This note is the house style, written as if a careful contributor had sent it in: if a number can move a plane, a shoe or a memorial, it needs a name beside it.
King Island Council’s 64-by-27-kilometre sentence is a civic description. BOM’s 17.1 °C mean maximum is a climate description. AMSA’s 48-metre, 1861, 400-lives cluster is a heritage description. Parks Tasmania’s 1.3 km Grade 2 walk is a recreation description. None of those numbers belong to a freelance adjective.
The 2009 dairy homepage on this domain did not work that way. It sold a feeling. Feelings are how “tallest in the Southern Hemisphere” gets glued to a tower whose owner says “tallest in Australia.” Feelings are how a ferry reappears in a forum. Feelings are how a visitor walks a breeding reserve because a PDF once mentioned tourism pressure.
Source notes are not academic cosplay. They are how an independent site refuses to impersonate the council it keeps linking to.
If you want to write here, start with How to pitch. Bring the PDF. Leave the dollar sign at the door.
How we treat a number on this site
If a sentence has a number, it has a citation. If the citation is AMSA, Parks, BOM, Council, Tourism Tasmania or Biosecurity Tasmania, the number can stay. If the citation is “a local told us” or “as everyone knows,” the number leaves. That is why Cape Wickham stays 48 m and 1861, why the Calcified Forest stays 1.3 km, and why a green fee never appears.
Guest posts inherit that rule. A beautiful paragraph that cannot show its working is a brochure. We already have a 2009 brochure in the archive. We do not need another.
Questions people actually ask
Why do pages here cite so hard?
Because the domain looks official and used to be a brand site. Sourced sentences are how we stay an independent guide instead of becoming a third, worse brochure.