Talk:Chelmsford

Education and other items relating to the wider borough

See Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements for guidance here. Lists of schools relating to a district get listed on that article. MRSC • Talk 19:32, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Marconi Quotation

The caption under Marconi's picture quotes him as saying, "If somethings hard to do then its not worth doing."

First of all, there's some punctuation missing, but more importatly, it makes no sense that Marconi would say that, as inventing the radio can't have been terribly easy, and I have not been able to find that quotation anywhere else, so I've removed it. Cadwaladr (talk) 19:18, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

The "dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth".

I think it's worth including this quote in the page, distasteful as it may be:

• If any one were to ask me what in my opinion was the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth, I should decidedly say Chelmsford.
  • Charles Dickens, letter to Thomas Beard (January 11, 1835), in Madeline House, et al., The Letters of Charles Dickens (1965), p. 53.

People Born In Chelmsford

Is it right to have Geoff Hurst included in this list as it clearly states to the right of his entry that he was born in Ashton-under-Lyne. Chilkoot (talk) 13:30, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

• Not sure it is. Keith Flint went to school in Chelmsford (Boswells) before he went AHHS but is in fact from Redbridge, yet is not mentioned here. Removed. ☭ cmn ☭ ( ❝❞ /✍ ) 15:51, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

A&N information unsourced

I noticed that the Army and Navy section doesn't cite sources especially in criticism and I suspect there is a fair bit of opinion/original research. I've marked the section as such. ☭ cmn ☭ ( ❝❞ /✍ ) 16:17, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Ownership New Street Site

I'd be surprised if Selex Communications still own that site. --Salocin-yel (talk) 12:54, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Joint ownership - Finnmecanica/Selex, BAE Systems and Royal Bank of Scotland, although I don't have a Web based source. (I asked in person, but WP:NOR.)

Chelmsford gains City Status

There will need to be edit work on this page to show that this County Town is now a City. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.59.13.157 (talk) 10:41, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

No, it isn't officially a city yet. –anemoneprojectors– 14:19, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

It seems there's some disagreement over that. I've got to say that my first thought was that it wouldn't be immediate and your BBC source seems to agree but the Chelmsford Borough Council website seems to disagree here and imply that it had city status from yesterday morning. Dpmuk (talk) 14:30, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

I suppose the question is: Is the council website a reliable source? Or do we have to wait for a third-party source to acknowledge it? AP - what source has told you otherwise? — Smjg (talk) 16:57, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

I only went by the BBC. I guess it's tricky to know how it works officially. Personally I'd be more inclined to go with the BBC as an independent secondary source. Then again, we know it will be a city if it's not yet and we may not officially know when it is. Really I only came here to see if it had been updated, I have no links to the place but was interested in the news, so I'm happy to leave it to others to decide. –anemoneprojectors– 13:36, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

I came here to see if Wikipedia had been updated on this development. The official word is that Chelmsford is *not a city until the Queen issues the Royal Charter letters patent to the town* - likely to happen around August. Until then, Chelmsford is still a town and I shall remove wording appropriately. ☭ cmn ☭ ( ❝❞ /✍ ) 14:24, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Protected

Seeing as it is protected due to differentiating edits (mainly about the population) I think it should stay at 169,500 because that is set by the council and most agreed upon. Iamred0 Talk to Iamred... 17:19, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 21 March 2012

Just to let you know> Chelmsford is now a city.

89.240.214.1 (talk) 16:28, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. The article already says this. It's not clear what you want to edit.

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Thank you. Begoon ^talk 22:48, 21 March 2012 (UTC)