Talk:Greater London/Archive 2

message: In the info-box on the right hand side, the area "1580 km²" links incorrectly to the page "1 E7 km²".
It should link to "1 E9 km²". There doesn't seem to be a way to fix this, as it seems to be encoded somewhere else.
(While I'm at it, the text mentions 1579km² (cf 1580)... we should be consistent, so which is more authoritative?)
--Arcman 07:00, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Area stats linking to wrong page 

message: The Times of February 24, 1971 has a story 'GLC seeks boundary review to extend its authority', which is pretty much self-explanatory.  Morwen - Talk 23:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ken suggested expanding the boundaries to the M25 with a press release in 2004  after the result of a telephone poll by MORI. As far as I can tell nothing further came of it other than a seminar. MRSC 06:50, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Boundary review

message: There's some interesting history about early proposals for creating Greater London here if anyone's interested. G-Man * 18:38, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: Where did all the residents go?  Even from 1970 to 1980 there was just under one million people moving out of London.  Was it one group of people or was it spread over all demographics?  Greater_London#Population  -  Ctbolt 04:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: After the war, white working class people were moved out of Inner London to the large new towns like Basildon and Stevenage. MRSC • Talk 10:25, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  "were moved out of" is not an accurate description! Thousands of homes were destroyed by German bombing raids during WW2. As a result, and in an attempt to improve standards of living amongst the people, after the war large numbers of people (of all classes) were displaced to the aforementioned New Towns.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.107.182.109 (talk) 22:39, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

message: Why in the status box does it link to Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England when these were created in 1974 and Greater London has never been defined as one of these. 
To the best of my knowledge GL was never actually defined as a county (although it is commonly thought of as such) merely as an 'administrative area'. G-Man * 23:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably because of this section. Although defined earlier it sits at the same level. MRSC • Talk 18:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Status

message: I am looking for the original data from the map of greater London boroughs so I can update Open Street Map. Acts of parliament are probably crown copyright, so I wonder how this was drawn for Wikipedia. Is this information in the public domain/creative commons? --TimSC 12:51, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Source Data

message: Has anyone else noticed something very, erm, wrong with it? Zazaban (talk) 06:25, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics section. 

message: There have been several attempts to change the article to suggest that Greater London is currently a variously defined area. The literature isn't telling us this post-1965. Pre-1965 is another matter, with a variety of definitions and sources to draw on. I've created a "Early incarnations" to detail this. 20:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Elastic term

message: The section in this article called Ethnic groups says, referring to the black population of London, that: "around 7% as Black African, 1.79% as Black Caribbean". This is not correct. The Wikipedia page "Ethnic_groups_in_London" says the figures are 4.8% and 5.3% respectively. The official census figures also support the latter figures. 81.170.14.223 (talk) 22:41, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnic groups - contradiction with another Wikipedia article

message: A levels: Aside from uncertainty that this is the sort of detail that should be in a summary article, I question the accuracy as Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood is outside Greater London. MRSC (talk) 09:55, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Disputed

message: "but declined to 6.7 million in 1988, before starting to rebound in the 1980s." ~Shouldn't this e either late 1980s or even 1990s? Basiclife (talk) 14:44, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Obviously a typo, but easy to correct, so I did. Teemu Leisti (talk) 09:35, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Figure on population seems incorrect? 

message: I found another map of Greater London:
* http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=8600
WhisperToMe (talk) 23:28, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map

message: There are no references for the statements in the 'Religion' section. Rocker Ages (talk) 22:42, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion 

message: Hello, dear colleges. I'm russian, and I'm translating this text for our wiki. Could you tell me, please, when and where did Steen Eiler Rasmussen write sentenses that are citation in the text.--Schetnikova Anna (talk) 11:07, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Anna. In London the Unique City, MIT Press, p36. . That's the 1948 edition. Itsmejudith (talk) 15:52, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you very much.--Schetnikova Anna (talk) 07:16, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Not at all. Itsmejudith (talk) 10:36, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation 

message: When I was looking the London commuter belt page I found something very strange. I found the following text: "The population of Greater London and those counties adjacent to the green belt was 18,868,800 in 2011". Why is the population of Greater London so much smaller? Also the population seems to me the same as the population of London.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ransewiki (talk • contribs) 07:17, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange population 

message: What is the difference between London and Greater London? Justgravy (talk) 20:05, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Discussion at Talk:London#Greater_London?. Regards, Rob (talk) 23:01, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference from London 

message: I was amazed when I've read "In the 2001 census, 71.15% of the population classed their ethnic group as white, including White British (59.79%), White Irish (3.07%) or "Other White" (8.29%, mostly Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot, Italian and French)." because I personally know that a lot of Polish people live there, and even more so when I saw that table on the right with Poland being in the third place with 158,300 residents (remind you, that was already in 2011 and doesn't account for later years, e.g. 2004 which is mentioned two paragraphs below).
Though there's a (sort of) explanation two paragraphs below (i.e. "The table shows the top 21 countries of birth of residents in 2001, ... These figures do not give a fair indication of the total population of the specific ethnic groups associated with each country."), I am still curious (it seems totally impossible) how is it possible that Greece is not listed (as "Country of birth") under that table from 2011 census at all? --Wayfarer (talk) 04:46, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Partial updating from the 2011 census has left the whole demographic section of this article in a hopeless mess. Somebody who knows London needs to heroically set aside a large amount of time to tidy it up.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.246.69.76 (talk) 08:21, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demography (ethnic groups): Greeks 

message: The City of Westminster is NOT a borough of Greater London. It was created in 1965 and it is a CITY of equal status as the City of London. The CofW has its own governing council and is responsible for streets and parks and everything under the usual jurisdiction of a city. Provincial Londoners may WANT to call it something else but it is the heart and soul of the governance of the United Kingdom. Dangnad (talk) 02:45, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Not a Borough