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The historic county wording is boiler plate (and has been the standard for more than a decade) and avoids present or past tense for the historic county, as the old compromise always has been. Indeed the Peterborough article included it until recently. Been on Wikipedia long enough to know what it means when you've been told to reach "consensus" on a Wikipedia namespace page (dominion of the perennially involved), so oh well
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== Other British monarch requested move discussions currently taking place ==
Since you recently participated in the Charles III requested move discussion, I thought you might like to know that there are two other discussions currently going on about other British monarch article titles [[Talk:George_I_of_Great_Britain#Survey|here]] and [[Talk:Elizabeth_II#Survey|here]]. Cheers. [[User:Rreagan007|Rreagan007]] ([[User talk:Rreagan007|talk]]) 22:28, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
 
== Historic counties ==
 
Re how historic Northamptonshire (which one?) should be mentioned in the lead of [[Peterborough]], see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about counties]]:
{{quote|In respect of England, Scotland and Wales, a fundamental part of this guide is to reaffirm the long established position that we do not take the view that the historic/ancient/traditional counties still exist with the former boundaries. }}
so I have replaced present tense with past tense and heavily shortened the reference. If you disagree with my interpretation of the rule, it would be best to open a discussion at [[WT:WikiProject UK geography]] to secure a consensus clarification.
 
BTW, [[WP:LEAD]] says that the lead should summarise the most important points of the article. If the historic link with Northamptonshire is to be mentioned at all (and your earlier edit suggests that it was a tenuous one, so is it really essential?), then it should be said in as few words as possible because by any measure it is really rather incidental. [[User:JMF|𝕁𝕄𝔽]] ([[User talk:JMF|talk]]) 17:35, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
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