Talk:Newton, Swansea

Unwelcome political self-serving

I turned to this article for information about the village of Newton, which I have visited several times. What a shock to discover the top-heavy political coverage given to a respectable community with a population of only 3,000-odd. And it is hardly encyclopaedic to name current officeholders like Ms Sue Waller. Compare the article on Newton, Bridgend and my complaint comes into sharp focus. Some of the present information may be of value to ten or a dozen locals but the international readership doesn't give a fig for the council election results. Duw, Duw! Can Wiki Project Wales please make up a policy to control this nonsense. Maybe there can be one or two political articles in which all the councillors and mayors can have their names recorded and updated, and maps of electorates can be concentrated, leaving other articles free for real encyclopaedic information. Cheers Bjenks (talk) 14:58, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I think the local election result is ok, and stands out only because the remainder of the article is so short. Why not redress the balance by expanding the other aspects of the article rather than deleting what is there? welsh (talk) 16:59, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree. If you know something about the village of Newton, please add something about it (at the front of the article). Deb (talk) 18:01, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Almost anything would be an improvement on what's here at the moment. I agree it is written largely from a local politics point of view, and really says nothing about the village. I can't see the point of articles about wards, which tend to be changed every ten years. If you want, go ahead and be bold. Add something interesting about the village or, possibly, merge the whole thing into Mumbles, the community of which Newton is part, and add a subsection about Newton (it all depends on whether there is sufficient to justify a separate entry). Skinsmoke (talk) 23:51, 4 May 2009 (UTC)