Talk:Chester Castle

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Peter I. Vardy 13:25, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccuracies

This article is also slightly inaccurate:

Chester Castle was started not in 1069, but in 1070 by Gherbod the Flemming not Hugh of Avranches (who only became Earl in 1071). It was besieged during the English Civil War? - technically it wasn't, the city was. It was rebuilt as a prison over a 37-year period from the 1790s - no, it was already a prison and slated by John Howard as one of the worst in the country.

Please feel free to follow the links from my article at http://www.chesterwiki.com/Chester_Castle if you would like to update it with references - I added a link to this page in the hope that it might be useful to someone, but it was deleted.

If you know what the true facts are, you would have been welcome to have corrected it yourself. The link was removed according to previous discussions about the link, about which main contributors to the chesterwiki know and contributed, DDStretch (talk) 12:30, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As one of the main contributors to Chesterwiki (Hooligan), I don't really see the point in my duplicating the article here. As for the link being removed "according to previous discussions" that is being economical with the truth - it was deleted (16th April) as "inappropriate external content" before there was any discussion at all. In the subsequent discussions we made it clear that if anyone wanted to update this page with the data from my article I had no objection. A link to my longer article on "Conflict and fortification in Chester" would have enabled someone to borrow whatever they needed for a shorter article on the Castle and conform with the Wiki standards that we don't yet rigorously apply on the Chesterwiki - as this is flagged as a "High Priority" page I thought I might save someone some time.

(Hooligan)

As Hooligan says, all the links to Chester Wiki were removed before there was any discussion with the Chester Wiki contributors. DDStretch, your remarks are very ambiguous as to who was involved in the discussion and when the links were removed. The history shows the links were removed on 16 April, which was before we criticised their removal. I already said in the discussions on the Wikipedia pages for Chester and the Cheshire Wikipedia project that Hooligan was the author of the Castle feature on Chester Wiki and that your group were welcome to use that feature to update this page. Purpleprose 17:36, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]