Talk:Warwick

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Checked reference for population. The figure is the number of households, not population. Also it's the number of households in Warwick district, not the town.
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Pronunciation
How's it pronounced?
 * War-ick (second W is silent).mais (talk) 20:06, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


 * It's actually pronounced as Worrick. See Chiswick for another place-name with a silent 'W'. Ian Dunster (talk) 09:45, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The IPA in the article is correct. --Ukslim (talk) 13:43, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The IPA is indeed correct, although I think Warrick (as in warrior or warren) would be a better laymans/non-ipa example due to the only worr- word I can think of being worry, which is a totally different sound. 86.157.88.31 (talk) 02:30, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

History
While I have no reason to doubt the history-section, I'd like to add a bit in here for information. See, there is a danish town called Varde (I live there). Its viking name is/was Warwik. Being an ancient town located at an important waterway in Denmark (in the viking age anyway) is it feasible that Warwick gets its name from the viking town of Warwik?--Nwinther (talk) 09:59, 10 September 2008 (UTC)


 * This site gives the root of Warwick as from the Old English weir, meaning a weir of dam, and wic meaning farm. Although this is about the personal name rather than the place name, the derivation is likely similar. Old English was influenced by Old Norse, so while there may be a link between the two towns, it's likely they got their names from having similar features rather than one being named after the other. Nev1 (talk) 17:06, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Looking at Nev1's comments re the origin of the name and noting it derives from a personal name rather than a place, I thought I'd add my thoughts on this. I've read, in a 19th century History of Warwickshire by Sam Timmins in my possesion, the theory that the name derives from the personal name Gwar or derivations of this and the entymology was traced showing how it changed from Gwar to Warwick meaning the settlement of Gwar or Gwars town. I'll locate the reference and post the full hypothosis later. Others have also postualted that it derives in some way from the Hwicce tribe of the area. I've also tried to find a definition in two place name books I have in particular Margaret Gelling "Place names in the landscape" and Warwick isn't mentioned there at all which is suggestive its not derived from a landscape feature which surely a wier would be. Gellings book does include examples of names derived from wiers as a geographical feature but makes no reference to Warwick as an example. So, the ommision is curious. Argrogan (talk) 12:36, 13 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Curious indeed. Isaac Taylor states outright that Warwick appeared as Wæringawic and Wæringwic in Anglo-Saxon and that, therefore, Warwick was the abode of the Wærings or Varangians (Væringjar in Old Norse). Grant Allen makes a similar assertion about Warrington. Unless someone objects, I will insert that as a proposed derivation. Waering (talk) 02:53, 2 December 2021 (UTC)


 * The more I dig into this, the less "weir" makes sense to me. I can't find weir spelled waer in any Old English dictionary. It's always wer. Search here and here, for example. Waering (talk) 06:08, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

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Explanation required from Nev1 please
I would like an explanation from Nev1 as to why s/he has reverted (in this edit) my recent addition to the 'Education' section. As all that it contained was additional, factual, referenced, information about schools provided for Warwick residents. The edit sumary: "this is about Warwick please remain focussed" doesn't seem to explain the reasoning. I'll add it back (in a tidier form, possibly), but please don't remove it all again. If you have problems with the content or the wording please discuss it here and we'll see if we can thrash it out amicably. This is an article about Warwick - as a whole - not just, say, the buildings in Warwick. I see it covers other services and facilities available to the the people of Warwick which aren't all physically located in Warwick and I do not understand the reluctance to accept my contribution. Twopenneth (talk) 20:44, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

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Bass guitars
Warwick also is the name of a bass guitar builder in Germany, owned by Framus. http://www.warwickbass.com/en/Home.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basvossen (talk • contribs) 18:49, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Already got an article Warwick_(company). G-13114 (talk) 18:52, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Lead section
User:Bmcln1 appears to have some WP:OWNERSHIP issues with this article. Specifically their dogged insistence that the lead section should be compressed into a single paragraph, and their insistence on edit warring on any attempt to lengthen or split it up.

I would like to take issue with this for a number of reasons: Firstly it's unnecessary, secondly I think it makes it less readable, thirdly it goes against the guidance on the length of lead sections at the Manual of Style, which suggests that the appropriate length for the lead section of articles with 15,000–30,000 characters is two or three paragraphs. As the article as it currently stands has around 19,000 characters that would suggest two or three paragraphs is the appropriate length for the lead on this article, which was what I put in my recent edits. Indeed, looking at other county town articles of similar size, such as Bedford, Winchester and Aylesbury, for example, two or three paragraphs appears to be a fairly normal length for articles of similar size to this. So I would suggest that the insistence on the lead being compressed into a single paragraph is completely unjustified, and especially repeatedly edit warring over the issue. G-13114 (talk) 11:56, 9 October 2021 (UTC)