Talk:Kingswood, Stroud District

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Steel1943 in topic Requested move 24 May 2019

There is confusion here! Kingswood Gloucestershire is NOT the same as Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, but is a small village near Wotton-under-Edge. I give notice that I shall edit in due course!Linuxlad 10:07, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Requested move 22 January 2016

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The result of the move request was: Move Kingswood, Gloucestershire to Kingswood, Stroud District, redirect Kingswood, Gloucestershire to dab, and leave Kingswood, South Gloucestershire where it is. After over a month of discussion this appears to be the consensus. There is clear consensus that the Stroud District community is not the primary topic of the two, and rough consensus preferring "Stroud District" over "Stroud". There's no agreement that the South Gloucestershire town should be moved, and no consensus that the base name should redirect to it. As such, for the time being the name will redirect to Kingswood. Cúchullain t/c 14:36, 25 February 2016 (UTC)Reply



– There are two Kingswoods in Gloucestershire - this one in Stroud district and the other in South Glos. Per WP:UKPLACE, when the county is insufficient to disambiguate, the district should be used, so this article should be moved to Kingswood, Stroud. Kingswood, Gloucestershire would then redirect to the dab.

However, the settlement in South Glos is much larger, and receives significantly more page views than this article ([1][2]). Therefore the Kingswood in South Glos ought to be treated as primary topic for "Kingswood, Gloucestershire", and placed at that location - with a hatnote to this article. Nilfanion (talk) 11:57, 22 January 2016 (UTC) Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 09:53, 1 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

  • Strong oppose moving "South Gloucestershire" & Strong support moving to "Stroud" -- WP:PRECISE ambiguous disambiguation is a bad idea, and all three pages use comma disambiguation. "South Gloucestershire" should stay where it is. "Kingswood, Gloucestershire" should redirect to the disambiguation page. "Stroud" should be used due to the ambiguous naming failing PRECISE -- 70.51.200.135 (talk) 11:15, 23 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
  • I'd agree with that - the initial proposal is based on the precise phrasing at UKPLACE, and other instances where the district shares its name with the largest town. gnoring the letter of the guidance (which I think needs revision), certainly Stroud District is better than Stroud.--Nilfanion (talk) 20:27, 24 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
That means if it is primary topic for "Kingswood, Gloucestershire" - clearly it is not for Kingswood.--Nilfanion (talk) 18:25, 4 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
As for the other one using Stroud District as a dab would really mean that we should always use District as part of the dab for all locations which is not done. The use of the name Stroud is fine and in line with the rules we have in WP:UKPLACE. I think that we need much wider discussion before going down that route. Keith D (talk) 21:28, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Actually, I do not think that Kingswood, Stroud would conform to WP:UKPLACE. It would be fine if the place was in Stroud, but it's not (it's 14 miles away from Stroud). But it is in Stroud District, so Kingswood, Stroud District would conform to WP:UKPLACE.--Mhockey (talk) 02:54, 19 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
I do not think using Stroud District would be contrary to UKPLACE. UKPLACE just says district should be used, not how that should be done. Practice certainly is to use "short form", but that doesn't make it right. Has it even been questioned before this RM? That matter should be resolved at the broader discussion at WT:UKGEO--Nilfanion (talk) 10:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Ah OK, thanks, I didn't realise there was a wider discussion on that page. I've added something there as well.  — Amakuru (talk) 11:17, 19 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

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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 to move. No additional comments were made after the previous relist, and prior to the relist, there was also no consensus for these moves. Due to lack of further participation, I do not see another relist resulting in further clarification of consensus. At this point, I recommend that if another move request is to occur, the below requests should be done individually rather than bundled. (non-admin closure) Steel1943 (talk) 23:52, 5 July 2019 (UTC)Reply


– Although using "District" or "Borough of..." is common usage/natural disambiguation it isn't used when there is no ambiguity. In fact the old version of WP:UKPLACE specified this and in the case of London boroughs the prefix is always included while with other districts its generally only done when needed such as Tonbridge and Malling just being at the name, districts with city and unitary status often have "City of ..." on the OS but there usually concurrent enough that UKPLACE would use the urban settlement's name anyway. An exception would be when there is ambiguity between the district and the thing its named after for example there are 2 Huishes in Devon, one in the North Devon district and one in the Torridge district but since Torridge is in the northern part of Devon, Huish, North Devon would be ambiguous (since the upper case "N" wouldn't likely be enough) so we would use Huish, North Devon District. In none of these cases is there any ambiguity in using just the district's name alone. I would also note that despite the island being at Isle of Arran (per the OS) places disambiguated by it only use "Arran" such as Corrie, Arran (although the Commons category is at Commons:Category:Corrie, Isle of Arran because I moved it). In this case the OS uses just "Stroud" with "Stroud District" being an alternative name. I would note that I was the nom at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 September 20#Districts of England but the natural disambiguation isn't needed here. I would also note Woodmancote, Tewkesbury Borough would be incorrect even if this was normal convention, it would actually be Woodmancote, Borough of Tewkesbury per WP:UKDISTRICTS and the "West Sussex" would be unnecessary either way for Woodmancote, West Sussex (Chichester District). Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:59, 24 May 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. Steel1943 (talk) 12:58, 4 June 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. Steel1943 (talk) 04:19, 21 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

The difference is that "District" in Stroud District is not simply a disambiguator. It is the preferred name of the District in WP (because it is unambiguous). If we use Stroud or Carlisle to refer to the district rather than the settlement, we introduce another ambiguity in a disambiguation. Why do that if you can so easily avoid it?--Mhockey (talk) 19:54, 31 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
It is a disambiguator per WP:UKDISTRICTS "Non-metropolitan districts without ambiguity are just the name" while this one is disambiguated with "District" because that's a common name and is better than having it at Stroud (district) and it can't go at Stroud but "Stroud" is the preferred name of the district on WP. In these cases there is no ambiguity or technical restrictions preventing us using simply "Stroud" to disambiguate Kingswood. If there was a place called "Kingswood" in the town of Stroud that wasn't in the district then the "District" part would be needed but there isn't. As per previous RMs (like Wyre, Harborough Elmbridge) I've supported using the natural disambiguation for the district articles themselves but that's not needed with topics that are disambiguated by district. This introduces unnecessary complication with disambiguation and is inconsistant with all the other places disambiguated by district (like Whatley, Mendip). Do you propose that we move all articles like Whatley, Mendip or just some? Crouch, Swale (talk) 20:18, 31 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

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