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189: 74: 53: 22: 84: 179: 515:. In general we don't put these lists on county articles and with good reason. These lists can get very large on individual town pages, and if we copy them all in to the county article page they will tend to take over, whereas if we are selective, we have issues of why the editor selected those entries only. However, I am aware that a few county pages 158: 360:(there is a strong argument for plain Conwy (county borough) as that is the name used by most people both within the county - yep, that's the usual term usually used - and throughout Wales). This undiscussed move was most inconsiderate and ill-conceived, even if one accepts good faith on the part of the editor. 421:
Well, I beg to disagree with Knowledge UK naming policy in this instance. A bit of leeway should be made for commonsense and actual usage. It is invariably called either 'Conwy County Borough' (or 'Conwy county borough'), Conwy county or plain Conwy (in ascending order...). I also fail to see the
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I removed the 'league table' of school results because Estyn doesn't inspect schools annually, so the exam results cited won't necessarily be directly comparable. People may be aware that since 2001, the Assembly Government hasn't published individual school performance
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project discussion page first, to get people's views instead of imposing this out of the blue? We are supposed to be a community. I'm a regular contributor here and am not aware of anybody from the Wales project taking part in "discussions involving editors of articles
555:, agree the added list was a bit selective, and yes it would be better if it were in prose, of only the most notable people in the county deemed by sources, I guess, or integrated with the text. It was an arbitrary list. Although I just linked to the category at 383:. I am searching through the archives to find the appropriate citation, but it may take a few hours. Consequently, the move was not undiscussed ot ill-conceived, but was the result of discussions involving editors of articles throughout the 355:
and not "County Borough of Conwy" (see the council's own website!); changes like this SHOULD BE DISCUSSED FIRST. It will now need the assistance of an administrator to delete the redirect and either restore the original title or move it to
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section, but should be avoided as a list. The section, if included, should be in prose, and an alternative is just to interweave discussion of notable people in the page text. Thus, despite the presence at
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the United Kingdom". One thing I do approve is your replacing the hideous and meaningless bureaucratic term "principal area" with "county" or "county borough"; so at least we agree on something!
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The electoral wards bit needs prettifying. I'm not entirely sure what to do with it. It seems likely some bits are copyvios? (the descriptions of boundaries by reference to maps and features)
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Information on individual schools is still available in prospectuses and governors’ annual reports, but adding them all together to produce a local league table may violate
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rationale for not having the place's name as the first word of the title (this argument applies to Bridgend County Borough
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has a DMOZ tag, which I'm having trouble removing. (I can't remember the wikifu, & keep making a template tag. :) )
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I reverted a good faith edit starting a list of notable people on this page
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dedicated to building a comprehensive and quality guide to places in the
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is better, but that wasn't the consensus reached, presumably because
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The full official name, if that's what we're going to have here, is
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The move was made in line with the Knowledge UK naming policy.
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was the format used several years ago, which was replaced by
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is dead, but I can't edit the section for some reason.
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http://www.conwy.gov.uk/doc.asp?cat=2027&doc=1205
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