Overleg gebruiker:Graham87

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Graham87 27 mrt 2010 07:46 (CET)

Copyedit

Thank you very much for this, Graham. The Dutch Wikipedia certainly needs it! --ErikvanB (overleg) 9 feb 2011 04:10 (CET)

Wilyabrup

Hey Graham87, nice to see you still contributing. About the change you made on Wilyabrup, I have to say that borders change all the time. Most of the time, not all the time, f.e. when big factories or mines close, changes in population are in fact changes in borders. When they are important like when two statistical units were merged, f.e. two shires or a shire and a town, it is indicated. I never compare different statistical units but I do assume that people are aware of the fact that the borders of statistical units change. If one can't compare statistical units when borders have changed then comparisons are almost impossible, then most comparisons on the population in time of Western Australian places I made like that have to be deleted. I would not recommend that. Greetings. Skaldis (overleg) 21 okt 2022 10:14 (CEST)

@Skaldis: Yes, good to see you're editing too. borders change all the time, but as the Australian Bureau of Statistics themselves says, "ABS approximations of administrative boundaries do not match official legal boundaries and should only be used for statistical purposes". Official boundaries usually change very gradually, not by hundreds of square kilometres in five/ten years. In my experience when you get to rural areas without big towns like this case, the areas they use for each locality can vary wildly from census to census (especially between pre-2016 localities and those from 2016 onwards), making comparisons difficult; the 2011 census was particularly notorious for problems like this. The comparisons are better for urban areas or those with towns in them. I don't often find these comparisons for large rural localities on the English Wikipedia and when I do, I usually remove them, unless I know they're comparing relatively similar land areas. Graham87 (overleg) 21 okt 2022 14:20 (CEST)

Ok, I will not revise all the WA locations I wrote about, i just did that updating to 2021 census, but I will keep it in mind for next time or when I see something by accident.Skaldis (overleg) 22 okt 2022 16:58 (CEST)