Talk:English country house

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"The" should be dropped from the title: at Wikipedfia it gives an impression of being a book title. Sooner rather than later I'd say. Any objections? --Wetman 22:12, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

No objection from me. Thryduulf 22:20, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

None from me. Only problem is.....I set up a redirect from English country house so can we just change it?Giano 22:37, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Done. The word on the street (=on IRC) is, you can move a page to overwrite a redirect provided the redirect hasn't been edited after being created. This is the first chance I've had to test that adage... what do you know, it worked! :-) Bishonen | Talk 22:44, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I didn;t know that either. I was all set to put a request at WP:RM. Thryduulf 22:56, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Aye, that's a good thing to know. Thank you. --Wetman 22:46, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lead image

Although the new lead image goes well with the article, I think its not the right one for the lead. I think the aritcle needs its primary illustration to be of a large, grand, well known country house. Thryduulf 17:00, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I take your point, but the whole point of this page is to be about the smaller lesser known houses (I deliberatly left the image house anonymous), where the rural Squires ran the show, rather than the great palaces where the great and good of the nation spent a couple of months amusing themselves. There is already a Country house page devoted to these wonders, here the emphasis is to be more about social and "country" matters than high architecture. The problem will be finding enough of the lesser known. Perhaps the page needs 'another' name change? but it needs some thought, we can't keep changing it. There is some debate on direction if you are interested in contributing in a collaberation at [1]. Giano 17:19, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

What about moving the page to Manor house, which is quite an undeveloped stub at the moment. Then starting off with the original Great Halls and tracing the expansion and evolution from there? Giano 10:43, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gentry?

Since when were the landed gentry not part of the aristocracy? (ungigned by)User: 71.117.72.146

• Since the first day a "Gentleman" was allowed to own an estate, live in his own house, ride to hounds, be a magistrate and generally live a comfortable wealthy lifestyle, while at the same time not being a member, or related to any member, of the peerage. Giano | talk 07:33, 24 April 2006 (UTC)