Talk:Staffordshire Potteries

Proposed merge with The Potteries Urban Area - two articles one topic. Saga City (talk) 12:03, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Potteries Urban Area and the Staffordshire Potteries are not the same place or the same topic. The Staffordshire Potteries was the old name for what is now the City of Stoke-on-Trent; famous for the pottery it still makes to a limited extent. The Potteries Urban Area is a name recently invented by statisticians for the conurbation which includes Newcastle-under-Lyme and Kidsgrove {though neither were pottery manufacturing towns) as well as Stoke-on-Trent. There is no case for merger. NoelWalley (talk) 13:46, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They could both be merged with the title "The Potteries" which is currently a redirect to "The Potteries Urban Area", it could be about the Potteries area with a section about the Urban Area, i.e. move this article to "The Potteries". I don't know what should be done with the page histories, as "The Potteries" was a separate article which was merged into this one, although it has now been redirected to "The Potteries Urban Area", which was created more recently. --Snigbrook ^(talk) 14:13, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More specifically, this was merged to The Potteries, which was redirected to Stoke-on-Trent, then the article was recreated at Staffordshire Potteries. If the articles are merged, as The Potteries, the history from when it was recreated in 2007 should probably be merged with The Potteries. --Snigbrook ^(talk) 15:01, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This misses the point that Newcastle-under-Lyme and Kidsgrove were never part of the Potteries. If a merger is required then the Staffordshire Potteries article should merge with the City of Stoke-on-Trent article since they are about the same place. NoelWalley (talk) 15:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]