Talk:Gosford

Merge and name
This page should be merged with Gosford, New South Wales - Efghij 03:40, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)

The final name should be Gosford or Gosford, Australia, that's the convention. -- Tim Starling 03:44, Aug 7, 2003 (UTC)


 * The new one was better so I just overwrote the old one. -- Tim Starling 07:12, Aug 7, 2003 (UTC)

Ok thanks. It was Gosford, New South Wales due to the link on Local Government Areas of New South Wales AndrewKepert 22:19, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that LGA page pre-dates the convention. Use it with care. -- Tim Starling 14:20, Aug 8, 2003 (UTC)

2005 discussion
If I write an article on Terrigal, a town in Gosford, where would I include it? --dblandford 13:45, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Terrigal is a town in Gosford City Council, rather than in the town of Gosford, New South Wales -- there is a red link on the GCC page you can use. However, if you use this link: Terrigal, New South Wales you won't upset those who care about consistent naming of places.  You then change the GCC page to use the link Terrigal .  Hope this helps.   Andrew Kepert 01:19, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Andrew. How do I make my signature/timestamp show my actual name rather than my username? David Blandford --dblandford 10:29, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * There's a user pref for this somewhere - I will look it up and respond on your user talk page. Andrew Kepert 07:52, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Edit 20060515
I couldn't stand the current state of this page, so I fixed it up. There was tooo much boldfacing, duplicated information (both on this page and compared with linked pages), and a lot of stuff with a use-by date. I managed to interlink a few other things. Some of what was left ended up in a list of dot-points, which can be evaluated whether to leave as is, expand or delete. Andrew Kepert 09:09, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Football/soccer
Why "football (soccer)"? Being an Australian article, shouldn't it follow Australian usage, i.e. just "soccer"? --Ptcamn 07:20, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Soccer is now officially recognised as Football in Australia to correspond with international usage of the word. See FFA for more info. Ansend 07:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

The city is the administrative centre of the Central Coast region
No, the Central Coast region has no single administrative centre. The Central Coast region comprises two LGAs, Gosford is the administrative centre of the Gosford LGA & Wyong is the administrative centre of the Wyong LGA. It seems an editor of the page for Gosford has Gosford confused with the Central Coast, the population listed under the map (301,551) is not the population of Gosford, it is the population of the Central Coast (Gosford & Wyong areas combined), the population of Gosford is 158,157. Can somebody correct the errors on this page? Thanks. Swampy 58.165.181.8 (talk) 09:04, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

How is this Gosford larger in area than the City of Gosford? Is this page really about the Gosford Urban Area
As far as I can see, the City of Gosford contains other suburbs, or settlements or which ever they are called, than just Gosford, so how can Gosford take up all of the City of Gosford? VanillaBear23 (talk) 12:59, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Esp given City of Gosford includes some large unpopulated areas like Mangrove Mountain, no idea - the figure here must be wrong. Orderinchaos 13:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * This page does seem to be confusing "Gosford City" - the local government area with a population of ~170k - with the Gosford itself which has a population of about 4.7k (source http://profile.id.com.au/gosford) --2001:44B8:315B:B600:FCD1:227A:1C5E:DD1A (talk) 08:39, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Primary topic and name
The city in Australia appears to be the correct primary topic, based on incoming wikilinks and Google searches: Since it is the primary topic, the article could be moved back to this base name over the redirect, per Naming conventions (geographic names). -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:04, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Australia, 251,000 hits: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22gosford%2C+australia%22+OR+%22gosford%2C+new+south+wales%22+-wikipedia
 * England, 2500 hits: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22gosford%2C+england%22+OR+%22gosford%2C+oxfordshire%22+-wikipedia
 * California, 800 hits: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22gosford%2C+california%22+-wikipedia
 * Agreed. Gosford has around 80,000 people as against <2,000 in both of the others as well. Orderinchaos 01:16, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

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