Talk:London Necropolis Company

message: Actually not sure if it was set up at Brookwood - though there is a Brookwood village nearby. The cemetery is about 4 miles west of Woking, and Brookwood village is also west of Woking, and North of Guildford. This needs to be checked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.137.39.195 (talk) 08:53, 20 June 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: comments 

message: A fascinating article, probably a bit too detailed for a truly encyclopaedic WP contribution , but ticks all the right WP style and format boxes.  Good example for anybody writing a WP (historical) article and justly given Featured Article status. 
But, I wonder, I just wonder:  in a 99,000 bytes article (say, 25 pages normal text in word) there are some 320 cites to only two books from one author. There are ten cites to one page from Clarke 2004 alone. Credit where credit is due: if WP used the Harvard style of citations, the name Clarke would be mentioned 320 times in the body of the text. As WP prefers the numbered Vancouver style, Clarke is only mentioned twice (in the bibliography). To address this imbalance gently I will add the source (and mention Clarke’s name) in two of the illustrations, which are based on maps from the two Clarke books. It creates inconsistencies in the citation style but that’s in my view a small price to pay for making the originator of most of the material in this splendid WP article slightly more visible.Sleuth21 (talk) 11:37, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Credit where credit is due? And ''show'' it? 

message: This article has been created essentially by only one editor and is a ‘featured article’. Typically, Wikipedia articles / should be the result of collective efforts, but this article was put on WP 'in one go' (on 10 June 2011) and there are only few subsequent 'collective' edits.  As mentioned above, this article complies (on a very high standard) with WP style editing policies but is much too detailed to qualify as an 'encyclopedic' contribution. It also violates the spirit of copyright restrictions and ‘close paraphrasing’ rules. Some of the main editor’s paraphrasing falsifies careful scholarly statements in the two main sources (by John Clarke). This article (and similar other ones) seems to use WP as a vanity press publisher. I have placed a corresponding general comment on the vanity press site. Sleuth21 (talk) 15:01, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See comments on the author's talk page and the vanity press talk page--DavidCane (talk) 22:52, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Vanity Publication?

message: I have started a discussion about the mysterious "legal issues" surrounding this article at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Legal issues with London Necropolis Company? (update: archived). Please keep discussion there. Thryduulf (talk) 15:25, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal issues 

message: Is that really an accurate translation of the motto? My Latin is weak but at the very least it should reflect the order of the two clauses; also, I would prefer "health" for "salis" rather than just "good". Mangoe (talk) 17:24, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I’m no whiz either but it does seem a loose translation. AFAICT mortuis and vivis are in the dative, so my literal reading would be “For the dead, rest; for the living, health.“ Providing somewhere to R.I.P. while eliminating a biohazard.—Odysseus1479 06:15, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with caption 

message: More than once this article mentions that Brookwood Cemetery's take up (and with it that of the London Necropolis Railway) was less than expected by its founders.  There is room here for discussing, with citations, what I believe to be the most important factors, which must have caused a significant decline:
*The introduction of municipal cemeteries by the London boroughs.
*The foundation of crematoria within London eg Golders Green that ended Woking's monopoly on cremation in the metropolitan region.
Cloptonson (talk) 11:50, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Room for additional information - effect of new cemeteries

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