Template talk:England people message

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[edit] Usage notes

For places within Greater London, use Template:London people message (it fills in some other details).

This template is intended to be placed in categories such as Category:People from Chigwell. It fills in all the various categories they should belong to automatically, so to keep things consistent. The district refers to the local government district which may be either a district, borough, metropolitan borough or Royal borough.

This:
               {{ England people message
                | place=     Chigwell
                | district=  Epping Forest
                | county=    Essex
                }}
 produces:
               This category includes people from Chigwell in Essex, England.

If the article name of the settlement has a suffix you wish to pipe out, add:

               | piped=  Chigwell

[edit] Category topology

It will create the following category topology:

Category:People from Essex Category:People by city or town in England Category:Epping Forest
Category:People from Epping Forest (district)
Category:People from Loughton

If the settlement has been affected by a county boundary change, add:

| old-county=  Lancashire 
| year=1974
Category:People from Merseyside Category:People from Lancashire Category:People by city or town in England Category:Sefton
Category:People from Lancashire (before 1974) Category:People from Sefton (district)
Category:People from Aintree

[edit] Discussion

I would like to propose a wording amendment so that it inserts the phrase "from the local authority district of XXX" to avoid confusion. For example on Category:People from Wigan it would read This category includes people from Wigan in the Local Authority area of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It was in Lancashire until 1974. I think it would avoid some confusion. This would not affect the structure of the cats. --Regan123 19:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

OK. I've gone ahead and added this as there were no objections. I have not wikilinked it though as I'm not sure it is useful to do so.--Regan123 10:35, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Ah. I didn't see that note. I'll change to local government district as that is the terminology used to describe them officially. MRSC • Talk 08:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

What the h is this "people from x by settlement" category and why do we need it? It seems to be way too finely grained to me. --kingboyk 13:19, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changes to this template

The template has been changed twice in the last few weeks. In neither case was there any specific discussion prior to the changes - as far as I can tell. Can I make a plea that before any other changes are made, they are discussed here first. Rjm at sleepers (talk) 16:18, 16 December 2007 (UTC)