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On the project page you can find detailed guides on how to write about counties and settlements, as well as where to find statistics, references and other useful things. Additionally, the following has been identified as specific improvements this article needs: Add history section and sub-page History of Norfolk Add physical geography section describing geology, landscape, ecology and climate Add economy section including GDP and principle industries Add demographics section with info on population, population density, population change, age structure and any interesting and anomolous facts - see the county council website and the ONS Add politics section listing which parties have MPs and how many of each party sit on the county council Add a section summarising the major settlements Split list of places of interest to List of places in Norfolk and expand Introduction section: list county town with coords, neighbouring counties and coast, plus summarise notable and famous points about the county Get good references Culture section, including any notable local customs, theatres, musical connections, etc. Possibly incorporate dialect section into it. Turn people section into prose and/or split entries to other section, e.g. historical figures in history, actors etc in culture. Add population and area data to all the towns and villages using this table of stats (XLS format). The 1911 Britannica may be useful for the history and physical geography sections.

I think the number of links pointing at Norfolk that mean Norfolk, England, suggest that Norfolk should be is the natural home for this page, and that what is currently at Norfolk should be moved to Norfolk (disambiguation) Mintguy (T) 10:54, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I nearly did it but I changed my mind due to Norfolk, Virginia having quite a large population - 234,403. Morwen 11:27, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)

Right - done - based solely on the vast number of links as you point out. Morwen 23:13, Feb 28, 2004 (UTC)

The key to the Map of Districts has been changed at some point - not sure when or by whom. It should run from 1 to 7. I'll attempt to correct it - if I can't, I'll leave it to Morwen. Agendum 23:30, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Looks like this has been done too. Rob 18:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Categorise Lists? 2 Norfolk, USA? 3 Great Yarmouth District Council 4 Delia Smith

[edit] Categorise Lists?

I'd like to categorise List of places in Norfolk into populated places, geographical features, ports, airfields, historical sites, forests, open areas of water, rivers, tourist attractions etc - do people think that this would help? Rob 18:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Norfolk, USA?

I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, though I know enough to know that any humble American who suggests something inclusive of America runs the risk of being accused of cultural imperialism. (Not by the majority, mind you, but by a certain element.) So please don't bite me for this suggestion; I mean it with the purest of intentions. Norfolk, Virginia has a population of about 250,000 and most Americans (all ~300 million of us) think of it when we hear the word "Norfolk". Yes, yes, "America is not the world", but isn't a disambiguation page the most inclusive thing to do? It seems that that was the status quo until about a year ago when there was near-unilateral action to move Norfolk, England to Norfolk (see Talk:Norfolk) and no one has undone it. About 1000-1500 links each point to both Norfolk and Norfolk, Virginia, and I guarantee you many of those "Norfolk" links are intended for Norfolk, Virginia as placed by misinformed countrymen of mine. What are your thoughts? Raggaga 02:34, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Interesting thought. Norfolk, UK is the first Norfolk and that which lends it's name to all the other Norfolk's that there are scattered round the globe so I guess that it has some precidence to be where the link points to, also Norfolk UK is considerably larger in terms of geographical area and population than Norfolk, VA. I think that I would vote to leave the links as they are but add a little bit more on the disambiguation at the start, as for the mis directed links we should fix them. I'll do 200 or so if you will, don't know if this is something that a bot can help with, i.e. if it could do some of this work - I will try to research it. Rob 13:54, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I've been through and verified that all the links that point to Norfolk are genuine Norfolk England pages pointing the others where they should go. The list that I worked through is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RobertWalden/Norfolk_UK_Linkers I need to check for new arrivals sometime but other than that it's done, I did not bother to check users pages, thought that it would be too difficult. Rob 08:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great Yarmouth District Council

Great Yarmouth District Council is not controlled by the Lib Dems, it is Conservative. Also Norwich City Council is no longer Labour but Lib Dem. The map is therefore quite wrong. Also along with a newly coloured in map for the district councils it would also be good to have one with parliamentary constituencies coloured in as a correctly coloured in district council map would show no Labour representation. However, Labour have 3 Norfolk MPs which is a significant number.

The red isn't intended to indicate political control, just to show the location of the county. Barnabypage 08:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Delia Smith

She wasn't born in Norfolk and doesn't, I believe, live there so should she really count as a Person of Norfolk? Barnabypage 16:47, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

her association with NCFC is what gets her there, although she may live over the border, perhaps the section could do with retitling. GraemeLeggett 19:26, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Delia Smith was born in Surrey, raised in Kent.

and lives in Suffolk...GraemeLeggett 09:36, 17 July 2006 (UTC)