Talk:Winmalee, New South Wales

Changed
Ive just conducted a major article overhaul on this page. More additions may be coming soon. The situation with the name has been researched and from looking at a few sources I think this is the correct answer.

The POV has also been removed.

Please inform me of any problems / suggestions.

Andy.Wenman 08:34, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I added to your school information as only one of them had their own blurb, as well as adding a few references and extra links.

Dawnxtreader 12:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

POV
I think the part about the Sports Department is most likely POV.

--Reubot 10:24, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

There's a lot of quite weird POV which I'll try to edit out - the 'hidden gem' of the Mountains and the 'quite surprising' educational attainment of residents!--Jack Upland 22:20, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

There's no mention in this article about how Winmalee was named. I know the name was chosen after a competition. So far I've been told that it means 'In a northerly direction' also I've heard that it means 'place of many trees'. The current thing I've heard is that Winmalee doesn't mean anything, it was made up by a local resident.


 * Thank you Andy :-)

I have added an explanation for the naming of the town. There is no record of Aboriginal languages ( Dharruk or otherwise) having any compass-based directions (see Wagiman's Aboriginal Dictionary for this, but is not exact as Dharruk is now extinct). It turns our that Winmalee is a nice sounding name for a nice place to live.Sstreet81 (talk) 12:19, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

I live in this suburb, please respect the changes I make :) 58.163.149.145 09:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)Yogi


 * Please read the link about Neutral point of view posted on the talk page for your IP address. Verifiability might also be useful. Gimboid13 10:40, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Largest soccer club?
I'd love to see some evidence of this?

The Nepean district includes, Penrith, Glenmore Park, Blaxland, Cranebrook etc...

I would SERIOIUSLY doubt Springwood soccer club is anywhere near the size of those clubs, much less larger?

Removed 12/12/2006

Springwood is definitely the largest club, as it has the largest amount of players in the Nepean region. Penrith is split up into many clubs. 203.51.55.32 11:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

St Columbas!
There are so many things wrong with this part of the article! I have bolded the most disturbing parts, but would also like to point out the lack of citation. I have filtered through and found that this information was added by Andy.Wenman, who actually overhauled and expanded the article, to the attractive thing we have today. Thanks Andy, but in the future please ensure that the information you include is accurate and verifiable.
 * "The first High School established in the Winmalee area was St Columba's High School. Originally a monastery and later a college for the training of priests, the grounds were finally established as a high school in late 1977. The school and its grounds are some of the oldest forms of architecture in the area. A chapel which initially belonged to the college is still used by local residents as a catholic church.

As far as I have found, St Columbas started as a seminary and later became a high school, "St Columba's was originally built as a seminary for candidates of the priesthood in 1908... In 1979 St Columba's High School was re-established as a Years 7 to 10 Catholic School by the Catholic Education Office. It was restructured as a Years 7 to 12 school in 1993." - |Catholic Education Office, Diocese of Parramatta Also, drawing from my own knowledge of the high school, and St Thomas Aquinas primary school, what was once used as the parish church at the high school has since become the school library, whilst the new church is located closer to Hawkesbury Rd in the grounds of the primary school. Tinkstar1985 00:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Page Photo
The photo for Winmalee is the view from Hawkesbury Lookout, but is that not in Hawkesbury Heights, not Winmalee? Dawnxtreader 00:15, 19 September 2007 (UTC) REALLY good point. That look-out is in Hawksesbury Heights, isn't it?Sstreet81 (talk) 12:22, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

I tend to agree, the photo is in a different city/suburb —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.243.252.86 (talk) 23:57, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Naming controversy continues to bug me
We now have two sections on how the suburb was supposedly named, one that asks for citations and one that does not. When I originally wrote the bulk of the article five or so years ago I rereived the information on how the suburb was named from several biographies of the area I loaned from Winmalee High School. Despite conflicting reports I found that there was in fact a competition to name the suburb, a name suggested was Winmalee, which it was claimed meant 'in a Northerly Direction' in the local Native dialect and which ultimately became the name of the suburb. There was however a suggestion that the name wasn't officially chosen until after the name Winmalee was put forward as the name for the local High-School. I will attempt to get to the bottom of this when I next check out the Springwood library. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.70.91.247 (talk) 03:43, 21 June 2013 (UTC)