Talk:Alan Titchmarsh

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Category:Writers from Bradford
Tichmarsh was born in Ilkley in 1949. The article for the town says this:
 * "Before 1974 Ilkley was an urban district, a type of local government district. Ilkley Urban District Council shared local government responsibilities with the West Riding County Council. The Local Government Act 1972 dissolved urban districts and in 1974 Ilkley adopted its current status as a ward of the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford. Services provided by the urban district council are now run centrally by the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council.

So the town was not part of Bradford until 1974. Because of this, I would argue that while Titchmarsh may be one of the Category:Writers from Yorkshire or even one of the Category:English writers, his is not one the Category:Writers from Bradford. 86.187.235.175 (talk) 18:53, 5 June 2023 (UTC)


 * 86.187.235.175 (talk)
 * Bradford is 141 square miles.
 * Bradford is 3 times bigger than City of Manchester and City of Liverpool.
 * Bradford is twice the size of City of Birmingham.
 * Bradford is 17 times bigger than City of Westminster.
 * Bradford is 141 times bigger than City of London.
 * It's the world's first UNESCO City of Film, the UK's fourth ever Capital of Culture, the former Wool Capital of the World, the unofficial Tea Capital of the World (for many different reasons, not that anyone realises), and the record 7 time Curry Capital of Britain (which became defunct when the founder died), among other things.
 * ...Here's a list of just some of the neighbourhoods/wards (which includes hamlets, villages, towns) in City of Bradford, but because of these rules which I can't seem to find Manual of Style/Biography regarding birthplaces and birthdates which I've been told about all these years, every time I add City of Bradford to an article about someone from Bradford who was born pre-1974, people like you come along and remove it, because you claim it wasn't part of Bradford when it was.
 * Ilkley is, and always has been part of Bradford, just like the other places mentioned below.
 * Addingham, Addingham High Moor, Addingham Low Moor, Addingham Middle Moor, Addingham Moorside, Airedale, Aireworth, Alder Carr Wood, Allerton, Altar Wood, Apperley Bridge, Ashbourne, Austby Gill, Autherim Bottom, Baildon, Baildon Green, Baildon Hill, Baildon Holmes, Baildon Moor, Baildon Wood Bottom, Bailey Hills, Bank Top, Bankfoot, Barcroft, Barkerend, Barley Cote, Barron's Wood, Bay of Biscay, Beanlands Island, Beck Hill, Beck Wood, Beechcliffe, Beldon Hill, Bell Bank Wood, Bell Dean, Bell Wood, Belle Vue, Belmont Wood, Ben Rhydding, Best Lane Bottom, Bierley, Bierley Hall Wood, Billy Bushes Wood, Bingley, Bingley Moor, Birkey Bank Wood, Birks, Birks Wood, Black Carr, Black Hill, Black Hill Bottom, Black Moor, Black Mountain Millennium Green, Blackhill Plantation, Blakey Wood, Bloomer Hill, Blue Scar Clough, Boggart Wood, Bogthorn, Bolton, Bolton Outlanes, Bolton Woods, Bond Clough, Botany, Bracken Bank, Bracken Hall Green, Bracken Wood, Bradford Moor, Braithwaite, Branshaw Moor, Branshaw Plantation, Briery Wood, Brighton Wood, Broadstone Wood, Brocka Bank Moor, Brook Hill, Broomfields, Brow Bottom, Brow Moor, Brow Wood, Brown Royd, Brownroyd Hill, Brunthwaite, Brunthwaite Crag Wood, Buck Park Wood, Buck Wood, Buckley Green, Bull Coppy Wood, Bull Greave Wood, Burley in Wharfedale, Burley Moor, Burley Woodhead, Buttershaw, Cackleshaw, Canterbury, Carr Bottom, Carr Clough, Carr House Gate, Carr Wood, Cat Clough, Catherine Slack, Catstones Hill, Catstones Moor, Catstones Wood, Catton Wood, Chapel Green, Charlestown, Chellow Dean, Chellow Grange, Chellow Heights, Chip Hill Clough, City Park, Clayton, Clayton Heights, Clews Moor, Cliff Wood, Cocking Wood, Cockshot Dam Green, Coney Wood, Cop Hirst Wood, Coppy Wood, Cornmould Heath, Cottingley, Cottingley Bar, Cottingley Moor, Cottingley Wood Estate, Crag Wood, Cragg Wood, Craven Wood, Crawshaw Moss, Cringles Plantation, Cripple Croft Plantation, Cromwheel, Crosley Wood, Crossflatts, Cross Roads, Crossley Hall, Crow Nest, Cuckoo Nest Wood, Cullingworth, Cullingworth Moor, Currer Wood, Cutler Heights, Cutshaw Moor, Daffels Wood, Daisy Hill, Damems, Dark Wood, Dawson Wood, Dean Fields, Delf Hill, Delph Hill, Delph Wood, Denholme, Denholme Clough, Denholme Gate, Dirk Hill, Doctor Wood, Dowdy Wood, Dry Clough, Dudley Hill, Dungeon Wood, East Bowling, East Bowling, East Buck Stones, East Morton, East Riddlesden, Eastbrook, Eastburn, Eastwood, Eccleshill, Egypt, Eldwick, Eldwick Beck, Elm Wood, Esholt, Ewe Hills, Exley Head, Fagley, Fairbank Wood, Fairweather Green, Far High Field, Fell Wood, Fenny Shaw, Ferncliffe, Field Wood, Five Lane Ends, Flappit Spring, Forster Square, Four Lane Ends, Fourlands, Fowler Hill Plantation, Frizinghall, Gannerthorpe Wood, Geraldine's Wood, Gill Wood, Gilstead, Gingerbread Clough, Girlington, Goitside, Goitstock Wood, Goose Eye, Goose Eye Wood, Goose Hill, Great Clough, Great Gill, Great Horton, Great Peat Moss, Great Ridge Wood, Great Wood, Green Clough, Green End, Green Hill Wood, Green Holes Clough, Green Side, Greengate, Greengates, Greenwood Wood, Griff Wood, Grove House, Guard House, Haigh Fold, Hainworth, Hainworth Shaw, Hainworth Wood, Hanging Fall Wood, Harbour Hole Bottom, Hard Nese Clough, Harden, Harecroft, Hart Rhydding Wood, Hawkcliffe Wood, Hawkstone Wood, Haworth, Haworth Moor, Haycliffe Hill, Hazel Head Wood, Headley Clough, Heaton, Heaton Grove, Heaton Moor, Heber Moss, Heber's Ghyll, Henacre Wood, Hermit Hole, High Brunthwaite, High Carr, High House, High Moor, High Utley, Higher Holme House Wood, Highfield, Hill Green, Hill Top, Hills Wood, Hirst Wood, Hog Hill Flat, Hog Holes Clough, Holling Plantation, Hollin Wood, Hollins Wood, Hollings Wood, Holme, Holme House Wood, Holme Wood, Holy Croft, Horton Bank, Horton Bank Bottom, Horton Bank Top, Horton Grange, Howden Wood, Hudson Wood, Hudson's Wood, Hunger Hill Plantation, Idle, Idle Moor, Ilkley, Ilkley Moor, Inderpendent Quarter, Ingrow, Intake Wood, Ive Stones Clough, Ives Plantation, Jacob's Wood, Jay Tail Wood, Jer Wood, Jericho, Jerrison Wood, Jerusalem, Judy Woods, Keighley Moor, Kirkstall Wood, Kit Wood, Knott Wood, Knowle Park, Laisterdyke, Lane Bottom, Lane End, Lane Head, Lawkholme, Laycock, Leaventhorpe, Lee Lane, Leeming, Lees, Lees Moor, Lidget Green, Lister Hills, Little Clough, Little Germany, Little Horton, Little Horton Green, Little London, Little Ridge Wood, Little Round Plantation, Little Round Wood, Little Wolf Stones, Little Wood, Lodge Hill Wood, Long Lee, Long Ridge End, Longlands, Lousy Wood, Low Ash, Low Baildon, Low Crooks Wood, Low Fold, Low Green, Low Moor, Low Plain, Low Springs, Low Utley, Low Wood, Lower Grange, Lower Holme House Wood, Lower Intake Rough, Lower Kirkstall Wood, Lower Ridge Green, Lower Wood, Lower Woodlands, Lumb Foot, Lumb Gill Wood, Manningham, Marchup Plantation, Marley Brow Wood, Marsh, Marsh Top, Marshfields, Maud Wood, Menston, Mickle Moss, Micklethwaite, Middle Moor, Middle Moor Clough, Middle Moor Flat, Middleton, Middleton Woods, Middleway Meadows, Midgeham Flat, Midgeley Wood, Mill Carr Hill, Mill Wood, Millennium Green, Moor End, Moor Side, Moor Top, Moorhead, Moorhouse Moor, Moorhouse Wood, Moorside, Morton Moor, Moscow, Mountain, Murgatroyd Wood, Myrtle Grove, Nab Hill, Nab Rough, Nab Scar, Nab Water Rough, Nab Wood, Nailer Rough, Nan Scar, Nell Bank Wood, New Road Side, New Town, Newsholme, Newsholme Dean, Norr, Norr Hill, North Brow Wood, North Plantation, North Wood, Northcliffe Woods, Nun Wood, Oakenshaw, Oakworth, Odsal, Odsal Wood, Old Allen Moor, Old Dolphin, Old Hanna Wood, Old Hills, Old Ibber Flat, Old Snap Bottoms, Old Spring Wood, Old Wood, Oldfield, Owlet, Oxenhope, Oxenhope Moor, Panorama Woods, Paradise Green, Park Fields, Park, Park Wood, Park Wood Bottom, Parkside, Paul Clough, Pawpots Wood, Pellon Wood, Penistone Hill, Pennythorn Hill, Pickles Hill, Pickles Rough, Poggy Wood, Pollard Park, Ponden Clough, Ponden Wood, Poplars Farm, Priestthorpe, Queensbury, Race Course Plantation, Ravens Scar, Ravenscliffe, Red Mires Clough, Red Mires Flat, Redcar Plantation, Redcar Tarn, Redding Wood, Renold Wood, Rhodesway, Riddlesden, Ripleyville, Rivock Edge, Robin Hood Wood, Rocky Valley, Roger Meadow, Rombalds Moor, Rosse Wood, Rough Plantation, Round Hill Wood, Round Plantation, Round Wood, Royd Wood, Royds, Royds Cliff Wood, Royds Hall Great Wood, Ruin Bank Wood, Rye Loaf Wood, Ryecroft, Ryecroft Plantation, Saltaire, Sandy Lane, Sawood, Sawood Moss, Scar Top, Scholemoor, School Green, School Wood, Scotch Fir Plantation, Shackleton Wood, Shearbridge, Shipley, Shipley Glen, Shipley High Moor, Showfield, Silsden, Silsden Moor, Simpson Green, Slack Side, Slatesden Clough, Small Banks, Small Tail Wood, Smallden Clough, Snail Green, Snow Hill Plantation, Spa Flat, Spa Hill Clough, Spring Bank, Spring Crag Wood, Spring Gill Wood, Spring Wood, Springfield, Spy Hill, Square Plantation, St Paul's Wood, Stairs Hill, Stake Hill, Staithgate, Stakehill Plantation, Stanbury, Stanbury Moor, Staygate, Stead, Stead Hall Wood, Steeton, Steeton Moor, Stockbridge, Stone Top Wood, Stoney Ridge Plantation, Stony Hill Clough, Stony Lane, Strong Close, Stubham Wood, Sugden Wood, Sun Hill, Sun Hill Clough, Sun Side, Sun Wood, Sunny Dale, Swain House, Swaine Green, Swartha Wood, Sykes Bottom, Thackley, Thackley End, Thackley West Wood, The Coppice, The Glen, The Green, The Nosegay, The Out Moor, The Roughs, The Shay, The Tarn, Thornbury, Thornton, Thornton Moor, Thorpe, Thorpe Edge, Thwaites, Thwaites Brow, Todley Hill, Toftshaw Bottom, Toller, Tong, Tong Park, Tong Street, Town End, Transfield Wood, Trench Wood, Trough Bottom, Truncliffe, Twist Wood, Tyersal, Tyersal Gate, Undercliffe, Upper Common, Upper Fagley, Upper Green, Upper Marsh, Upper Ridge Green, Upper Wyke, Vicar Wood, Walker Wood, Wapping, Waterloo Clough, Weather Royds Wood, Weecher Flat, West Bowling, West End, West Ing Wood, West Morton, West Park, West Riddlesden, West Royd, West Scholes, Westgate Hill, Westgate Hill Plantation, Westwood Park, Wether Hill Clough, Whetley, Whinny Hill, White Abbey, White Crag Moor, White Crag Moss, White Crag Plantation, White Moor, Whitley Head, Wibsey, Wibsey Slack, Will Clough, Willy Hall's Sprout, Willy Wood, Wilsden, Windhill, Withins Flat, Withins Slack, Wood End, Woodhouse, Woodside, World's End, Worlds Hill, Worth Village, Wrose, Wrose Brow Plantation, Wyke, Wyke Common etc Danstarr69 (talk) 18:55, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
 * WP:TLDR. It is wholly incorrect to say "Bradford is a city. Ilkley is a town in that city, and always has been..." 86.187.235.175 (talk) 18:57, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Which part of "in 1974 Ilkley adopted its current status as a ward of the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford" do you not understand? Furthermore Titchmarsh already has Category:21st-century English male writers, Category:People from Ilkley and Category:Television personalities from West Yorkshire, so one could argue that, even if it was accurate, Category:Writers from Bradford is somewhat redundant. Additionally, he lives on the Isle of Wight, so he also doesn't qualify for Category:Writers from Bradford by dint of his current residence. 86.187.234.79 (talk) 19:44, 5 June 2023 (UTC)