Talk:Miramar Peninsula

message: there doesn't need to be two articles, just tighter wording. Make it clear that not every suburb on the peninsula is Miramar, but make it clear that the suburbs of Miramar, Seatoun, Strathmore, whatever we're calling the north end around the prison this week, Seatoun-Karaka-Worser bays are all subsets of Miramar, the peninsula. Kripto 22:48, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: proposed merger

message: Can anyone add to the legend? I can't remember who it was running from or how it got stuck Brixtonboy (talk) 20:39, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The taniwha 

message: User:Tanifa and User:Wainuiomartian, you seem to have different ideas of how the article should be structured. Can you briefly state how you think the article should be structured and why? In the mean time, no more restructuring until we have a consensus? You're welcome to add and improve content of course. It may also be worth remembering that there's a Miramar, New Zealand article focused on contemporary issues and demographics. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:03, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems very 'bitsy' at the moment - lots of headings with very little text. I tried amalgamating the 'Russian scare/Military fortifications' into one paragraph but that was undone. And I took out the power plant because it wasn't on the peninsula, but that got put back in. Some topics appear under both notable landmarks and history, which seems unnecessary. It's great that things such as Wonderland have been added, but I would like to see a bit more coherence.  I'd already decided to do nothing more to the page. Wainuiomartian (talk) 00:55, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: within the history section i've been making a timeline - so having the WW2 and the 19th century fortifications merged doesn't make sense. Tanifa (talk) 03:04, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: heys, is there a page with a good example of history? i'm thinking something like History of Wikipedia . Tanifa (talk) 03:15, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

text: History isn't always a straight line though - sometimes things overlap. Under 'Russian Scare' in 1885 you have added Fort Dorset built in 1908. Was that part of the Russian Scare? (I don't know, just asking...) I see all the fortifications right up to WW2 as a result of the location of the peninsula guarding the harbour. If you want to stick to a timeline then maybe put the date of each thing in the heading?  You could look at pages for other cites or suburbs in NZ for comparison maybe? On this page about editing it says "The number of single-sentence paragraphs should be minimized, since they can inhibit the flow of the text; by the same token, paragraphs that exceed a certain length become hard to read. Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheading; in such circumstances, it may be preferable to use bullet points instead."  That's what I meant about it being "bitsy".  Anyway, it's nice to see the page being expanded.   Wainuiomartian (talk) 03:34, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a whole lot less headings now. Thanks for the feedback - definitely can reduce the single sentence paragraphs more too. I can expand a lot of areas. I've got a lot of local history books out from the Miramar to work thru Tanifa (talk) 05:34, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article structure 

message: Great work on major expansion and improvements to this article.  I suggest that a topic is added about the predator-free initiative on the Miramar peninsula.  This has been in the news regularly, and is clearly notable.Marshelec (talk) 23:42, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Predator-free Miramar