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I don' think the intro needs such a large amount of information about the school. Not only is the information largely irrelevant to the article itself (i.e - whatever your opinion on the school it can't really be deemed important enough to be in the main intro), but it is obviously written by someone with links to the school and reads more like an advertisment. I suggest that someone creates a separate heading for the school lower down in the main body of the article. Kingbumpkin ( talk) 09:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
OK, I have done this myself. The school now has it's own heading of "education". Kingbumpkin ( talk) 09:28, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Does welshpool really have a bog snorkelling club or is this a joke? Kingbumpkin ( talk) 19:45, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
The article states that Welshpool was Pool until 1835, when it was renamed to avoid confusion with Poole in Dorset. Presumably most of the people of the town would have continued to call it Pool: after all, why follow a bureaucratic imposition to disambiguate your town from somewhere two hundred miles away with which there is no danger of getting confused in local usage? My question then is how long this continued before most people adopted the bureaucratic imposition? There seems to be no particular reason for someone in a nearby village to begin talking about "going into Welshpool tomorrow", even up to the present day. I can well imagine that people who've moved to the area since would be more likely to call it Welshpool and pass that on to their children, but do historically local families continue to call it Pool? Do people use Pool as a kind of abbreviation, without necessarily being aware that it was the former name of the town? Old Man of Storr ( talk) 21:15, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I question the 1835 date altogether: I have a map of Shropshire showing the town (just over the border of course) as "Welsh Poole"... the map was made in 1695 (by Robert Morden). David ( talk) 18:53, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
I am deleting this uncited and unarticled entry at the foot of that list, as it seems a joke addition:
Cloptonson ( talk) 06:59, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
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I don' think the intro needs such a large amount of information about the school. Not only is the information largely irrelevant to the article itself (i.e - whatever your opinion on the school it can't really be deemed important enough to be in the main intro), but it is obviously written by someone with links to the school and reads more like an advertisment. I suggest that someone creates a separate heading for the school lower down in the main body of the article. Kingbumpkin ( talk) 09:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
OK, I have done this myself. The school now has it's own heading of "education". Kingbumpkin ( talk) 09:28, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Does welshpool really have a bog snorkelling club or is this a joke? Kingbumpkin ( talk) 19:45, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
The article states that Welshpool was Pool until 1835, when it was renamed to avoid confusion with Poole in Dorset. Presumably most of the people of the town would have continued to call it Pool: after all, why follow a bureaucratic imposition to disambiguate your town from somewhere two hundred miles away with which there is no danger of getting confused in local usage? My question then is how long this continued before most people adopted the bureaucratic imposition? There seems to be no particular reason for someone in a nearby village to begin talking about "going into Welshpool tomorrow", even up to the present day. I can well imagine that people who've moved to the area since would be more likely to call it Welshpool and pass that on to their children, but do historically local families continue to call it Pool? Do people use Pool as a kind of abbreviation, without necessarily being aware that it was the former name of the town? Old Man of Storr ( talk) 21:15, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I question the 1835 date altogether: I have a map of Shropshire showing the town (just over the border of course) as "Welsh Poole"... the map was made in 1695 (by Robert Morden). David ( talk) 18:53, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
I am deleting this uncited and unarticled entry at the foot of that list, as it seems a joke addition:
Cloptonson ( talk) 06:59, 29 June 2023 (UTC)