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Following a short disagreement, the best place to put this is here.
The question surrounds whether the event is called "Lewes Bonfire" or "the Lewes Bonfire". Locally, it never has the definite article attached to it, being "Lewes Bonfire" or just "Bonfire" in the town, but of course WP relies on external sources.
The most relevant one in my opinion, as they have best knowledge locally, is the local paper (The Argus), who consistently use it without the definite article (i.e. "Lewes Bonfire") as here, here and here.
Similarly (although not as externally reliable), all of the Bonfire Society websites use it without definite article.
The other editor in this states that BBC, Guardian etc. use the definite article, but i can't find any evidence of this. They do use the definite article in some sentence constructs such as "the Lewes Bonfire celebrations" or "the Lewes Bonfire processions", (like here) but in those cases, the English usage relates the article to the second part, not to the actual "Lewes Bonfire" piece.
Other external sources such as Sussex Police use it without definite article (like here), as does Lewes District Council (like here).
On that basis, I cannot see any reliable sources which indicate that the definite article should be used.
Regards, OwainDavies ( about)( talk) edited at 10:45, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
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Following a short disagreement, the best place to put this is here.
The question surrounds whether the event is called "Lewes Bonfire" or "the Lewes Bonfire". Locally, it never has the definite article attached to it, being "Lewes Bonfire" or just "Bonfire" in the town, but of course WP relies on external sources.
The most relevant one in my opinion, as they have best knowledge locally, is the local paper (The Argus), who consistently use it without the definite article (i.e. "Lewes Bonfire") as here, here and here.
Similarly (although not as externally reliable), all of the Bonfire Society websites use it without definite article.
The other editor in this states that BBC, Guardian etc. use the definite article, but i can't find any evidence of this. They do use the definite article in some sentence constructs such as "the Lewes Bonfire celebrations" or "the Lewes Bonfire processions", (like here) but in those cases, the English usage relates the article to the second part, not to the actual "Lewes Bonfire" piece.
Other external sources such as Sussex Police use it without definite article (like here), as does Lewes District Council (like here).
On that basis, I cannot see any reliable sources which indicate that the definite article should be used.
Regards, OwainDavies ( about)( talk) edited at 10:45, 6 November 2012 (UTC)