Talk:Convictism in Australia
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The following comments were left by the assessors: (edit ยท refresh) I think most of the points made here are good points and cover most of the things that need to be covered, but it needs extensive in-line citations to make the grade nowadays (note Wikipedia:Featured article review/Eureka Stockade).--Grahamec 10:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC) |
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[edit] images
I found a bunch of cool images and listed them at commons:Talk:Convicts, so if anyone wants to upload them to commons, go right ahead! As this article grows longer we can add more to this one.
Seeing as Category:Convictism in Australia has quite a few pages on ships, we should probably include some ships here too. pfctdayelise 02:25, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I've created Wikisource:Category:Convictism in Australia but at the moment it contains only subcategory Wikisource:Category:Convictism in Western Australia. If anyone has any primary sources on convictism, you know what to do. Drew (Snottygobble) | Talk 03:08, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Mention coud be made here of the "Convict Stain" attitude of Most australians in the late 19th early 20th century, with familys hiding a convict past and a wish to rid Australia of the physical evidence of convictim. For instance the decline of Port Arthur.Ghostieguide 03:15, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] How about numbers of convicts?
I think I remember reading in "The Fatal Shore" by Robert Hugh that only about 160,000 people were transported to Australia during the 80(?) years of transportation. This might be related to contrast popular belief that most Australians are descendents of hard-core criminals, which is as far from the truth as is possible. I lost my copy of The Fatal Shore so it's a bit complicated for me to verify this number.
[edit] Overhaul
I have given the article a substantial overhaul, but some areas could still be expanded such as the legacy section. Bobby1011 22:00, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Very nice work, an interesting and well written article, Can you please cite more sources and refs for fact checking. Ghostieguide 23:30, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bush Ranger Link
Links to page on GW Bush III financial supporters. Though a correct explanation the wrong context in this case.
- Thanks for that. Bush Ranger is now a disambiguation page, and this article now points to bushranger. Snottygobble 22:49, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
