Portal talk:Australia/Anniversaries/March/March 4

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[edit] Stirling

  • Copied from the talk page of user:Hesperian23:39, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

I wonder if you'd mind looking at Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/March/March 4 and considering whether the entry for Stirling isn't a bit obtuse obscure, or whether its necessary at all. —Moondyne click! 03:46, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Seems more like a DYK, than an anniversary of note, the March 4 1831 date is not mentioned in any of the linked articles. --Melburnian (talk) 04:43, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it is important enough to be included. If I were to write down a timeline of 20-odd events in the establishment of the Swan River Colony, Stirling's commissioning as Lieutenant-Governor wouldn't be in it. If I expanded the list to 100 events, it would.

My guess is that Matilda has added the day of appointment for each of our governors, on the assumption that these are inherently important anniversaries. The bitter irony is that if she had gone with the naive and simplistic "James Stirling appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia", then we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. Instead she was so good as to lay out the circumstances of the event, and thus she has shed doubt on its significance, and here were are discussing reverting her. :-)

Hesperian 04:55, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

In hindsight, I suppose I should have posted the question at Matilda's talk page - I'm sending her a note now. But anyway, for the record, my view is that it should probably go as its a bit too obscure. Then again, I won't be losing any sleep over this. —Moondyne click! 05:05, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Sleep? Bet not one current serving civil servant in the wa govt would know those sort of dates either :| SatuSuro 06:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
  • I like obtuse things :-) but now there are more things for that date I don't care - but everyone learnt something and isn't that part of the point?--Matilda talk 10:04, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Indeed I did, a happy Lieutenant-Governor legitimisation day to you :-) --Melburnian (talk) 10:54, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
  • I have now added to the Stirling article and the Governor of WA article. The document (which I have now included as a ref in additions to the articles) is one of 110 founding documents of Australia in a collection put together byt he National Archives. I think that probably makes it a significant event enough for the wikipedia Australian event calendar :-) I have copied this conversation to the talk page of the date in case the issue comes up in years to come Regards--Matilda talk 23:39, 4 March 2008 (UTC)