Jump to content

Talk:Perton

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Untitled]

[edit]

It would be interesting to include information about early Perton on this Wiki.

Perton has a motorsport history. During the 1960's motorcycle racing was held on a circuit created from the old runways, taxiways and perimeter tracks. The tarmac was also used for motor sprints. jaguar used the facility to test disk brakes before LeMans in the early 1950's. Tonycotton (talk) 22:19, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Contryside Edit

[edit]

I have added a contryside section this artical about Perton.

Also I think the paragraph stating that Perton properties sell for over £200,000 needs updating as it is no longer correct . —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielR235 (talk • contribs) 17:17, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have re added the comments concerning the gradient of the paths as this is important information for people who have problems walking up and down hills. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielR235 (talk • contribs) 17:08, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The use of full stops in this article.

[edit]

The removal of the full stops in "D.I.Y." is unnecessary, as both with and with out the full stops is correct in British English.

I would like to propose that if the full stops are aready used as in 'D.I.Y' they are not removed, like wise should any user add more information and they do not use full stops in there abbreviations they are not added.

This way it avoids any disputes as authors work is not edited over a grammar dispute in either case. DanielR235 20:43, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

We seem to have a bit of an edit war on this one. Full stops in abbreviations is a former British convention (and a current American one) but current British usage is overwhelmingly not to use them. I'm strongly in favour of establishing current UK as opposed to American conventions in all articles relating to the UK. But what do other people think? Can we reach a consensus? --rossb (talk) 12:31, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

At Ross Burges I admit that not using full stops in British English is more popular but that doesn't mean they are not used. Why don't we just let the original author use what they want and not edit each others work over a correct yet disputed grammar edit.

Could 91.84.110.231 please do not edit this, until this is resolved. If you have something to say please say it rather than just editing the page, in this way a agreement can be reached, thank you. DanielR235 13:25, 24 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielR235 (talk • contribs) WP:MOS says to avoid periods in abbreviations and writing it out in full is clumsy (with or without hyphens) so it should be ' a DIY store'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.84.114.113 (talk) 10:18, 25 October 2009 (UTC) Then I'll agree to leave it as DIY (which is not even recognised by my spell checker) in line with the guide and with the majority opinion. However, I think that it is bad form edit a page to remove them when the original author added them in the first place, unless it is part of a major edit that adds more abbreviations and it is changed for consistency. Also the un-abbreviated form was only until the dispute was resolved and not permanent. DanielR235 18:22, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Changed to Do It yourself until article dispute is over as it avoids either abbreviation. DanielR235 13:32, 24 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielR235 (talk • contribs)

Another option is to just use the name of the D.I.Y. store: Home and Motors/Home and Motor save. DanielR235 13:38, 24 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielR235 (talk • contribs)

Length of the walk

[edit]

The length of the walk is quoted to a ludicrously excessive precision (See Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Large_numbers). Also there's no point in putting the length in feet as well as yards (and I suspect that the ' symbol for feet is not widely understood). "about 1 km" would be a better description. --81.140.1.77 (talk) 14:09, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In regards to feet it is there just for personal choice; some people prefer yards others prefer feet and the ' is widely unstood for feet in the U.K.. Also kilometres are not widely used by the British public as they have no relevance to people unlike feet and yards thus it is pointless to add them. DanielR235 13:54, 31 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielR235 (talk • contribs)

[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 5 external links on Perton. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

checkY An editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 00:04, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Perton&oldid=1240513041"