Talk:Darlington

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is within the scope of the following WikiProjects:

WikiProject UK geography      (Rated Start-Class) This article falls within the scope of WikiProject UK geography, a user-group dedicated to building a comprehensive and quality guide to places in the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you wish to participate, share ideas or merely get tips you can join us at the project page where there are resources, to do lists and guidelines on how to write about settlements. United Kingdom Portal Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the assessment scale. (Add assessment comments) Mid This article has been rated as mid-importance within the UK geography WikiProject. WikiProject North East England (Rated start-Class) This article is supported by WikiProject North East England, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to North East England on Wikipedia. For further information or to participate, you can visit the Project page. North East England Portal Start This article has been rated as start-Class on the assessment scale Mid This article has been rated as mid-Importance on the importance scale.

Contents 1 Redirect is not appropriate here 2 Town or borough? 3 Events 4 Famous natives and residents 5 RE: Joshua Thomas Johnson 6 Events (2) 7 Darlington Festival 8 Population of Town and Borough 9 Urban changes in Darlington 10 Cleveland Bridge Company

[edit] Redirect is not appropriate here

Darlington is currently redirected to this particular article about a city specific to England. Though I'm sure it's a lovely city, Darlington refers to too many other things to deserve redirection to this page. Especially since there are several other cities with this name, and Darlington England doesn't carry the same city name value of say, Paris, France. If there is to be any redirection, it should go to the Darlington transistor. This is what people worldwide will be looking for most. Ace Frahm 02:53, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

You moved it to the wrong name Darlington, County Durham would have been more appropriate. I have restored the Doncaster redirect to here until the links are correctly bypassed and this article is named properly. Regan123 23:36, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

What's a darlington transistor? I moved it back here because I see no consensus to move the page. If it is to be moved then it must be done correctly and "Darlington (England)" is not the correct place. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:07, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Town or borough?

Should there be two entries, one for the town of Darlington itself and another for the borough of Darlington? This has been done with Stockton-on-Tees (the town) and Stockton-on-Tees (borough) (the borough/Unitary authority area) and since borough includes a significant number of settlements, such as Hurworth-on-Tees, High Coniscliffe & Middleton St George in the surrounding area that are not part of Darlington itself it would make things clearer. The Darlington borough council website has a map showing the spread of the borough: [1]. User:Achmelvic 25th Jan 2006

[edit] Events

"Darlington Dog Show has been a Championship event since 1969, and is ranked second only to Crufts.". I have not found any evidence of the ranking, is this confirmed by an official source?

I have a note (source unknown) that Darlington Dog Show is the second LARGEST after Crufts. Can anyone confirm?

Bandalore 2 June 2006 23.38

[edit] Famous natives and residents

Joshua Thomas Johnson - I have not located any Google sources to this gentleman as being a poet from Darlington - has anyone got a bio ?

[edit] RE: Joshua Thomas Johnson

I'm appauled that due to someone not having a google source he is dubbed not real, I assure you my great uncle is infact a famous poet from Darlington, and I must insist you return his reference to the site Vic Reeves-Comedian and television presenter and more recently author.

[edit] Events (2)

While a bomb scare might be of local interest, local people will probably be already aware of it.

However, is this really of interest to the rest of the world? If we start listing every bomb scare in the UK even in the wake of the London Tube bombings there will be no room for anything else. Certainly, IIRC Darlington has had bomb scares in the past when the IRA were active.

I guess the same could be said for the Fireworks display. Without wishing to put it down, virtually every town, city, and village in the UK has a bonfire night display. It is natural to assume that the 4th most populace town in the north-east should have one of the best and most visited displays in the region.

[edit] Darlington Festival

I've removed this section for now as it read like an advert! I'd have replaced it with something less POV but I couldn't find any information online about it. Anyone else? NeonDaylight 23:31, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Population of Town and Borough

If the Town of Darlington had 98,000, I really doubt the whole Borough has 98,600! One of them has to be wrong as the Town does not cover the whole Borough; :::dj_paul::: 01:22 07 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Urban changes in Darlington

Any improvements to the above article, or ways to better integrate it with Darlington, will be most welcome. I think I have done all I can with it... ::Supergolden:: 13:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleveland Bridge Company

Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company is a renowned bridge building and structural engineering company based in Darlington, England. It was founded in 1877 and has been involved in major projects including the Victoria Falls Bridge and the Humber Bridge.

More recently the company was the contractor for the roof for the new Wembley Stadium.

In 1990, it merged with the Dorman Long group. In August 2000 a management buy-out of Cleveland Bridge took place establishing the business as independent group specialising in the design and construction of major bridges, buildings, refineries and offshore structures.

The above is a quote of the company's Wikipedia entry. Why is there nothing under Darlington itself? Am I missing something?

Bandalore (talk) 07:04, 10 April 2008 (UTC)