Talk:History of the Australian Capital Territory

message: Does anyone have an opinion on how the article should be structured? I'm probably in favour of a basically chronological article- but a thematic histroy could work too. I could definately use some help dividing history up into chunks.--nixie 02:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Article structure

message: Do you think the geologic history of the area should covered here? It is already briefly described in the ACT article. --Martyman-(talk) 01:44, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. --Martyman-(talk) 22:11, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geologic History 

message: For the sake of variety, it would be nice if the photos here were different from the ones used in History of Canberra, and especially show areas outside Canberra. I think photos of Hall, Tharwa and the Cotter Dam would look good here if anyone is going out in those directions? Astrokey44 08:52, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos 

message: I was thinking that the settlement of Brindabella is probably worth adding to the article. It is an example of the conflict between the europeans and aboriginals in the area. --Martyman-(talk) 10:08, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure if its the same story but there was conflict surrounding the establishemnt on Berridale by Richard Brooks in 1827. I will add it to the article at some point.--nixie 11:04, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I htink it was a different case. This was Joseph Franklin in 1849 see:  --Martyman-(talk) 01:31, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for inclusion 

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replies: text: Removed all errors. Wikipedia must have been slow when I ran the bot. — Ambush Commander(Talk) 17:52, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Links have been fixed. — Ambush Commander(Talk) 19:07, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
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message: I have created a new version of the ACT-Jervis Bay map including Sydney. I am not sure if it is an improvement or not over the existing map. I think it may reduce the size of the ACT and Jervis bay too far. What do you guy's think?
:PS. I know there are a couple of errors like the names of two towns being cut off the top, also the different sized dots may not accuratly describe settlement sizes... ;-) --Martyman-(talk) 10:40, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: done. --Martyman-(talk) 11:16, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New version of map 

message: I notice Public Service is a redirect to Public Services we really mean Civil service. I will change where the article links, but maybe we should look at changing the redirect or creating a disambiguation page. --Martyman-(talk) 01:46, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, Public Service (capitalised) is a stub on some band's album of that name, public service is the redirect to Public services. Agree that the appropriate dab notices should be affixed to the former, and possibly to have the latter also a dab, pointing to both Public services and Civil Service. But for AU articles, we should probably retain the local terminology, ie use something like Public Service. Or perhaps, maybe an Australian Public Service article would be warranted.--cjllw | TALK 02:23, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow that is more complicated than I thought. I would think the best arrangement would be to make Public service a disambiguation page with links to Civil service, Public Service (EP) and Public services. Public Service should be made into a redirect to the disambiguation page. An article on teh Australian Public Service could be written or included in Government of Australia. --Martyman-(talk) 02:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A really easy soultion would be to delink the phase in this article ;) --nixie 02:45, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

text: Alas, my inner pedant got the better of me before I saw Nixie's low-cost solution, and I've already gone ahead and moved Public Service to Public Service (EP), and turned Public Service into a dab with the appropriate links. Public service is still a redirect to Public services, I've left that alone for the moment. From the pages which link to it, Public service could be either Civil service or public services, dunno whether it's worthwhile making this a dab as well, or leave as-is.--cjllw | TALK 04:14, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public Service 

message: The Ngunnawal people and other linguistic groups are known to have inhabited the region for at least 21,000 years before the present.
Can anyone think of a better alternative than linguistic group? Andjam 07:51, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linguistic group 

message: I just thought of two more recent legislative moves that may warrant mention here: the 2002 decriminalisation of abortion and the government's recent steps towards potentially legalising civil unions in the not-too-distant future. Any thoughts on adding either of those? Ambi 03:04, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Two minor issues

message: Hume never really explored in the Canberra region.--nixie 01:43, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool I removed it. Can you think of any other images that might be appropriate for that section? --Martyman-(talk) 01:52, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Cunningham is the only one that already has a pic on Wikipedia- I'm searching around for others.--nixie 01:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Hume pic

message: The newly added caption for the googong pic may be a bit misleading. The dam is actually in NSW but was built to service the ACT (and Queanbeyan). --Martyman-(talk) 05:58, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Better now?--nixie 06:26, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Googong picture caption 

message: Hi everyone!
I am translating this very good article into Spanish. 
I subscribe to the point of view just expressed in a edition summary that no politician "passes" a law. So I used the expresion "he got (the law) passed", wich makes very good sense in Spanish (Not that much in English, perhaps?) when translating. I see now that someone already fixed that here too.
If you see any important failure in this article and correct it, please, would you kindly let me know here? Though it is in my Watchlist, anyway I would appreciate your comments.
Now, if any of you guys speak Spanish, please feel free to check my translation (not yet finished) and tell me where yu think I can improve it.
Best regards--Universal001 (talk) 10:29, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish Version 

message: I'm not horribly happy with the cultural relations section, and I was wondering if anyone has any additional sources. The current sources in the second paragraph a good, but they seem to conflict with other sources I've seen which suggests that numbers didn't diminish that much - I was wondering if the other sources were wrong, or if this may have been part of the 70's "dying race" view, which led to believe that numbers were greatly reduced. At any rate, I've removed for now the line "As the encroachment of European settlement continued, numbers of surviving Aboriginal families were drawn to the farms and townships by the opportunity to work or receive handouts of food and blankets." as I don't currently have any sources for the presence of handouts, although I do have sources showing that they worked on the stations at the time, especially after convicts were no longer available. - Bilby (talk) 05:58, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've also removed "The Ngambri community remain active and ambitious to further restore their cultural heritage" from the same section - it's a descriptive claim, which makes it hard or impossible to reference at an FA level. However, if anyone knows a way of sourcing it I'd be very happy. :) - Bilby (talk) 08:20, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A lot of the material about early European contact with Aboriginals reads to me like a generalised statement about the effects of European contact on Aborigines without any evidence that it related to the specific place and time of European contact in the ACT. I was inclined to delete it unless somebody could show sources for its specific relevance to the ACT. Keep up the good work.--Grahame (talk) 01:58, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural relations 

message: This section was horrendously verbose, going into painful detail, in a very long WP article, about all the places that ended up not becoming the ACT. I've hacked it in half, and hopefully not offended too many people by doing so. regards, hamiltonstone (talk) 12:22, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Search for a capital city location 

message: The text as of 31 December contained the following paragraph:
In 1859, Terence Aubrey Murray sold Yarralumla station and all its buildings and livestock to his brother-in-law, Augustus Onslow Manby Gibbes, who had been the station's manager for the previous four years. Augustus was joined at Yarralumla homestead by his father, Colonel John George Nathaniel Gibbes, a former Member of the Legislative Council and the newly retired Collector of Customs for NSW. Together, they made improvements to the estate and successfully lobbied the colonial government for the establishment of the first Canberra post office and mail service.   Yarralumla remained in Gibbes ownership until 1881 when it was sold to Duntroon station's manager, Frederick Campbell, who became the estate's last private proprietor. The Commonwealth of Australia took possession of Yarralumla through compulsory acquisition in 1911, and later transformed Campbell's vacated house and grounds into the official residence of the nation's governor-general. 
This is completely uncited. I think it has crept in in bits over the last year. It needs proper citation if and when it gets returned to the article. hamiltonstone (talk) 11:05, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem text: 1860s - 1880s 

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