Talk:Horspath

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The page for Horspath is not an advert. It is preliminary information for visitors to our village. Please do not delete it. Thank you.

HorspathWebmaster 11:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC) Heather Palmer, Horspath Village webmaster.


 * Sorry, but according to WP:DEL

"Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Note that simply having a company, product, group or service as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion." This article falls into this category.  B e  arly  541  11:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I cleaned up the article. Cities, towns and villages are pretty much universally agreed to be important enough for articles, so they are cleaned up or rewritten whenever possible. Also, text submitted to Wikipedia cannot be copyrighted, so I removed the copyright notice. If it was written by the poster, then he or she released the copyright when he or she posted it. If the person posted the content without permission of the author, then it is a copyright violation and must be deleted. I did not find the content on the website or on any page in Google's index, so I did not delete the article for now. In the posting form, there are two highly visible warnings about posting copyrighted content, one of which includes a notice that contributions are licensed under the GFDL. -- Kjkolb 12:38, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, but it looked like an advertisement when I first saw it. Thank you!  B  e  arly  541  12:39, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Kjkolb for tidying my text and for explaining conventions. I apologise to all for my ignorance. I hope to add more information about my village of Horspath, so I'll try not to let it look like an advert in future. Happy New Year. HorspathWebmaster 19:43, 31 December 2006 (UTC) Heather Palmer, Horspath Village webmaster.


 * It was my pleasure. Also, it would be wonderful if you added more information. Thanks, Kjkolb 04:07, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Horspath Parish Council Information
I'm concerned that the "Horspath Parish Council Information" section still reads very much like an advertisement for the Parish Council. I'm not an expert in what does and doesn't belong in wikipedia, but I'd have thought that the whole section should be deleted. Perhaps some of the "Parish Council Projects" are notable enough in their own right to be described elsewhere in the article though. -- Rjw62 11:54, 10 October 2007 (UTC)


 * It doesn't belong in an encyclopedia and I've removed it. It's all on the village website, anyway. I'm strongly tempted to take an axe to the Landscape and History section as well, as hardly any of it is about Horspath and it would be better in a general article on Oxfordshire, (if anywhere). I imagine that all of this is also taken from some document that's available elsewhere, probably on one of the external sites that are listed. --GuillaumeTell (talk) 16:23, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I have deleted all the irrelevant passages from the "Landscape and History" section. What little was left I have merged with other historical material. I have reordered everything more chronologically and completely revised the section headings.


 * This article still needs much improvement, preferably drawing on the secondary sources such as those from which Oxfordshire Women's Institute evidently copied much of its material. Motacilla (talk) 22:06, 31 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I've now made most of the improvements to the article that I suggested above. There are still a few unsatisfactory details that deserve attention, but no worse than in many other Wikipedia articles about settlements. Motacilla (talk) 23:33, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Roman Road
I came here for two (related) reasons: I live not many miles from Horspath so it's local. And because I know there's a Roman road that passes through. I'd like to see more on the Roman road, such as


 * Road name
 * Where it's ultimately from and to (Headington to London?)
 * Where it routes through the village

If you do this do try to link to any other pages about this road.

I fixed a few (in my opinion) grammatical awkwardnesses. Hoping you're OK with them.

Oh, and I actually found the article interesting. :-) Martin Packer (talk) 12:46, 15 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The Roman road linked Dorchester on Thames with Alchester Roman Town. Its name seems not to have been recorded. The cousrse of the road forms more or less the western boundary of Horspath parish. I think the road is mentioned in Wikipedia articles about some of the parishes through which it ran. Motacilla (talk) 22:11, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Horspath. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080829001723/http://www.oxfordmethodists.org.uk/html/church_guide.html to http://oxfordmethodists.org.uk/html/church_guide.html

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