Talk:Thanington

Description of parish

The first sentence of the main article reads:

Thanington Without is a parish of Canterbury—supposedly the only one of its type.

I haven't a clue what this means. Could the writer (JohnMorr?) please explain what "type" of parish it is - and preferably provide verification that TW is the "only one". Eebkent (talk) 10:28, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Copyrighted material

I have removed large quantities of copyrighted material copied and pasted from here http://www.thanington-pc.gov.uk/history/history1.html Teapotgeorge^Talk 13:44, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

This was not copied from the address given, I have written this and was happy to improve your page on Thanington Without. The article which I placed on Wikipedia was updated version of the one you mention and was different as it contained newer information. I do understand your need for protection but I do feel you should check. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thaningtonclerk (talk • contribs) 09:58, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

I have checked and virtually all the material you added was copied and pasted from http://www.thanington-pc.gov.uk/history/history1.html. That is not how Wikipedia works.Teapotgeorge^Talk 13:51, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

External links

I don't see the problem Thaningtonclerk is raising when he or she writes, on the Thanington Without (TW) editing notes "We do not want links to our web site on your pages. Please do not replace them again. TW Parish Council is a government site". I presume "your pages" means "Wikipedia pages", and "our web site" means the "TW Parish Council website". But the present Wikipedia entry for TW is, not surprisingly, very bare, and it is helpful to readers to give links to relevant websites, especially as (as Teapotgeorge has pointed out) Wikipedia is not able to include other people's copyrighted material. I simply don't see the relevance of a site being a "government site"; surely, anything of that sort makes it *more* useful as a link. Thaningtonclerk's view seems to be that the TW Wikipedia page is there as a publicity vehicle for the use of whatever organisation he or she is clerk, rather than a "neutral" encyclopaedia to which others can contribute; if that's so, I would beg to differ. Unless a consensus indicates that the external links are inappropriate, I propose to restore them.

On a closely related matter, the action to remove the external links, with the "external links" header being retained, is clearly wrong. It was partly this which persuaded me that the links had been accidentally removed. (See my edit of 15:39, 11 November 2010.) Eebkent (talk) 15:28, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

The external link was added by User:Peter Shearan and is entirely relevant and should not be removed.Teapotgeorge^Talk 10:04, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Stuppington merger

Stuppington is currently a one-sentence stub. Given that it doesn't even get a mention on the OS map and its only feature is a phonebox, it seems sensible to merge it in.Le Deluge (talk) 12:13, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

• Support per nom - Barely notable area that's better off merged. →Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 16:13, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 18 November 2020

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: Page moved. Nihil obstat. (closed by non-admin page mover) OhKayeSierra (talk) 19:54, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

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Thanington Without → Thanington – Per the Ordnance Survey this is the name of the settlement. This has also been the name of the modern civil parish which this article is about (and has always been) not the older one. The parish of "Thanington" was split in 1894 into "Thanington Without" and "Thanington Within", in 1912 Thanington Within was abolished[1] and was presumably merged into "Thanington Without" but the name wasn't changed until last year. I therefore propose moving this simply to "Thanington" to be about the current parish (and the pre 1894 "Thanington") and then put "Thanington Without" in Category:Former civil parishes in Kent for the time (presumably) before the 1912 merge. A separate article on the old "Thanington Without" could then be created. A Thanington Within also should be created at some point. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:33, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

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