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Origin of Name

The reasons why the area is known as 'Dee Why' will, realistically, never be known for sure. This doesn't mean that suggestions cannot be put forward, however these hypotheses need to be referenced from a reliable source, otherwise they will be removed from the article. If you know of a reason given for Dee Why's name, please take the time to find your source first, and perhaps a short list can be made in the 'History' section. Terovian (talk) 08:22, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed this:

Lawrence Hargrave, in his unpublished 1910 manuscript Lope de Vega, theorised that the suburb's name was evidence of the Spanish explorer in pre-settlement Australia, arguing that Meehan misread some local carved initials (since lost): "De V" – for de Vega.^[1]

I don't think we should include a fringe theory from an unpublished manuscript written by an unrecognised amateur historian (even if he is famous for another reason). It would be different if this theory was discussed in a secondary source. The theory is in fact extremely silly, and we shouldn't give it recognition. (And incidentally it's a different Lope de Vega from the one linked to.)--Jack Upland (talk) 03:17, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Digging deeper, the Australia Dictionary of Biography refers to Hargrave's "elaborately constructed, circumstantial and obsessively held Lope de Vega theory", but doesn't mention Dee Why. The archeologist Denis Gojak in Placenames Australia comments "But another contribution he made has now almost been completely forgotten—a speculative secret Spanish history of Sydney, complete with its own placenames". However, this article again doesn't mention Dee Why. Gojak does mention the Dee Why theory in his blog "The Secret Visitors Project" which is devoted to pseudoarcheology and which clearly does not support Hargrave's theories. It is clear that this is a very obscure and very fringe theory.

This pamphlet, "Why Dee Why" discusses several theories of the name's origin, and debunks the Hargrave theory in a distorted form.--Jack Upland (talk) 08:54, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Hargrave, Lawrence (1910), Lope de Vega, the Author, retrieved 19 April 2017

Clubs

Is it worth adding a list of clubs in the Dee Why area ?
Like the RSL club , Builders Club etc ?
Alxxthegeek (talk) 05:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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