Talk:Windale, New South Wales
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Maybe a line on the attack on it by radio
[edit]Just saying , it is a major hing for windale. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.152.210.155 (talk) 03:14, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Objection to the proposed major changes
[edit]If anyone has an objection to me reverting the page back to its original state, please specify.144.136.101.108 (talk) 11:13, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- I have an objection. It is not a major change. It is consistent with 1000s of Australian locality articles, you are going against this very strong norm. Perhaps you live in windale and want to elevate its importance to something greater than what it is. LibStar (talk) 15:08, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- The content is also incredibly misleading because it implies something about the politics of the suburb and polling place statistics do not reflect the individual politics of any individual suburb because people don't always stay in their suburb to vote. Quite often they vote at polling places outside of their suburb and this is almost certainly the case with Windale. People from, for example, around Willow Road (including its side streets) in Gateshead are more likely to have voted at the Windale polling place, because of distance and much lower traffic volumes than at the high school on the Pacific Highway in Gateshead. People from Tingira Heights, 1km down the road, are likely to have voted there because it's the closest polling place. Given the demographic of Windale (predominantly families) and the population at the time of the 2007 election (~2800 of which ~1500 were below voting age) about 1,300 electors should have voted at the polling place and yet 2,319 people voted there. This applies to the other elections as well. The only way to confirm how many Windale voters actually voted in Windale is to examine the electoral rolls used at the polling place and that's just not going to happen. Therefore, use of the tables and the implication that the tables reflect the politics of the suburb is WP:SYNTH. --AussieLegend (talk) 15:53, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- totally agreed with AussieLegend. LibStar (talk) 01:56, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
- The content is also incredibly misleading because it implies something about the politics of the suburb and polling place statistics do not reflect the individual politics of any individual suburb because people don't always stay in their suburb to vote. Quite often they vote at polling places outside of their suburb and this is almost certainly the case with Windale. People from, for example, around Willow Road (including its side streets) in Gateshead are more likely to have voted at the Windale polling place, because of distance and much lower traffic volumes than at the high school on the Pacific Highway in Gateshead. People from Tingira Heights, 1km down the road, are likely to have voted there because it's the closest polling place. Given the demographic of Windale (predominantly families) and the population at the time of the 2007 election (~2800 of which ~1500 were below voting age) about 1,300 electors should have voted at the polling place and yet 2,319 people voted there. This applies to the other elections as well. The only way to confirm how many Windale voters actually voted in Windale is to examine the electoral rolls used at the polling place and that's just not going to happen. Therefore, use of the tables and the implication that the tables reflect the politics of the suburb is WP:SYNTH. --AussieLegend (talk) 15:53, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
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