Talk:Local Government Areas of Victoria
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[edit] 2005 elections - councillors and wards
I have decided to place the 2005 councillors on the appropriate pages for each Local Government Area of Victoria, as this hasn't been done before or only on some pages, like the Frankston City Council and the Banyule City Council. How much detail is proper? For example, the Cardinia representation review where one ward has three councillors and the other only two, is very different to something more straightforward like three councillors for all wards. If it's a straight dump of all the councillors that would be all right. --EuropracBHIT 03:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC).
[edit] LGA Template
I have added a LGA template: Template:Local Government Areas. Would be good to see it used throughout Victorian LGAs, have only done it so far for Casey and Cardinia --Crazycrazyduck 11:18, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
- how do you think it will translate to rural LGAs?--A Y Arktos 20:29, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
It should be fine, because it doesnt mention the city or anything. The box categories are Mayor/President, CEO, Divisions (Wards or Ridings), Councillors, population, size, key suburbs/towns, foundation date and website. --Crazycrazyduck 21:23, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Have completed Bass Coast, South Gippsland, Warrnambool and Mornington Peninsula. --Crazycrazyduck 07:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Definitions and significance
This page, viewed in isolation, may raise more questions than it answers. What is a LGA? what's the significance of one, how are the boundaries determined? What's a Rural City? A shire? Links to articles that explain some of this stuff would make this list a lot more than just a bare list. Not being from Oz I of course have no idea. ++Lar: t/c 18:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- I actually think the Statoids link gives a pretty good explanation, even though it's a little out of date WRT current LGAs. RoscoHead 21:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Good to see you again ROSCO, I was wondering when you'd next turn up on a page I'd been editing... Are you saying that none of these terms have Wikipedia articles? Typically it is far better to link to articles explicitly rather that giving the reader a pointer to an external site (and no hint that there are definitions to be found there), no matter how good the site might be. Hope that helps clarify what I was referring to. ++Lar: t/c 01:33, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- I was wondering when you'd next turn up on a page you have no idea about - BTW I'm not sure Dorothy or the wicked witch would know any more about it than you ;) Maybe things such as LGA, Rural City, and Shire could be categories, with a short explanation at the top? I defer to your vastly greater knowledge of wikis. RoscoHead 02:41, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Now why would you be wondering that, ROSCO? Unless of course you were stalking me (as your contributions log strongly suggests might be the case, you know... a pattern of editing things just after I've edited them that otherwise have no connection to each other or to you is pretty strong evidence of stalking), why would you even care about what I did or didn't edit? Tell you what, I'd rather wait for someone with an actual interest in this topic, rather than an interest in me, to comment constructively. ++Lar: t/c 15:38, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Ah, wikistalking, now there's an interesting phenomenon. But back to the subject at hand, anyone here have any useful opinions to throw in? RoscoHead 20:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Now why would you be wondering that, ROSCO? Unless of course you were stalking me (as your contributions log strongly suggests might be the case, you know... a pattern of editing things just after I've edited them that otherwise have no connection to each other or to you is pretty strong evidence of stalking), why would you even care about what I did or didn't edit? Tell you what, I'd rather wait for someone with an actual interest in this topic, rather than an interest in me, to comment constructively. ++Lar: t/c 15:38, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- I was wondering when you'd next turn up on a page you have no idea about - BTW I'm not sure Dorothy or the wicked witch would know any more about it than you ;) Maybe things such as LGA, Rural City, and Shire could be categories, with a short explanation at the top? I defer to your vastly greater knowledge of wikis. RoscoHead 02:41, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Good to see you again ROSCO, I was wondering when you'd next turn up on a page I'd been editing... Are you saying that none of these terms have Wikipedia articles? Typically it is far better to link to articles explicitly rather that giving the reader a pointer to an external site (and no hint that there are definitions to be found there), no matter how good the site might be. Hope that helps clarify what I was referring to. ++Lar: t/c 01:33, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I actually have an interest in the topic, so to help you out, I've added the obvious link to Local Government Area in the See Also section. Of course, an article titled Local government in Victoria or the like would be useful to explain the entire set up and its history, but researching and writing such an article was a pipe dream of mine that got lost amidst the demands of real life... Thylacoleo 06:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
