User talk:Orderinchaos

The article Shire of South Gippsland has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

per WP:ONEOTHER, because the current 'South Gippsland Shire' (the current local government area) is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC with that name over the related smaller former local government area of a similar name name and in a similar location, the 'Shire of South Gippsland (former)', because my move request for this disambiguation page on that basis on the 1st of February 2026 resulted in no consensus

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. PK2 (talk; contributions) 06:28, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your good faith approach on this. I disagree so have removed the PROD, it feels like something that needs a bit of discussion if it's going to happen (i.e. an AfD or similar, with a notification to the Australian project). I note the other commenter on your move request suggested moving SoSG to include its years of existence - I have no objection to that. Orderinchaos 15:56, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Shire of South Gippsland is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shire of South Gippsland until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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PK2 (talk; contributions) 03:11, 20 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Orderinchaos! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 15:50, 21 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Wow, 20 years. Wikipedia and Wikimedia have unquestionably changed my life, and working on the projects kept my mind going at a time when my life really wasn't. I was able to channel some of my time and energy (non-Wikipedians might say "developed an obsession", but you guys know better) into improving Australian topics, and through that developed an interest in public data in Australia -- hours in distant cities (or my own) scouring libraries and archives for the one piece of information to fix something I was working on, drawing out lists, learning a heap about the country I live in that school never taught me. It's probably one of the main reasons I eventually became a data scientist, although my studies and work in that area since 2018 drew me away from active contribution. I also got to be part of a knowledge community (or more properly, several communities) which was very rewarding. My five years' membership of the Wikimedia Australia committee and getting to meet and exchange with people from all over the world at the Berlin conferences -- quite a few of whom I still consider friends -- and 2011 Wikimania is a privilege and experience I will never forget.

I hope to be able to return more meaningfully at some point. I still contribute occasionally on Commons, and have a huge backlog of images to upload there.

Orderinchaos 20:26, 26 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hungry? Here's a little snack for you on your birthday, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day, Orderinchaos! --☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk

☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 18:56, 16 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, Danilo and Alex! :) Orderinchaos 08:15, 17 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Precious

Eight years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:58, 1 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 August 9 § Category:Western Australian redirects on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. 1234qwer1234qwer4 03:12, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi, just to let you know that I'm running The Asia-Oceania Destubathon in November. £2000 (about AU$3,796.66) in prizes. It would be great to see content improved for Australia and the Pacific region as part of this. I had hoped the Wikimedia Australia chapter could put up prizes for most destubs by territory/state to reinforce the prizes, but at present it's a prize for Australia and a few other areas. Sign up if interested, I'm sure there are a lot of stale old Australia articles needing destubbing! If it is a success, perhaps next year we could do something specifically for Australia or regional Pacific. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:20, 26 October 2026 (UTC)Reply