Talk:Norfolk

message: The key to the Map of Districts has been changed at some point - not sure when or by whom. It should run from 1 to 7. I'll attempt to correct it - if I can't, I'll leave it to Morwen. Agendum 23:30, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like this has been done too. Rob 18:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Key on map

message: I'd like to categorise List of places in Norfolk into populated places, geographical features, ports, airfields, historical sites, forests, open areas of water, rivers, tourist attractions etc - do people think that this would help? Rob 18:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Categorise Lists?

message: I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, though I know enough to know that any humble American who suggests something inclusive of America runs the risk of being accused of cultural imperialism.  (Not by the majority, mind you, but by a certain element.)  So please don't bite me for this suggestion; I mean it with the purest of intentions.  Norfolk, Virginia has a population of about 250,000 and most Americans (all ~300 million of us) think of it when we hear the word "Norfolk".  Yes, yes, "America is not the world", but isn't a disambiguation page the most inclusive thing to do?  It seems that that was the status quo until about a year ago when there was near-unilateral action to move Norfolk, England to Norfolk (see Talk:Norfolk) and no one has undone it.  About 1000-1500 links each point to both Norfolk and Norfolk, Virginia, and I guarantee you many of those "Norfolk" links are intended for Norfolk, Virginia as placed by misinformed countrymen of mine.  What are your thoughts? Raggaga 02:34, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting thought.  Norfolk, UK is the first Norfolk and that which lends it's name to all the other Norfolk's that there are scattered round the globe so I guess that it has some precidence to be where the link points to, also Norfolk UK is considerably larger in terms of geographical area and population than Norfolk, VA.  I think that I would vote to leave the links as they are but add a little bit more on the disambiguation at the start, as for the mis directed links we should fix them.  I'll do 200 or so if you will, don't know if this is something that a bot can help with, i.e. if it could do some of this work - I will try to research it.  Rob 13:54, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been through and verified that all the links that point to Norfolk are genuine Norfolk England pages pointing the others where they should go.  The list that I worked through is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RobertWalden/Norfolk_UK_Linkers  I need to check for new arrivals sometime but other than that it's done, I did not bother to check users pages, thought that it would be too difficult. Rob 08:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norfolk, USA? 

message: Great Yarmouth District Council is not controlled by the Lib Dems, it is Conservative. Also Norwich City Council is no longer Labour but Lib Dem. The map is therefore quite wrong. Also along with a newly coloured in map for the district councils it would also be good to have one with parliamentary constituencies coloured in as a correctly coloured in district council map would show no Labour representation. However, Labour have 3 Norfolk MPs which is a significant number.
:The red isn't intended to indicate political control, just to show the location of the county. Barnabypage 08:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Great Yarmouth District Council

message: There seem to be a lot of links to sites that may well be linkspam. Perhaps they ought to be cleared out.--A bit iffy 12:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: i believe that Norfolk Rhapsody No1 should be mentioned somewhere in this article considering the fact that Williams supposedly found inspiration to write the song while cycling around these norfolk villages.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.161.110.131 (talk) 22:10, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ralph Vaughan Williams

message: Hello.Could someone enlighten me and let me know where the Norfolk Academy is?Northmetpit 16:24, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education

message: There's a "weasel words" statement at the end of the paragraph of agriculture. I've tagged it as "verification needed". I'll delete it in a couple of days if the author can't provide a citation to support that statement. OldSpot61 (talk) 09:41, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agribusiness 

message: To keep the discussion central, please discuss the potential move of this article at Talk:Norfolk (disambiguation)#Requested_move. Oren0 (talk) 09:05, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move - 2009

message: I deleted Richard Pratt from the section on People Associated with Norfolk. The link pointed to a disambiguation page for 3 Richard Pratts, none of whom fitted the description of the one on the Norfolk page. I found very little about this Richard Pratt elsewhere on the net. If he's really "notable", please restore him and create a page about him. OldSpot61 (talk) 10:33, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  People associated with Norfolk 

message: I added the image :File:Wenceslas Hollar - Norfolk (State 4).jpg that I recently uploaded to History of Norfolk - you may also want it in the main article, up to you. :-) Dcoetzee 06:50, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New image

message: There's no reference for the statement that Boudicca was born near Norwich. The statement appears to be referring to the settlement at Venta Icinorum, which wasn't founded until after her death. My understanding is that she was born in Suffolk? Harasseddad (talk) 12:51, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: Anyone got any idea what this is ??  (no, I know that bits a ship lol)
I have searched some old maps and aerial photos, but so much land has been reclaimedover the past 150 years...in the aerial photos from 1946 the fields adjacent to the sea are now two fields inland and so many maps and photos stop a couple of hundred yards short of the feature
It is a 600 foot diameter volcano mound
52°50'31.20"N LAT
0°14'36.04"E LONG
Chaosdruid (talk) 13:29, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huge off shore mound Terrington St Clement 

message: Hi
I removed the prose tag from the section "Notable people". That section is a list and as such would not normally be written in prose style
Chaosdruid (talk) 06:54, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of "prose" tag 

message: Hamond Felton was M.P. for Norfolk in 1377 and died in 1379. He and his family are a part of the History of Norfolk going back to Medieval times. The reference is a DNB reference, acceptable on many articles. His family goes back to the Conqueror, his ancestor was related to the Black Prince through marriage, fought in Crecy and Poitiers.  Most importantly, Hamond Felton held an important position in Norfolk  He was taken out of this article with not so much as a mention as to why. Since no one editor WP:OWNS the article, I would ask that other editors vote their opinion here.  I will, of course, comply with majority.  Thanks.
Consensus for keeping or deleting Hamond Felton in History of Norfolk article:
*Keep He is a historical figure of some significance since he was an M.P. and had some significant authority and came from a notable medieval Norfolk family.  If a dog can be "notable" in Norfolk history, so can Hamond Felton.Mugginsx (talk) 15:52, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consensus to keep or delete Hamond Felton, medieval notable figure from article 

message: I would just like to question the sentence,
'The economy was in decline by the time of the Black Death, which dramatically reduced the population in 1349; suffice to say that the current population has yet to equal the population before that time.'
from the History section of the article.
Whilst I do not have solid figures to suggest anything to the contrary, the statement seems highly debatable. 
The current population of Norfolk approaching 900,000 whilst by historical accounts the pre black death population of Norfolk was around 200,000. The population of England as a whole is estimated to have been around 3000000 prior to the black death, and the population of Norfolk at the time will not have been anywhere near the level it is now  - it simply did not make up a third of Englands population.
Dobsons' 'The Peasants Revolt 1381', gives an idea of tax payers representing somewhat less than 50% of the overall population at around 80,000. If we extrapolate the pop. figure to be 200,000 I think we would not be out of the realms of accuracy. If we then use the assumptions that the Black Death wiped out between a third and a half, even go as far as  to say 2 thirds of the population we are left with a pre black death estimate of between 300,000 and 600,000.
Even by our highly unlikely upper figure of 600,000, this would have been surpassed some decades ago.
Unless any evidence can be found to back up the claim, might I suggest it is removed?
Cheers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.150.8.193 (talk) 14:04, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norfolk history 

message: In the politics section, there is a lot of detail put into the saga of whether or not Norwich would become a unitary authority. Does it need cutting down and the remainder put into a separate article, because as a sub-section it's pretty long. Indiasummer95 (talk) 12:29, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amount about dispute over Norwich going unitary 

message: /ˈnɔːfək/ is how it's written now, and if I mouse over the 'ə' it says "a in about". That would make it nor-fak. I don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce it anywhere near that. Shouldn't it be whatever translates to nor-fuk or nor-fuhk? Hammerfrog (talk) 11:43, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Re "As a result, the speech of Norfolk is more of an accent than a dialect, though one part retained from the Norfolk dialect is the distinctive grammar of the region."
Surely - almost by definition - a form of speech which has a different grammar (in the proper scientific-linguistic sense) must at least be a different dialect (if not a different language)?  Even Scottish English or Geordie, though they can be hard to understand if you are from the south, don't have a different grammar - just different accent and vocabulary.  Since this is uncited, I suggest it is removed until some evidence is provided. 86.182.14.37 (talk) 10:16, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different Grammar? 

message: This slang isn't only medical.  I've heard it used in everyday speech.  This paragraph sounds rather harsh: I don't believe anyone in England *seriously* thinks of Norfolk as an 'illiterate incestuous backwater.'  (And semi-humorous stereotyping of people from most regions in the UK is not uncommon; including by people who come from those regions.) 86.182.14.37 (talk) 10:16, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Normal for Norfolk' 

message: Skin colour is not an ethnic group.  I've removed the reference to 'white' as the number of Polish, Latvian and Lithuanian people has risen since 2001 census, there is also no reference to the percentage the previous writer had quoted.  "The County has received significant international migration from the EU, originally from Portugal and more recently from Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. There is in addition a largely unquantifiable element of international migration attributable to short-term migrants, here primarily to seek work and highly mobile, but unlikely to be counted as part of the resident population."  http://www.norfolkinsight.org.uk/jsna/population#themes  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.0.254.204 (talk) 16:38, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnicity

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There is no article for the Flag of Norfolk. Is there any information, for example on its derivation and history, that could be added to this article? Martinevans123 (talk) 22:32, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag 

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message: The news tonight (October 19 2017) said that Norfolk was the first county to cut down on a certain rank of police officer. Could this go in the article, or would this be more suitable for Wikinews? Vorbee (talk) 17:05, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Cutting back some of the police officers

message: This article is listed as a geographical article, but there's precious little about the actual (non-human) geography of Norfolk in it.  Indeed, the word "geography" doesn't even appear in the text.  There's nothing about the highest point, length of seacoast, landforms, rivers, etc.  There's a passing reference to low-lying topography, and that's about it.  I came across this article in en effort to learn this info, so I can't contribute.  Anybody? --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 00:20, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geography? 

message: I have slightly tidied the "People" list. However, this is a mix of past and present people, with most of the "past" missing dates. I feel that it would be better to arrange the People section into Past and Present, as we have in the Norwich entry, and add their dates similarly. This would make it much clearer and easier to distinguish between the two.
I also propose comparing the Norwich "People" entries with that for Norfolk, to determine any differences. Clearly, anyone who is of note as being closely associated with Norwich (through birth, upbringing etc.) would also qualify for inclusion in the Norfolk list(s). This might appear to be "overkill", but it seems inconsistent to have Norwich-listed people (i.e. also Norfolk people) not included in the Norfolk list. There may be people in the Norfolk list who should be in the Norwich lists, but I suspect that the general direction of entries (if there are any) will be from the Norwich list to the Norfolk, and not vice versa.
Comments, please.
Roaringboy (talk) 14:09, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  People 

message: I have started a project for missing civil parishes at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes. The missing parishes in Norfolk are:
* Aldborough and Thurgarton
* Brandon Parva, Coston, Runhall and Welborne
* Caistor St Edmund and Bixley
* Cantley, Limpenhoe and Southwood
* Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton
* Tivetshall
And these exists as a redirect only but should have separate articles:
* Corpusty and Saxthorpe
* Keswick and Intwood
* Morningthorpe and Fritton
* Trowse with Newton, unsure if this needs an article
A total of 10, see User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (3)#Norfolk. Crouch, Swale (talk)  18:46, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parishes project 

message: Quote from the article:
The area that was to become Norfolk was settled in pre-Roman times, (there were Palaeolithic settlers as early as 950,000 years ago) with camps along the higher land in the west, where flints could be quarried.
This simply cannot be right, since hominids left Africa only 125,000 years ago. I'm just a simple geologist reading throught random Wikipedia articles and this one really confused me. I'm sure it's a good idea to research it and correct the mistake. 78.11.184.176 (talk) 16:11, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norfolk first settlers