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Check spelling, someone.
Syd1435 10:27, 2004 Oct 2 (UTC)
everyone thought it used to be cooper. Now with evidence of about six atlas. The conclusion is it is CooBer Pedy.
Does anyone have a picture of one of these cave houses they could post? Sounds really intriguing! Infilms 22:45, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
These homes are actually called Dugouts they are not just for homes, the church is a dug out and there are several stores in the dug out set up. yes by definition they are caves but they are called dug outs to the the town and to all those who know of them.
And they are quite comfortable I have lived in two. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolviechickie ( talk • contribs) 02:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
c'mon someones gotta say something about what the name really means!
ask any aboriginal! and they'll laugh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.51.161.162 ( talk) 16:35, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Seems a couple of editors are edit warring over the pop culture section with no discussion here. I've chopped the unsourced material. If editors want particular items listed, then they should get at it and supply WP:reliable sources showing the significance of them. Vsmith ( talk) 02:29, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
A Link to a photo of spaceship is here- would be good in this section.. http://images.search.conduit.com/ImagePreview/?q=spaceship%20coober%20peddy&ctid=CT2405280&searchsource=15&SSPV=EB_SSPV&CUI=SB_CUI&start=0&pos=13 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nspacemonkey ( talk • contribs) 05:16, 18 September 2012
203.45.250.23 ( talk) 08:58, 1 August 2013 (UTC)This section needs work. Reserves are a defined term in the Petroleum Industry ( http://www.spe.org/industry/docs/Petroleum_Resources_Management_System_2007.pdf Petroleum_Resources_Management_System 2007). The Company announcement does not use the words reserve, nor does it use the words oil discovery. http://www.lincenergy.com/data/asxpdf/ASX-LNC-458.pdf The consultant's report]. The announcement concerns a "prospective resource", a defined term for a (hypothetical) volume of yet undiscovered petroleum. The report describes a rock (not oil) that may contain oil under certain as yet untested conditions. The volume reported is an extrapolation from the volume of the rock under the ground.
To use an analogy: seeing a river is not catching a fish. The prospective resource is all the fish you hope might be in a river. A reserve is the fish you've demonstrated you can catch.
The wiki para captures the media reporting faithfully but in doing so it carries over the misuse of the terms reserve and discovery.
A new series on HGTV called House Hunters Off the Grid (further to a variety of other iterations of the House Hunters) premiered earlier this week (in the U.S.A.) on Monday, April 21, 2014. The next day, Tuesday, April 22, 2014, featured a couple moving from Copenhagen (Denmark) to Coober Pedy and buying a home there. The three houses featured as choices for them included two "dugouts" and one house built above ground. Title of the episode was "Cave Me, Maybe in Coober Pedy, Australia". Wikipedia's article on the various iterations of "House Hunters" on HGTV does not yet include an information about this latest series, at least not as of today (Friday, April 25, 2014), no doubt because it is so new. Toddabearsf ( talk) 15:25, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
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The article says "In the 2016 Census, there were 1,762 people in Coober Pedy (State Suburbs). Of these 962 were male and 801 were female." The Australian Bureau of Statistics gives the same figures. [1] What do we do when a presumably reliable source is so evidently mistaken? RolandR ( talk) 23:02, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Is Coober Pedy the driest town? This source says so. AussieCoinCollector ( talk) wish the entire world's COVID-19 status was like WA, 275+ days of no local cases :) 00:21, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Probably should mention the 4 unsolved murders in this town, seems like quite a lot for a town of such a small population, and it is thought that at least 2 of them are linked. 84.211.51.170 ( talk) 02:37, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
IPA after the name suggests /ku:bər pi:di:/. (probably actually ɚ) This is not accurate to Australian pronunciation, nor to the purported etymology (which has no r). Pronouncing it with an r is essentially spelling-pronunciation afaik. Akku anka ( talk) 11:51, 13 March 2022 (UTC)