Talk:Tank Stream

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[edit] Considerable POV and Bias

This article is a clandestine rant backing a movement to uncover a stream to run again on the surface. It doesn't present science, and comes perilously close to racism with unattested statements such as "For thousands of years, Aboriginal people..." followed shortly by "when white people reached the shores..."

The cited "Tank Stream dreaming" is quite open about the goal, whereas this article is cagy.

There's hyperbole in practically every sentence, meretricious observations such as "A ballot system is used to allow people an equal chance..." What else would a ballot be for?

Probably the easiest way to demonstrate how much equivocation is present in the text is to rewrite it (realizing, of course, that others may chose to revert it). In that way, it will be easier to compare the dross.

(Note the edited version is very similar to the October 2006 version.)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.20.226 (talk) 06:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for you concern. But like most of the articles on wikipedia this article has been cobbled together with some useful facts and slanted points of view and all it needs is a good rewrite. So go ahead and give it a go. Don't be shy.

Although I would have to disagree with your above statement and think you are a tad looney for you to think that the article had just become a rant about having it uncovered. I added the link to Tank Stream Dreaming and was merely stating the fact that there are calls that the stream should be uncovered. It was a good way to link in a good article about the Tank Stream. Where you get the idea that is part of clandestine secret movement is a cause for concern about your sanity. Nomadtales (talk) 10:05, 20 November 2007 (UTC)