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Power

Dont if you can add but the WA Government(western Power) disconnected power to the town site on 1st May 2006, this was the last service being provided to residents. Gnangarra 01:05, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Distance

The Geoscience Australia website offers a distance calculator. It is a bit hard to use but can be considered the authoritative authority on distances. It puts the distance between Wittenoom and Perth at 1106 km, rather than the 1644 km listed here. I will correct. Snottygobble 04:48, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Pity about the country in the tag Satu Suro 02:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

why is there no referance to CSR's behaivoir at wittenoom

123.243.37.55 (talk) 03:49, 15 August 2013 (UTC)The opposition deputy prime minister of this country played a morally corupt roll in over seeing the deaths of the claimants aganst CSR.[reply]

there is no mention on this page or on hers, julie Bishop should have to live with her decisions just like the victims of wittenoom have had to

A link to at least one reliable source describing CSR Limited's behaviour and Julie Bishop's decision would help us decide what - if anything - to add to the article.

(After following the links in my above sentence...)

Actually Wittenoom, Western Australia#Health concerns does mention CSR, as the parent of Australian Blue Asbestos, who operated the mine. Mitch Ames (talk) 10:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a hatnote to the "Health concerns" section, pointing to CSR Limited#Wittenoom controversy.

Any mention of Bishop is going to require specific references though, to comply with WP:BLP. Mitch Ames (talk) 10:13, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Current situation as of 2016

I've just found one of the journal which may useful for this article, and add the content as the reference. (Wittenoom: The survivors of an erased town) Shinjiman ⇔ ♨ 05:51, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Population

The article declares at the start that there are currently four residents in the town, but then later in the article says that there were six but it dropped to three. The current population needs to be clarified in the article. RiffRaffMama (talk) 04:59, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Close paraphrasing of first paragraph in section Legacy

I cannot read the referenced journal article to check, but the first paragraph of the section called Legacy is almost identical to the info shown about the article on the website with the article. I don’t know which came first: the info, the section, nor if the section also largely appears in the article. Betterkeks (talk) 16:41, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright Strike

Whoever checked this clearly did not read that this was published by the Government of Western Australia and is an official report for public distrbution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.231.87.217 (talk) 00:46, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

We still need to cite properly, nor is there even any point in just cut-and-pasting large chunks from the literature when readers can just read the literature themselves. Betterkeks (talk) 01:49, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DMIRS WA licenses all documents (outside explicit trademarks, which this isnt) under Creative Commons 4.0 DMIRS Copyright Statement 58.178.213.187 (talk) 12:53, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Population

Data needs to be fixed The peak population figure is wrong. This credible source suggests the peak population was 1,161, not 881. with 881 men and 280 women. https://www.abandonedspaces.com/towns/wittenoom-west-australia.html?safari=1— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:9F0:D140:8D74:4C00:1D54:4653 (talk) 20:51, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Australian Bureau of Statistics reference says 601 men, 280 women, 881 total. Dare I say that the Australian Bureau of Statistics is more reliable than "www.abandonedspaces.com". Steelkamp (talk) 10:22, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]