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The specific beaches and surfing breaks need to be somehow either included or linked to this article - the template Newcastle area or designating it as a 'beach of new south wales' is too general - someone needs to identify the sperate localities - if it is a port as well and a few other things to identify Newcastle with/ or as a 'beach' is insufficient... Satu Suro 13:45, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
A user recently updated the year/s part of the following: "The Jets are currently playing in the 2011/12 A-League season, and their tenth in the Australian National Competition." If this is a valid edit then the season should be updated to "eleventh". Can someone with appropriate knowledge follow this up, please. Downsize43 ( talk) 11:56, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Thoughts on listing commercial areas and notable businesses? I've seen this done for other pages. Linking to companies like Hungry Jacks or Winning Appliances. M0z ( talk) 23:38, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
What idiot put these images here? These are possibly the worst examples of Architecture in Newcastle. In particular the image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sympathetic_Development.jpg is apalling. It is absolutely not sympathetic!
For some more appropriate pieces of Architecture which better display Newcastle's Heritage, please take a photo of
other notable architectural spoils in Nctle include
Come on people, Newcastle is the Jewel in the Crown of NSW - we should be putting our best foot forward for wikipedia. If you use some shitty EJE crap built by stronachs as examples of "architecture" it is absolutely no wonder why people call Newcastle a shit-hole.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.78.32.22 ( talk • contribs) 02:55, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
How do you add citations? Wrote a bit in Football, that is true and I need to verify. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.198.80.37 ( talk • contribs) 21:15, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
The aboriginal name for newcastle is listed as "Malubimba", however I've seen it spelled "Muloobinba" - particularly on the Newcastle Council website here: http://www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au/about_newcastle/history_and_heritage/newcastles_history
There is also a mural with the word "Muloobinba" at the main Stockton ferry jetty.
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Obviously we know that Newcastle is the centre of the Newcastle metropolitan area. It feels appropriate to have a separate article regarding this, much like /info/en/?search=Sydney_central_business_district and /info/en/?search=Sydney are separate articles.
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I'm at a strong disadvantage here since I have never visited the area, and have no real idea what people would identify with it. However with reference to the dispute over these 3 images [2] [3] [4], I'm leaning towards one of the images of Whibayganba/Nobbys Head. While we are dealing with "metropolitan area is the second most populated area", we are also dealing with 261.8 km2. It seems to me that in case, having an image which shows a more "natural" landmark or part of the natural environment, is useful.
While we do have the skyline image which shows part of the waterfront, the focus is still mostly on the buildings. Likewise at the size of the thumbnail, the boardwalk really just shows artificial structures. I also sort of feel that if you're choosing between 7 images mostly of the built-up environment, ultimately one of them isn't iconic or illustrative enough that you can probably make way for something else. I have no idea if this applies to the cathedral, I do see "Christ Church Cathedral still dominates the skyline of Newcastle" but then again I assume this means that building in the skyline photo behind the tower and trees is probably the cathedral.
As to which image of Whibayganba/Nobbys Head , this is something I find very hard to judge given my lack of local knowledge. On the one hand, the image with a more obvious beaches seems useful given "Newcastle has an abundance of beaches and surf breaks for which the city is internationally well known. Newcastle hosts the annual surfing contest 'Surfest' on the world professional surfing tour" and "Nobbys Beach is a very popular kitesurfing spot, especially during the warm summer months when there are northeasterly sea breezes."
OTOH, if it's correct that more focused image also shows the more iconic perspective, then I think it's a good question whether it's better to show the beach which frankly doesn't seem that illustrative compared to any other beach, while losing the more iconic perspective of Whibayganba/Nobbys Head . I don't think we can choose an image which shows much more of the beach since at while at the thumbnail size of the montage, we can still IMO see Whibayganba/Nobbys Head; if we go much further out it will be hard to really see.
P.S. Feel free to modify the thumbnail images I added to the top as people see fit e.g. move them around, add captions.
Nil Einne ( talk) 00:26, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
I believe we should include Newcastle's poplation size in the standfirst, - I inserted "With a population of 322,278 in 2016 (the city of Newcastle itself numbering 155,411)" - because without it we have an article that starts by comparing the population size, but without stating it. Thiis is confusing. TobyJ ( talk) 04:18, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
There are currently no pictures of Newcastle beach on this page. That seems like an oversight. This one used to be used: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newcastle_Beach.jpg but someone removed it as an effort to clean up low quality photographs. I don't see what is wrong with it though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.166.8.35 ( talk) 05:01, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
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The specific beaches and surfing breaks need to be somehow either included or linked to this article - the template Newcastle area or designating it as a 'beach of new south wales' is too general - someone needs to identify the sperate localities - if it is a port as well and a few other things to identify Newcastle with/ or as a 'beach' is insufficient... Satu Suro 13:45, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
A user recently updated the year/s part of the following: "The Jets are currently playing in the 2011/12 A-League season, and their tenth in the Australian National Competition." If this is a valid edit then the season should be updated to "eleventh". Can someone with appropriate knowledge follow this up, please. Downsize43 ( talk) 11:56, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Thoughts on listing commercial areas and notable businesses? I've seen this done for other pages. Linking to companies like Hungry Jacks or Winning Appliances. M0z ( talk) 23:38, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
What idiot put these images here? These are possibly the worst examples of Architecture in Newcastle. In particular the image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sympathetic_Development.jpg is apalling. It is absolutely not sympathetic!
For some more appropriate pieces of Architecture which better display Newcastle's Heritage, please take a photo of
other notable architectural spoils in Nctle include
Come on people, Newcastle is the Jewel in the Crown of NSW - we should be putting our best foot forward for wikipedia. If you use some shitty EJE crap built by stronachs as examples of "architecture" it is absolutely no wonder why people call Newcastle a shit-hole.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.78.32.22 ( talk • contribs) 02:55, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
How do you add citations? Wrote a bit in Football, that is true and I need to verify. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.198.80.37 ( talk • contribs) 21:15, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
The aboriginal name for newcastle is listed as "Malubimba", however I've seen it spelled "Muloobinba" - particularly on the Newcastle Council website here: http://www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au/about_newcastle/history_and_heritage/newcastles_history
There is also a mural with the word "Muloobinba" at the main Stockton ferry jetty.
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I'm at a strong disadvantage here since I have never visited the area, and have no real idea what people would identify with it. However with reference to the dispute over these 3 images [2] [3] [4], I'm leaning towards one of the images of Whibayganba/Nobbys Head. While we are dealing with "metropolitan area is the second most populated area", we are also dealing with 261.8 km2. It seems to me that in case, having an image which shows a more "natural" landmark or part of the natural environment, is useful.
While we do have the skyline image which shows part of the waterfront, the focus is still mostly on the buildings. Likewise at the size of the thumbnail, the boardwalk really just shows artificial structures. I also sort of feel that if you're choosing between 7 images mostly of the built-up environment, ultimately one of them isn't iconic or illustrative enough that you can probably make way for something else. I have no idea if this applies to the cathedral, I do see "Christ Church Cathedral still dominates the skyline of Newcastle" but then again I assume this means that building in the skyline photo behind the tower and trees is probably the cathedral.
As to which image of Whibayganba/Nobbys Head , this is something I find very hard to judge given my lack of local knowledge. On the one hand, the image with a more obvious beaches seems useful given "Newcastle has an abundance of beaches and surf breaks for which the city is internationally well known. Newcastle hosts the annual surfing contest 'Surfest' on the world professional surfing tour" and "Nobbys Beach is a very popular kitesurfing spot, especially during the warm summer months when there are northeasterly sea breezes."
OTOH, if it's correct that more focused image also shows the more iconic perspective, then I think it's a good question whether it's better to show the beach which frankly doesn't seem that illustrative compared to any other beach, while losing the more iconic perspective of Whibayganba/Nobbys Head . I don't think we can choose an image which shows much more of the beach since at while at the thumbnail size of the montage, we can still IMO see Whibayganba/Nobbys Head; if we go much further out it will be hard to really see.
P.S. Feel free to modify the thumbnail images I added to the top as people see fit e.g. move them around, add captions.
Nil Einne ( talk) 00:26, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
I believe we should include Newcastle's poplation size in the standfirst, - I inserted "With a population of 322,278 in 2016 (the city of Newcastle itself numbering 155,411)" - because without it we have an article that starts by comparing the population size, but without stating it. Thiis is confusing. TobyJ ( talk) 04:18, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
There are currently no pictures of Newcastle beach on this page. That seems like an oversight. This one used to be used: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newcastle_Beach.jpg but someone removed it as an effort to clean up low quality photographs. I don't see what is wrong with it though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.166.8.35 ( talk) 05:01, 11 January 2022 (UTC)