Talk:Manchester city centre

message: Come on guys - get some more photos of Manchester uploaded and added to this page and the Manchester main article. David 15:33, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  More photos! 

message: Sounds like advertisements to the City Centre. Skinnyweed 22:52, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I had a good look through and I could see. So! I removed eevrything which sounded like an advert and in some cases, replaced it with a neutral sentence. - Erebus555 20:40, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV tag 

message: On this page it says that Chinatown in Manchester is the biggest in Europe, on the Chinatown page it says that it is the second largest in the UK after the one in London. Which is correct?
~~CD — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.33.99 (talk) 12:47, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Dunno: things get worse. Think the largest dragon arch outside Mainland China still stands. Chinatown biggest in Europe oh no. A large area devoted to Chinese business etc.  Manchester does hold the title of the largest collection of free municipal lending library books written in Chinese in Europe complete with a Chinese library. Mike33 13:30, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Chinatown

message: I see from the discussion above that merging this article with the Manchester article has been considered before, in 2005, when opinion seemed to be fairy evenly divided.
I'm proposing the merger again now for a number of reasons:
*The Manchester article has vastly improved in the meantime, and clearly has a great deal of overlap with this one.
*This article is not being maintained: there are requests for citations dating back to March of this year.
*The History section is just a stub referring to the Manchester article.
*Much of the material looks like like an advertisement for the city centre.
--Malleus Fatuarum 17:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I oppose the merge as this article should be a more precise and detailed account of the city centre area of Manchester, in the same way that other districts of the city have their own articles. David 17:14, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Support: Sorry, I forgot to add what is probably obvious anyway. As the nominator of this merger proposal, I'm strongly in favour of it. --Malleus Fatuarum 18:32, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Oppose: I totally agree with Malleus that the quality of the article is poor; futher shown by the recent rocketting of strength in the Manchester article. However, I do think there is more than enough scope to keep and vastly expand (and thereby improve) this article. Furthermore, at a quick glad we do have Belfast City Centre, Bristol city centre, Newport city centre, Leicester City Centre and Sheffield City Centre. Surely the Gtr Mcr WikiProject can aid us in improving this article and keep a step ahead of the other cities? -- Jza84 · (talk) 22:47, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Oppose  I agree that this article could be better, but the city centre should have an article just as Ardwick, Ancoats, C-on-M etc do.  Mr Stephen 11:49, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Oppose This article is a total mess but it is useful to have one about the city centre district as there are population figures published for it. I think this article should head in the direction of the economy i.e. focus on business, maybe merge some/all of Spinningfields into it? I get the impression from the article that it is supposed to be the central business district of the Manchester borough and it should focus directly onto that. I do think that suggesting the merge will spur interest in the article which is great! It doesn't need to be a huge article and could easily be overhauled. A detailed map of the boundries of the city would be great so we know what we can and can't include. └and-rew┘┌talk┐ 13:01, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 05:55, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: I'm pretty sure that it's inaccurate to describe the Lowry as 'Manchester's first five-star hotel'.  I think that the Midland was a five star rating when it opened but was subsequently downgraded.  I've not checked for an online reference for this, but there was an illuminating documentary on Channel 4 about the Midland a couple of months ago.  The same may apply for other hotels too, I don't know (the downgrading, rather than the documentary!).  --Benwilson528 (talk) 11:18, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Five star hotel

message: Surely this article Manchester City Centre, should be renamed Manchester city centre? Cutmynoseofftospitemyface (talk) 18:05, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think so too.... unless it's used officially, as in, by Manchester City Council? --Jza84 |  Talk   18:24, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree with the rename too. Never understood why it was capitalised. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 18:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears to be named "City Centre" by the Ordnance Survey and MCC. Perhaps we can rename the article and mention that in the new version? --Jza84 |  Talk   18:31, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, this is what London city centre does, and London City Centre is a redlink, as you can see. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 18:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be because London City Centre, is, effectively, the City of London, which is slightly different from Manchester. "Manchester City Centre" gets 423,000 hits, and "Central Manchester" 261,000. --Jza84 |  Talk   18:49, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps. But that argument doesn't apply to Cardiff city centre, for instance. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 18:53, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I meant "Manchester city centre". I was suggesting we go for that. Of course, we could mention that "Central Manchester" and "City Centre" are also conterminate? --Jza84 |  Talk   20:16, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: We could, but isn't that kind of obvious? --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 20:42, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup, probably why I suggested it. :S --Jza84 |  Talk   20:44, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The city centre of London is really two cities: the City of London with its own local government and the City of Westminster (as it was before 1965).--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 07:50, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename of [[Manchester City Centre]] 

message: How is a density given for this neighborhood, if there is no land area given?  What exactly are you basing the size on to be able to calculate the density?  What, the electoral ward some other definition..? --Criticalthinker (talk) 03:16, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the population of the electoral ward is given, it's logical that the population density is also that of the ward. I have double checked this from the source (statistics.gov) myself and this is the case. Nev1 (talk) 04:34, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A new demography section has been added to the article. It even mentions the area the ward covers (the ward provided the easiest figures and is mentioned in the lead so seemed sensible). Nev1 (talk) 05:36, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If that's the case, than the land area should be added to the infobox to keep these consistent with other pages.  It makes little sense to add the population and density and not include the square mileage/kilometers. --Criticalthinker (talk) 10:52, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like it's  (). I'll pop this in. --Jza84 |  Talk   12:14, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Density?

message: The article is missing a section detailing transport information for the city centre, which I think would be key. There is only minimal mention of transportation on the article. Tong22 (talk) 14:24, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transport 

message: Hello all. Under the future developments section, we have a reference to a 'Co-op quarter'. I believe this has recently been rebranded as "Noma" and there is a bit more information about it here. Can the article be updated to reflect this new information? Tong22 (talk) 23:47, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future Developments- Co-op quarter 

message: Hi all,
Just compare this for a moment. Take a look at the discussions above. Ask yourself what's happened to the lead over the last 12 months. Ask yourself where "The city centre acts as the transport interchange for Greater Manchester and over 7 million people live within an hour's drive of it.." comes from and how one might scruitise this with Wikipedia's arsenal of guidelines. Ask yourself if reference removing, airbrushing of fact, and imposition of a narrow personal desire may have occurred here. 
Support good research. Support good referencing. Support good editing! Please! --Jza84 |  Talk   00:43, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where fiction and non-fiction collide