Talk:Queensland

Ground surface temperature

We show a record high of 69.3°C ... this is likely what the American weather service calls skin temperature, and is not really comparable to what weather stations are designed to measure. An even higher skin temperature was once measured in Death Valley, California, but is not considered to be a weather record. I'm only bringing this up because many people have little understanding of what a reasonable temperature to expect is ... so we have to be more explicit for our readers than we might want to be sometimes. —Soap— 14:43, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

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Was Queensland actually named after Queen Victoria?

I have just removed the claim that Queensland was named after Queen Victoria. The claim has been in the article since 2007 citing a webpage that is now unavailable but appears to haved relocated to [1] which talks about how popular Queen Victoria was, saying it was named after her due to "patriotic fervour". Unfortunately, patriotic fervour doesn't seem to come into it, as the first mention of Queensland in the newspapers of the era (as available on Trove) are reporting the signing of the Letters Patent (nobody was calling out for that name prior to it appearing on the Letters Patent as far as I can see, the preferred name seems to have been Cooksland, a name proposed by John Dunmore Lang). Unfortunately neither the Letters Patent (scan and transcript online at the Qld State Archives), nor any webpages about the history of Queensland on the Qld Parliament websiste nor the Queensland Government website make claims about the origin of the name (why wouldn't they if it is well-known?). I searched through the Trove digitised newspapers which announce the creation of the colony and they don't make any claims about the origin of the name that I can find. While I can appreciate that people may think it's "obvious" and indeed it was what I assumed too, but if it's true, wouldn't we expect to find this information on some authoritative website or other authoritative document? There is no question that Queen Victoria signed the Letters Patent (that's not the point in dispute) but was it named after her, or some other queen, or what? I'm happy to restore the claim if we can find an authoritative citation which I think has to come from the period of the name's creation. I note you can find plenty of present-day claims that it is named after Queen Victoria but nothing from anyone authoritative (e.g. govt, prominent historian, etc) and I guess having this info in this Wikipedia article from 2007 until now may well have contributed some of these claims (all the more reason why we need to ensure that what goes into Wikipedia is reliably source). Please if you can find a reliable source, speak up! Kerry (talk) 01:22, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Question about InfoBox

Hi just wanted to know if anyone knows how the text on the map done in Ontario's article is done. I think that this would be a cool thing to do for Australian articles for each state and territory. But couldn't figure out what exactly they have done to achieve this. It seems to be a custom template. I'll keep trying to figure this out, just wanted to see if someone already knows how to do this. AverageFraud (talk) 02:23, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

Lack of citations

For a "top importance" "vital" article, there is a lot of content missing citations. Please add citations to any content you have added or it will sooner or later be deleted as per WP:V policy. Kerry (talk) 00:49, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

And if you are citing books or other paginated documents, you need to include the page number. Kerry (talk) 00:51, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Yes, the extreme claims of large scale "massacres", "genocide" and "slavery" seem to be more based on politically driven hype, than actually based on rigorously referenced scholarly fact. Will the claims of "massacres" also include colonialist victims ie, the massacre at "Fort Rainworth"? JellyThoughts (talk) 14:45, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

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