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By the way, I see that Melbourne, Florida is a town of ~70,000 people. Seeing that we're talking about a city of ~3.5 million, I think Melbourne deserves the Melbourne page (particularly if Sydney gets Sydney rather than Sydney, New South Wales) :) --Robert Merkel
Too many big city shots scanned from postcards on this page. You really only need maximum of two long shots, and then a couple of close-ups. Can we get more photos of prominent buildings, parks, bridges and streets, trams etc?
should the major media in Melbourne be mentioned - The Herald-Sun and The Age newspapers etc?
- Will do. --Robert Merkel 12:59 7 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Just wondering why Melbourne is related to Sydney in terms of it's location. ("800kms Southwest of Sydney"). Sydney's page doesn't say 800kms NE of Melbourne, and surely Melbourne can stand on its own by being "in Port Phillip Bay" and surrounded by the Dandenong Ranges etc... as has been done with the Sydney article... Forgive me if I'm picking a bit, but I just dislike having Melbourne as a "poorer cousin" to Sydney, and to me it almost constitutes POV. If you were going to relate it to another city in Australia, relate it to Canberra. Just my two cents. Neolux 17:20, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Nothing like a bit of Sydney-Melbourne rivalry :-) --Robert Merkel 23:46, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Great article, but the information about Brunswick Street feels conversational, with a POV, rather than encycolpedic. While I'm sure the information is accurate, could it be reworded to sound more factual rather than impressionistic?
--Moncrief 23:46, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Nurg, (reffering to Rialto Towers), I think it is the tallest in the southern hemisphere, I'm not aware of it's being surpassed. What I'm referring to however, is the tallest skyscraper, not including observation towers, such as Sydney Tower, which is taller. Prehaps what I had was ambiguous in that way, however, as far as I know, the Rialto is still the hemisphere's tallest skyscraper.
Hypernovean 10:52, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Okay, I've created a list of Melbourne suburbs at List of localities (Victoria), as well as stubs for all the city councils in the metro area. If anyone reading this has some spare time, please spend a minute or two writing some info about your suburb. Just basic things like major roads, train stations, schools, parks, shopping centres, etc.
Help much appreciated :) AmishThrasher
To AmishThrasher, southernmost is what I meant to say! Thanks for correcting it. Hypernovean 05:56, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I have created the Timeline of Melbourne history page and linked it in, please add any events and dates you can. Hypernovean 07:31, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I dispute that Chunky Move is "Australia's best known contemporary dance company". I've never heard of them. The Sydney Dance Company would be the first one I think of. Perhaps CM is Victoria's best known? dmmaus 12:03, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- The Sydney Dance Company would be the first one I think of. Because I see you're from Sydney. No offence, but from a quick Googling, Chunky Move seem to be quite well known internationally.
- Okay, no problem. I just wanted some sort of confirmation. That's why I asked instead of editing. :-) dmmaus 12:33, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- How do we know what is Australia's best known contemporary dance company? It's unverifiable. I don't think it belongs at all. Ambivalenthysteria 13:59, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Of course we can't totally verifiably say that Chunky Move are "Australia's best known contemporary dance company" since no one's done teh survey, however with my somewhat limited knowledge of contemporary dance, they are quite well-known and quite prestigious, and I think they'd unarguably be the most prestigious Australian contemporary dance company. So leave it as it is. user:wilful
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=chunky+move&word2=Sydney-Dance+Company
Put the quotes in and the result is reversed: 211.28.152.172 06:04, 24 September 2005 (UTC)