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I note from today's BBC news and Somerset County Gazette that the councils voted for the proposed merger of Taunton Deane and West Somerset, although this still has to receive central government (Sajid Javid) approval (likely to be given in my opinion). What should be on the two articles now to reflect this and when should the new article about Somerset West and Taunton Council be created?— Rod ^talk 20:11, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your update looks good so far. It would be good to have a record of some of the reasoning behind this merger, ie savings since sharing resources in 2013(?) and the politics and opposition to it. Not sure where this would go, but most logically in the present articles from a timeline perspective. I think it would be good to go ahead and create the new article now, to prempt someone else doing it and making a pigs ear of it. A stub, something along the lines of proposed new council solely pending central approval, although it looks like they are already working together getting things ready for the merge, so that could be included to. That would give enough content to deter a deletion. When the merge happens, I think there is some content that could be trimmed in each of the current articles: education, listed buildings. I can't see these being of much interest in the future. having said that I see now that Taunton Deane has separate list articles for buildings and monuments. Maybe do the same for west somt? Derek Andrews (talk) 23:53, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks I will get around to starting something new on this when I get some time - maybe at the weekend. As far as the buildings & monuments go we have: Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane, Grade II* listed buildings in Taunton Deane & List of scheduled monuments in Taunton Deane for TD & similarly: Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset, Grade II* listed buildings in West Somerset & Scheduled monuments in West Somerset for W.S. When (if) the merger does take place there will be a whole range of articles which need to be revised including: Somerset & related that have a header and/or map of the districts in the county + List of civil parishes in Somerset & probably more. I will start with a request for maps to illustrate the merged district & the county.— Rod ^talk 18:11, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I would wait until the name change actually happen before maybe creating something like Grade II* listed buildings in Somerset West and Taunton, after all it appears the earliest it will happen is April 2019, if it happens at all. However an article at Somerset West and Taunton maybe could be created before. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:18, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

At this stage all that should be done is identification of affected articles, categories, templates and files. Some changes can be done immediately, like creation of the article for the new district (and a map of the new district). Some prep work can be done when the definite date is known, such as creating new maps and drafting new articles. They can then go live on day 1. Some other changes have to wait until day 1, such as categorisation.--Nilfanion (talk) 19:36, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I agree, there's no point in doing much until we know that this is definitely going to happen, however the new district article may be acceptable to be created even if the district isn't actually created. Look at this for example. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:46, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The government announced today that this merger is approved. Any help with the new article Somerset West and Taunton would be appreciated.— Rod ^talk 11:49, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]