Talk:Barwick-in-Elmet

Maypole 2008

Did it get raised? Could someone update this? PamD (talk) 16:51, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Answered this myself. Scope for much more about the maypole, from sources given and others. PamD (talk) 17:04, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Requested move 16 March 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus (closed by non-admin page mover) Calidum 14:08, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

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Barwick-in-Elmet → Barwick in Elmet – Per the Ordnance Survey, Google Maps and it seems more other sources don't use hyphens than do. Also CP is Barwick in Elmet and Scholes. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:37, 16 March 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:09, 23 March 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 07:03, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Crouch, Swale (talk) 22:33, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

• • Oppose. This is certainly not uncontroversial. The official site seems to use hyphens consistently. --188.28.140.28 (talk) 22:29, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Note that the council website uses hyphens, for example on this page. The council is a more reliable and authoritative source than mapping agencies such as Google and OS. --188.28.140.28 (talk) 22:41, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Probably also need to hyphenate the civil parish article as well. Keith D (talk) 00:43, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, probably. There's a lot of inconsistency though. The parish doesn't use hyphens on its website but does on social media. I think the general rule with these hyphenated names is that the form with hyphens is felt to be formal and "correct", but the hyphens are often missed out in less formal contexts, and some people think it looks more modern that way. --188.28.140.128 (talk) 16:15, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Shouldn't the OS generally be the authority on what's formal unless another form is far more common? As well as the parish council being "Barwick in Elmet & Scholes Parish Council" the CP is "Barwick in Elmet and Scholes". Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:02, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

No, the OS is not and wouldn't claim to be an authority on the naming of places. And as pointed out above the parish council sometimes uses hyphens and sometimes doesn't. 188.28.139.13 (talk) 23:15, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Per WP:COMMONNAME the sources used should be independent, which the council website is not. YorkshireExpat (talk) 18:56, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

To argue that we can't use the council as a source for the naming of one of the places it serves on the grounds that it is not independent would seem to be an absurd interpretation of policy. 188.28.139.13 (talk) 23:19, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

How else would you interpret it? Also see WP:OFFICIAL. YorkshireExpat (talk) 07:04, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

• Another local institution that should reliably know how to spell its name is Barwick-in-Elmet Church of England Primary School. 188.28.139.13 (talk) 23:22, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
• Also Barwick-in-Elmet Post Office. Note there are hyphens in the official postal address. 188.28.139.13 (talk) 23:26, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject England has been notified of this discussion. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 07:03, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose. Arthur Mee's compendious The King's England: Yorkshire : West Riding (1941) gives Barwick-in-Elmet. The South & West Yorkshire Village Book (1991) by the Women's Institutes gives Barwick-in-Elmet. Chemical Engineer (talk) 21:18, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

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