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Now that Somerset's county council and [awful] district councils have been consigned to the dustbin of history, is it perhaps time to think about the article names and structure of some of the articles that fall within this project? A prime example would be Category:Scheduled monuments in Somerset, which contains sub-categories such as Category:Scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor, Category:Scheduled monuments in Taunton Dene, etc.; and corresponding list articles such as List of scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor. I use these as an example, but there's lots of articles and categories such as listed buildings, people and settlements. I know it has only been two days, but [hopefully] these districts will eventually fade into distant memories and I would therefore question the wisdom of keeping multiple articles and categories aligned to them. Personally I'm in favour of a re-think, although I recognise that list articles could get huge if four or five former districts are concatenated into just one. Thoughts? 10mmsocket (talk) 08:52, 2 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I would agree that there are many articles which need rewording in the light of the new unitary council, although I would argue for keeping historical mentions of the districts - eg X is a village in Somerset which used to be part of the Y district council.. or similar. In relation to the categories and lists (eg sub lists of Grade I listed buildings in Somerset) some of them are very large (because they are/were comprehensive) and already have problems with the number of transcluded templates affecting the display of references etc as they start to bump into the page size limits. I am not sure about the best way to handle these but in the short term the lead paragraphs of all of these could be changed to explain that the districts no longer exist.— Rod ^talk 09:11, 2 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@10mmsocket and Rodw: Yes these categories should be merged. I'd go a step further to state that they probably shouldn't have been created. As I said here back in 2021 that its probably generally not a good idea to subdivide by district. Most topics should be in "X in ceremonial county" and "X district" (without subdivision). We could create Category:Somerset (district) for the unitary district but most things should be in that category directly rather than "X in Somerset (district)". Along those lines I'd also support merging most of the subcategories of Category:North Somerset and Category:Bath and North East Somerset. Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:20, 4 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

What a great idea. 10mmsocket (talk) 16:40, 4 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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There is a merge discussion taking place at Talk:Somerset Council about whether to merge Somerset Council into Somerset County Council, which participants here may be interested in. A.D.Hope (talk) 11:05, 23 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi - It would be great if someone could take a photo of Frome Town Hall and upload it to wikimedia commons. Many thanks, Dormskirk (talk) 08:16, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello! I've opened an RfC at Talk:Montacute House on the placement and size of the images in the article, please join in if you would like. Thank you, A.D.Hope (talk) 11:14, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

There are discussions at Talk:Montacute House about image placement and infobox format which would benefit from editor input. Thank you, A.D.Hope (talk) 20:03, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]