Talk:Three Shire Heads

Article created 12 October 2008
Creating article on Three Shire Head to go with link from Flash, Staffordshire article.

Needs photos. Robert of Ramsor (talk) 23:12, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

The Info Box does not work properly for county boundaries, unless I have missed a trick. Thus I have had to leave this as Staffordshire so as to show some sort of a sensible map. Robert of Ramsor (talk) 23:39, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Name
Conversation recorded for posterity/future use from talk pages of Dave.Dunford and George Ponderevo: Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:31, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

I guess it makes sense to use the Ordnance Survey name for Three Shire Head, but it seems a little odd that of the four citations following the first sentence in the Significance section two of them call it "Three Shire's Head", as do many other references to it. Shouldn't this alternative name be mentioned in the article? It is arguably grammatically correct btw, if "Three Shire" is considered to be a singular compound noun owning a single head. George Ponderevo (talk) 20:21, 9 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi George - point taken about "Three Shire Head", "Three Shires Head", etc. I changed the article back for two reasons: (a) it seemed sensible that the spelling matched the title of the article and (b) your edit had left it with a mixture of spellings. Personally I prefer "Three Shires Head" - there are three "shires" so to my mind it should be plural. I checked a few of the links and they seem to be about evenly split between "Three Shire's Head" and "Three Shire Head". I've mentioned the alternatives in the article. Dave.Dunford (talk) 09:51, 10 June 2011 (UTC)


 * It was inconsistent before I touched it, as you can see here. What I couldn't do was to change the article's title. Seems strange to me that it has so many different names, and of the alternatives I find the "official" OS variant the least convincing. But at least it's consistent now. George Ponderevo (talk) 13:04, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It sounds like "Three Shire Head" is an old possessive plural, which in Old English wouldn't have had an 's' ending. Compare the adjectival usage in "she's a five foot tall woman." Esp. place names are conservative. Drmies (talk) 05:56, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi George, thanks for your copyedit of Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger. By the way, if you want the above-mentioned article to be moved, you can start a requested move (instructions are on that page). Just a friendly suggestion. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions about that or anything else on Wikipedia. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 23:29, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Co-ordinates
Can someone sort out the (different) co-ordinates in the article. One set points to the village of Flash, over 2km away! Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 07:00, 6 July 2011 (UTC)


 * – well spotted. Dave.Dunford (talk) 08:34, 6 July 2011 (UTC)