Editing Talk:Milton Keynes (section)

===Meanwhile===
Recognising the emerging consensus, I have changed the article so that now it reads "the largest town in Buckinghamshire" (rather than "a large town in Buckinghamshire"). The revised edition is objectively true though rather more stolid. --[[User:John Maynard Friedman|John Maynard Friedman]] ([[User talk:John Maynard Friedman|talk]]) 12:35, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

:If I may add late to the discussion, I think using words like Small, Medium or Large are confusing. To me you can't judge a settlement as one of those based on its population. Sure a hamlet can have less then a 100 or a city less then a 10000 or so. But to me it's more important to use heritage sites and history sites for words like market minster cathedral industrial or suburban. 

If we started calling Monmouth small but Ross on Wye medium. Arguments would arise over the use of medium sized to smaller or small. 

Some settlements are smaller or bigger then others but to me. If it's a market charter and town council or status. It's a market town. If it's a cathedral status for a city then it's cathedral city like Ripon York Lincoln and Wakefield and so on.

Articles are usually written from a pov and neutral stance by authors on sources so to me find a historical status from ages back to establish the right term. As many say terms are debated and unless widely recognised or used. It's subjective using small medium or large.

I'd rather just read ie "Fakenham is a market town in Norfolk, England" then "Fakenham is a medium-sized market town in the region of East Anglia in the county of Norfolk in eastern England". That's too much reading to me. Simplified is best for everyone who isn't bothered with in depth regions and sizes of towns. 

[[User:DragonofBatley|DragonofBatley]] ([[User talk:DragonofBatley|talk]]) 16:38, 11 June 2022 (UTC)