Talk:Oodnadatta

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 13:02, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Oodnadatta, South Australia → Oodnadatta — Note that Oodnadatta currently redirects here. There is no need for disambiguation here. WP:TITLE states that titles should reflect the most common, recognisable and concise name.  Night w   12:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * Support Clearly does not need disambiguating. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 12:12, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose No reason to go against the naming convention for Australia.  Skinsmoke (talk) 16:50, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * ...Other than the fact that there is no widely accepted naming convention for Australia.  Night w   21:16, 22 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Support, old naming convention is no longer the convention.--Grahame (talk) 01:12, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * . Even if there was a naming convention for Australian cities, following a naming convention -- and for no other reason -- is, by definition, not a good reason to choose a name.  In contrast, concision has intrinsic value, as explained at WP:TITLE, as does choosing names that are only as precise as necessary.  Oodnadatta is the normal, common and natural name for this topic, not Oodnadatta, South Australia.  Providing additional descriptive information in a title, like ", South Australia", is not something normally done in WP article titles, unless it is necessary for disambiguation, which in this clearly unique case, it is not.  --Born2cycle (talk) 04:36, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Oodnadatta is not ambiguous. Melburnian (talk) 09:36, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 17:13, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Discussion

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proposed merge from Angle Pole
I have proposed a merge from Angle Pole into Oodnadatta. Angle Pole appears to have been a landmark on the telegraph line, used as a point of reference in the desert to build the railway towards. When the railway was actually built, a town was surveyed and named Oodnadatta. Angle Pole is not a gazetted LOCB (bounded locality), nor the name of a historic pastoral property which are the usual criteria for naming articles. --Scott Davis Talk 04:34, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Makes sense to me. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 12:26, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * ✅ Merge completed. --Scott Davis Talk 22:15, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Oodnadatta
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Oodnadatta's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Stuart": From Lyndhurst, South Australia:  From Far North (South Australia):  From Quorn, South Australia:  From Parachilna, South Australia:  From Innamincka, South Australia:  

Reference named "FN": From Lyndhurst, South Australia:  <li>From Woomera, South Australia: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 08:36, 31 August 2022 (UTC)