Talk:History of Cairns, Queensland

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Contents 1 References 2 Improvement listing 3 Editing 4 Tsunami 5 "This article contains insufficently sourced phrases"

[edit] References

I went through and wikified the (many!) references in this article to make it easier to manage them Mkfenn 08:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Is having "many!" references a problem? I thought it was "compulsory!" tobalwin 20:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Having many references isn't a problem at all, it's great! It just took some time to wikify them all --Mkfenn 23:43, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Took longer to read 50+ years of the Cairns Post on micofilm for forgotten details, summarise, index, organise, distill into key events, double check references then imput it here! tobalwin 15:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Improvement listing

I see the article has been put on the "improvement" listing. Should I continue with the yet to be downloaded Modern History references? I would like to finish them and the rewriting of certain sections before the "improvements" begin. I take it the "improvers" will be giving intelligent reasons, based on detailed personal knowledge of cairns history, for their deletions beyond "I don't like...", "I'm not used to", "I've never heard of..." "I'm not interested in..." etc.

As for reducing the word count I'd like to start with deleting the "Natural History" section. A simplified version could possibly be added to the main Cairns article section or left out altogether. Will taking this out automatically adjust the numbering of the remaining references so that reference #13 becomes #1 etc? Some editing of explanatory text without reducing it to a list format could then be considered and if the word count is still too high, a cautious and considered deletion of events. tobalwin 12:52, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Reference numbers are auto-magically updated if you add/remove references. --Mkfenn 23:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

So they do [after I removed the Natural History section] tobalwin 02:56, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editing

Corrected the late night typos and reduced the text without sacrificing any important items. tobalwin 11:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tsunami

Added information about the tsunami panic because of its dramatic local effect and the emergency response flaws revealed by it. tobalwin 13:17, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Did a bit of a rewrite, added some info and links. - Fosnez 07:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "This article contains insufficently sourced phrases"

Not really sure what is meant by this reason to have the main article tagged this month but just in case it refers to the decade headings in this section, i've removed them as I think the text indicates the characteristic of the decade to an intelligent reader without having to draw attention to it with a heading. tobalwin 01:32, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Noticed "the insufficently sources phrases" complaint has disappeared so the above must have been "The Problem". Now to get "the missing citations and footnotes" issue corrected. Would the writer [or writers] of the Cairns article like to add their citations and footnotes so we can have the tag removed?tobalwin 10:45, 2 August 2007 (UTC)