Corrections log
The following corrections have been made to the DoofHistory.org archive. Corrections are listed in reverse chronological order. The log covers substantive corrections only; minor formatting and typographic edits are not recorded.
| Date | Article | Correction | Editor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2021 | Further Reading | Luckman citation corrected. The archive listed her 2003 paper under the incorrect title "Going Bush and Finding One's 'Self': Neo-Bohemian Adventures in Australian Doof Culture" and the incorrect journal Journal of Australian Studies. Correct title: "Going Bush and Finding One's 'Tribe': Raving, Escape and the Bush Doof." Correct journal: Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 17(3), 315–330. The archive acknowledges this is an embarrassing error in a citation for a paper it describes as foundational. | DGraham_doof |
| 14 Oct 2021 | Multiple articles | Venue correction: Vegetable Matter (8 May 1993) was held at an abandoned supermarket on Dixon Street, Chinatown - not King Street, Newtown as previously documented throughout this archive. The decks were set up inside old fridges. The entrance was through a back alley past old freezers. The archive notes that the corrected venue is a significantly stranger location than the one previously documented, and that the decks being set up inside old fridges is the kind of detail the archive would have noted had it known. Corrected across: timeline.html, timeline-post-amplification.html, regional-nsw.html, index.html, archive.html. Source: Wikipedia / community documentation. | ShedWatcher99 |
| 14 Oct 2021 | Boonie Labrakis | Footnote 19 amended. Reference to the pistachio import business clarified to note that the enterprise was "planned but not completed" rather than "operating." Correction submitted by the subject of the article. This is the only correction the archive has received from a living subject. The archive notes this without further comment. | E.Labrakis [self-submitted] |
| 14 Oct 2021 | Labsmith Controversy | Corrected comma placement in third paragraph. No change to substance. | DGraham_doof |
| 29 Sep 2021 | Raver Jo | Age estimate revised from "mid-sixties" to "approximately seventy." Three sources consulted; all agreed the original estimate was low. The archive notes that the error was in the direction of underestimation. | ShedWatcher99 |
| 03 Aug 2021 | Amplified Transition Era | Removed unsourced claim that the 1938 Marrickville incident involved a "phonograph of extraordinary wattage." No source for this characterisation was provided. "Electrical music device" restored as the documented description. | DGraham_doof |
| 11 May 2021 | Doof food | Stalactites founding year corrected from "1979" to "1978." Verified through Stalactites' own records. The archive thanks the unnamed submitter. | Anonymous submission |
| 14 Jan 2021 | Boonie Labrakis | Entry flagged by three separate editors as "disproportionately long relative to the available evidence." The archive reviewed the entry and retained it in full. The length is considered proportionate to the article's structural significance within the archive. The editors' concern is noted. | Admin |
| 22 Oct 2020 | Agincourt Annexe | Removed claim that the Annexe was "demolished in 1997." No evidence for this date. The current status of the structure remains undocumented. "Fate unknown" substituted. | ShedWatcher99 |
| 09 Jul 2020 | Labsmith Controversy | Removed sentence asserting that Ev Labsmith's first name was a "shortened form of Evangelos." No source for this claim was provided. The archive notes, without drawing conclusions, that this claim was submitted anonymously and removed before it could be attributed. | DGraham_doof |
| 15 Apr 2020 | Helga | Removed statement that Helga "later apologised for the complaint." No source. The archive has no evidence that Helga apologised, retracted, or expressed any view about the noise complaint after making it. It has been removed. | DGraham_doof |
| 07 Nov 2019 | Multicultural Contributions | Footnote 6 amended. Original text read "the archive is aware of how this sounds." Corrected to "the archive is aware of how this reads." The archive considers the distinction meaningful. | Admin |
| 02 Aug 2021 | Neo-Shed Revival | Corrected Kings Cross pedestrian traffic statistic from -84% to -40%. Original figure was a misreading of source material. | ShedWatcher99 |
| 17 Mar 2019 | Ev Labsmith | Entry for 'Labsmith, Ev' revised. Original claim of "irrefutable evidence" in opening paragraph amended to "contested account." See Talk page. | ShedWatcher99 |
| 04 Nov 2018 | Post-Amplification Era | Earthcore founding year corrected from 1991 to 1993. Thank you to community member who submitted the correction (name withheld on request). | ArchiveBot |
| 22 Jun 2018 | Doof Sheds | Removed unsourced claim that the corrugated iron shed was introduced to Australia via Greek immigrant building traditions. No evidence for this specific claim. General corrugated iron history retained. | ShedWatcher99 |
| 09 Feb 2017 | Labsmith Controversy | Removed paragraph asserting that the 1863 Sydney Morning Herald letter was "almost certainly" written by a descendant of Ev Labsmith. No basis for this claim was provided. Author of the paragraph is unknown. | ShedWatcher99 |
| 30 Oct 2016 | Western Australia | Removed reference to "The Fremantle Shakedown" of 1989 as a proto-doof event. Source was a single anonymous submission that could not be verified. Event may have occurred but documentation is insufficient for archive inclusion. Moved to Notable Absences. | DGraham_doof |
| 14 Jun 2015 | Multiple articles | Corrected widespread use of "doof doof" as a verb throughout early article drafts (e.g., "participants doofed until dawn"). The term functions as a noun and colloquial descriptor, not a verb. Usage standardised across archive. | ArchiveBot |
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