Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Riverina
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[edit] Stub category
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)
- A general Riverina stub may be useful. I am not sure we want to break down the {{NewSouthWales-geo-stub}} to regions although I see
{{FarNorthQueensland-geo-stub}} exists. I like the proposed design on the project page.--Mattinbgn/ talk 07:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Talk page tagging
We have a talk page parameter - ie {{WP Australia|Riverina=yes}} which links to this project and places articles in Category:Wikipedia:WikiProject Riverina articles--Golden Wattle talk 21:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Should Riverina towns' talk pages be tagged with both Australian places and Riverina tags. See User talk:VirtualSteve#Riverina tags here for some earlier discussion.--Mattinbgn/ talk 12:11, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
- Consensus has been reached on tagging talk pages with all relevant WP Australia projects.--Mattinbgn/ talk 02:59, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Category for deletion and / or also merging : Category:Double-named places
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)
[edit] IBRA Riverina
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
An ancient riverine plain and alluvial fans composed of unconsolidated sediments with evidence of former stream channels. The Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers and their major tributaries, the Lachlan and Goulburn Rivers flow westwards across this plain. Vegetation consists of river red gum and black box forests, box woodlands, saltbush shrublands, extensive grasslands and swamp communities.[1]
Hesperian 12:17, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey - that is a pretty map. Of course the damn 
bit of squiggly red line to the left of the main mass (along the Murray River I assume) might throw some of what we have done askew (except that we have debated the question to a final stage already) - especially because it encompasses an area which is also referred to as Sunraysia &/or Mallee and moves into South Australia. Seriously though - if you don't mind me being a bit critical of these maps in general (not just yours) I always find them so hard to work with when you want to pinpoint locations (towns, places, communities etc) on the edges - simply because there is nothing in them to easily identify exactly where all the edges stop and start. Rhetorically - the question seems always to be that I can take a look at the map and make a pretty good guess that Albury is in the middle bottom of the big red mass but for example is Bookham on the right hand edge or isn't it? --VS talk 12:55, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- 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)
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- 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)
Certainly the IBRA information needs to be factored into the Riverina article. We already have a section on the bioregion from the NSW perspective - can't check yet if this coincides - assume so and we just need ot add reference ...--Golden Wattle talk 20:16, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- 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)
[edit] Banned editor
Just a heads up that the anon editor is banned. Reference Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Gundagai editors. The decision was The anonymous Gundagai editor is banned from editing Wikipedia for one year. That means revert on sight. She basically tried to introduce unsubstantiated facts in a very disruptive way.--Golden Wattle talk 20:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] First GA article for the Wikiproject!
Riverina is now rated as GA class. Well done to all involved.--Mattinbgn/ talk 09:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
