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Shouldn't this just be at Hornsby? The only other Hornsby has a few hundred people. This one has 150,000. --Randwicked 15:44, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

yeah, it's a good point probably it should. i didn't move it, another relatively new user Ta bu shi da yu did. however, the user moved it to hornsby, nsw for some reason, and i have merely moved it to the standard format of hornbsy, new south wales and fixed all the redirects. moving it back would be a little problem because you would need a sysop to delete the disambig page before doing the move (otherwise you lose the history if you do a cut-n-paste). clarkk 16:02, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Can someone please add the streeet address / location of the Hornsby Telephone Exchange, similar to the Carlingford article? I'm moving into the area and want to work out my distance from the exchange for ADSL purposes. I've a vague recollection of it being near the block bounded by Pacific Hwy, Jersey St, Bridge St and Station St, but I could be completely wrong...202.154.105.254 05:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have changed the population to the correct number. The old statistic of 150 000 was for the whole Hornsby Shire. This statistic (around 18,000) is for the suburb of Hornsby. Cdlw93 06:49, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The following sentence in the Article does not make sense to me : "In 2007, Hornsby introduced the headquarters of Mix 106.5 (Owned by Australian Radio Network) next door to Sunshine Homes Respite Centre." What did the author mean? Is there a better way of expressing it? MarkB.au (talk) 11:30, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am removing this, according to their own website they're based in North Ryde, not Hornsby. B Mabbott (talk) 05:25, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I think this page has been very well organised and finished. I will still try to edit this page as regularly as possible!NimbusJDF 01:43, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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– Asides from the suburb, the namesake of pretty much New South Wales places with the name Hornsby (Including the council) are named after this suburb. Might also meet WP:NCAUST primary topic criteria. And if moved, also move Hornsby to Hornsby (disambiguation). Servite et contribuere (talk) 19:18, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:DPT, let's have a look at some stats.

Clickstreams at Hornsby for last month show only clicks to the surname list, the rest is anonymized. So the proposed primary topic doesn't even appear in that list, let alone top it. This is already a red flag for this kind of a proposal.
A look into the meta:Research:Wikipedia clickstream archive does show clicks to the place, thankfully. Still, they're not consistently #1 at all.

snapshot of clickstreams from Hornsby

From the archive:

clickstream-enwiki-2017-11.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 24
Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 22
total: 46 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2020-11.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 36
Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 18
Hornsby List_of_places_in_Cumbria link 11
Hornsby Hornby link 10
total: 75 to 4 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2022-05.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 39
Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 17
total: 56 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2023-07.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 21
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 16
total: 37 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2023-08.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 23
Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 18
Hornsby Hornby link 10
total: 51 to 3 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2023-09.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 20
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 14
total: 34 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2023-10.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 15
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 15
total: 30 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2023-11.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 15
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 13
total: 28 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2023-12.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 29
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 25
total: 54 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-01.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 21
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 17
total: 38 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-02.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 21
Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 19
total: 40 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-03.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 20
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 18
total: 38 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-04.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 27
Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 19
total: 46 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-05.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 20
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 16
total: 36 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-06.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 17
Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 16
total: 33 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-07.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 23
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 21
total: 44 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-08.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 18
total: 18 to 1 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-09.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 22
Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 17
total: 39 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-10.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 35
Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 11
total: 46 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-11.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 13
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 10
total: 23 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2024-12.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 18
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 11
total: 29 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2025-01.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 16
Hornsby Hornsby,_New_South_Wales link 15
total: 31 to 2 identified destinations

clickstream-enwiki-2025-02.tsv:

Hornsby Hornsby_(surname) link 18
total: 18 to 1 identified destinations

Clickstreams at Hornsby (surname) are largely opaque, a small amount of filtered clickstreams only
all-time mass views for all items linked here
all-time mass views for all items linked from the surname list

Looks like David Hornsby, Bruce Hornsby, Rogers Hornsby and many others in the long tail are actually more relevant topics we could navigate readers to, but we don't do a particularly great job at it. This proposal doesn't seem to be addressing that elephant in the room, so it would not improve navigation, it might just make it even a tad worse. (Oppose) --Joy (talk) 10:03, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. As Joy stated in terms of navigation, we do not really do a particularly good job of splitting all the notable people from the regular disambig page to a separate page like Hornsby (surname). But that still should remain a factor. Zzyzx11 (talk) 12:25, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]