Talk:Rhondda

Naming convention
I have switched Rhondda from a disambiguation page to the main page. This is due to Rhondda being classed as Rhondda in dictionarys (inc. Oxford), Ordnance Survey classifications and other Encyclopaedias (inc. The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales). Rhondda Valley, is now a redirect page, as is Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach. Have corrected links to this page.FruitMonkey (talk) 12:31, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Residents of Note
If we name everyone of importance this list will be longer than the article. I think two people in each field that show a spread of ability and location will suffice. Need more women though.FruitMonkey (talk) 23:05, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Infobox
An infobox needs to be added.  Aaroncrick (Tassie talk) 01:14, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Infobox added. FruitMonkey (talk) 17:22, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

"The mass influx of immigrants... was almost totally English and Welsh"
I was interested to read this reference - according to Jenkins (1992) A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990: "in 1911, only 58 per cent of Rhondda's people had been born in Glamorgan. The rest of Wales supplied 19 per cent, England 7 per cent. A sixth of the population was drawn from 'elsewhere', from Ireland and Scotland, but also Spain, Italy, and other lands" (p.240).Pondle (talk) 10:29, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Good call, but I think Jenkins has made an incorrect assumption with the statistics. The 1911 census was important as for the first time it asked people their country of birth. Of the 152,781 people registered in the population of the Rhondda, only 130,365 answered this question. 117,688 reported themselves as Welsh, 77% of the full population, 10,728 said English, 7% of the population and others were 1,949 (263 Scottish, 929 Irish, 34 Indian, 22 West Indies, 63 Australia and 638 "Rest of the World") only 1.28% of the population. What Jenkins has done is confused those that did not answer as being not Welsh or English, this can not be assumed. If we stretch the respondents to cover all 152,781 inhabitants we get Welsh 90.28%, English 8.23% and other 1.5% (of which 0.92% were Irish or Scottish). Now it could be argued that there was a higher number of non-British that may want to hide their ethnic background, but we can't assume the 22,416 who did not respond were all born abroad. Therefore 98.5% may not be "...almost totally", but it's close. On another point, many European workers did commute to the Rhondda from Cardiff on the TVR but are not included in the figures as they were not residents. FruitMonkey (talk) 11:19, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Size?
The infobox has the highest elevation, but not the size. Roughly how many sq. km. is it? --GentlemanGhost (talk) 01:16, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Addressed. FruitMonkey (talk) 10:30, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --GentlemanGhost (talk) 23:02, 13 December 2010 (UTC)