Talk:Northallerton

Northallerton has been listed as one of the Geography and places good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 6, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
May 22, 2024	Good article reassessment	Kept

Current status: Good article

UK geography Mid‑importance

	United Kingdom portal This article falls within the scope of WikiProject UK geography, a user-group dedicated to building a comprehensive and quality guide to places in the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you wish to participate, share ideas or merely get tips you can join us at the project page where there are resources, to do lists and guidelines on how to write about settlements.UK geographyWikipedia:WikiProject UK geographyTemplate:WikiProject UK geographyUK geography articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Cities

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cities, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of cities, towns and various other settlements on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CitiesWikipedia:WikiProject CitiesTemplate:WikiProject CitiesWikiProject Cities articles

Yorkshire Mid‑importance

	Yorkshire portal Northallerton is within the scope of WikiProject Yorkshire, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Yorkshire on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project, see a list of open tasks, and join in discussions on the project's talk page.YorkshireWikipedia:WikiProject YorkshireTemplate:WikiProject YorkshireYorkshire articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Most Affluent town

I've read this claim about several places, normally in Buckinghamshire, Hampshire or central London, so such a claim certainly requires robust citation. The link provided is broken; I suggest either another citation is found, or the claim removed.--Rob2000 19:13, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed this claim as the only references I could find were mirrors to this page. Other sources - eg Health service reports describe Northallerton variously as "predominantly affluent" or "mostly affluent". I also couldn't find a reference on the town's own website [1]. Obviously do revert with a citation. --Rob2000 15:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This claim was made back in the 1950s and appeared in some national papers. It was based on the rather spurious ground of the amount of cash in bank accounts in the town. I've no idea what the source was as I'd expect this to be a confidential matter.

On another topic, I don't live in the area any more so I can't check the reference to the Battle of the Standard memorial, but the memorial I recall is a few miles north of Northallerton on the Darlington Road.

The Battle of the Standard memorial is definitely a few miles north of Northallerton on Darlington Road (the A167)SiHudson 03:33, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the most affluent town: How about this link https://www3.northyorks.gov.uk/weddings/AdvRslts.cfm?SE_id=484

Hugh Dales

Who?

References and punctuation

Hello there,

Just a nudge that references (i.e. <ref>) should come immediately after any punctuation, not before. Hence:

"I was born in 1952.<ref>I say so</ref>" is correct.
"I was born in 1952<ref>I say so</ref>." is incorrect.

Could be a stumbling block for GA. I've fixed a couple though. Hope that helps, --Jza84 | Talk 12:19, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that, I think I've got them all now. yorkshiresky (talk) 14:22, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Northallerton/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Beginning review. BlackJack | ^{talk page} 15:17, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First impressions

Attending to the quickfail criteria first:

The article completely lacks reliable sources – there are a large number of sources overall but a few sections lack them and one thing I have noticed is that online sources predominate; I would prefer to see a majority of books used for sources but only a couple of books are quoted
The topic is treated in an obviously non-neutral way – no obvious POV problems
There are correctly applied cleanup banners ... or similar tags – not applicable
The article is or has been the subject of ongoing or recent, unresolved edit wars – not applicable
The article specifically concerns a rapidly unfolding current event without a definite endpoint – not applicable

I hope to carry out an in-depth read during the next couple of days. BlackJack | ^{talk page} 15:31, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Passed

With flying colours. This is a very good article indeed. It is objective and informative. Well-written and laid out with just the right amount of useful and relevant supporting material.

I hope it will go on to FA in due course but I would just add a couple of pointers with that in mind. There are quite a few redlinks and these should either be turned blue, if possible, or else unlinked. The point I made above about the ratio of online sources being high may count at FA and I would advise you to try and find some of the references in books rather than on the web.

Apart from that, just keep checking the prose and phraseology to make sure it is completely objective but without making it wooden. I think some people go overboard on this but as long as no POV or so-called peacock or weasel words creep in, I can't see any problem. The article is a good length already and I wouldn't advise further expansion unless you think of something else that really shouldn't be left out.

Excellent work. Well done. BlackJack | ^{talk page} 07:42, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Population

If you add up the populations of Brompton, Romanby and Northallerton from Census statistics on the North Yorkshire County Council website, it adds up to 17, 653 and I would include Brompton as part of the population . Brompton-1912, Northallerton-9690 and Romanby-6051.

http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=11489 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrisloader (talk • contribs) 16:40, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article is about Northallerton not Northallerton plus some other villages that are not actually Northallerton. That is why I removed the figures that You added. The change also makes the percentages invalid. Keith D (talk) 19:47, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keith:
1) I would like to know where you got the census information of Northallerton, as on the North Yorkshire County Website it does not display the figure 15,741 anywhere.
2) Did you delete the pictures I also added of Northallerton? They are good images and show parts of the town.
3) Have you ever been to Northallerton? I says on your profile that you live in the West Midlands. I am keen to know your interest in Northallerton and Yorkshire. (If you will pardon the intrusion)
--Chrisloader (talk) 21:29, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Replys -

The figures for census information comes from the Office for National Statistics who publish all of the census information.
No I did not remove the images a BOT removed them as they were deleted from Commons for some reason that I have not investigated as I cannot see deleted edits there.
Yes I have. I am interested in all of the Yorkshire articles though probably have more of a bias towards East & North, as I am looking after the Yorkshire WikiProject having been born in Yorkshire and visit several times a year. I was up in the area at the last bank holiday. I seem to remember doing some work on the article to get to up to GA status.

Keith D (talk) 00:01, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery

I'm just wondering why Chrisloader has added such a huge gallery of images. In my opinion, a link to the Commons page of Northallerton has to be added instead of installing all images in the article. Other views? --Dionysos1988 (talk) 16:44, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the gallery as it does not meet Gallery use also some of the images were already elsewhere in the article. I have added all of the images to the appropriate category on Commons and have added {{Commons category}}, which I thought was already on the page. Keith D (talk) 00:00, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Transport - Railway 'South Curve'

< At the moment there is some limited freight, engineering and excursion trains using the South Curve.[44] >

That can't be right: there is no track on the South Curve!

212.248.160.84 (talk) 10:59, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing that out - it should be North in that sentence. I have made the change. Keith D (talk) 13:35, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Blacklisted Links Found on the Main Page

Cyberbot II has detected that page contains external links that have either been globally or locally blacklisted. Links tend to be blacklisted because they have a history of being spammed, or are highly innappropriate for Wikipedia. This, however, doesn't necessarily mean it's spam, or not a good link. If the link is a good link, you may wish to request whitelisting by going to the request page for whitelisting. If you feel the link being caught by the blacklist is a false positive, or no longer needed on the blacklist, you may request the regex be removed or altered at the blacklist request page. If the link is blacklisted globally and you feel the above applies you may request to whitelist it using the before mentioned request page, or request it's removal, or alteration, at the request page on meta. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. The whitelisting process can take its time so once a request has been filled out, you may set the invisible parameter on the tag to true. Please be aware that the bot will replace removed tags, and will remove misplaced tags regularly.

Below is a list of links that were found on the main page:

http://www.yorkshiredales-stay.co.uk/weather.php
Triggered by \bstay[\w-]*\.co\.uk\b on the local blacklist

If you would like me to provide more information on the talk page, contact User:Cyberpower678 and ask him to program me with more info.

From your friendly hard working bot.—cyberbot II ^Notify_Online 15:50, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 external links on Northallerton. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Y 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. —^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 15:56, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on Northallerton. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080922173727/http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk:80/prisoninformation/locateaprison/prison.asp?id=1013,15,2,15,1013,0 to http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/prisoninformation/locateaprison/prison.asp?id=1013,15,2,15,1013,0

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Y 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.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 20:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Northallerton/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

.

Requires inline references adding using one of {{Cite}} templates
Requires photographs
Requires copy-editing for WP:MOS

Keith D 22:20, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 22:20, 9 August 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 01:31, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 5 external links on Northallerton. 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:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160207135222/http://ukcensusdata.com/hambleton-e7000164 to http://ukcensusdata.com/hambleton-e7000164
Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110811180007/http://archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/2003/4/7/96994.html to http://archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/2003/4/7/96994.html
Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/prisoninformation/locateaprison/prison.asp?id=1013%2C15%2C2%2C15%2C1013%2C0
Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.northallertontowncouncil.org/TownTwinning/index.htm
Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20131105223816/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/ne/ to http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/ne/

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

Y 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) 21:46, 25 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Northallerton. 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.

Y 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) 07:08, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rates discount

If I heard correctly the rates discount which is to help towards rising costs and heating only applied to people in A- D Ours is E even though we are both on a reduced pension, we live in an expensive area, two bedrooms and a box room, one bathroom, so not a mansion, Can we apply for this rebate, based on the pension we receive? 2A00:23C5:5085:3A01:447B:B5A4:53FA:277E (talk) 13:09, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That would something you need to ask Hambleton District Council about: this is an encyclopedia. Sorry. The joy of all things (talk) 13:23, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]