Talk:Eureka Rebellion

Loose Text
The text "30 miners and 4 soldiers died" stands on its own. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.47.199.254 (talk) 04:08, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Blood on the Southern Cross
It seams odd that the Auther of this article has not included blood on the Southern Cross under commemoration and legacy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gymsport (talk • contribs) 00:33, 23 May 2011 (UTC)


 * done --Biatch (talk) 20:34, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

New External Link added
I moderate the Culture Victoria website and have added an external link to relevant information about Eureka Rebellion.Eleworth (talk) 04:42, 28 April 2011 (UTC) It all started with a Noordam called Josh. angry people were happy and the happy people were angry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.57.15.45 (talk) 02:23, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

2000
Why was the John Anderson quote removed? All the former deputy PM said was that people are trying to give Eureka a "credibility and a standing which it probably doesn't enjoy", which it probaly doesn't.

You'd have to be a real afficinado to have noticed "Eureka Day" go by this 3 December... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.216.105.54 (talk) 05:56, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

MADE and other comments
The last couple of paragraphs of the "2000s" section read like a media release from some mediocre government department or politician's office. (Let's pay lip service to democratic rebellion to pretend our current political system is genuinely democratic, as in aren't those fluffy wuffy lambs cute before we kill them to make chops and roasts.) Apart from that, it's a pretty shallow article overall. I'm very surprised to see the state it's in, considering it's one of THE most important events in Australian political history. I'm not an expert, so am hesitant to touch the article, but even to me, the problems are readily apparent.--Russell E (talk)

Temporary Protection?
There seems to be a lot of vandalism. Uberaccount (talk) 01:28, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Higgledy Piggledy
I have supplied a verifiable reference that an eyewtiness to the events of 1854 said the crude battlement known as the Eureka Stockade was "higgledy piggledy". I wouldn't have thought there would be any way you could say that was done in bad faith. Peter Lalor even said it wasn't meant to be much, just a ring to drill the men inside of.

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129.180.166.115 (talk) 11:39, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Australian?
Did you here the one about the Scot, the Yank, the Jamaican, the Italian, the Dutchman, the Sydneysider & some Irishmen? Much ado about Victoria, of little relevance to the other Colonies. Bunch of greedy foreigners: same thing as in Young in 1861.AptitudeDesign (talk) 11:38, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

POV?
The reference to "a swift and deadly siege by colonial forces" is POV, and incorrect. There was no siege, and the death toll reflected the fact that there was a rebellion; the government cannot be held entirely accountable for this.Royalcourtier (talk) 04:17, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Connection between rebellion and democracy
The article states that "Mass public support for the captured rebels in the colony's capital of Melbourne ...resulted in the introduction of the Electoral Act 1856". However there was no direct connection between public support for rebelling (mostly foreign) miner's and a new Electoral Act.Royalcourtier (talk) 04:20, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

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Battle of the Eureka Stockade
What do we all think about the concept of an article dedicated to the Battle of the Eureka Stockade proper separate from this article on the wider Eureka Rebellion?

Robbiegibbons (talk) 09:18, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 October 2021
"Toorac" should be "Toorak" to fix a typo. Wakoinc (talk) 10:24, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 10:55, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Please help with citation needed tags
If those of us who care about this article can hook in and help clear the last few citation-needed tags then we will surely be in sight of our long-held goal of having it considered for good article status.

Robbiegibbons (talk) 04:45, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Bently/Bentley
Both spellings were present in this article, but I have standardized on "Bentley", by far the more common elsewhere. Doug butler (talk) 23:52, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Proposed sub articles
How about we take the sections on the "Battle of the Eureka Stockade", "Popular culture" and "Commemoration" and make sub articles out of them?

Robbiegibbons (talk) 11:45, 25 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Not sure all of them would make good standalone articles. The first two might, but see WP:SPLIT on the process for splitting information into a new article, so that proper attribution is made.  In addition, what is left behind needs to be a brief summary.  Onel 5969  TT me 15:34, 28 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm happy to proceed with a separate article on the Battle of the Eureka Stockade itself.


 * Robbiegibbons (talk) 15:13, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Now that there are a number of sub articles can we remove the tag? Robbiegibbons (talk) 21:08, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Concern with source
This Sydney Morning Herald review of FitzSimons 2012 states that it might be potentially unreliable. — V ORTEX  3427 (Talk!) 08:35, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Second infobox
Should we add another infobox for all the links to the various sub-articles?

Robbiegibbons (talk) 00:37, 12 June 2023 (UTC)