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Requested move at Talk:2023 Perth City Council election#Requested move 9 May 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2023 Perth City Council election#Requested move 9 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 04:06, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

WA TransRegional bus system articles

I've started a discussion at WikiProject Australian Transport about the various articles or lack thereof on the TransRegional bus networks in WA. Fork99 (talk) 01:59, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

As it is specifically to do with Western Australian articles, I consider the main problem is lack of content in the articles has been the low level of adequate information to clarify the services and their history. Transregional bus services in WA are markedly under-edited, despite the information about them existing. JarrahTree 02:13, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Emu War listed at Requested moves

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Requested move at Talk:Joondalup line#Requested move 14 July 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Joondalup line#Requested move 14 July 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 • [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 22:38, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Unreferenced category: Noongar placenames

These articles (and possibly others) are in Category:Noongar placenames, but there is no verifiable statement in the article to support that categorization. Per WP:CATV, "It should be clear from verifiable information in the article why it was placed in each of its categories".

• Barrabup, Western Australia
• Beelerup, Western Australia
• Cundinup, Western Australia
• Yabberup, Western Australia
• Yornup, Western Australia

In some cases the statement:

The suffix -up is commonly found in place names in south-western Western Australia and is of Noongar origin, meaning "place of".

has been added to the article. While this statement is true and verifiable, it is not sufficient, because:

• Neither that sentence nor its reference say that all place names ending in "up" are Noongar in origin.
• Use of that reference to cover any place not specifically included in the reference is WP:SYN.

Can we find references for each of the articles that explicitly say that the name is Noongar? Mitch Ames (talk) 11:59, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

That is actually sufficient because its consistent right across Noongar country(SW Australia), there is no synth when the suffix of up is used on a placename. Gnangarra 14:02, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Could you please cite and quote the reliable source that says that all place names in SW Australia that end in "up" are Noongar. That's "all placenames", because "some Noongar names end in 'up'" does not imply that "all names that end in 'up' are Noongar".

In any case, please read WP:SYN again: "Do not combine material from multiple sources to state or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources. ... If one reliable source says A [all names ending in "up" are of Noongar origin] and another reliable source says B [there exists a place called Foo-up], do not join A and B together to imply a conclusion C [the name Foo-up is of Noongar origin] not mentioned by either of the sources." Mitch Ames (talk) 14:49, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

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