Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian places/Archive 1

message: More than anything this should be about standards across articles. I've seen countless different infoboxes, layouts, etc. Everything across Aussie cities/towns has to be standardised. I might throw around some suggestions for suburbs / local government areas given time. Any advice? michael talk 08:35, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Standards

message: The NSW GNB  administers the Geographical Names Act 1966 , which defines "Place" (s2) as meaning "any geographical or topographical feature or any area, district, division, locality, region, city, town, village, settlement or railway station or any other place". It doesn't appear to throw any further light as to the difference between a town and a village. It recognises Manyana, New South Wales as a village and a suburb under the name Manyana and as a village and a beach under the name Manyana(h) Beach.  I think we can recognise as villages places that the Board calls villages, but on the same basis Berrima, New South Wales should be changed back to a town.  Grahamec 13:00, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geographical Names Board and similar 

message: This ABS page should allow you to search 2001 Census Data by Location Name - I always wonder when it is an involved link whether it is related to a specific serch and the link works later by another viewer.--A Y Arktos\talk 11:13, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ABS data on Pop counts for urban localities 

message: Hello. I just logged in today to notice that some anon had changed the population of Brisbane to 700,000 and it went unreverted for 12 HOURS so I think more people should add this to their watchlist. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 00:58, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add [[Brisbane]] to your watchlist! 

message: I think suburbs such as :category:Suburbs of the City of Blue Mountains are not towns and that the :category:Towns in New South Wales should be taken off them.  Do you agree?  I have been recategorising Wollongong suburbs on this basis.Grahamec 13:03, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it's not intuitive, but legally I guess they are equivalent. Since Wikipedia's for humans not computers we should try and categorise them the way a human-written query of the future would want to search on them.— Donama 14:33, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suburbs are not towns

message: Ronan.evans appears to feel he is free to remove info boxes (Queanbeyan, New South Wales) at will.  I would have thought the LGA infobox was Wiki policy and that his infobox does not have all the information in the LGA infobox.  Grahamec 00:51, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That means it is a historical suburb, current locality. As such I don't think it ought to appear on a list of suburbs of Queanbeyan. Also, this information you've written here should be in the article about Letchworth if that's the case. I know there is a similar case in South Australia -- an article about a historical electorate or town or something, but I forget. Can anyone remember what I'm talking about? — Donama 04:10, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure that Letchworth, New South Wales deserves an entry.  Nevertheless somebody has added one and then attempted to link it the Queanbeyan page, which I would have thought was reasonable and Ronan.evans has then removed the link to it.   Besides I would have thought the Queanbeyan Council's peculiar behaviour in relation to its subsurbs names was of some interest (as was the information in the LGA box that Ronan.evans deleted.  --Grahamec 07:04, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: An infobox generally carries official information only -- information that is not controversial. Of course sometimes even official information is quite controversial (like in Northern Ireland's infobox!) but shouldn't be the case for Queanbeyan. Probably adding a new section to the Queanbeyan article about its historical suburbs (which are no longer official) would be fine -- just not in the infobox. — Donama 07:19, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK I will create a separate Queanbeyan LGA page and recreate the LGA infobox on it.--Grahamec 01:31, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Infoboxes

message: As you know there is already an Australia city infobox template, but I haven't found many standardised infobox templates for suburbs yet. I just found  in the wild though and used it in Salisbury East, South Australia. Hope it's helpful. I'm not sure how much it is used, but it looks kind of nice. — Donama 06:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suburb infoboxes