timeshift (talk) 02:15, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I know! Used to be that by-election articles were created the minute an MP resigned, before the writs were even issued. I went to Wikipedia to swot up on the by-election and found there was no article. Thanks for the expansion, great work!--Canley (talk) 10:57, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well wadda ya know... Timeshift (talk) 10:38, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

While you're technically correct with the roundings, note that if we applied this more generally, the TPP would be 55.2/44.7 (see NSWEC result page), and that would just look plain awkward and we don't have roundings like 55.2/44.7 on ozpol articles. I don't strongly disagree with your edit however. Timeshift (talk) 00:33, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a bit confused: I agree it should be consistent in the articles here, but it looks like that awkward NSWEC TPP figure is because they are truncating the decimal to one place (44.787 -> 44.7) rather than rounding up (44.787 -> 44.8)—I thought what I did to the turnout change figure was the opposite of that, rounding 11.38 up to 11.4 instead of truncating to 11.3. --Canley (talk) 03:45, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oh is that what they've done? How sloppy! Timeshift (talk) 05:03, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wha?

What was that? A typo, I hope, since you !voted keep, and the close was "keep"... --Lexein (talk) 23:35, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly was! I was looking at the history on my iPad and my puppy jumped on my arm, hitting the rollback link! So my excuse is "the dog rolled back the AfD close"! --Canley (talk) 23:47, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Narf! --Lexein (talk) 00:16, 3 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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2013 federal election results

Hi Canley. Thanks for all the great work that you're doing re the results from the federal election. I'm wondering, when you update each divisional page, would you please mind attending to the following:

  1. Updating number of electors in the infobox
  2. Adding a reference to where you sourced the results
  3. Changing tense, where appropriate, to the sitting member/retiring member, election outcome from candidates.

Thanks. I hope that makes sense. I'm starting with Banks and trying to do a catch up to you. But it would help me if you actioned these going forward from wherever you are up to at present. Cheers. Rangasyd (talk) 10:34, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm concentrating on fixing up the results tables first, I have added a reference tag to the AEC VTR from now on. I didn't do it originally as the URL is going to change from vtr to results, but it will need to be added or updated anyway, so I've included the link and the date last updated. I had been updating the enrolment in the info box for all the other states but had not done so for NSW, intending to go back later and do it. I will go back and do any you haven't done when I finish checking the tables. --Canley (talk) 12:35, 6 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi - I am a little WikiGnome, who goes around tidying up spelling mistakes especially words beginning with R. I have learnt a lot about Australian Electoral divisions, changing "Retreived" (ei) to Retrieved (ie) - about 25 so far.
I know how easy it is to copy and paste one mistake into numerous articles - but could you please correct this spelling before adding it to any more articles? Thanks - Arjayay (talk) 21:52, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, whoops! --Canley (talk) 21:54, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No worries - Arjayay (talk) 22:22, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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House & Senate

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Senate results for the Australian federal election, 2013? Timeshift (talk) 01:23, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply
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You might want to check your generation tools and go over what you've done... not sure how this happened. Timeshift (talk) 23:48, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yikes, I think I know what that is, a manual transcription error. I will rerun and check all the tables today. -Canley (talk) 00:23, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are you going to add the microparties/remove others for the national result table in the Senate article? Timeshift (talk) 23:19, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I am doing it right now actually! Just checking the Coalition seat changes in the five variations, I'll pop it up in about 20 minutes. --Canley (talk) 23:34, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Coalition unmerged in national Senate results..? Timeshift (talk) 06:56, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Per

Senate results for the Australian federal election, 2010#Australia... Timeshift (talk) 21:49, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply
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When Crook went in to the Coalition it kind of muted the whole point. Lib/Nat Coalition got lumped in to one group for 2010 Senate because it looked too confusing to have individual and group tickets for Lib, Nat, LNP, and CLP. I think we should still group them together in the Senate to save the mess, and then break them down as already done in state-by-state results. Timeshift (talk) 23:20, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Crook never went into the Coalition, only into the Nationals. He explicitly sat in the National party room, but not the Coalition one. I agree that the Coalition should be grouped much like 2010 normally, though. Not sure how to deal with the WA and SA Nats, but federally I think it's most sensible to include them with the federal Nats since that's how they're registered. Frickeg (talk) 00:37, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yep. Timeshift (talk) 00:45, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK, so I think we have to go all in here, and merge the Liberal/National votes as far back as the Senate results go. For one, if the makeup or definition of the Coalition changes from election to election, does that make the swing invalid? I guess the swing can be calculated as if they were merged even if they are not in the table. Secondly, I see this National Senate table as kind of like the House of Reps two-party-preferred count—no real effect electorally, but useful or interesting to look at national shifts—and the AEC does includes all the Nationals and Liberals from all states in the 2PP count. I think there's two different issues, how a sitting member votes and is bound by Coalition solidarity, and how votes are counted and aggregated electorally—so I don't think Cook's statements and decisions should affect how election results are displayed. Any thoughts or objections? I will merge this table and calculate the swing based on all Lib/Nat parties in 2010... we can discuss further if this needs to be retrospectively edited for previous years. --Canley (talk) 02:01, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I hadn't actually looked at the 2010 page, and now that I do, I don't like the way it's done there either. I'd much prefer it to be done along the lines of the HoR pages - that is, a Coalition heading, followed by totals for joint Coalition, individual Liberal tickets, and individual National tickets (and LNP and CLP). (As an aside - I kind of think a Coalition total should be included in both tables too, perhaps in italics so that it doesn't count towards the total. It seems like it would be useful for the swing figure if nothing else.) Frickeg (talk) 02:22, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I like that idea—maybe we can have it both ways... like the National Party! :) --Canley (talk) 02:32, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

They're as final as they're gonna get excluding the WA Senate fracas. Out of curiosity tell me, if you know how it happened, about the WA LH 2PP swing... it was a significant difference to what was in the article, but all the other states' 2pp swings were correct to the decimal. Timeshift (talk) 02:36, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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