Talk:Darlington, Western Australia

earlier comments
this article no longer requires the geo stub, it does need images and info box. Gnangarra 07:39, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

What about bushfire damage, very vague something about the school being damaged during the 80's, i remember something (plaque) at the school about this from when i was working for the school. Also some houses lost on the highway. Gnangarra 13:39, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Bushfires do not respect admin boundaries, most of the bushfires in the last 5 years have started in the locality ofBoya, Western Australia either on Greenmount Hill (the hill, not the locality) of from the quarry - Hudman Road - and all have threatened Darlington due to prevailing westerlies.

Media reports show very poor knowledge of hills localities by journos in general - the best most recently was by a rookie journo on the west saying Glen Forrest was a suburb in Kalamunda, and stupidly transcribed by a local real estate agent on their window! Geographically challenged the lot of them :) SatuSuro 14:27, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Uploading from Darlington Village website
Please do not do this as it violates copyright - thanks SatuSuro 06:55, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Reasons for some edits
I replaced "had guest houses" with "hosted guest houses" &mdash; solely because "had" is the vaguest of verbs, usable as well for "having" money as for "having" babies. All we mean is that there were some guest houses associated with the place. I was disgruntled with "had fruit orchards" too, but let it stand.

I replace "a number of" every time I see it. It usually can be removed outright as adding nothing. "There are a number of houses in Darlington" tells us no more than "There are houses in Darlington." But sometimes, when it's used to mean "not just one", it can be economically replaced with "several".

I replace "significant numbers of" every time it's used to mean "many"... if I happen to be free to edit the place where I read it. "Significant" has quantitative meaning in scientific contexts and none in others. I've spent a significant amount of time thinking about this => I've thought a lot about this.

Fond memories of 49 Lionel Rd. and the loud parrots cracking the gum nuts...

Chenopodiaceous (talk) 12:44, 8 September 2021 (UTC)