Talk:Cottonopolis

message: Did Cottonopolis soley refer to Manchester, or did it include its satelite towns (Oldham and such)?
From who and when can this name be traced to? Jhamez84 23:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Context

message: Should this be merged and redirected to Manchester?  RJFJR (talk) 18:07, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so, although the article does confuse the two, so I understand why your suggestion seems to be sensible. Cottonopolis includes Manchester's outlying towns, like Oldham. IIRC, there was relatively little cotton manufacture in Manchester itself, which is a surprisingly small area. The article does need a lot of work though ... Malleus Fatuorum 18:27, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

text: Alternatively, ClemRutter may well be correct in his suggestion above, that it was a term given to Manchester for a specific period of its history, when it was the world centre of the cotton trade, I haven't checked the sources. But even if so, there's more to be said about that period of Manchester's history than couyld be rolled into the Manchester article. Malleus Fatuorum 18:33, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Despite work needed on it, surely it justifies its status as a self-standing article for the following reasons:
* The main Manchester article is already very large and has many subsections
* Names for other cities have their own self-standing article for example Lutecia, Black Country, 
* As someone above correctly says Cottonopolis probably referred to a slightly wider than the present Manchester City but was not as extensive as Greater Manchester currently is
therefore all things considered I think it makes sense to leave it as a self-standing article, - with some tidying up obviously :-) --Mapmark (talk) 10:13, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: This article has lost focus, there is too much weight gived to manufacturing and not enough about trade and commerce. I have copyedited a bit as it was rather rambling and unclear. The popular culture section deals with dark satanic mills not (in my opinion) trade and commerce and fortunes made and lost.--J3Mrs (talk) 11:21, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It was always a moving target. Thanks for caring - your view of trade and commerce is in tune with a 1920-50s point of view and needs developing. It just dropped off the bottom of my todo list. --ClemRutter (talk) 11:41, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm busy with real life and funerals at the minute but will visit the library before it closes (for good?). I'm just distracting myself today but as a product of the Lancashire mills & mines I will search for some material when I've got this week over with.--J3Mrs (talk) 12:27, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Somewhere along the lines.... 

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