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Entry: Coleraine - A87729132
Author: Beatrice De'Ath - U190170

At the request of Icy North, as the original on which this was based (A37316964) needs updating, and the original author appears to have Elvissed.

His 15 minutes of fame was far too brief to include him in the entry, but I've just learned that the runner up in this year's Junior Apprentice, James, is from Portstewart, and attends Loreto College in Coleraine.

Do you think you can get results form a later census? 2000/2001 must be utterly outdated by now.

In the Republic we do a census every 10 years. What's it like in the Wee North?

In that case there might be a new one from this year? And if there aren't census results, may there be others? We don't do any census at all if we can avoid it.

I've read through this entry, Bea, and it's good. I've learned something - I never heard of Coleraine County before.

Can you add titles to your external links, so that the links in the right margin have more appropriate titles?

There are a few places where I feel there should be apostrophes: Watts coal, Moores etc. This depends very much on local custom, so I can't really check them.

OK, GoogleMaps shows me "Moores of Coleraine" with no apostrophe. So that's OK.

We do a census every 10 years in the wee North as well, so the last was done in March 2011. The results aren't expected to be published until next year, though.

How do I add titles?

text that appears in entry

Some other points:

The title of the entry should say "Coleraine, Londonderry, Northen Ireland" or "Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK" or some such.

The entry should start by telling us what Coleraine is: Coleraine is a town in Co. Londonderry... You can discuss the derivation of the name once you've got that over.

"the lowest bridging point before the estuary of the River Bann" - don't know what this means - the bridge is the lowest, with the least clearance for boats, or it is the last as you're going downstream.

Lowest bridging point normally means the latter of those

OK. It's a phrase I hadn't heard before.

The Coleraine area is the earliest populated part of Ireland - at least from what we know from the evidence that's been left to us. That could be worth a mention - eg. Mount Sandel, the oldest occupied site we know of in Ireland, is in Coleraine. That could be worth a mention...

Dammit, I knew I meant to add in Mountsandel - ta!

Lovely entry Bea

Watts coal yard operated beside the old bridge for *many* years

As long as there are no objections, the Guide Editors can remove this from Peer Review manually.

As it is an Update it needs to be manoeuvred through the system differently than the auto select button. Exactly how we'll do this may be left to imagination at this stage, being as we don't have the technology to help.


Thanks everyone. This is great work

Just a reminder that this one is unusual even by Update standards - Icy wants the new Edited version and some existing unedited one to be swapped because there are links on the web to the unedited one.

Resists the urge to press any buttons whatsoever

I've e-mailed you to suggest how we do this.

Oh go on. You know you want to!

The Scout Recommendation can be accepted, and this can be allocated to a sub as normal. We can do the special processing later, when the sub-editor has retured it.