Talk:2–18 St Werburgh Street, Chester

A fact from 2–18 St Werburgh Street, Chester appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 December 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster persuaded architect John Douglas to add half-timbering to his stone and brick design for 2–18 St Werburgh Street, Chester (pictured)?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/December.

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Why is 2-18 St Werburgh Street, Chester a redlink? A number of other redirects could likely be made, too. Gene Nygaard (talk) 15:26, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The dash is an en dash per MoS as in 2–18 St Werburgh Street, Chester. But I take your point about redirects - will do some. Peter I. Vardy (talk) 16:07, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, so that is a range of house numbers; I couldn't imagine what it might be, though maybe it was something like dots on the line in British model numbers for aircraft and weaponry. What a weird thing to have in an article's title! Doesn't anybody there have enough sense to give this shopping area a real name? Yes, it definitely needs a redirect; though it is a little hard to imagine anybody entering a range of house numbers and a street name in any format and expecting to find an article in Wikipedia. Of course, there is also the British English "St" which should include "St." redirects as well. Gene Nygaard (talk) 20:35, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The row of shops plus bank does not have a name, and never has had one, so I could not think of an alternative; and that's what the source material uses anyway. The "St" redirect has already been done (with hyphen and with en dash). Peter I. Vardy (talk) 17:08, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]