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Pray tell me why is being home of the Woolworths employee of the year 3 times running relevant to an encyclopedia (AlanCox 16:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC))

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[edit] revisions of otheruses

I have noticed the template for "otheruses" keep being reverted on this article, and I wondered whether we could try to achieve consensus here. The debate seems to be between a single link to the disambiguation page Taunton (disambiguation) or alternatively a link to the disam page + a link to the specific article for Taunton, Massachusetts, with an edit summary which says "(re-add dab link to Taunton, Massachusetts; rmd w/o discussion, and including links to notable American cities of the same name as British ones is common, see Worcester and Plymouth)". Personally I can't see why the link to the US town should take precedence over other places and things named Taunton which are included in the disam page - but I wanted to get others opinions here before reverting the latest change. Any thoughts? — Rod ^talk 09:28, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

If there was only one other town called Taunton then I would support the dual otheruses template, but as there are a number I really think we should have the single otheruses link to the disambiguation page. --TimTay (talk) 09:42, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

My logic behind adding the dab link was basically that the city of Taunton, MA is roughly the same size as this one, one of the largest cities in Massachusetts, one of the first cities in the colonial United States, and one of the centers of the silver industry in New England for several years. While the city is certainly not as prominent as this one, I felt it deserved mention in a dab link, as a large number of editors would likely expect "Taunton" to be about that article. You can see that a quick Google search brings up several hits for Taunton, MA on the first page. There are only two other cities referred to as "Taunton" on the dab page, a municipality of 207 people in Minnesota and a hamlet in New York State. The MA city is clearly more notable than these two locales (the other things on the dab page would almost never be searched for by typing in only "Taunton" - Taunton Stop Line, Taunton National Park, Taunton River, etc.). That is why I put in the dab link (I originally placed it here in July 2007, but it was removed here in October 2007, hence the "rmd w/o discussion" comment). I feel as if this situation is similar to that of Plymouth and Worcester, where the articles are about the more prominent UK cities, but dab links are added to the notable Massachusetts cities of the same name to make it easier for editors searching for those pages. Cheers, Rai-me 23:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

You make a good point. Seems a reasonable argument to me. --TimTay (talk) 00:09, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Population of Taunton

I've noticed the population of Taunton (The town) keeps getting changed; Between 55K, 88K and 102K. The true figure being much closer to 55K, yet someone keeps changing it to the claim that Taunton has 88K with a Urban Area of 102K (This being only 7K less than the whole of Taunton Deane district council). With this change of population, come the claim, quite wrongly that Taunton is the largest town in Somerset. Both Bath and Weston being larger by some 15K to 20K. Technically Weston is the largest town in Somerset with 71K, and Bath is the largest city with 80K. A quick search of online sources will confirm a range of populations from 55K to 60K. Though I believe from misinformation on this website has started a trend of a few website quoting figures like 100K.

I offer the official figures published by somerset.gov.uk [1] which claims the figure to be 61,400 as of 2001. I've seen no evidence anywhere, including the somerset.gov.uk website to justify a claim that between 2001 and 2008, the population increased at an average of 6.5% per year (Or anything approaching this rate). Official figures, again from somerset.gov.uk, claim the the whole of Taunton Deane raised from 102K to 109K over the period 2001 to 2007, meaning for 88K to be correct for Taunton as at 2008, then the rest of Taunton Deane's population would have collapsed by 20K over the same period. 217.171.129.73 (talk) 19:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)