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Generally up the level of infomation and citation & create an article that would be useful for both the casual reader but also a serious academic/researcher.
Include more photographs and expand sections.

D'oh-Tess Daly is from Birch Vale,Derbyshire...9 miles away!

Any other wiki-ers living in Stockport?

Me! --Deskana 11th July 2005, 00:46 (GMT) from Stockport

Yes, my name is Scooter.

I do! (in Cheadle Hulme) Moitio (talk) 20th July 2005, 16:03 (GMT)

nice, that's where I go to college (CAMSFC) - do you know Peter Hulme by any chance?

What the hell happened to Ridge Danyers? Dmn / Դմն 22:34, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

It was re-named "Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College", no idea why.

i know yea i went there on a taster day ridge danyers sounds so much better. i'm sarah by the way and i live in Bramhall

cool, you started there this year then? ive just started the 2nd year. Kris from Reddish

I do. I live in adswood. Stockport is a shithole. Yes, yes it is.

Don't drag the rest of Stockport down with Adswood! CharlieT

1 Revert
2 IS THIS MEANT TO BE SERIOUS?
3 Please Note the Following:
4 Notable Residents
5 Parliamentary representation

[edit] Revert

I reverted it back to the version after the WCML was added as some of the notable people were lost after the vandalism. Also I have measured the crow flies distance from the Merseyway Shopping centre to Piccadilly Gardens on Google Earth. It came out at 5.75 miles so it can stay at 6 on the article. Phildav76 22:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IS THIS MEANT TO BE SERIOUS?

"Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, in North West England, within the traditional borders of Cheshire. The town of Stockport has a population of 136,082 (2001 census). It is the largest town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport."

Three sentences all containing the words 'Stockport' and 'town' Do we really need to be told for a second time that Stockport is a 'town' as in "The town of Stockport has a population of 136,082 (2001 census)." AND for a third time "It is the largest town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport."? And does it really come as a surprise to anyone at all that "It is the largest town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport."? Can life be any more boring in Stockport? Surely if STOCKPORT is 'a town in Greater Manchester', then it is no longer 'within the traditional borders of Cheshire'? (Local government reorganisation obviously put pay to Cheshire's "traditional borders", whatever those were!)

Anyway I have learnt a lot about 'Sunny Stockport' in those three sentences, but perhaps someone can now sub-edit them into better English, ie one continuous sentence which does not repeat the words 'Stockport' and 'town'? Try saying a suburb of Manchester!

Nitramrekcapmp Nitramrekcap

{{sofixit}} --Lord Deskana ^{Dark Lord of YOUR OPINIONS} 18:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I have reworded it now. Any better and less repetitive? -- Phildav76 18:21, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

With the best will in the world, not better. I prefer it as it was. I'm with his lordship; bring on the deathless prose, Nitramrekcap Mr Stephen 23:12, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please Note the Following:

Anyone who is wondering; the Police Force in Stockport is the Greater Manchester Police.

I recently noted someone mistakenly call it the "Manchester Metropolitan Police". (See History of article)

Please dont anyone make this mistake again.

Dep. Garcia 19:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Residents

To delete the whole section does seem a little extreme, however we do not want non-notables included.

I think that if the resident has their own wiki page they cold be classed as notable and a short paragraph/whole page could be written.

We should reinstate the section with resident included if they have their own page. Olive Oil 08:37, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Parliamentary representation

I have reverted (diff) some changes to the Parliamentary representation section, as the changes were not consistent with the definitions of the parts of ther town. What are the problems with the text we have had here for some time, ie There are four parliamentary constituencies in the Stockport Metropolitan Borough: Stockport, Cheadle, Hazel Grove, and Denton and Reddish? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mr Stephen (talk • contribs) 09:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC).