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Nominated English football champions as FLRC

I have nominated List of English football champions for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.

Talk:List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom#Lead image

I'm currently expanding the article on List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom and am pondering what should be used as the lead image(s). It's not the most important issue in developing the article, but I thought that as the list covers the whole of the UK that as many editors as possible should be given a say. I'll leave a note at the England and Scotland wikiprojects and see if the discussion goes anywhere. Please leave any comments on the article talk page. Thanks, Nev1 (talk) 19:25, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Portal:England

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Georgian Era

I have always been told that "Georgian" only applied to the first group of kings called George (I-IV) and have edited a couple of articles based on this. If I am wrong could someone point me the right way? Thanks. Britmax (talk) 19:01, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

As Georgian architecture says it is sometimes considered to go up to 1840 as in architectural terms it can take 10 years for a building to go through planning, funding etc to being finally built. Therefore something finished during the reign of William IV could still be considered a Georgian design.— Rod 09:07, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Durham requested move

Hi, there's a slightly disheartening discussion going on over at Durham at the moment about renaming the page to the fictional title "Durham, County Durham" to make way for a disambiguation, or even the US city. I was wondering if anyone could help? Bob talk 08:54, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Hull City A.F.C.

Hull City A.F.C. has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Malleus Fatuorum 15:24, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

England articles missing geographical coordinates

1322 articles about geographically locatable subjects in England are missing geographical coordinates. Finding the latitude and longitude of locations, and entering coordinates into articles is straightforwards, and explained at Misplaced Pages:How to add geocodes to articles. Having coordinates on articles using the {{coord}} template provides a link to the article's subject on a wide range of maps, and that links to the articles are provided in GoogleMaps, MultiMap and other such places which use wikipedia data. A breakdown of articles needing coordinates by county is found at Category talk:England articles missing geocoordinate data. All help in geo-coording them is welcome/urged/implored. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:30, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

I have a quiet evening, so I'll start Wiltshire, and more later, depending on time. Rodhullandemu 18:40, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done. Am I the only one doing this? Meanwhile, I've found several anomalies, and I'm not sure they're addressed anywhere, so some guidance would be welcome:

1. Parliamentary constituencies, pathways, and regions, do not necessarily have specific locations. What should we do about this?
2. Rivers generally have starts and ends, and coords for both, even in general terms; so the "coords missing" template doesn't quite hit the target; perhaps a different tag might be considered- this applies also to pathways, but not necessarily circular ones.
3. When establishments, such as schools and churches, have moved location in their history, I have used their last-used, or most notable location, but it has to be said that so many articles have been stubs that it's difficult to ascertain this.
   

Comments welcome, before I start on some other county. Rodhullandemu 22:02, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

The best suggestion I have for something as large as a region (it sort of applies to river and roads etc) is to take the co-ordinates of a mid-point of each place. Then again, the M62 motorway (an FA) doesn't have any co-ordinates. It doesn't seem there's any general policy or consensus with how to do it though as the M60 motorway, which encircles Greater Manchester has the co-ordinates of one point along the road. I think think with the schools the most recent location should be the one used in the geotag as most people will be more interested in where the school is now (my thinking is that the most recent location will be the more 'notable' one). Nev1 (talk) 22:45, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Good thinking. However, the M62 motorway could have coords that define its termini, as should rivers. The M60 motorway and similar cases are less amenable to strict analysis, and what I have done so far, in the absence of a claim in the article as to a start point, is to provide a ref for the centre, such that readers at least have some idea of its general location. Probably better than nothing, although some statistics as to how many readers click through the geocords to the GeoHack page would be interesting to see. Meanwhile, I've listed Category:Merseyside articles missing geocoordinate data for attention tomorrow. Rodhullandemu 22:56, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Letchworth Corset Riot

This article has recently been nominated for DYK, and before it appears on the Main page it would be nice to have some type of independent confirmation of the facts claimed in the article. As noted in the DYK discussion, this article has proven resistant to verification. A person with more local knowledge of Letchworth and its history, or merely access to the local interest publications cited by this article, and who could help clarify things it would be greatly appreciated. --Allen3  10:48, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

As it is almost certainly a hoax, I've nommed it for deletion. Feel free to weigh in.--Wehwalt (talk) 00:18, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

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