Talk:Canberra/Archive 1
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Why is this Canberra, Australia instead of Canberra? There is only one Canberra so far as I know, all the others are subsiduary ones named after this one - e.g., the English Electric Canberra bomber, or the USS Canberra. I vote we move it back to it's proper title. Tannin 11:24 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)
- Why? Australian inferiority complex. I recently moved Fremantle, Australia to Fremantle after searching the USGS geographical database and finding only one. In my experience, UK contributors have no problem squatting even on small town names. We can always disambiguate later, if necessary. -- Tim Starling 11:54 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)
- I just looked at the edit history for Canberra. Perhaps if we want to know why it's Canberra, Australia rather than Canberra, we should ask Karen Johnson, since she's the one who moved it here. The edit history is not blank, so if we want to move it back we will need an administrator to clear the way. -- Tim Starling 12:06 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)
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Thanks Tim. I'll pop a note on her user page. Tannin
This page will shortly be moved back from Canberra, Australia to Canberra, where it started. Some history will be lost in the process, since I will delete Canberra to make way for the move. Here are the lost edit summaries:
(cur) (last) . . 05:56 Jun 24, 2002 . . Karen Johnson (move to Canberra, Australia)
(cur) (last) . . M 02:43 Feb 26, 2002 . . Graham Chapman (copyedit; small addition)
(cur) (last) . . M 10:20 Feb 24, 2002 . . Conversion script (Automated conversion)
(cur) (last) . . 13:29 Aug 27, 2001 . . 61.9.128.xxx (Initial description of canberra)
- Thanks, Tim. By the way, if you haven't noticed, it was suggested on the list that Canberra, Australia needed to be disambiguated because of the "well-known military aircraft called the Canberra". The aircraft, of course, was named after the city, making it a subsiduary name, and is in any case properly titled English Electric Canberra, in line with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (aircraft). So, to celebrate the return of "Canberra" to Canbera, I've taken a couple of hours off from my current spate of bird entries, and written up the aluminium one instead. Tannin 12:42 Mar 27, 2003 (UTC)
Can someone confirm "...its biggest inland city..."? I was undder the impression that was Wagga Wagga. PML.
- Wagga has a mere 56,700 -- Tim Starling 09:20, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Well put, PM67NZ. I think you've expressed the point nicely. (Ain't it funny how difficult it can be to get little things right sometimes.) Tannin BTW, how big is Albury-Wodonga? I guess that is the 2nd biggest inland city. Tannin 12:07, 11 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I agree, well put. (The lesson I take from this, comparing it with my own effort, is that it's easier to write clearly if you take the time to find out the correct information, instead of trying to write around the bits you don't know and are too lazy to look up.) āPaul A 14:43, 11 Sep 2003 (UTC)