Talk:Tank Stream

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This article is a clandestine rant backing a movement to uncover a stream to run again on the surface. It doesn't present science, and comes perilously close to racism with unattested statements such as "For thousands of years, Aboriginal people..." followed shortly by "when white people reached the shores..."

The cited "Tank Stream dreaming" is quite open about the goal, whereas this article is cagy.

There's hyperbole in practically every sentence, meretricious observations such as "A ballot system is used to allow people an equal chance..." What else would a ballot be for?

Probably the easiest way to demonstrate how much equivocation is present in the text is to rewrite it (realizing, of course, that others may chose to revert it). In that way, it will be easier to compare the dross.

(Note the edited version is very similar to the October 2006 version.)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.20.226 (talk) 06:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for you concern. But like most of the articles on wikipedia this article has been cobbled together with some useful facts and slanted points of view and all it needs is a good rewrite. So go ahead and give it a go. Don't be shy.

Although I would have to disagree with your above statement and think you are a tad looney for you to think that the article had just become a rant about having it uncovered. I added the link to Tank Stream Dreaming and was merely stating the fact that there are calls that the stream should be uncovered. It was a good way to link in a good article about the Tank Stream. Where you get the idea that is part of clandestine secret movement is a cause for concern about your sanity. Nomadtales (talk) 10:05, 20 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Just for the record: the tanks 'constructed' were sumps or sinks cut into the Hawkesbury sandstone on which Sydney stands (and from which much of early Sydney was built). They were below-ground reservoirs, open to the sky, catching and damming the flow. There are instances of citizens being fined or flogged for fouling the vital Tank Stream waters. See here: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628072/

Amused that this poor old ditch has been politicised. What an odd age we live in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.12.111 (talk) 23:36, 23 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

The source co-ordinates show the stream as originating north of Sydney Cove, whereas it is in fact a southern tributary.Dr. British12 (talk) 17:48, 6 November 2016 (UTC)Reply