Talk:Spalding, Lincolnshire

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I have removed Coronation Channel from the article as it does not flow north from Crowland and does not cut the town in half east/west. The Coronation Channel is (if I remember correctly) the drainage channel built to the east of the river in 1953 after flooding in the fens (in 1947). I believe that this misunderstanding came from the spaldingnet web site, and may also be due to the river being straightened and widened in the late 40s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.71.24 (talk) 12:19, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

(From Kamcder) I live in Spalding and the Coronation channel should have a mention because this is the route the Water Taxi takes to get to Springfields. You should have left it in! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kamcder (talk • contribs) 19:50, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Water Taxi

I added a section on this, as I felt it was worth noting. However, as this is the first time I've ever bothered to add content, as opposed to just correcting a couple of things, it may not contain enough detail, or, conversely, I may have gone a bit over the top with it. In either case, it may need to be corrected, or, if there was a particular reason that it wasn't included, then removed entirely. But yes, I have read all most of the guidelines :P. --86.137.119.39 21:56, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Peter Wilson

Didn't Peter Wilson used to live in Spalding? Why isn't this mentioned? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brown Bread (talk • contribs) 19:27, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Which Peter Wilson? I taught a Peter Wilson 2002-4 at the Grammar, surely not him? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.22.103.7 (talk) 13:53, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

HOSPITAL

"Facilities will be available for the treatment of ringworm" seems very silly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.88.178.33 (talk) 16:31, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced material

I removed unsourced POV material from the article as well as spam for a local blog. The whole article needs references. Capitalistroadster 01:52, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, you see, the problem is, a lot of the stuff you removed wasn't POV, it was just unsourced fact. You seemed plenty happy enough plonking a massive great, only semi-correct, message at the top of the page, announcing the article has no sources AT ALL - but then you decided it necessary to remove a lot of the stuff that required sourcing, making the tag near redundant.
And in fact, the claim you made that you "removed spam for a blog" was only half-true itself. You may have removed one mention to the blog from within the text (along with annihilating a lot of legitimate information from that section, as mentioned), but you completely managed to miss the link in External links, that was later removed by 84.68.210.70.
To be honest, looking at it, there wasn't much more that needed doing than reverting the edits of Elsdena. At least then, your tag would've been justified. --86.144.175.219 10:48, 8 July 2007 (UTC).

famous navi bridge

it says on spiegel.de in German (contact address: abgewuergt@spiegel.de - English understood) that a bridge in Spalding in Northern England is constantly out, a fact not known to any navi gps system, and the bridge has caught 60 trucks already, more than any other spot in England. They are entering the bridge, up to the barrier, then are unable to change direction to return. --79.233.2.188 (talk) 07:03, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I’ve not heard of this before. Can you provide a reference? Such a case would be on the Internet in some form and usually taken up by the BBC or at least their local station. There is a case of lorry drivers turning into Wisbech's De Havilland Road by mistake. Residents have called for signs to make it clear to lorry drivers they can not get access to factories from De Havilland Road. The residents have suffered a spate of accidents with damage to cars, property, as well as road surfaces and paths by HGVs often being guided down the road by satellite navigation systems.--BSTemple (talk) 07:19, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

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Timeline

The timeline quotes Spalding History as a source, but seems to be a word-for-word copy of the information on that site, which is marked as Copyright 2010. Is this a WP:COPYVIO copyright violation? Bob1960evens (talk) 22:55, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Town Husbands

I think we need to add the Spalding Town Husbands, but don't knwo enough about them.

• Newspaper reference
• ANother story
• small story

but then I could not see where they could fit into the current article either.--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 18:17, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

DMOZ solution

Due to the excessinve number of external links, I have tonight implemented the agreed DMOZ solution. Please do not add any more external links to the article - Thank You! Rgds, --Trident13 (talk) 22:45, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Hospitals

1. Surely the Johnson Hospital closed when the new out-of-town one opened? (this page and this one hints at that)

2. Wasn't there a '60s built replacement that had problems because of structural problems? Oh yes, the Welland hospital. refers What was the full story of that?
--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 01:13, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Spalding Flower Parade

The Spalding Flower Parade, now defunct, could go into History with a shorter mention in the lede. It might be important enough for its own article if enough info is found. I'm not sure that the recent Pumpkin Parade is important enough for a lede mention. Acabashi (talk) 16:31, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Main companies

Some kind of inclusion criteria should be established for the entries of the "Main companies" section per WP:CSC. Lists such as this (see WP:LSC) are not really intended to a directory of companies in the area per WP:NOTEVERYTHING and WP:NOTWHITE. The most basic and easiest to criterion to establish would be to require that each entry have it's own stand-alone Wikipedia article; however, that can be somewhat limiting so entries referred to as a "main company" in reliable sources can probably also be included if properly sourced. The supporting sources should be independent of the company to avoid COI and promotion issues. I've tried to find articles relevant to wikilink to for each of the companies mentioned, but was only able to do so for 6 of the 14, so I have removed the others. They can be re-added as supporting sources are found. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:11, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

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