Talk:Rockhampton

message: Anyone got a photo of the "Hell" in lights from Mt Archer?
If noone does I'll see if I can get GNU-liscenced copy from either The Morning bulletin or Roving Enteprises (only tow official orgs I know that might have it).--ZZ 14:59, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Hell

message: This is wrong.  Initially the city council voted to not allow the show.  About a week later they caved to the nationwide backlash and relented.
Just in case I am mistaken, I'm checking the morning bulletin archives. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jc3k (talk • contribs) 2006-03-02 19:41:52.
:Ah! I heard of the original rejection and as an ex-Rocky boy it sounded just like the local council. It if did indeed proceed then it shouldn't be in the article. Garglebutt / (talk) 09:42, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puppetry of the Penis banned? 

message: This looks like a cut and paste out of a copyrighted work (not sure of the duration of copyright in Australia). I have formatted it as an extended quote for now but I'm not sure it can stay. Garglebutt / (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rockhampton's First School 

message: There were at least two WWII US air force bases around, Rockhampton, 1st. where the current international airport is, 2nd. was located about half way between Rockhampton and the east coast at a place know as Hedlow.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.60.192 (talk) 15:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  US WWII bases 

message: Below is the removed content from this section should it be useful elsewhere: 
A satirical paper called "The Mourning Bulltin" was occasionally produced during the Capricarna Festival, it contained stories about local events (some factual, some purely ficticious) written in a satirical style.
A rival newspaper, the Northern Argus, appeared January 3, 1863, becoming a daily newspaper in 1875. Initially the Bulletin was held to be more conservative while the Argus was more radical, though in 1895, the Argus was bought by Stewart Hartley, the son in law of Charles Hardie Buzzacott (who had been editor of the Bulletin after his brother William) and reissued as the Daily Record. The paper was bought by Thomas J. Ryan, later Labor Premier of Queensland, and became a vehicle for Labor policies. It became the Evening News in 1922, and was later bought by and incorporated into the Bulletin by 1941.
The Capricornian was a weekly newspaper launched on January 2, 1875, which was amalgamated with the Artesian, another weekly newspaper, to be reissued as the Central Queensland Herald on January 1, 1930, before ceasing circulation in 1956. Another rival paper from the 1890s was the Peoples Newspaper edited after 1896 by Wallace Nelson, who was described as "Rockhampton's Breeziest Editor and Most Attractive Speaker".   
The short-lived but inventively named Rockhampton Laughing Jackass was a weekly newspaper founded by Louis Marcellin Martin in 1881. Colourful, irreverent and humorous it ceased publication in mid 1882 due to financial difficulties. The idea of a satirical journal was resurrected twenty years later with the launch of the Cornucopian on January 1 1901, however it was equally short lived.
North Rockhampton had its own newspaper for some years from 1885; the Rockhampton Temperance Advocate which became the North Rockhampton Times & Blackall Electorate Advertiser. -- Mattinbgn\talk 05:00, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Content of Newspaper section

message: definitely could be expanded as per WP:LEAD Michellecrisp (talk) 23:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead section

message: Is it needed? seems to be not consistent with WP:NOT#DIR? Michellecrisp (talk) 01:30, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Table of radio stations

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with File:WIN News Rockhampton Presenters.png

message: Karl Stephenovic(sp) was born in Rockhampton, or so it says on his wiki page. 70.77.220.229 (talk) 04:33, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable peeps 

message: The wikilink Brothers Old Boys has been added by an anon editor in this article as a Rockhampton sports team. According to the BOB's article they are a Brisbane team which arose from a Brisbane school and there is no mention there of a connection to Rockhampton. But there is a Rockhampton Brothers Rugby Union Team website, which uses a similar looking logo to BOB and this Fraternity web page suggests there are multiple Brothers football teams in some kind of fraternal relationship (guessing teams of old boys of various Christian Brothers schools). Can anyone more knowledgable about rugby union sort this out? If it's one team, can the connection to Rockhampton be mentioned in the BOB article? If it's a separate team, can we change the name of the team in this article and remove the wikilink to the Brisbane team? Or whatever else makes sense. Kerry (talk) 23:08, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Dubious

message: There appears to be too much detail about the monarchy instead of the city. How about we remove the recently added section and place it on Royal visits to Australia? - Shiftchange (talk) 14:28, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it would be out of proportion there too because there is so much detail (but it is all well-cited so I would be reluctant to prune it back). I would suggest putting it into its own article Royal visits to Rockhampton with appropriately brief versions in Rockhampton and Royal visits to Australia which link to it. Kerry (talk) 04:27, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal visits 

message: According to the Wikipedia listing of  most populous places in Qld, Rocky would come 5th after the SEQ cities/conurbations, not 4th.  The 2015 report cited is not the census and is not that utilised in the Wikipedia list.  Can this please be adjusted such that separate wiki pages do not disagree with another?  I’ve not done so, but put it up for discussion or whatever as it’s clear that someone has gone to considerable lengths to ‘prove’ Rocky’s superior size.  Boscaswell talk 08:18, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Sigh. Exaggerating the importance of one's home town seems to be pretty common phenomenon; at least this one has a citation.The article you mention is based on 2011 data, so not exactly up-to-date. And whenever anyone goes near these lists of "largest by population", you get caught in the issue of whether you are comparing LGAs or Urban Areas etc (see Talk:List of cities in Australia by population to see the many discussions/arguments that eventually terminate without resolution in this topic area). Because of the capital city urban sprawls absorbing previously disjoint neighbouring towns, notions of "city" and similar have became become "complicated" to say the least. When talking about Rockhampton, do we consider Gracemere? Do we consider Yeppoon and the Capricorn Coast? Right now this article has a citation that supports what it says using some definition of city and 2015 data; it's defensible so I'd leave it be. If you want to fix something, fix List of places in Queensland by population by using more recent population data. Enjoy!  13:57, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population ranking (lede)