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Sometime or other I intend to get a photo of Ashfield Park from Parramatta Rd but realistically we have more than enough photos now :) Crico 06:30, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
As per discussion at Talk:List of Sydney suburbs, I have created a separate page for the Municipality of Ashfield, the Local Government Area. -- Ianblair23 05:44, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Politically Ashfield has been a traditional stronghold of the Labor party. Since the late 1990s and especially after 2004 Local Government in Ashfield is experiencing a shift away from the Labor to smaller political entities such as the Greens and other miscellaneous Independents. Many residents argue that this derives from ratepayer dissatisfaction with unsympathetic highrise developments in the area, much of which has been done with the blessing of the Labor Party dominated Ashfield Council. The present political make up of the Ashfield Municipal Council is: Labor Party - 4 Greens - 3 Independents - 3 Liberal (conservative) Party - 1
According to a plaque set in the ground, the park at the corner of Frederick and Church Streets (then known as the Ashfield Sports Ground or similar??) was the launching point of the first "deliberate", "intentional" use of a parachute in Australia. Presumably there had been unplanned or emergency use of parachutes prior to December 8, 1888, on which date J.T. Williams ascended 6000 feet in a balloon and jumped out on purpose. To celebrate the centenary of the achievement, an Australian parachuting champion repeated the jump, and the Ashfieldians put up the complicated plaque that can be seen today. - Juliannechat 5 April 2006
The author of five volumes of Mary Poppins stories lived in Ashfield while she was a schoolgirl, and her most famous character was briefly commemmorated there.
"In her long life, spent in London, the United States and Dublin, Travers kept her Australian origins hidden. But when she died in 1996, much of her Australian life was revealed."
-- Valerie Lawson, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, March 13, 2004
"On July 28 vandals attacked the Poppins statue in Ashfield Park, leaving only the feet. The rest of the body lay on the ground, with much damage to the legs and umbrella. The bits are now in the council depot and will be repaired by a local craftsman."
-- Valerie Lawson, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, August 9, 2005
The following information about "Travers" is from Valerie Lawson's Out Of The Sky She Came, Hodder 1999 (British title Mary Poppins She Wrote).
Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, QLD, on 9 August 1899, and spent her childhood there and in Bowral. In 1912 she became a boarder at Normanhurst Private Girls School in Ashfield. A few years later her mother rented a cottage at 17 Pembroke Street, Ashfield, so that she could once again live at home and her younger sisters could also attend Normanhurst. She chose her new name, Pamela Lyndon Travers, when she began work as a journeyman actress and journalist. After she left Australia in 1924 Travers divided her time between England, Ireland, and America and most of her readers did not know about her Australian past.
According to Lawson's research, "Lyndon was never, in her own mind, an Australian, always an Irish woman with a Scots mother." In addition to tracing the ways that the Mary Poppins stories used autobiographical material (e.g., Travers' father had presided over a bank failure!), Lawson thoroughly reviews all of Travers' writing, and her long involvement with Irish writers (AE, Yeats, etc.) and a succession of mystical teachers (Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Krishnamurti and others), and various intense friendships with both men and women. Lawson also analyses Travers' involvement with and complex reactions to the Disney treatment of Mary, which made her a wealthy woman. Travers protected her privacy in life but chose to sell moderately revealing letters and papers to Sydney's Mitchell Library.
During her lifetime Travers gave money for a statue of Mary Poppins to be erected in New York City's Central Park, but there were almost no other donations and the project had to be abandoned. (All of the preceding information is from Lawson. See the P. L. Travers topic for more Lawson links, including one about Lawson's dispute with New Yorker staff writer Caitlin Flanagan, whom Lawson alleges used Lawson's original Travers research without attribution, in a recent profile.) - Juliannechat 23 June 2006
Just drove past the Mary Poppins statue and it's back in place. - Juliannechat 30 September 2006
More on the Caitlin Flanagan issue: this link from Salon quotes Lawson (except not by name) and states that the Poppins article was Flanagan's last article for the New Yorker and that professionalism was likely an issue in the parting. http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/11/22/flanagan/index.html - Juliannechat 23 April 2009
More on the pioneering Sydney businessman Mei Quong Tart. Per CHIA, "While seen by the non-Chinese community as a leader of the Chinese the Chinese community was divided in their views and support of him." ("http://www.chia.chinesemuseum.com.au/biogs/CH00021b.htm") His former mansion (on Arthur Street) was mostly pulled down this summer, but a tower segment is being kept, to be incorporated into a new aged care facility named for him. There's also a bust of him near the railway station. Tart died of pleurisy contracted while recovering from a beating that was almost certainly a hate crime. - Juliannechat 5 April 2006
Does the population of 40,000 refer to the municipality, rather than the suburb? Is it an error? Even a very dense placce would be hard pressed to have so many.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 06:30, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
This article is a good level B now. I would be happy to take on the task of providing a full assessment and suggestions to reach GA if an editor/s wants to (a) read the document thoroughly looking particularly for choppy unencyclopaedic language, (b) check all references and make sure they follow this format:
<ref name="WEBSITE NAME">{{cite web | url = XXX.html | title = WEBPAGE NAME | publisher = PUBLISHER NAME | accessdate = YYYY-MM-DD }}</ref>,
(c) adjust fixed images so that they don't overlap the gallery, and (d) post a request for that assessment directly to my talk page. Your call if you are interested.--VS talk 14:18, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I have been asked to provide an assessment of the article as of today’s date.
Firstly I note that the main editor for some weeks has been Crico and he should be commended for his determination.
I do not mean to be harsh or discourteous in any way, thus from my perspective (I do tend to be a fairly hard marker) I note that the article has adjusted substantially and positively over the past few weeks. It is much closer to being assessable as a GA article but rather than do that at this stage I would rather make the following suggestions for improvement and then invite editors to re-submit when the article is a good deal closer.
Hopefully without appearing rude (and I make this point only because one of the editors mentioned that s/he was trying to gain the same status as Summer Hill) I suggest that you not use the Summer Hill article which IMHO is reaching the stage where a reassessment as to whether it is still GA, may be required.
In terms of this article - there is no reason why it could not make FA status. Towards that end editors should use as a benchmark Canberra which is FA but hope to get it up to at least Riverina which is a GA. I would be more than happy to follow this process through to that stage if you are of a mind to continue to seek my input.
Towards that end my suggestions are:
I will be happy to reassess directly against the GA criteria - however you should look carefully at the two examples I gave at the top of this critique to see what else could be expanded and fixed. I understand this is a lot of work – but a GA article is a feather in your cap so keep going. Please let me know on my talk page when you finish or if you have any questions. --VS talk 11:35, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
I note overnight that eyedubya is assisting - thank you. Can I suggest that a good way to inform other editors that areas in the list above have been adjusted is to use the template {{done}} which provides an image like this Done. You can add these throughout the list as often as you like. I have added the first one on behalf of one of eyedubya's changes. Cheers!--VS talk 21:50, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
I've started to edit this section for NPOV, and V reasons. I'm not sure why the Brescia fire is in there - is it related to the inter-ethnic violence in Sydney? If so, then more references are needed than the one cited. If it isn't related, then it should be in a separate paragraph. While I've tried to sort out opinion from fact wrt the gang rapes section (i.e. matters of causality wrt Cronulla riots were the opinion of Baird, who is a member of the right-wing Liberal party, and is not scientific fact), I'm sure there is more that could be done.Eyedubya 23:01, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
I have reverted the spelling of this building to Amesbury. There does seem to be some confusion over the spelling but the more reliable sources (in my view) use Amesbury:
References to Anesbury include:
I gave this article a big makeover today. It seemed way too image-heavy, with lots of problems like bunched-up edit links, overlapping floats, and far too much on the right-hand-side. I've tried to stagger images, replace galleries with single images, fix up the edit links, kill some unencyclopedic language, and some other related and unrelated stuff. Do tell me what you think! — Werdna • talk 03:26, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
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Nominator: LibStar (talk · contribs) 04:37, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: Phlsph7 (talk · contribs) 08:19, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello LibStar and thanks for your improvements of this article. However, despite the improvements, the article fails criterion 2b since there are too many unreferenced paragraphs and and some whole sections lack references. Examples are the section "Commercial area", the subsection "Notable residents", and the paragraphs starting with "Ashfield has three primary schools" and "For federal elections, Ashfield is part of the". According to criterion 2b, these passages require inline citations "no later than the end of the paragraph". I suggest that you add all the relevant references before a renomination.
A few other observations
there had even be a public school operatingreplace "be" with "been".
It produced a number of notable students including Pamela Travers (author of Mary Poppins) and tennis champion Daphne Akhurst. There were a number of other private schoolsreformulate to avoid repeating "a number of"
The Wesley Private Hospital in Frederick Street is a well establishedreplace "well established" with "well-established"
from Ashfield council's heritage guideshould "council" be uppercase?
is located at the South Western corner of the property,replace "South Western" with "southwestern"
in support of a new 106 acre reservereplace "106 acre" with "106-acre"
50 metre pooland
25 metre poollater
who lived nearby between 1918—1924replace "1918—1924" with "1918 and 1924"
had a higher than average numberreplace "higher than average" with "higher-than-average"
since the 2016 merger to the Inner West Councilreplace "to" with "with"
(since the 2016 merger to the Inner West Council, it has been known as 'speaker series')I don't think this should be in italics
This included the funding of an artist-in-residence program, who is basedreplace "who" with "which" or reformulate to to make clear that the second clause is about the artist and not about the program
The current artist is the Refugee Art Project and New Moon Collective.I assume it should be "artists are" rather than "artist is"
Ashfield also holds a cycling milestone when it hostedthis may have to be reformulated to avoid the clash in tense: Ashfield holds ... when it hosted
Phlsph7 (talk) 08:19, 31 March 2024 (UTC)