Category talk:Towns in Western Australia

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Are aboriginal communities classified as towns as well as indigenous communities? Fancyfootwork 07:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Towns and bounded localities are treated the same way. Assuming that the communities you have in mind are gazetted localities (i.e. they are listed in the Gazetteer of Australia [1]), then they should be treated as per towns. Hesperian 10:18, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

What if according to this website the community is classified as unbounded? Are unbounded localities registered in wiki the same way? Fancyfootwork 12:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

For unbounded localities we usually use the geographic convention. If the name doesn't conflict with some other article title, then just use [[Place name]]; if that conflicts with another article, then use [[Place name (Western Australia)]]. Want to tell me the name of the community? Hesperian 12:35, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

So if the gazetteer of australia lists a community as looma community or kadjina community and not simply looma or kadjina then the wiki article should reflect this?Fancyfootwork 11:46, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, Kadjina Community is its official gazetted name, so that should be the name of the article. Hesperian 11:49, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Why have all the towns in the towns of WA list used TownName, (Western Australia) convention even when they dont conflict?Fancyfootwork 11:51, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Because that is the convention that was adopted after extensive discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian places. I don't like it either. Hesperian 11:56, 2 April 2007 (UTC)