Talk:Wembley

Details

I feel this article is lacking a great deal of informationabout wembley. I have started adding in details about other major tournaments that occur in wembley such as the Master's Snooker - but also want to put in details about Squash tournament finals, showjumping, dog racing and other sporting events that take place or have taken place in wembley over the years. I also want to see the information better presented and clearer. Thus I intend to get back to this page when I have more time.

Athosfolk 13:48, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Wembley

Wembley Arena is not a surving building of the British Empire Exhibition. It was built in 1934 as a swimming pool for the Empire Games and known as the Empire Pool.

VisitWembley for latest concerts/gigs. Enjoy the fantastic diversity Wembley has to offer. Some great Resturants include South Indian, North Indian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chirag vw (talk • contribs) 14:40, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Request to contributors

please add any new details concerning the new developments in wembley and surrounding areas in particular currentplanned events in the stadium/arena or plans regarding redevelopment as details are needed —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jo7000 (talk • contribs) 20:48, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Note to contributors

People using wikipedia appear to have very strong views on the article regarding wembley and are making revisions giving frequently inadequate reasoning. I suggest rather than altering the article again and again we use the discussion page to work out our differences of opinion. The original article on wembley i edited months ago was seemed biased to the point of having a picture of a building site on it. I placed accurate photographs of the area on the page i.e of the stadium, canal etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jo7000 (talk • contribs) 22:15, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I've moved the above item to the end of the talk page in line with normal practice.
This article requires much work as illustrated by the second paragraph alone: "Wembley is one of the most popular places in London. Heavily known to be home to Brent Town Hall (formally Middlesex County Hall) and the location of the English National football Stadium, Wembley Stadium, as well as the Wembley Arena, as well as the White Horse Bridge, and the beautiful station look of Wembley Park Station, they are all located in Wembley Park." It begins with an unverified and dubious claim of popularity, followed by some extraordinarily unconventional English ("Heavily known"?!) , a startling reference to a town hall as if it's of national significance, an inaccurate and weirdly capitalised description of the Stadium and further bizarre English expressing the writer's point of view ("beautiful station look"), ending with a superfluous clause that ignores the grammatical structure of the first part of the sentence.
It may be that this paragraph suffers from interpolations by many different editors or by the same editor at different times. That doesn't matter, indeed, that's how many excellent Wikipedia articles are composed. It's true that much of the current style is journalistic or promotional rather than encylopedic; perhaps some editors are unfamiliar with the general style of Wikipedia articles. That is past; editors can read guidelines and browse Wikipedia for themselves. This article simply needs cleaning up. This will probably be a team effort; no-one owns Wikipedia aricles. Furthermore there is no need to discuss every paragraph as exhaustively as I have just done; we'd never make any progress that way. All that is necessary is to proceed in the normal Wikipedia way, directly editing the article, continually improving it. NebY (talk) 20:46, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I would like to thank jdudding on their recent edit. Unlike alot of previous tampering it does refine and add to the article. I especially like the maps, which I was not aware existed. I hope you will continue adding to the article. With the massive development around the central square nearing completion and looking awesome there will be more activity on this page than many other london localities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.88.124 (talk) 21:54, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

One of the maps got chopped,. Feel free to help justify to the powers that be getting it back.

Jdudding (talk) 09:54, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

The Greater Wembley Area

The phrase "Alperton, Sudbury, Tokyngton and Preston Manor are districts of Wembley." has been altered and altered. What about "The areas of Alperton, Sudbury, Tokyngton and Preston Manor are usually considered to be districts of Wembley."

Or, have a look at this thing...

This sort of diagram is used all over Barnet Wiki pages - we could use it all over Brent. Then we could get rid of the sentence above altogether.

Also, have a look at the "Brent Cross" page. Those sort of OpenStreetMap maps, at various scales, are 'copyright-free', so could be put on the Wembley page and neighbouring ones. Jdudding (talk) 22:52, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Diversity?

This statement I find contentious: "The ward along with neighbouring Tokyngton (eastern Wembley) and Alperton were in the top 10 most diverse in London". If 2/3 of the population in the central district is South Asian, how is it any more "diverse" than an area that is 2/3 white? --86.129.199.132 (talk) 08:15, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

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