Talk:Nairn (boundaries)

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[edit] Merge discussion

It may be unreferenced but County of Nairn provides a valuable historical record. This record is not however complete - several of the trad. counties that still exist in modern form (e.g. Angus, Shetland) don't have their own page. I am not aware of any that are merged into a ward, although there is no reason in principle why they should not be that I can think of. In short I am in favour of the merge as having two articles on essentially the same subject, one modern and one historic seems unnecessary, provided of course the historic information is retained. This does however come with two caveats. First of all, ideally someone would take responsibility for fixing the redirects of which there area bout 50 in County of Nairn versus 7 to the new article. Secondly, the title of this article seems to me to be both clumsy and inaccurate - perhaps Nairn (local government)? There may be a way to solve both issues by merging this article into 'County of' and then renaming it but this may just create more clutter. Ben MacDui^Talk/Walk 09:00, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes. Merger process should preserve content of County of Nairn, transferring it to this article.
Thhat the article was previously at Nairn (council area) and then Nairn (local government) seems to have been lost from the article history. Looks to me like someone has been abusing admin power. I moved it because there is no Nairn council area in the sense of one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and then moved it again because local government seemed too narrow, but perhaps with the secondmove I was ahead of myself, anticipating merger of content from County of Nairn. The county was not really a local government area until circa 1890. Also, it seems there is still a registration county which, again, is not a local government area.
Laurel Bush (talk) 11:42, 16 February 2008 (UTC).

Premerger work mostly complete. Laurel Bush (talk) 10:45, 21 February 2008 (UTC).