Talk:Corfe Mullen

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Corfe Mullen

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Facilities

Re: Edits on 14th August, @TJC: said:

I'm afraid I cannot agree with your assertion the half the content should be removed because Wikipedia is not a business directory. Some of the entries, I accept, are somewhat commercial, but schools and churches? Also the number of pubs and clubs in the town (it was a village) are relevant to the character of the location and would apply to any village or small town. Most of these entries have been there since I created the page many years ago.

Are you going to do the same on all pages that list such details? You could be kept quite busy. Terry C (talk) 09:30, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My edit did not say that this article can not discuss schools and churches (which is why I kept the schools and churches that had demonstrated notability in, replacing the unsuitable lists with suitable prose).

My edit is saying that the article has to comply with Wikipedia policies – here, linked, are few relevant ones:

WP:NOTDIRECTORY: Wikipedia is not a business directory, and WP:NOTGUIDE: Wikipedia is not a guide book. We don't simply list things, regardless of whether they are notable in the context of an encyclopedia article. If there are other pages that just list the street addresses of branch libraries and cafes, yes we would delete those lists.
MOS:LIST: The article can absolutely discuss churches, schools, and even pubs and other businesses, but not as bare lists without context. These sorts of things can absolutely be relevant to the character of a place, but they say nothing on their own. By all means, write something about the facilities in Corfe Mullen. Even better, write something that demonstrates how they shape the character of the place.
WP:RS: cite reliable sources that demonstrate notability of the topic, and WP:NOR: no original research. This was the main problem with the 'Sport' and 'Entertainment' sections (aside from them being written in an unencyclopedic style and vague about details). There is nothing inherently notable about a village club, so demonstrate its notability by citing sources.

Please, by all means, reintroduce relevant details to the facilities section in line with these policies. But in the meantime, the plain lists and other trivia must go.

I started the ball rolling with the church and schools paragraphs in that edit – demonstrating, for example, how you can include the encylopedic fact that the place is served by 3 primary schools, while recognising that the details of an individual primary school are not inherently notable enough to discuss in an encyclopedia. Joe D (t) 10:51, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]