Talk:City of Winchester
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[edit] Reasons for page move
This page was formerly at City of Winchester. While the district is technically called the City of Winchester, this is a misleading title for the article as it would naturally refer to the city rather than the district. For example, road signs saying "welcome to the City of Winchester" are on the city boundaries, rather than the district boundaries, and almost noone refers to the district as the "City of Winchester" - for example, the city council always refers to the district as "Winchester District" [1]. Enchanter 23:50, 23 June 2006 (UTC).
- This move left a great deal of redirects and double redirects. See similar situation of Leeds / City of Leeds, Wakefield / City of Wakefield etc. Mrsteviec 12:41, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
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- Thanks - the double redirects are now fixed. Enchanter 23:06, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
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- I've cleaned up further links from the templates on this page. Although I have to say this is not an endorsement of the current naming. All other district articles follow the form City of Foo, Royal Borough of Foo, Foo (borough) or Foo (district) depending on their status or for cases where the district and the settlement they cover are coterminous, Foo. This naming is outside this scheme. Mrsteviec 13:39, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
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- I would support either the current Winchester district, or, given the current naming of the other articles, moving to City of Winchester (district), City of Winchester district, or similar, as suitable names. City of Winchester on its own is too ambiguous to be a suitable name in this particular situation. "City of Winchester" can mean either the city itself or the whole district. Its meaning as the district is virtually never used in common usage (even by the city council itself), and is only ever found in a small number of official documents. Enchanter 17:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
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The exact same situation exists for these places (i.e. district has city status) so the change needs to be uniform:
- City of Bradford (Bradford)
- City of Canterbury (Canterbury)
- City of Carlisle (Carlisle)
- City of Chester (Chester)
- City of Durham (Durham)
- City of Lancaster (Lancaster)
- City of Leeds (Leeds)
- City of Salford (Salford)
- City of Sunderland (Sunderland)
- City of Wakefield (Wakefield)
- City of Westminster (Westminster)
- City of Winchester (Winchester)
Mrsteviec 18:00, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
- I'm moving this back (again). If you want to move one, they all have to be moved, no special pleading. And the naming convention would indicate Winchester (district) anyway Morwen - Talk 13:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
See ongoing discussion on the naming convention at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK subdivisions Enchanter 00:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
