Talk:West Yorkshire County Council

Successor authorities
Is it really necessary to repeat and double blue-link all of these? Also, describing all of them in rapid succession as metropolitan boroughs, unitary authorities and district councils within a few lines might look rather confusing to the uninitiated. Just a thought! Editing to add that there's a third link to City of Wakefield, which is displayed as Wakefield City Council, a non-existent body... --GuillaumeTell 16:49, 6 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the second pair of eyes. Good points, have tweaked accordingly. Bradford really does call itself City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council on its website, to the extent of adding "(CBMDC)" here, though at bottom of that page just Bradford Metropolitan District Council. There are redirects from both, now.


 * I can't remember, and can't see anywhere, anything about how the 88 councillors mapped onto the territory. It can't have been on the basis of the current council wards - ie 33 Leeds, 30 Bradford, 17 Calderdale, 23 Kirklees, 21 Wakefield, total=124. It would be good to be able to say at the least how the split of seats was across the 5 districts. Unfortunately Yorkshire Post online archive doesn't go back far enough and The Times has minimal information.    It's not the most essential missing article in the encyclopedia - though I was gratified to find the "defunct county councils" template which had it as a redlink - but Mother was being particularly irritating this afternoon so I retreated to my computer with the view of the Howgills, spotted that someone had de-linked the redlink to WYCC in Leeds, and got stuck in.  Pam  D  18:50, 6 April 2012 (UTC)