Talk:Lurgan

message: What's this?
"They lost the Under-21 semi-final against Castlerahan on 18 November 2006."
Who are we talking about here? --Eamonnca1 23:31, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sport

message: This section seems to have become a battleground for bands trying to plug themselves at the expense of the others. I propose that it be deleted. --Eamonnca1 17:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Music

message: How about the following wording to stop this silly edit war: "Died in an explosion of a box of primed grenades prior to the Battle of the Somme." Until someone can cite a source saying that he either dropped a grenade in (implying that he was incompetent) or that he threw himself onto it to save his friends (implying that he was a hero) or both, I suggest we hold off on specifics and stick to NPOV. --16:07, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you look at William McFadzean you'll see a links through to proof on the BBC site. Regards, --Blowdart | talk 16:18, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

text: In this case, I think a "neutral" wording is not NPOV. He didn't get the VC for being an eejit with a box of grenades. --Alastair Rae (talk) 10:33, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

text: Can we stop the edit war? If you can't agree an interpretation of the facts then go argue about it over in William McFadzean. --Alastair Rae (talk) 10:37, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Except removing text that is true simply to stop someone else introducing factual errors isn't the way to go about it. --Blowdart | talk 10:57, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  Current text reads "Died when he threw himself on a box of primed grenades prior to the Battle of the Somme and was awarded the Victoria Cross." This explains why he's notable, and the source is correctly cited, so the text should remain as is. Seems to have stabilised around this anyway. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 20:25, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: William Frederick McFadzean

message: Why aren't the census figures for Lurgan on the article?
:I've re-added the historical census figures complete with their citation, and removed the red link that the other editor was objecting to. Please add new comments to the bottom of this page.  Please sign comments. Thanks. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 17:41, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Assuming you mean the census figures template, it's a wee bit complicated. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ireland#Historical populations template --Alastair Rae (talk) 18:06, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I'm the "other editor" mentioned above. Please review the discussion about the addition of the population stats mentioned above. There's currently a checkuser/sock puppet investigation. I'm happy to leave the template in place for now (in a collapsed state and without the redlink). This was a previous compromise agreed before we realised how disruptive this editor could be. Please drop me a note if you still have questions. Thanks Nelson50T 19:03, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  I subsequently found that discussion, didn't see it mentioned on this particular talk page. I'll see you over there. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 19:53, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Census figures

message: The origin of the Lurgan spade phrase comes from an actual spade, a Lurgan spade is a bog cutting tool, long and thin to cut turf into sods. It's got nothing to do with any of the suggestions in the article. You can see examples of the Lurgan spade if you go to the museum at Tannaghmore Gardens.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.16.124.133 (talk) 11:15, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I must admit that I had always thought it referred to a local varity of turf spade but I didn't want to disagree with the Craigavon Historical bods. The Irish language theory looks like a back-formation. Probably never know the right answer. --Alastair Rae (talk) 14:32, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've seen several sources that support the "underpaid diggers of the park lake" theory.  If we can get a source for the Irish language theory we should put that in.  I'm tempted to put a 'citation needed' tag on that one but we'll see what our GA reviewer thinks of it. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 19:19, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

text: In our schoolyard slang we were told that 'spade' was a name for anyone from Lurgan, anyone from the country was a 'munchy' (from the Irish 'Montaigh' meaning land of the bog). So you had the Munchies and the Spades or 'Townies'. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 19:19, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lurgan Spade 

message: Just noticed this: "The town sprang up in a townland (baile fearainn) called Lurgan, from which its name was derived. Since then, it has grown to cover the surrounding townlands, which lend their names to many roads and housing estates."  Would you say that Lurgan 'covers' all the surrounding townlands? I'm not so sure about that. For the purpose of the postal service, it is customary (but not required) to use the townland followed by 'Lurgan' in the address, but I wouldn't say that this means that Lurgan 'covers' the other townlands as if they are part of Lurgan. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 18:54, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In this context it simply means that 'Lurgan' (as in 'the built-up area that people call Lurgan') extends into these townlands. I suppose it could be changed to something like: "the urban area has extended into the surrounding townlands" ? ~Asarlaí 19:03, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed it to say that the urban area now extends into the neighbouring townlands. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 22:03, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Townlands

message: I noticed there isn't a wiki page on the above mentioned boxer who was born in Castle Lane. Would any of you be interested in starting one up. I would only I'm new to all of this. Cheers! Archiesgone (talk) 18:56, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Go right ahead.  I've made his name into a red link, you can click on that and go ahead and create the page. Good luck and welcome to wiki! --Eamonnca1 (talk) 19:21, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Famous people IKE WEIR 

message: The townland called 'Derry' has reappeared again. Where is this place? I know many townlands that start with that word but I don't know if any in the area just called Derry. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 00:46, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The Placenames Database (click here) shows that there's a townland called 'Derry' in the county of Armagh, barony of Oneilland East, parish of Shankill. Then if we look at an old ordnance survey map (click here, select "historic", and zoom in) we can see that it's directly north of Shankill Church. ~Asarlaí 13:56, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: OK --Eamonnca1 (talk) 01:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually just saw a reference to it, apparently the site of St Peter's chapel is in the townland of Derry. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 21:25, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It is also listed as a entry at the List of townlands in County Armagh article. Bjmullan (talk) 21:33, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Derry'

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message: The article mentions Lurgan's population as of the 2021 United Kingdom census, but doesn't have a section in which slightly more detailed stats are shown. Not proposing anything crazy like, just stuff like male-female, religion, language, citizenship, passport etc. 
Thoughts? Suo Edits (talk) 19:06, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would it be of use to add a section for more detailed statistics of the 2021 census?