Talk:Fossil Beach (Sedbury Cliffs)

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@Dm4244: - This is an interesting article of which I hadn't been aware - I live a few miles away. But, there are a few problems with it. The first is that no maps of which I'm aware - other than the one you made for the article - name this stretch of the estuary as "Fossil Beach". It is simply the area of foreshore beneath Sedbury Cliffs. Even the page at the UK Fossils site simply refers to it as "Sedbury Cliff". I don't think the article should be deleted as it's useful and, so far as I can tell, accurate, but there's really no basis for it to be here as a freestanding article. I suggest the article be renamed as Sedbury Cliffs, and any broader content about the cliffs be added. Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:55, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've lived in Chepstow since 2003 and I heard and read several local references to Fossil Beach, especially from fishermen, but didn't know where it was until a teacher at the nearest school, Wyedean, walked my son's class there to find fossils. He even told them it was Fossil Beach. My son then showed me where it was, I made the page and since then it has been used by a number of schools locally and from Bristol. I haven't added or created anything that isn't already in local usage. I did it to help these people and any visitors. As far as your comment about there being "really no basis", as I've just stated there clearly is one and people don't usually go there to look at the cliff, they go to look for fossils. Keeping the title as it is is better because it's accurate and covers both angles, from a local and national perspective, and also for any browser search. Dm4244 (talk) 18:08, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick reply. The problem is that we can't write or name articles on the basis of what people locally call it - we need reliable, published sources. I'm perfectly happy for the content of the article to remain - even though the only citation that refers specifically to it seems to be the UK Fossils one - but it can't be named simply on the basis of unwritten local comments. Ghmyrtle (talk) 18:39, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]