User talk:Philip J Dowling

Welcome!
G’day! Welcome to Wikipedia. I’m also fairly new here. I thought I’d bring up the edits made to the North Shore (Sydney) article for some advice in regards to editing and referencing here on wiki. You added some information about the “North West” being “West” of the region, which wasn’t very consistent with Wikipedia’s references for Regions of Sydney. Sydney’s North-West isn’t a region considered on its own; it’s more so a geographical location where the Upper North Shore and Hills District happen to be located. Also, taxi drivers unfortunately are not references for Wikipedia, and not true map of the Upper North Shore seems to exist. You removed “Northern District Times” from the media section which seemed confusing? The northern District times serves a large portion of suburbs that have been referred to as part of the North Shore including Hunters Hill, Woolwich, Thornleigh etc. Macquarie Park was removed as a commercial area for the North Shore; there were no references to support the removal of this suburb. I understand you added that realestate agents or the media tend to describe a very large portion of northern sydney as the North Shore, but this has already been mentioned in the article in the summary and the Geography sections. The region is debatable by its border. However, due to this, many edit wars, vandals and major arguments were made on the talk page of the North Shore article for years with messy information and lack of resources - this page now has the best compromise made after discussions made on the talk page and the Australian discussion boards on Wikipedia. This way, the article describes the region and its surrounds and doesn’t have a definite knowledge of the border, as it is more of a general term to describe this part of Northern and North-West Sydney. As a local on the Lower North Shore I can tell you everyone has a different idea on a personal level what the north shore is. In fact, most on the Lower North Shore don’t see the Upper North Shore as the North Shore at all! So it truly is an amorphous region. So, with wiki edits, make sure references are added to support your edits made on any article; see The Five Pillars of Wikipedia I really hope you found this helpful and I wish you the best with editing on Wikipedia! HornsbyBbSyd (talk) 21:07, 22 December 2020 (UTC)