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There were at least two WWII US air force bases around, Rockhampton, 1st. where the current international airport is, 2nd. was located about half way between Rockhampton and the east coast at a place know as Hedlow. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.60.192 (talk) 15:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
I am proposing deleting everything but the first paragraph in the seciton on newspapers as it strays considerably off the topic of a geography article. Michellecrisp (talk) 04:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Below is the removed content from this section should it be useful elsewhere:
A satirical paper called "The Mourning Bulltin" was occasionally produced during the Capricarna Festival, it contained stories about local events (some factual, some purely ficticious) written in a satirical style.
A rival newspaper, the Northern Argus, appeared January 3, 1863, becoming a daily newspaper in 1875. Initially the Bulletin was held to be more conservative while the Argus was more radical, though in 1895, the Argus was bought by Stewart Hartley, the son in law of Charles Hardie Buzzacott (who had been editor of the Bulletin after his brother William) and reissued as the Daily Record. The paper was bought by Thomas J. Ryan, later Labor Premier of Queensland, and became a vehicle for Labor policies. It became the Evening News in 1922, and was later bought by and incorporated into the Bulletin by 1941.
The Capricornian was a weekly newspaper launched on January 2, 1875, which was amalgamated with the Artesian, another weekly newspaper, to be reissued as the Central Queensland Herald on January 1, 1930, before ceasing circulation in 1956. Another rival paper from the 1890s was the Peoples Newspaper edited after 1896 by Wallace Nelson, who was described as "Rockhampton's Breeziest Editor and Most Attractive Speaker".
The short-lived but inventively named Rockhampton Laughing Jackass was a weekly newspaper founded by Louis Marcellin Martin in 1881. Colourful, irreverent and humorous it ceased publication in mid 1882 due to financial difficulties. The idea of a satirical journal was resurrected twenty years later with the launch of the Cornucopian on January 1 1901, however it was equally short lived.
North Rockhampton had its own newspaper for some years from 1885; the Rockhampton Temperance Advocate which became the North Rockhampton Times & Blackall Electorate Advertiser. -- Mattinbgn\talk 05:00, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
definitely could be expanded as per WP:LEAD Michellecrisp (talk) 23:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Is it needed? seems to be not consistent with WP:NOT#DIR? Michellecrisp (talk) 01:30, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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Karl Stephenovic(sp) was born in Rockhampton, or so it says on his wiki page. 70.77.220.229 (talk) 04:33, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved. There is easily a rough consensus to move, in that all but one of the opponents quote Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)#Australia as their main or only reason for opposing, and there is currently no consensus supporting this convention as is, see Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2011/March#Current discussions?. One of the oppose votes below even supports a change to the convention. I encourage all who participated in this discussion to now help get the convention sorted out; This discussion will help. Andrewa (talk) 21:52, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Rockhampton, Queensland → Rockhampton — "Rockhampton" is currently a disambiguation page but "Rockhampton, Queensland" is clearly the primary topic. The other two articles linked on the disambiguation page are an unreferenced sub-stub on an English village and a derivative article on the city centre of Rockhampton. While a "Rockhampton (disambiguation) page could be created, I feel it would be simpler to use a hat note. While the naming guidelines for Australian places as currently written states that mandatory disambiguation is required, this guideline no longer enjoys wide consensus and the results of recent move discussions at Talk:Ballarat#Requested move, Talk:Whyalla#Requested move and Talk:Alice Springs#Requested move reflect this. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 07:09, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
The Suburbs section currently contains a list of suburbs, each which link to their own separate Wikipedia articles. Almost all of these links are dead links as no such separate article exists anyway. For the working links, most go to a stub article which simply reiterates that the suburb is a suburb of Rockhampton, and lists its 2006 census population. Only 2 or 3 working links go to any more of that, and those pages are still stubs themselves. I propose that these separate articles be deleted, the links removed, and the Suburbs section be changed into table format which can display the suburb name, census data and any other relevent information in a separate column titled Notes or More Info or something like that. I don't think the separate suburbs of Rockhampton are so noteworthy as to warrant their own Wikipedia articles, especially when no-one seems to be able to think of anything to write anyway. FatDaks (talk) 23:20, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
The wikilink Brothers Old Boys has been added by an anon editor in this article as a Rockhampton sports team. According to the BOB's article they are a Brisbane team which arose from a Brisbane school and there is no mention there of a connection to Rockhampton. But there is a Rockhampton Brothers Rugby Union Team website, which uses a similar looking logo to BOB and this Fraternity web page suggests there are multiple Brothers football teams in some kind of fraternal relationship (guessing teams of old boys of various Christian Brothers schools). Can anyone more knowledgable about rugby union sort this out? If it's one team, can the connection to Rockhampton be mentioned in the BOB article? If it's a separate team, can we change the name of the team in this article and remove the wikilink to the Brisbane team? Or whatever else makes sense. Kerry (talk) 23:08, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
There appears to be too much detail about the monarchy instead of the city. How about we remove the recently added section and place it on Royal visits to Australia? - Shiftchange (talk) 14:28, 24 November 2016 (UTC)