User talk:Damcnamara

Wigan
Hi I noticed your edits to the Wigan article. Wikipedia's policy when describing the location of places is to use modern administrative units. This is to avoid confusion and to give up to date information; there's no point in saying "Wigan is a town in Mercia, later Lancashire, later Greater Manchester". As a result, it is common practice for places such as Wigan, Rochdale, Stockport etc to be referred to as being in Greater Manchester. This convention is long established, so please do stick to it. Happy editing and welcome to Wikipedia. Nev1 (talk) 18:13, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

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It isn't really helpful to suggest that Wigan is in Lancashire. It was, once. It is, no longer. Wigan is demonstrably now in Greater Manchester, and Wikipedia will continue to reflect that status as long as it is true.

On towns which were formerly in Lancashire, we usually add "Historically a part of Lancashire". Please do not make any further changes to this, or any other articles whose subject was once in Lancashire but is now in Greater Manchester, without first consulting other editors on those articles talk pages. Parrot of Doom 18:14, 28 December 2009 (UTC)