Talk:Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Education POV
The education paragraph is very POV by an anon user. Can someone with local knowledge fix it? --JBellis 18:15, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I've now removed most of the POV in that section. The JPS 22:43, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

also, can someone explain how a town that is some 40 miles from sheffield could be "linked" to it as a "new town"? i find that as a resident of gainsboro, its hard to believe when several other towns, villages and hamlets are in the way!


 * It's simply wrong. E    Asterion  u talking to me? 22:06, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I removed that bit just as a cleanup--Paul 12:41, 11 June 2006 (UTC)Paul

Park Springs Estate
I worked for West Lindsey DC Architects Dept in the mid 1970's. The Park Springs Estate was built using money allocated for relief of overcrowding in London housing, though few ever made the move from London. The most obvious group of non locals housed seemed to be Scots who worked at the Scunthorpe steelworks.--Wickifrank (talk) 02:28, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Requested move
It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it to be moved. - not moved retain as DAB page - the move from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire → Gainsborough resulted in no clear consensus as to what is the primary topic. Keith D (talk) 12:09, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire → Gainsborough — The town is the origin of the name and arguably the most notable to use the name. —71.106.183.124 (talk) 19:06, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Survey

 * Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with  or  , then sign your comment with  . Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.


 * Support as nom 71.106.183.124 (talk) 19:07, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose. "Gainsborough" by itself is frequently used to refer to the painter. I think keeping the dab page at Gainsborough is the way to go. Deor (talk) 20:41, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, but Thomas Gainsborough is at Thomas Gainsborough, not Gainsborough. The painter's first name is a perfect disambiguation so I don't see why that should affect the original name at all. 71.106.183.124 (talk) 21:47, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Because the primary meaning of Gainsborough is the painter, not the town. I would support having the unmodified page point to Thomas Gainsborough to serve those readers who, like me, don't remember or use his first name, and moving the dab page. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:27, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * How do you come to this conclusion? I would think that the primary meaning of Gainsborough is the town and the primary meaning of Thomas Gainsborough is the painter. 71.106.183.124 (talk) 00:51, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Because the painter is what I mean when I say "Gainsborough". That seems to be true of most of the editors here, and of the 11,000 scholars who discuss Gainsborough, about half also mention painting; only 12% mention Lincolnshire and some of those actually mean Thomas Gainsborough. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 01:54, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Reasons immediately above. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:27, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Support It makes sense to have the Gainsborough article for the town and the Thomas Gainsborough article for the painter. IrishPete (talk) 20:55, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose The dab page should be at Gainsborough. Far more encyclopedia users who enter this term are looking for the painter not the town in Lincolnshire. Noel S McFerran (talk) 13:45, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose for the same reasons as above. Keep the disambiguation page at Gainsborough for now, and as per WP:NCP, keep Thomas Gainsborough where it is. --tgheretford (talk) 16:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment if anyone wants Gainsborough to redirect to Thomas Gainsborough with a separate disambiguation page for other Gainsborough's, maybe it would be good to start discussion at Talk:Thomas Gainsborough? --tgheretford (talk) 16:05, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Any additional comments:

The painter is pretty famous. Srnec (talk) 04:38, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

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