Talk:Oatlands, Tasmania

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Portal	Oatlands, Tasmania is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-class on the quality scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Australian places.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Tasmania.
Assessment comments This article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.

It is requested that a photograph or photographs be included in this article to improve its quality, if possible. Wikipedians in Tasmania may be able to help!

[edit] Naming

I presume the English town of Oatlands is the one used as a basis for the name. I found a couple of online references for that:

• http://www.tco.asn.au/oac/community_history.cgi?oacID=49&articleID=185711
• http://www.ruralhealth.utas.edu.au/rhts/oatlands/

However, I also found a reference that claims the town was named by Governor Macquarie "as it reminded him of the oat growing areas in his native Scotland":

• http://wwwfp.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/branch/oatlands.htm

I don't know who to believe, and these references don't give the source of their information. Perhaps both possibilities need to be stated in the article unless someone knows a good reference. Barrylb (talk) 10:52, 14 January 2008 (UTC)