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I've restored the heading "20th century" because a number of articles and redirects (possibly including some from other Wikimedia projects) point to this section of the article with this specific title. (I suspect this is largely because of the inexplicable absence of an article on the Coventry bombing in WWII, forcing any links to it to go to this section.) I urge editors not to change this blithely. If there is a consensus or a policy reason to use "twentieth century" instead of "20th century", all section links should be fixed along with the change. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there a wiki convention about combining the history of a City with the City page? Snowman 16:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
The Coventry Page is already a long article - more than 36 kbites. I think that we should be thinking about splitting it rather then merging. The history sections could all go on the history of Coventry page. Snowman 12:50, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
There is a Statue for Thomas White in the Green area near to Warwick Row, Coventry. I understand that he was a benefactor to the City. It would be good if he was edited into the history of Coventry, by someone who knowns a bit about him. There is a photograph of the Coventry statue on his wiki page. Snowman 17:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't like the way the accusation Churchill knew about the bombing raid is not cited whereas the assertion that he did not is. A new play by Allan Pollock argues - quite convincingly - that the British were aware of the attack thanks to the code breakers, which is the position of many WW2 historians. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack39 ( talk • contribs) 13:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
there is a newly uploaded image on commons, perhaps interesting for this article: Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R98105,_Coventry_nach_Luftangriff.jpg -- 79.219.20.210 ( talk) 21:26, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Just checked out the link to the history page of St John's Church website (where, in the past, they talk about the church being the source of the "Sent to Coventry" phrase), and the link no longer is valid. I can only assume that the recent change to the website removed the history section. Unfortunately, this means that there is no longer a reference that we can link to (unless anyone knows otherwise)?
FWIW, as a former parishoner of that church, that they do indeed claim to be the source of the phrase, and the notice on the outside of the church says as much. Stephen! Coming... 16:52, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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Here is stated "by that time it was too decayed and Mary was instead first held at the Bull Inn before being moved to the Mayoress's Parlour in St. Mary's Guildhall.", but in coventry castle is says "In November 1569, Mary, Queen of Scots was detained in Caesar's Tower (...) which is thought to be all that remains of the castle". Thus, obviously this Mayoress's Parlour was (last) part of the castle, and therefore thi first statement not correct. Please sort out and make both versions identical. 47.71.2.160 ( talk) 14:33, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
The name is likely to be wholly Brittonic: gofaint = smiths + tref = community. WallHeath ( talk) 13:34, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
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I've restored the heading "20th century" because a number of articles and redirects (possibly including some from other Wikimedia projects) point to this section of the article with this specific title. (I suspect this is largely because of the inexplicable absence of an article on the Coventry bombing in WWII, forcing any links to it to go to this section.) I urge editors not to change this blithely. If there is a consensus or a policy reason to use "twentieth century" instead of "20th century", all section links should be fixed along with the change. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there a wiki convention about combining the history of a City with the City page? Snowman 16:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
The Coventry Page is already a long article - more than 36 kbites. I think that we should be thinking about splitting it rather then merging. The history sections could all go on the history of Coventry page. Snowman 12:50, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
There is a Statue for Thomas White in the Green area near to Warwick Row, Coventry. I understand that he was a benefactor to the City. It would be good if he was edited into the history of Coventry, by someone who knowns a bit about him. There is a photograph of the Coventry statue on his wiki page. Snowman 17:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't like the way the accusation Churchill knew about the bombing raid is not cited whereas the assertion that he did not is. A new play by Allan Pollock argues - quite convincingly - that the British were aware of the attack thanks to the code breakers, which is the position of many WW2 historians. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack39 ( talk • contribs) 13:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
there is a newly uploaded image on commons, perhaps interesting for this article: Image:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R98105,_Coventry_nach_Luftangriff.jpg -- 79.219.20.210 ( talk) 21:26, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Just checked out the link to the history page of St John's Church website (where, in the past, they talk about the church being the source of the "Sent to Coventry" phrase), and the link no longer is valid. I can only assume that the recent change to the website removed the history section. Unfortunately, this means that there is no longer a reference that we can link to (unless anyone knows otherwise)?
FWIW, as a former parishoner of that church, that they do indeed claim to be the source of the phrase, and the notice on the outside of the church says as much. Stephen! Coming... 16:52, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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Here is stated "by that time it was too decayed and Mary was instead first held at the Bull Inn before being moved to the Mayoress's Parlour in St. Mary's Guildhall.", but in coventry castle is says "In November 1569, Mary, Queen of Scots was detained in Caesar's Tower (...) which is thought to be all that remains of the castle". Thus, obviously this Mayoress's Parlour was (last) part of the castle, and therefore thi first statement not correct. Please sort out and make both versions identical. 47.71.2.160 ( talk) 14:33, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
The name is likely to be wholly Brittonic: gofaint = smiths + tref = community. WallHeath ( talk) 13:34, 1 December 2020 (UTC)