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Hello, Firstly I would like to thank you for all your input on Wiki about Nottingham. I was curious about what Wiki had to say about my hometown Sneinton. After reading through the article I found everything there is pretty accurate except for 1 minor detail...
As a member of the Asian community here in Sneinton I can assure you there is not a large population of Bengalis. I know the majority of the Sub-Continent Asians that live here in Sneinton, and I can also honestly say that as far as I'm aware there are only 3 families of Bengalis that occupy Sneinton. One family lives on Ashfield Road, another on Hardstaff and the last on Skipton Circus. I can also provide you with their names but that wouldn't be appropriate to place there names on here. I'm not saying that I know everyone in Sneinton and I'm not ruling out the fact that just maybe there is some other Bengali family that I've never met before living around the corner from me. Regardless of how many Bengalis there are here the fact of the matter is... The hundreds of Asians from the Asian Sub Continent that you'll see here are in fact Pakistanis. The majority of businesses that are in Sneinton are also run by Pakistanis.
The reason I keep changing the Wiki article on Sneinton is because it’s giving a false statement about my hometown. The large population that occupy Sneinton are in fact of Pakistani origin.
I hope this helps and you've come to understand why I keep undoing your changes.
Kind Regards,
Amjad Hussain
Hello all, I proposed a split of this article, to create a new article named Sneinton Festival, containing all of the information currently present in that section, with a brief summary and link remaining within this article. I suggest this because currently there is a lot of information in that section, and it is unbalanced relative to the info in other sections. I don't want to delete any of the text (and I suspect there is a lot more to write on the subject), so the clear answer is to give the topic it's own article in which it is free to expand. Any objections? Anxietycello ( talk) 22:39, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Congratulations to Anxietycello and others who have worked on this article - always good to see people really get hold of an article, even if it's not one to grab the headlines like some. There's lots of good things here, but you might want to have a look at WP:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements for sections that have been missed - for instance a Government section could explain the relationship with Nottingham, and there's no mention of the parish which presumably (used to) exists based on St Stephen's? Another obvious area would be a bit more on the geography - including geology which tends to be quite important in explaining why the Industrial Revolution happened in some areas and not others. You should probably take a look at User:Tony1/How to improve your writing - I've had a quick run-through to de-fluff some of the language, it's more of a problem for WP:FA than WP:GA - but that's the objective, right? :-) There's some sourcing issues - for instance you shouldn't really be quoting bulletin boards (any sentence including the word "tragic" probably doesn't belong on Wikipedia, even if it is in footnotes) and it would be nice to get a proper source for that bomb map, it's obviously come from a newspaper so that should be the reference. That "all but 50 or so (bombs)" line is horrible - not only is it vague when precision should be possible, it's WP:Original research to deduce that yourself by looking at the map. I'd guess that a similar statement has been made in a proper source somewhere - as with the map itself, I'd imagine that local museums/libraries may be able to help, or ask on bulletin boards for help on finding the paper sources. It's not too far off though. Le Deluge ( talk) 21:34, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
OK, I've had a quick go at doing the boundaries, and nuked the twinning. On closer inspection, that EH reference seems to have just been Britishbuildings.co.uk making up a location, it's not in the original. Even if the electoral ward is a bit off, formal boundaries still matter and need to be mentioned - it'd be nice to see a map of the parish based on St Stephens. I have a nagging feeling that there's a website for that, can't think where now. Having said all that, the Alchemy map is a good find and I don't see why it can't be uploaded. Even if London Rd and the river aren't technically Sneinton (what about that industrial bit down by the river?), their proximity is so fundamental to why Sneinton came to be that the article really ought to talk about them. Colwick marshalling yard too. Surely almost by definition bridges are usually in two different areas? Half of Westminster Bridge is in Waterloo etc. I've also had a quick go at reformatting Colwick, Bakersfield, Carlton and St Ann's - if you ever get bored of Sneinton then St Ann's is a)probably the most interesting and b)in the worst state, it's got some POV issues. Anyway, give me a shout if you need me but I really ought to be getting on with other things now. Cheers. Le Deluge ( talk) 13:26, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, Firstly I would like to thank you for all your input on Wiki about Nottingham. I was curious about what Wiki had to say about my hometown Sneinton. After reading through the article I found everything there is pretty accurate except for 1 minor detail...
As a member of the Asian community here in Sneinton I can assure you there is not a large population of Bengalis. I know the majority of the Sub-Continent Asians that live here in Sneinton, and I can also honestly say that as far as I'm aware there are only 3 families of Bengalis that occupy Sneinton. One family lives on Ashfield Road, another on Hardstaff and the last on Skipton Circus. I can also provide you with their names but that wouldn't be appropriate to place there names on here. I'm not saying that I know everyone in Sneinton and I'm not ruling out the fact that just maybe there is some other Bengali family that I've never met before living around the corner from me. Regardless of how many Bengalis there are here the fact of the matter is... The hundreds of Asians from the Asian Sub Continent that you'll see here are in fact Pakistanis. The majority of businesses that are in Sneinton are also run by Pakistanis.
The reason I keep changing the Wiki article on Sneinton is because it’s giving a false statement about my hometown. The large population that occupy Sneinton are in fact of Pakistani origin.
I hope this helps and you've come to understand why I keep undoing your changes.
Kind Regards,
Amjad Hussain
Hello all, I proposed a split of this article, to create a new article named Sneinton Festival, containing all of the information currently present in that section, with a brief summary and link remaining within this article. I suggest this because currently there is a lot of information in that section, and it is unbalanced relative to the info in other sections. I don't want to delete any of the text (and I suspect there is a lot more to write on the subject), so the clear answer is to give the topic it's own article in which it is free to expand. Any objections? Anxietycello ( talk) 22:39, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Congratulations to Anxietycello and others who have worked on this article - always good to see people really get hold of an article, even if it's not one to grab the headlines like some. There's lots of good things here, but you might want to have a look at WP:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements for sections that have been missed - for instance a Government section could explain the relationship with Nottingham, and there's no mention of the parish which presumably (used to) exists based on St Stephen's? Another obvious area would be a bit more on the geography - including geology which tends to be quite important in explaining why the Industrial Revolution happened in some areas and not others. You should probably take a look at User:Tony1/How to improve your writing - I've had a quick run-through to de-fluff some of the language, it's more of a problem for WP:FA than WP:GA - but that's the objective, right? :-) There's some sourcing issues - for instance you shouldn't really be quoting bulletin boards (any sentence including the word "tragic" probably doesn't belong on Wikipedia, even if it is in footnotes) and it would be nice to get a proper source for that bomb map, it's obviously come from a newspaper so that should be the reference. That "all but 50 or so (bombs)" line is horrible - not only is it vague when precision should be possible, it's WP:Original research to deduce that yourself by looking at the map. I'd guess that a similar statement has been made in a proper source somewhere - as with the map itself, I'd imagine that local museums/libraries may be able to help, or ask on bulletin boards for help on finding the paper sources. It's not too far off though. Le Deluge ( talk) 21:34, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
OK, I've had a quick go at doing the boundaries, and nuked the twinning. On closer inspection, that EH reference seems to have just been Britishbuildings.co.uk making up a location, it's not in the original. Even if the electoral ward is a bit off, formal boundaries still matter and need to be mentioned - it'd be nice to see a map of the parish based on St Stephens. I have a nagging feeling that there's a website for that, can't think where now. Having said all that, the Alchemy map is a good find and I don't see why it can't be uploaded. Even if London Rd and the river aren't technically Sneinton (what about that industrial bit down by the river?), their proximity is so fundamental to why Sneinton came to be that the article really ought to talk about them. Colwick marshalling yard too. Surely almost by definition bridges are usually in two different areas? Half of Westminster Bridge is in Waterloo etc. I've also had a quick go at reformatting Colwick, Bakersfield, Carlton and St Ann's - if you ever get bored of Sneinton then St Ann's is a)probably the most interesting and b)in the worst state, it's got some POV issues. Anyway, give me a shout if you need me but I really ought to be getting on with other things now. Cheers. Le Deluge ( talk) 13:26, 20 March 2014 (UTC)