Talk:Wigan

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replies: text: No concerns. Article seems fine. SilkTork ✔Tea time 16:49, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
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message: How can you class anything which is full of lies as a 'good article'?
The article is full of shite!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.2.129.132 (talk) 21:25, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: To be fair to Jemmy, the article is very unclear as to which areas are "Wigan". The list provided as "Douglas, Pemberton, Wigan Central, Wigan West and Worsley Mesnes" should indicate the only content within this article is that which matches to those boundaries (with a bit of lee-way of course). Subsequently the article mentions several other areas that are not obviously part of those 5 wards (e.g. Orrel) or businesses where it is unclear if they are in fact within the borders of the town. Koncorde (talk) 09:21, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
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message: To be clear there were four boroughs in Lancashire at the end of the medieval period established by Royal Charter. Salford was given a Royal Market charter in 1230 along with a charter granting the formation of a court but its establishment as a borough was from a 1228 charter granted by the Earl of Chester.
Salford, c.1230 by Ranulf, Earl of Chester (Page XXXII)
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2Qc2l3vpLagC&pg=PR87&lpg=PR87&dq=royal+borough+charter+salford&source=bl&ots=83tP1AbLqt&sig=AqXIcmfFfPpjO7fE1OVsdy5y0NE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgoMeQ16LSAhWBqxoKHQQoBLAQ6AEIRDAH#v=onepage&q=salford&f=false
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message: Looking through mainly the Economy section much of it is out of date. I have tried to improve some of this myself but further improvement is needed so I have tagged this for needing an update. I would imagine there are other sections too that have not been properly updated for years as this one has. Any help is appreciated, thanks --Voello (talk) 21:42, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs update

message: "It is wrongly claimed that the mention of a church in the manor of Neweton, which actually refers to the church of St.Oswald (Winwick), is Wigan Parish Church." This statement must be wrong as St Oswalds is specifically mentioned in the Domesday Book.  Wigan, being the only other major settlement at that time in the manor, must therefore be the other unnamed Church. Bill Aldri (talk) 16:54, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: They mostly skipped over Lancashire when compiling the Domesday book (apart from the Derby hundred covering Merseyside and western West Lancashire which was very detailed), the hundred of Newton is listed as containing just 15 manors and two churches all directly owned by Newton so its indeed unlikely that its referring to the Wigan parish church distant from the seat of power. WatcherZero (talk) 18:59, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
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message: Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#What's the root of the "Believe"/"#Believe"'s association with the town of Wigan? any ideas? Bogger (talk) 08:20, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: "Believe"?