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I hope I haven't trodden on any toes by doing this, but I took as a precedent the project about Cornwall. I've listed a proposed project concerning Cheshire on Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. I think it can easily co-exist with Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography. I would not want to diminish or withdraw from this other project. If you are interested in contributing to this proposed project, please add your name to list at the appropriate place. If you think it might be better placed as a sub-project of the existing UK Geography Project, please say so on that project's talk page, here, and let us discuss it. Many thanks. DDS talk 18:10, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Interesting they want to change the district to City of Chester and West Cheshire. City of Chester is the official current form of the name? MRSC • Talk 15:07, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
I posted a question about the official name to the local government website, and received a reply just now from an officer of the council. (Details of who this was and his contact details can be obtained from me if required. I haven't posted them here for obvious reasons.) Here is the reply, with headers and closing details removed:
Dear Dr Stretch
Thank you for your comments.
The official name of the council is Chester City Council as per the logo on the home page of the council's website. Please visit www.chester.gov.uk
A map of the district can be found at http://www.chester.gov.uk/main.asp?page=226
There are two tiers of local government within the administrative boundary of Cheshire, the county council and six district councils, of which Chester City Council is one. Chester is therefore often correctly referred to as a district council.The administrative area of Chester City Council extends from the Welsh border with Flintshire to outlying rural areas particularly south to Shropshire. In Cheshire it borders Ellesmere Port & Neston Borough Council (north), Vale Royal Borough Council (north east) and Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council (south east).
As I am sure you are aware Chester is a historic city with a vibrant tourist and visitor economy. In communications therefore, from other agencies as well as ourselves, the actual city itself is often referred to as the 'City of Chester' to differentiate it from the rural and sub-urban areas of the district.
I hope this clarifies the points you raised. If I may be of further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.
Regards
What I take from this is that the original name for the district as given on wikipedia ("City of Chester" is definitely incorrect. "City of Chester" is often used by other agencies as well as the local council to refer to "the actual city itself" in order to "differentiate it from the rural and sub-urban areas of the district." So, if anything were to have a redirect pointed to it from "City of Chester", it ought to be the central city itself, not the wider local government area.
That leaves the name of the council area to be sorted out. On this matter, the letter is not so clear, but this bit: "There are two tiers of local government within the administrative boundary of Cheshire, the county council and six district councils, of which Chester City Council is one. Chester is therefore often correctly referred to as a district council.", would seem to suggest that, as 81.187.224.74 suggested, my change of name was mistaken, and it would have been better to have had it become "Chester (district)", where the parenthetical bit is there as part of wikipedia's means of disambiguating it from other places known as "Chester", and is understood not to be part of the actual name itself.
Now, do people agree with my interpretation of the letter and its implications? If so, there does seem to be a course of action appearing that we might do for these articles:
Does anyone object to that at al;? Do we need more clarification at all? DDStretch (talk) 14:36, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Ok. As far as I can tell, I have now altered all redirects to "City of Chester" in article texts to now point to "Chester (district)", which is the renamed page. I have also had to correct some links to the old "City of Chester" page that should have gone to "City of Chester (UK Parliament constituency)". Finally, I have changed the redirection on "City of Chester" so that it now points to "Chester" rather than "Chester (district)". These are in accordance with the discussions above and are now correct in describing the actual state of affairs. I have left unaltered links to "City of Chester" on most discussion pages, as I'm not convinced I would leave the discussions in a sensible state if I did change them. DDStretch (talk) 10:32, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
I was sorting out places on the Wirral and thought that I had discovered from this article that Burton was a parish in Chester City. (See box containing list of parishes. I therefore moved the article for Burton, Ellesmere Port and Neston to Burton, Chester. I am now having doubts and so need confirmation that Burton really is in Chester City as the parish before I make more erroneous changes. JMcC 11:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Using entries in the Category:Former non-metropolitan districts as a model (e.g. South Bedfordshire), I've revised the Vale Royal, Ellesmere Port and Neston and Chester (district) pages to reflect their abolition, and for consistency of layout and content. This involved copying almost all the content from the Chester City Council page (which now redirects here), and adding a link to the orphaned City Council Elections in Chester results.
With reluctance I removed a lot of useful current parish council information, which no longer belongs on the page for the defunct city council, but might somehow be linked to Cheshire West... — Old Wittonian (talk) 10:55, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Chester City Council, which redirects now to this article's page, was recently changed to a disambiguation page, because of a US area that has a similar name. I have reverted the change so that the matter can be discussed and its talk page can be handled correctly as a result of any discussion to change the page into a disambiguation page, which had not been the case before. (I suspect this came about as an unforeseen result of the merger that happened before) Any comments? DDStretch (talk) 14:29, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
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