Talk:Wilmslow

Assessment Report
DDStretch   (talk)  02:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Article needs further expansion, also continuing to use WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements as a guide.
 * 2) More photos could be added.
 * 3) References and Citations need to be watched and added to if any expansion takes place. Make sure that as many as possible are "in-line" citations. (See WP:References, WP:V, and WP:CITE for guidance.)

Pronunciation
Some guidance on the pronunciation of "Wilmslow" would be useful. Is it generally pronounced as "Wims low" or "Wilms low"? Richerman (talk) 14:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the late response. My experience in talking with people from the town is that it is invariably pronounced as your second case.  DDStretch    (talk)  17:25, 25 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Is there a difference? I'm from down the road, and I don't think there's a set rule. I'd say Wilm-s-low. It's neither Wilm-slow nor Wilms-low... it sorts of blurs into one sound. KillerKat (talk) 21:13, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

I grew up in Wilmslow and residents NEVER pronounce the first l, so it should be 'Wims-low' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.205.83 (talk) 09:04, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry to reopen this old chestnut- but I was drawn here by a dinner table conversation. I believe it was my grandfather who explained that 'When asked where they came from, people would say Wimslow- only to be corrected, oh you mean wilms-low by the questioner who had seen it on a map'. I think that was told to enfuriate his wife and the side of the family who used Wilm-s-low. By my day it was a class divide- wimslow (working class) wilmslow (aspirant upper class) and then students came to Manchester, and they had seen Wilmslow Road on the map sent out by accomodation. So gentrification played its rôle. This is a difficult one because WP always relies on written sources-it has got to be said that a true native cannot hear the difference between wimslow- and wilms-low, so does not challenge 'estate agent speak'. But could we please acknowledge in the lead that the two forms have currency. ClemRutter (talk) 19:46, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

The Notable Residents section
This section contains entries of poor quality at the moment, because they have no citations which verify the claim that the people are notable residents of Wilmslow. Many have been tagged as requiring verification for a while. The advice given in WP:BLP applies here for living people as can be seen if one reads it, as well as past discussions on WP:RS (see Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources.) Furthermore, if any any point Wilmslow is nominated as a Good Article or Featured Article, citations in this article will be required from reliable sources verifying the entries. Consequently, I've removed all unreferenced entries from the section and placed them here in accordance with advice I received. When the entries have appropriate citations and verification (see WP:CITE, and WP:V), they can be re-added to the section which, at some point, needs to be rewritten as text and not as a list (see WP:UKCITIES as a guide). Note that a wikilink to an article which may or may not contain appropriate verification and citation is not sufficient: the actual verification and citation must occur in this article for the entry to be retained in this article. Finally, I think we should be alert to requiring new entries to have the appropriate verification at the point of entry, or else suffer from removal here or deletion immediately they are seen.

Insufficiently referenced entries

 * Kerry Katona, former Atomic Kitten star.
 * Miranda Sawyer, the journalist and arts critic, was born in Wilmslow.
 * Francis Lee, Ex-Manchester City and England Striker.
 * Andy Dibble, Ex-Manchester City goalkeeper.
 * Martin Edwards, former chairman of Manchester United
 * Alex Ferguson, Manager of Manchester United.
 * Nemanja Vidić, Manchester United footballer, with his wife Ana and son Luka.
 * Tim Healy, actor most famous for his role in Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
 * William Roache, who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street.


 * Doesn't Paul Abbott live in Wilmslow? I think I read that in the Guardian magazine a few months back... KillerKat (talk) 04:05, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Alan Turing I have seen no evidence at all that Alan Turing lived in Wilmslow at any point in his life; the reference given has no mention of Wilmslow. Can someone provide some, or just delete this section. Jhbuk (talk) 22:49, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Turing Plaque.jpg, Cheshire]]
 * If evidence has not been provided for a statement, we should only delete it if it's contentious. For other cases, we should add this template, just like that. Then, other editors can search for - and add - substantiation. As for Turing having lived in Wilmslow, well his WP article contains this photo: Trafford09 (talk) 12:02, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

"I have seen no evidence at all that Alan Turing lived in Wilmslow at any point in his life"... he lived on Adlington Road, Wilmslow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.33.79.34 (talk) 12:14, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Landmarks and Tourist Attractions
I see that there's a photograph of St Bartholemew's but nothing about it, so I've now added a bit under a new heading of Religion. Perhaps someone could do likewise with regard to schools, under a heading of "Education". I'm not sure if they're landmarks, and they're not really tourist attractions. Ausseagull (talk) 07:28, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Village or town
I'm not too sure of the difference between these, but an editor has just changed all 'town' to 'village', in this article alone.

I wonder which is more correct, or more common:
 * (Books: 27 as at today)
 * (Books: 40)

Looks like the editor wins on Books :)  Trafford09 (talk) 11:39, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Colshaw Farm
"... although Colshaw Farm, Wilmslow's thorn-in-its side famous run-down council estate, is hardly ever recorded within these capitalistic, quasi self effacing pseudo-figures."

I don't know anything about Colshaw Farm so I cannot comment on how accurate this is, but could it be phrased in a way that doesn't sound so much like a political commentary? Jrmh (talk) 23:28, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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