Talk:Spalding, Lincolnshire

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Didn't Peter Wilson used to live in Spalding? Why isn't this mentioned?

Which Peter Wilson? I taught a Peter Wilson 2002-4 at the Grammar, surely not him?

I have removed Coronation Channel from the article as it does not flow north from Crowland and does not cut the town in half east/west. The Coronation Channel is (if I remember correctly) the drainage channel built to the east of the river in 1953 after flooding in the fens (in 1947). I believe that this misunderstanding came from the spaldingnet web site, and may also be due to the river being straightened and widened in the late 40s.

[edit] Water Taxi

I added a section on this, as I felt it was worth noting. However, as this is the first time I've ever bothered to add content, as opposed to just correcting a couple of things, it may not contain enough detail, or, conversely, I may have gone a bit over the top with it. In either case, it may need to be corrected, or, if there was a particular reason that it wasn't included, then removed entirely. But yes, I have read all most of the guidelines :P. --86.137.119.39 21:56, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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"Facilities will be available for the treatment of ringworm" seems very silly.

[edit] Unreferenced material

I removed unsourced POV material from the article as well as spam for a local blog. The whole article needs references. Capitalistroadster 01:52, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, you see, the problem is, a lot of the stuff you removed wasn't POV, it was just unsourced fact. You seemed plenty happy enough plonking a massive great, only semi-correct, message at the top of the page, announcing the article has no sources AT ALL - but then you decided it necessary to remove a lot of the stuff that required sourcing, making the tag near redundant.
And in fact, the claim you made that you "removed spam for a blog" was only half-true itself. You may have removed one mention to the blog from within the text (along with annihilating a lot of legitimate information from that section, as mentioned), but you completely managed to miss the link in External links, that was later removed by 84.68.210.70.
To be honest, looking at it, there wasn't much more that needed doing than reverting the edits of Elsdena. At least then, your tag would've been justified. --86.144.175.219 10:48, 8 July 2007 (UTC).