Talk:North Midlands

UK geography High‑importance

	United Kingdom portal This article falls within the scope of WikiProject UK geography, a user-group dedicated to building a comprehensive and quality guide to places in the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you wish to participate, share ideas or merely get tips you can join us at the project page where there are resources, to do lists and guidelines on how to write about settlements.UK geographyWikipedia:WikiProject UK geographyTemplate:WikiProject UK geographyUK geography articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Nottinghamshire Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Nottinghamshire, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.NottinghamshireWikipedia:WikiProject NottinghamshireTemplate:WikiProject NottinghamshireNottinghamshire articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.

Derbyshire Mid‑importance

The article on North Midlands is supported by the Derbyshire WikiProject, which is a collaborative effort to improve the quality and coverage of Derbyshire-related articles on Wikipedia.DerbyshireWikipedia:WikiProject DerbyshireTemplate:WikiProject DerbyshireDerbyshire articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

More information:
/
	This article needs at least one photograph to be added
	This article needs a map
	This article has an infobox
	This article needs statistical information to be added

Sheffield/South Yorkshire

Given Sheffield and South Yorkshire have never been included in any official designation of the North Midlands, their inclusion here without any references apart from one seemingly off-hand comment in an official(?) publication seems perverse. Haldraper (talk) 07:43, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Although I am a Sheffielder myself and consider myself as a northerner, I think it is okay to mention it as an informal definition of the North Midlands, because the North Midlands itself is a very loosely defined area of England and while most would probably consider Sheffield to be in Northern England, people in the far north of England would probably consider it more central, so if the informal South Midlands area includes counties in Southern England (e.g. Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire etc.), I have no huge issue with South Yorkshire or Sheffield being mentioned here as long as it isn't being given too much prominence. It might be worth noting that Staffordshire wasn't included in the official designation of the North Midlands but the northern parts of Staffordshire (especially the Stoke area) are still considered part of the informal region. Broman178 (talk) 12:35, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Staffordshire??

Hi, I just thought I'd ask about this because I think Staffordshire, where I live, (especially the area covered by the Stoke-on-Trent Metropolitan Area or North Staffordshire) should be mentioned in this article because many people probably would consider the northern parts of Staffordshire or the whole county to be in the North Midlands as well as West Midlands, considering it ajoins Cheshire (part of the North West) to the North and there are some services which use "North Midlands" in the area e.g. University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust. Also, another reason why I think Staffordshire should be mentioned is because this article only mentions counties/districts in the East Midlands (with some mention of South Yorkshire) and excludes counties in the West Midlands even though the northern parts of it can be considered part of the North Midlands. I don't know about Shropshire (which also ajoins Cheshire) but Staffordshire definitely should be mentioned here. I might add it myself to this article later on if I get time and find reliable references although I would be grateful if anyone else can please give their opinions on the matter here, thank you. Broman178 (talk) 13:25, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Given Staffordshire a mention now (noticed it was previously in the article but got removed when the North Midlands Combined Authority was proposed), if anyone else has any other ideas regarding this matter, please post them here, thank you. Broman178 (talk) 23:24, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]