Talk:Canberra/Archive 1

message: Why is this Canberra, Australia instead of Canberra? There is only one Canberra so far as I know, all the others are subsiduary ones named after this one - e.g., the English Electric Canberra bomber, or the USS Canberra. I vote we move it back to it's proper title. Tannin 11:24 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)
:Why? Australian inferiority complex. I recently moved Fremantle, Australia to Fremantle after searching the USGS geographical database and finding only one. In my experience, UK contributors have no problem squatting even on small town names. We can always disambiguate later, if necessary. -- Tim Starling 11:54 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)
:I just looked at the edit history for Canberra. Perhaps if we want to know why it's Canberra, Australia rather than Canberra, we should ask Karen Johnson, since she's the one who moved it here. The edit history is not blank, so if we want to move it back we will need an administrator to clear the way. -- Tim Starling 12:06 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)
Thanks Tim. I'll pop a note on her user page. Tannin
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This page will shortly be moved back from Canberra, Australia to Canberra, where it started. Some history will be lost in the process, since I will delete Canberra to make way for the move. Here are the lost edit summaries:
(cur) (last) . . 05:56 Jun 24, 2002 . . Karen Johnson (move to Canberra, Australia) 
(cur) (last) . . M 02:43 Feb 26, 2002 . . Graham Chapman (copyedit; small addition) 
(cur) (last) . . M 10:20 Feb 24, 2002 . . Conversion script (Automated conversion) 
(cur) (last) . . 13:29 Aug 27, 2001 . . 61.9.128.xxx (Initial description of canberra)
: Thanks, Tim. By the way, if you haven't noticed, it was suggested on the list that Canberra, Australia needed to be disambiguated because of the "well-known military aircraft called the Canberra". The aircraft, of course, was named after the city, making it a subsiduary name, and is in any case properly titled English Electric Canberra, in line with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (aircraft). So, to celebrate the return of "Canberra" to Canbera, I've taken a couple of hours off from my current spate of bird entries, and written up the aluminium one instead. Tannin 12:42 Mar 27, 2003 (UTC)
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Can someone confirm "...its biggest inland city..."? I was undder the impression that was Wagga Wagga. PML.
:Wagga has a mere 56,700  -- Tim Starling 09:20, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, well put. (The lesson I take from this, comparing it with my own effort, is that it's easier to write clearly if you take the time to find out the correct information, instead of trying to write around the bits you don't know and are too lazy to look up.) —Paul A 14:43, 11 Sep 2003 (UTC)

message: Suburbs that slowly were built over the next several years included Parkes, Barton, Kingston, Manuka, Braddon and Reid. These suburbs often had other names - for instance, Kingston was originally known as Eastlakes - before a formal renaming procedure took place in the late 1928s. These suburbs were built largely in accordance to Walter Burley Griffin's designs for Canberra. The men who built these suburbs lived in a series of worker's camps, and built buildings from quarries on the North Canberra area.
I guess somone inserted the correct year, without editing the rest of the sentence.
::Er, yes, that's quite right. Arno 10:25, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  As long as you are not including Tharwa, Hall , Jervis Bay and other ACT but non-Canberra locations in a Canberra population count, I can't see what a problem with a Canberra polulation count may be. Arno 07:58, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many 1928s were there, again? 

message: Does anyone here have any opinions about whether it is appropriate for the Canberra#Government section to be here, as apposed to the page for the Australian Capital Territory? Perhaps Canberra/ACT is a special case, but I wouldn't expect to see the NSW government described on the Sydney page, for instance. --Millsdavid 01:39, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The first parragraph of the Canberra Government section explains why it is listed under the Canberra page. The legislative assembly is both the City Council and the Territory Government. An ACT government page should probably also exist, and possibly the content from the Canberra page could be moved there or the ACT government page could redirect to the Government Section of the Canberra page... Martyman 03:17, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Government section 

message: The edit of Revision as of 19:54, 23 Oct 2004 by  84.64.52.190 says The Molonglo River flows through Canberra. At it's western end, it has been dammed to form the body of water in the centre of the city called Lake Burley Griffin.
:The dam is not in fact at the western end of the river but is in fact at the western end of the lake... Any ideas how to fix this? Martyman 11:54, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: changes are fine by me--AYArktos 20:56, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not in a section about geography. I've rewritten a very choppy couple of sentences, but there's still room for improvement. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Skyring (talk • contribs) 14:37, 1 August 2005. (diff)
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Did the international flights to Fiji scheduled for July 2004 eventuate?  The article still talks about this as happening in the future.  JackofOz 02:52, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Molonglo River, Western End??? 

message: The Article suggests that Griffin intended for Parliament to be located at the lake. A visit to the National Capital Exhibition or to this website about the competition for a national capital, will reveal that he intended for there to be a 'Water Gate' by the lake (where Commonwealth Place is) and for Parliament to be located on Camp Hill, which used to be between where Old and New Parliament Houses now are, but as been smoothed over. Capital Hill was to be the site of a 'Capital', although he wasn't very clear about what exactly this would be. 
I've deleted the reference to the Parliament being by the lake. Thought I should put this up to explain why. 
Adz 02:55, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urban structure - location of Parl House???