Talk:Liverpool

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Semi-protected edit request on 7 May 2014

Please add the following addition to the Trains section of the Liverpool page: TransPennine Express also operates a train service from Liverpool Lime Street to a range of destinations including Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester. 84.19.53.34 (talk) 15:16, 7 May 2014 (UTC) Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. 123chess456 (talk) 02:00, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2014

2.97.89.214 (talk) 22:56, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Shea Neary is one of Liverpool's most famous boxers and is not included http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shea_Neary

 Done Thanks for the suggestion - Arjayay (talk) 07:02, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

"Artists of Liverpool origin have produced more number one singles than any other."

I've removed that claim from the lead. It's sourced from the Daily Mail, which is not widely considered a reliable source. If it's true, I'm sure it only relates to the UK singles chart, not other charts. And, frankly I doubt if it's true at all, given the great disparity in size between Liverpool and London - over 10 times larger. It may once have been true, in the late sixties, but I don't believe that the claim is either valid or sufficiently well sourced to be included now. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:17, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Population

Just as an observation, I was kind of surprised at the information supplied in this text: "The "Liverpool city region", as defined by the Mersey Partnership, includes Wirral, Warrington, Flintshire, Chester and other areas, and has a population of around 2 million.[89] The European Spatial Planning Observation Network defines a Liverpool metropolitan area consisting of the Merseyside metropolitan county, the borough of Halton, Wigan in Greater Manchester, the city of Chester as well as number of towns in Lancashire and Cheshire including Ormskirk and Warrington.[90] Liverpool and Manchester are sometimes considered as one large polynuclear metropolitan area,[91][92][93] or megalopolis".

Firstly, am I right in thinking the "City Region" is the 5 boroughs and Halton? Where then does Flintshire, Chester and other areas come in to it? Secondly, what on earth is European Spatial Planning Observation Network and what relevance are they to UK council's and borough population? Wigan and Chester are in outside regions. Thirdly, (my opinion) what nonsense about Manchester and Liverpool being one large polynuclear metropolitan area! By whom? Some professor or academic student or some business quango? They are two cities quite separateBabydoll9799 (talk) 12:51, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

First British Social Housing

As recorded in the museum:
"Liverpool was the first corporation in Britain to build homes for its inhabitants. Liverpool corporation started to build flats as part of its clearance of 'slum' housing. The first of these, St Martin's Cottages, opened in 1869.
Six blocks created 123 tenement homes of various sizes. Each flat also had its own toilet and scullery, luxuries to most new residents."

This is an important pioneering fact that should be included, but not sure where! Would someone who maintains this page please include it. Thanks.  SurreyJohn   (Talk) 10:29, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Reeks of hype

A lot of this page is given over to a wearying list of artificially boosted superlatives (deftly mixing world's first with the considerably less amazing Britain's first) and it's reminiscent of the Seoul page - doubtless based on a corresponding set of insecurities.

It would be of more service both to Wikipedia and to Liverpool to strip out some of the superfluous drivel and to bring the hype down to a level where mortals can safely read about this earthly paradise without swooning.

Let's face it, when you're relying on Guinness World Records to pronounce you the World City of Pop and you find it sufficiently authoritative to add to a page of information on Liverpool, you are revealing a certain desperation for recognition. Liverpool's musical status should be able to stand in its own right, and if that is too much to hope for, there are better sources of support than Guinness.

Liverpool today is a perfectly nice, modestly sized city of middling importance in the general scheme of things - even within England, let alone by world standards. It's not an important port - it's barely a port at all - or a major transhipment point, or a major centre of trade, industry, or finance. It is because those inconvenient facts - which have been true for many decades now - are being pushed aside that this page comes across sounding so needy.

219.98.16.135 (talk) 13:15, 8 June 2015 (UTC)