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Dori | Talk 05:21, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Jack, you might want to consider adding yourself to Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Australia. -- Tim Starling 05:50, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)

per this, Lord Salisbury's youngest child was born in 1880, five years before he first became PM. Lord John Russell had several children during his tenure from 1846 to 1852. I think he would probably be the most recent, although I'm not sure. john 04:26, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Yup, it's Russell, [1]. john 06:22, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

OK, Jack, I'm knocking off for the nght, so we can stop editing each others' words. Arno 06:58, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Re Bob Hawke: Good edits. Of what religion is Blanche d'Alpuget a minister? Adam 15:25, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Who performs the constitutional functions of the Crown in the ACT? Adam 02:02, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi Adam. Good question. I don't quite know the answer. But I do know that when the ACT Legislative Assembly passes a law, it becomes law immediately. The Federal Government has the power to disallow any law (just as it has in the NT - eg. the Euthanasia Act), and it was threatening only this week to cancel any law the ACT Legislative Assembly might make to permit same-sex marriages (we'll see about that in the fullness of time). And what I do know (as a recently departed long-term ACT citizen) that one of the differences between the ACT and the NT is that the NT has an Administrator one of whose functions is to give Royal Assent to acts, whereas in the ACT no such office exists.

Don't know about Blanche's religion either. However the curious paradox of an avowed atheist marrying a Minister of a Christian church was given some media coverage at the time. I don't believe she belongs to any of the mainstream religions. JackofOz 02:37, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Eritrea and Eretria are two different places. It is considered bad manners to edit other people's User pages, and certainly to edit them erroneously. Adam 03:00, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Oops, my mistake (mistakes, actually) - please accept my apologies. JackofOz 01:35, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

"Migrate" always sounds very aimless and nomadic to me. Maybe it's just me. - Nunh-huh 02:50, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Dear Jack, i remove the Guiness book of records references in Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza and his dad's articles because: 1) Guiness Book is not a reference for historical matters; 2) I never saw a reference of a Luis II anywhere else until today (in wiki); 3) Luis Filipe was not a Crown Prince (like you have in other European Monarchies) because Portuguese Kings are not even crowned, they are invested by the Virgin Mary as her representatives (because its the Virgin who wears the Royal Crown of Portugal since 1640); 4) if not a Crown Prince, the poor boy was not automatically king after his father's death since he was not invested in this dignity. I hope i made things clearer. All the best, MvHG 11:09, 19 May 2004 (UTC)Reply

I agree with your changes, except the phrase i just removed (because the Guiness Book might be fun, but hardly a reference). So... how happens that an Australian knows about Fatima? I am impressed. When John IV of Portugal became king in 1640, after 60 years of Spanish dominion, crowned the Virgin Mary as Queen as a thanksgiving for the restoration of Independence. Since the Lady does not appear to die, she is still Queen. And that is why the kings of Portugal lack a crown in every portrait and why the Crown prince title is inexistant. This was way before the Fatima sightings, by then Portugal was already a Republic. The Portuguese Queen is the Nossa Senhora da Sagrada Conceicao (Our Lady of the Sacred Conception) MvHG 10:29, 22 May 2004 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for that. I am very interested in the whole Fatima story. See my prediction at Talk:Our Lady of Fatima (which has not yet eventuated). JackofOz 04:50, 24 May 2004 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Melbourne

Hi, JackofOz. Seeing as you've listed yourself at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Australia as being from Melbourne, why don't you drop by the WikiProject Melbourne and help add something to the Wikipedia about our city?

Be sure to visit the Project talk page, and if you are interested, you can become a member.

Here are some WikiProject Melbourne articles which attract a high number of "page hits" but are only rated as Stub Class, or otherwise need additional citations or attention:
Suburbs:	Derrimut, South Wharf, Menzies Creek, Save Our State (Australia)
Landmarks:	101 Collins Street, 120 Collins Street, Bourke Place, Hamer Hall, Melbourne Mint
Events:	Melbourne International Festival of Brass, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Great Bookie Robbery, Extreme weather events in Melbourne
Transport:	All of the stations on the Puffing Billy Railway need expanding or merging to the main article, especially the request stops which are just tin sheds
Sporting Clubs:	Caroline Springs George Cross FC
Streets:	Little Bourke Street, Hardware Lane, Hosier Lane
People:	Alannah Hill, Meek (street artist), Vexta
Institutions:	Eltham High School, Glen Eira Town Hall, Boxing Day Test
Venues:
Miscellaneous:	Collins St., 5 pm, Yarra Valley, Coops Shot Tower, Melbourne Talk Radio, Melbourne University Publishing, The Herald and Weekly Times,
Edit or discuss this list.

TPK 13:54, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC) (My talk page is at User talk:Hypernovean).

Hi Jack! You'll be perhaps interested to know that in the last week, images of Our Lady of Fatima have been seen accompanying supporters for good luck. Portugal is playing the euro 2004 final against Greece. Moreover, coach Scolari, goal keeper Ricardo, and several others already promissed a pilgrimage to Fátima if we win today. Cheers, Muriel G 18:23, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Butler

I am referring to phrases like "immediately leaving for a three-week overseas honeymoon" (he didn't leave immediately), "the Premier Paul Lennon was forced to ask him to refrain" (he wasn't forced to ask), "three very public appearances" (they weren't very public, they were just public), etc. All these seem designed to put Butler in the worst possible light, which is not what the article should be doing. Adam 03:02, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Alright, then. I was concerned about your use of the word "insinuating". Insinuation implies things that readers are meant to infer. That is a cowardly way of communicating, because the writer can always deny having expressed such a view and simply accuse disaffected readers of "transference". If I overstated the case against Butler, mea maxima culpa. I already stand corrected. But far from insinuating anything, at least I had the balls to state explicitly what I believed to be the case. Please continue to criticise me, where appropriate, for the words I actually use, but please do not accuse me of "insinuating" anything. Cheers JackofOz 23:25, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Australian wikipedians' message board

Hi Jack. I've created a page (with an idea blatantly plagiarised from our Irish counterparts) where any interested Australians can get together and coordinate efforts to fill some of the (rather large) holes in Australian content. If you're interested, it's at Wikipedia:Australian wikipedians' notice board. Any assistance you could give would be appreciated. Ambi 06:02, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! Can you think of any other articles that really need creating? I know there's quite a lot missing, particularly in the areas of society and history. Ambi 07:36, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

GPO Box 9994

What was your evidence that the ABC's GPO Box choice of 9994 was NOT due to Bradman's average? I'm having trouble locating much via Google, but Karen Tighe thought it was so, and the presenters of NewsRadio have stated it numerous times.

Mark Hurd 03:58, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Good question. The choice of 9994 has traditionally been attributed to one-time General Manager Sir Charles Moses, who was a great cricket fan and a personal friend of Bradman's. However, I have read more than once that this is an urban myth and has been explicitly denied by the ABC, at various times in the years leading up to Bradman's death when interest in him was at a peak. It seems to have been a simple coincidence of numbers. However I have no source that would lay this to rest one way or the other. Maybe a call to ABC Sport might help.

If you think about it, although the ABC was the traditional cricket-lover's station back in the 'good old days', the ABC nevertheless had a much wider brief than just cricket, so it would have been odd to tie its official address to a piece of symbolism that was specifically related to one quite minor part of its overall operations. Cheers JackofOz 02:45, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Jack, thanks for fixing the date of Marie Tehan's death. I was admittedly in a rush when I did that. Claudine 00:19, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cheers. Actually I got it wrong myself. It was 1st November, not 31st October. I've fixed it now. JackofOz 21:25, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi!

Hi, Jack--I just saw your note on my temp page (miraculously! I didn't have it watchlisted, and was just checking to see what I had left there). The spelling was corrected in the final article, so thanks. Yes, Alkan was quite an interesting guy, (and damn near impossible to play, at least for me!) I always thought the Talmud story was true--he put the loftiest volume in the loftiest position, metaphorically, and was crushed to death while reaching for it; but after reading more about this too-strange-to-be-true story I'm coming to think it is apocryphal after all. --Always good to meet someone else interested in classical music; there aren't many of us editing in the area nowadays. Cheers! Antandrus 22:33, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)