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This page needs to be significantly updated. The bushfires we're experiencing here in NSW have already claimed 3 lives, at least, and more than 100 homes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:23E4:C00:308A:9FF9:B98A:8D31 (talk) 08:04, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. It's a very newly created page, and needs a lot of (ongoing) work. Wikipedia is the encyclopaedia anyone can edit. Please free to do what you can to improve it. HiLo48 (talk) 09:50, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Needs dates

Hi, most of the content is undated. To whoever has contributed, please go back to your sources and add dates to events. Thanks and regards, DPdH (talk) 02:58, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Date

The day of Catastrophic fire danger declared in Sydney, the Hunter and the Illawarra was 12th of November, 2019, not the 13th as you have it. ^[1]

International Opinion

The page currently has a twitter-sourced quote from an unemployed activist as representing the entire section of "International Opinion". It seems to me terribly unencyclopedic to include such a thing. I removed it with the comment: removed unencyclopedic content. Primary sourced Twitter quotes from 16 year old aren't suitable for an "International Response". If included it needs better sourcing to show notability of views/a range of views It was reverted by User:Escape Orbit with the comment: Opinion of obviously notable person, regardless of age.

This is a ridiculous standard not used anywhere else. Are we now including random activist twitter posts as sources and reverting their removal as long as the person is notable? This strikes me as very unencyclopedic. I will be removing it again in two days if there are no objections. We are here to quote in a balanced way what reliable sources say, not to give undue weight to the twitter posts of activists. Phil153 (talk) 16:51, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

^ https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/catastrophic-fire-danger-what-you-need-to-know-20191111-p539c3.html

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 The day of Catastrophic fire danger declared in Sydney, the Hunter and the Illawarra was 12th of November, 2019, not the 13th as you have it.
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+== International Opinion ==
+The page currently has a twitter-sourced quote from an unemployed activist as representing the entire section of "International Opinion". It seems to me terribly unencyclopedic to include such a thing. I removed it with the comment: ''removed unencyclopedic content. Primary sourced Twitter quotes from 16 year old aren't suitable for an "International Response". If included it needs better sourcing to show notability of views/a range of views''
+It was reverted by [[User:Escape Orbit]] with the comment: ''Opinion of obviously notable person, regardless of age.''
+This is a ridiculous standard not used anywhere else. Are we now including random activist twitter posts as sources and reverting their removal as long as the person is notable? This strikes me as very unencyclopedic. I will be removing it again in two days if there are no objections. We are here to quote in a balanced way what reliable sources say, not to give undue weight to the twitter posts of activists. [[User:Phil153|Phil153]] ([[User talk:Phil153|talk]]) 16:51, 25 December 2019 (UTC)