Talk:Woking

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In my recent edit the following thoughts cropped up, in no particular order:

  • I appreciate that the Liberal Democrats are the principal opposition to the Conservatives. My edit here is to maintain as good a NPOV as possible
  • The material about Cardinal Wolsey, from 172.188.298.23, being the reason for the Cards' nickname is a nice story. Thing is, is there any kind of reference to back it up? Otherwise we risk promulgating an unsubstantiated urban legend.
  • I'd quite like to split off the history section explicitly and have a section about the Necropolis company's dealings in more detail. If anyone has got any details about the town's history - references most welcome! - then maybe post them here?

Cheers, Sliggy 11:05, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

Anyone disagree with splitting the (comprehensive) History section into a separate article? I propose this because as it stands the article is heavily dominated by this history. Sliggy 17:39, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

From Woking FC website: "Woking Football Club, almost universally known as The Cards (from the Cardinal red of the red and white halves)" - I don't know if that's conclusive enough to warrant editing, but I would think so.--Bsquiggle 19:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Douglas Adams stuff

Shouldn't that stuff about Meaning of Liff, and maybe the War of the Worlds, be in a trivia section, rather than at the top? 86.16.223.203 21:48, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

That's what I was going to say. Trivia shouldn't be listed in the opening section of article.172.206.54.172 17:43, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Generally I'd agree it shouldn't be at the top of the page but the War of the Worlds sculpture thing in the town is very notable. So much so that I think that the picture should be moved to the top. People going about Woking see the sculpture all the time and there is the centre called the planets. I think that there may be a picture in the underpass under the railway as well but I may be mistaken. Hence the war of the worlds should be commented on but the Meaning of Liff is not generally known in Woking and should go in the trivia section. SuzanneKn 22:50, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible advertising fluff deleted

Deleted the sentence about nationally acclaimed night club as it was unsubstantiated and un-cited; but feel free to put it back if it can be cited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.202.75.251 (talk) 16:38, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Employment and industry

Should be mention of Telewest, BAT and McClaren, but they are the only ones I kno about. ANyone who lives there should be able to expand. Rich Farmbrough, 23:16 21 December 2006 (GMT).

[edit] external links

I just cleaned this up which had a lot of adverts etc. This is what was there before if you have any views:

SuzanneKn 20:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Borough v. town

I have a problem with this page in that it confuses Woking borough and Woking town. The info box is on the borough whilst the page is on the town. The population difference is a big issue then because if you just take the town obviously it is smaller than Guildford. However, if you look at the borough it is much bigger and distorts the picture. I haven't yet investigated what the solutions are elsewhere. SuzanneKn 22:10, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I've made a new page Woking (borough) and put the borough info box there and put a town info box here on the town page. This is a similar situation as Guildford with Guildford (borough) Hope it's OK SuzanneKn 20:59, 8 April 2007 (UTC)