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Contents 1 council tax 2 School Violence 3 Politics 4 conflicting sources 5 Images from Portsmouth Media Store 6 Sources 7 Why Pompey

[edit] council tax

does anyone have a source and exact details on the council battle with central government over council tax? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.109.248.212 (talk) 14:13, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] School Violence

There has been recent disagreement over this section in Education

"The rivalry between St Edmund's Catholic School and St Luke's Church of England school (Protestant) has often become violent. This has its roots in the Catholic-Protestant conflict of Northern Ireland as the city has both large communities of Irish Catholics and Irish Protestant, who settled in the city because of the Royal Navy"

it is reference unlike some parts that have citation tags, however its been called into doubt, now personally i have no inclination to search through the city council archives for a decade old report, however i do recall the violence of that period and the police patrolling and even close part of commerical rd because of the fighting, and old friend of mine Peter Wesley who taught Science at St Edmund's at that time did tell me about several of the incidents including a school invasion by the pupils of St Luke's which makes believe it would be likely for the council to have written some sort of report on it, especially since both schools were under LEA control at the time.

The library service has no record of any report commissioned by PCC under that title. Nuttah (talk) 16:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

You could put in an FOI request with the Council, that should cement it one way or the other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.3.65.33 (talk) 22:33, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Politics

In the Politics section should it mention the political situation and history in the city? i.e the collapse of the Labour Party, and Leo Madden breaking away and form an Independent Group, the situation with Phil Shaddock, and Mike Hancock's effective control of the Liberal Democrats in the city?

[edit] conflicting sources

so i've added a post on the sources notice board, hopefully we can get some input on how to proceed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.102.112 (talk) 00:59, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Images from Portsmouth Media Store

Brought forward from talk page archive 1, I assume that images from here would be correctly tagged under {{Attribution}}, wouldn't they, given that "Images are free, but require a credit to Portsmouth City Council."? Any other views? DWaterson (talk) 22:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

i think you called it right given their release. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.111.134 (talk) 00:01, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

are the plaques in old portsmouth considered reliable sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.27.164.229 (talk) 22:27, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Depends on whether they're bubonic or septicaemic. DWaterson (talk) 17:44, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

lol —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.27.164.229 (talk) 22:30, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why Pompey

I think this article could benefit from some explanation as to why the town's nickname is Pompey. At a guess there is no definitive answer, but this source looks useful. -- Solipsist (talk) 15:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

the problem is no one knows and there are a couple of different explainations —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.27.178.150 (talk) 15:58, 18 May 2008 (UTC)