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Right, I have merged this with the article Bradford and added a bit of extra information about the history of the city. It still looks entirely crap though compared to most other British cities, but that's a job for someone else! Brummie dave 20:49, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Merge

And I have reverted the Merge. The whole matter is under discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Subdivisions. PLease do not jump the gun again. There is a world of difference between articles about the Area and about the Town. --Tagishsimon

For what it's worth (I'm an official with Bradford Council who has just discovered Wikipedia and made a few minor edits to both Bradford entries) I agree with Tagishimon - The Bradford District does contain a number of quite distinct settlements which though part of the Bradford Metropolitan District are definitely not part of the city of Bradford by any commonsense definition, so they do need to be separate. Part of the confusion arises from the headings though - the page titled "City of Bradford" is actually about the Bradford Metropolitan District. I'd suggest keeping the entries separate, but tidy up the "Bradford" entry to ensure it ONLY talks about the actual city area itself. E.g. Saltaire can legitimately be included as a place in the Bradford Metropolitan District entry, with a link to its own page, but it really shouldn't be included in the "Bradford" entry - it's part of Shipley, and only came under Bradford Council at 1974 local government reorganisation. The whole issue of geographical identity is anything but straightforward! Phil.

Discussion of City & District vs. merged pages

There is currently a discussion on Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_Subdivisions, discussing whether it is better to have a single article for, for example Bradford (the city) and City of Bradford (the district).

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Demographic Data

Source www.mapsandstats.com, ultimately ONS 2001 Census.--ElvisThePrince 15:21, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics

Many of Bradford's "ethnic Pakistani's" are in fact Kashmiris. Why isn't there no mention of this in the article?

Without second guessing I think it's likely because it uses the ONS ethnic classification system which only has pakistani/indian/bangladeshi for South East asians.--ElvisThePrince 17:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]