Talk:Yate

Infobox

The article needs an infobox. In the meantime, I've uploaded and will add the Yate coat of arms. --kingboyk 15:54, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Local lass

I have asked "Local lass" to stop making unencyclopedic additions to the Yate article. Here are her four additions to the article:

Chipping Sodbury is a much nicer and vastly more historic village that people prefer to live in, as Yate is too chav.

The town has a skatepark at Peghill. Fascinating. Bet people are thrilled to be able to read that gem in a wiki.

For the record, J.K Rowling did NOT spend her early childhood in Yate. She in fact lived in Chipping Sodbury and in Winterbourne before her parents wisely removed her to some less crap part of the country.

Yate featured notoriously in the book "Crap Towns: The 50 Worst Places To Live In The UK" by Sam Jordison, Dan Kieran. Yate was nominated for position number 46 in the toungue in cheek countdown by local residents. The book can be purchased via several popular online bookstores.

She seems to be believe that the above is fit for a professional encyclopedia! It might be relevant that I’ve edited nearly every day since January 2003 and Local lass since 8th November 2006. Who is more likely to know what is acceptable here and what is not? She does not yet understand that there is a style of writing that the WP Community has decided is OK (I don't decide the style but she thinks I do!) and she has to conform to it. She has only to look at some other town entries to see the style.

Here are the comments she makes about me (and note that these disgraceful comments are in the article itself, not on a Talk page!)

Inhabitants of Yate - please take over this wiki. It is too boring for words and the self appointed English nationalist "guardian" of this wiki has no concept of what facts may interest locals and those beyond. He also thinks that an adult, educated woman who opposes his tyrannical obsessive compulsive fixation with boring facts is "childish". Maybe, but at least I have a life beyond my PC and the Yate wiki.

and this The somewhat controlling and smallminded person who has claimed ownership of this wiki entry seems to have misunderstood the concept of a "wiki"pedia as opposed to an "encyclopedia". The concept of wikis is that they are free to edit by anyone and they choose what material may or may not appear. Many local residents feel that the inclusion of Yate in the lighthearted, tongue in cheek publication "50 crap towns" is something to be be viewed with a sense of humour. It appears that the self styled guardian of the Yate wiki entry has had this aspect of his personality bypassed. At no point is it suggested by the online community that a wiki entry should be dull and free of humour. Who are you to arbitrarily decide what is encyclopedia material"?

Of course, I’m reverting her writing (if at the standard of the above) every time - Adrian Pingstone 16:51, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Does she have a very good point, incorrectly placed in the article that we all exhibit a 'tyrannical obsessive compulsive fixation with boring facts'? Jed keenan 16:35, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Colin Pitchfork

Anon IP 62.30.220.4 made an undiscussed removal of the "first criminal caught by DNA" entry, which refers to a real person (AFAIK) with their own wiki entry. If they're notable enough for that entry, surely they merit being linked from the Yate article? It's a change from JKR, at least. Anyone else think it's worth rolling back the edit? Andy Dingley 17:09, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

His article says that he's from Bristol rather than Yate, but if he is from Yate it's probably worth a mention here. — Gasheadsteve ^{Talk to me} 09:04, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

The Road To Nowhere

The stretch of dual carriageway that runs across Yate Common.

If you look at an aerial shot, http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=51.535598~-2.435832&style=a&lvl=16&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=4241980&where1=yate&encType=1 you can see that it would have joined up with a roundabout on the other side of the railway. Who planned it? What was the purpose, except maybe for missing out the high street?

Were they going to build a bridge over the railway? It doesn't look like the'd left enough room to do it.

Did the planners forget that the railway was there?

Or maybe they thought that as the rail network was in decline at the time, that it would be removed. But as it's a main line I don't think it would have been!

Why is there no info to be found on this road? Is it too embarrasing for the truth to be published?

Or did they just plain, run out of money.

There are alot of people wondering about this, so if you know the answer, get it on here! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.123.131.135 (talk) 04:15, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Adrian Pingstone

I think we need to discuss a few of these points before you just jump on your high horse and delete/edit to your own agenda. I think discussion is needed before any more edit please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loon*i2d (talk • contribs) 23:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Adrian Could you please let me know which bits you don't like so we can come to some sort of arrangement. Just deleting whole sections because you don't like them is not the Wiki way. I feel that it is fair to add this section as the whole Radburn idea has failed around the country/world and Yate is a good example of this.

re: the design section that has been added, I am sorry Adrian but just because you do not agree with a comment does not mean it is not fact/true. and with regards to Vandalism people bunny hopping there BMX bikes on the park bench is far worse than changing and edit on a web site that is open to the public domain !!