Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Riverina

message: If want to go down that path need to apply at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals--Golden Wattle  talk 00:17, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A general Riverina stub may be useful.  I am not sure we want to break down the  to regions although I see 
 exists.  I like the proposed design on the project page.--Mattinbgn/ talk 07:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stub category 

message: We have a talk page parameter - ie  which links to this project and places articles in :Category:Wikipedia:WikiProject Riverina articles--Golden Wattle  talk 21:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Consensus has been reached on tagging talk pages with all relevant WP Australia projects.--Mattinbgn/ talk 02:59, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Talk page tagging

message: A couple of Riverina towns have double names, for example Beggan Beggan or Grong Grong.  A category that includes these towns, :Category:Double-named places in Australia is up for deletion at Categories for discussion and / or merger in the related discussion above which also suggests renaming.--Golden Wattle  talk 20:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category for deletion and / or also merging : Category:Double-named places  

message: G'day. Here, have a pretty map. I've recently been working on articles on biogeographic regions of Western Australia; see for example Esperance Plains. I needed to create maps for these articles, so for the sake of consistency I created maps for every IBRA region; see Commons:IBRA. Do you folks know that there is an IBRA region named "Riverina", defined as  Hesperian 12:17, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for feedback, VS. Can you suggest how the maps could be improved, without losing the sense of being a simple location map rather than a detail map? Hesperian 11:34, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Pleasure Hesperian - I was being a bit rhetorical as I so boldly stated but if I was to properly ask and answer the question I would probably commence by suggesting that any and all of these maps would work better if they allowed a static two step zooming in process (a little like you can with Google Earth but with only two steps) and then on the edges of the area being zoomed in a sort of hybrid map that included the major towns or roads or rivers etc appeared so one could actually put the image into a greater context than just noting that the area is somewhere in the middle of NSW. Having said all of that - I can fully understand how much more work this would be.  However the reason I said the above and then this bit is because when we (the editors working on Riverina) attempt to deliberate an area such as the Riverina we invariably have to make guesstimates which would be assisted greatly by your IBRA map if it gave us pinpointed edges.  I note that my fellow editors may have different opinions.  (PS I am also working on Template:Sunraysia and we strike has the same sort of problems there.) --VS talk 12:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Ah, didn't notice that; yep, they are the same, except that your link defines the region in terms of IBRA Version 5.1, whereas mine is IBRA Version 6.1. Hesperian 11:34, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: IBRA Riverina

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message: Riverina is now rated as GA class.  Well done to all involved.--Mattinbgn/ talk 09:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  First GA article for the Wikiproject! 

message: I note that some of the other Australian WikiProjects have ranked their articles in terms of their importance to the sub project rather than to WP Australia as a whole.  Do we want to head down that path and if so, what would we rank as Top, High, Mid and Low.  Riverina would be classed as Top but what else? --Mattinbgn/ talk 05:35, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Further to the above comment I have just gone through and assessed the last 17 Riverina articles that remained unassessed at today's date.  Having done that I note (interestingly) that in fact none of the Riverina articles are assessed for Riverina importance at all.  This becomes obvious when you look at the table on project page - So we are left with this question of Matt's which is really quite important - do we grade according to the value we place on an article in terms of the Riverina or in terms of the value of important for WP Australia?  For my vote it must be the former - that is grading with regards the value of the article to the Riverina - otherwise why the heck does the current project have an automatic categorisation of Unknown-importance Riverina articles.  I would like to begin work on this soon because if we don't we will be constantly chasing the tail of more and more articles.  Thoughts please?--VS talk 08:30, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, but can't we have two ratings: see Talk:Riverina.  I have left that as Mid rating for WP:Australia and made it Top rating for Riverina.  It doesn't show on the tag but it appears on the Riverina category as Top.--Mattinbgn/ talk 10:56, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Gotcha, cool.  Sorry I am a little slow on the uptake today. --Mattinbgn/ talk 12:30, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Riverina Class B's (11 as of today) assessed. (I note for the record that if a town/location has a relatively stable population that I am assessing at least at Mid Level importance for Riverina.)--VS talk 13:02, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, but I would have places such as Mairjimmy, New South Wales, Coree, New South Wales and Barnes, New South Wales at Low.  I assume that is what you mean by stable population.  I agree with the assessments to date and good work on the assessment so far.--Mattinbgn/ talk
# All but Bs Cs Ds Ms and Ts for Riverina Class Start pages.--VS talk 14:45, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Yep, sounds like a plan.  It shouldn't be too difficult to find high-quality sources on these places to get them up to speed fairly quickly. --Mattinbgn/ talk 09:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Riverina-importance 

message: *Pending assessment of Wagga Wagga, suggestions are:
**Albury, New South Wales
**Griffith, New South Wales
**Gundagai, New South Wales
***Gundagai seems to me to be almost at GA standard now and could be done very quickly.  Some details on the climate, on governance via Gundagai Shire Council, demographics from 2001 census figures, transport links and in my opinion that's about all it needs prior to listing. -- Mattinbgn/ talk 02:22, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaborations 

message: Is there still interest in a stub types for locations in the Riverina?  I'm not quite clear how well-defined or "official" a region it is, but it seems to be the best-categorised of the NSW regions, of whatever sort.  As the parent is over-sized, I think I'll float this over at WP:WSS/P...  Alai 20:35, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I must admit, my knowledge of the intricacies of stub-sorting is fairly minimal and I am not sure what creating a Riverina stub will do over and above categorisation of articles in :Category:Stub-Class Riverina articles.  That said, I am certainly not opposed to a new stub type.  The region is entirely un-official although a number of State government authorities covering some or all of the area traditionally known as the Riverina use the term.  Consensus amongst editors on the boundaries of the region took some time to get, but this has now been stable for some time.  If you are looking for some official boundaries, then perhaps using the boundaries of the LGAs in :Category:Local Government Areas of the Riverina, New South Wales will define a stable area.  Hope this helps and good luck.-- Mattinbgn\ talk 22:42, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't worry, the intricacies of this are fairly minimal, if not to say, not very intricate. :)  Basically I was just thinking in terms of following whatever scope the permcat  uses, without worrying too much what that actually is.  I'm not sure there will be any huge pay-off from this if the 1.0 flavour category is consistently up to date, but it is possible that there's some that are tagged with  (which as I say, is currently a little large for stub-sorter tastes) that'd be picked up from the Riverina category, or that its existance will prompt people to retag them as they find them.  (Someone explain to me again slowly why we have these by-topic and by-wikiproject systems running in (sometime) parallel...)  Alai 23:30, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Riverina-geo-stub revisited 

message: I have nominated Riverina for FA status.  Discussion can be found here.  I hope this is not premature. -- Mattinbgn\talk 21:32, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Riverina is now a featured article, this project's first. :-) -- Mattinbgn\talk 01:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: FA Nom

message: Prompted by the comments on the FA discussion and also by the task list, I have started an article on the Wemba-Wemba. I noticed Mattinbgn had started the article on the Nari-Nari recently.  A heap more to do in this area including pulling it together and making sense of it.--Golden Wattle  talk 00:18, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indigenous inhabitants 

message: For your information Gundagai, New South Wales has been nominated by User:Roister for Wikipedia:Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight.  All has been quiet for some time on the editing front for this article and it would be good to develop it to the next level.  The 75th birthday of the Dog on the Tuckerbox even passed without event :-) --Matilda talk 04:09, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey guys. I got fed up when she came back in August and so I just blocked her two primary IP ranges for the term of the arbitration ban, so we should be reasonably safe (fingers crossed). Sarah 14:58, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gundagai - collaboration nomination 

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replies: text: The clear omission in this list is Wagga Wagga. I have requested it be added Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8#Wikipedia:WikiProject Riverina - List of articles. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 00:12, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
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