Talk:List of mayors of Bolton

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History[edit]

Might be worth starting with a paragraph on the Bolton Borough Charter of 1838 (11th October 1838) which combined several separate local authorities, mainly Great Bolton and Little Bolton. Bolton was the second town after Devonport to be granted a Borough Charter under the Act of 1835 although the validity was not confirmed until the Act of 1842. --jmb (talk) 00:34, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalisation?[edit]

Why has the page been renamed with "Mayor" written as "mayor"? Surely it is a title which is written with a capital letter? The official page confirms this on Mayor - general information and Previous Mayors of Bolton

I have brought this inline with the vast majority of pages on Wikipeidia, see [1]. The BBC uses "the mayor of Bolton"[2]. I cannot access the Bolton page (not through your link or through Google, no idea what's wrong). It's probably both a job and a title, but the job seems to me the more important aspect. When you discuss "a mayor of Bolton", you use the lowercase[3]. Fram (talk) 12:16, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is a title not a job. I have no problem accessing the Bolton Council page, it does not use lower case "mayor" anywhere on the page. The only use with lower case is a reference to "male mayors" on another page.

"The Mayor will be raising money"

"The Mayor and Mayoress are also"

"Previous Mayors of Bolton"

I presume you will be removing the capitalisation from this page List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom? --jmb (talk) 13:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article should be changed back - see: The Mayor of Bolton for 2008 - 2009 is Councillor Anthony Connell and Mayoral invitations. They are both on Bolton Council's website which have the title in capitals - Mayor of Bolton. The BBC isn't infallible. 82.31.102.191 (talk) 13:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Neither is a secondary source. Many sites will say things like "our Champions have arrived", but we will still use champions... The site is not very consequent either: is it "Councillors"[4] or councillors[5]? (Yes, now I can access the page, no idea what went wrong earlier). Anyway, the move is clearly contested, so I'll undo it. Fram (talk) 14:33, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Fram. 82.31.102.191 (talk) 15:28, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ernest Crook[edit]

ernest crook was a conservative mayor —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.227.179 (talk) 22:18, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. HLE (talk) 20:24, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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