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Thanks. — Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:50, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)
I just noticed someone has added information and a few articles about the cadastral (property/allotment) divisions in Australia. See Cadastral divisions of Australia. I think this falls under the scope of this project and probably should be mentioned here. Also, it would be nice to see project members have a look at these articles in an effort to standardise them and make them more accessible/useful (I never knew they existed).
This came about because a guy in the army was shot in the head last night in a training exercise at a place called Cultana and I couldn't find it on Wikipedia. Finally I found it is the name of a hundred (parish) in South Australia. There is an airstrip and army base of some sort there apparently. Consequently I created Cultana,_South_Australia] (which, on reflection, is probably misnamed but that was what the link from Cadastral divisions of South Australia prescribed to turn the red link blue). Feel free to edit/move/merge to other.
What do you think about these hundreds. Do we need an article on each hundred/parish? Each county? Donama (talk) 05:46, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
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I don't understand the policy for when there's two places in the same state with the same name: what does "the same method of disambiguation that is used in that state" mean?
Concrete example. In Victoria, there's two Bellfields: Bellfield 3081 in the City of Banyule in Melbourne which is what Bellfield, Victoria currently talks about, and Bellfield 3381 split between the Northern and Southern Grampians Shires, in the state's west. Google Maps for the Grampian Bellfield and the Melburnian Bellfield; search for similar information in VicNames and Australia Post.
So what does the policy say for this? I guess the Grampian Bellfield is not notable enough to get an article—it doesn't look like there's any development there and it's surrounded by a national park. And no-one's tried writing about it yet. But perhaps having a name clash is enough to warrant discussion.
The example given, about Kingston, South Australia, seems to be completely irrelevant, because no such place exists; instead, there's Kingston SE, South Australia and Kingston-on-Murray, South Australia, and "Kingston" is just a historical/local name.
—Felix the Cassowary 19:47, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject Australian places is looking a bit too quiet these days. The last talk page activity was in November 2010. What's more, a lot of what should be discussed at this project is being discussed at WikiProject Australia. What do others think of a merger of some sort? ClaretAsh 23:00, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Editors here may be interested in this multiple RM that I have initiated. My preamble:
These articles are all concerned with street names in Melbourne. (I would have include another 17, but the template has a limit of 30.) I do not support these moves; but I know that some very active editors do. It is time to air the matter, once and for all. Is it better to have an article on Collins Street in Melbourne called simply Collins Street, or to have it called Collins Street, Melbourne as at present? Which option serves the needs of Wikipedia's worldwide readership better? In almost all cases that I list there is no content in the destination article, just a redirect. And in almost all cases there is no Wikipedia article that very closely resembles the Melbourne-oriented one. There are, for example, no other Collins Streets with their own articles.
Your vote ("Support" or "Oppose") would be welcome, along with your reasons.
NoeticaTea? 12:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I have just returned from the lower Shoalhaven in NSW and noticed a lack of coverage on some of the villages down that way so I am endeavouring to add some content (starting with a few photos). The existing stub for Tabourie Lake, New South Wales seems to be incorrectly named. The Shoalhaven City Council refers to it as Tabourie Lake, but the Geographical Names Board website and ABS Statistical divisions list the current naming of the village as "Lake Tabourie". I propose the article title is changed to Lake Tabourie (there is already a redirect from here) and the redirect on Tabourie Lake, unless anybody can provide a definitive answer? I know it is a minor stub, but as someone who grew up in the area calling it Lake Tabourie, it is irritating and incorrect! Dfadden (talk) 11:22, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
I noticed that some of the station names in Winton Branch Railway (Queensland) are redlinks. Perhaps someone familiar with Queensland geography could start articles on them. I created Prubi, but it's just a stub. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 06:52, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
Perth is no longer a disambiguation page. Also there can be ambiguity between, for instance, the name of a place and the name of a person. I suggest changing
:*Where the town/city name has or is likely to have other uses somewhere else on earth, a link from the appropriate disambiguation page should be made (eg. [[Perth]] contains a link to [[Perth, Western Australia]], and [[Kingston]] contains links to several Australian towns).
to
:*Where the town/city name has or is likely to have other uses, a link from the appropriate disambiguation page should be made (eg. [[Darwin]] contains a link to [[Darwin, Northern Territory]], and [[Kingston]] contains links to several Australian towns).
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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Trying to improve my articles, I thought I would look at the GAs in this field. I see from this page that there are three of them. But I cannot see any way to find out what those articles are, so I can read them. At first I naively thought I could just click on the number "3" in the table and it might show me what made up that count, but no such luck. Can anybody suggest how to find these GAs? If not, are there any generally agreed guidelines, or some known good examples I can look at? --Gronk Oz (talk) 01:09, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hi! Is Comleroy, New South Wales a (notable) place? - Nabla (talk) 01:17, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
I hope you can help me to avoid an edit war. The question concerns Epping, New South Wales, specifically which region of Sydney it is in. The sources are quite clear that Epping is in Parramatta LGA, which means it is included in Greater Western Sydney. However, Spp908 has persistently removed this from the article. On his/her User Talk page (here), I tried to explain the need for sources to support such a change. I asked him/her to take the issue to the Talk page before making a change. However, the reply consisted of personal opinions only, and the change was made again. This cycle repeated, me asking for sources and Spp908 giving only opinions and personal insults. He/she refuses to provide any sources and refuses to discuss on the Talk page. He/she is a new editor so I don't want to escalate too fast, but I don't want to compromise the article either. I am not sure what more I can do to stabilize the article - can somebody offer a suggestion? --Gronk Oz (talk) 14:53, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
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I just discovered that Category:South Australia articles missing geocoordinate data has been deleted. It was deleted because it was an Empty category. It now contains two pages. Should this type of category be protected against deletion?
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I have kicked off a discussion of which region(s) apply for the suburb of Epping at Talk:Epping, New South Wales#Region(s) of Sydney for Epping, because there have been a lot of back-and-forth changes about whether it should be described as being in Western Sydney. For transparency, I am proposing that it is categorized as being in both the Western and the Northern suburbs (some sources say one, some say the other). But it is just a two-party debate, which is getting nowhere, and some more contributions would be very helpful. Please contribute if you have an opinion, or better still, relevant sources.--Gronk Oz (talk) 23:40, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
I have updated the list of regions and sub-regions on Template:Victoria to reflect those listed on the Victorian Government sites. See discussion Template talk:Victoria#Sub regions. -- ThylacineHunter (talk) 04:10, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
Kardinya, Western Australia is at peer review as a potential WP:FAC. Any and all comments would be welcome. Steelkamp (talk) 06:14, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
Opinions are sought at Template_talk:Infobox_Australian_place#Nearest_neighbours as to how to handle boundary cases - eg what is displayed for "suburbs around ..." when the suburb is on the coast and there isn't another suburb on one side of the suburb. Mitch Ames (talk) 05:31, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
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Williamsdale Wikidata links should link to Williamsdale, New South Wales, not Williamsdale, Australian Capital Territory. Willimsdale was split in 1913 and now Williamsdale, NSW has some population as a rural commuter area while Williamsdale, ACT is effectively greenbelt. The ABS links in particular are a concern with the automatic linking of population figures, but others such as Allhomes, GeoNames and theOpenStreetMap also link to the wrong Willimsdale. Could somebody who knows how to chnage these links please fix this.--Grahame (talk) 02:28, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
Bayswater, Western Australia has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 01:38, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
This is in relation to the undoing of recent updates to locations listed on templates in Category:Victoria (Australia) local government area templates...
After updating locations in Victorian Local Government Areas (LGA's), a question has been asked of me as to what is defined as "Town", "Locality", "City", "Suburb", etc.? I haven't been able to find a proper definition for "Town", "Locality", "City", "Suburb".
Technically according to Data set for localities accessed via Mapshare, all 4 of these are listed as "Localities".
For some places, calling it a "Town" sounded a lot better than calling it a "Locality". What makes a "City" different from a "Town"? possibly it's size? And as for "Suburbs", they are a bit confusing as whether it is a "Suburb" or "Town" (While metro areas are suburbs yet in regional Vic they are towns, unless they are part of a bigger city area like Bendigo where they are suburbs, and when the population is under 10 they are a locality).
I would like to get some clarification on this as I have spent around 2 weeks going through and checking all 2,978 localities that belong in the 79 LGA's in Victoria only to have those in the metropolitan area reverted to their old lists. -- ThylacineHunter (talk) 10:56, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
JarrahTree 11:13, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
As for what constitutes a suburb, Suburbs_and_localities_(Australia) is what I've been going by. But I would agree that a suburb is a type of a locality that is an extension of a city.
Template:VICcity, its useful but very prone to creating redlinks in my experience. Viatori (talk) 11:52, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Editors are asked to contribute to a discussion at Talk:Stony Head, Tasmania § 41°00'00.0"S, 147°00'00.0"E, as to whether:
Mitch Ames (talk) 11:45, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
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As of 7 June 2023, both the geographical feature and locality Fraser Island are officially renamed K'gari.[3]. Comments sought on:
203.8.131.32 (talk) 05:52, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
I'm working on a draft of a page (here) about the standard, as with the arrival of Module:PopulationFromWikidata I thought an introduction to its data source structure would be useful. However I don't want to go too far until others agree it's worth it. Please let me know on the talk page for it. Innesw (talk) 07:26, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
User:Wikibility has over the past few days started making a considerable number of edits to the infoboxes of articles on (particularly Victorian) places. A look at at least some of these edits - adding areas, adding lists of adjacent localities, adding local_map=yes - seems to be equating 'towns' (for want of a potentially less divisive term - this is not the place for that discussion!) to SALs with the same name. Especially in rural areas, I'm not convinced this equivalance is valid. The articles are generally about the towns, not the SALs which can have much larger geographic areas. The added areas, local maps and lists of adjacent localities are for the SALs.
This process may appear valid when the population figures (especially those shown due to Module:PopulationFromWikidata) are for the SALs, but when the UCL population figures are eventually loaded into Wikidata they will not be for the area in the infobox or the area shown on the local map, and any calculation of population density will also become innacurate.
I have left a message on User:Wikibility's talk page asking them to pause their editing process and join the discussion here. Innesw (talk) 11:30, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Well up until a day or so go this was, in a literal sense, the isolated outlier of the known universe - see https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest-90&pages=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Australian_places
Whether any of the watchers might even choose to venture to comment, then that is the old problem of lurking versus the actual silence that usually follows.
There are significant carry over issues between wikidata and this set of problems. Well worth exploring whether the australian project participants inside wikidata might want to join in here as well. JarrahTree 01:06, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
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