Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Great Wyrley Town

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect‎ to Great Wyrley. plicit 00:30, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great Wyrley Town (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)
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A poorly sourced orphan article about a ward of a village. Anything useful, and I'm not seeing it, could be merged to Great Wyrley. KJP1 (talk) 22:14, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:13, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete: I don't think it's worth merging and saving anything – it would be good to have demographics on Great Wyrley, but that is a civil parish so census data will be available at the parish level, the data on this page would not be useful. I don't object to redirecting, but nor do I think it's useful – wards are just a convenience for operating elections. Judging from the Great Wyrley article, this one appears to be complicated by the fact that the same name is used for a district council and a parish council ward, which are almost certainly not for the same areas. Joe D (t) 18:43, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • As can be seen from this old map the "Town" suffix has its roots in the fact that there used to be a hamlet named (Lower) Landywood and a township named Great Wyrley, so "Great Wyrley Town" is the part of (modern) Great Wyrley that used to be Great Wyrley township and "Great Wyrley Landywood" is the part that used to be Landywood hamlet, implied by one of the sources in the article to be the result of 1970s local government reorganization. Hamlet and township per the Cannock Parish chapter of the White History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Staffordshire mentioned in other Staffordshire AFD discussions already. And of course our article on Landywood hasn't hinted at this during its entire history going back to 2006. Who reads history books when there's some Staffordshire County Council WWW site and an advertisement by a construction company to be used‽ So this is the same subject as Great Wyrley, pretty much; and at best a {{R from alternative name}}. Uncle G (talk) 14:01, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.