Template talk:London people message/Archive 1

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This template automatically populates the categories for sub categories of Category:People from London and provides an explanation for people who lived before the settlement became part of London.

{{ London people message | place= Battersea | borough= Wandsworth | county= Surrey | year= 1889 }}

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This category includes people from Battersea in the London Boroough of Wandsworth, Greater London, England. It was in Surrey until 1889.

Category topology

This note explains the category topology this template creates. MRSC • Talk 16:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Category:People from London	Category:Wandsworth	Category:People by city or town in England	Category:People from Surrey
Category:People from London by district	Category:People from Wandsworth by district		Category:People from Surrey (before 1889)
Category:People from Battersea

Dual County

How do we operate this for Category:People from Penge where Penge was both in Surrey first and then Kent until becoming part of London? Regan123 01:38, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Where there are anomolies I have tended just to add a little bit of text on afterwards to explain. As it stands, the It was in Kent until 1965 is still true. Also, it is still unclear if Penge was a detatched part of Battersea, Surrey in Kent or just a detatched part of Battersea within Surrey. It is also possible it was part in both Surrey and Kent (some maps I've seen suggest this). However, I'm yet to see a written source which completely explains where it was before the creation of Penge Urban District. MRSC • Talk 13:51, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Friends on mine have an old Surrey map on the wall showing Penge, Anerley and Crystal Palace as being in Surrey from the late 1800s. I think I could just manually add the cat and some text then. Regan123 14:25, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I've added the category. I think we should gloss over the fact it was technically in the County of London from 1889 to 1899. MRSC • Talk 15:12, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Topology

I was thinking we might need to change the topology on here. Category:People from London includes plenty of people where we know the local area but it isn't clear that there are all these district sub cats. If we made this template work with that as opposed to Category:People from London by district it would highlight the area cats and I think remove a bit of category clutter. Regan123 15:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

The only problem with that is that by district sub cats get "lost" in the sub pages whereas at the moment they are all visible on one page. When People from London has fewer articles in it, we can change it over. MRSC • Talk 06:10, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Compound names

This template does not produce a locator map for the boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham, Tower Hamlets, or Waltham Forest. I tried to add these, following the pattern for Barking & Dagenham. But I seem to have failed. Could someone please make this necessary change, or let me know how to do this? Thanks. RolandR (talk) 16:02, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Sutton

Sutton categories are now at "Sutton (London borough)" - please can someone adjust the template to automatically generate the correct name, otherwise I'll have to remove it from the subcategories of Category:People from Sutton (district). Timrollpickering (talk) 14:34, 27 July 2012 (UTC)