User talk:The bellman

Picture of the day

The Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) is a wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is widespread across much of Australia, and has a predominantly white plumage with a bare, black head, long downcurved bill, and black legs. While it is closely related to the African sacred ibis, the Australian white ibis is a native Australian bird. Due to its increasing presence in the urban environment and its habit of rummaging in garbage, the species has acquired a variety of colloquial names such as "tip turkey" and "bin chicken". This Australian white ibis was photographed at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

Hi bellman, and welcome to Wikipedia.

Thankyou for finding the time to sign up and contribute to our little project. If you're in doubt about anything, you might want to check out some of these pages:

• Welcome, newcomers - a general introduction, and a good starting point
• The help centre and FAQs
• The Manual of Style - a guide to the community's writing conventions

It's also a good idea to sign the new user log and add a little about yourself.

When contributing to a talk page, you can sign your name by typing four tildes after your comments, like this: ~~~~. (Just so you know, some people won't pay attention to unsigned comments).

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me at my talk page, or at the Help desk or Village Pump.

Above all, make sure you be bold when contributing, and have fun!

-- T.P.K. 13:23, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Cyclone Tracy

Nah, not a problem if you want to put it back in. I just took it out because it didn't exist and I thought the content was covered in one of the World War II articles. If you create it, the best name would probably be something like 1942 bombing of Darwin but as it is a wartime event I may be wrong on that. Best thing to do would be integrate the details into one of the WW2 articles and link to that. -- Chuq 08:26, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hiya

Welcome to Wikiproject Sydney! Good to have you on board :-) Please feel free to modify any content on the page as we're still formulating strategy/policy. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:35, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Stub notice on Strathfield

Hi bellman, I'd prefer to keep the stub notice on this article until we can make it a "featured suburb". It could be that "stub" is the wrong work, however. - Ta bu shi da yu 09:03, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hey, I'm going to keep it out of the article. Consensus (if you can say two people form a consensus!) is that it should be left out. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:57, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

References

Hi bellman, I've moved References to User:The_bellman/References and made a redirect of References to Citation because discussing of policy should not be done in the main namespace. Though I do tend to agree with you on this matter! Just thought I'd let you know. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:55, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Expanding the coverage of Africa

Having seen your comment under African Union on COTW I thought you might be interested to know (in case you haven't already heard) that there is a recently launched WikiProject aiming to improve several under-covered areas of the Wikipedia. African issues is one of the main priorities of this project. If you're interested, you'll find more at Countering systemic bias. Alarm 16:26, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Aboriginal expert

Hi bellman, I notice that one of your friends is an expert in Aboriginal culture. I'm still trying to find out info on the Strathfield area... do you think he could help me out here? - Ta bu shi da yu 02:41, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Admin powers - alas not yet :(

While Channel 7 may be playing Superman, alas I am not one yet :P I suspect I'll become admin in a few days! - Ta bu shi da yu 12:09, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

P.S. thanks for emailing your teacher for me... it's much appreciated! - Ta bu shi da yu 13:55, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Spanish Translation

That sounds like an interesting project. That article has some rather advanced sentences, and some of the sentences that would be formed by the English translation might be awkward in an English article about this subject. Howevver, I will definitely help in whatever way I can. Academic Challenger 05:48, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The hope is that this spawns more translation efforts, between all of the different major languages. The bellman 05:59, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your invitation to translate bellman. I did a translation but fortunately Chamelon retranslated and he did a good job. I think I need more skill. Best regards--Jondel 11:15, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Cheers also for the invitation to help on the Spanish translation. Going through it now and it seems more or less very well translated :). Hauser

Thanks for the invite; the translation seemed pretty much complete, but there was definitely room for improvement in the English. I did some, there's still a bit more left to do (and in the Spanish version too, I think). @alex 02:43, 2004 Oct 26 (UTC)

Sorry, but I won't be able to do any work these days as I will have very little free time till mid-November or even December. Sabbut 19:08, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Your kind welcome

Thanks so much for your kind welcome. I shall endeavor to be a helpful part of the community. I look forward to meeting everyone and getting involved in this great project. ;-) Jimbo Wales 05:16, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wotcher

Work at USyd, involved in left groups in Sydney, hang out with the latin american dance crew at UNcle. I'm happy to have my POV on APESMA changed, but APESMA has a reputation as an appeaser, a bosses' union, an inactive union, a "Professional association" with the historical connotations, a union opposed to industrial action in principle, a scab union (doesn't go out when the others onsite do), and a poacher (see for instance the AMWU's ambit in re engineers and other kindred professions). In terms of direct dealings, I know that APESMA does poorly by its student members. Happy to have my POV (and its obviously POV) countered. yours cordially, Fifelfoo 02:42, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

AMWU versus APESMA: Personal conversation with a mate of mine who was a worker (qualified and registered engineer) and union member. Left uni with an APESMA student membership conversion. On the basis of his experience, and recommendations from more senior engineers who were militants, went for the manufacturing. As far as the AMWU's ambit, see their white collar division section on their website. Obviously after this conversation I'll investigate more. Only problem is this kind of demarkation disputes don't get published in Workers Online etc.Fifelfoo 03:18, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Demarkation disputes: the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and state equivalents are meant to only register one union per industry. However, over time, the AIRC has shown a willingness to register unions representing, "All workers in the industry of hopping on the left foot while shearing a sheep," and then another union with, "All workers in the industry of hopping on the right foot while shearing a sheep." Sometimes there's more than two appropriate unions, for example, CPSU, NTEU, APESMA, HREA (now HSU, mostly kicked out of the sector), LHMU, NUS, AMWU, IEU, AEU, CFMEU, ASU (Services) all have some rights to enrol members working in industries which produce full-time education. It was even more of a mess before the great ACTU / ALP driven union mergers of the 1980s and 1990s. Fifelfoo 04:25, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Union: I chose the NTEU (my options were NTEU or CPSU). NTEU is an industrial union, its left wing, not ALP affiliated, not over run with faction fights. NTEU has excellent representation of casuals and general staff (the category when I started). NTEU does alot about being member driven, and was the workhorse behind the three strikes in the recent Enterprise Bargaining Agreement round. The NTEU branch has a rather good reputation. Fifelfoo 05:02, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Tri-lingual translation of the week

Hi bellman,

Thank you for correct my user page! The text was bizarre – since I wrote it, I learned more about English.

About the camera, I don't have one, and even if a got, I lived in metropolitan region of São Paulo, not necessarily in the centre... I'll try to find a picture with sufficient resolution to print, but I'm more focused in finding something about the northeastern sertão.

The tri-lingual translation is a great idea. The pt Wikipedia has lots of articles translated from en, so it's hard to find articles about Latin America even there! I'm working in pt:Carnaval, and other specific themes about our people needs urgently to be developed. I think the project you're proposing could force the development of these articles. I'm on it. Marcelo R. 15:39, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi Bellman, I made the Portuguese translation of your proposal. And I put it in your user space, hope you don't mind. Also I'm talking with people on pt about the project, too. C-ya, Marcelo R. 14:12, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

User:Ilyanep/Welcome Message

Why did you blank this page? Lupo 10:41, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

A stupid mistake The bellman 22:50, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC)

South America pics for Wikijunior

Not really a bunch, but enough I guess. They're at User:Pilaf/Pictures. Haven't got too many responses on the other Village Pumps, likely due to machine translated messages. Then again, there is a fair amount of French speaker that have listed themselves as being interested, so presume that's how they found out. And oy! That user page is confusing at first glance! -- user:zanimum