User talk:Dan arndt

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Nations by the river

Hey there, could you check out talk:Nations by the River please? Thanks

Beat me to it

Nice work on the Jimmy Melbourne article... whilst I first heard about him when the NAIDOC games started, I only saw the story in the West today so was going to write it up tonight. You saved me a few hours work! I'll try to find some more original references from the NLA website over the next few weeks to expand on what Ray Wilson and Steve Errington have found out. Gave the DYK a tweak too, still might need another go. Cheers, The-Pope (talk) 15:55, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Ganggajang

Thanks for your note. Unfortunately I was about to start correcting the capitalisation of the band's name when something came up, so only got as far as moving the main page. If you take a look at WP:MOSTM and WP:NC, you will see that we do not follow non-standard capitalisation. Instead, standard English capitalisation is used throughout Wikipedia. Thus, GANGgajang is correctly styled as Ganggajang. Cheers, Nouse4aname (talk) 08:02, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

This was news to me. I started drafting a reply to support the original version, but halfway through read this naming convention that I was unaware of, Invader Zim being the cited example. I don't like it or see the point, but there you go. –Moondyne 09:06, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm getting older by the minute but don't believe I'm much wiser... I've read the guidelines and sections indicated. See also cLOUDHEAD discussion by User:Peace and Passion and the replies at User talk:Peace and Passion#WP:MOSTM talkpage by User:Nouse4aname. Even though GANGgajang's own website states " The name "GANGgajang" comes from the idea of the band being a collective of creative individuals, a..."GANG" and the sound of a guitar being strummed -"gajang"". According to Nouse4aname a band's website is not a reliable (independent) source and so this could not be used to explain the naming convention. I was going to appeal to authority (ie McFarlane) but where's the ref? Another possibility is to consider CamelCase and render it as GangGajang but that seems to be original research... It's likely that its going to stay as Ganggajang.shaidar cuebiyar ( talk | contribs ) 09:44, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Found McFarlane entry, it may help with article explaining band name styling but not with naming convention of wiki-articles.shaidar cuebiyar ( talk | contribs ) 09:54, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Is there nothing more bizarre in all the world than allowing Wikipedia policy to override the band itself when determining what the band's name actually is? The real world exists regardless of whether Wikipedia policy permits it, and in this real world, the band's name is "GANGgajang". Policy wonkery gone mad. Not sure what you can do about though... IAR? -- Mattinbgn\^talk 11:53, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Too true. –Moondyne 12:44, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Jimmy Melbourne

On September 13, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jimmy Melbourne, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Wikiproject: Did you know? 18:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Birds and references

You miss the point.

The tag said that there were no references in the article.

There is a reference in the article. It may not be a reference to support the statement you're asking about... but it's a reference to support a statement. DS (talk) 02:08, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Music Page - Phatchance

Hi Dan, I am still new to Wikipedia, thanks a lot for helping make that page float for me, you did a much better job than I did and you sourced a heap of information I couldn't find for the bio and discography, I'm still learning the ropes with this site, I noticed you'd made a lot of really good contributions for Australian hip hop, I want to start getting involved actively in editing and making articles so maybe we should stay in touch via user talk? I also wanted to ask if you'd like to bow into the discussion on the articles for deletion page for phatchance I think I accidentally stepped on some toes removing a prod notice and it's blown way out of proportion (I honestly didn't really have much of an idea how to fix everything up and thought I did a good enough job) I'm not even sure (given the discussion we're having on that page now) whether I am allowed to ask your opinion on this, but since you've edited the page I figured you might have a view on whether it should stay or go?

CheersStevezimmy (talk) 02:07, 19 September 2009 (UTC)