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One hill or two?

Would any hill experts please offer advice on the following? Between Burnley, Hyndburn and Rossendale is an area of raised ground known as Hameldon 53°45′23″N 2°18′49″W / 53.756300°N 2.313667°W / 53.756300; -2.313667. As far as it can tell there are two Hills called Hameldon and Great Hameldon, however every source I can find seems to treat it as one hill. An example from the Victoria County History entry for Hapton: At its southern end is the hill called Hameldon or Hambledon, the summits of which attain 1,305 ft. and 1,343 ft. above the sea.[1] It is news to me that a hill can have more than one summit. I plan to write an article, so is this one hill or two? And can anyone think of a good example to shamelessly copy from? Trappedinburnley (talk) 22:45, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Its very common for hills (or mountains) to have multiple summits. The dividing line between a secondary peak being a subsidiary summit, or a being a distinct hill, is very arbitrary. The only useful objective measure is the prominence of the secondary peak. With regards to this case: Treat the two summits as features on a single hill, unless you can find sources that do otherwise.--Nilf anion (talk) 23:05, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks that is very useful, I will try to crack on with an article soon Trappedinburnley (talk) 18:26, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinates format

Is there a recommended preference regarding how to display coordinates within UK place articles? That is, should we default to numbers expressed in degrees and minutes/seconds, or as decimals? PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 22:26, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm asking this because an editor is going round changing lots of East Midlands coords from one form to another, using the description "updated". PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 09:06, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I must say that the format they are changing them to is more difficult to understand/find, the all decimal ones can easily be found from the maps. Keith D (talk) 13:08, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That is my concern. Template:Infobox UK place doesn't seem to recommended either form over the other (in fact it lists 3 options), but whenever I've adjusted coords in the past (to make them more accurate), the online maps that I used operated with just the digital format, so I lean toward preferring that also. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 13:16, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Another strong vote for decimal lat/long. Much easier to find, easier to adjust precision, and fewer formatting options to get wrong. Dave.Dunford (talk) 13:26, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with all the above. Not an update but personal preference. J3Mrs (talk) 14:13, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have alerted the user in question - EJM00 (talk · contribs) - about the existence of this thread. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 16:36, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merger of Taunton Deane and West Somerset

I note from today's BBC news and Somerset County Gazette that the councils voted for the proposed merger of Taunton Deane and West Somerset, although this still has to receive central government (Sajid Javid) approval (likely to be given in my opinion). What should be on the two articles now to reflect this and when should the new article about Somerset West and Taunton Council be created? I have put this on Talk:Taunton Deane#Merger with West Somerset - probably best to comment there to keep this discussion in one place.— Rod ^talk 20:14, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'd suggest noting in the existing article's that the councils have voted for the merger subject to approval. Once it exists formally, obviously that would good time to create an article (leaving the existing articles then as stand-alones about historical LAs). I suppose one could create an article for the new council, but if it doesn't look likely to be created and if there is not much background, then maybe it's best to hold off... (If every proposal for local authority mergers had an article, we'd have dozens of stubs!) I reckon a good test is whether you think an article could be sustained even if the proposal were to fail. Just my opinion though. Cheers, —Noswall59 (talk) 21:20, 20 March 2018 (UTC).[reply]

In the local BBC South East news last week, there was a report that (unspecified politicians in) Lewes District and Eastbourne Borough councils had "agreed to consider" merging their councils and separating as a unitary council from East Sussex. (They are not even contiguous areas!) Allegedly that would save money (!?). Despite the local news's often limited grasp of local government issues, the reporter pointed out some serious reasons why it would take several years if it did happen. With the state of local government finances, these type of suggestions will undoubted be floated quite regularly and maybe a few come to implementation. I agree with the above comment, would we expect an article on a proposal that's dropped? Perhaps not. And to be honest, the vast majority of matters discussed by any council don't get mentioned on their Wiki page, the fact that a structural change proposal is being debated says more about Wikipedian boundary geeks than about the real issues. Sussexonian (talk) 22:26, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Images of rivers and streams

Editors from this project with an interest in Commons may wish to comment at Commons:Category talk:Rivers of the United Kingdom...Jokulhlaup (talk) 13:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can you help us review images for Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2018?

Hi all

Wikimedia UK is supporting the annual Wiki Loves Monuments contest again this year, and I am looking for 20-25 volunteers to help review and filter the entries.

The contest finishes at the end of September, with reviewing and judging taking place immediately after that. We normally have several rounds of reviewing during October, enabling us to reduce the expected 10,000+ entries down to a long list of a few hundred from which the winners are selected by our panel of judges.

You'd need to be able to commit to a minimum of 5-8 hours online reviewing, spread out over the month of October. As reviewing is done online, volunteers can be based anywhere in the world and you don't need to have any UK connections. We’re not looking for expert photographers, but you should have a basic ability to be able to distinguish a good photograph from a poor or mediocre one. Training in the online reviewing software is available.

If you are able to help, or if you'd like more information, please let me know either here, on Commons or by email. MichaelMaggs (talk) 11:29, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed changes to guidelines on UK counties

If anyone is interested, there is a discussion taking place here [2]. All comments are welcome. DDStretch (talk) 09:07, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 If you are able to help, or if you'd like more information, please let me know either here, on Commons or by email. [[User:MichaelMaggs|MichaelMaggs]] ([[User talk:MichaelMaggs|talk]]) 11:29, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
+== Proposed changes to guidelines on UK counties ==
+If anyone is interested, there is a discussion taking place here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_geography/How_to_write_about_counties]. All comments are welcome. [[User:ddstretch|<span style="border:1px solid #006400;padding:1px"><span style="color:#FFF;background:#006400;font-size:10px">&nbsp;DDStretch&nbsp;</span></span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:ddstretch|<span style="color:#006400;font-size:10px">(talk)</span>]] 09:07, 25 October 2018 (UTC)