Talk:Swanley Village

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Merge with Swanley

Most of this article is duplicated at Swanley and it would be sufficient to have a paragraph explaining the old village/new town split IMO. Crookesmoor (talk) 08:44, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

But it is a separate place, with a separate identity from the late comer / upstart that is swanley junction (ie Swanley) 92.10.140.85 (talk) 20:51, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Closing, given the uncontested opposition and no support over move than a year. Klbrain (talk) 10:24, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Swanley. I'm not sure what the above means ('Closing'), as there is no sign that this was a formal merge proposal. It is quite within the usual principles for settlements in England for a small village/settlement to be given a paragraph within the article for the civil parish that includes it. As Crookesmoor says above, most of the small amount of information about this village on this page is also found on the Swanley page: anything that isn't in the Swanley article could be added there, creating a section heading "Swanley Village", with a mention in bold in the lead as is usual. This article/stub doesn't even have an infobox, it is typical of small village/hamlet stubs that are often merged into their local parish article. Furthermore in this case, because of the similarity of names, most users searching for information about the village will not find their way to this page at all - unless they happen to type in the two words "Swanley Village", providing another reason to merge. Sussexonian (talk) 11:05, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]