User talk:Colin Bee

July 2022
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Beechboro, Western Australia, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Le Marteau (talk) 00:24, 1 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your message and Im so sorry in regards to my lack of understanding.
 * I am attempting to simply adjust the facts around the population as per the link attached
 * could you offer instructions as to the correct format as the edit code page is saying in regards population to leave blank and take from the ABS but as you will see the ABS link attached shows a very different population.
 * https://abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/504031057
 * would you be able to update this in real time so I can view the code and understand the format. Colin Bee (talk) 00:32, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Le Marteau,  Would you be open to furnishing me with the details of how to change the population link on the page I tried to adit.    I understand that this would be be ideal and in line with the wiki format.
 * Not looking to spend too much time editing wiki but this current error is a factor as it affects overall density and that is quality of life hence the correction.
 * appreciate your vigilance and obvious greater level of understating and respectfully ask that you assist me with this simple correction. Colin Bee (talk) 00:49, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I think you are misunderstanding something here, Colin Bee. The article is about the suburb of Beechboro, which had a population of 9,112 according to the 2021 census. What you are adding is the figure for the Statistical Areas Level 2 of Beechboro, which is far larger and includes other suburbs as well, like West Swan, Dayton and Bennett Springs. For an explanation on what these census areas actually mean, see here. You are mixing up two things that share the same name but aren't the same thing. I'm also curious where in your source you see "Beechboro is the most densely populated suburb in the City of Swan"? I don't see that statement anywhere and can't actually find any reference to density at all in the census data, neither for the suburb nor the Statistical Areas Level 2 source. Calistemon (talk) 01:14, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Calistemon, Thank you for the reply      The population density was if the population for the suburb was 21,000 and not 9,000
 * So the Statistical Area level 2 Is the Suburb named in the heading plus other suburbs not named....   So I need to understand the difference between a suburb and the statistical area of a suburb.       Calistemon if you know the difference and could explain that I would be very grateful Colin Bee (talk) 09:40, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * https://www.citypopulation.de/en/australia/perth/504031057__beechboro/ Colin Bee (talk) 10:30, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't have any special insight into how the census people determined what makes up Statistical Areas Level 2 but their boundaries can be seen on the map of the reference. Just to add to the potential confusion, there is a third area for Beechboro, termed Indigenous Locations. If this seems complicated, my place, Rockingham, lists population in Local Government Area, Statistical Areas Level 3, Statistical Areas Level 2, Suburbs and Localities and Indigenous Locations. Apart from the description, the maps help the most. As for Beechboro (suburb), if you select the Community Profiles link it will take you to an excel spread sheet which will give you the physical size of the area covered by the census, in this case 4.9 km2. Your source, on the other hand, is for an area the size of 47.11 km², much larger then the suburb. Calistemon (talk) 13:14, 1 August 2022 (UTC)