Talk:Dudley

message: Considering this has been scrapped, the coverage is shockingly over the top; the mosque section is bigger than the entire section of Dudley's Attractions! Is the mosque the biggest most exciting thing in the region?? I have left a paragraph as it was a big deal at the time, but if there really needs to be so much written about it, then it needs its own page rather than blighting half of this page. WillDow  (Talk) 11:26, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: As a local person, I can't remember anyone referring to the planned mosque as a 'Super Mosque'. I think some local papers decided to call it as a 'Mega Mosque' presumably because newspaper sub-editors are fond of alliteration, although they no longer seem so keen on the term. Incidently, the legal process surrounding the process is still grinding on through the courts. http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/05/27/second-dudley-mosque-appeal-allowed-amid-political-motivation-allegations/ 193.105.48.20 (talk) 17:10, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Mosque 

message: I note that the Speedway team have changed their name again back to the original 'Cradley Heathens' http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/12/10/dudley-heathens-in-name-change-as-hunt-for-new-home-forges-ahead/ 195.194.15.1 (talk) 14:09, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
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message: Demography is really about population statistics.  Everything in this section starting from the phrase "Dudley used to have a large theatre ...." should be deleted as it's not about demography and is therefore not relevant to this part of the article.Nai1maker (talk) 10:06, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It was included I think as an explanation because of a subjective comment regarding Dudley's lack of a theatre being a reason for its "modest size", or something along those lines. Since that comment has been subsequently removed, I see no harm in removing that line from the Demography header. 86.151.122.85 (talk) 11:30, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demography

message: The introduction to this article suggests that the local authority  'moved the Strategic Town Centre designation to Brierley Hill'. However, I think that the Strategic Town Centre designation was carried out by central government. Also I don't think it was 'moved' from Dudley Town as I don't think Dudley was ever officially a 'Strategic Town Centre'.193.105.48.21 (talk) 11:26, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: In the latest development proposals by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council regarding the town centre, it refers to Brierley Hill as the 'new strategic centre', and Dudley as a 'former strategic centre'. By that logic, it is pretty easy to deduce that Dudley was indeed previously considered the strategic town centre of the borough. Also, although the go-ahead had to be officially sanctioned by central government, it was the local authority who put forward the proposals in the first place.86.184.117.95 (talk) 14:02, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strategic Town Centre 

message: According to this article: "the castle provided the centre from which the town and borough grew".  I'm not really sure if any references can be found to support this. For one thing, the castle has always stood at one end of the old town. The town grew up around what is now the market place.193.105.48.20 (talk) 11:04, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

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message: I see the list of notable people has been expanded quite considerably over the past few years; could it be a suggestion that the list be moved to a separate article, like the lists for Birmingham and Wolverhampton? --86.157.181.188 (talk) 13:20, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
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message: Many sources list Dudley as being historically in Worcestershire, but Wikishire's map places it in Staffordshire:https://wikishire.co.uk/map/#Dudley@52.512,-2.095/centre=52.517,-2.074/zoom=11. I've gathered that it kind of overlaps, but which one is it mostly in? --86.160.10.212 (talk) 11:51, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You'll find a lot about the history in the article about Worcestershire. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:57, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worcestershire or Staffordshire? 

message: The protests by the English Defence League and others were reportedly about a proposed mosque. The newspaper sources cited make no mention of "Ethnic Unrest". This subheading looks to be a Wikipedia contributor's own interpretation of the events. This interpretation may or may not be justified, but is not supported by reliable sources. A more accurate and neutral subheading is "Protests against proposed mosque". Rupples (talk) 09:26, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demography section - Ethnic Unrest subheading change