Talk:Darwin rebellion

Typo?
In the section "Rebellion", there is the passage "Eventually, the crowd dispersed, but not before they carried Gilruth's effigy to the front gate of Government House, socked it in kerosene and set it alight." Is "socked" a mistake for "soaked"? Or is this an Australianism? -- llywrch (talk) 18:44, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * No, it's a typo. Thanks for picking it up and I'll make the change. Cheers, Spy007au (talk) 22:18, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Another look
I've had another look at the article. While doing so I carried out some copyedits, and also did some delinking. You have a tendency to link straightforward English words, sometimes via the wiktionary. This is unnecessary, except for very unusual words that sometimes find their way into articles, and I can see no instances of that here.

I have not had time to read the article as carefully as I would have liked. In general it has improved since I saw it at GAN a couple of months ago, but there are still numerous weaknesses that you should atend to. Here are the ones I have picked out:-


 * Lead: The term "Australian trade workers union" is odd. "Trade workers union"? - never heard that term used. You should specify, as you do further down, the trade union in which the unrest occurred.
 * Background. The first two sentences are confusing - they seem to be saying the same thing in slightly different ways.
 * 1913 strike You say: "With the threat of Chinese competition removed..." I don't think "removed" is the right word; the White Australia policy restricted immigration, but didn't as far as I know, get rid of the Chinese who were already there. So  think "reduced" is a better word.
 * Vestey meatworks
 * You contradict yourself when you say, first, "Vestey Bros had proposed setting up a meat plant..." and, later, "Vestey Bros finally consented to building a meatworks."
 * You talk about the effect of the meatworks closure, but from the article I gather that the closure was in 1920, which is beyond the date of the rebellion.
 * Palmerston District Council
 * "men of all classes united in pursuit of a common aim" is a quote and must be cited.
 * Your statement that Gilruth should have taken notice of the growing discontent is written as your opinion, and should be reworded.
 * "take over the hotels" should be expanded. Darwin hotels? Northern Territory hotels?
 * Nationalisation of hotels
 * I have put "citation required" tags against two unreferenced statements.
 * "penalties were steep" - penalties for what? Also, "steep" is informal language.
 * You mention "some sdverse side-effects", without saying what these might be.
 * Your statement that "the mistake that helped finish Gilruth's career in the Territory was trivial" is editorial opinion, and should be cited or reworded.
 * Rebellion: "another meeting was held in January 1919". A meeting of who? and where?
 * Aftermath
 * To describe the press reaction as "predictable" is, again, expressing your opinion
 * This is a right muddle: "...blaming a Soviet establishment in Darwin to Russian aliens, to total anarchy, to an uncaring Federal government and Gilruth himself". This sentence needs serious reconstruction.

If you can deal with all of the above, it might be worth having another shot at GA. If I were you, before doing this I would get someone new to read it, with a fresh viewpoint. Good luck, anyway. Brianboulton (talk) 23:53, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

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