Talk:History of Cairns

message: I went through and wikified the (many!) references in this article to make it easier to manage them Mkfenn 08:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: I see the article has been put on the "improvement" listing. Should I continue with the yet to be downloaded Modern History references? I would like to finish them and the rewriting of certain sections before the "improvements" begin. I take it the "improvers" will be giving intelligent reasons, based on detailed personal knowledge of cairns history, for their deletions beyond "I don't like...", "I'm not used to", "I've never heard of..." "I'm not interested in..." etc.
As for reducing the word count I'd like to start with deleting the 
"Natural History" section. A simplified version could possibly be added to the main Cairns article section or left out altogether. Will taking this out automatically adjust the numbering of the remaining references so that reference #13 becomes #1 etc? Some editing of explanatory text without reducing it to a list format could then be considered and if the word count is still too high, a cautious and considered deletion of events. tobalwin 12:52, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvement listing

message: Corrected the late night typos and reduced the text without sacrificing any important items.  
tobalwin 11:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing

message: Added information about the tsunami panic because of its dramatic local effect and the emergency response flaws revealed by it. 
tobalwin 13:17, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Did a bit of a rewrite, added some info and links. - Fosnez 07:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tsunami

message: Not really sure what is meant by this reason to have the main article tagged this month but just in case it refers to the decade headings in this section, i've removed them as I think the text indicates the characteristic of the decade to an intelligent reader without having to draw attention to it with a heading.   
tobalwin 01:32, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "This article contains insufficently sourced phrases"

message: Someone has inserted the phrase "since time immemorial' in the section on early aboriginal occupation of the Cairns area.["40,000 CE" second paragraph]. I have amended the relevant sentence to the Wikipedia requirement.tobalwin (talk) 07:00, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Since Time Immemorial" phrase deleted

message: How reliable is the claim about a Hellenistic coin being found in Kuranda? If the story could be spurious, it should not be presented as fact. Can someone supply a quote from the source, or any further information as to the story's veracity?--Jeffro77 (talk) 08:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This sounds like local folklore. No one has responded in over a year to this request so I am removing the section.--Jeffro77 (talk) 08:46, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

text: It is exceedingly likely that the Hellenistic coin (if authentic) was brought over by a 19th or 20th century settler in the area as part of a private collection and later lost (though it's also possible the story was entirely fictitious). The claim that two such coins were allegedly 'found'—years apart—by the same family is also detrimental to the credibility of the story. Without a very good source, the article should not imply that the area was visited by ancient Greeks.--Jeffro77 (talk) 01:04, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

text: Neither the age of the coin nor the circumstances of a recent finding have any direct bearing on when it arrived in Australia. There is no reason to believe there was an ancient Greek presence in Kuranda.--Jeffro77 (talk) 08:28, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

text: Is Hank Gilmore anyone of particular repute? A quick Internet search finds a Hank Gilmore in the area who's an insurance broker. Is that the same person? I'm not sure that would give him any particular notability as a historian.--Jeffro77 (talk) 08:36, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

text: The anecdote about someone finding an old coin has no real bearing on the history of Cairns, particularly when the source gives no indication about how it got there (and implies an exceedingly unlikely scenario). There is therefore no benefit in mentioning the claim.--Jeffro77 (talk) 04:44, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hellenistic coin 

message: I would like to delete this paragraph altogether to make word count space for more important future events. Don't think 2011's Cyclone Yasi is worth mentioning as it hit south of the greater Cairns area which sustained relatively little damage and the 2012 total solar eclipse was unfortunately covered by cloud from the viewpoint of the Cairns Esplanade where most of the eclipse chaser visitors were located. tobalwin (talk) 23:08, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The tsunami 'scare' could probably be removed.
Have removed it tobalwin (talk) 03:35, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tsunami Scare 

message: Deleted reference to the opening of the Fogarty Fountain as it was not "infrastructure" and was little used as a memorial fountain because of water supply, pipe blockage and vandalism issues before it was removed.  --tobalwin (talk) 15:45, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fogerty Fountain deletion