Talk:Chelmsford

message: There are three coats of arms on file for Chelmsford:
the modern district (which is named after and includes the town of C.):
the former urban district council (which was just the town of C.):
and the former rural district council:
I've only put the first two on the page. Does anyone have an opinion about whether we should use all three, or just the first, or the first two, or what? Marnanel 01:25, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Initial text

message: The call-sign for Writtle was 2MT (two emma toc), 2LO being the call-sign for it's London-based sister-station which eventually became BBC London. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.168.53.137 (talk) 16:50, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marconi Research Station 

message: The trivia section needs to be incorporated into the body of the text. This has already been done with some items around local government and reintroducing them simply creates repetition. This also needs to be done with the others to comply with WP:TRIVIA. Some things that are not encyclopaedic can be removed altogether. MRSC • Talk 19:29, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: See Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements for guidance here. Lists of schools relating to a district get listed on that article. MRSC • Talk 19:32, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Education and other items relating to the wider borough

message: The caption under Marconi's picture quotes him as saying, "If somethings hard to do then its not worth doing." 
First of all, there's some punctuation missing, but more importatly, it makes no sense that Marconi would say that, as inventing the radio can't have been terribly easy, and I have not been able to find that quotation anywhere else, so I've removed it. Cadwaladr (talk) 19:18, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Marconi Quotation

message: I think it's worth including this quote in the page, distasteful as it may be:
*If any one were to ask me what in my opinion was the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth, I should decidedly say Chelmsford.
**Charles Dickens, letter to Thomas Beard (January 11, 1835), in Madeline House, et al., The Letters of Charles Dickens (1965), p. 53.
:This has probably been said about every town on earth. WillRefvem (talk) 06:51, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth". 

message: Is it right to have Geoff Hurst included in this list as it clearly states to the right of his entry that he was born in Ashton-under-Lyne. Chilkoot (talk) 13:30, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  People Born In Chelmsford

message: I noticed that the Army and Navy section doesn't cite sources especially in criticism and I suspect there is a fair bit of opinion/original research. I've marked the section as such. ☭ cmn ☭ ( ❝❞ /✍ ) 16:17, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  A&N information unsourced 

message: I'd be surprised if Selex Communications still own that site.
--Salocin-yel (talk) 12:54, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Joint ownership - Finnmecanica/Selex, BAE Systems and Royal Bank of Scotland, although I don't have a Web based source. (I asked in person, but WP:NOR.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.221.38.195 (talk) 15:52, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ownership New Street Site 

message: Seeing as it is protected due to differentiating edits (mainly about the population) I think it should stay at 169,500 because that is set by the council and most agreed upon.   Iamred0   Talk to Iamred... 17:19, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Protected

message: Just to let you know> Chelmsford is now a city.
89.240.214.1 (talk) 16:28, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 21 March 2012 

message: The pronunciation of Chelmsford given in this article is rhotic; that is, it indicates that the 'r' of 'Chelmsford' is pronounced. However, this is not the case both locally and for standard British English. Should I alter it? NearlyDrNash (talk) 22:48, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: In the "talk" section of the Massachusetts town I commented several years ago that there are many and varied pronunciations, some rhotic and some not. My favorite is Chems-fudd, which is both non-rhotic and non-...um, I need some help here. Non-lambdic? Yes, non-lambdic, according to some on-line discussion about how to pronounce "almond". Many New England towns have names echoing Old England, occasionally with identically confusing mismatches of spelling and pronunciation. Gloucester and Leicester come instantly to mind. "All the right names in all the wrong places. Cambridge next to Boston," says a friend from the UK now living in Massachusetts.  Snezzy (talk) 19:43, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation of 'Chelmsford'

message: I reverted the edit that changed instances of Chelmsford Borough Council to Chelmsford City Council for three reasons, in order of importance:
# I see no evedience that the council has changed it's name - the website still says borough.
# It was done indiscriminately.  This included changing references to old documents which, even if the council does change it's name, will still have been produced by the Borough Council
# It introduced at least one typo.
Dpmuk (talk) 22:21, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Signs on buses can now be seen saying "Chelmsford City Council" and the website says Chelmsford City Council.   Iamred0   Talk to Iamred... 00:46, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The website is a fair point - it didn't appear to have changed when I looked, although I was possibly looking at the wrong site and both the old and new were on the web at the same time.  Clearly getting the old site to redirect to the new one is too sensible or something.  Happy for it to be changed as long as it's done carefully as many of the documents used as sources are likely to have been produced by the Borough Council before the name change and so I think should stay as Borough. Dpmuk (talk) 04:08, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chelmsford City Council? 

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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 05:44, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Chelmsford]] 

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message: In my opinion, information on nearest places should be included in the 'Nearest Places' tab (I suggest in bullet point form) as it is currently empty and in my opinion it is pointless to have an empty tab in the article. Xboxsponge15 (talk) 12:15, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 'Nearest Places' tab needs information adding to it 

message: There has been an active independent Jewish community in Chelmsford since the early 1970s. 2A00:23C7:632A:B801:ACB2:A1E6:EFF9:D211 (talk) 17:31, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion 

message: The population is noted as being from the 2021 census, however the citation is from the 2011 census. Can the population figure be verified and new citations added to support? Magpie069 (talk) 16:42, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population citation incorrect