Talk:Weymouth

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Contents 1 Tramway 2 Census Data 3 Promote GA 4 Well Written Article 5 Infobox 6 New additions 7 Featured Article Status

[edit] Tramway

The correct title for the 'Quay Branch' is 'The Weymouth Harbour Tramway' which it was known as by the GWR and then BR. It never carried any public trams, the name simply refers to its location on the public highway. Fortunately the engines were not forced to use cow-catchers and side plates (think of Toby the Tram Engine!).Grumpy 13:34, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Census Data

I tried both links and both had problems - I'll try again at a later date. Is there a problem with the links? SeanMack 18:57, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Promote GA

I enjoy this article as it is well written. Its prose flows smoothly from one section to section. The Wikipedia manual of style is also used properly. The article is also well referenced with sufficient inline citations. All major aspects of the town are given briefly enough, which means the topic is broad enough and no NPOV problem. This article is also quite stable as no controversies around. I also like images given and I have checked that all images are properly tagged with suitable Wikipedia licenses. With all of this, this article qualifies as Good Article. Congratulations to the editor for this beautiful work. — Indon (reply) — 15:17, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Well Written Article

I agree with Indon on this one, the Weymouth article is written very well, and has a broad range of topics, with the right amount of detail - not too much, but still enough to fully describe the town. I think with a bit of fine tuning of exact wording and tone, and this article could become a Featured Article. I too congratulate the editors for their work, and those who have spent time to take photographs of key topics et ectera - they work very well. 86.133.245.124 14:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Should this article be nominated for Featured Article status? I think it fulfills all, if not almost all, FA criteria, so it could be suitable for nomination. It certainly includes most relevant topics to do with the city/town. I do agree with Indon and User:86.133.245.124. Rossenglish 14:48, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

The infobox looks good. Thanks, Tutmosis. I restored Image:Weymouth Promenade.jpg that was in the old infobox. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 16:58, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Nice work Tutmosis, and thanks for reinstating the promenade image Hrothulf. Rossenglish 19:24, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New additions

This page seems to be associated with several other pages, and is linked to around 100 subsequent articles, so I thought a 'See also' section would be suitable. Feel free to add more links/comment on it, or even delete links you feel they are not needed! Rossenglish 20:27, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I have added a weatherbox template to the article to summarise Weymouth's climate, with the data painstakingly taken from Met office maps, hope people like it, and if not, it may be removed after mentioning it here! Rossenglish 19:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Article Status

After a series of many improvements recently, this article has acheived Featured article status. However, that doesn't make the article perfect, so any improvements made in good faith to the article are welcome.

Rossenglish 15:09, 4 December 2006 (UTC)