Talk:Stanage Edge

Climbing guide

I think adding a wiki climbing guide to the encyclopedia would be a good idea. Providing an open source resource that could be easily accessed and printed off, or accessed in the field for the more high tec climber. Any comments? or does this already exist somewhere?

Wikipedia isn't the place for guides. A brief summary is useful, but more detail should go elsewhere - perhaps Wikitravel? Warofdreams talk 00:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Name

The name of the edge is 'Stanage Edge' as far as I know (e.g. that is the name on the OS map). Any particular reason why the article consistently refers to it as 'Stanage'? --VinceBowdren 13:50, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I was under the impression that either was correct. We could switch to the OS usage, but this isn't always definitive - for instance, they always use Youlgreave, even though it's locally known as Youlgrave. Google suggests either is roughly equally common; "Stanage" on its own seems more popular with climbers; "Stanage Edge" is favoured by most works on Google Books. Warofdreams talk 17:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Sounds fair. --VinceBowdren 18:49, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Common usage is greatly infavour of "Stanage Edge". The tautology argument doesn't really hold, because "Stanage" is treated as an arbitrary name, and is not analysed into stone+edge. I was surprised to find that the article had been at "Stanage" for so long, and have moved it. --Stemonitis 11:58, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Climbing restrictions September 2007

It turned out that the 'news article' at ukclimbing.com was just rhetoric. After the headline "Climbing At Stanage Restricted" and a couple of paragraphs about the fictitious climbing ban, it then continues with "Imagine if that were true ... But it isn't true." and talks about the BMC's lobbying role. Definitely a misleading article, but there is no ban. --VinceBowdren 09:45, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Spelling

Shouldn't we unify the spelling of this and Stanedge Pole? Then we can create redirects for the alternate spellings.--ObscureFruits (talk) 23:00, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

It'd be nice if it were in our power ot unify the spellings, but unfortunately they're different in real life. On the OS map (an authoritative source) the cliff is called 'Stanage Edge' and the pole 'Stanedge Pole'. Unless you have an even more authoritative source that proves that actually the OS has got one of the spellings wrong, I think the articles should stay as they are. --VinceBowdren (talk) 23:40, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

That is a nightmare... Oh well redirects for the alternate spellings should still be made, do you agree? As I have seen them written both ways, but we should go with the OS for actual article names.--ObscureFruits (talk) 14:34, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Historically both spellings seem to have been used interchangeably. 'Stanedge' would appear to be the more historically correct spelling. At some point though people seem to have settled 'stanage' for the edge itself, while the pole has remained 'stanedge'. Redirects would alleviate any confusion. —Jeremy (talk) 20:43, 11 July 2009 (UTC)