Talk:West Midlands (region)

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message: I believe Gloucestershire is classed as part of the west midlands by the BBC as it receives Midlands news.
:Perhaps so, but it isn't part of the "official" region, and the regional programming overlaps.  I would be very surprised if South Gloucestershire didn't get news from Bristol. Fingerpuppet 21:50, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: BBC 'regions' are largely meaningless and are based on 1950s transmitter locations in the 405 line VHF TV days. They are periodically rejigged for the BBC's convenience and are often unpopular locally. The Stoke-on-Trent relay at Fenton has always been a Sutton Coldfield relay since the start of UHF, as the BBC consider Stoke to be in the West Midlands, but the neighbouring Leek relay was almost switched to Winter Hill because people in the Moorlands resent the 'midlands' tag so much and many receive programmes directly from WH anyway. The BBC Oxford transmitter is part of the ridiculous BBC South 'region' which goes right up to the Warwickshire border but is physically and culturally based in Southampton 80 miles away on the south coast. There are many other examples. --80.176.142.11 (talk) 15:27, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Gloucestershire

message: I note the addition of the italicising of County Towns in the list, which includes Birmingham.  Given that West Midlands County Council no longer exists, Birmingham cannot be said to be the seat of goverment of the county.  Equally, as Stoke-on-Trent and Telford and Wrekin are techically Administrative Counties, should these be italicised?
I think that it should be removed altogether to prevent this sort of issue. Fingerpuppet 16:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: County Towns

message: A nice addition to the article - thanks for that! However, I'd take issue with the town/city and urban area columns.
Firstly, the town/city column sometimes talks about local government districts (Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Worcester) and other times about settlements (Telford, Hereford, Nuneaton).  This column needs consistency - and I'd suggest that it should be local government districts, as settlements are covered elsewhere in the article.  There is the obvious problem of Herefordshire in that, but I'm sure we can overcome that.
Secondly, the urban area column is incorrect.  To take the example of the West Midlands conurbation, it spills outside the West Midlands county and contains parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire within.  Nuneaton & Bedworth and Telford & Wrekin are not urban areas, but local government districts and contain rural areas.  Bedworth, for example, is part of the Coventry/Bedworth Urban Area.  And there are urban areas in Worcestershire and Herefordshire!  I'd suggest that this column should be removed entirely.  Fingerpuppet (talk) 08:23, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair points. I've added a 'largest settlement' column however, as I feel that the district pages tend to be a bit 'bare', and the actual largest urban area is usually composed of the 'largest settlement'. It makes sense in my mind anyway, and I don't see any reason not to include it. :) Thanks, Asdfasdf1231234 (talk) 20:13, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem - it makes sense to me too.  Thanks for that!  Fingerpuppet (talk) 21:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Local government table

message: Hello all... 
An image used in the article, specifically :Image:KEASTON Main.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue.  The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive.  It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard.  As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article.  If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 01:14, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
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message: I wish to include a ethnicity section under demographics and will proceed accordingly. Twobells (talk) 13:02, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnicity Demographics 

message: Hi, I’m Andrew Clark and I work at the Office for National Statistics in the UK.
We publish lots of infographics and I wonder if this one on West Midlands (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Regional_profile_of_the_West_Midlands.png) would be of interest for West_Midlands_(region)
FYI, the full gallery, updated weekly, is here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Content_created_by_the_Office_for_National_Statistics>
All the best
Andrew Clark (smanders1982)
10 Dec 2013
Smanders1982 (talk) 13:35, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
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message: This section is severely under-sourced and is not much more than free advertising for small businesses (see WP:PROMO). Ultimately it tells you pretty much nothing about the economy of the region. I propose deleting it. — dukwon (talk) (contribs) 12:41, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: All of the articles about each of the regions of England seem to suffer from the same problem. Ideally each "Economy" section should be replaced by something that summarises the economy of the whole region. A simple list of businesses isn't appropriate. Neither, in my opinion, is it appropriate to subdivide sections (on any topic) into subsections about each county. County-by-county analysis should go into each county article. These regional articles ought to talk about each region as a whole. -- Dr Greg  talk  18:27, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
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message: The number of images here was completely ridiculous before I hid some of them.  I managed to get rid of the absurd amount of white space in "Towns and cities", but there are still far too many that aren't especially aesthetic (or relevant - a picture of a Land Rover in Africa?). Esszet (talk) 03:24, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
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