Talk:Paignton

message: It looks like the answer to this question is no, unless any other Wikipedians know differently.  However, Torquay in Devon has a namesake in Australia, see .--Ianmacm 20:57, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's also a Torquay in Canada. Oddly, it's hundreds of miles inland. Totnesmartin 20:43, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Torquay is indeed a village in Saskatchewan. As well, there's a village by the name of Paynton (note the spelling), but it's nowhere near Torquay. I don't know whether either place name originated from the towns in Devon, but it's probably something I could look up in a trip to the library. -- wacko2 22:04, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's possible, Paignton went through loads of different spellings until settling on the current version. If there's a Brixham there too, you've got the set! Totnesmartin 23:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: After a trip to the library, I've confirmed that Torquay is named after the city in Devon. However, Paynton is not named after Paignton, but rather after an early settler (Peter Paynter). As well, there are at least two former CP (Canadian Pacific Railway) sidings in Saskatchewan named after places in Devon: Totnes and Bickleigh. If you need more information or references, feel free to ask me either here or on my talk page. I'm afraid I forgot to look up Brixham though. :) -- wacko2 23:37, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: maybe you could do an article on those towns, you seem to know where to get the information. Totnesmartin 15:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Are there any other Paigntons in the world?

message: The photographs have been updated to include some sand as requested.--Ianmacm 13:47, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New photos

message: I removed the claim that Agatha Christie based Hercule Poirot on her experiences in Paignton during World War One, as there is little evidence that this is true.  She has been said to have based Poirot on Belgian refugees that she met in Torquay during this period, but there may also have been other influences from crime fiction.  See Agatha Christie - A Biography by Janet Morgan () for more details.--Ianmacm 17:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hercule Poirot

message: There is a recipe in the Project Gutenberg citation.  This is a more suitable place than giving recipes in the article.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 14:15, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A whole section with its own subheading is not really necessary. A brief description within the History section backed up by the Gutenberg reference is enough.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 14:03, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a fair suggestion. --Simple Bob a.k.a. The Spaminator (Talk) 14:08, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paignton pudding 

message: Re this edit: I'm not sure if this is notable enough for a mention. John Gosling of The Kinks does not have a blue plaque in the town, and nor is he seen as a key figure in the town's history. This comes across as a random fact about The Kinks, rather than something that a person needs to know about Paignton. If John Gosling (The Kinks musician) is not notable enough for his own BLP article, he isn't really one of Paignton's notable residents. See WP:TOPIC.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 05:00, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd tend to say Gosling isn't significant enough to warrant a mention here other than as one of a list of names. I don't think it's unfair to say that the Kinks were Ray and Dave Davies (both, famously, from Muswell Hill in north London, not Devon) plus whoever happened to be playing with them at the time, and Gosling isn't a particularly significant figure in their history (the "Members" section of the official Kinks website doesn't even mention him). He was only in the band for a relatively short period (1970–78), by which time the bands' glory days were behind them; assuming The Kinks discography#1970s is correct he didn't play on any song to enter the top 10 anywhere in the world (and only one to enter the top 30) other than "Apeman" and "Lola" just after he joined. Googling  brings up almost nothing but a few Wikipedia mirrors, which makes me strongly assume that neither the band nor the town have ever made anything of the connection. ‑ iridescent 18:19, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: As nobody's said anything to the contrary, I'm going to remove Gosling again. Per my comments above, although the Kinks are certainly a highly significant band I don't consider Gosling a particularly significant member (and he certainly doesn't belong under "places of interest"!). I can see a case for a "list of notable people from Paignton" section, but not for including Gosling on his own, as he's certainly not the most noteworthy person from Paignton. (Sue Barker, T P Cameron Wilson, Samuel Chapin, Ray Reardon, Chris Read... I could even make a case that Hannah Harper is better known.) ‑ iridescent 10:17, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Gosling 

message: I've got stuck while trying to find the results for Torbay for the European Parliament election, 2014. The best source was here but is for the whole of the south west. The 2009 results are a dead link. Help requested here.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 15:37, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  European Parliament election, 2014 

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message: Re this edit: As a general rule, a Wikipedia article about a town does not need to list all of the schools, churches, sports clubs etc. This leads to problems with WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Unless there is coverage in secondary sources, notability is not established.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 07:18, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm aware of the WP:OTHERCONTENT. The trouble is that lists without context are not very encyclopedic. If you look at typical print encyclopedia articles about towns, they don't list this type of information.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 09:10, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schools 

message: I have added this but difficult to cite as the wording, slightly changed, comes from a photo I took of the poster explaining the skeleton in the Torquay Museum when I saw it April 2019. REVUpminster (talk) 10:55, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a good find. The burial is covered in depth in Vol 66 (2008) of the Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings, see https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1082284&recordType=Journal (I have a copy if you're interested). The only question here is how much detail is appropriate in this article.  —SMALLJIM  21:02, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I did find that reference. I did not use all the detail from the poster, such as the housing developer may have destroyed the rest of the site or hairstyles and other items not really about the area of Paignton. But it is important in that it proved Roman influence was in the area. REVUpminster (talk) 22:13, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine - thanks. I've added the full reference to the journal and retained the link to the online abstract.  —SMALLJIM  23:27, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hookhills Burial 

message: The figures are wrong. For some reason the government figures are using Cockington, Edginswell as if they were in Paignton arriving at a figure of 67520 and Torquay 52035 which reverses the sizes of the two towns. REVUpminster (talk) 16:08, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The map shown here is weird because it includes Cockington, Shiphay and Edginswell which are definitely not in Paignton. Not sure how to approach this as the census figures are supposed to be a reliable source. It is overestimating to give Paignton a population of nearly 70,000, this can't be right.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 18:39, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paignton population