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ThylacineHunter
Disclosure

I, ThylacineHunter, am the sole owner of the information site www.trainsofvictoria.info.
I am interested in documenting everything to do with railways, trams, traction engines and paddle boats in Victoria, Australia.
My edits will refrain from linking to my own site, unless there is a real need to add a reference and there is no other one that meets WP:RS (eg. a closed Facebook group that has photographic evidence of something).
I fully understand and abide by Wikipedia's policies on Conflicts of Interest and maintaining a Neutral Point of View.

About Me
After finding incorrect information on a couple of pages back in 2015, I decided to create an account to fix these and to eventually add pages that were redlinks within my own areas of interest.

In 2019, I started updating deprecated templates on these to the updated ones (eg changing 'Succession templates' to 'Adjacent stations templates'). Looking at some of the relevant modules and how they can be improved.

In 2020, I started the massive task of trying to make a BSicon map of Murray River (the 3rd longest navigable river in the world). I will probably follow this up with both the Murrumbidgee River and the Darling River as they are also navigable and the second and third longest rivers in Australia. I am unsure if I will also do the Goulburn River at the moment.

From 2021, I started fixing related articles to a uniform layout style (eg all Victorian Railway carriage classes to look the same), fixing the categories those pages should be in, and adding them to the relevant WikiProjects.

Did you Know

  • There is apparently a total 2,978 localities and 79 LGA's in Victoria.

Both a gift and a curse...My brain runs at a million miles a minute, never stopping, 24/7.

What is it like???

Imagine being surrounded by a giant circular whiteboard reaching from the floor to twice your height. Just behind this is another whiteboard, followed by another, Ad infinitum. The boards can be reordered to bring any one to the front. And on them...

  • Every TV show / movie I ever watched, and every book (which my brain turns into a movie as I read) is constantly playing.
  • Every thought / idea / theory is displayed.
  • Every song, with accompanying lyrics is there.
  • All your memories.

And everything has cross references, and you have the ability to recall anything at anytime...

  • Redoing a jigsaw puzzle can trigger memories from the last time you did it.
  • Watching a movie while eating lunch? Next time you see it, you can remember that meal.
 
Todo

Tasks to do

Railways

Rolling stock
  •  On hold Add remaining missing VR locos
  •  Later Existing VR locos - check data and add missing values (When I find time)
  •  Later List of each state locomotive classes
Stations
Lines
  •  On hold  HoHo3143 is doing... Adopt a standard article layout on railway line pages with my assistance on:
    •  On hold Service infobox, service map, track infobox, track map, stopping patterns, station history
    •  On hold Move route diagrams from pages on lines to their own templates (some were already templates, to make a uniform standard)
      •  On hold Check locations on Victorian route diagram templates
      •  On hold Adopt a standard use of Template:rwsa on line diagrams
    •  On hold Add missing Victorian lines

Tramways

Melbourne trams
  •  Later Update Melbourne cable tramway system using: "A Story of The Melbourne Cable Tramway System" by Clement Govett & Alfred Twentyman and "Melbourne Metropolitan Tramways Board reports"
    • Add MTOC stock (Dummies & trailers) - still need sources for CHNPTC stock
    • Update routes
  •  Later Update former Melbourne tram classes (Category:Melbourne tram vehicles)

Locations in Victoria

Regions

6 official regions (Barwon South West, Gippsland, Grampians, Hume, Loddon Mallee, Greater Melbourne) and the Unincorporated areas

  •  Mostly done Tidy regions/sub-regions
    •  Started Add towns, railway lines, stations to the correct categories
  •  Done localities in LGA templates (Category:Victoria (state) local government area templates)
  •  Done Update "Townships and localities" sections on LGA's with 2021 & 2016 census data
  • Add/tidy subcategories for:
    •  Started Mountains
    •  Done Parks
    •  Mostly done Rivers
    •  Not done Tourist attractions
    •  Started Transport
    •  Started Victorian Heritage Register
LGA's

During the lockdowns in 2020/21 Local government areas became more important, defining the area that was in lockdown and where you could travel

  •  Started Tidy LGA's
    •  Started Update infoboxes
    •  Started Add towns, railway lines, stations to the correct categories
    •  Started Work on uniform page structure and improving article rating
Rivers, creeks and waterways
  •  Started BSicon map of Murray River
  •  Partly done Add missing rivers, creeks, lakes, etc on the Rivers of the XXX catchment templates
  • Not sure. Sort out Category:Tributaries of the XXX River‎ for the main rivers - Is it needed if there is a catchment category? Murray River and other interstate maybe
    • Not sure. also Category:XXX River - Is it needed if there is a catchment category? Maybe could be used for towns on the river?
  •  Not done Add missing tags to pages for Category:Lakes of Victoria (state) and Category:Reservoirs in Victoria (state) and add to associated templates
Parks
  •  Done Add parks (national, state, etc) to Category:Parks of XXX (region)
  •  Not done Add/change maps to LGA maps - Better to show location
Mountains, mountain ranges, volcanoes and rock formations
  •  Started Add Mountains, mountain ranges, volcanoes, etc to Category:Mountains of XXX (region)
    • Barwon South West, Gippsland, Grampians, Greater Melbourne, checkYHume, Loddon Mallee, Unincorporated areas
  •  Not done Add/change maps to LGA maps - Better to show location
  •  Not done Fix Default sort by name without "Mount"
VHR
  •  Started Update list of places on the Victorian Heritage Register per LGA
    • Barwon South West: Colac Otway, Corangamite, Glenelg, Greater Geelong, Moyne, Queenscliffe, Southern Grampians, Surf Coast Shire, Warrnambool
    • Gippsland: Bass Coast, Baw Baw, East Gippsland, Latrobe, South Gippsland, Wellington
    • Grampians: Ararat, Ballarat, Golden Plains, Horsham, Hepburn, checkYHindmarsh, Moorabool, Northern Grampians, Pyrenees, checkYWest Wimmera, Yarriambiack
    • Hume: checkYAlpine, checkYBenalla, checkYGreater Shepparton, Indigo, checkYMansfield, Mitchell, checkYMoira, checkYMurrindindi, checkYStrathbogie, checkYTowong, checkYWangaratta, checkYWodonga
    • Loddon Mallee: checkYBuloke, Campaspe, Central Goldfields, checkYGannawarra, Greater Bendigo, Loddon, Macedon Ranges, Mildura, Mount Alexander, checkYSwan Hill
    • Greater Melbourne: Banyule, Bayside, Boroondara, Brimbank, Cardinia, checkYCasey, Darebin, Frankston, Glen Eira, checkYGreater Dandenong, Hobsons Bay, Hume, Kingston, checkYKnox, Manningham, Maribyrnong, checkYMaroondah, Melbourne, Melton, Monash, Moonee Valley, Moreland, Mornington Peninsula, Nillumbik, Port Phillip, Stonnington, Whitehorse, Whittlesea, Wyndham, Yarra, Yarra Ranges
    • checkYUnincorporated areas
  •  Started Tag places on VHR
Other

Other bits

Paddle boats
  •  Started Paddle boats of the Murray-Darling system - tied in with Barges & Steamboat people
  •  Not done Barges of the Murray-Darling system - tied in with Paddle boats & Steamboat people
  •  Not done Steamboat people of the Murray-Darling system - tied in with Paddle boats & Barges

Tasks completed

Regions

6 official regions (Barwon South West, Gippsland, Grampians, Hume, Loddon Mallee, Greater Melbourne) and the Unincorporated areas

 
Pages Created

Railways

Lines

Regions & LGA's

LGA's
VHR
Rivers
Mountains
Transport

Others

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