Talk:Melbourne/CBD

How about calling this just Melbourne/City? Would be a lot shorter to type out. (WT-en) Jpatokal 08:35, 13 Nov 2005 (EST)


 * Well, I considered this, for precisely the same reason..... "City of Melbourne", however, is the official designation within the city for the Melbourne CBD area and its associated municipal administration.... (compare London/City of London, for the same phenomenon). So thought best to go with that. I'm sure we can take care of any confusion with an appropriate redirect or two... (WT-en) Paul James Cowie 17:29, 13 Nov 2005 (EST)

long urls
3 4 5 and 6 even more long urls not good. Thank you for looking into this.

(WT-en) LebronJames23 23:23, 6 May 2011 (EDT)

Tags needed
In the various sections, we can avoid manually making lists and doing formatting by using &lt;see&gt;, &lt;do&gt;, and &lt;eat&gt;, among other things. This will allow the page to render properly on mobile devices and on third party software that grabs its data listings from here. --(WT-en) Orcrist 23:06, 16 June 2012 (EDT)

Immigration Bias?
"It is interesting to learn of the racist attitudes that influenced past immigration policy only to realise that the Australian government still has a very contentious policy towards refugees and asylum seekers." Perhaps this should be removed as a political statement. Maybe change to, "It is interesting to compare previous attitudes towards immigration with present ones". Unchartered (talk) 07:09, 15 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Agreed, that does seem too overtly political. AHeneen (talk) 07:13, 15 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Changed. Unchartered (talk) 09:37, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Eat section
The eat section is quite sad right now for Australia's culinary capital. Before I start going crazy adding amazing restaurants, would it be better to organise restaurants by price (Budget/Mid-range/Splurge) or cuisine (Indian/Australian/Chinese/etc)? What is the usual standard on Wikivoyage? James A ▪ talk 12:40, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Rename to Melbourne/CBD
There is currently a discussion on Wikipedia to move the name from Melbourne city centre to Melbourne central business district. For the most part, you're just as likely to hear "downtown" used as the use of "City centre" or "City center". From my personal experience, "City centre" is only used on street signs when it comes to parking lots only because the sign would probably end up being too short.

And back to the main point, this place is actually called "Melbourne CBD", not "Melbourne City Centre" nor "Downtown Melbourne". I'm not sure why we followed Wikipedia on this one, but can may we move it to the proper name. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 11:29, 7 October 2021 (UTC)


 * "I'm not sure why we followed Wikipedia on this one" &mdash; I'm confused by this statement because isn't WP also proposing a move to the full spelling of "CBD"? Regardless, this seems to be a reasonable page move, and I'd support it unless there's consensus against a pagemove either here or WP. --Comment by Selfie City  ( talk  |  contributions ) 00:21, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I think WP has to use something per w:WP:COMMONNAME, but even then, CBD is used more. I was going to propose to move it to Melbourne CBD, but I've largely lost interest in WP. SHB2000 (talk &#124; contribs &#124; meta.wikimedia) 00:29, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * the move ended up happening. If there's no one to oppose in the upcoming few days, I may as well move it SHB2000 (talk &#124; contribs &#124; meta.wikimedia) 08:08, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * While I generally don't like acronyms in article titles, as a district article of a city, it makes more sense, especially as I'm sure no-one ever says "Central business district". Ground Zero (talk) 16:10, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah as far as I know, CBD is only really used in the Asia-Pacific region (more specifically SE Asia and Oceania). Never seen it in Europe or North America. SHB2000 (talk &#124; contribs &#124; meta.wikimedia) 22:39, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Support move.
 * --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 09:59, 21 October 2021 (UTC) (In English-speaking Europe, "CBD" and its long form is a specialist term used by geographers, city planners, possibly economists etc, to refer to a main financial or commercial quarter, which isn't necessarily the same thing as the "city centre", but the term is not in common usage at all.)
 * Interesting. Probably why I've never heard of it SHB2000 (talk &#124; contribs &#124; meta.wikimedia) 10:04, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ Moved. SHB2000 (talk &#124; contribs &#124; meta.wikimedia) 11:48, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Metro Tunnel
Should we write a sentence or two about the Metro Tunnel, which is about to open in 2025? I presume there'll be disruptions/detours until it opens, but would like some confirmation before adding it. -- SHB2000  (talk &#124; contribs &#124; meta) 00:42, 27 September 2023 (UTC)