Talk:Thomas Davey (governor)

File:Gov Davey's proclamation-edit2.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Gov Davey's proclamation-edit2.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on August 23, 2010. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2010-08-23. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 18:28, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Picture of the day

A proclamation board labelled "Governor Davey's Proclamation" painted in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) about 1830 in the time of Governor Arthur. This was designed to show former Governor Thomas Davey's desire that colonists and aboriginals be seen as equal before the law. Davey's greatest accomplishment was the establishing of Hobart as a free port, but he also attempted to curtail bushranging and encouraged the proper treatment of aborigines. However, the proclamation board, which was distributed through the country during the height of the Black War by being nailed on trees, incorrectly depicted a policy of friendship and equal justice which simply did not exist at the time.Image: Government of Van Diemen's Land from a concept by Surveyor General George Frankland

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 01:42, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

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• Thomas Davey → Thomas Davey (governor)
• Thomas Davey (disambiguation) → Thomas Davey

– This page, going by page view stats, is not the primary topic: Thomas Davey had 193 views in April, and Thomas Davey (New Zealand) had 63 views. Schwede66 21:24, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

• Move to Thomas Davey (British politician). "(governor)" is not that disambiguous. --George Ho (talk) 23:46, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

• Comment I was guided by my suggested dab by one of his predecessors, David Collins (governor). So if that isn't good enough for Davey, what does it mean for other Governors of Tasmania (i.e. Collins, Ernest Clark (governor), and William Cox (governor))? I also wonder about 'British' in the suggested dab. Yes, he was from Britain, but if the article is reasonably complete, then his time of Governor of Tasmania is what makes him notable, so 'British' would give the wrong impression in my opinion. Schwede66 00:46, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
  • No excuses for not fully reading the whole article. I must say Support. --George Ho (talk) 00:54, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.