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In response to earlier questions the battle site is where the current education center is now. It was left as a park for many years in honor of the fallen but eventually had the current center built on top of it. Bakery Hill was the site of the raising of the Eureka flag a few kilometers from the battlesite.


WRT the supposed J. Bruggeman, I've never heard of him either. --Robert Merkel


Should National Trust be disambiguated/clarified? jimfbleak

I really should do something to expand this poor little stub, seeing as I've lived here for ... er ... close on 20 years, and must have learned something about the place in that time. Instead, I'm planning to carry right on writing about an obscure rodent that I've never seen and which is found only in the USA - a place I've never been to and probably never will. Doubtless there is some sort of logic behind that. Somewhere. Tannin 15:47 26 May 2003 (UTC)

I just nuked the fuzzy thumbnail code (an obvious fix) but also fixed an older problem that I wasn't aware of till just now:

Someone, in all good faith, "corrected" the image by doing two things: twisting it to make it seem level, and changing the colour values. It's easy to see how these might have looked "wrong". They were, however, perfectly correct in the original image, which I have now restored. The skyline does slope from the lower ground at left up towards Mt Bunninyong, and the picture was taken on the sort of day that Ballarat is famous for: cold, wet, and bloody miserable. The gloomy grey cast is accurate in both senses: as a record of the scene that particular winter day, and as an indication of the essential Ballarat. Ballarat in July is not a Greek island in May!. Tannin 14:07, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

  • I'll give you the color difference (I was the person who made the changes), but the picture is in fact crooked. It may well be that the land slopes, but I'd guess that the buildings don't lean, as they do in this image. Denni☯ 16:15, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)
    • They look straight to me! But I have a better idea. What say I go for a walk sometime and take a better picture of the town? This one is really just a picture of Lake Wendouree in the tourist precinct. Then we can delete this one and move on. Tannin 23:43, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • PS: maybe I could take a few shots of the area where Eureka took place (general area: the exact area remains unknown. There are two main theories, I believe: one says that it was more-or-less where today's park and memorial stands (between Victoria St and Eureka St), the other that it was on Bakery Hill, on a site now occupied by, of all things, a discount supermarket. Tannin
      • Excellent suggestion! I look forward to seeing what the Eureka site looks like today. Denni☯ 21:01, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)

Hmm... should mention be made of the School of Mines, and the University of Ballarat? The sheer number of round-abouts we seem to have. The fact that we actually have a bus service, despite being outside of Melbourne and Sydney. The prisoners of war memorial? The arch? The saleyards? (anyone have statistics?) The begonia festival? Sovereign Hill? Kryal Castle? (well... it's kinda nearby) Martin Rudat(T|@|C) 13:36, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The avenue of honor is longer than 15 kilometers, it is somthing like 29kms. seriously.


Entertainment & Nightlife

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This sentence "Hotels are popular meeting places for young people and more recently several speak easy's have opened around the city." makes no sense. Dance clubs are more popular meeting places for young people, and the term "speak easy" means nothing in Australian English.

Better Photos

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This article seriously needs some better photos. The current ones mostly all have grey skies! I know that shows the true Ballarat, but it just looks plain dull. I have seen some pretty special photos of the city that would be really great here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.254.105.46 (talk) 12:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]


Thanks for making all this info available. Now I can at least get an idea of the environment where my children live. 04.05.2007

Henry Anderson

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Henry Anderson is mentioned in History of Ballarat as being as being the partner in Yuille's grazing property. The link to Henry Anderson brings-up a Henry James Anderson who, it seems, is a different person. Can anyone clarify this important point?

Etymology of placename

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It is often said that the name Ballarat was derived from local Aboriginal dialect meaning 'resting place'. Is there any evidence for this? Celtic settlers from England might have named it Balla (the place of) Rat (the rat), especially if they were living under extreme pioneer conditions. Obviously I'd be very happy if there was evidence for 'resting place'. (Northernhenge (talk) 23:54, 9 February 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Kryal Castle

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I have made a page for Kryal Castle. If anyone would like to help add to it feel free as it was delewted earlier.

Requested move

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 11:34, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ballarat, Victoria → Ballarat — All of these places have unique names that do not require disambiguation, other than Ballarat which is unquestionably the prime use of the name ("Ballarat" redirects to "Ballarat, Victoria" now). In line with the long standing Wikipedia-wide policy at WP:COMMONNAME, these titles should not be disambiguated. The idiosyncratic practice of mandatory disambiguation of place names in Australia now longer has any clear consensus (see Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 36#RM -- moving forward) and renaming these articles would bring them into line with other Australian regional cities such as Toowoomba, Bundaberg, Coffs Harbour, Dubbo and Wagga Wagga. The discussions at Talk:Deniliquin#Requested move and Talk:Coffs Harbour#Requested move may be useful background for editors participating in this discussion. Mattinbgn (talk) 11:22, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    • Support- this is clearly the sensible thing to do. When people use the search pane, they're going to type "Ballarat", not "Ballarat, Victoria", and when an editor who is not familiar with the irrational current practice wants to link to the city they're going to link to Ballarat, not Ballarat, Victoria. Putting the articles in the right place will save work in the long run and just makes more sense. Reyk YO! 19:46, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This could be the start of something big. Do we intend this proposal to flow on to every uniquely named Australian place? There are probably thousands of them. HiLo48 (talk) 21:19, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Have you read the earlier discussions linked to above? This is not the start of something but follows months of discussion in various forums. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 23:23, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No. A simple yes or no would be fine, thanks. HiLo48 (talk) 08:14, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
My feeling is that eventually this is going to happen. There is no longer any consensus for the "Town, State" format, and current practice is moving away from it. But I don't think anyone is going to start moving thousands of articles Australian towns and cities based on what we decide here. Reyk YO! 07:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • As I mentioned above there is no longer any consensus for that naming convention and yes, the naming guideline should be rewritten to reflect what current practice actually is but I am not in the mood for an edit war. Many Australian places are no longer disambiguated, including many regional cities comparable to these three cities(see the abovementioned Toowoomba, Bundaberg, Coffs Harbour and others listed at User:Mattinbgn/Undisambiguated Australian places). If the naming convention you link to was not previously in existence, there is no way that it would gain consensus now. I suspect it was also an attempt to follow a US precedent to fix a problem that never really applied in Australia, and such is deeply flawed. Lack of consensus for a local exemption should mean referring back to the default policy I am not sure why a local guideline with no consensus should overrule the broad naming policy that covers the entire encyclopedia that does enjoy wide consensus. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 23:23, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think that is an unfair mischaracterisation. Establishing that a convention that used to have consensus doesn't have it anymore, that doesn't sound like "crash and burn" to me. And given that support for the "Town, state" format is evaporating I do not think it is forum shopping to deal with the ones that least require disambiguation on a case-by-case basis. Reyk YO! 01:24, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • What we did establish though, is that there is no consensus in either direction. So one can't act as if a consensus was established in the opposite direction and go around trying to implement it in a piecemeal fashion. Orderinchaos 08:26, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • The Australian naming convention, which has no consensus, is an exception to the Wikipedia-wide naming convention, which does. In my opinion any exception to a widely accepted rule needs continued support- once that support evaporates then we should revert to the more global rule. This is especially true if actual practice is heading that way anyway, as it is here. Reyk YO! 02:21, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - having read through most of the previous discussions, I didn't see any compelling reason why placenames should be predisambiguated in violation of WP:AT, and certainly for placenames that need no disambiguation at all it seems entirely redundant. Gatoclass (talk) 01:10, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Ballarat is known as Ballarat, disambiguation of unique placenames in Australia isn't needed and unnecessary. Non-placename article are disambiguated when there is another article which is has the same or similar name and isn't disambiguated just for the sake of it. Bidgee (talk) 02:39, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. No consensus for changing the naming convention; venue-shopping is not the answer. This is about the fourth venue Mattinbgn has tried to move articles through after failing to gain consensus for a change. Rebecca (talk) 04:49, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm also curious why you oppose Bendigo yet support Ballarat and Geelong. If anything, Ballarat would be the one that would cause most confusion (though only because of a ghost town in California). I don't see how Bendigo needs to be kept "Bendigo, Victoria". Anoldtreeok (talk) 01:10, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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School Rankings

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We have just had an addition to the article telling us how highly ranked some of Ballarat's schools are, according to a commercial site that does such ranking. School ranking is a controversial matter. There is little agreement over both its accuracy and what it really means. I'm very uncomfortable with this addition. HiLo48 (talk) 05:24, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Names of Inhabitants: historical oddities and obsession in Wikipedia?

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I made an edit today about the "name" of people who live (or come from Ballarat). Having had close family and social connections with the city, and having a professional interest in the history of the region, I have never heard or seen the term Ballafornian. I strongly suggest the the isolated occurrence of an appellation in the 19th Century as indicated by the reference (a book discussing pre-Federation social history) does not make such appellation the commonly used name of people in or from Ballarat. Indeed in Australia the most common term for people who come from somewhere (other that states, and then only jocularly or if state rivalry is being emphasized) is almost always "from X", not an appellation (you are "from Melbourne", not a "Melbournite/Melbournian/etc.") There seems to be an obsession in Wikipedia that people from a geographic area must have an appellation. Pages on a geographic area sometimes even have a tag in a box for what the inhabitants are called, usually an Anglophone appellation, and all too often subject to strong criticism as being an isolated word from a minor source. Why? Perhaps it reflects that there is a belief that names are power, to know the name is to have power, in this case to have credibility when discussing people from the area.Brunswicknic (talk) 06:50, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Melburnians are from Melbourne. Remove any others without discussion, IMO. Same with "locally known as Greensy, Monty, Boxy, Shoppo" (Greensborough, Montmorency, Box Hill, shopping centre). Ballafornian has escaped me, too; Bendigonians exist, but barely worth a mention; apparently schoolgirls from Molesworth claim they are from Yea North, and residents of Waaia have severe vowel problems Crusoe8181 (talk) 10:06, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I looked up trove, National Library of Australia, and google, zero and 6 hits (3 repeated peices of writing) for Ballafornian, Ballaratites and Ballaratians are mainly historic uses on trove, google (limited to Australia) give a 30-60 hits, compared to 80k plus for terms such as Melburnian, Melbournian, Sydneysider and Sydneyite. In other words the terms for Ballarat are presently very uncommon and mainly historic, but they do exist, so I wish to leave that in. The term Ballafornian is documented in a Monograph on Ballarat history, so it is noteworthy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brunswicknic (talk • contribs) 10:11, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ballaratian fetches 4,200 results from Google including 2,080 from Australia - not "30-60" as Brunswicknic suggests. I live in Ballarat and Ballaratian is the denonym which commonly appears in the local media and is definitely still used by people here. I really don't know anyone would expect the term to generate as many hits as Melburnian or Sydneysider when the population is 40 times less ... The other terms seem to have popped up in a recent edit and are spurious. I have never seen or heard of either of them. Historic denonyms I think should be mentioned elsewhere than the head. --Biatch (talk) 05:33, 2 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ballafornian now receives 1390 hits on Google from a variety of sources. It appears that "Ballafornian" is neologism that appears to be popular among younger people from Ballarat. There are a number of twitter bios that also reference it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bvpb (talk • contribs) 22:24, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As much as I want 'Ballafornian' to be a legitimate demonym created by Californian gold prospectors, I reckon that its a furphy. I went down to the bowels of the University of Melbourne library to find the book cited for this incredible fact and found no such mention of Ballafornians or anything that could be considered vaguely related to the term. TheDiamondFiretail (talk) 01:36, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Eureka Stockade "only" armed rebellion?

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This seems wrong: "the only armed rebellion in Australian history". What about eg. Castle Hill convict rebellion and Rum Rebellion? --Skud (talk) 23:24, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Which montage is more attractive?

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Please state why, regarding your opinion. Ashton 29 (talk) 10:36, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Montage A

or Montage B

I don't think its really a case of attractiveness, but relevance. The existing montage could be spruced up, but Wikipedia is not really a magazine. The context and size of the collage image needs to be carefully considered. Montage A doesn't contain the notable landmarks and some of them look too tiny to make out. Cuthberts and the Bridge Hotel are barely known within Ballarat, let alone outside of it. Focus on what the montage should contain. 1) The city skyline - because it is on the treasure's list good 2) Sovereign Hill (because as the #1 tourist attraction for most people outside of Ballarat, the city = Sovereign Hill What Ballarat is known for is 3) Lydiard Street - i.e as much of the whole street, not any single building 4) Town Hall - it is the main civic centre 5) Railway Station - it is a major landmark and the key transport hub 6) The Arch of Victory is a major landmark 7) Lake Wendouree/Botanical gardens. Though it is a memorial to the famous rebellion Eureka memorial has never really a major landmark of Ballarat. Montage B contains multiple landmarks in some photos - ie Queen Vic statue (as Ballarat is a Vic city). --Biatch (talk) 03:14, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Contradiction between the Bureau of Meteorology's records and The Courier's reporting about the city's lowest temp on record

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In this article, it claims that the lowest temperature in Ballarat's recorded history was −6.3 °C (21 °F) during winter last year, on 19 July 2015. However, the Bureau of Meteorology's records for the Ballarat Aerodrome, where The Courier article claims last year's record breaking temp was recorded, states the lowest temperature on record was actually −6.0 °C (21 °F) at sunrise on 21 July 1982. There's a huge different in terms of dates there, 33 years to be exact. So does anyone know for sure? Which one is it? Here is the Courier article and here is the record history from BoM. Ashton 29 (talk) 10:50, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Ballarat/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

I was working on another which I linked into here, since it hadn't been rated I read through the article found it covers the subject really well. I couldnt find an major flaws so have given the following ratings impotance—high and B—class, I think if someone has the time nominate this to WP:GA. --Gnangarra 12:25, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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What's with the crime section? Its contents are completely inappropriate. 141.6.11.23 (talk) 12:30, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Voltage of power supply in 1942?

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Under Since the 20th Century, the article states that "In 1942, Ballarat became connected to the state electricity grid by a 66,000 kV line." 66,000 kV is 66MV (66 million volts); I don't think any public power distribution system in the world has ever been that high. Should this be 66 kV/66,000V? Wocky (talk) 06:29, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Victoria's second city?

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Under History we have a subsection titled Victoria's second city, but there's nothing in that section that explains that heading in ay way at all. I suggest there needs to be. HiLo48 (talk) 04:50, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey HiLo48. After reading the section it makes sense to me. It would have been Victoria's second city back in the 19th century with the gold rush and all, it was the richest city on earth for a period, the wealth dug up in the goldfields built most of Melbourne's grandest buildings including most of Collins Street. With Mark Twain visiting in 1895 and describing the city as having "A celebrity so prompt and so universal has hardly been paralleled in history, perhaps. It was as if the name BALLARAT had suddenly been written on the sky, where all the world could read it at once." It's certainly not Victoria's second city today, Geelong is more than twice the size. I agree it could do with some explanation. Bacondrum (talk) 21:39, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It wasn't the second city established. Presumably Geelong holds that title. It already existed as a major arrival point for the miners heading to Ballarat when they came to the country. Should it perhaps say something more like "Second biggest city" (at the time)? Or a source that says it was the second to be proclaimed a city (if that's true)? HiLo48 (talk) 21:54, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I assume they mean second city in terms of wealth and power in the colony during the vic gold rush, if we have no source to back the claim, "Victoria's second city" I think we should simply title the section Post gold rush or some such. Bacondrum (talk) 23:18, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bluestone power station

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There's a sentence that says "The first electricity supply was completed in 1901, and that year a bluestone power station was built at the corner of Ripon Street and Wendouree Parade with the main aim of electrifying the city's tramway network." Does any one know what powered the "Bluestone power station" or where exactly this was? Intriguing. Skinnytony1 (talk) 11:38, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Postcode

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Shouldn't 3356 be apart of the Postcodes list? 2402:B801:387E:2900:69B2:5D74:ECE4:F071 (talk) 06:24, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Film filming-location missing

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New Gold Mountain, that SBS TV miniseries, was set in Ballaarat, wasn't it?

Theeeen it deserves to be added, & perhaps the section renamed 'Film&Television and other multimedia', or, 'Use as a setting in entertainment'

? 49.184.6.191 (talk) 14:51, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

eGaming established yet?

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If there's nothing of note in relation to eGaming yet, then no section seems fine, but if there is, then it could deserve a section.

Same with any sections-for or groupings-of tabletop gaming, gamer-culture & it's events, and any periodic or visting showcasing/exhibitions.

Or even more broadly (to tabletop/traditional -gaming), any regular outdoor chess locations in parks, or periodic public-spaces fun, such as city-wide scavenger hunts (digitally- virtualised or augmented-reality overlayed, or similar ones), etc 49.184.6.191 (talk) 15:28, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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