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The Wikapedia entry for the subject WIANAMATTA SHALES contains an opening line describing the original spelling of the name as "Wiainamatta". The following reference has been taken from the Sydney Morning Herald "Trove" entry dated Thursday the 4th October 1894, an article entered by the "Royal Society of NSW". This article has not yet been corrected and is riddled with mis-spelt words including the spelling of "Wianamatta". In all official documents of this aboriginal word it is spelt WIANAMATTA. There can be no further correction of this spelling as any previous spelling simply because it was initially spely in the English language as it was heard because there was no written aboriginal language so the spelling of Wianamatta must stand without correction. The name was used by the original inhabitants in the South Creek area of Western Sydney and the original name of South Creek was Wianamatta and this creek has now been "dual-named" by legislation and gazetted as South/Wianamatta Creek on the 28th March 2003 in the NSW Parliament. The naming od Wianamatta shales has it's origins in the name of this creek as explained by the Noted Geologist The Reverend William Branwhite Clarke during the 1800's.

The reference to any other spelling of the name "WIANAMATTA" should be removed as newspaper articles are NOT a credible reference point of fact.You only need to access the reference inserted as proof of it's lack of credibility.