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Going through the random orphaned pages link, I found an article about an artist from Canberra. I've also noticed that several articles about towns or cities often have sections about notable people whom were born or lived there. The article about Canberra doesn't, and even if it did, I would not be able to edit it seen as it is a semi-protected page and I have not made enough edits to contribute to semi-protected pages yet. Could someone fix this? Bradicalguy (talk) 03:53, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This article does not have a list of notable people and it would be deleted if anybody tried to create it in order to preserve its FA rating. Even it existed, thousands of people would qualify ahead of Chris Walrus Dalzell. The Dalzell article was lucky to survive a deletion nomination.--Grahame (talk) 07:19, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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A sparse gathering of frock-coated, stiffcollared politicians, their wives, a few soldiers
and local farmers watched as Lady Denman,
wife of Australia's Governor-General, took a
card from a small gold case and announced: 'I
name the capital city of Australia "Canberra".'
Although a secret up to this minute, the chosen
name was scarcely a surprise. 'Canberry' had
been the accepted name of the area as far
back as 1825 when John Joshua Moore, the
first white settler in the district, had grazed
sheep there. It had also been called 'Kamberra'.
Said to be derived from the Aboriginal word
for 'meeting place', it is also believed to have
been the name of an Aboriginal tribe inhabiting
the area when Europeans first arrived.
Also on the dais at this memorable foundation
ceremony were Lord Denman, the Prime
Minister, Andrew Fisher, and the Minister for
Home Affairs, King O'Malley, a bearded exreal estate salesman from Kansas. The date was
12 March 1913.
About them lay the empty Monaro plains,
limestone sheep country, stock tracks, and a
small scattered village.
None of those present on this almost treeless
site could have visualised the city which, only
50 years later, would have, among other things,
more than three million trees. 110.33.67.33 (talk) 06:21, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated FA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
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