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Is there a difference between this categories? Category:Indigenous Australian artists and Category:Australian Aboriginal artists. LibStar (talk) 23:48, 11 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Indigenous is a broader term, including Torres Straight Islanders and other people born in Australia. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:56, 11 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks LibStar (talk) 00:16, 12 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

So all people currently in Category:Indigenous Australian artists, except Alick Tipoti and Ken Thaiday Snr, ought to be in Category:Australian Aboriginal artists? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 00:32, 12 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

No, I think the other way around. LibStar (talk) 01:18, 12 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

According to WP:CATSPECIFIC, subjects ought to placed into the most specific category. If Category:Indigenous Australian artists is the broader category and Category:Australian Aboriginal artists the more specific, my suggestion is valid. Whether a Category:Torres Strait Islander artists is needed, IMO it is, is a different matter. I can't see why a person should be in both. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 05:17, 12 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Presumably if they have both ancestries and are part of both communities? 5225_C (talk • contributions) 05:21, 12 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

1. Should Category:Indigenous Australian artists also have a subcat Category:Torres Strait Islander artists?

2. If so, how should artists of both Aboriginal and TSI descent be categorised? Dual catted?

3. Who would be considered Australian "indigenous" but not Aboriginal and/or TSI? (Are there any artists who should appear at the top level Category:Indigenous Australian artists?)

4. Ellen José is currently listed under Category:Australian Aboriginal artists, but I can't see that she fits that cat -- she is of TSI and overseas descent. There may be other TSI artists similarly (mis?)categorised.

^~Hydronium^~Hydroxide^~(Talk)~ 02:17, 12 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Good points. Agree with point 1. LibStar (talk) 02:19, 12 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

I would suggest: (1) Yes. (2) Yes, dual-categorised. (3) Likely only artists who have not specified which group they belong to. 5225_C (talk • contributions) 05:28, 12 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

I am having difficulty finding sources on this person. Having a common name doesn't help, the sole source provided is dead. LibStar (talk) 05:31, 15 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Have you tried Trove? I can see https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110920364?searchTerm=%22David%20Williams%22%20legislative https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/250282927?searchTerm=%22David%20Williams%22%20legislative https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110920048?searchTerm=%22David%20Williams%22%20legislative. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:08, 15 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Comments at Talk:Yanchep line#Proposed merge of Northern Suburbs Transit System into Yanchep line from members of this WikiProject are requested please. Steelkamp (talk) 06:07, 16 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hoodoo Gurus has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:16, 19 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Australian articles are a mess as to the abbreviation and capitalization of "Junior" in postnoms.

I had been blithely using jr Jr. Jnr and all sorts of variations until it was brought to my attention that, in Australian usage, a full stop (period) is not attached to an abbreviation where the last letter is retained. My Macquarie encyclopaedic dictionary confirmed Jr for "Junior", quite prescriptively.

My Fowler's English Usage gives similar advice. Under "period (full stop) in abbreviations" it has Abbreviations are chiefly made in two ways: one by giving the beginning of the word in one or more letters and then stopping, the other by dropping out some portion of the middle. Those of the first kind are rightly ended with a period, but the common practice of doing the same to the second is ill advised. It then goes on to recommend Mr for Mister, Capt. for Captain, Cpl for Corporal, Geo. for George and Thos for Thomas, Lat. for Latin and Gk for Greek and ht wt for hit wicket. Curiously, I find no mention of "Junior" in that little article, nor sandwiched between "junction" and "junta". Ditto "Senior".

The Wikipedia article American and British English spelling differences#Acronyms and abbreviations says Contractions where the final letter is present are often written in British English without full stops/periods (Mr, Mrs, Dr, St, [sic] Ave). Abbreviations where the final letter is not present generally do take full stops/periods (such as vol., etc., i.e., ed.); British English shares this convention with the French: Mlle, Mme, Dr, Ste, but M. for Monsieur. In American and Canadian English, abbreviations like St., Ave., Mr., Mrs., Ms., Dr., and Jr., usually require full stops/periods. Should we be actively enforcing this convention in articles labelled {{Use Australian English}}? Doug butler (talk) 21:34, 30 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

We have:

• MOS:JR, which includes the full stop and makes no mention of US/UK differences
• WP:JR/SR, which does distinguish between the two styles (full stop or not), per WP:TITLEVAR, MOS:ENGVAR.

If nothing else, MOS:JR should mention that the US/UK difference. Mitch Ames (talk) 00:36, 1 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

MOS:JR should mention that the US/UK difference — Done. Mitch Ames (talk) 00:55, 1 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

• Should we be actively enforcing this ... ? — Yes, per MOS:TIES, which takes precedence over MOS:RETAIN (as explicitly noted in the latter). Mitch Ames (talk) 01:02, 1 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
• It used to be clear: I did this move in 2021. It's got moved back to "Jr." a year later. A recursive search of Category:Players of Australian rules football shows that they are all at "Jr." now. The-Pope (talk) 04:24, 1 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
• Usage should be that of the way the person is identified as, if they use jnr, jr, or any other form then thats the format. If its used by sources then you use what they use. Gnangarra 07:36, 1 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

  The problem is that the usage by sources is often inconsistent, and how they personally identified isn't always known.

  Take a look at one of the guys on the McDouall Stuart expedition (who started this whole thing):

  The National Library calls him "Stephen King, Jr." https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/2546371

  The John McDouall Society call him "Stephen King Jnr" http://johnmcdouallstuart.org.au/companions

  The State Library of SA have him as "Stephen King, Jnr." https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/387

  I agree that if the person consistently used something we should use it too, but how do we default when there isn't any sort of consensus? Crelb (talk) 13:14, 1 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Ours is not impose or create names, if sources use various versions then state all if its significant other wise common usage. As the nearsest personal connection and notability is his work for SA government use what they used. This appears to be a good case for not using any form of junior. Disambiguating the article from the that writer by using surveyor. Each article on its individual merit, not a a blanket policy that ignores how the person choose be identified. Gnangarra 04:44, 2 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

• Exactly. Media often just uses their own style guide, which may or not match the general population. For example, The West Australian and The Age both use December 1, 2024 as their date format. I can find usage of senior, junior, snr, jnr and jr (almost all without the period) when searching for Gary Ablett on TheAge.com.au. The-Pope (talk) 13:32, 1 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

  I think there are a couple of separate issues. The first is the style. The second is when should you use junior/senior at all.

  On style, the Macquarie Dictionary says in its entry for "junior and "senior" (I presume the italicisation isn't a recommendation, just an inconsistency in the formatting of the two entries).

  Sr, Sen.

  Jr or Jun.

  So if we are going to make an argument using MOS:TIES, then I suggest that these are the acceptable forms. While not official, Macquarie Dictionary is our de facto Australian standard for spelling etc. There is also the Australian Style Guide published by the Australian Government which is supposedly followed in government publications; I checked my copy (admittedly a couple of decades old now) and it says nothing about this topic. But maybe if someone has access to a recent edition, it might be worth checking if it has any guidelines as, like the Macquarie Dictionary, it would be an important consideration. I note that if the two were conflicting, I would follow the Macquarie for informal writing and the Style Guide for formal writing (not sure which we do with Wikipedia, a bit of both I suspect).

  But, my understanding is that in Australia we do not use "junior" and "senior" as a permanent fixture to people's names as they appear to do in the USA, but only when we need to disambiguate because both are being discussed and that their use is relative to who is being discussed. That is, it is a disambiguation in context, not a permanent part of their name. So, e.g. the Katter family have three generations of politicians, all of whom are officially named Robert Katter (with differing middle names), but their Wikipedia articles are Bob Katter Sr., Bob Katter and Robbie Katter. Now the use of "Bob" and "Robbie" come from our common name policy (as that is how they are generally known, as it seems even for the Katters having too many Bobs was a problem). But I don't see why one has "Sr." as a permanent part of the article title. It's not his name. If we want to disambiguate article titles, we can use Bob Katter (1918-1990) for the grandfather or whatever. The use of "Sr." wasn't his common name (so we aren't following the common name policy) but being forced to follow some American practice by the MOS. And if we were discussing the grandfather and father together, the grandfather would be senior and the father be junior, but if we were discussing the father and the son, then the father would be senior and the son junior. And indeed if we were discussing all three, then the sensible thomg (in ordinary English) would not be talking about Robert Katter III, but saying Bob Katter (grandson) to make clear which one we meant. As far as I am aware, junior and senior are not allowed in birth certificates, passports, and official documents here in Australia, as we do not recognise them as part of the name. Kerry (talk) 09:08, 2 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

  The Americans add a full stop always whereas we do not add one to an abbreviation if would normally end in that letter. MOS:JR also adopted the American form of omitting the parenthetical comma. Since the use of "junior" and "senior" in names is primarily an America thing (although less common now than it was in the first half of the 20th century), we filed it under WP:ENGVAR. MOS:JR applies to articles in American English only. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:40, 2 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

It is with a sad heart that I inform the Australian contributors of the sudden passing of JarrahTree. Please reflecting on what JarrahTree has done over the last 19 years, 6 months, 1 week and 1 day at his user talk page. Gnangarra 08:03, 3 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

I feel sad that he and I never had that catchup that he was seeking....

Dan arndt (talk) 08:11, 3 December 2024 (UTC)Reply