Talk:Townsville/Archive 1

POPULATION

 * The Australian Bureau of Statistics online statistics suggest that the combined population for Townsville-Thuringowa was 134,073 (88,492 and 45,581 respectively) at the 2001 census. The rate of growth wouldn't suggest the 155,000 figure in this article. Is anybody able to verify? I suggest changing the population stats on this website. Adz 7 July 2005 11:20 (UTC)

Last week the Townsville Bulletin said the population had reached 160,000. Sorry but I can't cite the date. 144.139.175.159 22:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC) PS and that is in fact more than Cairns... 144.139.175.159 22:31, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I find it humourous that Townsville refers to itself as "Australia's Largest Tropical City" Townsville City has fewer residents than Cairns, and I think is having trouble coming to terms with the fact that while Cairns has developed in the last 25 years, sleepy ol' Townsville still hasn't discovered the 21st century. This is an observation from a Brisbane resident, who lived near Townsville recently for 3 years. They even have a casino that's not open 24 hours!


 * A casino not open 24 hours? Cairns is a bustling tourist city with the busiest airport in Australia outside of a state capital.  Think of all the international and domestic tourists, not to mention seasonal workers.  Have you not considered that you cannot count tourist population as a part of the cities' population?  As a resident of neither city, I too am on neutral ground.    Eno1 09:21, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Townsville isn't exactly tourist central, being shunned away by many tourists in favour for Cairns, but however, being the prominent Business and Government centre for North Queensland, Townsville HAS and always will have a population larger than Cairns, this coming from a resident who has lived in Townsville for his entire life


 * Townsville City Council LGA is 100'772, so yes, Cairns is bigger, but as an Urban area consisting of more than 1 LGA, both Townsville and Thuringowa have a combined population of 161'003, according to the Bureau of Statistics, not to also mention the fact that both Cairns, Townsville and Thuringowa LGA's also occupy areas outside of the Urban areas, i.e Babinda is infact a suburb of Cairns and a Town in its own right.

Gertzy

Sports and Rec
could somebody who lives in or is familiar with Townsville provide info on sports stadiums in the city? Where do the Crocodiles and the Cowboys play? where are these stadiums located? (capacity might be asking a bit much, but it would be informative) Are there and other significant sports and rec venues in the city? - just a few suggestions that might make this section more complete Adz 00:30, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

If you're just looking for information try [austadiums.com]. Eno1 09:25, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Redirection of this page
This page should not have been moved without consultation. We have established a naming convention for all Australian places by concensus discussion on the Australian Wkipeidan's Noticeboard. While there is only one Wagga Wagga, many Australian place names are not unique. For the sake of simplifying disambiguation, all Australian places, other than State capitals with unique place names (ie not including Perth), are automatically disambiguated, including Townsville. The rationale that "This is the largest and most well-known Townsville - far more so than the American or Powerpuff Girls counterparts" is not sufficient reason to override the Australian Wikeipedia place naming convention. Please see the current discussion at WP:AWNB.--AYArktos 22:21, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Population and Sport and Rec
Hello, My name is Gertzy and I'm from Townsville. I'd like to say that the population figure on the article is pretty much correct and I don't know where you got that 134'000 figure from because population at the 2001 census, it was 145 000 (88'000 TSV, 55'000 THU) and It was Estimated last year that Townsville's population was at 151'000, and estimated this year at 155'000. With Sport and Rec, I'm currently looking around for some good pictures of Dairy Farmers Stadium, And the Townsville entertainment centre, so you'll probably see some info soon, so not to worry.

History
The history section here is fairly scant. I am from Townsville originally (though not a historian by any means) and I know there is more to it than this. I am happy to try to fill in the blanks unless there is someone who feels more confident doing so.

Jason a w 12:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Go for it! Be bold. If you're unsure about facts then it would be better to discuss them here and research them before including them in the article, but don't be hesitant about writing. Its better to have some information rather than no information, and if what you write can be improved, somebody will come along and improve it later. -- Adz|talk 02:01, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

vandalism
G'day, I'm not i reugalr Wiki-editor, but I couldn't help but notice someone had put "or city or rocks and dirt, as many Cairns residents know it" at the very start of the article. Hardly seems appropreate. if they really feel they "have" to state this (which is unconfirmed anyway) then surely there is a better way to do it. The fact they added it to they very first line of the artle suggested it was indeed vandalism.


 * Don't worry about it, Just some Cairns punk who thinks he's so good, making fun of a more larger, economically rich city than his, hey, if the tourism market died off, where will Cairns be, pretty much driving itself to the grave. Gertzy 24th August 2006.

Palm Creek Folk Festival
If held in Giru what does this have to do with Townsville? Put it on the Giru page. Thortful 12:38, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Townsville, vs Townsville and Thurringowa
I have reverted recent edits which replaced many references to 'Townsville' with references to 'Townsville and Thuringowa', or simply Thuringowa. While the settlement of Townsville consists of two local government areas (LGAs), is is still one urban entity, and is commonly recognised as such. Furthermore, unlike some 'twin cities', such as Albury-Wodonga (or St Paul-Minneapolis), it doesn't have two distict central cores. Instread, it has one central business district, surrounded by urban development. The fact that there are two Local Governemnt Areas does not mean that the article should refer to the city as a whole as two separate entities. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and other cities have multiple LGAs, but the articles refer to the greater urban settlement as a whole rather than refering to the individual constituent bits. The article about Sydney does not list "Sydney, North Sydney, South Sydney, Marrickville, Rockdale, Randwick, Burwood, Bankstown, Canada Bay, Paramatta..... whenever it mentions the city as a whole. In the same way, the Townsville article does not need to mention Townsville and Thurringowa every time it means to say "the urban settlement that is Townsville (which consists of the City of Townsville and bits of Turingowa". If the same logic which seems to apply here were applied to the Sydney article, the article would have to be re-written to say that Telstra Stadium is not in Sydney, that Sydney Airport isn't in Sydney but in the City of Botany Bay, and that the University of New South Wales isn't in Sydney but in Randwick. To say that none of these things are in Sydney is of course absurd. The same is true for Townsville. Sydney is a large urban settlement, which consists of several local government areas (as does Townsville, only that it consists of two). If people feel strongly about there being a separate article to deal with the Townsville local government area, then perhers they should expand Townsville City Council. -- Adz|talk 09:03, 29 August 2006 (UTC)


 * One difference is the Townsville Ring Road article as there are many other Ring Roads in the world that are reffered to as just The Ring Road. The Project was originally called the Townsville Ring Road, and to me, ring road sounds like a bunch of council workers hitched a sign up and gave no imagination what so ever in the name, Instead of Bypass, Orbital Motorway etc. Gertzy 8 October 2006.

The following conversation relates to edit as of 12:02, 11 November 2006 to edit as of 21:44, 21 November 2006


 * Thuringowacityrep|talk, please state case for removing parts of 3.1 Townsville/Thuringowa, ie. proof to the contrary to what is stated. Would also like to know others' opinions on this issue.  My main point is that only people in Thuringowa refer to Thuringowa to any significant extent, people outside of North Queensland would never refer to Thuringowa just like people outside of the City of Botany Bay would never refer to the Sydney Airport as being in Botany Bay as User:Adz refers to above.  In fact it's my experience that even people in Townsville would never refer to Thuringowa unless they are referring to something to do with local governance, they refer to Townsville/Thuringowa as Townsville and only use 'twin cities' when they are being politically correct towards Thuringowa Council. This isn't to belittle Thuringowa as a contemporary City Council, it's a good Council! But in the urban conglomerate that makes up the ' city ' under discussion it is only 5 suburbs out of 37 -- WikiTownsvillian 20:20, 20 November 2006 (AEST)

Townsville and Thuringowa -- Yes what you say is fair but all I have edited is the information that is incorrect...like saying that Thuringowa is a politically motivated, artificially created, city Thuringowa is NOT artificially created at all Thuringowa was here back in 1846 and used to surround the very small Townsville city. Thuringowa does join up with Townsville but in not part of it in fact back in 1881 Thuringowa had toll gates at the north and south entrances to Townsville, Thuringowa has had it's own voting system from about 1920 and the first aerodrome was built in Thuringowa (where the Murray sporting stadium is now) to serve both Townsville and Thuringowa. if the government didn't give most of Thuringowa's land to Townsville, Townsville would still only be a small area around the base of Castle Hill. so when I make a small edit I do have the facts correct, I did add Thuringowa to the population because without Thuringowa...Townsville would only have about 103000 people and by having it the way it is now (Townsville 16000) it is incorrect and misleading if you go to the Thuringowa page you will see that it only says 63000 ...im sure if I changed it to 163000 it would get changed back. Townsville is a great city but it needs to stop taking all the credit for the work that Thuringowa has done. Thuringowa is one city and Townsville is one city it's not hard to see that, put it this way when you go from suburb to suburb people don't have a problem saying that this place is in North Ward and this one is in Cluden so why is it so hard to say that this is Thuringowa city and if you go over there it is Townsville city......please if you want to talk more about this im here....and if you want more proof I can scan or email official papers that prove all that I have said

Thuringowa and Townsville -- Thuringowa has a lot more than 5 suburbs mate this just proves why i need to edit the errors Thuringowa has 20 and i think you will find that Townsville have a few more than 34 Townsville goes all the way out to Reid River (Flinders Hwy towards Chartes Towers)

proof about Thuringowa

the population of Townsville is 103003 apx the population of Thuringowa is 63000 apx that makes the population of Townsville (including Thuringowa) like I had 163003 during WW2 Thuringowa had numerous camps,airstrips etc the US Ordnance Depot was at Leichhardt creek and had 10 square miles of roads, and many 1000's of US military personnel were based in Thuringowa and also built airstrips at Woodstock, Giru, Antill Plains well as the upper Ross,Bohle and Reid River and there were also radars set up at Paluma and Alligator Creek. Thuringowa also had Army hospitals built at Black River and Majors Creek (all these places were in Thuringowa at this time) Between the 2 world wars Thuringowa unwillingly surrendered most of it's land to areas of Townsville (that why I said forced) Thuringowa build the road and bridges on Charters Towers Road. shopping centres in Townsville I see now reads Townsville and Thuringowa this is correct if left how it was before it was misleading...because the willows,Sunland Plaza, Parkside Plaza and Centro Woodlands are in Thuringowa city. the Townsville Ring Road is not called that it is the Ring Road and that is what is on the sign as you go on to it from both Townsville and Thuringowa so I was correct to change that. and lastly I change the "Depending on the attendance of this match Townsville may host super 14 matches" because the stadium is in Thuringowa city and the Stadium's own website states that it is in Thuringowa not Townsville so that is why I changed it to Thuringowa may host but if you like I will settle for "the twin cities". I hope that this will answer you questions I have in now way put any incorrect information in any edit I have made and I also get the information from the Thuringowa or Townsville city mayor's before adding anything.


 * There are two issues here – firstly - continually referring to Townsville as Townsville City and Thuringowa City and secondly - the references to Thuringowa City Council being politically motivated entity.


 * 1. There is much discussion on the first point above, suffice to say I feel that Thuringowa (as a city council) representing some suburbs of the conglomerate of Townsville does not warrant continual referencing within the article because it is an article about Townsville as a whole it’s not substantive which population or shopping centre lies within which council boundary.


 * To address your references to Suburbs, yes Thuringowa has 24 Suburbs however only five of them are connected to the rest of the conglomerate and by connected I mean you cross from one side to the other of a very busy Bamford Lane to get from Cranbrook to Kirwan. The point is Townsville is Townsville, it’s the city, where the borders lie between different Councils is hardly here nor there, what does it matter? it’s just politics.  Kelso, North Ward, Garbutt and Condon are all identified as suburbs of the Townsville conglomerate.  Alligator Creek, Bluewater (Tvl City Council), Mount Low and Bushland Beach (Thur City Council) are all satellites to Townsville.  I wonder how much of the 60 000 population of Thuringowa City is actually in suburbs of the conglomerate and how much are in satellites? Perhaps the population should be lowered if there is a reliable source as to how much of the population is actually including within the city, although I suspect that all city populations in Australia include satellites.


 * I don’t have a problem with Identifying Townsville and Thuringowa as Cities just like North Ward is considered a suburb, but we don’t break down each suburb’s population contribution to this article, or indeed references to features of a suburb (ie The Strand is not identified as being within the suburb of North Ward nor the City of Townsville, why would it in the context of this article? It doesn’t contribute anything to the article) I note that the Townsville City Council article does have about 100 000 as its population and rightfully so because the context of that article is limited to the Council boundaries, if people browsing are interested in the population breakdown they will go to the city council entries.


 * There’s nothing wrong with Thuringowa it’s a fine Council, but that’s what it is, a City Council. ‘Townsville’ is the title given to the broader city (which wouldn’t really include Alligator Creek or Mount Low).  In the context of the urban conglomerate Thuringowa is only referred to when local governments are involved.


 * I wouldn’t dispute that Thuringowa exists and has existed as a Council (shire and city) for probably as long as Townsville, but so had the Pioneer Shire and Mulgrave Shire (as nearest north and south comparisons). I totally see your historical point about Thuringowa seeding land to Townsville, but doesn’t that demonstrate even more clearly that ‘Townsville’ has historically (not just contemporarily) been considered the ‘city’ whereas ‘Thuringowa’ refers to the surrounding area? Which brings me to the second point.


 * 2. When talking about Bjelke-Petersen and Bjeckemander I am only using my own knowledge generated from ‘local’ word of mouth, I have never done any specific research on this topic and would be very interested to see any, either contradicting or confirming my statements. There are at least four Queensland examples of where City Councils and the surrounding Shires were amalgamated; Cairns/Mulgrave, Mackay/Pioneer, Gold Coast/Albert, and Ipswich/Moreton.  So what’s different about Tvl/Thur?  and why did the Dept of Local Government stop Townsville City’s historical encroachment into Thuringowa Shire territory?


 * The Government of the time had three options; amalgamate the two Councils into one like the four above examples, continue the historical encroachment of urban (City Council) into rural (Shire Council) land and keep one representing the urban and the other rural or thirdly turn Thuringowa Shire into Thuringowa City, thus giving it all the fixes that come with having a City, including the Mayoral robes (and salary) in a National Party heartland.


 * I’m very happy for anybody to demonstrate to me the contrary (that it wasn't done on political grounds) but until that happens, from what I've been told, I’m very sure it’s true and that the sole purpose of the transformation of Thuringowa Shire to a City Council was political along with a hell of a lot of other shifty and down right corrupt business that we all now know went on in Queensland politics in the 70s and 80s. I look forward to your response -- WikiTownsvillian 00:20, 21 November 2006 (AEST)

you need help....Thuringowa is NOT Townsville

ok with the first issue that ONLY you seem to have because if you look back at past edits you are the one that removed the (including Thuringowa) Thuringowa has all it's own suburbs as does Townsville and the only thing I want to reference is the 160'000 people that you say Townsville has, it is known to the Government in Brisbane that Townsville has about 103'000 and the city of Thuringowa has about 63'000 people, so if you let me put the "including Thuringowa" back (like it has been for the past year or so) then this article would be correct. you say only 5 suburbs of Thuringowa are connected to the rest of the conglomerate ...what a load of crap...now you are going to far...you don't have a clue about what you are talking about, Alligator Creek is in Townsville like you said but you also have Bluewater as Townsville well Bluewater is in Thuringowa city and has nothing to do with Townsville and is NOT a satellite to Townsville, Rocky Springs will be a Satellite to Townsville. I have made contact with the people that do the censes and have been told the apx population of Thuringowa city is 63200 and Townsville city is apx 103352 this is unofficial due to censes privacy rules. and again in your next paragraph you go on to say that we don't break down each suburbs population and I have never made any changes like that I made the change to show that to total population of Townsville is apx 166'000 (including Thuringowa) that's all never said anything about suburbs. and again you say that the Townsville city council website even says that Townsville has around 100'000 people so why should this article mislead people by saying 160'000+. your right Thuringowa is a fine council and you are correct it is a city Council for the city of Thuringowa and you are also right Townsville is the name given to the boarder city and Thuringowa is the city north of Townsville. like you say Townsville has historically been considered the "city" but at the time the land was given to Townsville the government looked at the population of Thuringowa and found that the most built up area was the Kirwan area so the government gave most of the southern land to Townsville, if both Townsville and Thuringowa didn't grow so big there would have been a gap between the to cities much like Ayr and Brandon..there is only a 5km gap between the 2 towns and im sure one day as they grow they may share a boundary.

now your next point after speaking to both Townsville and Thuringowa city reps I have been given the answer but im sure you won't believe it....other cities and shires have amalgamated but Townsville never did with Thuringowa because the government had proof that Thuringowa showed rapid growth at the time and as you can see Thuringowa still has rapid growth and becoming a city had nothing to do the "word of mouth" that you go on with. to me is seems you don't like the Nats but that has nothing to do with running down a city, people could say that about Townsville for taking all the best land off Thuringowa...what's to say that wasn't done to raise votes....

now ....you go on about Thuringowa only being referred to when government is involved .....funny how the Sun newspaper says serving Townsville and Thuringowa on the front page and how when a concert is on here it says Thuringowa will host etc, if you go to the Dairy Farmers Stadium website it tell you on the main page that it is in Thuringowa city...same with the Willows Golf Course and in the news it will say residents of Thuringowa or Thuringowa city and yes it does also get called the Twin cities,it's just people like you that won't come to terms that Thuringowa is one city and Townsville is another and it's just unlucky that the two have met in the middle.

so next time I make the small change's leave it alone, we have not had any problems like this until you came on the seen and changed everything to suit you even if it is incorrect I have the proof, I have lived in Thuringowa all my life, my great grandparents and their parents all lived in Thuringowa, I have made contact with city mayors and with the Queensland government and everything I have said is correct

I hope this answers your problems


 * Hi ::Thuringowacityrep|talk thanks for the post, but I’d ask you not to personalise this; to answer your accusations of my bias – I’ve got no problem with Nats as a political organisation, however corruption should not be covered up no matter what party it originates from.  It is an important part of North Queensland’s history which should not be forgotten.  However…


 * I would be willing for us to remove the edits referring to Thuringowa becoming a city although I do think its an important part of Townsville’s history. I will not accept that Townsville and Thuringowa have conurbated, as this is simply obviously not true. ‘Thuringowa’ was always a LGA, it was only declared a city in the 80s so how could it have expanded into Townsville? Bamford Lane was there in the 80s.


 * It’s not actually just me, I’ve just been the one who has been monitoring this page, the original post on this topic was by Adz three months ago and it has sat in this section undisputed by Wikipedians since.


 * Your amassed ‘evidence’ seems to be bias (political) and irrelevant. The two councils and particularly their Mayors are completely bias, in fact they are the people with the most bias on this topic because they are coming from a LGA perspective.  And when speaking to State Government you will be given statistics about the Townsville and Thuringowa LGAs, which are not the topic of this article except in the intro, history and governance sections.  You keep talking about facts about Thuringowa LGA, but I’m not disputing that Thuringowa is an LGA and should have its own article, I’m disputing that continual references to it add anything to an article about the conglomerate of Townsville.  To cool this debate down I will also allow the extra reference to Thuringowa with regards to the population in the intro section, although I would like to hear other Wikipedians’ views on this topic.


 * And in answer your examples of The Sun Community Newspaper, Dairy Farmers Stadium and a golf course, there are just as many and I would argue many more examples of the opposite, for example the Townsville Bulletin which services the whole of NQ, Townsville Enterprise whose main purpose is to support the economy of the greater city (including Thuringowa) and any map of Queensland and/or Australia you look at would refer to Townsville and make no reference to Thuringowa.


 * In answer to the reason stated why they were not amalgamated (because Thuringowa was growing fast) I would use Pioneer Shire to the south as an example of why this is not true. Until the amalgamation the whole of North Mackay was included within Pioneer’s boundaries, at the time North Mackay was as big if not bigger than Mackay and the State Government actually forced through an amalgamation against the Council’s will.  I would suggest that research papers or even newspaper articles would be a more reliable source than the Council Mayors who have a huge vested interest in re-writing history.


 * Regarding not including suburbs population I was responding to your comment:


 * ‘Thuringowa is one city and Townsville is one city it's not hard to see that, put it this way when you go from suburb to suburb people don't have a problem saying that this place is in North Ward and this one is in Cluden so why is it so hard to say that this is Thuringowa city and if you go over there it is Townsville city’


 * So you see all I was saying is that in Townsville there are more than 1 LGAs just like there are multiple suburbs, this doesn’t say anything about whether the whole thing is a city or not. Alligator Creek is part of the Townsville LGA but if someone was identifying it they wouldn’t say it was ‘in’ Townsville (as in within Townsville City Council boarders) they would say it is south of Townsville (as in south of the conglomerate commonly referred to as Townsville). eg. Billabong Sanctuary WikiTownsvillian 20:40, 21 November 2006 (AEST)

hi again ok im sorry about the personal attack ...thank you I will make a few small changes later and again if you are not happy with what I have done let me know, you are correct to say Banford lane was there in the 80's and back then Banford lane (like it is now) is in Thuringowa this used to be the access lane to the Banford Family dairy Farm and I don't recall saying that Thuringowa expanded into Townsville I did say that Townsville expanded into what was once Thuringowa. as for the mayors both have told me the same thing so I find it hard for the both mayors and other government big shots in Brisbane to have the same story. Thuringowa is on maps I have 2 here with me that have Thuringowa on it and I have been told that PDC is updating the mapping system sometime next year and will be adding Thuringowa to the maps in reply to this answer "North Mackay was as big if not bigger than Mackay and the State Government actually forced through an amalgamation against the Council’s will." this is what happened to Thuringowa's land we were forced to give up the land to Townsville and we came back fighting after losing 70% of the population to Townsville, that is what helped make the decision to name it a city because it grew from around 1'500 to 32'000 just before it became a city. again I will make a few small changes soon and please if you are not happy let me know thank you


 * I have no significant problem with that edit, pleasure doing business with you... although I can't vouch for others who may disagree. I would encourage you to continue to log in, as apposed to editing anonymously (with your IP address) so that you have full access to the features of Wikipedia and you don't arouse automatic suspicion among editors monitoring articles for vandalism. WikiTownsvillian 22:00, 21 November 2006 (AEST)

Hmmm, interesting... what i am of upmost concern at is, most of the contributors of this page have made the effort to make the references to Thuringowa, despite the fact that this page is about Townsville. If you really want to make a difference for Thuringowa, why not perhaps edit more often in the Thuringowa Page (Thuringowa, Queensland). -- Gertzy 19:57, 25th November 2006 (AEST)


 * Couldn't agree more! only compromised to end the dispute... WikiTownsvillian 10:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Well you are the one's that keep saying that Thuringowa is Townsville ....for gods sake get a life

Have a good life, but thanks for your concern! Please refrain from personal attacks, and please don't bother editing on Wikipedia if you're not going to comply with its policies, otherwise your edits will be reverted. WikiTownsvillian 12:06, 26 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I mean, we have said time and time again is that this article is reffering to both Townsville and Thuringowa as a single Urban entity. All other articles on Australian cities reffer to the communities as a single entity, like for example people who walk through the Pine Rivers Shire, would probably more than likely say that they're in Brisbane!!! Same thing applies here, people from Sydney aren't gonna call Thuringowa, Thuringowa, but more likely Townsville. Same example goes for population, the articles on Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne have the populations set up as metropolitian areas, or again, as a single Urban entity, it doesn't say MEL - 500'000, Tulla - 500'000, St Kilda - 500'000 etc, but instead MEL - 3'500'000. -- Gertzy 09:08, 27th Novemeber 2006 (UTC)

this is where you are wrong a lot of people in Sydney know where Thuringowa is, as do people in Brizzy and even the ACT just the other day i see that the Telstra website had that the NextG Roadshow is being held at the Riverway in Thuringowa city ....

further disambiguation of Townsville
Matt ke|talk makes an interesting point in Talk:Bruce Highway:

'First of all, I take Townsville as the metropolitan area, and it consists of 2 City Councils, which is Townsville City and Thuringowa City.'

The ABS considers any division or district with more than 100 000 people as metropolitan so I think this supports Matt's stated opinion being factual (List of cities in Australia by population).

I would like to hear people's views about creating a further disambiguation of Townsville to create the articles; Townsville (City), Queensland and Townsville (Metro), Queensland with Townsville redirecting to Townsville (Metro), Queensland as the most common interpretation of what the word refers to. I would not suggest doing this until we've given a couple of weeks or perhaps longer to give people a chance to articulate their views on this change. I look forward to reading your thoughts. WikiTownsvillian 02:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah that sounds like a pretty good idea, Category wise, i have the existing Townsville/Thuringowa Category that can be used to help create the disambiguation and Metro articles. Gertzy 10:01, 4th December 2006 (UTC)

I know its been mentioned a million times but i still fail to see why people are changing it to Townsville and Thuringowa. Thuringowa is NOT a separate city it is merely the suburban overflow of Townsville hence why has no real core. I know Sydney, Melbourne etc have multiple LGA's, this is merely because of their size, coincidently Townsville is only big enough to have two LGA's this does NOT mean it is two separate cites the city borders run through suburban streets, there is no distance between the cities. I can't wait until a third LGA is created so everyone can get over this Twin City business. 61.68.7.243 08:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

you are wrong mate ...Thuringowa was here before Townsville and if you look up some history about both Townsville and Thuringowa you will find the facts that prove that Thuringowa is NOT part of Townsville yes the border runs thought suburbs ...so what.....in the US it is like that but no problems there... if the government never made Thuringowa give there land to Townsville this whole area would be Thuringowa and Townsville would be a little pimple on Thuringowa land, so please don't let your POV get in the way of the Facts —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thuringowacityrep (talk • contribs) 19:54, 10 December 2006


 * I think it is plainly obvious, even just from the username, that User:Thuringowacityrep has a obvious potential for bias before an edit had been made (see WP:AUTO). These past few weeks of edits have only proven it.  You don't see articles about other cities list the individual LGAs that make up the area at every single opportunity - Townsville shouldn't be any different.  The suggestions above about Townsville (City), Queensland and Townsville (Metro), Queensland don't make sense - Townsville, Queensland and Townsville City Council are perfectly appropriate and follow the same naming conventions as every other city and LGA in the country.   Thuringowacityrep needs to understand that the edits are inappropriate, and if he/she cannot do that then further action may need to be taken. -- Chuq 11:42, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

hey CHUQ... you just worry about Tassi and let me worry about Townsville and Thuringowa like I have said lots of times now I only add facts not POV im not sure who started this LGA rubbish but im am looking into it but Thuringowa is one city that is unlucky enough to share the border with Townsville I am not bias in any way (that's your POV) you will also find that it is the people that are from out of town (down south) or Townsville that have a problem I don't know of any Thuringowa residents that are un happy with the FACTS I have added. like I have said before I have never had any problems in all my years on this site until someone with the name starting with A caused all this crap. thank you. Thuringowacityrep 22:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not denying that Thuringowa is a city and Townsville is a city - the same as in Tasmania, Glenorchy, Hobart, and Clarence are all cities, but when someone says "Hobart" they almost always mean the greater urban area, (not the Hobart City Council or City of Hobart). A comparison:
 * Bellerive Oval is in the City of Clarence, part of the greater Hobart area.
 * (Compare "Bellerive Oval" "Clarence" on Google (621) to "Bellerive Oval" "Hobart" on Google (41000))
 * Dairy Farmers Stadium is in the City of Thuringowa, part of the greater Townsville area.
 * (Compare "Dairy Farmers Stadium" "Thuringowa" on Google (639) to "Dairy Farmers Stadium" "Townsville" on Google (23200))
 * Yes, it is factual that Thuringowa is a city, and the Bruce Highway passes through it, but it is not always appropriate to add it. For example, Queensland statewide weather forecasts do not show separate forecasts for Townsville and Thuringowa - that is not an attempt to relegate or oppress Thuringowa residents, it is just not practical.
 * And the most important part: please read Wikipedia's policy on autobiographical articles. -- Chuq 02:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

thank you for your reply, the reason the Stadium gets more hits as Townsville is because of people that say it is in Townsville due to there lack of knowledge, I have spoken to people in Sydney and they knew that the stadium was in Thuringowa but there was a few that said it was in Townsville and once I showed them a map they seen that it is in fact in Thuringowa, but the media from southern areas say it is Townsville due to some people not knowing where Thuringowa is, again due to people calling it Townsville...a bit like what you have said about Bellerive Oval, yes if I asked where it is a lot of people will say Hobart and if I asked where is the city of Clarence, again a lot of people will say near or in Hobart but up here if you ask anyone from outside the area where Thuringowa is they will say "never heard of it" or "isn't that suburb of Townsville" and a few will say "oh that's the city next to Townsville". people don't know that Thuringowa is a city and not a suburb and if by me placing a few true facts about Thuringowa is wrong then so is saying that Townsville has 164000 people. and if I was to go on the Thuringowa page and say that the population of Thuringowa is 164000 or that the Strand is a part of Thuringowa I bet it would get changed back fast, the fact is that Thuringowa was here back in 1860 five years before Townsville and Townsville was only this tiny bit of land around Castle Hill in 1865, it was the governments idea to give what was Thuringowa's land to Townsville so if this had never happened Thuringowa might have been the big city that everyone knows....now as for why the Queensland state-wide weather forecasts do not show separate forecasts for Townsville and Thuringowa is because Thuringowa doesn't have it's own weather station, that's all no other reason, but Thuringowa is getting it's own now and will be up and running by early next year...so that will change and Thuringowa will get on some weather maps, it pays to find out the facts....also if you go to http://www.bom.gov.au/hydro/flood/qld/qld_tvl.shtml it shows both Townsville and Thuringowa's rainfall chart (just used this to show that Thuringowa is on some Weather map info) sorry if I have upset anyone but I will say it again I only ever add the FACTS and I have cut back on where I add Thuringowa or Townsville, im only to keep this info correct look forward to yours and others reply  Thuringowacityrep 09:52, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

If we were to classify each LGA a city then Brisbane would be the biggest city in Australia, you said yourself it doesnt matter if the borders run through suburbs. Penrith and Parramtta would be bigger then Sydney? huh not right it doesnt take an idiot to work out that those LGA's would not be as big as they were if it wasnt for Sydney, despite the fact Thuringowa was there first you know it would not have the population it does now if it wasnt for Townsville. Willows the so called CBD which bears a striking resemblance to any suburban commercial center like Hyde Park or Aitkenvale was just farms up until Townsville spread out to it. I guarantee you if Townsville didn't exist it would still be a shire full of farms. So don't go around saying its a self sustaining city it feeds off townsville. 61.68.40.64 11:37, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

yep ok whatever that's your POV and I don't want to get into another bitch fight about this matter I know the facts as do many other people, but I will add one thing you said that the Willows is like Aitkenvale or Hyde park I don't see a movie theatre, Council chambers, etc in those suburbs of Townsville like there is at the Willows it is common knowledge that the Willows is the business centre of Thuringowa...plus did you know that Aitkenvale and Hyde park used to be farms in Thuringowa until Townsville was given the land?....100 years ago the whole bloody area was farms so your point has nothing to do with this, look up some history on both Townsville and Thuringowa... I'll leave it there thanks for your comments Thuringowacityrep 00:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Arbitrary section break
Well this discussion about further disambiguation of Townsville was hijacked a little by the previous debate, which the proposed disambiguation is meant to help resolve. I take Chuq's point that my proposed layout does not conform to Wikipedia Australia naming conventions, however I do not think that Townsville City Council adequately covers the LGA side of things. To my mind Townsville City Council is the Local Government Authority and what I was proposing was to create a separate article for the Local Government Area (which is governed by the Local Government Authority) they both relate to the same body of land but they are not the same thing. I propose we create a new article called City of Townsville which would relate to the Local Government Area with a population of about 100K, which is governed by the Townsville City Council, Qld Gov and Fed Gov. This proposal would compliment the newly created City of Thuringowa page while distinguishing the Local Government Area of Townsville from the broader urban centre of the same name which is the topic of the Townsville, Queensland article.

My ideal would be to have:
 * North Queensland - not yet in existence as a separate article but probably should be considering Far North Queensland, South East Queensland and Central Queensland are.
 * Townsville, Queensland - about the broader city of some 140K people.
 * City of Thuringowa - as it is now
 * Thuringowa City Council - about the Council itself, although this article was removed by Orderinchaos78 on 15 December so would like to get that user's view.
 * City of Townsville - conforming with the Local Government Area Wikipedia conventions
 * Townsville City Council - as it is now, about the Council itself.

Hopefully this solution will resolve some of the problems we've been having in that it recognises the distinction between the two Local Government Areas that Thuringowacityrep so enthusiastically advocates and gives opportunity for those distinctions to be articulated at the LGA level, but also recognises that {(Greater) Townsville or Townsville/Thuringowa} as a city of 140K exists and is commonly recognised as a major city or urban centre in North Queensland and allows for further expansion and improvement of the Townsville, Queensland page without the constant diversion into the same old arguments.

Here's hoping that the spirit of the season will ease tensions :) WikiTownsvillian 10:07, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

mate you might find this a bit odd but i think your idea is a great one, at this stage i'm all for it ...... Thuringowacityrep 10:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I have no objection to recreating Thuringowa City Council for the body responsible for the Thuringowa LGA, which would require some information to be shifted from City of Thuringowa. The only reason the article was blanked/redirected was duplication. From what I'm seeing above is something of a hierarchy:


 * Townsville, Queensland - providing an "overseas view" of the area, much as the capital city articles (Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane etc) do quite well. Low on detail, very high on context, focusing on attractions, descriptions etc
 * City articles - contain local history, facilities, key developments
 * Councils as the managers of the Cities, linked by from the City articles. This would focus on personnel and administration. The Townsville City Council article is an excellent illustration of what I mean here.


 * Orderinchaos78 11:10, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

While I generally agree with the idea of having separate articles for Townsville City and Thurringowa, I'm not sure that they need separate articles on the councils that govern the two municipalities. Instead, these could potentially be rolled into the articles about the municipalities (eg: City of Melbourne). I don't have a strong opinions about it BUT I do believe that it is important that the approach be consistent with that of other articles about Australian municipalities. Having had a look through several articles about municipalities (Category:Local Government Areas of Melbourne; Category:Local Government Areas of Sydney etc.), I get the impression that there aren't separate articles for the municipality and the council that governs it, but would be happy for this to be discussed further, possibly at WP:AWNB. In the meantime, I have no problems with the articles being created in the interim, as long as they're eventually brought into line with a consistent approach if one is agreed to. Having said all that, I do think that it is important that the Townsville article (as opposed to the City of Townsville article) deal with the collective urban settlement as a whole. Whether you look at the relationship as one on twin cities, conurbation, city-satellite city, or city and urban sprawl, the fact is that it is one large urban settlement and I think it should be dealt with as such. Hopefuly the above approach will allow this to happen. -- Adz|talk 07:09, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you all for your speedy replies, would still like to hear from Chuq and I think Gertzy has already indicated his support for the creation of a separate article for the City of Townsville. Adz makes a good point and I'd be happy for the Townsville City Council and Thuringowa City Council profiles to be within the same articles as their respective Local Government Areas.  I've had a bit of a look around and it probably does need standardising over the whole of Australia, for example most of the Queensland articles seem to have the LGAs under a Council title, however elsewhere it seems to mostly be City of... eg. Brisbane City Council, Gold Coast City Council, Logan City Council - see Local Government Areas of Queensland and eg City of Melville, City of Hobart, City of Playford, Municipality of Ashfield, Rural City of Wangaratta. Will bring it up at WP:AWNB as you suggest.  Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 07:47, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Have created a new stub for the article. City of Townsville WikiTownsvillian 10:44, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Naming for the LGA's has been a confusing - as outside of Wikipedia there isn't a clear preference for either City/Municipality of Xxx or Xxx City/Shire/Municipal Council. Generally, conventions vary between states within Wikipedia, simply because, again, outside of Wikipedia there isn't a clear standard.  Check at WikiProject Australian places if you aren't sure.  These articles usually include information about both the area (eg. towns/suburbs covered) and the council (eg. councillors, mayors) in the one article.
 * Of course, there may be scope for an article such as Townsville city centre as well, which would be an article about the "suburb" of the city centre which usually has the same name as the city.
 * There may be more - have a read of Talk:Hobart ! -- Chuq 12:24, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

As this discussion concerns LGAs across the country and not just this article, I've suggested at WP:AWNB and at Wikiproject-Australian places that this discussion continue at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian places. I hope everybody is okay with this. Cheers. -- Adz|talk 12:48, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Townsville CBD, Queensland exists as a suburb article, but having now read the suggested matterial by Chuq above I now think it should be moved/redirected to Townsville city centre, thoughts? WikiTownsvillian 10:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The Brisbane CND article is located at Brisbane central business district, Melbourne's is located at Melbourne city centre. Canberra's is loacated at City Centre, Australian Capital Territory as this is the official name of that suburb so it follows the suburb naing convention of Suburb, State. Sydney is in the same form as Brisbane while Adelaide is in the same form as Melbourne. If the Townsville CBD has an official name other than 'Townsville' then it should be located there. Otherwise, I'd follow either the Brisbane or Melbourne examples, using the local terminology if these is one. In either case, there should be redirects created from the alternative names. -- Adz|talk 00:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Summer cleaning
Hi, I've gone through most of the article (up to Sports) trying to clean it up a little, would really like to see a bit of work go into this article to get it up to a higher rating, it is currently at Start Class which is the lowest and that's not a good situation for this article to be in. WikiTownsvillian 05:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

One thing that we could probably get rid of in regards to cleaning is the Shopping Centre list, despite the fact that i put it there, it has no use (unless it is for shopping centres with articles) and therefore i'll get rid of it ASAP, though if there aren't any objections to it. -- Gertzy. 3oth December 2006, 17:30 (UTC).

I did the most basic clean up in Sports and Cultural section however I think those two sections need the biggest clean up and new content, those two sections (plus Demographics due to complete lack of content) let the side down a little. Also the Defence section although good in substance reads a little strangly and doesn't seem to fit, re-wording is needed I think. Great work on [The Strand, Queensland] Gertzy, it's not only the main article that needs improving of course! Happy New Year to you all (from Cairns)!!!!!!!! WikiTownsvillian 07:09, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

restructuring of article
After looking at the structure of the other city articles which are rated higher than this article I propose the following structural changes:
 * we move history to the top which seems to be the standard
 * we change 'Location and Setting' to become 'Geography' and make 'Climate' a subheading of Geography, it is also standard for 'Urban Structure' to be a sub-heading under Geography, this is explored a little bit in the last couple of paragraphs in the current 'Location and Setting' and I think it would not be too hard for us to find some more info on this.
 * we move 'Government' to the third position and change the name to 'Governance' which is the standard title in all but Melbourne.
 * we move Education below demographics and above Culture, yet again seems to be the standard
 * we move 'Media and Communications' and 'Sport and Recreation' to become subheadings in Culture, and remove the Shopping Centre list as suggested by Gertzy above and probably would be a good idea to remove the list of radio stations as well, for both the Shopping Centres and the Radio Stations we can create new list articles along the lines of the Suburbs of Townsville article
 * we create a new heading titled 'Infrastructure' which would include transport and possibly Defence. Other articles all uniformly have subheadings entitled 'health' and 'Utilities'
 * at this stage I would leave Defence as its own section. None of the other city articles seem to go into the cities' Defence component, however the Defence Force is obviously a significant feature of Townsville so I've got no issue with it being its own section.
 * we swap External Links and References, again seems to be standard order.

To simplify things here is the proposed changes in a table:

I will wait a couple of days for any suggestions/objections/comments. WikiTownsvillian 06:40, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Some very good suggestions WikiTownsvillian! Here are some of my thoughts:


 * a separate article about 'Media in Townsville' or 'Communications in Townsville' might be a better place to locate the list of radio stations. Alternatively 'Culture in Townsville' might be better but I've observed that culture articles struggle to get content. A communications article could be largely based on what you have in the main article, plus lists.
 * Defence is an important part of Townsville. I think it could stand on its own or go into either the the Infrastructure section as you suggest or the 'Economy' section. Perhaps look around at other city articles outside Aust where defence is important. Maybe 'Defence facilities' would be a more descriptive heading'.
 * I don't know which other articles you looked at, but I suspect that the 'Urban Structure' stemmed from the Canberra article which is the only featured city article in Aust and which other cities have followed in structure. I suspect that it arose from the fact that Canberra is a planned and intentionally structured city (I think I may have created the subcategory myself, and I actually think that it is a clumsy subheading, but haven't thought of a better one that is encyclopedic). Looking at some other featured city articles, subheadings include, 'neighbourhoods', 'cityscape', 'districts', or no subheading at all. Adelaide uses 'urban layout' which I think is a good heading. In any case, 'Geography' would obviously be a good place to describe the physical relationship between Townsville and Thuringowa (without going into the history and politics. That belongs elsewhere). The Urban structure subheading at Cairns has blown out a bit. I'd suggest keeping it brief, and if warranted, creating a separate Geography of Townsville and Thuringowa article.
 * Other than that, I think these are excellent suggestions. When writing the article, try to provide references for as many sections as you can as you go. It is very difficult (impossible) to get an article up to GA or FA standard without references. -- Adz|talk 11:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback Adz, I agree that Urban Layout is a good title. I used; Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Western Australia and Melbourne as contrasts as they are the only Australian cities with a GA or better rating.  As you suggested I will have a look around at FA Articles on cities outside of Aust.  Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 06:09, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Twinning/Sister city relationships
Hi. Any plans to mention the sister city relationship with Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan? Does Townsville have any other such relations? --RJCraig 12:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi RJCraig, please see City_of_Townsville. Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 03:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Population density and land area?
Hi, I just took a look at this document which shows the land area of ABS Townsville City Part A as 290.1km2 with population density of 343.9persons/km2 and ABS Thuringowa City Part A as 165.2km2 with population density of 326.1persons/km2. My understanding is that the subject matter of this article is the combination of these two statistical areas (the Townsville Statistical District) however these figures are extremely different to those currently in the article, does anyone know what I am missing? Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 05:58, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

hi i just had a look at the page you said and im not sure if my what i say will help but this is what i did and have found....Townsville pop is 103'404 (part A 99'751 + a part B 3653) land area is total 1869.6km (part A 290.1 + part B 1579.5) Thuringowa i have 61'655 (part A 53'880 + part B 7775) land area 1868.3 (part A 165.2 + part B 1703.1). so im lost as to where the numbers on the Townsville page came from as the other Townsville pages seem to be close to correct but this page is way out, the Thuringowa ones are only a bit out with land area at 1,866.9km² on the page but the ABS say 1868.3km².

What i would do is wait a few more weeks until all the info have been posted on the ABS website. sorry im not a big help but i will keep looking into it as i want to correct the Thuringowa page, so if i find any more info or sites i will let you know.Thuringowacityrep 07:40, 28 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Can we keep discussion about the LGA's to their own talk pages or the Wikiproject's talk page, my query is only in regards to the Townsville Statistical District which is Townsville Part A and Thuringowa Part A combined (the urban centre).


 * For clarification:


 * City of Thuringowa = Thuringowa Part A + Thuringowa Part B
 * City of Townsville = Townsville Part B + Townsville Part B
 * Townsville, Queensland = Townsville Part A + Thuringowa Part A


 * Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 10:22, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

OK FINE....SORRY Geez Thuringowacityrep 10:42, 28 February 2007 (UTC)


 * sorry TCR, didn't mean to cause offence, was just saying we should keep our conversations in the right place and not make this talk page even longer...WikiTownsvillian 10:50, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

All good, it's cool Thuringowacityrep 11:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Lol, i've been keeping things quiet for a while when it comes to wikipedia, and this is what i come back to, lol. I agree with TCR and just wait abit for the latest statistics to come out, as the 2006 census includes Kalynda Chase, Bushland Beach etc. - Gertzy 10:18, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

LGA edit
I thought this had long been resolved... City of Townsville is a LGA City of Thuringowa is a LGA Townsville, Queensland (also known as Townsville/Thuringowa) is a urban centre.

the word city can refer to either an LGA or an urban centre.

I'm really at a loss as to how to make this clearer TCR, if the word "Townsville" exclusively referred to the LGA then there would only be one article on it. WikiTownsvillian 05:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

What the hell is you problem now????? all I did was add the LGA link to the Townsville page and city to the Thuringowa page, what is the problem with that????? I know that Townsville and Thuringowa are each LGA's, you are making no sense at all and if you want to be smart about it (Townsville/Thuringowa) it is also know as the Twin cities, why must you start something all the time, I made a simple edit that I thought would be ok and it was until you see it and made the change.... and im sure im not the only one at a loss as to why you said this "if the word "Townsville" exclusively referred to the LGA then there would only be one article on it." I have made a lot of edits and all of them were fine or had some small changes made to them in the last few weeks but as soon as I do something on you perfect Townsville page im in the S*%T with you again. unreal Thuringowacityrep 07:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * My problem is your inability to conceptualise the subject matter of this article, I really don't know how to spell it out more simply for you, you are welcome to contribute to this page (which by the way I think is far from perfect), but calling the subject matter of this page an LGA is quite simply inaccurate and shows that even after all this time you still can't understand what the subject matter of this article is... WikiTownsvillian 07:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * OK but how is calling the subject matter of this page an LGA quite simply inaccurate as you say, when it is a LGA, see not making any sence, so yet again im sorry that i touched your page.Thuringowacityrep 07:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * In the forth paragraph it quite clearly says there are two LGA's in Townsville, Queensland; the City of Townsville (an LGA) and the City of Thuringowa (another LGA). Townsville, Queensland can not be a Local Government Area if it encompasses more than one Local Government Area... either you are playing dumb just to annoy me or you are the kind of person who epitomizes the negative stereotypes of the intelligence of people from Thuringowa. WikiTownsvillian 08:18, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * 'mate' you were part of the process which created and defined these articles... and yet you still don't understand them. WikiTownsvillian 08:47, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

wow once you start you don't stop....i may have been wrong to add the LGA to the Townsville page but you where WRONG to go on like you did at the start of this, all you needed to do was revert my edit and say that this page in on Townsville and not Townsville city (the LGA) but no not you....now if i was to go to the Thuringowa page and Remove the LGA and just leave City the page would be correct (am i right) because the page is about all of Thuringowa not just the urban area of Thuringowa, and stop running people down just because they live in Thuringowa OK that is not on.Thuringowacityrep 09:04, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * That would be fine if it was some random anonymous person, but you've been repeatedly making the same mistakes for months and months and meanwhile you've thrown constant abuse at me when I have to repeatedly explain your mistake to you because you never seem to be able to grasp this fairly simple concept. WikiTownsvillian 09:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * PS no that would not be correct as has been previously discussed many many times... I don't think your stupid, I think you're just acting stupid to piss me off, because no one could possibly not have a grasp of this very simple issue after the amount of discussion you've had about it both with me and many many other users.

Well that's good then, glad you think I have the time to worry about pissing you off...I'll admit im not the smartest person on here and im sorry about that, but I have had -- so sometimes I f%#k up, I have the medial condition known as -- have a read and you may understand. I thought I was doing the right thing on the Townsville page but I was wrong,I made a small mistake that I would have no probs with if you had been nice about it and left all the other crap out. I do my best on here and yes I do make so errors as does anybody that is human, I didn't think it was anyone's business to know my medical history, but seeing as you are so set on thinking that it was my way to piss you off I felt that I better tell you. I am truly sorry that I made the edit can we leave it there now.....please Thuringowacityrep 09:57, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Fair enough, I apologise for going too far. If there's anything I can do to make it up to you just ask.  WikiTownsvillian 12:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

OMG, I havent looked at this page for months, but its seems like this thuringowa city rep guy is still rattling on about how thuringowa is a separate city, i lived within the thuringowa city boudaries for 7 years so im not completly biased. I will always consider Thuringowa a suburb/region whatever within townsville definitly not its own city, it didi even get a city centre till the 80's when townsvilles suburban growth reached it, but whatever. all i know is that i will always consider it that way and so will everyone else its unwinnable battle buddy stop trying............ oh and go ahead and tell me its my "POV" but its everyone's elses aswell.

Im glad you haven't looked at this page for months... we missed you...NOT...you can consider Thuringowa what ever you want, that is you POV and yes maybe some other people think the same as you but it is NOT everyone like you think, and think about this you dont have 2 cities in one city you have 2 LGA's or more in 1 city and this means that Townsville city is 1 and Thuringowa city is another 1. Plus Townsville's growth NEVER reached Thuringowa, the Goverenment gave Thuringowa's land to Townsville. Kirwan has always been in Thuringowa as were most of the suburbs of Townsville. Im not trying to win anything so give up and stop coming on here stiring up shit OK. Thuringowacityrep 11:40, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

asia rooms link
Hi all, I would like to propose the inclusion of http://www.asiarooms.com/travel-guide/australia/townsville/index.html as an external link in this article.

The reason I am bringing this up for discussion is because this website seems to have quite a good quantity of general information about Townsville, in fact I haven't seen a website with such detailed general info before. For example it has a five paragraph description of the IMAX, which hasn't even been mentioned in this article, it has a pages for things like history of Townsville, Townsville City Council, tourism.

Now I very much acknowledge that the website is primarily there to sell hotel rooms and that it has a very touristy focus, however I think there is good info on this website that would not be available on the rest of the web, particularly not in such a convenient format.

It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, I have absolutely no connection to this website or the people who run it and only found out about it through a google alert for "Townsville City Council". Any thoughts? WikiTownsvillian 05:45, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Nice idea, don't get me wrong. However, what of the information is not already in the article which could be included? I reverted the addition of the link on WP:SPAM grounds, and the fact that wikipedia is not a directory of links. I don't think it's appropriate to have links from articles where the sole purpose of the site being linked to is for profit operation (obv. exceptions to this being links to official sites of the article subject). Thewinchester (talk) 14:34, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Townsville/Cairns Rivalry
Perhaps someone should write about the rivalry between Cairns and Townsville. It seems interesting enough on the discussion page but I’d like to know where it all started.

Townsville City, Queensland merge
This article "Townsville City, Queensland" has no clear independent justification - nor independent content. I suggest it be merged into the main Townsville article. ROxBo 11:38, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Townsville City is a suburb, this article is a urban centre, City of Townsville is a city, they are about different subjectm atters and while the Townsville City, Queensland has not been expanded a huge amount it already has more content than most of the other suburb articles. Cheers, WikiTownsvillian 11:54, 22 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the clarification, it was not immediately apparent how they were distinguishable. But clear now! ROxBo 07:24, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Alex Buzo's favourite town
I've just read that Alex Buzo considered (probably in jest) Townsville his favourite town. No doubt because of the tautological nature of the name. -- JackofOz 14:06, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Did you want to add it to the article? it doesn't seem notable... WikiTownsvillian 12:19, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Not really. I just thought it was amusing.  :)  --  JackofOz 05:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * :P WikiTownsvillian 06:08, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Intro
I appreciate there are many involved editors for this page so I thought I'd write here first. The intro seem a bit long and convuluted. Also the population info should be higher up in the paragraph IMHO. ROxBo 23:28, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Article Merged
"Notable persons born in Townsville, Queensland" merged into "Townsville, Queensland" See old talk-page here Jacob Rodecker (talk) 16:17, 27 November 2007 (UTC)


 * You have not explained why you merged the articles... the old talk-page you refer to does not demonstrate any consensus for a merge or even discuss it to any great extent, please explain. 10:03, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I'm a new user, and I didn't realize there had to be a consensus. I should have guessed though. Should I change it back? Jacob Rodecker (talk) 13:26, 28 November 2007 (UTC)


 * well for starters, why did you merge it in the first place? It doesn't seem significant/notable enough to be this article.  Wiki Townsvillian 08:30, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * PS not trying to bight your head off here, just looking for clarification. Wiki Townsvillian 08:31, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I saw the request on the “Community Portal” I suppose my initial thought was “Oh look! Something I can do that’s not very hard!” I also initially agreed with Tainter’s comment on the old talk page. Now that I look at other city pages I realize that none of them have a “Notable Persons” section. I’ve changed both pages back to their original form. My apologies once again, I’ll stick to reviving dead links for awhile. Jacob Rodecker (talk) 15:20, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Could you please provide a link to the community portal you refer to? Good on you for getting involved in community projects though!   Wiki Townsvillian 08:22, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

I saw it on the main Community Portal under "Help Out → Merge. The page has updated since then. "Notable Persons" is now in the backlog at "Category:Articles to be merged since January 2007" (See under N) Jacob Rodecker 13:24, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Well unfortunately no one ever updated the talk link on the old article. Regardless, I agree with the point.  The list isn't long enough to warrant its own article - and in addition to that, the "list" page wasn't even linked from this page.  So either the list should be merged in here (Which I did) or it is not notable enough to even keep.  --ShakataGaNai 22:07, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * A subject's notability to be a wikipedia article is not judged by it's current content, it is judged by its potential to become a full article (including list articles). You can't delete a stub just because it is a stub, otherwise articles would never get developed.  Cheers,  Wiki Townsvillian 01:14, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

The future of this page
Will this page be merged with Thuringowa, Queensland and City of Townsville after the LGA Amalgamations in March, 2008? I am interested in whether the pages will be merged or whether they will be kept. It wouldn't make much sense to keep them if the twin-cities no longer exist as the "twin-cities" and instead become just Townsville. I would suggest that Thuringowa, Queensland and City of Townsville are merged into a single page here (Townsville, Queensland) as that would seem to fit with the current Wikipedia Australian Naming Conventions for LGA's and the like...

kerrodhall —Preceding comment was added at 13:33, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I would suggest that the City of Townsville and City of Thuringowa articles be merged together, this merged article would be defined by the very large body of land which will be governed at the local government level by the new Townsville City Council. This article (Townsville, Queensland) should be updated and remain as a separate article as it is only defined to cover the urban centre known as Townsville which does not include the surrounding region. Cheers,  Wiki Townsvillian 03:39, 17 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I know you don't like what I have to say WikiTownsvillian but I will at least have a go (maybe other editors will listen) I feel that the Townsville, Queensland page should be renamed to Townsville CBD (seeing as this is what the page is all about) and then yes merge most of the info from the City of Thuringowa page into the city of Townsville page, but do remember that according to both Tony Mooney and Les Tyrell, Thuringowa as a city will be no more but as an area, will keep some of it's Thuringowa identity, somewhat like Rockysprings (this has been said publicly and in some emails I have) anyway ...I also feel that a page about Thuringowa should still be kept as to explain the history of the area and what happened to Thuringowa as a city, because it doesn't matter what you or I think....it is fact that Thuringowa is known to other parts of the world and people should be able to look up Thuringowa and still find some info about it. Thuringowacityrep (talk) 05:19, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Thuringowacityrep (talk) 05:36, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, these changes should not happen until after the election on March 15th, due to the fact that Thuringowa is still a city up until that day and it really depends on who the new mayor is as to how Thuringowa will be identified, eg region, community, satellite city etc. And yes i do now that it will become a part of Townsville.


 * It seems to me that there should be three articles:
 * City of Townsville, which would be about the Local Government area, it would mention the geography, council structures, gevernance, budget, responsibilities etc
 * Townsville, Queensland which would be about the urban area which crrently falls within the two LGAs, and
 * Townsville CBD which would just be concerned with the central 'downtown' core, like Brisbane CBD and other CBD articles.
 * -Adz|talk 08:32, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

While I agree with Adz about what pages are needed going forward, the pages for the former LGAs should be kept as independent pages and not merged through to the City of Townsville page. The City of Thuringowa had a long history and deserves its own page. My understanding is (and I am prepared to be corrected) is that the new City is a new creation and not the absoption of Thuringowa into Townsville. In that case perhaps the example of City of Frankston (former) is a good one to follow for the soon to be former City of Townsville and the new LGA can have the page City of Townsville going forward.

In summary and regarding LGAs only, I suggest:


 * City of Thuringowa be kept and the article edited to show that it is a former LGA
 * The existing City of Townsville article to be moved to City of Townsville (former)
 * A new article, City of Townsville to be created for the amalgamated LGA.

Finally, all related articles that include Thuringowa as the LGA need to be updated to show City of Townsville as the new LGA. -- Mattinbgn\talk 09:02, 17 February 2008 (UTC)


 * What Mattinbgn says is much the same as what i was saying and i think that this might be the way to do it. Thuringowacityrep (talk) 10:12, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Kerrodhall (talk) 21 February 2008 —Preceding comment was added at 05:38, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I kind of agree with everyone here, but I still believe that the new city should be referenced under Townsville, Queensland as it fits with the conventions used for most other Australian cities (i.e. [city/town], [state]). I am of the opinion that we should be keeping Thuringowa, Queensland for historical purposes to explain that there was once a city called Thuringowa, its history and that it and the neighboring city of Townsville were merged to form the new LGA known as Townsville City. In the very same way, we should be keeping City of Townsville. But to re-iterate, use Townsville, Queensland as the page for the LGA of the new Townsville!


 * No, Townsville, Queensland will be for the city, City of Townsville will be for the new LGA, that is the norm, check out every other city in Queensland... I support Mattinbgn's proposal, although I don't think there is the content at the moment to support a City of Townsville (former) article which can be anything more than a stub. Given the size of Townsville Council compared to Thuringowa Council the reality is that Thuringowa Council will be merged into Townsville Council, so other than the area that it governs there won't be that much to distinguish between the old Townsville City Council and the new Townsville City Council. No offence to Thuringowa intended here, but just look at the figures.  Cheers,  Wiki Townsvillian 09:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Then in reference to that, why are we having one page for the LGA and one for the city? Shouldn't we just have ONE page that has both? It would make it easier to manage. The both contain roughly the same content...Kerrodhall (talk) 22 February 2008


 * Urban centres (cities and towns) and Local Government Authorities are very different things, and with the onslaught of regional councils across the state they are about to become even more distinct from each other. The City of Townsville (the official title of the LGA) will be an extremely large area of land, whereas the urban centre commonly referred to as "Townsville, Queensland" is only the city itself which debatably includes the suburban area of Magnetic Island.  Cheers,  Wiki Townsvillian 07:18, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll just note here for the record I agree with Mattinbgn's and Adz's suggestions further up, and with WT's post at 09:17 - they correspond closely with what is and what has been done elsewhere. Also note to Kerrodhall that City of Townsville and Townsville, Queensland speak to two completely different entities, one of which is an incorporated Local Government Area of Queensland and the other is simply a metropolitan area where a fair number of people live. The separate article on the LGA is needed to document demography, local government and stuff pertaining to local government and its history which is not related to the metropolitan area. Orderinchaos 07:45, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Just had a good read of this page again and want to know if anything is going to happen here, as it seems to have been forgotten. I would like some views on my thoughts....I think the Townsville page should be about the whole of Townsville (from Paluma to Reid River) as this is Townsville now, because on this page it has places for sports, Popular attractions, Transport, Education etc and Woodstock, Reid River etc to Black river and Paluma have something to do with this, and these areas are rural and are part of what makes up Townsville....I'm sure you all know what I mean....this page should be about all of Townsville not just the built up part as it is very misleading to the readers, there are 3 pages on Townsville...ok have 1 page for the CBD, but don't have it named Townsville City, Queensland this page is about a suburb, name the page Townsville CBD (like it was before)...that way it is not as confusing for people from outside the area and you can explain on the page that the suburb name is Townsville city. As for the City of Townsville page, now that the Thuringowa city council (LGA) has merged with the Townsville city Council (LGA) this page really should become the Former city of Townsville a bit like the Former Thuringowa city page, because if I am correct I heard and read that both LGA's ended with the merge and a new city was formed and this is why Townsville is being called the New City of Townsville...with a new logo etc, you could start a new page for the new Townsville LGA or the less confusing way for outside readers would be to include a heading in the main Townsville page about the LGA and add info about the area, it's geography, responsibilities, council structure, governance, budget that sore of thing, this way you have one page about the one "new city of Townsville" with all the info....simple, not misleading or confusing and easy to maintain.Thuringowacityrep (talk) 03:44, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * It seems to me that there should be three articles:


 * Townsville, Queensland which is about the urban area - what locals would generally consider the city Townville. People will not find it hard to search for and find this page.
 * Townsville City, Queensland is the name of the suburb (confirmation see: Australia Post Postcodes, so it's not really up for unofficial renaming to suit wikipedia. However this suburb is essentially the CDB. The disambig page and links help. I'd suggest moving to Townsville City, Queensland (Townsville CBD) as the only compromise solution. This is similar to when individuals have identical names like Bill Hutchison (footballer).
 * City of Townsville is the official name of the LGA as well. I note that the LGA City of Brisbane is actually found on wikipage Brisbane City Council, so Townsville City Council might be used similarily. Otherwise again City of Townsville (LGA) might be a compromise solution - perhaps the best. I think trying to complicate this by introducing layers of historical description (like "former" and "current" councils) is ill advised. I'd be grateful for commentsROxBo (talk) 08:25, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Agree with ROxBo, this page is an entry about the city or urban centre not the LGA, places like Woodstock and Paluma don't need to be mentioned at all. Cheers, Wiki Townsvillian 09:54, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * ok well where do they get a mention? they are what makes up Townsville.Thuringowacityrep (talk) 10:41, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * City of Townsville is where they would be mentioned. Cheers, Wiki Townsvillian 11:51, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

unofficial capital
Currently there's a statement: is seen as the unofficial capital of North Queensland[2][3]  Wikipedia being an encyclopaedia should be dealing with facts like status as an official capital rather than unofficial. Michellecrisp (talk) 23:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The article does not say that Townsville is the capital of North Queensland, it says that it is seen as the unofficial capital of North Queensland, which is true and can be backed up as a fact by many legitimate and nuetral sources. Culturally the relationship between Townsville and Cairns is similar to that of Brisbane and the Gold Coast.


 * I tend to Agree, the Unofficial Capital of North Queensland is considered a fact, and is used in advertising the city to other regions and states of the country. As stated before by ..., There is a Rivalry between Townsville and Cairns, and Townsville, uses the title "unofficial capital of North Queensland" to show that it is the largest and more Economically rich city in North Queensland, and if North Queensland does become a state, would seem like the most suitable candidate to become Capital of North Queensland, but even then, Bowen or Charters Towers could take that one by surprise. Gertzy 14:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Dry Tropics
The link in the intro goes to Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM, a non-profit company apparently. It does not seem likely this is helpful for anyone wondering what dry tropics mean, exactly. How are the "dry tropics" defined - as relating to Townsville's climate - and does anyone have a better link?ROxBo (talk) 13:14, 1 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I just added a link that will tell anyone that wants to know, everything about the dry tropics, but it does have the word Thuringowa on the page so i hope you can all live with that and not remove this link, as it is about the best website for info.Thuringowacityrep (talk) 10:01, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Touch Football
I am questioning the inclusion of touch football competitions for inclusion. Many towns in Qld and NSW have touch football competitions but are they notable enough for inclusion? I refer to WP:GROUP. '''A company, corporation, organization, team, religion, group, product, or service is notable if it has been the subject of coverage in secondary sources. Such sources must be reliable, and independent of the subject. ''' Michellecrisp (talk) 06:22, 26 May 2008 (UTC)