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I have made a minor edit to the Herne Bay Schools section by putting the Herne Bay high bit in to a link to the herne Bay high artical and the web link beside it in [1]. any probs then just change it back to how it was. thanks TheSpartians 22:31, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the
    neutral point of view
    policy    .
    a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
  5. It is stable.
  6. It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
    a (tagged and captioned): b lack of images (does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have
    fair use rationales
    )    :
  7. Overall:
    a Pass/Fail:

The article is reasonably well written in some sections. The history section looks very good. But most of the sections are not organized very well. Several sections are also very brief and incomplete. The lead section should adequately summarize the content of the article; see

WP:LEAD
for guidelines here.

Promote the demographics section. It should be mentioned earlier in the article, perhaps right after history, or maybe after a 'geography and climate' section. Which brings up another point, there should be a section describing the geography & climate.

Cultural information seems scattered about the article, and should probably be combined into a 'culture' section. It might help to move 'attractions and landmarks' here, since these are mainly cultural attractions. The 'social' section would also fit here as well, although I'd rename it to something like 'annual cultural events & fairs', or something of that nature. Sports facilities might also be a subsection in this area, but should be renamed to simply 'sports', and include more than just info on overall sports in town.

'Interesting facts' seems kind of like a 'trivia' section, which are generally discouraged in articles. This is mainly a list of random topics, and is better if these items are integrated into other areas. Most of these might fit into an 'in popular culture' section, which could be a subsection under 'culture'.

'Affiliations' should probably be renamed to 'sister cities', as these look like sister city relationships. These relationships should be referenced as well. It might help to use Sister Cities International as a reference here. If you browse around to other city articles on wikipedia, you'll see how others have treated these relationships.

The external links section seems a bit long. Some of these links could be eliminated. It might help to review

WP:EL
.

For information on including inline citations, review

WP:CITE
.

Hope these suggestions help improve the article. It might also help to review the

good article criteria. Dr. Cash 01:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply
]

Article is much improved. Good work. I moved the portal link from right above the infobox to just below it, as it was causing some of the text in the lead section to overlap into the boxes. Some minor copyediting could be done, as the prose is still a bit awkward at times. Also, try to reduce the amount of external links within the text of the article. An excessive amount of external links within the article is generally discouraged. Ultimately, these should be converted to actual wiki-articles themselves. Cheers! Dr. Cash 21:41, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]


The page i good but maybe a bit about te schools and current pier plans will make it more interesting, and it may raise funds for thepier that everyone wans to be built. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lizamare15 (talk • contribs) 21:57, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Climate weatherbox

I looked at the weatherbox on this page, and I noticed that the Fahrenheit temperature values were a couple of degrees out, so I calculated them myself [[[Fahrenheit]] = (Celcius x 1.8) + 32].

Epbr123, as you are the main contributor to this excellent article, I hope you don't mind that I made the weatherbox into a template on its own page - it saves space and looks tidier on the edit page. =) Yours, Rossenglish 13:42, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's excellent. Thanks. Epbr123 14:00, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spoken version added

I have added a

spoken version of this article; see the link above. Hassocks5489 (talk) 23:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply
]

External links

There's been some links added mid-prose in the Education section (and appears to have been done so on the 28th March 2008). I think they need addressing. Is this a straight revert or a copyedit/wikification that's needed here? What do others think? --Jza84 |  Talk  01:24, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Christmas lighting

I have today undone an edit which put Herne Bay's current embarrassment due to poor Christmas lighting into the header paragraph. (I should add that I believe the edit which I undid was made in good faith and was supported by a citation). In the full context of Herne Bay, this is not a major or enduring matter. Perhaps it could be added to a section near the bottom of the page? --Storye book (talk) 16:01, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Shaun

If you have some newspaper information about Shaun, can you reference it? Obviously all information needs to be Wikified. Slightnostalgia (talk) 18:24, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 14 January 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) feminist (talk) 00:52, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WP:2DABPRIMARY the place in New Zealand (which is part of a larger settlement) is named after this (which is a separate settlement) one and this one has over 13x the population. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:27, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply
]

  • Oppose. The "named after" history usually has little relevance in choosing a primary topic. That's why the mighty metropolis of
    wee upstart in North America
    .
And
WP:2DABPRIMARY is a) an essay, and b) does not apply here, 'cos there are 4 items on the dab page. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:31, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply
]
There are 4 items but 1 refers to the Kent location and the other is no longer called "Herne Bay". Although 2DABPRIMARY is an essay it wasn't created by me and has been used in quite a few other cases. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:55, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Before someone mentions it I do indeed live in the UK and roughly live an hour way from Herne Bay however this !vote would've been made regardless of where I live - Anyway support per PRIMARYTOPIC. –Davey2010Talk 13:03, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per nom – seems an obvious WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Nortonius (talk) 13:13, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.Charles (talk) 17:54, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Clear primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:47, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Herne Bay only gets 63% of the page views, and IMO that is nowhere near to define a
    WP:TITLECHANGES is also an issue: "If an article title has been stable for a long time, and there is no good reason to change it, it should not be changed". Narky Blert (talk) 10:52, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Support. The Kent locale is clearly a primary topic over the smaller suburb.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:20, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per nom, Amakuru, PRIMARYTOPIC and especially the argument at
    WP:2DABPRIMARY. —В²C ☎ 07:27, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply
    ]
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FA concerns

Looking at this one as part of the

ongoing FA sweeps. This older FA not only contains significant uncited text in the latter half of the article, but the demographics seems to be missing a census, and the government and economy sections need a significant update, as the information there is from about 10 years ago. Hog Farm Talk 04:27, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply
]

No problem now. --Dthomsen8
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