Talk:Winton, Greater Manchester

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Merge[edit]

Duplicate articles. Winton, Eccles is much better that this one; however the merged article should be at Winton, Greater Manchester as this would be standard disambiguation. MRSC • Talk 21:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Winton, Eccles is a better title because Winton, Greater manchester suggests that a county of Greater Manchester still exists, which it does not. Administratively Winton is in the City of Salford, a Metropolitan District, but is geographically in the real County of Lancashire (as opposed to the administrative county of Lancashire which covers only a part of the historic county).

No. There is a wealth of research that proves otherwise, and as such, we have the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) (a strict wikipedia policy) which highlight that inaccordance with international, encyclopedic, academic and legal writing we use the modern (in this case metropolitan) county system as the primary geographic frame of reference.

That said, the article should be moved per the usual dab and settlement article consistency - I'll make the move. Jhamez84 13:20, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Greater Manchester[edit]

Winton was in Lancashire. It is still in Greater Manchester. Greater Manchester is still a county. Hence Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Ambulance Service, Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive.

Salford, Manchester, Ashton, Wigan et al Make up Greater Manchester as a county and are not part of Lancashire. As much as Liverpool, Bootle and St. Helens are part of Merseyside.

Counties change - we were once Salfordshire !