User talk:Mclaughy02

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ESPON metropolitan areas
I reverted your edit to that article because you are trying to apply recent statistics to an internally consistent database that uses the 2001 census. The project that set it up no longer exists and there is nothing to replace it. The Office for National Statistics doesn't report metropolitan areas (just built-up areas, which it breaks at an arbitrary line if one urban area melds into another like Birmingham/Wolverhampton. We can't just create one ourselves because that would breach WP:No original research. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 22:57, 14 December 2019 (UTC)


 * The current NUTS regions were only adopted in 2003 true, however they were based of Government Office Regions established in 1994 with identical borders to the NUTS in place from 1999-2011 so encompassesing the time of 2001 Census. In April 2011 the former GORs were renamed just "regions" with identical borders to today. https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160128190831/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/beginner-s-guide/administrative/england/government-office-regions/index.html
 * This places the Middlesbrough metro area in the North East, not in Yorkshire and the Humber.
 * Middlesbrough is part of the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, but in this case the county border doesn't follow the region border, due to the messy division of the former County of Cleveland in 1996.
 * http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1747/contents/made
 * I hope this helps clear up the confusion. Mclaughy02 (talk) 23:59, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * My mistake. That article has suffered from people trying to 'correct' it and it turns out that your edit was actually repairing such a 'correction' in the past (that hadn't been identified until you did so). A more experienced editor has undone my reversion and reinstated your edit. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:32, 15 December 2019 (UTC)