Talk:Oxfordshire

message: So Christmas Common and Cowley are major towns in Oxfordshire, but Oxford isn't. How quaint. -- Chris j wood 18:50, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oxford is a city, not a town. Jim Michael (talk) 17:43, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Settlements 

message: These should be merged into this article as there is sufficient space for their inclusion. Netkinetic/T/C/@ 06:17, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-notable village stubs 

message: I've started to clear up the village pages in Oxfordshire(i'll start on Oxford and the towns eventually).
I've been sorting them all out, finding out information about transport links(buses trains), a bit about the location, anything recent, the amenities(schools, pubs, shops etc). also been visiting these villages to find out a bit of information from the locals.
can i get any advice on whether im going about it the rigth way?? for examples of my work...ummm....look at the new Coscote , Fulscotand West Hagbournepages. Any help with this cleanup project and renovation would be most apprecaited.--Halowithhorns89 16:19, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renovation to the villages 

message: It states that Chipping Norton is nearby along with Bicester and Banbury, but no mention of Kidlington, which is much nearer and much bigger then Chipping Norton, almost a suburb of Oxford. 86.3.133.80 23:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: South East of England, I always thought Oxfordshire was classed as the South Midlands? Am I wrong? 90.192.92.47 03:06, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The South Midlands is not a commonly used term. When used, it tends to not include Oxfordshire. Jim Michael (talk) 17:42, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

text: I think ‘south midlands’ is quite a common expression. But if Oxfordshire is in the south, surely it’s south central, rather than southeast. Zhnirlwaupp (talk) 20:47, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxfordshire 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:EH icon.png

message: Thanks to a ginormous infobox this article looks like this:
 Oxfordshire
 (pronounced /
 ˈɒksfərdʃər/ or /
 ˈɒksfərdʃɪər/;
 abbreviated Oxon,
 from the Latinised
 form Oxonia) is a
 county in the South
 East England region,
 bordering on
 Northamptonshire,
 Buckinghamshire,
 Berkshire, Wiltshire,
 Gloucestershire, and
 Warwickshire.
Please fix it. 82.139.86.4 (talk) 19:33, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox is ridiculously big 

message: I realise the population of Carterton probably changes as much as anywhere in Oxfordshire but does anyone know the population? It appears incorrectly in the population chart. Mattwinner (talk) 16:34, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carterton population? 

message: A project to find out more about Oxfordshire's genetic makeup is being started by Oxfordshire Family History Society. Does anyone object to adding a link to it in the links section?
The new project's webpage can be found here:-
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/oxfordshire/default.aspx
and the Oxfordshire Family History Society's webpage here
http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ Oxonblood (talk) 14:35, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi—my take would be that it would probably fall foul of Wikipedia's policy on external links: "one should generally avoid providing external links to....Sites that are only indirectly related to the article's subject: the link should be directly related to the subject of the article...a website on a specific subject should usually not be linked from an article about a general subject." I take that to mean that only websites that deal with Oxfordshire in general (rather than one aspect of Oxfordshire) should be added to the External Links section—so the link you added to Genetic history of the British Isles is probably legitimate since it is relevant to the topic in its entirety, but this article is about Oxfordshire in general, not the genetic makeup of its occupants. The only way to justify a link would be if the project was sufficiently notable to warrant a mention in the main body of the article (in which case you could reference it with a link to the project website) but I suspect that it would not be considered sufficiently noteworthy until you have some results (and even then, History of Oxfordshire might be a better place to describe the project's findings). Sounds like an interesting project though, and I wish you luck with it.Dave.Dunford (talk) 15:01, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, Thanks. Fair points. How about I add brief details of settlement/peopling to the History of Oxfordshire section and a link to the Oxon archives and FHS and leaving the DNA project until it has more results? Oxonblood (talk) 09:18, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxon DNA Project 

message: I think this article needs more photos. Since it's short and there's really not enough room for enough pictures to sum up a county along the sides, I think adding a gallery might be good. 
Any thoughts or suggested images? What I tried to do for the Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire pages, which do have enough length for plenty of good pictures, was try to provide a diverse range of images, not just traditional tourist sites but also typical local housing, offices of major companies based in the area, countryside views and so on.  Blythwood (talk) 15:18, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't feel strongly either way, but WP:Gallery has some relevant things to say (e.g. "The images in the gallery collectively must have encyclopedic value and add to the reader's understanding of the subject. Images in a gallery should be suitably captioned to explain their relevance both to the article subject and to the theme of the gallery..."). Dave.Dunford (talk) 21:46, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The flag listed in the infobox is a commercially available one supported by neither Oxfordshire County Council nor any official sources. The proposed flag would be more applicable. The use of a commercially available flag rather than the officially supported one (or fairer, none at all) misleads the viewer into beleiving it the offical county flag, and henceforth endows an unfair commercial interest on the manufacturer of the unsupported, unofficial flag.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.32.87.118 (talk) 10:47, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know the official status of the flag, but I do note that there is some evidence given of its official use on the media page at . Dave.Dunford (talk) 09:37, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxfordshire Flag 

message: Copied from User talk:Dave.Dunford for reference. Dave.Dunford (talk) 09:26, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Most people know that England is part of the United Kingdom. And the change you made is not grammatical in standard English, I'm afraid. Dave.Dunford (talk) 22:37, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've edited the opening of the Oxfordshire article to indicate that the county is both in South East England and the United Kingdom, in case there's anyone out there that doesn't know that England is part of the United Kingdom. But I've just looked at four other English county articles, selected randomly (Gloucestershire, Essex,  Cumbria and Cornwall) and their opening sentences all mention England (or an English region) rather than the United Kingdom, so I suspect someone else may revert. Dave.Dunford (talk) 22:51, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

text: Yes most people know where is England, but there is no mention of it, only South East England which may be some other place in some other country, lots of people dont know where is that South East England, and you dont know that before you click that wikipedia link  >Typ932 T·C 18:16, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  England 

message: Related to #England above, this issue has arisen again, this time at talk:Oxford#East-West. Wikipedia doesn't work on "everybody knows" or "we don't live in Kent", but on what wp:reliable sources say. And, as defined by the Office of National Statistics, Oxon is enumerated in the South East Region. The body could say "south central England" but the infobox still has to say "South East". IMO. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 18:06, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  South East 

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message: I have started a project for missing civil parishes at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes. The missing parishes in Oxfordshire are:
* Heyford Park
And these exists as a redirect only but should have separate articles:
* Lockinge
A total of 2, see User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (3)#Oxfordshire. Crouch, Swale (talk)  19:33, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parishes project 

message: I oppose the recent proposal to split off this section of the article. Its already pretty much covered by List of civil parishes in Oxfordshire. Maybe wait til the 2021 census results to see if they give another definition for settlements Eopsid (talk) 15:11, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe if we could see an actual justification, we could consider it on its merits. , is this one of yours? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:35, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Settlement Split Proposal 

message: @User:A.D.Hope what's clearer?
a) Oxfordshire contains five districts, which are part of a two-tier non-metropolitan county also called Oxfordshire, or
 
b) Oxfordshire has a county council and five district councils. Rupples (talk) 16:10, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead