Talk:Tamworth, New South Wales

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The comment 'The city is located midway between Brisbane and Sydney the two largest cities on the Australian east coast' - aside from missing punctuation - isn't correct. Melbourne is considered to be an east coast city and is larger than Brisbane by far. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.254.214 (talk) 13:12, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

There's no way this list of schools should be on here - only notable educational institutions should be mentioned--129.78.64.100 07:27, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yes. And why list every church? Just wastes space and bores people to death. This is not the yellow pages.

I've pared the list of schools and churches down to only those with wikipedia articles. Crocodile Punter 11:47, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

They were put back again, but ive removed churches without a wikipedia article. Perhaps a small segment could be written about the Combined Churches in partnership with Fusion Australia's festival in bicentennial park called "LifeFest" each year, which attracts thousands of people. --Thirdayparadise 06:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

I wrote a brief article on "Lifefest" however exact estimates of how many thousand came to festival is needed. --Thirdayparadise 02:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Removal of mention of Siding Springs 2 Lights of Tamworth 3 Suburbs of Tamworth 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Nias.JPG 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Nias.JPG 6 Area

[edit] Removal of mention of Siding Springs

The part on the lighting of Tamworth being turned off for the Siding Springs Observatory is incorrect and should be removed. I would suspect that the town of Coonabarabran would be a larger part of the light pollution problem as it is the closer town of the two, Tamworth being over 185km north of the Siding Springs Observatory at Coonabarabran.

[edit] Lights of Tamworth

Yes, the City of Lights is genuine, no dispute. That they spelt out Tamworth is... well, I'll just ask for a citation shall we - it is a well known story.. Jacketed 13:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

The term 'City of Light' was derived due to Tamworth being the first town in the Southern Hemisphere to have electric street lighting. --bacco007 13:40, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Both users are completely right-any local historybook will tell you that. --Dezza91 10:57, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't think Tamworth did have the first electric street lighting in the Southern Hemisphere, as Kimberley in the Cape Province (now South Africa) had such lighting in 1882. This article states Tamworth had electric street lighting in 1888. Maybe the first in what is now Australia?

This is from the article for Kimberley:

"On 2 September 1882, Kimberley became the first town in the southern hemisphere to install electric street lighting.

Booshank 17:31, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suburbs of Tamworth

Would be great if we could get some population estimates of the suburbs of Tamworth. I know its a small city, but Sydney suburbs such as the suburb of Brookvale have a population estimate, and this suburb is only 2,493 big. Surely there is suburbs of Tamworth with bigger populations than this such as East Tamworth or South Tamworth. I noticed however Calala had a population estimate. --Thirdayparadise 02:08, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Nias.JPG

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BetacommandBot 11:58, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Nias.JPG

Image:Nias.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:00, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Area

Currently states the area is 486 sq km. That is too large to be the area of the Tamworth city proper, and too small to be the area covered by the Tamworth Regional Council LGA ( which is apparently about 9700 sq km ). So what is the 486 sq km supposed to be then ?? Is it the area of the old Tamworth LGA ? Needs to be clarified Eregli bob (talk) 05:58, 15 December 2007 (UTC)