User:Joseph031164

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This user comes from Australia.
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

Books read

Fiction

• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Stranger
• Rabbit, Run
• The Quiet American
• Nostromo
• No Time for Goodbye

Non Fiction

• The Shia Revival
• After America

Useful links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AnnaFrance/Checklist
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geographic_references

Misspellings

http://www.dumbtionary.com/word/index.shtml

• American and British English spelling differences
• Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings
• Bankok (Bangkok)
• neodynium (neodymium)
• obervation (observation)
• praseodynium (praseodymium)
• structer (structure)
• structue (structure)
• theroretical (theoretical)

Regular Spelling Searches

occassion	athough	reciev	recieve	incase	preformance	daugher	commitee	Britsh	atempt
occassionally	thier	divison	perciev	percieve	percieved	beacuse	senarios	poltical	undergound
allthough	portay	Febury	becuase	noteable	Spetember	aswell	sentance	minumum	houshold
higly	comand	exibit	ofice	fasion	desease	peform	alltogether	chancelor	kindom
diffrence	diference	altough	parralel	paralel	specal	hight	tranfer	sugest	septemeber
newpaper	asociation	langauge	traditon	rigth	postive	throught	atack	distroy	atract

Problematic terms and alternatives

"better then" => "better than" "crispy" => "crisp" "different than" => "different from" "different then" => "different from" "greater then" => "greater than" "less then" => "less than" "is made up" => "consists" "methodology" => "method" "more then" => "more than"

"often times" => "often" "one of the best" => "one of the better" "one of the least" => "one of the lesser" "one of the worst" => "one of the worse" "reason why" => "reason that" "smaller then" => "smaller than" "Smithsonian Institute" => "Smithsonian Institution" "the reason ... is because" => -rewrite- "worse then" => "worse than"

Australian Places: Useful Resources

These are useful online resources to find information for articles.

National

Placename information

• http://maps.bonzle.com/c/a
• History of Places in Australia

General Data

• Demographic information by postcode search via domain.com.au
• Population can be looked up from the ABS website
• Geoscience Australia has a wealth of information about placenames, and is the place to find Lat/long co-ordinates
• Elevation fallingrain.com
• Climate - Bureau of Meteorology
• Miscellaneous Data on localities at Wilkins Tourist Maps
• Locality Descriptions and history at Walkabout Australian Travel Guide
• Distances between locations search page at travelmate.com
• Post Office opening/closing dates - useful for actual settlement dates of towns/name changes at Premier Postal History
• Google Street View- for pics in External Links- copy URL of selected pic. BUT copy/paste 3rd Coordinate over both the first 2 to align pin and pedestrian icons on associated map (see Wannon River).

LGA National

• Australian Local Government Association

Electorate

• Federal Electorate Search

Area Statistics from the ABS

• 2006 Census - select State Suburb, Local Government Area or Statistical Local Area.
• 2001 Census - select Urban Centre/Locality, State Suburb, Local Government Area or Statistical Local Area

Australian Capital Territory

Placename Information

• ACT Planning and Land Authority

Electorate

• Electorate Website

New South Wales

Placename Information

• Geographical Names Board of NSW has a search site, and you can download their whole database of names.
• Aboriginal place names around Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay
• New South Wales Department of Lands Imagery of NSW localities with borders and names of nearby localities.

LGA

• New South Wales local governments association website
• New South Wales Council website list at Local Government and Shires Associations of NSW (LGSA)

Electorate

• State Electoral Office

Northern Territory

Placename Information

• NT Place Names Register

LGA

• Northern Territory local governments association website

Electorate

• Northern Territory Electoral Commission

Queensland

Placename Information

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages look in the section titled 'Resources categorised by type'

General Data

• Information Queensland
• Place name information

LGA

• Queensland local governments association website
• Listing of what towns are in each LGA
• Profile of LGA's statewide
• Map of LGA's
• Map of all 32 new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island local government areas
• Local Government Directory - links to useful resources

Electorate

• Electoral Commission Queensland.

South Australia

Placename Information

• South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society Inc

LGA

• South Australian local governments association website
• Office for State/Local Government Relations

South Australia History

Manning Index

Flinders Ranges Research

Electorate

• State Electoral Office

Tasmania

LGA

• Tasmanian local governments association website

Electorate

• Tasmanian Electoral Commission

Victoria

Placename Information

• VICNAMES
• Database of Aboriginal Placenames of Victoria

LGA

• Victorian local governments association website
• Local Government Victoria

Electorate

• Victorian Electoral Commission

Western Australia

Placename Information

• Western Australian Place Names and Addressing

LGA

• Western Australian local governments association website

Electorate

• Western Australian Electoral Commission

GeoLocator
(project page) |Google Maps based

http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=joseph031164&dbname=enwiki_p

http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/ec

Smiths Lake New South Wales
Smiths Lake
Coordinates	32°22′50″S 152°30′10″E
Population	1,036
Postcode(s)	2428
Time zone	AEST (UTC+10)
• Summer (DST)	AEDT (UTC+11)
Location	274 km (170 mi) NNE of Sydney 142 km (88 mi) NNE of Newcastle
LGA(s)	Great Lakes Council
Region	Mid North Coast
State electorate(s)	Myall Lakes
Federal division(s)	Paterson
Localities around Smiths Lake: Tarbuck Bay Charlottes Bay Pacific Palms Bungwahl Smiths Lake Pacific Ocean Myall Lakes Yagon Seal Rocks

| pop = 212 (2006 Census)

At the 2006 census, Kyeamba had a population of 212.

The town's name is derived from an aboriginal word for 'honey person'.

http://www.anps.org.au/resources.html

Notes and references

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html

http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/

http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/editsummary/index.php?name=joseph031164&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia

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