Talk:Port Pirie, South Australia
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Railways I think the railways description could use a refresh, it does not indicate that the railway station has been superseded (passenger trains now take on passengers at Coonamia 3 kms out of town) or that the station platform and environs have been transformed into the bus terminal, a world class visitors centre and railways museum/interpretive centre. this will be my first wikipedia editing attempt so please feel free to tighten up any language issues that arise. i will lso attempt to add my reference material but am not overly confident that i can link properly Gnafyes 01:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC)Andy (user Gnafyes)
I just removed the following from the article:
- Port Pirie serves as one of the States largest cities. It is SOuth Australias fastest growing city due to the short distance between Adelaide and Port Pirie. Its population continues to grow with it being around 17,500 (2006). Its major industries are: The Zinifex Smelter, Agriculture, Metal Fabrication and Retail and Informational industries. It also serves as a large education centre for the district providing Pre Schools, Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Tertiary Education and Private Colleges for surrounding smaller towns. The largest and most prominent is John Pirie Secondary School which has roughly 600 students. the school has some of the towns best teachers. The town is serviced by the PPRC (Port Pirie Regional Council) which not only covers Port Pirie but other rural centres like Crystal Brook, Redhill, Napperby and Koolunga. The current mayor of the town is Geoff Brock he succeded former mayor Ken Madigan. Port Piries largest population was about 25,000 which was in the 1970's. It has a very large Italian and Greek community. a majority of nationalities in the town is Greek or Italian. There are centres for these nationalities Savoy and Virtus Centre (Italian) and the marvellous and exquisite freshly completed St George hellinic centre (Greek). The St George hellinic centre is the finest of the three of the centres and offers meals and drinks facilities.
- The town also has large sporting facilities offering sports of all kinds. The town also has large religious facilities for Greek ORthodox, Catholics, Lutherans and many other religions. The retail industry boomed in 1981 with the opening of the Pirie Plaza offering Coles, Kmart and specialty shops. the town also offers Prests department stores which is privately owned.
There's some useful information here but it needs to be integrated into the article better. michael talk 11:01, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] External reference
That link was not working anymore, so I replaced it with a link to a map on the same Australian site. The person who put the link there originally, should check this and perhaps improve or replace.--Pan Gerwazy 18:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
The Bureau of Meteorolgy link and the Walkabout link did not work anymore either, so I replaced them. I did not know what the BoM link originally referred to, so I put both the tide and weather forecast. There is some additional info on the aerodrome ther, by the way. The Sydney Morning Herald link which Walkabout took me to also has some interesting information, eg about the place before European settlement, but I do not feel like including that into the article myself. I only came here to look up the pronunciation of "Port Pirie" - and I did not find that, by the way.--Pan Gerwazy 18:52, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- Thankyou. The BoM link would have been to climate averages, not recent weather observations, so I've added that too. Pronunciation - it's a short 'i' and a long 'ee' sound. I'll try to find the IPA codes later and add them. --Scott Davis Talk 10:25, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Retail
I deleted the retail section because it was useless and provided no useful information to the reader. Red under the bed
- Thankyou. (sign with ~~~~ or click the signature button above the edit box (10th from left). --Scott Davis Talk 14:30, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Stack
OMG. This article mentions nothing about 'The Stack' - the second largest tower in the Southern Hemisphere, and the reason (I assume) why google maps had high res satellite photos of Pirie when much of the rest of the state was low res.
- Thank you for your suggestion! When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the Edit this page link at the top. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. --Scott Davis Talk 05:01, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Umm, according to the List of chimneys The Stack has been surpassed many times here in Australia, so is no longer the second largest chimney in the southern hemispher. Lynx Raven Raide 10:05, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
