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I made an edit that swaps out the skyline image from 2023 with one from 2021, which I preferred as it showed much more of the skyline, including Sydney's new tallest building of One Barangaroo. Upon looking at the images further I think the current pic captures a pretty good portion of the skyline (and has a bit of One Barangaroo in it regardless) so I'm no longer inclined to change it.

However, I do think we should swap the placements of the Sydney Harbour picture and the skyline, going with the convention that the first picture on a city's article is that city's skyline. Let me know if this is fine. LivinAWestLife (talk) 01:35, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I prefer the top picture to be the one with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge because these are the two most iconic images of Sydney. And the skyline picture could be of any major city anywhere in the world. We don't have to follow convention. Sydney is not like any other city: it has the opera house and harbour bridge! Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 02:09, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I mean, NYC has the Statue of Liberty but it still uses the skyline as the first photo; same for Milan and the Milan Cathedral, or London with St Paul's Cathedral and Big Ben. I guess there is no hard and fast rule about this, but I do see that cities with modern skylines tend to have it first. Maybe we could have one with both the Opera House and the skyline in the same frame? LivinAWestLife (talk) 02:21, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Let's see what others think. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 03:32, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agree we should lead with the Opera House / Harbour Bridge image, per MOS:LEADIMAGE - this is consistent with the practices in other reference works (eg Britannica) and is what readers are likely to expect. Nikkimaria (talk) 22:49, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the entire montage should be scrapped. It's impossible to tell what I'm seeing on my phone. HiLo48 (talk) 02:30, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics

"Most immigrants to Sydney between 1840 and 1930 were British, Irish or Chinese". This is vague (Chinese immigration was far below Euro immigration during the time period) and old. Could we get an update (sorry can't seem to find the source) and add contemporary info as well? Blocky12345 (talk) 00:27, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed it. It is unsourced and belongs in the history section if anywhere. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 00:43, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]