Talk:Christmas Island
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Regarding the claim about the registrars: I was under the impression that everyone knew the name on goatse.cx (nsfw). I have forgotten it, however. It was mentioned on Slashdot at some point, I think. -Xoder 18:04, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Population
The demographics section says there are 396 Christmas Islanders. The opening paragraph says, "It maintains about 1500 resident who live in a number of towns..."
Which is correct? Jonathunder 15:28, 2004 Nov 23 (UTC)
Claims of Singapore
I deleted the following text from the article:
"Because of Australia, Singapore lost its soverignty-Christmas Island. Had it not been for Australia,Singapore's land area would have been larger. The sovereignty of Christmas Island should be reverted back to Singapore."
This is obviously not neutral point of view. Has the government of Singapore, or any political group within Singapore, ever requested that Christmas Island revert to Singapore's sovreignty? If so, that is material that should go in the text. --Jfruh 16:11, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Haha. No, of coz not. I wonder how many Singaporeans even know about the existance of such an island. Btw, perhaps we should mention something which goes something like "In 1957 the Australian government acquired Christmas Island from the Singapore Government for a compensation of 2.9 million pounds" as sourced from Christmas Island History (http://www.christmas.net.au/history.html), as the text made no mention of this?--Huaiwei 17:26, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Excellent! I've added the text. --Jfruh 19:35, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
1997 or not
Can someone check the last edit? Daniel Quinlan 05:56, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
- Please stop mucking with subjects you don't know about. "Called" is exactly the right verb, just as you might call Guadeloupe and Martinique the "French Antilles" - they are still separate territories. 63.209.14.211 23:23, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)