Talk:Bundaberg

Talk:Bundaberg, Queensland/Speedy1 - comments unlikely to be helpful to the creation of this article.

It seems strange that so much of the article on a significant town like Bundaberg relates to some health disaster back in the 1920s. Metamagician3000 03:45, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Bundaberg seems to attract its fair share of unusual stuff - subtropical winter Olympians, medical disasters, non-medical disasters, etc. Andjam 04:16, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

External links

Bundaberg rum is notable enough, but does there need to be a link to their web page on this article when there's one in the Bundaberg Rum article? Andjam 23:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Went ahead and removed the web link for this article. Andjam 04:16, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

St. Paul's Image

If anybody sees a need to use an image of St. Paul's cathederal, there is one available as Image:Bundabergsda.jpg. It is used on the Seventh-day Adventist Church page at present. -Fermion 09:29, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Map

Anyone have a free map? Showing how the city is designed in a triangular fashion might fascinate readers. --DavidHOzAu 14:46, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

From Speedy1

Surely there has to be good points to Bundaberg? None transpire from this article. No mention of weather, natural reserves etc... — Preceding unsigned comment added by who cares? (talk • contribs)

also no mention was made of the dead backpacker(s).... Sfacets

The "dead backpackers" I assume you are referring to died in Childers during a fire at the Palace Backpackers in June 2000. Childers is 45mins south of Bundaberg.

They might've been talking about to Caroline Stuttle, a backpacker who was murdered a few years ago. As far as good points go, I'm sure Bundy's got some, but all I can think of is that house prices aren't as high as some other Queensland towns, and that doesn't seem particularly encyclopedia-worthy. I'll keep thinking. Jodievdw 08:14, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Rum. Rum and utes. aliasd·U·T 09:36, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Toft brothers

I tend to remove redlinked people from "notable people" sections of place articles, most of these "notables" are local musicians, models, "personalities", you get the idea. These ones, however, are a bit different to the norm:

• Harold Toft and Colin Toft, Made large contribution to mechanical cane harvesting, todays CASE IH 7000 series Austoft machines are a result of their work.

Lots of red links there, and these guys get less google hits put together than my mother, but I am leaving it here as a reference. aliasd·U·T 12:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

From some poking around, it seems these guys made the first commercially successful series of cane harvesters. [1]. Not necessarily notable in itself, but discussion? 13:01, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Jayant Patel is hardly a resident as the Gov't is seeking his extradition from overseas.

 - Clearchoice 10:52, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Article Needs Attention

More than 50% of this article lacks citation it also may require a restructure and clean up to meet Wikipedia quality standards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.39.51.116 (talk) 04:51, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Bundaberg's Place name

as quoted by the source

http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/property/placenames/detail.php?id=5190

Notice that the source is a another well cited Bundaberg historical resource that does not produce a solid answer and conflicts with that of both J Walker and N Rackemann respectively. Both of whom also posted probable reasons for the name change that are far better suited to what is currently written.

for example, someone find evidence to present that Bunda was indeed a word meaning important man in Kabi aborigine. Also, the suffix "berg" as having a german decent and meaning "mountain". Funny because I have lived in Bundaberg for years and there is not a mountain to speak of. We have a sloping hummock and even that was almost indistguishable against the background of the Woongarra scrub —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.39.51.116 (talk) 05:13, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Be careful when adding copyrighted content! Also your edits are rather messy[2]. Old content (articles, books, news stories ect) are reliable. Bidgee (talk) 06:12, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Possibly the suffix was a mispelling of the German "burg", meaning castle/town, although curiously the term "burg" for castle did originate from building castles on the top of hills (bergs).--Grahame (talk) 07:03, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Hello, please explain how quoting a quote is considered a breach of copyright? How else are you supposed to source a quote in your own words? it's a quote?