User talk:Adz/CanberraSuburbsInfo

I added an automatic wikilink to the template I made, but it is broken by the + I put into two word names putting in an underscore instead fixes the wikilink but breaks the census link.. I think this is a a little too complicated for it's own good. --Martyman-(talk) 02:35, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

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Can you please confirm that the map uses the term "date first settled"? It seems a surprising expression as there were settlements preceding suburbs and these do not seem to have been taken into account. I can understand why not but it would be nice to have a form of words which distinguishes between the two. Also for citation purposes I would like to have the exact words. The information you collected is really useful and I have applied it at South_Canberra_(district)#Suburbs.--A Y Arktos 00:20, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

The exact words on the map are "Date of First settlement". I suspect that perhaps the date refers to the date the first suburban development appeared after the suburb was gazetted or declared a suburb, but I didn't put the map together. To make double sure, perhaps you could contact the Land Information Centre who published the map. The ACT Planning and Land Authority logo also appears above the Land Info Centre name, so I'd start there. The name of the publication is the 'Map of Canberra by Suburbs' and it is a series of suburb maps with block and section info and comes in a ring binder. -- Adz 11:44, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. Sometimes the date precedes the gazettal date. I will annotate the table at South_Canberra_(district)#Suburbs with date of suburban settlement:-). All the inner south suburb names were gazetted at the same time so the "settlement date" is more meaningful in some ways. Regards--A Y Arktos 20:22, 30 November 2005 (UTC)