Talk:Nottingham
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I patterned my rewrite after Bristol, getting rid of the various stubby lists at the end by folding the people and places mentioned in them into the main text. Hope this doesnt' upset any apple-carts.
The website www.nottshistory.org.uk is rather splendid, and I could have added a lot more material from there given time (and may well do, at some point in the future). It's particularly notable in the Wikipedia context because the idea behind it is to make out-of-copyright works on the history of Nottingham available online -- kind of a local Project Gutenberg. --Bth 14:28, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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GREATER NOTTINGHAM
They should incorporate all the suburbs around Nottingham into something like greater Nottingham. Then the population would be 750.000 and be one hell of a big city.
www.ournottingham.net
is a website built upon the same foundations as wikipedia, mediawiki. it would be great if any nottingham folk who could contribute did, as our team of core contributors is quite small. thanks
still need more contributors at ournottingham.
"one of England's 8 core citys" [sic]
Suomi-morner added the following text on 2005 Jan 30:
- Nottingham is one of England's 8 core citys.
Does this have a precise meaning? Does the term "core city" in relation to Britain/England have/deserve a topic defining it? (The existing core city topic refers only to Japan.) -- JTN 11:48, 2005 Feb 1 (UTC)
Well, I've never heard it used myself, so I suspected it was just one of these phrases that politicians come out with. A quick search and, well, what do you know, it is. [1] (http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_urbanpolicy/documents/page/odpm_urbpol_033602-04.hcsp). John Prescott, I could have guessed. Average Earthman 14:32, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
"rated as the Nth best place to shop in the UK"
I've removed this statement entirely, since it's inherently POV and prone to flap around unless someone's willing to state who rated it thus. (In this article, it's been at various times "best", "fifth best (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nottingham&diff=7770039&oldid=7715709)", and "fourth best (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nottingham&diff=7698610&oldid=7694311)", never backed by a citation.) -- JTN 22:18, 2005 Mar 4 (UTC)
It was Experian who did the survey thing, So you can put it back :-).
indeed it was an Experian survey - you can see the Guardian article stating that it was 4th in 2003 and 5th as of 2004. [2] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1160704,00.html)
- OK, thanks. Was the recent edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nottingham&diff=10772911&oldid=10772885) (yours?) that rated it as "best after London" based on something similar? -- JTN 16:30, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
- not mine.