Talk:West Sussex

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Parishes

I am at the moment moving through the List of civil parishes in West Sussex giving all the parishes named an article. I have a (personal) template so that the opening of each article reads the same. I have not been putting in acreage/population but can easily do so, using the PDF file here. There are several good references for other details, but I am concentrating at the moment on getting something for each village/parish and to try to get more will only slow the process down. Peter Shearan 07:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Edits

I have updated the article by adding Settlements and a Communications and Transport sections, and I have moved the link to Places in West Sussex the latter of these sections. I have also edited the introduction, adding information on what West Sussex is known for. I have edited the Places of Interest Section, to make it more accessable.Curtis3250692 22:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

There is now a Politics section. Curtis3250692 23:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

County council

This is a strange article. Although the seven Distict Councils get mentioned, the far larger West Sussex County Council is only included incidentally, and there are no details of its structure, services, etc. It's also interesting that although one County Council Department, Fire and Rescue, has its own entry, it merely stated (until I changed it) that it was "funded by West Sussex County Council", giving an incorrect impression of autonomy. Millbanks 07:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

West Sussex Youth Cabinet

The West Sussex Youth Cabinet appears early in the article and has a big section compared with local government or even politics, although worth a mention it appears for a a youth organisation to have undue weight in the article. Tempatation is to cut it down to just a paragraph, thoughts? MilborneOne (talk) 18:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Whilst I do agree that the local councils (county and district/borough councils) are more important I still think that West Sussex Youth Cabinet deserves the big section that it has.STheodoridiMYP (talk) 20:52, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Undue coverage I think. It needs to be trimmed down to a paragraph of 3 or 4 lines and sourced. If there is sufficient third party coverage it might make an article of its own with a link here.--Charles (talk) 20:27, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

I have trimmed it down a bit, but it may need further trimming. It Would be useful if someone could perhaps draft a small paragraph which would trim it further, including all of the information currently there and post it here- STheodoridiMYP (talk) 18:01, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

History of the 'Rapes'

IMHO this should be moved to the History section so simplifying the lead. Comments please?SovalValtos (talk) 22:36, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Good idea and great to have you doing so much good work. It would be good if we could work this page up to good article standard, similar to Dorset. I started in that direction but have been sidetracked by too many other things.Charles (talk) 09:09, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

I have made a small start. Perhaps someone could check I have not messed up the position of any refs? I have also just seen the to do list above and will have a go bit by bit.SovalValtos (talk) 10:44, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

1813 OS map

The original of the image on Commons is a large file and the image can be zoomed in on considerably. Should something be said in the caption,as it may not be immediately obvious how much there is to see?SovalValtos (talk) 13:06, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I just clicked the map and zoomed in, so probably not necessary to say anything in the caption. Tony Holkham (talk) 13:31, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Although on the top left corner it says 1813, the railways are a bit of a giveaway! SovalValtos (talk) 13:40, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Somewhere on the map it should say "1813 with later additions" or some such. Tony Holkham (talk) 14:28, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

So far I have not found the date on the front, but penciled on the back in my writing from when I bought it 20+ years ago is "1854 edition", so it must be there somewhere. Railway buffs would know a lot from the lines and stations shown. I have not found how to use the method of zoom mentioned above but it is well worth going over life size as there is much detail not easily read on the physical map. One inch on the scale at the top centre seen enlarged to three inches on screen is a good starting point. I was actually looking for the geological map of Sussex that I thought I had when I came across this. The Dorset re-drawn Geological map is good but nothing in Commons as good for West Sussex. Scanning, stitching and posting is quite time consuming, at least when I do it.SovalValtos (talk) 15:34, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

You've done more than I could have. I was going by what I read on a reprinted 19th century OS map that I used to own. Cheers. Tony Holkham (talk) 15:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

You'll be aware that the British Geological Survey has scanned and recently uploaded to its website all of its one inch and 1:50K scale geological maps that it has published since the organisation's inception. They can be found at the maps portal on the BGS website at www.bgs.ac.uk. A relevant sheet for this discussion is to be found at http://www.largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/iip/mapsportal.html?id=1001110 They cannot be redeployed in Wikipedia but they could be linked to. cheers Geopersona (talk) 21:43, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you User:Geopersona for your most useful information. I was not aware of the scans. A link would be better than nothing but a free use image would be much better. I thought I might have a copy of the one you linked to, but find I have not. Does anyone else have one they could scan and upload? I will try to contact User:Mikenortonwho created the marvelous Dorset map to see if he might be persuaded to do similar for West Sussex. His other uploads to Commons are worth looking at.SovalValtos (talk) 07:23, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Portsmouth Direct Line

User:Tony Holkham I think the line can serve the county, even though it has no stations within it. A station's catchment area can be larger than the named settlement it is in; so for example Petersfield station serves many settlements in West Sussex rather than just East Hampshire. SovalValtos (talk) 07:54, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Your right as if you look on the western boundary it shows the line before liphook and as it goes into Surrey so good question SovalValtos JackNumber10 (talk) 19:26, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Television coverage

@Fuzheado: There is a difference between what areas are offically served by a given ITV company/BBC region and which signals can be received in a given place. In an age when probably the majority of viewers are accessing broadcast TV via cable or satellite feeds then it is service areas that are meaningful, not coverage areas. The website referenced shows the latter. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:27, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Politicizing Everything and the Agenda

Must everything be politicized with the Agenda? Even in an article about Sussex for crying out loud, people are inserting their little diversity agendas and anti-British digs. It is revolting. STOP IT! 67.250.36.214 (talk) 12:38, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

What are you talking about? Murgatroyd49 (talk) 12:50, 15 July 2024 (UTC)