Talk:Gundagai, New South Wales/Archive3
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Infobox Update
This page has had its infobox updated to [[Template:Infobox Australian Place|Infobox Australian Place. This update has been automatically preformed by TheJoshBot. The following infomation has been lost in the transition, and will need to be converted to the document prose:
| Field Value | |
|---|---|
| firstsurveyed | 1840 |
| river | [[Murrumbidgee River]] |
| pophistoric | 1,921 (1911), 2,308 (1981) |
| railway | 1886 |
| proclaimedcity | |
| proclaimedmunicipality | 1889 |
| highway | [[Hume Highway]] |
| pop2001 | |
| latandlong | |
| firstexplored | 1829 |
However the path, now a great article
While I wouldn't recommend the type of friction that has lead to this article being what it is, it is now a well constructed article which is also very thoroughly sourced. Shame it took so much friction to get it to this...Garrie 00:25, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
- I agree. While there is still some cleaning up to do, it is the sort of article that we could soon put up for Featured Article Review. --Roisterer 01:47, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Gundagai - I am very impressed with the Gundagai Entry
— I am new to Wikipedia, having only discovered the site a month or so ago, I live in Gundagai, NSW, Australia, and I am very impressed with Gundagai's entry. Well done to whoever compiled this entry on Wikipedia. It is very detailed, and as far as I can see, contains only factual information. I am interested in Gundagai's early history and have done a lot of historical research about the town.
One thing that I would like to comment on. I note that there was a lot of discussion by and about an anonymous contributor who wanted to put information on the Gundagai site about a supposed "Coolac Massacre". I would just like to say that there never was a massacre of aborigines at Coolac. This fact is pure fantasy. I know who this "anonymous contributor"is, and she is a person who lives in the realms of fantasy. I notice that she did not give her sources for this mythical massacre. That is because there is no source! The massacre happened entirely in her imagination! Best wishes to all at Wikipedia. from Muriel.
I have jsut realised, I have the names of the other two aborigines involved in the 1852 flood (apart from Yarri and Jacky) so I will get back to wikipedia with this information. from Muriel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.47.195 (talk • contribs)
Recent edits removing uncited material
The banned editor has commented in a now-deleted post The content re Gundagai being established as a result of the Faithful Massacre, has been removed even though it did have cites at one point. As per Wikipedia:Attribution - derived from among other things WP:RS, All material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. No cites currently in place and thus I believe I am justified in deleting material. Note that WP:ATT also does not allow Unpublished synthesis of published material.
The banned editor commented Wattle just takes stuff off here that would be better left as it isnt up to her to censor here as she isnt god. Under WP:ATT any editor, even me, can remove material unsupported by verifiable sources.
If any editor, other than the banned editor, wishes me to further explain my recent edits, I am happy to do so.--Golden Wattle talk 03:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
- Comment Your actions/edits are understood and fully supported by me--VS talk 04:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
- I just made some permanent deletions to the talk page history to remove what I deemed highly unsuitable comments about an individual.--Golden Wattle talk 05:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Population of Gundagai
The opening paragraph of the article states "At the 2001 census the population of the shire was 3,792; 80% of the shire's population live in the town.", which would give the population of the town as over 3000. Yet the infobox gives the town population as less than 2000. Do we have a definitive source for population? --Roisterer 09:23, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- The infobox information was added by User:Orderinchaos citing the 2001 census [1]. It certainly differs from the Gundagai State of Environment report. I have checked the downloads from ABS. The basic community profile for the LGA states 3726 persons. However, ABS doc 2016.1: 1996 and 2001 Population comparisons gives Gundagai as 1,997 in 2001 and 2,064 in 1996. I would think this over rides the State of the Environment report - it is very disappointing they conflict.--Golden Wattle talk 23:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Photo Request
Can someone take a photo of the old railway station? It would be nice to add a transport section to this article and a photo of the old station (which hasn't seen trains for decades) would be good. JRG (talk) 04:40, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
- I'll see what I can do. Will be trying to get as many photos in the towns around S NSW and N VIC as I'm curently down from the NT ATM. -- Bidgee (talk) 06:07, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
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- Image:Gundagai railway station 2006.jpg uploaded --Matilda talk 00:07, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Reference for "Gundagai in literature" section required
I recall that one of the complaints lodged by the banned editor that used to populate this page was that the Gundagai in literature section was plagiarism, noting that the list of literatuure referencing Gundagai in the article was similar to another online article. Besides the fact that two lists noting Gundagai references in literature would logically be similar, I was wondering whether someone could dig up a reference for our list? --Roisterer (talk) 23:30, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
