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Merge

I am against the proposed merge of articles suggested it would cause a loss of information in many cases and an overloading of the main page. Notably a similar set of proposals was made by an anonymous user to disrupt the Portsmouth page and those of its schools information is here and also here -- Drappel 22:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Naming of articles about city suburbs

Can someone explain why the articles about the city suburbs have the suffix Hampshire rather than Southampton? e.g. Shirley, Hampshire rather than Shirley, Southampton (which is now a re-direct). As a Shirley resident, I don't consider that I live in Hampshire but rather in the City of Southampton, and I'm proud of it. On looking at the edit history, most of the articles were re-named in November 2006, with the edit summary "correct form of disambiguation". Where is this policy set out? Can you imagine renaming say, Edge Hill, Liverpool to Edge Hill, Lancashire simply because it falls within the boundaries of the old county of Lancashire? Daemonic Kangaroo 10:33, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

I've tagged this article for cleanup because it needs to be substantially reorganised in order to meet the guidelines for this type of article (see the UK Geography wikiproject for details of these). In particular, the section titles and the ordering of the sections needs to be sorted out, and subsections of the history section should be subsections, not sections of equal weight. Waggers (talk) 11:20, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've started making changes based upon Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements. I would appreciate some help with the Economy, Demography, Notable People and Public services sections. I also want to remove the Changes section, integrated it with the rest of the article. Similarly I would like to have less information in History, with history integrated into the other sections. -- Fluteflute ^Talk ^{Contributions} 13:08, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The content of the history section isn't too long, it's just jumbled up. There are a couple of bits that could have sections of their own ("toponymy" could go into an etymology section before the history section, and "occupants" can be moved into the notable people section); the remainder needs to be rewritten to put it in chronological order. "Changes" definitely needs to be merged into the history section (or removed altogether) rather than being separate. waggers (talk) 12:12, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed Links

I've just removed the external links section as none of them are important/notable enough. However they could be useful in writing the article and/or used as references, so I've included them below. -- Fluteflute ^Talk ^{Contributions} 13:32, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spitfire

Rather astonished at the absence of any mention. This town produced a machine that had a large part in preventing Hitler occupying this country ...Straw Cat (talk) 12:47, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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