Talk:David and Catherine Birnie

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An entry from David and Catherine Birnie appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 16 February 2007.

Also born in 1951, Catherine’s mother died when she was just 10 months old.

How could Catherine's mother have died when she was 10 months old? Even if she died in childbirth, it would mean that Catherine was conceived when her mother was a month old!

I'd edit it to what I think it means, but I have to go to work. Respectfully, SamBlob 11:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Willagee

What sort of place is Willagee? I've seen it in CrimeLibrary and several books as it is expressed in this article; that Willagee is somehow semi rural or on the outskirts of Perth in 1985. This is completely ridiculous. It's not even particularly southern and only around 5 kilometers from the river. Twenty years ago it would have seemed a tad more rustic thanks to adjacent Winthrop probably still being developed and containing much of its old pine plantation. No one who's actually been there could say it's on the outskirts of anything and the description is surely based on photographs showing the large (huge by today's standards), rangey blocks of land Perth suburbs were historically made from. I don't really know how to compete with the literature, however (even with, you know, the truth). Have a look at this map [1] start at Fremantle and go right just a little bit. See what I mean. How do you cite that? Maybe it doesn't matter and I can just change it. MuJoCh (talk) 10:15, 8 February 2008 (UTC)