Talk:City of Lancaster

"The"
I belive the correct form of introduction is simply "City of Lancaster" and not "The City of Lancaster". We don't say "The South Lakeland District" when referring to that local government area, so we shouldn't do so here. Any thoughts on this? I've set the article to omit the "The" for the moment. Blacklans (talk) 21:40, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Although we don't say The South Lakeland District, we do say The District of South Lakeland. Similarly, we would say The City of Lancaster, but Lancaster City.  Down south they probably would say The South Lakeland District, but then they also say On the Oxford Road, which seems strange to northern ears used to simply on Oxford Road.  Skinsmoke (talk) 13:26, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Lancaster category
There is a discussion at Category talk:Lancaster about renaming or reorganising that category. --  Dr Greg   talk  23:03, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

update
the 2011 census results have been revealed the population and ethnicy on this page needs to be updated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.30.226.2 (talk) 16:08, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

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What's the name of the district?
Is the district actually called "City of Lancaster"? Yes, it has a City Council - I pay my Council Tax to it. But nowhere can I find anything which calls the district "City of Lancaster". The Council's website refers to "Lancaster D/district": see here "the new Local Plan for Lancaster District" and here "Lancaster district holiday activities and food programme 2023", while googling for "City of Lancaster" and "lancaster.gov.uk" finds a bunch of uses of "historic C/city of Lancaster" and some articles about mayors and aldermen, but nothing about today's local government area. It looks to me as if the name "City of Lancaster" for the district might have been invented to disambiguate the Wikipedia article when it was first created in 2004: @Morwen might want to comment - good to see that you're still here editing after 19 years!

Any comments? I feel minded to make a formal move request, but uncertain whether the better title would be Lancaster (district) or Lancaster District, and thought I'd sound out opinions here. I'll put a post on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria to invite people to comment here. Pam D  16:26, 5 December 2023 (UTC)


 * As far as I'm aware the 'official' sources in this case are the English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973, which is the statutory instrument that originally named the district, and the Office for National Statistics, which regularly produces maps and lists of local government areas; the most recent map was published in May 2023. Both name the district simply 'Lancaster'. It's worth noting that only the original version of the 1973 order is available on legislation.gov, but I highly doubt it's been amended in relation to Lancaster as the district hasn't been changed since.
 * In terms of format, I'd favour 'Lancaster (district)' over 'Lancaster district'. If there were no need to disambiguate we'd probably use 'Lancaster', as we do for e.g. Ribble Valley, West Lancashire, and South Ribble, so 'district' should be in brackets. A.D.Hope (talk) 18:10, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * There are precedents like Warwick District: looking at subcategories of Category:Non-metropolitan districts I found a very few "... (district)" and far more "... District".  Pam  D  18:19, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * There are certainly examples of 'District' (capitalised), but I'd argue the title logic is flawed as the names of those districts do not include 'District' – 'Warwick District' is really just 'Warwick', for example. This may be a discussion for UKGeography, though. A.D.Hope (talk) 18:26, 5 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Here's some more research I did, which I posted on the UK Geography Wikiproject talk page:


 * The more I look, the more it seems that "City of Lancaster" as the district name might be a Wikipedia invention, created as a way to disambiguate the title for the district when the article was first created in 2004. I can find nothing using the name "City of Lancaster" to refer to the district, although I pay my council tax to Lancaster City Council. Looking at the earliest archived version of the city council website (2000) we find pages like this which clearly uses "Lancaster" as the name of the settlement ("...Sports Centre, mid-way between Lancaster and Morecambe") and "Lancaster district" for the local authority area ("Lancaster District encompasses some of England's finest scenery and landscapes. Find details of what the District has to offer to visitors.") with no mention of "City of ...". Where the phrase "City of Lancaster" does occur is on pages like this, where "the historic City of Lancaster" clearly refers to Lancaster, Lancashire, the (ancient) setttlement, not to City of Lancaster.
 * Pam D  18:17, 5 December 2023 (UTC)


 * The naming is at WP:UKDISTRICTS, for non-metropolitan districts with no status that need disambiguation we currently use "District" as a suffix like Warwick District, for those with borough status we use "Borough of" as a prefix namely Borough of Chorley and for those with city status we prefix "City of" like City of Chelmsford. The OS and most other sources seem to use the 1st for all which would suggest Chorley District and Chelmsford District which may be better. Though sources in legislation do use "City of Lancaster" the likes of the OS and similar sources seem to be preferable per WP:AT.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 18:24, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Coming to this a bit late. I'm absolutely fine with stuff like this being moved to Lancaster (district). 20 years on my original thinking is perhaps not very relevant, but the idea was just to have a consistent naming system. I feel like maybe we could have looked at individual local usage more at the time, but usage will have shifted anyhow.

What still slightly makes me twitch is articles at places like Warwick District rather than Warwick (district) - because if nothing else how often do we actually write "Warwick District" in Wikipedia prose - but if local editors really think that is the more common usage in their area who am I disagree? Morwen (talk) 17:53, 11 January 2024 (UTC)