User:GarrieIrons

About Me

Well, my name is Garrie Irons. No, I'm not related to the Jeremy Irons you are thinking of. But please, can I have his pocket money? I'm a network manager residing in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. I enjoy reading science fiction when I get the time but I am spending too much time currently looking after kids. I am quite interested in VERY LOCALISED history - including family history and the history of where I have lived and the groups I have been a member of.

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Notability

I support Wikipedia:Speedy deletion criterion for unsourced articles.

I am participate in the Notability Sorting Drive. We need your help... join now!

If an article topic has no reliable, third-party sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it.

Shopping Centres

I am a member of WikiProject Shopping Centers: We need YOU! Join here...

Please see my suggestion that All Westfields are the same, and my proposed new article, Westfields in Australia. While I still feel there are too many articles on individual shopping centres I understand that many people like things that way. So I'm no longer pushing to merge any but if anyone else comes up with that theory I'd be more than interested.

If you're writing about your local shopping centre, please, do it well, and reference it just as you would anything else.

Useful Quotes

Aboriginal history of a suburb
Prior to [[History of Australia (1788-1850)\|settlement and colonisation of Australia]], (suburb) and the surrounding area was inhabited by the [[Darug people\|Darug tribe]].

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Evolution of Wikipedia

The drive to keep Wikipedia pure is interesting and indicative of a certain vitality, but in the long run it is also entirely pointless. You can not censor Wikipedia; or rather, if do attempt to do so, the net will simply route around you. The chaos and miscellany that Wikipedians reject are, in fact, the lifeblood of a universal encyclopedia. They will find a home, somewhere: if not in Wikipedia, then in something else, which will begin to grow in ways that Wikipedia refuses to, until it becomes a gravitational center in its own right, and this thing-that-follows-Wikipedia will perform a dance on Wikipedia’s desiccated corpse, much as the Wikipedians have done with respect to Britannica. The human desire to create order from chaos - this noble desire which is strangling Wikipedia - seems perfectly natural to us; we believe order is a prerequisite to utility. But we longer have the luxury of thinking in those terms. Our present and our future are all about the newly empowered netocratic forces loosed in the world. [http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=37 Marc Pesce, Future Street Consulting blog entry]