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Surely that 52,000 figure is for Kidderminster only, not for all three towns? Bewdley and Stourport add up to over 20,000 by themselves, and Kidderminster alone doesn't have only 30,000 people. Loganberry 13:20, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I've now changed that 52,000 to the 2001 Census figure for Kidderminster only. Loganberry 11:23, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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I removed Jake Brown and Mattias Tamar-Gill from the list of people born in Kiddy, since Google doesn't show any sign of knowing about them. I think that makes them insignificant in Wikipedia terms. Loganberry 03:22, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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What is the origin of the town's name? According to one webpage the Domesday name was "Chideminster", and a book I have says this comes from "Cydela", but who was he/she?

I've always thought it was previously known as 'Chiderminster' and meant something along the lines of 'children of the minster'. The OED has a 'chider' as being an obsolete term for a 'quarrelsome person' dated from 1377. However, I found a source that says it 'was known to the Saxons as Chiderminster., from three words signifying "a hill, " "water, " and "a church."'[1].

--Shastrix 19:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Clent Hills 2 Restructuring of the article 3 Population discrepancy 4 Kiddy or Kiddie? 5 {{refimprove}} tag

[edit] Clent Hills

The hills are at least 12km from the town and I have never really heard of them having fantastic views of the town, they are better placed for Bromsgrove and Stourbridge.

This needs deleting but when I did so before, was berated for 'vandalizing'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.151.40.2 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Restructuring of the article

The reference to the hills seems to have gone now. To be honest the article needs quite a bit of cleaning up - more sections, removal of a little POV, that sort of thing. I'll have a go at some point if nobody else does, but for now I've stuck a {{cleanup}} tag on the top. Loganberry (Talk) 14:26, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you and have made a start using Birmingham as a model and moving the existing sentences without alteration into some of the new sectional headings. Clearly there is a lot more to be done in terms of new sectional headings and then the paragraphs themselves to be tidyied-up. I hope that meets with general approval - well at least in principle. DonBarton 10:17, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

That looks much tidier, yes; thank you. I've changed one small thing (the Harriers subheading) because that way it shows up in the table of contents in a way that simple boldface doesn't, but other than that I think it's a very good base for future expansion. Loganberry (Talk) 12:28, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I think we're now in some danger of slipping back into the mass of information we had before; the "Economy" section is a good illustration of this. It's a fairly disjointed read now - do readers really need to know the exact location of every supermarket? - so might benefit from some paring down. Loganberry (Talk) 15:18, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Population discrepancy

Where does the 55,438 figure in the Infobox come from? The 2001 census recorded 55,182, as mentioned in the lead. 81.158.0.135 16:11, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kiddy or Kiddie?

An anon editor changed the opening paragraph to say that the town was affectionately known as "Kiddie" rather than "Kiddy". While both abbreviations are used (compare [2] with [3], both from BBC Sport), I'm pretty sure that the Y spelling is the more common by some distance, and Google backs me up. For example, "Kiddie Harriers" gets 67 hits, but "Kiddy Harriers" gets 554. From personal experience, the Y spelling is definitely more common in the Kidderminster area itself. I've therefore reverted, and the Y spelling should be kept unless there is some evidence that the IE spelling is the more common. Loganberry (Talk) 22:34, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{refimprove}} tag

We definitely need better references in this article, in particular inline citations. For example, we have no citation about the Summerfield plant, about Jon Turley's Kidderminster residence (his WP article mentions the town, but we need a reference in this article, not just that one) or about Slingfield Mill being listed. The "Food & drink" section is entirely unreferenced. There are also some POV issues: not the worst of their type perhaps, but things like "The SEALINE yacht company manufactures fine, high quality boats for the luxury market" and "Victoria Carpets plc which is the manufacturing base in the UK for high quality carpet" are clear examples of POV and need attention. Loganberry (Talk) 23:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)