Talk:C. Y. O'Connor

message: So, what is the appropriate name?  is it Charles Yelverton O'Connor or C.Y. O'Connor?  Obviously, C.Y O'Connor is not the appropriate name.  -- Zoe
The general rule here is "whatever form is most commonly known". I had no clue, so I googled. The only hits I found had the full name, and for a rather obscure person such as this the full name seems warranted anyway, so that's where I moved it. If a dozen Aussies now come by and say "Hey, he's well known to everyone down here as "C. Y.", well then we'll move it there. LDC
He is not known by his full name at all. I had no idea what his full name was until I looked it up. He is known as C. Y. O'Connor, and is very well-known in Western Australia, if nowhere else. If necessary, I'll drum up another 11 Western Australians who'll vouch for his name. If not necessary, unless I hear from anyone to the contrary within the next week, I'll move it back to "C.Y. O'Connor". David Stewart
My experience is that he's known pretty much universally as "C. Y. O'Connor". —Paul A 06:43, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: earlier comments

message: C.Y O'connor also organised the biggest expansion of the rail network in Western Australia.  Part of the Expansion was standardising the track configuration to whats now referred to as narrow guage. The rail network was extended to Geraldton,  Meekatharra, Kalgoorlie, Esprance by both construction and Government aquirement of private lines servicing mines.
Gnangarra 11:39, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Western Australia Rail Network 

message: He took his own life on 10 March 1902 by riding his horse into the surf south of Fremantle less than a year before Forrest turned on the water from Mundaring Weir in Perth to Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. The beach where O'Connor died was named after him.
* From all accounts, O'Connor rode into the surf and then shot himself (Refs:    ). The above phrase makes it sound like he drowned. - Gobeirne 19:26, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death 

message: I took this image off the article the reason being its of the fishing boat harbour which wasnt one of CY O'Connors projects, please correct me if I wrong. Gnangarra 13:10, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fishing Harbour is a mid twentieth century project :) SatuSuro 11:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems so, this is interesting though to illustrate the point: http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-db104-e SeanMack 12:07, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Image:FremantleHarbour 2004 SMC.jpg]] 

message: This art has mount burgess - shouldnt that be mount charlotte ? SatuSuro 11:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mount Burgess 

message: I havent identified who put them in the article - but they provide no help to the maintenance of the article - it only complicates the inevitable vndlsm removl business SatuSuro 03:36, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NO wiki instructions regarding biography

message: The following is Mattwashdc's request for assistance to Rebecca regarding an article about MacLean
:"Request Assistance"
:"Could you please review Norbert Basil MacLean III article with respect to Australian portions of the BLP. The BLP was a good article and stable for about a year and half. The same week a U.S. Congressional Report was issued concerning work that MacLean (who is known in Australia by his Australian surname of Keough) has done on equal access for the military to America's high court an editor started to complain that the article is not neutral and complained that the family section including MacLean's Australian heritage should be removed. This editor then started to remove MacLean from any reference to other articles that have an Australian connection. Since you are within the Wiki Australian Project I'm asking for your thoughts on this issue. It's my opinion that his Australian heritage should remain in the article. But an impartial reviewer with an Australian perspective would be most helpful. Thanks (Mattwashdc (talk) 23:58, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion of unreferenced edit and subsequent restoration 

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