Talk:Balderton

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[edit] History

I have added brief details of two C14 petitions. Crococolana 15:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I have added some more information about Balderton from history and have started a bibliography.Crococolana 14:00, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Schools

I have added more details about education in Balderton. Crococolana 15:41, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

== Balderton New Hall ==

I have added a section on the new hall/mental hospital.Crococolana 22:21, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Administration

I have added a reference to the parish council and its website.Crococolana 21:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I have restored the pronunciation bollerton. This was how the name was said when I was a boy there and I still hear it in my family who live there. I have never heard the pronunciation bulderton but presumably this is a new development. The alternative for the first vowel rhymed with doll. A pronunciation rhyming it with or (borlderton) was heard little and was not local.Crococolana (talk) 23:35, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, unless you can source this verifiably beyond your own family, it fails WP:OR. Frickative (talk) 21:57, 3 February 2008 (UTC

See here where the use of bollerton is confirmed on a Lincolnshire genealogy site, 3 April 2004, in a discussion about Ramper http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/ENG-LINCSGEN/2004-04/1081022374 Crococolana (talk) 13:39, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd suggest reading WP:VER, which this source still doesn't meet by a long shot unfortunately. Forum posts, posts on blogs, that sort of thing, just aren't classed as verifiable sources by Wikipedia. Frickative (talk) 17:24, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Look at the wikipedia articles for Launceston, Cornwall; Ilkeston, Derbyshire; and Meopham, Kent. I have chosen them at random and all give pronunciations unattested in approved print. Consistency is required. Are all approved-print-unattested pronunciations to be removed from wikipedia? Crococolana (talk) 15:22, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is no argument for inclusion. It might be different were 'Bollerton' actually how the village name was pronounced, but I seem to recall mentioning in an edit summary that having lived there for 20 years, not a single person had ever pronounced it that way. Frickative ^(talk) 16:13, 10 June 2008 (UTC)