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I put in an infobox someone else mentioned which seemed more appropriate. Hope you like it. :) Oh, please double check that I didnt screw anything up in terms of information. - Tutmosis 16:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
I have some further issues with the article:
Thanks. - Tutmosis 17:51, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
I think the population comparison chart would be good in a Demographics section too. Rossenglish 07:17, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
The district of Weymouth and Portland was formed on April 1, 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger between the borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis and the nearby Portland urban district. The Mayor of Weymouth and Portland is Howard Legg, with David Harris as Deputy Mayor; both are members of the Liberal Democrat party. [1]
Weymouth and Portland and Purbeck districts are in the Dorset South parliamentary constituency, created in 1885. The constituency elects one Member of Parliament. The current MP for Dorset South is Jim Knight, a member of the Labour Party, who currently holds the post of Minister of State for Schools.
Dorset South was the second most marginal seat in the 2001 elections, being only won by 153 votes. At the 2002 general election, Jim Knight was elected the member of Parliament for Dorset South, which was the only constituency in which Labour gained votes from the Conservative party in that year. This may have been due to a high-profile anti-Conservative tactical voting campaign which was conducted in Dorset by MP Billy Bragg. Whilst Jim Knight was expecting to have a difficult 2005 election, he won with a margin of 1,812 votes. This was in contrast to many other areas, where Labour suffered a noticeable decline in the popular vote.
Year | Population [2] |
---|---|
1971 | 42,370 |
1981 | 45,090 |
1991 | 48.350 |
2001 | 50,920 |
2004 | 51,760 |
Age | Percentage [3] |
---|---|
0-15 | 18.3 |
16+17 | 2.3 |
18-44 | 32.4 |
45-59 | 20.8 |
60-84 | 23.2 |
85+ | 3.1 |
In 2004 Weymouth's population was 51,760, in an estimated built up area of 1850 hectares (18.5km²) [4]. This give an approximate population density of 28 residents per hectare. In 2005 there were 23,405 dwellings in Weymouth. Mainly as a result of migration, the population of the town has grown steadily over the past 35 years. As is the case with many seaside towns, there is an above average number of older residents (60 - 84), however the largest proportion of the population is between the ages of 18 to 44. The population is largely of native English origin, with 98.8% of residents being of white background [5].
The area's crime rates are below average compared to the UK, with Weymouth's rate of 13.4 crimes per 1000 households lower than that of England and Wales (14.4/1000). However, Weymouth's crime rates are above those of the South West England average of 10.7 per 1000. The town's house prices are relatively high by UK standards, yet around average for most of the south of England. The average price of a detatched house in 2005 was £278,284, with an average apartment or maisonette costing £134,812 [6].
Anyway, I'll support if this gets fixed. Great job with the demographics. :) - Tutmosis 15:43, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey I just read your comment on my talk page and noticed the FAC. I still haven't come up with any other problems since we last talked. The only tiny problem left is there a few double wikilinks and I tried to fix some. Anyway, I voted support since I do think this article has reached FA quality after all the work you've done and just want to wish you good luck since it's now up to the rest of the community. - Tutmosis 16:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Oh by the way, when your using the same reference, you dont have past the code over again.
Example, Instead of doing this:
Simply:
You dont have to paste the same reference information over again, only the first time, the second, third etc. times it's good enough to just paste the ref name and it will automatically realize which reference your refering to, per example above. It will save space and make it less confusing to edit. - Tutmosis 17:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
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-- Thw1309 11:59, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello Rossenglish/Archive 1, you are member of the project European Union. I try to create a new project page for the project. You can see it at here Because this should be the project page for all it´s members, please tell me, what you think about it. Please leave your comments on the talkpage of the project.-- Thw1309 12:00, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
good catch. Marnanel 16:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
I've now voted support. Good luck with the FAC, and feel free to contact me if you require a peer review on an article in future, as that's the area of wikipedia I'm most effective in. BeL1EveR 20:14, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Here it is:
during World War I and World War II, and a key Royal Navy and NATO training base until the 1990s, and is now
Happy editing. Let's hope it comes up to scratch. Cheers. Tony 10:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Not at all! I always appreciate the help! Thanks for dropping the note. I hope to see your thoughts on it in the discussion though! :) - J Logan t: 18:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, I was just looking through that. I can't find a direct source either which is why I put a cite tag on it. Although considering Lear does not know how to write a cite tag, and doesn't like to loose a pro-EU fact, I will just have to go with the add up from the country list. Thanks. - J Logan t: 17:07, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bring up the European Union article again, I know it can get tedious. Basically it is about the city table. Small point but we've been wanting to replace it, thus far Lear has been the only one wanting the old and has reverted any changes. A summery of options has been written up, I'd appreciate it if you'd give a comment. Don't mind what you pick as it will either help convince Lear to compromise for once or it will legitimise what he is doing (if he has support I don't mind, so long as it is not him alone). See here for the summery. If you could pop an opinion I'd be grateful before it turns into 3 pages of "standard content" vs "consensus" again. I understand if you don't want to or don't have time to. Thanks! - J Logan t: 13:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your changes and support. On your note on the short sentences, sorry but could narrow it down for me, I'm terrible at finding my own errors. If there are loads just give me sections, if it is all the way through, just say that so I know to go through the whole thing with a fine comb. Thanks! - J Logan t: 07:21, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I have undone a change you made reverting a change I had made earlier today to the article on the Isle of Portland.
I removed the text, "the strong cement mix was a German invention". I did this because, upon reading the whole page cited for this line, there is no mention of Germany. Also, in the Wikipedia page for Portland Cement there is the following:
"In 1848 William Aspdin further improved his cement and in 1853 moved to Germany where he was involved in cement making.[1] Many people have claimed to have made the first Portland cement in the modern sense, but it is generally accepted that it was first manufactured by William Aspdin at Northfleet, England in about 1842."
If you have any other information pertaining to this, please reference it on the Wiki page. Otherwise, please let my edit stand.
Thanks- Jon
Hello there Rossenglish! I hope all is well,
I've retroactively (for want of a better word) applied WP:UKCITIES to Weymouth. I was a little concerned that there could be objection (it's clearly a very well loved article) and found that you have been the primary contributor and wanted to be a courtious as possible about this!
WP:UKCITIES is purely a cosmetic guide to standardise layout for UK settlements and was developed as part of the much wider Cities (settlements) WikiProject. They were also developed, it seems after Weymouth acheived FA hense the "retro-active" edit.
I also made a few minor changes regarding the infobox, images and distance to the capital. I hope this is well recieved. Great article BTW! -- Jza84 · ( talk) 01:17, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Weymouth Pier redevelopment, I think the Weymouth Pavillion Redevelopment needs a page, that can be done in the style as Pier 39,with a link from Weymouth Pier ( Ucebaggie ( talk) 07:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC))
Hi, thanks for your message. I've replied on the template talk page. By the way, I may well not give time to wikipedia in the near future, so please do what you think's best and don't expect that I'll necessarily see this discussion through. — Alan ✉ 19:39, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for the merge of this item into the town's details. I just want you to know it was just a suggestion, not something I imagined would be done immediately ! :-) Anyway, thanks for doing it - I've changed the original article to a redirect - I'd imagine there are other schools with this name in the UK and we could end up with a disambiguation page. CultureDrone ( talk) 11:13, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Is now fixed -- should have been a two minute job, but I discovered that I had forgotten to save the transport labels from before, and had to rewrite all the road and railways labels too! Cheers, Joe D (t) 22:27, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Do you know anything about Dorset and Poole & Bournemouth? There is a mistake in the article about that county related to the GVA. For more details, you could see the full question at Talk:Dorset#Question XIII: GVA per person. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.30.79.139 ( talk) 22:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, thank you for correcting my mistakes and for making a start on the tasks. I had a look at the Lib Dem thing, it looks pretty good. I look forward to working with you Pi Talk - Contribs 21:01, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for doing that. Are the number of rainy days / month now included in the template then? Or is this a future plan? The table I had put together previously was for Gerlachovský štít which has a large number of different 'days of x per month' rows. If the template had this functionality as well that would be quite handy. JMiall ₰ 18:20, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Would you say that Bournemouth and Poole --and any other unitary authority-- are local government districts? Thanks. Pabletex ( talk) 16:27, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I normally hate English people but since you want the UK to join the euro, I'll make an exception Markreidyhp 19:05, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
I don't know if you have any idea about transport in Dorset, but just in the case you know it may be good that you read that section in the county's article: it says that the A303 road runs through the Dorset, but the article about the road doesn't even mention the county or any of its villages and towns. There may be a mistake in the article about Dorset. Pabletex ( talk) 01:41, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Theres No sign for Eris. E E 22:49, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
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Electrical Experiment ( talk) 02:01, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
I've noticed that you are active in the area of Europe. I just wanted to let you know that a European Space Agency task force has been set up to improve the presently very poor condition of articles about ESA and related topics. If you are interested, please join the task force here. We sure could use your help. Thanks. U5K0 ( talk) 19:30, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Ross - I guess it was worth it in the end! Feel free to edit the Flag of Dorset page anytime! White43 ( talk) 15:00, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, My name is Iza, I do some research about LDs working at the Univeristy in Poland. I have found your article and I wonder if you, having your knowledge about Liberal Democrats could help me with finding some more information about this party. I was in British Library so I know the books, I know them website but I still would like to find something else which maybe is obvious for you to look for but maybe difficult to find by me. Could you please give me some advice? It would be greatul. Thank you in advance. Best regards! Iza ([email protected]) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.76.55.47 ( talk) 07:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
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Archive 1 |
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Archive 1 |
I put in an infobox someone else mentioned which seemed more appropriate. Hope you like it. :) Oh, please double check that I didnt screw anything up in terms of information. - Tutmosis 16:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
I have some further issues with the article:
Thanks. - Tutmosis 17:51, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
I think the population comparison chart would be good in a Demographics section too. Rossenglish 07:17, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
The district of Weymouth and Portland was formed on April 1, 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger between the borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis and the nearby Portland urban district. The Mayor of Weymouth and Portland is Howard Legg, with David Harris as Deputy Mayor; both are members of the Liberal Democrat party. [1]
Weymouth and Portland and Purbeck districts are in the Dorset South parliamentary constituency, created in 1885. The constituency elects one Member of Parliament. The current MP for Dorset South is Jim Knight, a member of the Labour Party, who currently holds the post of Minister of State for Schools.
Dorset South was the second most marginal seat in the 2001 elections, being only won by 153 votes. At the 2002 general election, Jim Knight was elected the member of Parliament for Dorset South, which was the only constituency in which Labour gained votes from the Conservative party in that year. This may have been due to a high-profile anti-Conservative tactical voting campaign which was conducted in Dorset by MP Billy Bragg. Whilst Jim Knight was expecting to have a difficult 2005 election, he won with a margin of 1,812 votes. This was in contrast to many other areas, where Labour suffered a noticeable decline in the popular vote.
Year | Population [2] |
---|---|
1971 | 42,370 |
1981 | 45,090 |
1991 | 48.350 |
2001 | 50,920 |
2004 | 51,760 |
Age | Percentage [3] |
---|---|
0-15 | 18.3 |
16+17 | 2.3 |
18-44 | 32.4 |
45-59 | 20.8 |
60-84 | 23.2 |
85+ | 3.1 |
In 2004 Weymouth's population was 51,760, in an estimated built up area of 1850 hectares (18.5km²) [4]. This give an approximate population density of 28 residents per hectare. In 2005 there were 23,405 dwellings in Weymouth. Mainly as a result of migration, the population of the town has grown steadily over the past 35 years. As is the case with many seaside towns, there is an above average number of older residents (60 - 84), however the largest proportion of the population is between the ages of 18 to 44. The population is largely of native English origin, with 98.8% of residents being of white background [5].
The area's crime rates are below average compared to the UK, with Weymouth's rate of 13.4 crimes per 1000 households lower than that of England and Wales (14.4/1000). However, Weymouth's crime rates are above those of the South West England average of 10.7 per 1000. The town's house prices are relatively high by UK standards, yet around average for most of the south of England. The average price of a detatched house in 2005 was £278,284, with an average apartment or maisonette costing £134,812 [6].
Anyway, I'll support if this gets fixed. Great job with the demographics. :) - Tutmosis 15:43, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey I just read your comment on my talk page and noticed the FAC. I still haven't come up with any other problems since we last talked. The only tiny problem left is there a few double wikilinks and I tried to fix some. Anyway, I voted support since I do think this article has reached FA quality after all the work you've done and just want to wish you good luck since it's now up to the rest of the community. - Tutmosis 16:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Oh by the way, when your using the same reference, you dont have past the code over again.
Example, Instead of doing this:
Simply:
You dont have to paste the same reference information over again, only the first time, the second, third etc. times it's good enough to just paste the ref name and it will automatically realize which reference your refering to, per example above. It will save space and make it less confusing to edit. - Tutmosis 17:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar | |
For your persistence and hard work in getting Weymouth to featured status, I, Tutmosis, award you this for your great effort. - Tutmosis 00:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC) |
![]() |
Hello, Rossenglish/Archive 1, and welcome to WikiProject European Union! Thank you for your generous offer to help contribute. I'm sure your input will be much appreciated. I hope you enjoy contributing here and being a European Union Project Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to discuss anything on the project talk page, or to leave a message on my own talk page. Please remember to sign all your comments, and be bold with your edits. Again, welcome, and happy editing! |
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-- Thw1309 11:59, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello Rossenglish/Archive 1, you are member of the project European Union. I try to create a new project page for the project. You can see it at here Because this should be the project page for all it´s members, please tell me, what you think about it. Please leave your comments on the talkpage of the project.-- Thw1309 12:00, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
good catch. Marnanel 16:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
I've now voted support. Good luck with the FAC, and feel free to contact me if you require a peer review on an article in future, as that's the area of wikipedia I'm most effective in. BeL1EveR 20:14, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Here it is:
during World War I and World War II, and a key Royal Navy and NATO training base until the 1990s, and is now
Happy editing. Let's hope it comes up to scratch. Cheers. Tony 10:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Not at all! I always appreciate the help! Thanks for dropping the note. I hope to see your thoughts on it in the discussion though! :) - J Logan t: 18:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, I was just looking through that. I can't find a direct source either which is why I put a cite tag on it. Although considering Lear does not know how to write a cite tag, and doesn't like to loose a pro-EU fact, I will just have to go with the add up from the country list. Thanks. - J Logan t: 17:07, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bring up the European Union article again, I know it can get tedious. Basically it is about the city table. Small point but we've been wanting to replace it, thus far Lear has been the only one wanting the old and has reverted any changes. A summery of options has been written up, I'd appreciate it if you'd give a comment. Don't mind what you pick as it will either help convince Lear to compromise for once or it will legitimise what he is doing (if he has support I don't mind, so long as it is not him alone). See here for the summery. If you could pop an opinion I'd be grateful before it turns into 3 pages of "standard content" vs "consensus" again. I understand if you don't want to or don't have time to. Thanks! - J Logan t: 13:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your changes and support. On your note on the short sentences, sorry but could narrow it down for me, I'm terrible at finding my own errors. If there are loads just give me sections, if it is all the way through, just say that so I know to go through the whole thing with a fine comb. Thanks! - J Logan t: 07:21, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I have undone a change you made reverting a change I had made earlier today to the article on the Isle of Portland.
I removed the text, "the strong cement mix was a German invention". I did this because, upon reading the whole page cited for this line, there is no mention of Germany. Also, in the Wikipedia page for Portland Cement there is the following:
"In 1848 William Aspdin further improved his cement and in 1853 moved to Germany where he was involved in cement making.[1] Many people have claimed to have made the first Portland cement in the modern sense, but it is generally accepted that it was first manufactured by William Aspdin at Northfleet, England in about 1842."
If you have any other information pertaining to this, please reference it on the Wiki page. Otherwise, please let my edit stand.
Thanks- Jon
Hello there Rossenglish! I hope all is well,
I've retroactively (for want of a better word) applied WP:UKCITIES to Weymouth. I was a little concerned that there could be objection (it's clearly a very well loved article) and found that you have been the primary contributor and wanted to be a courtious as possible about this!
WP:UKCITIES is purely a cosmetic guide to standardise layout for UK settlements and was developed as part of the much wider Cities (settlements) WikiProject. They were also developed, it seems after Weymouth acheived FA hense the "retro-active" edit.
I also made a few minor changes regarding the infobox, images and distance to the capital. I hope this is well recieved. Great article BTW! -- Jza84 · ( talk) 01:17, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Weymouth Pier redevelopment, I think the Weymouth Pavillion Redevelopment needs a page, that can be done in the style as Pier 39,with a link from Weymouth Pier ( Ucebaggie ( talk) 07:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC))
Hi, thanks for your message. I've replied on the template talk page. By the way, I may well not give time to wikipedia in the near future, so please do what you think's best and don't expect that I'll necessarily see this discussion through. — Alan ✉ 19:39, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for the merge of this item into the town's details. I just want you to know it was just a suggestion, not something I imagined would be done immediately ! :-) Anyway, thanks for doing it - I've changed the original article to a redirect - I'd imagine there are other schools with this name in the UK and we could end up with a disambiguation page. CultureDrone ( talk) 11:13, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Is now fixed -- should have been a two minute job, but I discovered that I had forgotten to save the transport labels from before, and had to rewrite all the road and railways labels too! Cheers, Joe D (t) 22:27, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Do you know anything about Dorset and Poole & Bournemouth? There is a mistake in the article about that county related to the GVA. For more details, you could see the full question at Talk:Dorset#Question XIII: GVA per person. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.30.79.139 ( talk) 22:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, thank you for correcting my mistakes and for making a start on the tasks. I had a look at the Lib Dem thing, it looks pretty good. I look forward to working with you Pi Talk - Contribs 21:01, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for doing that. Are the number of rainy days / month now included in the template then? Or is this a future plan? The table I had put together previously was for Gerlachovský štít which has a large number of different 'days of x per month' rows. If the template had this functionality as well that would be quite handy. JMiall ₰ 18:20, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Would you say that Bournemouth and Poole --and any other unitary authority-- are local government districts? Thanks. Pabletex ( talk) 16:27, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I normally hate English people but since you want the UK to join the euro, I'll make an exception Markreidyhp 19:05, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
I don't know if you have any idea about transport in Dorset, but just in the case you know it may be good that you read that section in the county's article: it says that the A303 road runs through the Dorset, but the article about the road doesn't even mention the county or any of its villages and towns. There may be a mistake in the article about Dorset. Pabletex ( talk) 01:41, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Theres No sign for Eris. E E 22:49, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
![]() |
The Secret Code Barnstar | |
This User Figured Out Electrical Experiment's Secret Code |
Electrical Experiment ( talk) 02:01, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
I've noticed that you are active in the area of Europe. I just wanted to let you know that a European Space Agency task force has been set up to improve the presently very poor condition of articles about ESA and related topics. If you are interested, please join the task force here. We sure could use your help. Thanks. U5K0 ( talk) 19:30, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Ross - I guess it was worth it in the end! Feel free to edit the Flag of Dorset page anytime! White43 ( talk) 15:00, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, My name is Iza, I do some research about LDs working at the Univeristy in Poland. I have found your article and I wonder if you, having your knowledge about Liberal Democrats could help me with finding some more information about this party. I was in British Library so I know the books, I know them website but I still would like to find something else which maybe is obvious for you to look for but maybe difficult to find by me. Could you please give me some advice? It would be greatul. Thank you in advance. Best regards! Iza ([email protected]) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.76.55.47 ( talk) 07:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
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Archive 1 |