Talk:List of British regional nicknames

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What about taking some of the names off this page? http://www.everything2.com/title/Demonyms%2520of%2520the%2520United%2520Kingdom (properly cited, of course) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.118.103 (talk) 15:44, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

What about Oxford and Cambridge? And Orkney?

What about regional terms like Hants for Hampshire?

Should some distinction be made between nicknames and demonyms? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.118.103 (talk) 15:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

'Leodsian' gives no results in Google bar copies of this page. Can anyone confirm it?

http://fwordinfrance.blog.com/1033636/

Restepc (talk) 22:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

the "nicknames"of the irish are nt nicknames but racial slurs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.67.25 (talk) 14:22, 23 April 2008

Factual / Dispute

I can't actually find any citations on this page, and a number of the terms that I understand appear to be offensive; just put up a couple of notices, as I'm not entirely sure that there are inoffensive regional nickname terms on here. Although I understand that regional nicknames do tend to be offensive, I think that there are also quite a few non-offensive terms. ~CortalUX^Talk? 15:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: offensiveness - I would understand that is often the case with nicknames - eg Monkey Hanger - but if there are any extreme or worrying cases please list them.

WP:Verify (using reliable sources) should be firmly applied here. eg Scouser, Brummie, and Cockney would pass easily. Others are simply inventions that are not used. I have deleted all suspect/unreferenced ones. These are typically formed by affixing "-tonian" or "-ensian", or "-pudlian" suffixes to the towns name. Some may be valid, others may be one off inventions, ie a conceit.

Multiple usage in reliable sources with no aspect of 'artistic license' would be requried for verification. Shouldn't be any issue for genuine examples.Imgaril (talk) 16:19, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Not suitable for Wikitionary

This whole entry is about 90% fiction / personal opinion / unsourced / etc.

And yet the header reads:

This page will be copied to Wiktionary using the automated transwiki process. The information in this article appears to be suited for inclusion in a dictionary, and this article's topic meets Wiktionary's criteria for inclusion and will be copied into Wiktionary's transwiki space from which it can be formatted appropriately.

So some homophobe twot's made-up name for a resident of Brighton is headed for Wiktionary, is it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.181.103.146 (talk) 22:36, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

A demonym is not a nickname.

As others have already noted, there are several problems with the present list.
One common problem is apparently caused by confusion between a demonym and a nickname; as described on the relevant WP articles, they are entirely different kinds of names. Therefore any entry which is a demonym should not appear in the list.

• I have removed any entry which is clearly a demonym. In some cases, that entailed removing the entire entry for a particular place.
  

There's still some major tidying up needed for misplaced or duplicated entries. Some have no supporting citations and some of them are plainly unbelievable. I generally didn't address any of those.

• Do you disagree with anything I have removed? Let's discuss it here before you reinstate or revert anything.Twistlethrop (talk) 00:22, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

The article remains an anecdotal mess, with many of the terms with very restricted local usage and lots of claims of offensiveness where none exists. I don't think the article is worth keeping as it stands. --Ef80 (talk) 14:09, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

There are a lot of uncited terms in this list.

How can I tell if all of the uncited terms are existent? (I am an American).--108.24.123.189 (talk) 19:55, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

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