Talk:Min Min, Queensland

Present tense?

Why is this article written in present tense even though it is a ghost town? It should be changed to past tense and it should be specified that the town was abandoned. I am not familiar enough with its local history to do this however.--Mr. 123453334 (talk) 05:56, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

First, it's not a town and I can't see any evidence it ever was, so it's arguably not a ghost town if it wasn't a town in the first place. The road from Winton to Boulia was a Cobb and Co stagecoach route so there had to be several staging points on the route to change horses and give the passengers a break. Generally a hotel with stabling for the changes of horses were established at these staging points. Min Min was one of them (the local historical society have marked them all if you happen to be driving out that way). Obviously with development of cars, stagecoaches disappeared and most of the staging points closed; the only surviving one on that route is Middletown which still exists as a hotel (and a popular lunch and toilet stop for drivers from Winton to Boulia). As to the use of the present tense, as the QLD Place Name citation in the article shows, Min Min is an officially named bounded locality, like every other part of mainland Australia (and the inhabitable islands). The QLD Govt draws a polygon on the map of Queensland (bounding) and says "we'll call this polygon Min Min" (naming). The number of people living there is irrelevant to naming and bounding. Kerry (talk) 07:39, 11 January 2021 (UTC)