Talk:Nuneaton

Pronunciation As a non-native speaker I'm missing the pronunciation of "Nuneaton" in this article

It's pronounced exactly as it's spelled: as "Nun-eat-on". (As opposed to, um, Noon-aton or something similarly odd.) DWaterson 12:53, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Nuneaton’s most historical figure??

Maybe someone more au fait with Nuneaton can comment on the following, which I have just removed from the main article, and if true maybe readd it with references? Ianb 17:04, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

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On the 17th June 2001 the Weekly Tribune (A free local newspaper) sponsored a competition to find Nuneaton’s most historical figure. Winning the poll by a huge margin, Daniel Adam Lee reigned victorious. Daniel was a long term Jock Itch sufferer, making him a social outcast for many years. He joined the Nuneaton fire service to try and regain some confidence around people.

In a devastating fire, which engulfed the main building of a local school, Daniel Unfortunately lost both his legs when the building collapsed. Leaving him even more disabled then he already was, he was forced to retire from the fire service. In 1999 he helped co-found a charity shop with Dean Powell. This gave him a lot of public recognition, which helped him in his rise to Nuneaton’s most historical figure. A statue was shortly erected in the town centre, which shows Daniel Pointing directly towards magnetic north.

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As someone from Nuneaton I can definitely say He wasn't a famous nuneaton figure. Looks like someone poking fun at Nuneaton, eg. the jock itch condition and the becoming a famous figure by starting a charity shop (lack of decent shops - there are a large no. of charity shops in Nuneaton)

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The notable inhabitants is pretty accurate. NO such person as Daniel Adam Lee. Richardjames444 16:32, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Districts and suburbs of Nuneaton

This lists Coton but should it be Chilvers Coton or is that a different area?

Keith D 11:00, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Small settlement by a river

Etone translates literally as "water-town", this is what I have ammended the article to. Whilst this should probably be interpreted as "small settlement by a river", it is not the place of a neutral encyclopedia to make such assertions. Such a literal translation is also valuable as it is not immediately obvious to a non-specialist reader, but once given allows them to draw their own conclusions as to its precise interpretation (which is anyway quite obvious). Rje 22:59, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Why is there no mention of Nuneaton's breathtaking dandelion fountain, the second most impressive in the world, according to some sources?

links

If a link is usefull and the site is more than a discussion forum, which this is then it shouldn't be removed. see Wikipedia:External links What should be linked to 4 Sites with other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article, such as reviews and interviews. The gallery is relevant. The fact that a site contains a discussion forum does not mean that it should automaticaly be removed. The link in question http://nuneatonweb.co.uk contains news and images.Madhatter1uk 12:58, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

However, WP:EL#Links normally to be avoided #1: "Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article", #3: "Links mainly intended to promote a website" and #10: "Links to social networking sites (such as MySpace), discussion forums or USENET." I cannot see anything sufficiently definitive provided by that article that would warrant its inclusion here. It's just a forum, and a very small and insignificant one at that - it has only 13 registered users! Cheers, DWaterson 18:35, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

The site is relevant to the article. It is a nuneaton site that contains images and news stories, it also happens to contains a forum. The forum part is irrelevant and therfore so are your references to links to avoid, forums, social networking etc. If Every link that contained a forum or a social networking element was removed from places in warwickshire pages there'd be no citations left and no external links.

Also if this link isn't providing a unique resource then neither are the others, ropewalks is commercial advertising and the council site is social networking for residents and has less to do with the article Nuneaton than this site. Stop deleting external links just because theres a foum on the site.

I don't see what relevance how many members the forum has all that does is prove that its getting no promotion through here, infact its got vandalised through this link. The same text was used.80.42.175.20 22:25, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

That external link only contains a forum, the link is a redirect to http://nuneatonforum.proboards77.com/! There is nothing else there but a forum! A cursory look reveals little in the way of "images and news stories" either - no images at all on that forum, and a few news articles from http://hennews.co.uk/. There seems to be little original content on the forum, and therefore it is neither definitive, relevant, or appropriate for linking on Wikipedia. The Ropewalk link probably ought to go, as you correctly identify, but it's existence doesn't justify including another inappropriate link. The N&B Borough Council link is quite obviously directly relevant to the article as the local authority serving the town. Would I be correct in thinking that you are the forum administrator? I note that you don't deny that the link fails WP:EL#Links normally to be avoided #3: "Links mainly intended to promote a website". The small number of users of the forum helps to confirm its lack of importance. DWaterson 22:35, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Whats the fact that the link redirects to a url got to do with anything. It's free hosted software and the admin has added a more appropriate url. I'm completely lost with the point of that. Just sounds like your trying to prove its just a forum by saying the url has forum in it. There's an image in the title !!! The site lists news stories about Nuneaton. Little original content means there is some original content, therefore it is relevant and appropriate, more so than a council site telling people when their bins will be collected. And just as I thought you don't know the relevance of the links on the page, Ropewalks has it's own wiki page, you seem to be one of a growing number that patrol these pages removing any content that doesn't fit in with how you see wiki policies. I have joined the forum not that it has anything to do with this. I've joined other forums and thought the content is interesting enough to add to a page. I've gone to a page, Warwickshire, only to find it was on there already but someone removed it because it contains a forum. The fact that the gallery contains some exellent flood pictures is over looked because the site contains something listed in links NORMALLY to be avoided. That policy is mainly for fan forums eg star trek forums. I've also already stated that the link is not promoting the web site as theres no more members joined since I added the link. The small number of users proves the web site owner hasn't promoted and thats all it proves.I could build the best web site in the world but if I don't promote it no one will know it exists.