Talk:List of United Kingdom locations

message: The first upload of this list as a single enormous file on Multilingual Wikisource was a compilation of material researched by Mike Simpson of Penrith, NSW, who posted the same list in subfiles at rootsweb.com.  He says "I am happy for you to use the data any way you wish, however, please do not
attribute it to me, as I collected it from a lot of sources, and so much of the work was not mine." —Theo  (Talk) 12:18, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Source

message: The subpages for this series of articles are extremely large, most show up on the list of long pages.  I looked through some of the pages to think about how to reorganize, but I didn't come up with any great ideas.  Anyone else? RainbowCrane 19:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd agree that the pages need splitting to make them smaller and easier to edit - more sections would be helpful too eg sections at the third letter rather than the second. There's also a huge amount of Disambig Link Repair to be done, I'm doing bits and pieces as I come across them, but all help would be appreciated! DuncanHill 21:33, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I also think splitting up the articles more is a good idea. For ease of finding the article for a particular place as long as the index is good, then having a large number of smaller articles is not a problem. I cannot really think of any good reason to have a smaller number of large articles. Think this is a great resource by the way, should greatly aid the addition of coords to UK places. GameKeeper 23:43, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganize/reformat 

message: This set of articles deserves a category of their own. Any objections if I move all the articles into 
:Category:List of United Kingdom locations by name
and place this category into :Category:Geography of the United Kingdom :Category:Lists of places in the United Kingdom :Category:Lists of coordinates?  GameKeeper 23:43, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this - they belong in their own category because they are otherwise getting spread all over the place - and they are probably going to multiply in number. I was going to do it, but was uncertain of the best name. I'm still uncertain, but your suggestion is the most obvious and quite appropriate, and we can always rename it later. -- zzuuzz (talk) 23:57, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It makes sense to me.—Theo  (Talk) 01:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Minor amendment, taking a look at similarly organised categories :Category:Lists of people by name . Is a popular one. That is plural so I think :Category:Lists of United Kingdom locations by name. GameKeeper 08:31, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  it is done now GameKeeper 19:56, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Categories

message: Take a look at List_of_United_Kingdom_locations:_M#My, I see the 'coor d' and 'gbmappingsmall' as red text. If I edit and preview it looks OK. but when I save its wrong again. If this just me? Anyone know what is happening? GameKeeper 21:19, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Weird. I get it too, starting at Mynachdy, but only 'coor d' in red for three lines, then gbmappingsmall too. Tried a few things to no avail. Maybe splitting the page will help :) -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:37, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I saw this again, when I formated S into table format, so I split it up and it seems to have solved the issue. GameKeeper 20:56, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there is a limit to how many templates you can use on one page - obviously quite a few! -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:08, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  M is now split so it no longer occurs. I am sure your diagnosis is correct. GameKeeper 22:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oddity 

message: * These should be listed <English county> (<Welsh county>). 
* At present the Welsh counties are listed with the Welsh name, followed by the English name. I think the wikipedia standard is to use English most prominently. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) . GameKeeper 21:34, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Welsh Location, Counties

message: A lot of the entries under County are not actually counties. For instance Kirklees is a metropolitan borough. Furthermore, the former county of Hereford and Worcester has now been separated into separate counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The most correct list of counties would be a combination of Council Areas of Scotland, Ceremonial counties of England and Principal areas of Wales. these could be derived from the current entries , but if we replace them , we lose information. Any ideas what is best? GameKeeper 23:12, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Furthermore, the former county of Hereford and Worcester has now been separated into separate counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.43.49.140 (talk • contribs) 21:31, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Counties

message: I have been making a few changes and thought its best to list what I think needs to be done . Because there are an awful lot of lists to revert if you don't like what I have done. Any extras welcome too. GameKeeper 23:12, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: To do list

message: I came across this admirable list via Google as I was looking for an OS grid ref for Tideswell. Following the 2 links given here for Tideswell to Google maps gives 2 different locations; both are in the general vicinity of Tideswell but neither is in it. I was wondering if this was a concern. (http://www.magic.gov.uk/ gives both coords and OS grid refs rather neatly.) It would be something of a challenge to check all these references but might it be possible to translate the coords into grid refs so that the 2 pieces of info coincide? -- roundhouse 14:00, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy 

message: Having now split all of the pages with >~545 entries, I now plan to request a bot to add hCard microformat mark-up, and to use two new templates instead of the boilerplate text which is repeated on every page. I've detailed my proposal at /botreq - any comments, before I proceed? Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 19:14, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Now requested. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 11:52, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

text: ~ I've found a few more need doing. It shouldn't matter if that's before or after the above request is fulfilled. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 12:11, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, I think.  Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 15:32, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot request to add microformat markup and use templates for boilerplate text 

message: I thought people might like to know that there are 42,718 places listed in these pages. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 15:47, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Entry count 

message: The final part of the to request of July 2007, referred to above, was to convert the coordinates templates to , allowing users to set their own preferred display format; and emitting a Geo microformat to make the coordinates parsable by machines. I now propose to submit another request, to complete that task for this set of pages. Andy Mabbett (aka Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy Mabbett; Andy Mabbett's contributions 20:17, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot request to add microformat markup 2 

message: Does anyone know if there is a way of identifying/extracting all the red links for s single county. I'd like to think that for Somerset we are getting close either having articles for all villages etc or redirects to their parishes for hamlets etc (although I keep finding more) and it would be nice to be able to identify those which still need doing?— Rod talk 11:15, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand what you mean about redirects: for hamlets it is good practice for a ==Localities== section, and subsections for nearly all hamlets (unless exceptionally large or remote). See how to write about UK settlements.   May I suggest you and others simply hover over the county at OS Map with Listed Buildings and Parks marked, from English Heritage, you can remove heritage features on that map too.- Adam37 Talk 18:49, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extracting red links for a specific county 

message: As a result of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England (which took effect on 1 April 2009), Bedfordshire and Cheshire are no longer local authorities as listed on this gazetteer. Instead, these have been replaced with Bedford (borough), Central Bedfordshire, Cheshire West and Chester, and Cheshire East. 
Locations listed under Bedfordshire or Cheshire, therefore need to be updated on this gazetteer. Is there any way of doing this quickly, rather than manually one at a time? Bleaney (talk) 20:40, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Simplistic.  They are both ceremonial counties of England. This means they can be and are legitimately used for not just sports but a host of other purposes, from fire services to health services to various other administrative uses. - Adam37 Talk 18:52, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  2009 changes to local government structures 

message: It's been a very long time since these articles were started, and there still doesn't seem to be any mention of Northern Ireland or its settlements. Since this is places in the "United Kingdom" as opposed to "Great Britain", I'm going to try and make a start using List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland.
--MrHistorianDude (talk) 00:28, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Northern Ireland 

message: Surely the organization of this into arbitrary alphabetic sections (e.g, To-Tq (in reality every single one of them starting with To)) isn't ideal. It would be a lot of work (but could probably be made easier using a spreadsheet or script, and I would be willing to do it), but I think it would be better to split into, say, council areas (like the current "Locality" column), ceremonial counties, or historic counties. (In addition, this could make it easier to remedy the above-mentioned Northern Ireland issue-- it seems that the only Northern Irish places on the list are Belfast, Crumlin, County Antrim, and Bangor, County Down.) However, that has the problem of being "set", and therefore possibly creating lists that are too long again. In addition, many of these articles like List of places in Derbyshire already exist, though they also look like they need some care as well. Any suggestions? Thanks, eviolite (talk) 07:30, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: (Paging , who has most recently edited these pages)  eviolite (talk) 07:34, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

text: Navigation by area is already possible by starting at List of places in England,  List of places in Scotland etc or :Category:Lists of places in the United Kingdom. I'm not sure what questions are answered by these whole-country alphabetic lists, but people must have had uses in mind when they went to the trouble of creating this gazetteer in 2007. Wire723 (talk) 07:54, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. It just seems odd is all. eviolite (talk) 22:21, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization 

message: can you say what source you're using for coordinates of the many new London places? E.g. Kevington at TQ420651. I've been slowly auditing these lists against OS linked data and Kevington is not listed there. -- Wire723 (talk) 10:46, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  New London places