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1a. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct. | Yes, article has good prose and grammar | |
1b. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. | ||
2. Verifiable with no original research: | ||
2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline. |
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2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose). |
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2c. it contains no original research. |
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2d. it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism. | ||
3. Broad in its coverage: | ||
3a. it addresses the main aspects of the topic. | ||
3b. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). | There is discussion on the talk page about this article and
Great Palm Island article as information on this page was recently moved to
Great Palm Island. There is a strong claim to merging these pages.
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4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each. | ||
5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. | ||
6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio: | ||
6a. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content. | ||
6b. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions. | ||
7. Overall assessment. | This page moves a lot of extremely violent and troubled history away this page to other articles. A more thorough capture of that material should appear on this page. Also, as this island is an alcohol restricted area, it is unclear if this island is suitable for tourism, and there is no comment to this effect on this page. -- Whiteguru ( talk) 08:05, 18 April 2021 (UTC) |
Hi
Whiteguru and
Kerry Raymond. I have, I think, addressed all of the issues mentioned above save the overlap with Great Palm Island. It was I who greatly expanded the latter article and shuffled bits out of this article, as the histories overlapped and it was somewhat muddled, what related to governance, what related to the physical island, and what related to the inhabitants (who are all on Great Palm apart from a few resort workers on Orpheus). One of the problems is that in this article we have two overlapping entities, the
locality (and Kerry is the expert on that designation - I only know what I have read in the article about this kind of entity) and the physical/geographical group of islands, called the Palm Island group or Greater Palm group, which in this case coincide. The usual convention for geographic entities is to put the state in parentheses afterwards, whereas with localities it follows a comma, and I assume the comma convention was deliberately chosen in this case. To complicate things (as you both no doubt know), governance of the island group is split between two governing bodies, the Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island, and the Shire of Hinchinbrook, which is mostly on mainland Queensland but does include Orpheus, with the tourist resort.
It doesn't surprise me that this article gets more hits, firstly because it's the common name for Great Palm Island and so that's what people look for, and secondly because most sources are at best fuzzy about what they're referring to, when in fact the whole article is almost without exception devoted to the one island. I think that it would be somewhat misleading, and take a lot of work to merge the two articles, but I'm not sure what the best solution is. I tinkered with
Palm Island (disambiguation) in an attempt to improve that, although not sure if what I've saved is the best arrangement. What about creating a DAB page for Palm Island, Queensland, and renaming this one to Palm Island, Queensland (locality)? That would also entail a fair bit of work, but I suspect that most of the links in to Palm Island currently should probably be transferred to Great Palm.
As an aside, I'm just wondering whether this article belongs in the Archipelagoes of Australia category as well?
Laterthanyouthink (
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Let's start at the beginning. There is an island group officially known as Palm Islands (plural) for which we don't appear to have a Wikipedia article, but if we did, it would be called Palm Islands (Queensland).
Looking in Qld Globe, this appears to be 12 named islands with Pelorus Island at the north and Havannah Island at the south and in the middle is the biggest island called
Great Palm Island
which is commonly known as Palm Island, which is not ambiguous as there is no other *island* in Queensland called Palm Island, so you could have Palm Island (Queensland) as a redirect to Great Palm Island or vice versa without any angst, as the locality is called Palm Island, Queensland given our usual way to distinguish between natural and man-made places with parens or comma.
On the island called Great Palm Island, there is a town on the western coast called "Palm Islands" (plural).
Again we have no Wikipedia naming issue as this should be called Palm Islands, Queensland and this currently redirects to Palm Island, Queensland, where no mention is made of the town at all and I think it should be mentioned.
Now all of the islands in the group were once in Shire of Hinchinbrook and the locality of Palm Island which included all 12 islands and sea immediately around them and between them. When a Deed of Grant in Trust (DOGIT) was established, the normal practice was to excise the land in the DOGIT from the original local government and establish a new local government area for the DOGIT. Now a lot of these are a straightforward single chunk of land "cut out" of another local government area which surrounds them. However, islands pose a challenge as local government areas and localities can include sea as well as land. And for reasons I don't fully understand the DOGITs appear to be only for "land" and not include "sea", so 10 of the 12 *islands* (including Great Palm Island) were excised from Shire of Hinchinbrook and placed in the Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island but the other two islands and the sea immediately around and between all of the islands remains in the Shire of Hinchinbrook. Since localities can be split between local government areas in Queensland normally, this is exactly what happened here, just in a more messy way.
So looking at the lede para in Palm Island, Queensland, I think it is correct as stated. While Great Palm Island does explain it is in the Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island, it makes no mention of being part of the locality of Palm Island, Queensland. Nor does it make any mention of the town and I think it should be mentioned. It's an interesting question as to whether the town Palms Islands, Queensland should redirect to the locality Palm Island, Queensland or Great Palm Island. When we don't have a separate article for a town, it is normal to redirect it to the locality article where a brief discussion of the town can be made. But normally we don't have a finer granularity article available, but in this case Great Palm Island is a more fine-grained article than Palm Island, Queensland. I would be inclined to redirect the town Palms Islands, Queensland to the island article Great Palm Island and discuss the town there, and mention in the locality article Palm Island, Queensland that there is a town called Palm Islands on Great Palm Island and link across to it there. Speaking from experience there is always *something* to say about a town ... a quick look at the "usual sources" shows me that the town of Palm Islands has two schools, a post office, a supermarket, a jetty, a boat ramp, council buildings, a library (known as the Bwgcolman Indigenous Knowledge Centre), police station, ambulance station, wastewater treatment plant -- heaps of things to say about this town!
Finally to come back to where I started. The island group article Palm Islands (Queensland) doesn't exist but I think it can be trivially redirected to the locality article Palm Island, Queensland as the two encompass the same set of islands and the sea around and between them. Just for completeness.
I appreciate the interrelationships between these things are tricky to explain but there is no rule that it has to be explained in a single sentence. If it takes some paras, a list, a diagram, a map (you can use Open Street Map as a base -- it is CC-BY licenced) or whatever to explain it, then do it that way. If we locals can find it confusing, I am sure the rest of the world will be even more confused. My tip is to add in the necessary feature type whenever you have to talk about the things with the same/similar names. E.g. the town of Palm Islands is on the island Great Palm Island which is one of the however-many islands in the locality of Palm Island which is an administrative boundary that corresponds with the island group Palm Islands. And always link tht first use of locality. It may not make people less confused but at least it highlights that the term "locality" has an extremely precise meaning in Australia and people should disable their normal meaning for that term.
Finally if you get the Palm Islands figured out, feel free to go on and tackle the Torres Stait. Exactly the same problems of island groups, islands, towns, localities, with multiple local government areas between land and sea etc. It does my head in! Kerry ( talk) 08:25, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
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Starts GA Reassessment Page; the review will follow the same sections of the Article. -- Whiteguru ( talk) 06:08, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
Rate | Attribute | Review Comment |
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1. Well-written: | ||
1a. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct. | Yes, article has good prose and grammar | |
1b. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. | ||
2. Verifiable with no original research: | ||
2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline. |
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2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose). |
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2c. it contains no original research. |
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2d. it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism. | ||
3. Broad in its coverage: | ||
3a. it addresses the main aspects of the topic. | ||
3b. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). | There is discussion on the talk page about this article and
Great Palm Island article as information on this page was recently moved to
Great Palm Island. There is a strong claim to merging these pages.
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4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each. | ||
5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. | ||
6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio: | ||
6a. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content. | ||
6b. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions. | ||
7. Overall assessment. | This page moves a lot of extremely violent and troubled history away this page to other articles. A more thorough capture of that material should appear on this page. Also, as this island is an alcohol restricted area, it is unclear if this island is suitable for tourism, and there is no comment to this effect on this page. -- Whiteguru ( talk) 08:05, 18 April 2021 (UTC) |
Hi
Whiteguru and
Kerry Raymond. I have, I think, addressed all of the issues mentioned above save the overlap with Great Palm Island. It was I who greatly expanded the latter article and shuffled bits out of this article, as the histories overlapped and it was somewhat muddled, what related to governance, what related to the physical island, and what related to the inhabitants (who are all on Great Palm apart from a few resort workers on Orpheus). One of the problems is that in this article we have two overlapping entities, the
locality (and Kerry is the expert on that designation - I only know what I have read in the article about this kind of entity) and the physical/geographical group of islands, called the Palm Island group or Greater Palm group, which in this case coincide. The usual convention for geographic entities is to put the state in parentheses afterwards, whereas with localities it follows a comma, and I assume the comma convention was deliberately chosen in this case. To complicate things (as you both no doubt know), governance of the island group is split between two governing bodies, the Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island, and the Shire of Hinchinbrook, which is mostly on mainland Queensland but does include Orpheus, with the tourist resort.
It doesn't surprise me that this article gets more hits, firstly because it's the common name for Great Palm Island and so that's what people look for, and secondly because most sources are at best fuzzy about what they're referring to, when in fact the whole article is almost without exception devoted to the one island. I think that it would be somewhat misleading, and take a lot of work to merge the two articles, but I'm not sure what the best solution is. I tinkered with
Palm Island (disambiguation) in an attempt to improve that, although not sure if what I've saved is the best arrangement. What about creating a DAB page for Palm Island, Queensland, and renaming this one to Palm Island, Queensland (locality)? That would also entail a fair bit of work, but I suspect that most of the links in to Palm Island currently should probably be transferred to Great Palm.
As an aside, I'm just wondering whether this article belongs in the Archipelagoes of Australia category as well?
Laterthanyouthink (
talk) 05:59, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
Let's start at the beginning. There is an island group officially known as Palm Islands (plural) for which we don't appear to have a Wikipedia article, but if we did, it would be called Palm Islands (Queensland).
Looking in Qld Globe, this appears to be 12 named islands with Pelorus Island at the north and Havannah Island at the south and in the middle is the biggest island called
Great Palm Island
which is commonly known as Palm Island, which is not ambiguous as there is no other *island* in Queensland called Palm Island, so you could have Palm Island (Queensland) as a redirect to Great Palm Island or vice versa without any angst, as the locality is called Palm Island, Queensland given our usual way to distinguish between natural and man-made places with parens or comma.
On the island called Great Palm Island, there is a town on the western coast called "Palm Islands" (plural).
Again we have no Wikipedia naming issue as this should be called Palm Islands, Queensland and this currently redirects to Palm Island, Queensland, where no mention is made of the town at all and I think it should be mentioned.
Now all of the islands in the group were once in Shire of Hinchinbrook and the locality of Palm Island which included all 12 islands and sea immediately around them and between them. When a Deed of Grant in Trust (DOGIT) was established, the normal practice was to excise the land in the DOGIT from the original local government and establish a new local government area for the DOGIT. Now a lot of these are a straightforward single chunk of land "cut out" of another local government area which surrounds them. However, islands pose a challenge as local government areas and localities can include sea as well as land. And for reasons I don't fully understand the DOGITs appear to be only for "land" and not include "sea", so 10 of the 12 *islands* (including Great Palm Island) were excised from Shire of Hinchinbrook and placed in the Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island but the other two islands and the sea immediately around and between all of the islands remains in the Shire of Hinchinbrook. Since localities can be split between local government areas in Queensland normally, this is exactly what happened here, just in a more messy way.
So looking at the lede para in Palm Island, Queensland, I think it is correct as stated. While Great Palm Island does explain it is in the Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island, it makes no mention of being part of the locality of Palm Island, Queensland. Nor does it make any mention of the town and I think it should be mentioned. It's an interesting question as to whether the town Palms Islands, Queensland should redirect to the locality Palm Island, Queensland or Great Palm Island. When we don't have a separate article for a town, it is normal to redirect it to the locality article where a brief discussion of the town can be made. But normally we don't have a finer granularity article available, but in this case Great Palm Island is a more fine-grained article than Palm Island, Queensland. I would be inclined to redirect the town Palms Islands, Queensland to the island article Great Palm Island and discuss the town there, and mention in the locality article Palm Island, Queensland that there is a town called Palm Islands on Great Palm Island and link across to it there. Speaking from experience there is always *something* to say about a town ... a quick look at the "usual sources" shows me that the town of Palm Islands has two schools, a post office, a supermarket, a jetty, a boat ramp, council buildings, a library (known as the Bwgcolman Indigenous Knowledge Centre), police station, ambulance station, wastewater treatment plant -- heaps of things to say about this town!
Finally to come back to where I started. The island group article Palm Islands (Queensland) doesn't exist but I think it can be trivially redirected to the locality article Palm Island, Queensland as the two encompass the same set of islands and the sea around and between them. Just for completeness.
I appreciate the interrelationships between these things are tricky to explain but there is no rule that it has to be explained in a single sentence. If it takes some paras, a list, a diagram, a map (you can use Open Street Map as a base -- it is CC-BY licenced) or whatever to explain it, then do it that way. If we locals can find it confusing, I am sure the rest of the world will be even more confused. My tip is to add in the necessary feature type whenever you have to talk about the things with the same/similar names. E.g. the town of Palm Islands is on the island Great Palm Island which is one of the however-many islands in the locality of Palm Island which is an administrative boundary that corresponds with the island group Palm Islands. And always link tht first use of locality. It may not make people less confused but at least it highlights that the term "locality" has an extremely precise meaning in Australia and people should disable their normal meaning for that term.
Finally if you get the Palm Islands figured out, feel free to go on and tackle the Torres Stait. Exactly the same problems of island groups, islands, towns, localities, with multiple local government areas between land and sea etc. It does my head in! Kerry ( talk) 08:25, 19 April 2021 (UTC)