Talk:Wythenshawe Hall

message: I've made a couple of edits to expand the article a bit, and improve its referencing. Would anyone be interested in continuing to expand it and add references? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk)
:Unlikely in the present environment.  Eric Corbett 22:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, it looks like Mike Peel has made a good start towards clean up & expansion. Along with blocks and page protection, there shouldn't be anymore disruption over the disputed content. There's noting preventing the article improvement from progressing. As for the talk page, I've seen all I need to see, and I'm taking it off my talk page. Hopefully that will quiet the angry, off-topic posts. -  theWOLFchild 22:50, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Again, unlikely I think. But pigs may one day learn how to fly.  Eric Corbett 23:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Well done, Mike Peel, for improving the article. Do you think the part about the 2016 fire should state it was arson? This seems simple factual detail. 20.133.0.13 (talk) 10:24, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, particularly given yesterday's news. It's now mentioned in the article again. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:47, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving on? 

message: The current ref says that Robert Henry Grenville Tatton was the last owner of the hall, but Manchester City Council seems to think it was Peter Tatton - see  and . I'm not sure how to deal with this discrepancy in the article, any suggestion? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:03, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The current source, "Wythenshawe Hall and the Tatton Family", by Peter Riley, seems perfectly reliable. He has written widely on local history:  Why does the council have other ideas? The article on Robert Henry Grenville Tatton, which also uses Riley as its source, does mention Peter either. 20.133.0.13 (talk) 10:39, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The article on Robert says that his eldest son, William Grey, died at school at Eton, aged 14 and his remaining son, Christopher, was killed in action in the war. So I'm not sure who "Peter" was. You don't suppose, do you, that someone at Manchester City Council has confused the name of the author with that of the owner here?  Martinevans123 (talk) 22:55, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  That may well be the explanation! It's quite a big mistake to have in a museum guide, though... (it seems to be repeated throughout the PDF series that MCC has up on their website, see ). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:55, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last Tatton owner? 

message: What is a "tenant's hall"? (Or should it perhaps be "tenants' hall"?) Can't find a definition or an article. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:14, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's the equivalent of a community centre today. See e.g. . Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:46, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Many thanks, Mike, that makes perfect sense. I wonder if the general reader will be as baffled as I was by that term. Not sure that a piped link is justified, but could it be made clearer in any other way? I see that it appears at Barmulloch, but without any possessive apostrophe. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:19, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm not sure what to do here - perhaps tenant hall should redirect to community centre. Clarifying more in the article might end up being original research, unless there's another reference that explains what the hall was actually used for... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:59, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Tenant's hall" 

message: In other articles, when the date is stated at the beginning of sentences, there is typically a comma added (see, for instance, the last para of the 'History' section in this article). I'm not sure why the additions of missing commas were therefore deleted by Nikkimaria. Mmberney (talk) 06:23, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I noticed that. Thanks Nikkimaria. Good grammar is more tricky than adding a comma because it seems typical in other places. Johnuniq (talk) 09:31, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

text: Keep in mind too that many of those other articles will be written in American English, which is generally more comma-happy than British. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:27, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of commas after dates at beginning of sentences