Talk:Bush carpentry

Hephaestus Has Struck!
Well now, here's a most ingenious paradox. Hephaestus Books has scraped my articles Slab hut and Bush carpentry off Wikipedia and published them as Wooden Buildings and Structures, Including: Slab Hut, Bush Carpentry, Buswartehobel as a Print on demand title, ISBN 9781242493300. Hephaestus are technically entitled to do this under a Creative Commons Licence, but what I want to know is, since my articles are now between (soft) covers and are dignified with a publisher's imprint, can I cite this book as an authority for the content of the articles they hijacked? Incidentally, Hephaestus Books don't call this 'publishing' they call it 'curating'.

I am reminded of an apposite quote from Chapter 12 of Huckleberry Finn:

"Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it. Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we wouldn't borrow them any more -- then he reckoned it wouldn't be no harm to borrow the others. So we talked it over all one night, drifting along down the river, trying to make up our minds whether to drop the watermelons, or the cantelopes, or the mushmelons, or what. But towards daylight we got it all settled satisfactory, and concluded to drop crabapples and p'simmons. We warn't feeling just right before that, but it was all comfortable now. I was glad the way it come out, too, because crabapples ain't ever good, and the p'simmons wouldn't be ripe for two or three months yet."

Bluedawe 00:18, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

A Very Poor Rating For This Article!
I note the rating (there has been only one) for this article is a series of rather grumpy 1/5s. I invite the 1/5er to contribute the missing material, identify and repair what is unreliable, remedy the subjectivity, and do all of the former in exemplary prose from which I shall be able to learn. I am merely the humble creator of the article, and crave instruction from a superior author and authority. Bluedawe 06:55, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Still waiting for instruction. Bluedawe  02:44, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Aborigines and Dwellings
Australian Aborigines did not build dwellings. They contrived shelters. 'Dwelling' implies permanence, continual occupation. Traditional Aboriginal society was semi-nomadic, the antithesis of residency. Constructions for long-term use would have been a waste of energy; upon the arrival at any locale during their cyclic migrations as food sources became available, any 'permanent' structure previously erected would have deteriorated and thus require additional work to make habitable. Consider the depredations of termites and bushfire alone. New shelters were therefore improvised each time, and building techniques were unknown because unnecessary. The practice of making new shelters was also healthier than inhabiting old ones.

It is a severe twisting of the facts to describe large camps of Aborigines as 'villages'; the word 'ville' implies settlement, organisation, nomenclature, structure, all alien concepts.

Let's not be tempted to re-write history to make it agree with current prejudices. Our universities today are rife with biassed persons who are doing just that, and by doing so, are destroying the very nature of universities as citadels of scholarship, critical reasoning, open debate, and rationality. 121.44.216.120 (talk) 09:12, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

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