Talk:Todmorden

message: Under "External Links" there is reference to "Sir John Fielden" which links to an article about John Fielden (d.1849) who is often referred to as "Honest John". He was elected as M.P. but I'm sure he was never knighted! -Ethicaljohn 21:55, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and have amended it accordingly. - Scribble Monkey 08:45, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  errata 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Todcoatofarms.jpg

message: There's a great free-to-use image of the Town Hall here when someone gets time to access their WikiCommons account. Thanks, --Jza84 |  Talk   19:23, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a toughy! I'll try and have a think. I do have a commons account, but if I'm interputted and don't want to loose the image, I make a note of it. I'll get back to you! --Jza84 |  Talk   23:06, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Town hall 

message: The population is for the upper Calder Valley, not Todmorden.  I would have only thought the population of Todmorden would have been around 4000-5000.  Can anyone find a more suitable figure.  In the meantime, I shall note where the figure is from on the page. Mtaylor848 (talk) 16:10, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The link provided has "rotted", but the spreadsheets produced by the Office for National Statistics records Todmorden's 2001 population as 11,555 . Nev1 (talk) 16:24, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thats right. I added the rotted link when it was still live - it's possibly the population of Todmorden civil parish though. --Jza84 |  Talk   17:13, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Population

message: As there's been some to and fro with external links lately perhaps the section should have some discussion as to what is and is not allowed or relevant? For the discussion, I'll remind people of the official Wikipedia policy at WP:EL. I'd also advise people that if their particular site is notable then you may wish create a page for it as I did for Todmorden_Markets. Creating a page avoids an overly long External Links section and allows more than one person to contribute to a subject, unlike external sites. Shaunaegis (talk) 13:25, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Must say I am not convinced about the separate article for the markets and have tagged it  &  as it just looks like advertising to me. What do other think? Keith D (talk) 15:48, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I too am not convinced that a separate article is the solution. I would prefer the sites being used as footnotes or references, as that would prove that they reinforce and elaborate on the article rather than rely on the tenuous premise that they are relevant merely because they relate to Todmorden. It would also improve the quality of the article, which would be of benefit to Wikipedia as well as to the linked site. - Scribble Monkey (talk) 19:13, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I did think of using references but as with links, I'd suspect they'd be subject to vandalism, which we've not solved in this dicussion so far. Shaunaegis (talk) 09:02, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair point. Also I suppose the reliability of the source could be called into question if both the article and source were edited by the same persons, i.e. they merely reinforce each other's claims rather than one is a definitive source. - Scribble Monkey (talk) 11:17, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

text: A separate article made sense to me based on the fact there were other towns with markets already.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Markets_in_England for just England. The language used was based on looking at those other pages and others. Shaunaegis (talk) 09:02, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

text: Please create a user instead of logging in anonymously and please discuss this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Todmorden_Markets where the discussion belongs. Shaunaegis (talk) 11:30, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Can't believe we've still got that link there despite everyone agreeing to delete it or did it get snuck back in? Anyway - deleting it now. Shaunaegis (talk) 15:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Links

message: This section seems to be attaching more importance to itself than it should with a top level heading and a lot of text. No offence intended to the author who is obviously passionate about the subject but it's not majorly important to Todmorden. Shaunaegis (talk) 15:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, it should be removed.--J3Mrs (talk) 08:34, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Alan Godfrey incident

message: I have removed most of the external links. If they are so important they could be used as references within the article. Most were commercial. Providing tourist and travel information is not what wikipedia is about.--J3Mrs (talk) 09:02, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spam 

message: There's a blurb in the article about this. Should it mention the two women spearheading the project and that there are gardens all around the town? One is Mary Clare but I forget the name of the other. I just saw them featured on US public television news. --RThompson82 (talk) 22:48, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Community gardens?

message: Just if you want to know: In German "Tod" means "Death" (as a noun, "dead" would be "tot" with T) and "Morden" is "to murder." So a German would understand that village's name as "to murder to death" or "death murder."--31.17.153.69 (talk) 07:07, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: German

message: Surprised to see no reference to this on the page! Derren Browns 3 month experiment in Todmorden was spectacular. Filmed in 2010? 
Can't paste inYoutube link, so try googling: 
 Derren Brown Experiments Luck
Here's a few of their local news stories, 
This first was written before Derren Browns involvement had been revealed: http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/local/tv-crew-in-town-for-luck-show-1-3719428 
Then Illusionist lights up sky with spectacular show - Todmorden News
http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/local/illusionist-lights-up-sky-with-spectacular-show-1-3827727
And
Surprise in store for viewers when ‘lucky dog’ show airs next week - Todmorden News
http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/local/surprise-in-store-for-viewers-when-lucky-dog-show-airs-next-week-1-3935598
DrMel (talk) 03:57, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derren Browns 3 month experiment? 

message: Substituted at 08:56, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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