Talk:List of islands of Western Australia

Geese!
Hi there from your shipboard snooper... :) Goose Island goes to places beyond our shores - and the following exist!

GOOSE ISLAND	 WA 	IS (Islands & Reefs) 	 Official	 -34 04	123 11 	- Goose ISLAND	WA 	IS (Islands & Reefs) 	Official	-35 04	116 43

Suspect some clever DAB work is required there! :) SatuSuro 13:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, fixed. For now I've redirected both to Goose Island (Western Australia). We can worry about it if and when anyone decided to write articles on one or both. User talk:Hesperian 23:24, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Solved. Been to Geographic Names card index this am:

Goose Island (Cape Arid) 34 04 50 123 10 50 was named by Flinders 15 Jan 1802 He named it after what were then known as Bernacle - now Cape barren Geese

Goose Island (Irwin Inlet) 35 04 09 116 43 40 was named by Commander W.E. Archdeacon October 1877 after the same type of geese

So I suggest that the name should be Goose Island (Cape Arid, Western Australia) and Goose Island (Irwin Inlet, Western Australia) - please let me know if that is the best way to go before I put them up as arts - save time later :) SatuSuro 06:00, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. User talk:Hesperian 06:35, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

another one
Nice list, sunday Island theres 3 all linking to same article. Gnangarra 09:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * i delinked the Pilbra and near Dirk Hartog Is and tag where they are in remarks column Gnangarra
 * You'll find that throughout the list. Where there are multiple places with the same name in WA, but no article for any of them, I pointed them all to the same place because:
 * I don't know which, if any, are prominent enough to merit placement at "Place (Western Australia)"
 * In some cases this might be best handled by having a single article to cover multiple places.
 * I've converted Sunday Island (Western Australia) into such a page.
 * User talk:Hesperian 11:23, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Page title
"... islands in Western ..."
 * not that I have a solution!? Fred 13:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Politically they are in Western Australia. If you think it reads poorly, you could s/in/of. Hesperian 22:14, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I think fred is out at the moment - but I would put my vote in for of - just my chook vote for this am SatuSuro 00:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Indeed I was, sorry. With my idiot goggles on I have an image of islands in lakes of WA. Islands around Western Australia? Hesp is right with political, but of 'sounds' right I think. Or ...

to allow me to sleep at nights? Fred 12:18, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Islands not in lakes of Western Australia but in the political oceanic boundary of Western Australia (subject to contradictions by Federal goverment claims on oil fields or immigration policy)
 * Since when did you do that ? SatuSuro 12:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Too long
This page as over 1,000 entries! I plan to sub-divide it, sooner or later, unless someone else does so first. I suggest 200 should be the approximate maximum. Andy Mabbett 09:43, 7 April 2007 (UTC) Andy Mabbett 09:43, 7 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm sure there was a pop song about it being a long way to birmingham - well its a long way from one end of western australia to the other - we have a number of long lists - if you have a problem with one - you should see how we cope with other geographical features and items - breaking up into alpha lists of so many at a time - if you have no experience of western australia as a geographical entity - its worth looking at a map and seeing why we have large lists for the state... probably best to leave it for the moment - and bringing the subject at a more open forum of the western australia project talk page would be the best idea... SatuSuro 10:03, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Now done. Andy Mabbett 18:33, 8 April 2007 (UTC)