Talk:Stafford

Areas
Is the 'areas' section really necessary? It could be vastly improved, and i would be willing to do this (perhaps moulding it around the town council wards?), but i would like some other input from more experienced users before i set about the task. JamesDanielMartin 19:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi James, It is general to put an Areas page on a town page such as this. There is also a Stafford (borough) page about the Borough so as to keep the details apart.  You might be interested in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements as a guide. Cheers, Regan123 23:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I've changed the population figure to that of the Stafford Urban Area as defined by the ONS in the 2001 census. That figure is 63,681. Fingerpuppet 18:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

The change doesn't seem to have taken effect - the Stafford page actually shows TWO populations, neither of which is 63,681. The main text shows 124,531 and the side box shows 120,553. Of course, AKAboth of these are the population (at various times) of the borough, which is shown with yeta different figure (123,600) in the Stafford (Borough) entry. Let's have just one (presumably 124,531 is right) listed in the borough piece and 63,681 listed for Stafford town.


 * Hey, Fingerpuppet!, our population has been massaged upwards again. The figure shown is way over the odds for the town. Why do we have the entire area included?; many of the people included in the highest figure as Stafford residents are many miles from the town through open countryside, and would never think of themselves as Staffordians. Let's have the old 63,681 figure back.

Healthcare
The comment that Stafford is divided into multiple PCTs, each served by a GP is a drastic misunderstanding of the whole PCT system. I really wish people would bother doing the research.

Stafford is covered by the south staffs PCT which consists of 98 practices! [Alex] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.128.159.11 (talk) 16:49, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

Big Checka
Would the people who keep adding the Big Checka rubbish to the page please stop it. It is neither factual, nor relevant, not indeed even interesting. Coob (talk) 21:09, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikiproject
Would there be any interest in starting WikiProject Staffordshire? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:14, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Actual population for sidebar?
OK, both here and on the Solihull article (I'm going through a few midlands cities to get the populations for a project I'm working on), someone seems to have conflated the actual town population with the wider area's one, and put that on the sidebar as just "population". Most other towns/cities seem to have a more precisely defined separation of urban and district populations in that section (after all, there may also be separate articles for the various suburbs that also list their population, and it could end up being counted twice). Which way is more correct, do we think? Because I'm erring towards the latter and wondering if I should make a change.

For now, I'm going to split the difference and just take the average of the two, as I'm not defining things with the greatest resolution and don't need much more than a general idea of the local population density, but anyone using this information for more serious means could have difficulty because of this... 80.189.49.237 (talk) 13:27, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Commons Link
The link directs to a very pathetic gallery instead of the rich collection in [Category:Stafford - Wikimedia Commons]. What should be done to fix this? Chemical Engineer (talk) 21:43, 6 August 2022 (UTC)